UTAH’S INDEPENDENT VOICE SINCE 1871

JUNE 3, 2011 « FRIDAY » SLTRIB.COM

MAVS’ HUGE Pride Fest • Singer, a Utah native, to perform > E11 SAVE: Details, A3 FOURTH-QUARTER $38 RALLY TIESUP River rafting for NBA FINALS > D1 two > $40 HOMECOMING SLCDailyDeal.com GRADUATION Joseph Kotara was 13 years old when doctors discovered a tumor on his optic nerve. He died a week later in January 2002. His heart was swiftly flown from Texas to Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City, where it was placed inside 8-year-old Ixel Miguel, who had been told she had only six months to live. Thursday, she and Kotara’s family celebrated her high school graduation. Romney Always,‘heart sisters’ running in 2012

Politics • Former head of SLC Olympics is Mormons at White sure to look to Utah House again for support. Roundtable takes on By THOMAS BURR various topics, The Salt Lake Tribune such as gay marriage. > A5 Three years ago, Utahn Fred Hale forked out $200 to Mitt Romney’s presidential cam- paign because he thought the former Olympics chief was the best White House contender. And he still thinks so. “He’s an intelligent person,” Hale, a retired contractor from Huntsman Grantsville, said this week. “I’ll denies take it one step further — he’s Romney LDS.” As Romney mounts his sec- feud ond presidential bid, the for- Former Utah mer Massachusetts governor Gov. Jon is likely to see huge support — Huntsman Jr. again — from Utah, a Mormon- calls reports of dominated state that likes to rift “hyperbole claim him as an adopted son. of the highest Please see ROMNEY, A6 order.” › A7

RICK EGAN | The Salt Lake Tribune Ixel Miguel, left, hugs Susie Kotara, the mother of Joseph Kotara, the 13-year-old heart donor who saved her life nearly 10 years ago. Kotara, her husband and daughter flew from Texas to celebrate Ixel’s high school graduation together on Thursday.

Ten years ago, the loss of a 13-year-old boy was turned into a miracle for a sick girl.

“ By ROSEMARY WINTERS 2002. His heart was swiftly The Salt Lake Tribune flown from Texas to Prima- More I honestly ry Children’s Medical Cen- online didn’t think I Ixel Miguel never met Jo- ter in Salt Lake City, where it To learn would get here. seph Kotara, but she knows was placed inside 8-year-old they share a love for outdoor Ixel (pronounced eek-shel). O more JIM COLE | The Associated Press I still don’t activities and Top Ramen A virus had ravaged her own about organ, Mitt Romney, accompanied by his wife, Ann, arrives believe it.” noodles. And with each beat heart, and she had been giv- eye and tissue in Stratham, N.H., Thursday to announce his 2012 of her heart, she knows his en six months to live. donation, or candidacy for president. IXEL death saved her life. “I honestly didn’t think I to register MIGUEL This week, when she grad- would get here. I still don’t your wishes On graduating from high school af- uated from West Jordan High, believe it,” Ixel, now 18, said to become a ter having nearly she celebrated the achieve- Thursday at a graduation par- donor. died as an 8-year- ment as theirs together. ty at Intermountain Donor > yesutah.org old from a virus Joseph was 13 years old Services’ Salt Lake City of- that ravaged her BYU prof killer heart when doctors discovered a fice, where she has become a tumor on his optic nerve. He frequent volunteer. died a week later in January Please see HEART, A4 Joseph Kotara takes plea deal

