CRETSINGER REMEMBERED FOR BUILDING UP MUSICIANS, COMMUNITY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016 VOL. 8 NO. 16 INDEX Opinion ............................. 4 Showcase........................13 Life ............................. 16 Calendar .........................18 People .............................19 Obituaries .......................23 Sports .............................24 Classifieds ........................28 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016 VOL. 8 NO. 16 Disaster drill helps hospital prepare for pandemic BY COREY BAUMGARTNER Beaver, Kane and Garfield) to Reporter help improve the competence and capabilities of health and CEDAR CITY – With the hospital staff in times of crisis. recent spread of the Zika Virus Valley View Medical Center throughout many parts of the has conducted drills before but world, it is crucial that local none on this large of a scale. health organizations are as The drill included ham radio prepared as possible for pan- operators, local dispatch cen- demics on the home front. ters, Community Emergency On March 17 the Response Teams (CERT), Southwest Utah Public Health ambulance and medical staff Department and Valley View and many others. Medical Center conducted During the drill, a special their first major disaster drill triage unit was set up in the known as a SPANDEX XL hospital parking lot. Volunteers (Surge Pandemic Exercise, from the SUPHD were Full-Scale) Drill. assigned fictitious identities The scenario is based on the and health issues prior to com- 1918 flu pandemic that infected ing to the triage unit. There, the 500 million people throughout triage staff had to assess the the world, killing many of them. severity of each individual case To help prevent such tragedies and decide whether to admit closer to home, the SPANDEX patients into the hospital using COREY BAUMGARTNER drill is being utilized in the five A TRIAGE UNIT AT VALLEY VIEW MEDICAL CENTER assesses patients during a disaster drill training March 17. county area (Iron, Washington, SEE DRILL | 9 A legacy of music and love IRON COUNTY TODAY BY CODY SMITH “We had similar music interests at interviewed Lisa, she felt safe. Reporter first; plus, we really liked drinking beers,” Lisa was young when she met said Swift, a blues musician discovered Tim, and he wasn’t sure how to Tim Cretsinger, Groovacious owner by the Cretsingers. “I was with them ever ensnare her. He was older, had a and founder of the music festival since. He worked himself really hard, child and been married before. Groovefest, passed away March 14 after even when he was sick.” Lisa wanted to have fun. Tim was battling cancer for more than two years. Tim spent 10 years managing Tower patient and tactful. Countless people in the community Records, a retail music chain based in “We worked together for a and friends from across the nation Sacramento, before moving to Music year before we went on a single mourned the death of one person who Millennium in Portland, Ore. date,” Lisa said. “Tim was a created something from nothing, and who When Lisa Rumel Cretsinger moved father figure, and people came encouraged and provided opportunities to Portland, she was looking to change into that store just to see him.” for musicians and others. her life. She walked into the record store They developed a secret During Tim’s early days in Cedar City, Music Millennium. relationship, but after a death he began building musical connections “It wasn’t huge yet, just kind of funky,” in her family, she told Tim she with open mic night. Young musicians Lisa said. needed to go home for a while. went every week, Steven Swift said, and it Lisa had no experience in the industry, “He said he didn’t was a really cool community at that time. and it was a cut in pay. She was young, sin- Swift and Tim Cretsinger met in 2000. gle and afraid of big cities, but when Tim SEE CRETSINGER | 12 TIM CRETSINGER 2 Wednesday, March 23, 2016 NEWS Iron County Today SWATC seeks partnerships within community and city council BY COREY BAUMGARTNER tion rate of enrolled students ends for $1.75 per tuition hour. scholarship funds can be acquired on the south side of Cedar High Reporter is nearly 80 percent with a job Students can also begin working that will be able to further assist School at 757 W. 800 South. For placement rate of over 80 percent. on adult degrees as early as their students in learning the skills and more information, call (435) CEDAR CITY – In an effort The school’s new 80,000 freshman year in high school trades and being ready to enter 586-2899. to improve their educational square foot facility will provide and can graduate in three to 24 the workforce confidently and Youth & Enthusiasts Together footprint within the community, for Ice (Y.E.T.I) President Kerry Brennan Wood, president of the Fain also spoke of the great suc- Southwest Applied Technology SWATC PRESIDENT BRENNAN WOOD AND NEIL SMITH, fund raising cess of the Glacier Ice Rink this College, and Neil Smith, fund past season. Fain said 3,500 peo- raising