Crime in the City Went Down During the COVID Pandemic
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High School Spring 2021 TOOELE VALLEY Sports Magazine SPRING SPORTS inside Clark, seniors lead strong Stansbury TOOELE squad SEE PAGE 4 RANSCRIPT BASEBALL SOFTBALL T SOCCER TOOELE S TRACK TENNIS GRANTSVILLE GOLF T C STANSBURY CHEER S Cayden Clark photo Zack Hamilton SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT BULLETIN THURSDAY April 22, 2021 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 127 No. 94 $1.00 Crime in the city went down during the COVID pandemic have gone down as well. City police report 3.2% drop in all crimes for 2020 “There are two areas that have gone up during the pandemic,” said Hansen. CEILLY SUTTON In 2019, there were 5,967 crimes “Driving under the influence and public STAFF WRITER reported, that works out to a reduction intoxication.” During the 2020 pandemic Tooele of 188 or a 3.2% decrease, in reported In 2020, police gave out 91 DUI’s City’s crime statistics were significantly crimes for 2020. and 267 public intoxication citations, lower than 2019, according to the “One type of crime that went down compared to 69 DUI’s and 165 intoxica- City’s police department. during the pandemic was drug pos- tions in 2019. In 2020, the Tooele City Police session and possession of drug para- Domestic violence reports stayed Department received reports of 5,779 phernalia,” said Hansen. “We had 405 relatively the same as the year prior, crimes reported, according to Lt. reported cases in 2020, compared to according to Hansen. Jeremy Hansen, public information 505 reported cases in 2019.” FILE PHOTO officer. All other types of crime, but three, SEE CRIME PAGE A5 ® Tooele City Police report a decrease in overall crime during the pandemic in 2020. More county tourism grants approved Advisory board advises County Council to consider TV series funding TIM GILLIE mended not funding the At EDITOR Your Leisure request, but the The Tooele County Council County Commission approved approved five grants from the $30,000 for the AYL request. County’s tourism fund totaling “It’s our recommendation 6 TIME STATE HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA CHAMPIONS $48,384 during their meeting that the Council look at those on Tuesday night. (the AYL) services as an RFP The Council also discussed a for services,” said Shaw. “Their COURTESY STANSBURY HIGH SCHOOL $63,000 tourism grant request services are not really trace- Stanbury High School Drama took from the producers of At Your able. The return on investment first place in the state Theatre Leisure, an independent televi- is not being seen in our hotels.” sion show that promotes out- Funding for AYL could be door recreation, for $63,000. done by the Council outside of The At Your Leisure request the TTAB process as part of a is one that has been a hot topic County budget item for tour- and divided the Tourism Tax ism, suggested Shaw. Advisory Board in the past, After a short discussion, according to Tracy Shaw, TTAB the County Council appeared Tooele County Council approves chairperson. In 2020 the TTAB recom- SEE GRANTS PAGE A5 ® Faust Road request for proposals TIM GILLIE one week ago. road reduces response time, Lopez said. EDITOR Brittany Lopez, interim county man- There have been 42 emergency calls The Tooele County voted to issue a ager, said that the road department to the Faust Road area in the last 12 request for proposals to repave Faust spends 9% of their grading time on months, according to Lopez. Road, including installing a cemented Faust Road which is about 1% of the During the public comment session road base, during their meeting on county’s unpaved roads. at the end of Tuesday night’s meeting, Tuesday evening. “It needs to be graded more, but they Tooele County Sheriff Paul Wimmer The vote to approve an RFP came don’t have the time to do it,” Lopez said he supports the repaving of Faust after a brief revisit of their discussion at said. Road. last week’s work session meeting on the The reason the Roads Department Faust Road connects the Five Mile budget transfer to pay for the work. has requested that the road be repaved Pass Recreation Area with other well Council Chairman Tom Tripp intro- is for safety reasons, according to used recreation areas in the County. It’s duced the agenda item at Tuesday’s Lopez. not unusual to be at a call in one area meeting by stating that there have been A lot of people use the Faust Road and get a call to respond to another “concerns about urgency and appropri- area for recreation and camping, espe- area, Wimmer said. FILE PHOTO ateness” of the project expressed since cially in recreational vehicles. When Lyndsie Medlyn and Laurie Hurst taste the light honey and complete a their public discussion about the road they have an emergency, the unpaved SEE FAUST PAGE A5 ® judging