FRONT PAGE A1 Grantsville selects two longtime residents as grand marshals See B2 TOOELETRANSCRIPT SERVING TOOELE COUNTY BULLETIN SINCE 1894 THURSDAY June 30, 2016 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 123 No. 9 $1.00 Milne takes strong victory in primary GOP supports Herbert for governor; Democrats advance Snow to Nov. 8 by Tim Gillie Jonathan Johnson. STAFF WRITER Johnson ended with 28 per- cent of the vote. Tooele County Republicans Locally, Tooele County stood with the rest of Utah’s GOP Republicans also supported voters and supported incum- Herbert, but with a smaller mar- bents during their party’s pri- gin. He received 65 percent of mary on Tuesday. the votes compared to Johnson’s Local Democrats also fol- 35 percent. lowed their party’s statewide Herbert will face Democrat primary trend. They contributed Mike Weinholtz, Libertarian Brian to Misty Snow’s selection as the Kamerath, and Independent Democratic candidate for U.S. American Dell “Superdell” Senate. Schanze in the general election. Statewide, Gov. Gary Herbert Shawn Milne emerged the picked up 72 percent of the winner of the three-way race to vote in the Republican primary, claim the Republican spot on the decidedly defeating his oppo- nent, Overstock.com Chairman SEE MILNE PAGE A7 ➤ Herbert makes stop for lunch in Tooele on campaign stump by Tim Gillie on Tooele City’s Vine Street at STAFF WRITER noon. Herbert was joined by the On Election Day candidates’ Tooele County commission- strategy usually turns to getting ers, other elected officials, his their supporters to go to the polls campaign staff, and a few other and vote — hopefully for them. citizens invited by his campaign Gov. Gary Herbert was no staff and the commissioners. exception Tuesday. And during Before arriving in Tooele for his day of last-minute campaign lunch, Herbert said he was in stumping, he stopped in Tooele Utah County participating in a for lunch. honk-and-wave and other get- “I heard you had a really good out-the-vote efforts. He also Mexican restaurant here and I stopped to visit with Utah’s like Mexican food,” Herbert said, while eating lunch at Vista Linda SEE HERBERT PAGE A7 ➤ FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO An honor guard of Utah National Guard members (above) present the colors at Tooele Army Depot’s change of command ceremony on Tuesday. TEAD incoming commander (below) Col. James L. Brown speaks during the ceremony. New commander takes helm at TEAD by Steve Howe Sage-grouse may STAFF WRITER After three years at the helm of Tooele Army Depot, Col. Roger L. McCreery gave an need lots of time emotional farewell to his workforce during a change of command ceremony Tuesday SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE morning. UV INDEX The Sun Rise Set FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Friday 6:02 a.m. 9:04 p.m. McCreery will be deployed to Army Central Saturday 6:03 a.m. 9:03 p.m. to ‘settle down’ Command in Kuwait as the assistant chief of Sunday 6:04 a.m. 9:03 p.m. Monday 6:04 a.m. 9:03 p.m. staff of logistics for one year. His successor, Tuesday 6:05 a.m. 9:03 p.m. Col. James L. Brown, previously served at the by Jessica Henrie The birds’ population has been Wednesday 6:05 a.m. 9:02 p.m. Pentagon as the Acquisition and Logistics F Sa Su M Tu W Th STAFF WRITER declining, with only 23 males Thursday 6:06 a.m. 9:02 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ The Moon Rise Set Team Chief in the Army’s Office of Businessnumber, the greater the need for eye and skin being counted on leks — sage- Friday 3:47 a.m. 6:11 p.m. Transformation. protection. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 The nesting season of a pop- grouse breeding areas — in 2015, Saturday 4:36 a.m. 7:17 p.m. “It’s hard to believe I took command of thisVery High; 11+ Extreme ulation of Greater Sage-grouse Chelak said. Sunday 5:30 a.m. 8:17 p.m. Monday 6:30 a.m. 9:11 p.m. unmatched and multifaceted organization ALMANAC near Vernon appears to be In an effort to save the sage- Tuesday 7:32 a.m. 9:58 p.m. just three years ago,” McCreery said. “BeingStatistics for the week ending June 29. delayed compared to other study grouse from disappearing Some sun, a stray Sunshine, a stray Sunshine and very Sunshine and patchy Mostly sunny and very Wednesday 8:35 a.m. 10:39 p.m. Sunny to partly cloudy Hot with sunshine Temperatures Thursday 9:38 a.m. 11:15 p.m. t-storm in the p.m. t-storm in the p.m. warm a quartermasterclouds officer with absolutelywarm no areas in Utah. entirely from the Sheeprocks, ammunition experience, you can imagine