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Celebrating 124 years of being Davis County’s news source Child Abuse Prevention Month The events planned Davis Clipper ON A3 75 cents VOL. 124 NO. 8 THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2015 Concerns delay school construction BY LOUISE R. SHAW open for the 2016 school year and dropped off and picked up. [email protected] students at existing schools nearby To address the problem, Mayor would need to go to a year-round Steve Hiatt contacted the Utah schedule, he told the Clipper. Department of Transportation and KAYSVILLE – A decision by the Kaysville City Land south of 200 North and was able to get approval to cut an west of Bonneville Lane has been access road through to 200 North. Council is delaying the start of construction on a new purchased by Davis School District It was a solution district officials elementary school in west Kaysville and may delay its for the district’s 62nd elementary thought made the loop road un- school. necessary. opening as well. Because the property is bor- But the neighbors disagreed. dered by land reserved for the “We will agree to have the Responding to the concerns of would begin the first of April for a West Davis Corridor and a neigh- school here if the 200 North ac- Creative youth a group of neighbors near the pro- school slated to open the following borhood with several cul-de-sacs, cess is open and the loop road is posed school, city leaders tabled a year. neighbors were concerned about built,” said Ashley Van Camp, “The in BDAC exhibit vote on the final plat for two weeks Cutting into that time could traffic patterns and safety issues. road needs to stay there for safety to allow time for an independent mean teachers would have to be When initially proposed last reasons.” JENNIFFER WARDELL, B1 traffic study. setting up as construction was year, the only access to the school “Please don’t allow them to Those two weeks are signifi- being finished, or the school would was through two small neigh- remove the loop road,” said Anita cant, according to school officials. have to open with some things borhood streets, and the school Howell. “That was a concession Ideally, said Bryan Turner, director incomplete. If there are weather- district proposed having a loop they gave and we request it to of architecture and new construc- related delays in the winter, it road circle the school to alleviate History tion for Davis School District, work could also mean school would not traffic build-up when children are n See “SCHOOL” p. A7 comes alive Students learn his- tory through first- hand accounts. LOUISE SHAW, C1 Wildcats tear it up A new coach and outlook has put WX baseball on the map. SHAIN GILLETT, D1 FAMILIES CELEBRATE July 4th in Centerville last year. This year’s activities will tie in to the city’s centennial celebration. Photo by Louise R. Shaw | Davis Clipper Centerville kicks off centennial summer BY JENNIFFER WARDELL The next event scheduled is a tree The second Tuesday of every events. [email protected] planting on April 18, followed by a month at 7 p.m., the museum The main centennial celebra- day of service on May 9 and a big brings in people to tell stories tion will be May 17 at 7 p.m. at centennial celebration on May 17. about the city’s history. Davis the Bountiful Regional Center. CENTERVILLE - You “We're trying to make it a County filmmaker T.C. Chris- There will be choirs of Centerville big deal,” said Linda Pitt, who is tensen will speak at the next one, residents, a presentation on the only get to celebrate your serving as the centennial chair set for May 12. The series will history of Centerville, and the 100th birthday once. along with her husband, Bruce. continue into December, stretch- honoring of local residents. Her- Centerville City is planning on “We're also trying to recognize, in ing the city’s celebration through- bert and Stewart will speak at the ringing in its own centennial with a sense, everyone who's made the out the year. May 17 event as well. an entire summer full of activi- city the big deal that it is.” “If you're going to do some- “Mayor Cutler was the one who ties, from storytelling and service The activities started in March, thing, do it big,” said Emily developed that,” said Pitt. “He had projects to special appearances with the beginning of the “Keep- Throndsen, who is overseeing the Rep. Stewart lined up a long time by Gov. Gary Herbert and U.S. ing Our Stories” alive series at the Day of Service with her husband Representative Chris Stewart. Whitaker Museum. Matt as part of the centennial n See “CENTENNIAL” p. A7 Davis Chamber of Commerce Emergency recipient for the 