www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY Leaping frogs keep things hopping at Stansbury Days See A10 TOOELETRANSCRIPT BULLETIN August 22, 2006 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 113 NO. 26 50 cents Walgreens buys out longtime Mustard Tooele pharmacy Dave’s Drug burning Pharmacists, staff will move to corporation’s new store by Karen Hunt Kind of. helm, an overwhelming number process STAFF WRITER While the longtime city hall- say, sometimes grudgingly, that After this Thursday, Dave’s mark will close its doors, the they’ll do their business at the Drugs will be no more than a entire pharmacy staff, complete corporate pharmacy chain. with owner Dave Bickmore, will “I know I’ll have to go where heats up memory. Tooele City’s community move over to Walgreens. The pre- they go. I’ve been a customer of pharmacy has made a deal with scription files for Dave’s Drugs theirs for a long time and there’s by Mark Watson Walgreens, the corporate giant customers will be transferred to a lot of things they do for me. I’m STAFF WRITER preparing to open this week on the new location for opening day not just up and changing this late The final major phase in the the corner of Main Street and Friday, Aug. 25. in the game,” said Kathy Madill, destruction of chemical weap- Utah Avenue in Tooele. Customers can choose to main- while standing in line at Dave’s ons started Friday at Tooele Chemical Disposal Facility at The deal will mark the end of tain their records with Walgreens Drugs Monday. file photo a 65-year legacy of hometown or move their business to a com- David Bickmore sold his business Dave’s Drugs to Walgreens. He will Deseret Chemical Depot about service. petitor. But with Bickmore at the SEE DAVE’S ON A5 manage the pharmacy at Walgreens starting Friday. 20 miles southeast of Tooele. It will take four to six years to incinerate over 6,000 tons of mustard agent stored mostly in bulk containers. It is esti- Schools Get Busy mated that 15 to 20 percent of the containers include traces of mercury. Workers drained the first container Friday after several months of testing and planning the process. Officials at DCD indicated that with the nerve agent already destroyed, the risk of a major accident is reduced immensely. “We have already safely elimi- nated 7,409 tons of chemical agent, and more than one mil- lion munitions, reducing the risk to the community and the envi- ronment by 99 percent,” said Ted Ryba, TOCDF site project manager. Workers continue to sample the containers to identify those with no mercury and low sludge and sediment content. These containers will be processed during the next one and one-half years. During this time employ- ees will design and install spe- cial filters for the furnace abate- ment systems. The addition of these sulfur-impregnated carbon filters will remove mercury from exhaust components generated when mustard containers with higher levels of mercury are pro- cessed at a later date. The destruction of the 6,194 tons of mustard agent is the photography / Troy Boman largest single chemical agent Like schools throughout the valley, Harris Elementary School was a busy place Monday morning as students returned to the classrooms. destruction campaign the U.S. Army will conduct in accor- dance with the Chemical Weapons Convention. The event coincides with the 10th anniver- Accidental overdose spurs negligence suit against schools sary of the start of operations at the facility. by Jesse Fruhwirth votes for her cause, she hopes a costly lawsuit with the attorney. It was after she had gotten Tuck subsequently gathered over 2,000 signa- Chemical material handlers STAFF WRITER will turn some legislators’ heads and change out of the hospital for the third time that we tures urging the Utah Legislature to mandate already changed plugs and The Tooele mom who spearheaded a state some of their votes. decided enough was enough.” and fund a full-time nurse in every school valves on one of the bulk con- effort to hire a full-time nurse in every Utah “We had no intentions of suing initially,” Michaela is Tuck’s 10-year-old daughter statewide. tainers on July 31 when agent school will soon file a lawsuit against the Overlake mom Paula Tuck said. “Actually it who, in the panic of a severe asthma attack, An overdose of albuterol can cause sei- vapor was detected at one of county school district. Having succeeded in was six months to the day of the initial acci- over-medicated herself with her albuterol the storage igloos. The depot SEE LAWSUIT ON A2 gaining substantial support but not enough dental overdose that we went down and met inhaler and was consequently hospitalized. notified Tooele County officials and reported that the incident created no danger to surround- ing communities. On