FRONT PAGE A1 www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE RANSCRIPT Rookie earns T first win at MMP’s NASCAR event See A10 BULLETIN July 17, 2007 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 114 NO. 016 50¢ Man arrested for trying to run over police officer by Natalie Tripp after officers responded to a home, however, Fuentes made head-on into a responding officer’s Fuentes onto Coleman Avenue CORRESPONDENT domestic dispute at the home of a sudden U-turn and attempted patrol vehicle, causing extensive As Fuentes tried to turn around, A domestic dispute ended Jose Roberto Fuentes. As offi- to ram the officers with his 2007 damage to his own vehicle as well he backed his Tacoma into the with a wild car chase that left cers arrived, an allegedly intoxi- Toyota Tundra. as the patrol vehicle.” deputy’s vehicle, causing minor two police vehicles smashed up cated Fuentes, 38, was already “He suddenly accelerated and Fuentes drove away from the damage to that car as well. and one man in jail on Saturday fleeing the scene in his pickup began driving directly toward the scene after rendering the patrol Fuentes then exited his vehicle night. truck heading south on 680 West responding officers,” said Tooele vehicle completely inoperable. and attempted to flee on foot, at According to a Tooele City toward McKellar St. City Police Lt. Jorge Cholico. Remaining officers and a Tooele Police report, the chase began Once officers pulled up to his “Fuentes then drove his vehicle County Sheriff’s deputy pursued SEE CHARGED PAGE A4 Jose Roberto Fuentes G-ville also Pine Canyon considering abandons pet limits open-space by Joshua Figueira STAFF WRITER requirement Public backlash against an by Alleen Lang aborted crackdown on pet limits CORRESPONDENT in Tooele won’t stop Grantsville A Pine Canyon experiment City officials from considering to mandate more open space in a new pet limit ordinance of new developments appears to their own. The Grantsville City have failed — at least tempo- Council plans to take up the rarily — amid complaints and issue at its regular meeting this confusion by developers, county Wednesday. officials and property owners. “It should be a very inter- A newly adopted ordinance esting debate,” said Grantsville mandating “conservation sub- City Attorney Ron Elton. “The divisions” in Pine Canyon was recent events in Tooele will only repealed by Tooele County add to that.” commissioners last week Elton said the council added at the request of the Pine the issue to Wednesday’s agenda Canyon Planning and Zoning at the request of the city police Commission. Carolyn Aagard, department. Pine Canyon planning commis- “The big problem is cats,” said sion co-chair, said the ordinance animal control officer Randi was contradictory and unclear. Johnson. “They go in yards, they According to Tooele County overpopulate, they create a nui- Attorney Doug Hogan, the ordi- sance. They’re everywhere.” nance was designed to promote But unlike Tooele, where offi- cluster developments while pre- cials threatened to begin enforc- serving open space. However, it ing a longstanding ordinance caused confusion with develop- limiting the number of domestic ers and planning commission- pets, Grantsville does not cur- ers charged with approving pro- rently have a blanket ordinance posed construction. regulating the total number of photography / Troy Boman Property ownership and tax pets allowed per household. Dr. LeGrand Belnap and two kidney transplant recipients — Tooele resident Jennifer Morison and Candace Lindquist (right) — appear at LDS benefits were two areas of con- The city does have restric- Hospital on Monday. Morison and Lindquist received kidneys from two donors as part of the first living-donor paired exchange transplant in Utah. cern in the ordinance. tions on the number of certain Planning and zoning commis- types of animals that residents sioners, who initially voted in can own, said Johnson. One favor of making conservation important pet has been left off, Breakthrough kidney donation gives subdivisions mandatory, were however. under the impression owner- “The current ordinance ship of land in the subdivisions doesn’t make provisions for would remain in the hands of cats, and we think it should,” Tooele woman renewed lease on life homeowners. This impression Johnson said. “We’re asking the was reinforced by Nicole Cline, city to do something about it.” Breakthrough program cross-matched four patients to save two lives Tooele County economic devel- Johnson said the police depart- opment director, who said indi- ment isn’t proposing a specific by Mark Watson like to feel normal. The day after, I just at the hospital. A donor