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TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S THURSDAY July 30, 2020 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 127 No. 18 $1.00 Nuclear power plant component reaches Clive 670-ton cylindrical steel vessel will stay at EnergySolutions’ Clive facility TIM GILLIE/TTB PHOTO Brett Peterson, director Division of Juvenile Justice Services; Donovan Bergstrom, program director Office of Youth Services, and Trina Dickinson, assistant program director for Salt Lake Valley Youth Centers (including Tooele and Summit counties) in the recreation room of the Tooele County Youth Center on July 29, 2020. Under an agreement with Tooele County, DJSS will provide staff and funding for the youth center’s operations. County, schools, state partnership COURTESY NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION The cylinder in the background holds the reactor pressure vessel from opens new Youth Services Center Unit 1 of the San Onofre nuclear power plant. The RPV arrived at Clive on July 22. Center to be a TIM GILLIE Onofre Nuclear Generating EDITOR Station) decommission- A part from a decommis- ing project,” stated Ken ‘hub’ for youth and sioned nuclear power plant in Robuck, president and CEO of San Onofre, San Diego County, EnergySolutions. “We appreci- family services California will rest permanent- ate the thousands of hours over ly in an engineered disposal the course of a three year peri- cell at the EnergySolutions od that our EnergySolutions TIM GILLIE Clive Disposal Facility about 50 employees dedicated to safely EDITOR miles west of Lake Point. transport and dispose of the A collaboration between EnergySolutions announced RPV. We also would like to Tooele County, the state that the reactor pressure vessel thank Emmert International Division of Juvenile Justice from the previously decom- and their crew for their sup- service, and the Tooele School missioned Unit 1 of the San port in the safe execution of District will soon bring a new Onofre Nuclear Generating this project.” service for youth and families Station arrived at their Clive The RPV shipping con- to Tooele City’s Main Street. facility on July 22. tainer was 15’6” in diameter The state Division of The Nuclear Regulatory and 38’6” long and weighed Juvenile Justice Services held Commission describes reactor approximately 670 tons. an open house at the Tooele pressure vessels as “thick steel The RPV package was a County Youth Services Center containers that hold nuclear Class A radioactive waste ship- at 31 S. Main Street in Tooele fuel when the reactors oper- ment — the least hazardous City on Wednesday. ate.” class of low-level radioactive The center is located in the The vessels provide one waste. It met all regulations for south side of what is known as of several barriers that keep disposal at EnergySolutions’ the Mantes building, north of radioactive material out of the Clive disposal facility, accord- the Tooele County Building on environment, according to the ing to EnergySolutions. the east side of Main Street. NRC. The contact dose rate TIM GILLIE/TTB PHOTO “This is an effort to keep “This is a significant mile- The entrance to the Tooele County Youth Services Center at 31 S. Main Street is accessed through the stone for the SONGS (San SEE COMPONENT PAGE A5 ® parking lot off of Vine Street on the east side of the building. SEE CENTER PAGE A5 ® RURAL ERDA School district’s youth and family resource center gets a new home TIM GILLIE do here is provide education EDITOR during the school day for stu- While Tooele County, in dents at the youth center,” he partnership with the state, is said. opening a new Youth Services The district will bring sever- Center, in the same building, al programs and people togeth- but across the breezeway from er under the same roof at the the youth center, the Tooele Youth and Family Resource County School District is open- Center, according to Duncan. ing their new Youth and Family Along with education ser- Resource Center. vices for the youth center, And its proximity to the the school district’s resource County’s youth center is no center will house intervention coincidence, according to behavioral services, the school CLAYTON DUNN/TTB PHOTO Brian Duncan,Tooele County district’s homeless liaison coor- Tooele County residents on Bryan Road show their disagreement with recent rezone requests for School District behavioral spe- dinator, preschool outreach, developments in Erda. Petitions for the referendum to repeal the rezone for the Tooele Valley Temple cialist. Brian Duncan subdivision planned community must be submitted to the County Clerk by Aug. 17. “One of the things we will SEE RESOURCE PAGE A5 ® Tooele County School District Behavioral Specialist INSIDE BULLETIN BOARD B3 CLASSIFIEDS B6 Thrift store OBITUARIES A6 CORONAVIRUS TRACKER opens SPORTS A7 See A2 Data as of July 30, 2020. Source: Utah