Aug. 14 at CAMDS, an Rehabilitated ‘loverbirds’ older facility separate from TOCDF, workers processed the first basket of hazardous freed to make home in wild waste through its metals parts furnace. This facility is sched- uled to close in October of 2008. by Jesse Fruhwirth dehydrated with emaciated flight muscles. Processing of this basket rep- STAFF WRITER Hamburger was picked up at Salt Lake resents the beginning of clo- City’s Liberty Park with a broken wing. Two young falcons were released into the sure activities for this former Both were housed for little over a month wilds of Dugway Proving Ground Thursday research and development facil- at a rehab center in Salt Lake City. Housed after weeks of rehabilitation. A biologist ity that pioneered incineration among seven other recovering kestrels, their in charge of their release said the two had and neutralization technologies behavior while healing from their respec- really hit it off while in rehab and so it was currently being used at disposal tive ailments was downright romantic. decided they would be released together, sites across the nation. “They have pair bonded in captivity ... possibly to start a family. CAMDS will continue with They hang out together,” Knight said. “It’s a Dugway’s wildlife biologist, Robbie scheduled closure operations courtship kind of thing.” Knight, said the two American kestrel and treatment of associated Because they made a love connection in falcons had “pair bonded” and may stay wastes. Closure wastes, such captivity, it was decided to release them together as a couple in the wild. as waste created from the dis- together. Knight said there is no guarantee Boeing, the male, was named after the air- mantling of the former research their attraction will last out of captivity, craft manufacturer. Hamburger, the female, facility’s liquid incinerator, are but it is possible. Kestrels are native to the was named after her favorite meal. Boeing classified as hazardous because Dugway area so Hamburger and Boeing’s had been found on the bombing range with they are contaminated with low photography / Jesse Fruhwirth trichinosis, an infectious disease possibly levels of agent residue. Rehabilitated falcons Hamburger (above) and Boeing are released together at contracted from decayed meat that left him SEE FALCONS ON A2 Dugway Proving Ground Thursday. SEE MUSTARD ON A2 WEATHER OPEN FORUM A6 TV LISTINGS B4 INSIDE Mostly clear tonight. Lows in OBITUARIES A8 PUZZLES B6 Buffs, Cowboys drop season the upper 60s. Mostly sunny gridiron openers Wednesday. Highs in the mid 90s. HOMETOWN A10 DOINGS B5 See B2 Complete Forecast: A2 SPORTS B2 CLASSIFIEDS B7 A2 TUESDAY August 22, 2006 ETCETERA ... Ashdown decries Hatch’s terrorism comment News Briefs Valley Weather Forecast Local Weather by Mark Watson following statement responding true today as it was in 1948 ruling. to his Hatch’s assertions. when he said it in Springville: “I believe that the court Highway Patrol kicks off Wed STAFF WRITER Labor Day DUI crackdown 95/68 Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch says “My opponent continues ‘It has been the policy of the made the right decision, recog- 8/23 to trot out the falsehood that Democratic Party to be for the nizing that the administration The Utah Highway Patrol he does not recall saying it, but Mostly sunny skies. Hot. High Democrats are bad for national people. It has been the policy of overstepped its Constitutional will be conducting a nation- around 95F. a a quote about terrorists and wide Labor Day Crackdown on Democrats created fodder for security. I find this offensive, the Republican Party to be for authority,” Ashdown said. “I drunk driving, “Drunk Driving. the news media and his political false, and deceptive. It shows a the special interests.’ Senator have previously expressed con- fundamental lack of respect for Hatch wants to scare people cerns about the president taking Over the Limit. Under Arrest,” in opponents last week. Thu and confidence in the abilities into voting Republican so he can unilateral steps to eavesdrop, Tooele County Aug.18-Sept. 4. 91/60 In a lengthy interview on 8/24 of America’s troops, our intelli- help out his Hollywood buddies without asking for a warrant, The UHP said it will be out several topics with the Tooele Mostly sunny. Highs in the low 90s gence services, our law enforce- and out-of-state contributors. I and without asking Congress to in force checking for impaired Transcript-Bulletin, Hatch said and lows in the low 60s. ment agencies, and general dis- want people to vote for me so revise the Foreign Intelligence drivers. The UHP, along with that terrorists are “waiting for thousands of other law enforce- respect for the American peo- all Americans can be safe from Surveillance Act.