representative for representative for SWATC, address the Cedar City Council March 16. ple visited the rink in December SWATC, delivered a positive and 2015, while December 2016 informational presentation to the saw 7,200 people just for public Cedar City Council March 16 skating alone. She said some of about the college and its goals for the people included out-of-town the future. visitors, which further contributes In the presentation, Wood to the success of the rink, as well explained that SWATC is one of as restaurants and hotels in the eight colleges in Utah that helps community. provide industry specific training “We are proving that we are and plays a specific and necessary something that is needed and part in providing not just educa- enjoyed by the community and tion, but real-world training. we really appreciate all the work “Growth is coming now we that you’ve put into the rink,” have to decide how are we going Fain said. “It is really impacting to train individuals for the jobs our community and our economy, being created,” Wood said. “It’s COREY BAUMGARTNER especially during the slower win- all about getting a job. You don’t several hands on and custom fit months with marketable skills. successfully. ter months.” go to SWATC just to train but technical degrees from welding One concern of the SWATC SWATC will also be hosting The council hopes to discuss to get the necessary skills to get and automotive to nursing and is that it is short on scholarship a public ribbon cutting ceremony ways to provide a roof for the ice a job, earn a living and support culinary arts. The unique schedul- funds. Administration is hoping to celebrate the opening of its rink during a future city council their family.” ing of the college allows students through partnerships within the new building on March 31 at meeting, thereby extending the Wood also said the comple- to train days, nights and week- community and the city council, noon. The SWATC building is skating and hockey seasons. Iron County Today NEWS Wednesday, March 23, 2016 3 THINKSTOCKPHOTOS A BILL TO LIMIT REVENUE raised by “overzealous police officers” was moved forward by a state Senate committee, but was rejected by the House committee in the recent legislative session. Bill to limit revenue raised by traffic tickets fails during legislative session BY CRAIG BENNETT felt it was wrong to use traffic citations. Anything Reporter police officers as revenue above that amount would collectors. He also said be sent to the capitol for During the recent he didn’t introduce the deposit into the state’s legislative session, bill because of personal General Fund. Republican Sen. Lyle traffic tickets. The bill would also Hillyard from Logan According to www. allow the state auditor to proposed a bill to the le.utah.gov/~2016/bills/ monitor compliance. Senate Transportation Cedar City Police and Public Utilities and Chief Robert Allinson Technology Committee said, “Much of the rev- to limit revenue raised “The House enue that Cedar City by Utah cities for what committee Police produce due to he called “overzealous traffic tickets etc. is split police officers” writing thought that between the justice court speeding tickets, espe- and other city entities. cially in speed traps. more signage The revenue after all is Other states have said and done is 1 to 2 imposed similar revenue saying ‘speed percent.” caps, he said, including Hillyard introduced Virginia, Missouri, limit strictly the bill because of law Oklahoma and Florida. enforcement agencies The committee voted enforced’ in his district writing an unanimously to advance exorbitant amount of traf- Senate Bill 100, but it would fic tickets by using speed failed to pass the House. traps. The proposed bill “The House commit- be more would require fines and tee thought that more forfeitures collected by a signage saying ‘speed effective” justice court to be remit- limit strictly enforced’ –Lyle Hillyard ted, half to the treasurer would be more effective,” of the local government said Hillyard, adding he responsible for the court still felt that “policing for static, the legislation and half to the treasurer profit” was not right and would have capped the of the local government he is not defeated. ticketing practices and that prosecuted or that The legislative effort revenue received by local would prosecute the stemmed from concerns governments from traffic violation. about ticketing practices fines to 25 percent of the Hillyard said he will in some areas of Utah. amount of annual revenue continue to try to get the The senator said he those cities can keep from bill passed. 4 Wednesday, March 23, 2016 NEWS Iron County Today Opinion Fireworks could come in medical marijuana vote Cyclops BY BRYAN GRAY he Utah Legislature a bill banning the death had barely turned penalty – a surefire loser Toff the lights in the 10 years ago – came within State Capitol this month a whisker of passing, and a when I received a phone statewide poll showed the call from a prominent vast majority of Utahns Republican donor.