had been found felt healthier and wanted to get up and as part of the paired donation program, vidual homeowners would retain number of cats per household, STAFF WRITER title to the property, although Life from age 20 to 25 is usually prime move around,” the 25-year-old Morison which allows a person waiting for a kid- but suggested the limit should some portion of the land would time for most people, but for Tooele’s said Monday after a press conference at ney transplant to move higher on the list be higher than the controversial be put in a trust managed by a Jennifer Morison those five years were not the hospital. if a family member promises to donate a Tooele City ordinance, which charity or government agency. fun. At 21 she was diagnosed with deterio- In February, Morison was placed on a kidney — regardless of who becomes the limits domestic animals to two Hogan, on the other hand, rating kidneys. Two years ago, at 23, she waiting list for a kidney — a request that recipient. per household total. said homeowners would retain started four-hour dialysis treatments three can take years to fill. Morison received a kidney because her “It’s a rural area. There are title to only one or two acres times a week. “Our life this way was almost becoming blood type matched with GiGi Allred, 53, farms and lots of land, so it only of a five-acre parcel of land — On July 3, however, her life changed routine,” said Morison’s mother Mary Lou of Orem, who wanted to donate a kidney makes sense to have some cats,” upon which they could build dramatically when she received a new kid- Breitigam, referring to the endless dialysis to her sister Candace Lindquist, 50, of she said. “But these people who their homes and outbuildings. ney as part of the first living-donor paired treatments. Springville. But the two sisters’ blood have 20 or 30 cats, that’s a prob- The rest of the land would be donation program in the Intermountain Then Morison was notified on June 29 types did not match. The double-kidney lem.” set aside as part of a contiguous Johnson said there was not West at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. that she would receive a kidney on July “I feel great. I had forgotten what it was 3 after she underwent a few more tests SEE DONATION PAGE A4 SEE PETS PAGE A7 SEE SPACE ON A7 Number of hunters and anglers holding steady by Sarah Miley wildlife officers say the sale of hunt- ing a loss of interest in fishing. Now STAFF WRITER ing licenses and permits in Utah and that hatcheries are back in operation, The number of anglers and hunt- Tooele County has stayed constant in more fish are being stocked, including ers in Tooele County and the state is recent years. And evidence suggests in Grantsville, Vernon and Settlement staying strong, according to wildlife more people in the county and state Canyon reservoirs. officials, despite nationwide decline are fishing. “We’re back in good fish production, over the past decade. The number of anglers hit a plateau so there’s no reason to not go fishing,” According to preliminary data from a few years ago, but Kenny Johnson, said Tom Becker, county wildlife biol- the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2006 information analyst for the Division ogist for the Utah Division of Wildlife National Survey of Fishing, Hunting of Wildlife Resources, said there have Resources. and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, been spikes in participation both this He said there has been an increase from 1996 to 2006, the number of year and last year. in the number of people fishing in anglers decreased 15 percent and hunt- “Fishing numbers are up — not tre- the county, adding the popular reser- ers declined 10 percent nationwide. In mendously, but they’re up,” Johnson voirs draw not just county residents, 1996, 35.2 million anglers fished in the said. “Our goal is to increase fishing as but many people from the Salt Lake country compared to last year’s 30 mil- much as we can.” Valley. lion, and 14 million people hunted in Several years ago, when major hatch- Unlike fishing, where there is no limit 1996 compared to 12.5 million in 2006. eries around the state were affected While there are no hard-and-fast by whirling disease, the number of photography / Maegan Burr SEE HUNTERS PAGE A7 numbers to compare to those locally, fish being stocked decreased, caus- Chadwick Elting and Nicole Lint fish Monday at the Grantsville reservoir. Wildlife officials say fishing is gaining popularity in the county. WEATHER OPEN FORUM A6 HOMETOWN B1 INSIDE Partly cloudy with highs in OBITUARY A7 BULLETIN BOARD A8 Master Gardeners share the mid 90s. 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