IHigh/Low past week 98/52 That’s what graduate student state wildlife officials moved 40 New First Full Last Normal high/low past week 87/61 88 69 89 70 88 66 92 66 96 67was quite apprehensive92 65 and 95nervous.”67 Average temp past week 77.1 Melissa Chelak reported in a sage-grouse to the area from Box McCreery had effusive praise for theNormal average temp past week 73.8 recent update on the popula- Elder and Piute counties during TOOELE COUNTY WEATHER Daily Temperatures High Low July 4 July 11 July 19 July 26 approximately 480 civilian employees at tion’s status. Chelak is studying translocation projects in March Shown is Friday’s weather. TEAD who he said were patient in teaching the sage-grouse living in the and April. Forecasts and graphics provided by Temperatures are Friday’s highs and Friday night’s him about the facility. He said the relation- Sheeprock Mountains as part of Translocation projects have AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 lows. her PhD program at Utah State SEE TEAD PAGE A6 ➤ University. SEE GROUSE PAGE A6 ➤ UTAH WEATHER Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Logan BULLETIN BOARD B7 Grouse 89/55 Wendover PrecipitationAIR QUALITY (in inches) INSIDE Creek 89/68 Knolls Clive WEATHER Lake Point Thursday CLASSIFIEDS C7 85/56 91/71 91/71 87/69 HOMETOWN B2 Ogden Stansbury Park Moderate State will replace Beatles tribute 89/64 88/69 Erda AIR ACTION SAGE test with band will perform OBITUARIES A6 Vernal Grantsville 88/69 Pine Canyon Friday Salt Lake City 82/57 89/69 78/61 KID SCOOP B11 Tooele 91/69 Bauer Moderate ACT for high for Fridays on Vine 88/69 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal SPORTS B1 87/68 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D Provo Roosevelt 88/69 AIR ACTION school students this week 82/56 86/62 See Stockton PollenSaturday Index Price complete 88/67 See A2 See A3 80/60 High Good Nephi forecast Rush Valley 85/59 87/63 Ophir Moderate on B5 82/63 Source:Low www.airquality.utah.gov Delta Manti Absent 85/66 82/54 Green River Th F Sa Su M Tu W 85/66 Dugway Source: Intermountain Allergy & Asthma Richfield Gold Hill 89/66 81/58 Moab 85/66 RIVERS AND LAKES Hanksville 86/66 Beaver 85/65 Vernon In feet as of 7 a.m. Wednesday 78/56 Ibapah 86/61 24-hour 88/61 Stage Change Vernon Creek at Vernon 0.88 +0.01 Cedar City Blanding South Willow Creek St. George 81/59 76/60 at Grantsville 1.57 none 91/73 Kanab 83/61 Eureka 80/58 Great Salt Lake Elevation at Saltair Boat Harbor 4190.46 A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN THURSDAY June 30, 2016 Irrigation company announces new weekend water restriction by Jessica Henrie Lately, the water level in er observer for the National STAFF WRITER Settlement Canyon Reservoir has Weather Service. been dropping about 8 inches June 28 marked the hottest Settlement Canyon Irrigation each day, he said. day of the month so far, hitting a Company has set a new watering “When we had the runoff high of 98 degrees and a low of 68 restriction starting Friday. coming we were doing all right, degrees, he added. The new restriction prohibits but now the runoff has quit,” The National Weather Service all shareholders from watering Bevan said. issued a red flag warning at 10 between 8 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. There are currently no restric- a.m. Wednesday for lightning Monday, said Gary Bevan, irriga- tions on watering in Grantsville, after an extremely dry period tion company president. said Jake McArthur, watermas- in Tooele County. The weekend That restriction will apply ter of Grantsville Irrigation forecast for Tooele calls for scat- every weekend from July 1 on, Company. tered thunderstorms through he said. The average high temperature Friday, a mostly sunny Saturday “With this hot weather, the in Tooele so far this month has and a “slight chance” of more usage is so high that we wanted been 88.3 degrees Fahrenheit, thunderstorms starting Saturday FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO to be a little proactive and see if while the average low tempera- night. Sprinklers water a field on the west side of Tooele City. All sharehlders of the Settlement Canyon Irrigation Company are now we can make the water last the ture has been 58 degrees, said [email protected] forbidden from watering on the weekend. whole year,” Bevan said. Ned Bevan, a cooperative weath- No love for SAGE test dominates talk at local town hall meeting by Tim Gillie SAGE stands for Student terms, according to Debbie STAFF WRITER Assessment of Growth and Chapman, teacher at Rose Excellence.