2014 Small Business of the communications Year Award. officers saluted in south Davis INDEX BY TOM HARALDSEN [email protected] Opinion - A5 The week of April 12-18 is Showcase - B1 designated National Public Safe- ty Telecommunicators Week. Calendar - B3 Staff members from police departments in Bountiful, North TV Listings - B4 Salt Lake, Woods Cross and West Bountiful, along with the Davis Life - C1 South Davis Metro Fire Agency, Music comes to Main through BDAC are expressing their gratitude to Perry Smith, John Storie and Will Brahm (from left) of New West Guitar Group - C2 Horizons those who work in public safety perform the inaugural concert at the new Bountiful/Davis Art Center April 9. Smith dispatching. JEREMY BANKS WORKS as a repeatedly commented on the setting and the surrounding art, calling it one of the Church - C3 “They do a wonderful job, and dispatcher at the Bountiful Police we want to thank them for their Department. He and his fellow best venues the guitarists have performed in. Smith is from Brooklyn, Storie and Obituaries - C4 devotion and consistent excel- emergency communication officers Brahm are based in Los Angeles. Their current tour has taken them through Arizona lence in dealing with the public,” nationwide are being saluted this and Colorado before coming to Utah. Sports - D1 week. n See “DISPATCHERS” p. A7 Courtesy photo Photo by Louise R. Shaw | Davis Clipper A2 NEWS CLIPPER • THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2015 CRIME BRIEFS Forum focused on recent legislation Man charged with setting cars on fire BY LOUISE R. SHAW against the law to discriminate.’” Lib- [email protected] erals are “the ones that are turning BOUNTIUL – Two cars were damaged by fire in the early intolerant against us,” he said. morning hours of April 1when a 20-year-old Bountiful man BOUNTIFUL – Sen. Scott Jenkins, R- Edwards spoke about laws relat- said he wanted to teach people to lock their cars, according Davis and Weber Counties, and Rep. ing to student testing and privacy of to court documents. Becky Edwards, R-North Salt Lake, student scores. Parents can opt their In a probable cause statement filed with the Davis County discussed the most recent legislative students out of testing, she said, Sheriff’s Office, Shannon Tobias session at the April 8 meeting of the which is allowed by law. United Women’s Forum. “It’s important to have testing for Watkins Crocker was cited April 1 at “Thank you for caring,” said Jenkins, transparency and accountability,” 4 a.m. for alcohol consumption by a who remarked that too many people she said, but excessive testing is minor. Later that day a resident report- don’t. He expressed his concerns having an impact. ed a bottle of nail polish was broken over this session’s hidden or confus- She shared a resolution drafted in outside of her car and had splashed ing tax increases, decisions made this session, which said emphasis on onto the doors causing about $200 in relating to the prison move and the testing “leads to a situation in which damage. She also found a cell phone anti-discrimination legislation. teachers may feel pressure to spend “This just rubs me wrong,” he more time preparing students to in the car. said of the anti-discrimination bill. take tests and less time educating.” SEN. SCOTT JENKINS spoke at a recent According to the document, the “We need to stand up and say, ‘Look, “I’m hopeful we can work on this cell phone was registered to Crocker so the police talked to forum this will go here. we’ve been tolerant. It’s already issue going forward,” she said. Photo by Louise R. Shaw/Davis Clipper Crocker at his home and noticed his shoes had spots consis- tent with the nail polish. Also on April 1 at 3 a.m., the South Davis Metro Fire Agency responded to a vehicle fire and found a 2011 Mercury Grand Marquis burned, incurring some $6,000 in Brothers booked after altercation with strike force damage and another vehicle parked nearby also burned CLEARFIELD – The Davis Metro According to a probable cause according to filing documents. When receiving $13,000 in damage according to the document. Narcotics Strike Force booked two statement filed with the jail, when officers approached Michael Ober- According to the document, when investigators ques- brothers into the Davis County Jail strike force agents served a warrant miller, who fell onto the couch, he tioned Crocker he said while getting into the cars he found last Tuesday morning after an alter- at a Clearfield home last Tuesday, af- grabbed the officer’s rifle that was some matches and started the fire. cation while serving a warrant at a ter announcing they were the police strapped to his body.