FRONT PAGE A1FRONT PAGE A1 Fun activities highlight Stansbury Days See A8 TOOELETRANSCRIPT SERVING TOOELE COUNTY BULLETIN SINCE 1894 TUESDAY August 22, 2017 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 124 No. 24 $1.00 Citizens gather and marvel at solar eclipse PHOTOS FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE 700 attend viewing party at Tooele City Library; next viewable solar eclipse in Utah won’t happen again until 2045 MARK WATSON STAFF WRITER Tad Wimmer and his son Ephraim sat cross-legged on the south lawn of the Tooele City Library on Monday at about 11:15 a.m. They were two of nearly 700 people who attended a solar eclipse view- ing party hosted by the library. “It looked like outer space, and the moon was eating up the sun,” Ephraim said about the partial eclipse. NASA had sent 200 special viewing glasses at no charge to the library, and each family received a pair to share. “People have been here since 9:15 a.m. standing in line to get glasses,” said library worker Bethany Cruz, who helped coordinate the event with fellow library employees Emily Spilker and Malissa Brandon. They had worked since February planning the event that included a variety of activities for children and adults. A line to get the special glasses wrapped around both the west side and north side of The partial solar eclipse (top) as it the library. appeared above Tooele City Library on “We had the option to get Monday morning. Rashelle VanWagoner Camille Buell, Landon Buell and Naida Parkinson (top) take in the solar (middle) makes sure to use proper viewing eclipse during Monday’s viewing party at Tooele City Library, while up 1,000 pairs of glasses from glasses to protect her eyes. Nathan Chard Ashton Sorensen and Tyler Rasmussen (above) lean back on the library’s (above) traces a circle on paper to make a south lawn to sky watch. Misti Mitchell (left) helps her daughter Maci ➤ SEE ECLIPSE PAGE A3 model of the sun’s corona. Mitchell look through a homemade pinhole viewer out of a food box. FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO A natural gas leak below Tooele City Main Street caused evacuations. Gas leak shuts down Main Street SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE UV INDEX for several hours The Sun Rise Set WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Wednesday 6:48 a.m. 8:15 p.m. Thursday 6:49 a.m. 8:14 p.m. FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO Friday 6:50 a.m. 8:12 p.m. Natural gas leak migrated into Saturday 6:51 a.m. 8:11 p.m. Parents and students are greeted by Principal Shanz Leonelli at Old Mill Elementary in Stansbury. Students went back to school today. The day also Sunday 6:52 a.m. 8:09 p.m. marked the first day of school for the newly constructed Old Mill Elementary School. stormwater system under street Monday 6:53 a.m. 8:07 p.m. W Th F Sa Su M Tu Tuesday 6:54 a.m. 8:06 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ The Moon Rise Set number, the greater the need for eye and skin Wednesday 8:47 a.m. 9:36 p.m. protection. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 STEVE HOWE Energy was already on scene Thursday 9:52 a.m. 10:07 p.m. It’s back to schoolVery High; 11+ Extreme for area students STAFF WRITER investigating reports of the Friday 10:54 a.m. 10:38 p.m. A portion of Tooele City smell of natural gas in the area Saturday 11:54 a.m. 11:10 p.m. ALMANAC Sunday 12:52 p.m. 11:43 p.m. School year begins with two newStatistics for theschools week ending August and 21. a third to open in November Main Street was closed for of 900 N. Main St. Partly sunny and Partly sunny and Pleasant with sunshine Delightful with plenty Very warm with times Monday 1:49 p.m. none Partly sunny Plenty of sunshine Temperatures several hours on Monday as It was determined a leak in Tuesday 2:44 p.m. 12:18 a.m. pleasant pleasant and patchy clouds of sun of sun and clouds TIM GILLIE welcomeHigh/Low pastto schoolweek gifts, they 93/54 walked a grade teacher Amy Palmer, who came first responders and Dominion a natural gas line had migrated First Full Last New STAFF WRITER redNormal carpet high/low through past week the front 90/64doors of to Old Mill Elementary from Copper Energy crews investigated a into the stormwater system 85 62 86 63 89 64 90 65 90 66 91 62 94 67 Average temp past week 72.9 Principal Shanz Leonelli stood under OldNormal Mill average Elementary temp past weekSchool. 