Department of Health TOOELE COUNTY- Known Cases: 524 UTAH- Known Cases: 39,696 Hospitalizations: 26 • Deaths: 0 Hospitalizations: 2,346 • Deaths: 300 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN THURSDAY July 30, 2020 NEW THRIFT STORE IN TOOELE NOW OPEN TIM GILLIE/TTB PHOTOS Melissa Wallace (above), manager of the Tooele Thrift store, examines clothes on a rack at the store on Wednesday morning. With volunteer help, the Tooele Thrift store in the building near the southwest corner of Vine and Main Street, south of Veteran’s Memorial Park is now open to the public. Shelves at the Tooele Thrift (left) store are filled with a variety of items for sale. Oregon governor says US agents will start leaving Portland PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) hours includes a “robust pres- that the Hatfield Federal President Donald Trump conflict at the courthouse. ments in community policing. _ Federal agents who have ence” of Oregon State Police Courthouse and other federal insisted federal troops would Protests have roiled Portland “I will work with communi- clashed with protesters in in the downtown of the state’s properties will no longer be not leave Portland until local for more than two months ty leaders and elected officials Portland, Oregon, will begin largest city. attacked and that the seat of authorities “secured their city.” since the death of George to take bolder action to reform a “phased withdrawal” from “State and local law justice in Portland will remain “Either they’re gonna clean Floyd, a Black man who died our police practices — includ- the city, Gov. Kate Brown said enforcement will begin secur- secure.” If conditions in up Portland soon, or the feder- after being pinned at the neck ing those of the Portland Wednesday. ing properties and streets, Portland “improve significant- al government is going up, and by a white Minneapolis police Police Bureau. We need to get Acting Homeland Security especially those surrounding ly,” then the U.S. government we’re gonna do it for them,” officer. this right,” she said. Secretary Chad Wolf said in a federal properties, that have will reassess its staffing levels he said. Like many other protests The nightly Portland pro- statement the plan negotiated been under nightly attack for in the city, he said. The announcement was an nationwide, they sought to tests often spiral into violence with Brown over the last 24 the past two months,” Wolf Portland Mayor Ted abrupt about-face from just highlight and call for an end to as demonstrators target the said. Wheeler applauded the end two days earlier, when the racial injustice, but they had U.S. courthouse with rocks, Agents with the U.S. of what he called “an illegal U.S. government said it might increasingly focused on federal fireworks and laser pointers. CORRECTION Customs and Border occupation” in a lengthy send more federal agents to property even before the U.S. Federal agents respond with Protection and U.S. Twitter post, saying the news Portland instead. agents arrived. tear gas, so-called less-lethal In Tuesday’s edition of Immigration and Customs came on the same day that the The U.S. Marshals Service “I have grown increasingly ammunition and arrests. the Transcript Bulletin, a Enforcement will begin leav- City Council would vote on and Department of Homeland concerned at the nightly con- Protesters have tried almost photo of a Grantsville girls ing the city’s downtown area whether to refer a major police Security had been weighing frontation between local com- every night to tear down tennis player ran with a on Thursday, Brown said. reform initiative to voters in this week whether to send in munity members and federal a fence erected to protect story about the beginning of Federal Protective Service November. more agents. The marshals officers. We need to recognize the building, set fires in the high school sports practices. agents — who are always “The federal occupation of were taking steps to identify that the protests in Portland street and hurled fireworks, The athlete in the photo is posted at the Mark O. Hatfield our community has brought a up to 100 additional person- are not solely about the fed- Molotov cocktails and bricks, Audrey Curtiss, who played Federal Courthouse — will new kind of fear to our streets. nel who could go in case they eral presence,” Brown said. rocks and bottles at the agents doubles for the Cowboys work alongside state police Federal agents nearly killed were needed to relieve or sup- Many protesters want to see inside. Authorities this week last season. to guard the exterior of the a demonstrator, and their plement the deputy marshals the Portland Police Bureau reinforced the fence by put- courthouse and a limited num- presence has led to increased who work in Oregon, spokes- defunded and are angry ting concrete highway barriers ber of other federal agents will violence and vandalism in our man Drew Wade said.