sheet at the Honey Harvest Festival held at Clark Historic Farm. Local law enforcement will collect old prescriptions CEILLY SUTTON according to local law enforce- bring in their old or expired oxone, information, and swag back by police at the event. canal you had a year ago that STAFF WRITER ment agencies. medications,” said Tooele items for those who turn in “This is important for me, you still have the narcotics on Local law enforcement This Saturday at the Tooele City Police Department’s Sgt. their drugs. because we are in an opioid hand, or anything. If you don’t agencies will be participat- Walmart located at 99 W. 1280 Shawn Sagers. “ We are trying No sharp items will be epidemic,” said Sagers. have any prescriptions to turn ing in the Drug Enforcement N from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the to get these off the streets and accepted. “I enjoy interacting with in, just come out and say hi,” Administration’s annual Drug Tooele City Police, along with stop theft and misuse.” Once the drugs are collect- different people during this Sagers said. Take Back event this weekend. their police Explorers will host At the event, officers and ed, the DEA picks them up and event. We are trying to get the The Tooele County Sheriff’s It is important to get unused their drug take back event. the Explorers will collect pre- destroys them. word out to anyone who has Office will participate in a prescription drugs off the “We will set up our collec- scription drugs, both liquids Last year, 45 pounds of prescriptions, whether it’s from streets and out of homes, tion site so that people can and solids, and hand out nal- prescription drugs were taken loved ones passing away, a root SEE PRESCRIPTIONS PAGE A5 ® BULLETIN BOARD B5 CLASSIFIEDS B6 THS boys fall to OBITUARIES A6 CORONAVIRUS TRACKER Utes SPORTS A7 See A7 Data as of April 22, 2021. Source: Utah Department of Health TOOELE COUNTY- Known Cases: 7,110 UTAH- Known Cases: 394,334 Hospitalizations: 217 • Deaths: 41 Hospitalizations: 16,004 • Deaths: 2,178 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN THURSDAY April 22, 2021 Stansbury Elementary students get to garden Fourth-grade class raises vegetables for school and homeless people SCOTT FROEHLICH idea over last summer. focus mostly on vegetables, STAFF WRITER INTERN After her first two requests which will be used by the Students at Stansbury Park for funding did not go through, school cafeteria to use in food Elementary School are get- support came months later served to students. Any other ting a chance to work on their when the Tooele Education surplus will be donated to help green thumbs. Foundation gave the school a feed the homeless. On April 16, students, par- grant in the fall. Parents began For the time being, Reynolds ents and fourth-grade teacher donating as well, which gave and her students will have to Andrea Reynolds filled five the project traction to come to wait for the last freeze before garden boxes on the school’s fruition. they can plant anything. campus. The boxes, which In December, national plant In the interim, they will con- were donated by a parent, will wholesaler Bonnie Plants also tinue working on their in-class be tended to by students as an donated to the project, giving work with starter plants and a extension of their classroom $200 to purchase plants. grower table, where they are curriculum. When the funds and learning to track growth. During the school year, resources were made available, Reynolds said her class Reynolds has been teach- Reynolds’ students took over became more invested in their ing her class about plant and and worked to fill the garden related lessons, due to the animal structures and saw an boxes with soil provided by hands-on experience. opportunity to integrate a gar- Adobe Rock. “Students have a lot more den into her lessons. Fourth-grader Taylor buy-in when they do a project “I think it’s great to have Anderson, who helped fill the like this,” she said. “They are hands-on experience; it’s what boxes, enjoyed gardening. so excited about having [the the kids need,” she said. “It was really fun because garden] and are learning so As a self-proclaimed we were all playing in the dirt much.” COURTESY STANSBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL “environmentalist at heart,” and having fun,” he said. The students are attesting to Fourth-grade students at Stansbury Elementary School fill garden boxes with dirt on April 16, 2021. Reynolds also wanted to start Harper Nixon also expressed this by pointing out the knowl- something that would give enthusiasm, saying he thinks edge they are gaining. to plant our garden and what will have the option next year my students, but the school back to the community and the it will be “really fun doing a Kyrie Amory recognizes the the plants need.” to sign up and join the project.