76.9 Canyon Elementary. “No one has sat at natural gas leak. under Main Street, prompting TOOELE COUNTY WEATHERa canopy handing out book bags and DailyToday Temperatures was not only theHigh first Lowday my desk before. No one has used my Tooele City Fire Chief Bucky Dominion Energy to request Aug 29 Sep 6 Sep 13 Sep 19 Shown is Wednesday’s school-colored wristbands while music of school for Tooele County School keyboard before. It’s all new.” Whitehouse said the depart- fire units, Whitehouse said. ©2017; forecasts and graphics weather. Temperatures are provided by Wednesday’s highs and blared from an outdoor speaker this District. It was the first day of school for Palmer, who has been teaching ment was called out around Denny’s Restaurant, Wednesday night’s lows. morning. Old Mill Elementary in Stansbury Park. 10:45 a.m. on Monday on After the students picked up their “I love the newness,” said fourth SEE SCHOOL PAGE A7 ➤ reports of a gas leak. Dominion SEE LEAK PAGE A7 ➤ Download our app today UTAH WEATHER Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Logan BULLETIN BOARD B4 Grouse 84/55 Wendover PrecipitationINSIDE (in inches) Creek 90/65 Knolls Clive WEATHER Lake Point CLASSIFIEDS B6 80/56 89/65 89/65 85/66 Ogden Stansbury Park Stansbury runners Wildfires ignite in HOMETOWN A8 86/62 Erda 86/66 OBITUARIES A6 Vernal Grantsville 86/64 Pine Canyon shine at Highland Tooele Salt Lake City 83/52 87/65 70/57 0.00 0.19 0.37 0.60 13.92 12.95 OPEN FORUM A4 Tooele 90/67 Bauer Invitational See A2 85/62 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal 84/62 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D SPORTS B1 Provo Roosevelt 85/62 See B1 83/55 86/58 See Stockton Pollen Index Price complete 84/62 83/56 High Nephi forecast Rush Valley 86/59 85/62 Ophir Moderate on A8 78/58 Low Delta Manti Absent 89/61 85/54 Green River Tu W Th F Sa Su M 95/64 Dugway Source: Intermountain Allergy & Asthma Richfield Gold Hill 87/63 86/54 Moab 83/60 RIVERS AND LAKES Hanksville 92/63 Beaver 92/63 Vernon In feet as of 7 a.m. Monday 83/55 Ibapah 85/60 24-hour 84/59 Stage Change Vernon Creek at Vernon 0.97 none Cedar City Blanding South Willow Creek St. George 87/54 84/57 at Grantsville 1.50 none 97/69 Kanab 89/57 Eureka 74/56 Great Salt Lake Elevation at Saltair Boat Harbor 4193.42 A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN TUESDAY August 22, 2017 California man identified in fatal crash on salt flats STEVE HOWE been identified as 65-year-old about one mile off the pave- Johnson. Clay was the pas- by ambulance and medical Johnson said the cause of STAFF WRITER Christopher Clay of Rohnert ment before 9 a.m., Johnson senger in the pickup truck. The helicopter to University of the accident is under investiga- The name of the man Park, California, according to said. A witness said the pickup spectators were part of Speed Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, tion. The accident happened in who died in a head-on col- Tooele County Sheriff Lt. Ron truck veered into the path of Week on the Bonneville Salt according to a release from the jurisdiction of the federal lision between spectator Johnson. Five other occupants the oncoming minivan, caus- Flats, which ran from Aug. 12 Southern California Timing Bureau of Land Management vehicles on an access road in the two-vehicle accident ing the collision, according to through Aug. 18. Association President and race but the investigation was at the Bonneville Salt Flats were injured. Johnson. Those injured in the crash director Pat McDowell. turned over to the sheriff’s Wednesday morning has been A pickup truck and mini- There were four occupants were treated by safety and The condition of the other office, which is collaborating released by police. van were heading in opposite in the minivan and two in the medical personnel on scene, vehicle occupants has not been with the Utah Highway Patrol. The victim in the crash has directions on the salt flats pickup truck, according to before they were transported released. [email protected] City council renumbers code on waste, recreational fires MARK WATSON the health section to the fire person shall, for the purpose issue. ring, fire pit, or other fire con- fire extinguisher); and the fire STAFF WRITER section of the document. of final disposal, burn solid The code outlines the defi- taining structure at any time. does not become a smoke or The Tooele City Council “It is simply a matter of waste on any lot, street, alley, nition of a legal recreational The fire must also be con- fume nuisance to neighboring approved the renumbering of putting it where it logically gutter or on any public or pri- or cooking fire, which are tained within a non-combus- properties.