Court • Man to testify against co-defendant if St. George showers love the case goes to trial. on deploying Guardsmen By AARON FALK HI The Salt Lake Tribune By KRISTENMOULTON The soldiers — craftsmen 65 The Salt Lake Tribune and cops, teachers and tech- 48 American Fork • One of the nicians — accepted several LO two men accused of killing a Benjamin St. George • Thousands rounds of ovations and lis- former BYU professor during David Rettig of southern Utahns show- tened to the moving patriot- a 2009 burglary has accepted • Agreed to a ered their soldiers — and the ic music of the Southern Utah a plea deal from prosecutors plea bargain in soldiers’ families — with love Legacy Choir and singer Dave Today • Sunny and will testify against his co- murder case Thursday night, two days Reber during the communi- > C8 defendant if that case goes to COBB CONDIE | Special to the Tribune before 475 members of the ty’s “Embracing Our Heroes” trial. Shantelle Vu rests her head on the Utah National Guard’s Sec- event. City and county lead- [Classified Ads Y1 Benjamin David Rettig, 23, shoulder of her fiancé, Spc. Josh ond Battalion, 222nd Field ers along with Guard officials Comics & Puzzles E10 pleaded guilty Thursday morn- Seifert, at Burns Arena at Dixie Artillery deploy to Iraq to signed a covenant of support Horoscpe E11 ing in 4th District Court to ag- State College on Thursday. help draw the curtain on war. Please see DEPLOYMENT, A4 Money C1 gravated murder and aggravat- Movies E3 ed kidnapping. In exchange Obituaries B6 for the plea, prosecutors have Sports D1 agreed not to seek the death Television E12 penalty and drop felony counts of aggravated kidnapping and Kay Mortensen You may a Pastor returns to Utah aggravated burglary against • Found in his soo be in VOL. 282 | NO. 50 n tion. bigger-than-life situa Rettig. home with his NATION • A Utah pastor leaves tornado-ravaged Joplin, Mo., saying, Rettig and 24-year-old throat cut after B3 “Before the tornado, people were maybe just a little more selfish and Martin Cameron Bond were a robbery in now, today, they’re a little less selfish.” > A4 Please see RETTIG, A7 2009 H UTAH’S INDEPENDENT VOICE SINCE 1871

JUNE 22, 2011 « WEDNESDAY » SLTRIB.COM

SAVE: Details, A3 NBA DRAFT: JAZZ Mix • Squatters brewmaster is an innovator >>CC11 66% WATCH WALKER’S Teeth-whitening STOCK TUMBLE AS pen > $29 KNIGHT’S RISES > D1 SLCDailyDeal.com BEER LEADER POLITICS • RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE Firings cut Antiquities section to bare bones HUNTSMAN Officials blame budget cuts but skeptics see a “Everything political motivation. is at stake. By BRANDON LOOMIS and JUDY FAHYS This is the hour 2012 The Salt Lake Tribune when we choose The Utah Department of Community and Culture on Tuesday laid off the state ar- our future.” chaeologist and two assistants, leaving the Antiquities section with just two employees: those responsible for maintaining a Ex-governor of Utah database necessary for develop- makes presidential ment of roads, railways, build- ings and other projects. announcement. Department acting Director Mike Hansen said he was sim- ply carrying out budget cuts ordered by the Legislature to By THOMAS BURR eliminate programs that re- The Salt Lake Tribune ceive state funds and that do not carry out requirements Jersey City, N.J. • Former Please see FIRINGS, A7 Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. on Tuesday vowed to renew the “promise of America” in Indian Affairs • Shirlee Silver- announcing that he would seek smith is the new director. › A10 the presidency, pitching him- self as the candidate who can rise above partisan politics and beat President Barack Obama. Only 2,000 feet from the SUMMER Statue of Liberty, Huntsman, SOLSTICE Utah’s 16th governor and its first to run for the White House, channeled former Pres- ident Ronald Reagan in saying that it’s “time to make Amer- ica great again.” Huntsman, a former White House staff as- sistant under Reagan, chose Liberty State Park in New Jer- sey for his big announcement, the spot where Reagan in 1980 kicked off his general election campaign. “We’re not just choosing new leaders,” Huntsman said. “We’re choosing whether we are to become yesterday’s sto- ry or tomorrow’s. Everything AL HARTMANN | The Salt Lake Tribune is at stake. This is the hour Tara Thornely, left, and Mathu when we choose our future.” Gaia explore with toddler Tama. Huntsman, who resigned as Please see HUNTSMAN, A4 Sun Tunnels ages Im

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