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FRONT PAGE A1 TOOELE Stansbury beats TRANSCRIPT Lehi in pitchers’ duel SERVING See B1 TOOELE COUNTY BULLETIN SINCE 1894 TUESDAY April 5, 2016 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 122 No. 89 $1.00 Overused Mormon Trail Road falling apart by Tim Gillie STAFF WRITER With potholes and cracks, Mormon Trail Road in some places has more patches than road, according to Tooele County Commission Chairman Wade Bitner. Beat up by the impact of heavy gravel trucks the road wasn’t designed to carry, Tooele County commissioners are contem- plating the future of what once was a dirt path that connected Grantsville with early settlers in Rush Valley. The nearly 19-mile road runs from the west side of Grantsville to Rush Valley. Last week, Tooele County filled potholes and worn-out portions of Mormon Trail Road south of South Mountain Road with gravel. This week, a contractor begins regular pothole repairs of Mormon Trail Road north of South Mountain Road, Bitner said. At $2.70 per square-foot of pothole filling, the county has budgeted $50,000 for pothole repair countywide for 2016. The contractor will begin with Mormon Trail Road, but the $50,000 includes work on Erda Way, Burmester Road, and other county roads, according to Rod Thompson, Tooele County Roads Department director. The last major overhaul of Mormon Trail Road was around 25 years ago, he said. FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTOS At that time the road’s main A gravel truck (top) travels through a damaged section of Mormon traffic was light vehicles — pas- Trail Road. The road has been beaten up by the impact of heavy gravel senger cars and pickup trucks trucks it wasn’t designed to carry, and the Tooele County commis- — using the road as a shortcut to sioners are currently contemplating the road’s future, according to Rush Valley. commissioner Wade Bitner. A car (right) travels on Mormon Trail Road. The road base was engi- The road is in such disrepair that some portions won’t hold a patch, so neered to support the use of the the county fills the potholes with gravel. The shoulder of Mormon Trail Road (above) is littered with asphalt chunks that once paved the road SEE ROAD PAGE A8 ➤ between Grantsville and Rush Valley. March storms left Tooele with above-average precip Irrigation water will turn on April 15 and 16 FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO Tooele County School District will soon by Jessica Henrie Mountains reported at 106 and 107 per- be on the SafeUT app. Students can STAFF WRITER cent of normal, respectively. Vernon Creek use it to submit school safety tips or in the Sheeprock Mountains reported at contact a crisis line via a call or chat. Storms that blew in during the last 94 percent of normal. week of March pushed the month’s pre- Spring runoff is just starting, said Randy cipitation total to above average in Tooele Julander, Utah Snow Survey supervisor. School City. “Tooele Valley should do pretty close to The city received 2.62 inches of total average,” he said. precipitation during the month. Of that, Settlement Canyon Irrigation Company district 0.95 inches came from storms on March will open its valves for the season on April 26 and 28. Normal precipitation for March 16 with minimal restrictions, said com- is 2.32 inches, said Ned Bevan, a coop- pany president Gary Bevan. launches erative weather observer for the National “As of right now, the only restriction Weather Service. will be no residential watering between FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE In theUV mountains,INDEX snow telemetry 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. because you lose too A storm on March 26 left snow on the valley floor and in the mountains, adding to the snow- safety app stations at Rocky Basin in Settlement pack. Two storms during the last week of March gave Tooele City a combined 0.95 inches of The Sun Rise Set WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Wednesday 7:04 a.m. 7:59 p.m. Canyon and Mining Fork in the Stansbury SEE STORMS PAGE A9 ➤ precipitation. Thursday 7:03 a.m. 8:00 p.m. Friday 7:01 a.m. 8:01 p.m. Saturday 6:59 a.m. 8:02 p.m. by Tim Gillie Sunday 6:58 a.m. 8:03 p.m. STAFF WRITER Monday 6:56 a.m. 8:04 p.m. W Th F Sa Su M Tu Tuesday 6:55 a.m. 8:06 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ The Moon Rise Set Help for Tooele County stu- number, the greater the need for eye and skin Wednesday 6:44 a.m. 7:23 p.m. dents experiencing thoughts protection. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Thursday 7:23 a.m. 8:37 p.m. of suicide will soon be in their Very High; 11+ Extreme Friday 8:04 a.m. 9:51 p.m. BLM to burn juniper trees near Stockton, Rush Valley Saturday 8:48 a.m. 11:02 p.m. pocket. ALMANAC Sunday 9:36 a.m. none Tooele County School District Statistics for the week ending April 4. Sunny much of the Partly sunny and Cloudy with a couple Mostly cloudy with a Periods of sun with Occasional rain and Monday 10:28 a.m. 12:09 a.m. Sunny and warmer Temperatures Tuesday 11:23 a.m. 1:09 a.m. time and nice pleasantly warm of showers couple of showersofficials expectspotty showers to roll out fulldrizzle by Jessica Henrie Mountains, five miles southeast of management specialist. The BLM requests the NWS for use of the SafeUT app by the High/Low past week 71/30 Stockton. The other will be set in a 261- “We have to do checks with the weather forecasts of the exact locations New First Full Last Normal high/low past weekSTAFF WRITER 58/37 61 39 68 44 70 51 66 49 64 49end of this62 month,44 according66 to 44 Average temp past week 45.7 acre target area six miles southwest of National Weather Service ahead of time, of prescribed burns to get the best infor- Marianne Oborn, the school dis- NormalThe average Bureau temp past ofweek Land 47.7Management Rush Valley, according to a BLM news even as close as the morning of, to dou- mation possible, Rigby said. TOOELE COUNTY WEATHER Daily Temperatures High Low Apr 7 Apr 13 Apr 21 Apr 29 trict’s career and technical edu- plans to set two fires in Tooele County release. ble-check conditions and make sure In addition to working with the NWS, Shown is Wednesday’s cation director, who also over- this weekend as part of a prescribed The burns will last two or three days they’re within prescription,” she said. the agency also has to check with the Forecasts and graphics provided by weather. Temperatures are Wednesday’s highs and sees the district’s school coun- burn program. and could begin as soon as Friday, “We have a predetermined condition Utah Division of Air Quality to ensure AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 Wednesday night’s lows. One fire will be set in a 29-acre target depending on weather conditions and we need to get the fire to do what we SEE SAFETY PAGE A12 ➤ area on the west bench of the Oquirrh air quality, said Teresa Rigby, BLM fire want it to.” SEE BLM PAGE A9 ➤ UTAH WEATHER Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Logan BULLETIN BOARD B4 Grouse 64/33 Wendover PrecipitationAIR QUALITY (in inches) INSIDE Creek 64/41 Knolls Clive WEATHER Lake Point Tuesday CLASSIFIEDS B5 61/35 63/41 63/42 61/43 HOMETOWN A10 Ogden Stansbury Park Good Dinner theatre County rugby 62/39 Erda 62/41 to open musical club growing in OBITUARIES A6 Vernal Grantsville 62/40 Pine Canyon Wednesday Salt Lake City 62/32 63/40 52/36 OPEN FORUM A4 Tooele 64/40 Bauer Good comedy Thursday popularity 61/39 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal SPORTS B1 61/39 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D Provo Roosevelt 61/39 64/31 See A7 See A10 63/37 See Stockton PollenThursday Index Price complete 61/37 66/37 High Good Nephi forecast Rush Valley 62/32 61/36 Ophir Moderate on A9 56/38 Source:Low www.airquality.utah.gov Delta Manti Absent 64/39 63/31 Green River Tu W Th F Sa Su M 68/38 Dugway Source: Intermountain Allergy & Asthma Richfield Gold Hill 63/37 65/31 Moab 59/39 RIVERS AND LAKES Hanksville 69/34 Beaver 70/39 Vernon In feet as of 7 a.m. Monday 65/31 Ibapah 61/34 24-hour 63/33 Stage Change Vernon Creek at Vernon 0.93 none Cedar City Blanding South Willow Creek St. George 69/34 67/37 at Grantsville 1.43 +0.01 81/52 Kanab 73/38 Eureka 56/35 Great Salt Lake Elevation at Saltair Boat Harbor 4190.93 A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN TUESDAY April 5, 2016 Health department offers new seminar series for caregivers by Jessica Henrie vided. But seating is limited, caregivers. County officials got aspects of care giving, including: time-consuming,” VanZanten as offering lunch and respite STAFF WRITER so attendees should register the idea from other counties general practical tips, lowering said. “These individuals may be care, will allow more people to in advance by calling 435-277- in Utah that did it successfully, costs for medication and sup- working full time, or they may participate.