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Grantsville win keeps them in first place in region See A8 TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S TUESDAY April 9, 2019 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 125 No. 89 $1.00 Latter-day Saints to build temple in Tooele April General Conference ends with temple announcement; location is unknown but speculators look to Erda and Tooele TIM GILLIE possible locations. that she would donate land in EDITOR Some mentioned property Tooele for a temple. Tooele Valley is getting a owned by the church in Erda. Irrespective of speculation, temple. Others made reference to no location or other details President Russell M. property on Tooele City’s east of the future Tooele Valley Nelson of The Church of Jesus bench, previously owned by Temple have been announced Christ of Latter-day Saints, the late Maxine Grimm. by the church. announced during the closing Grimm, a Tooele resident, The Church of Jesus Christ session of the church’s April was instrumental in estab- of Latter-day Saints has grown Conference on Sunday that the lishing the church in the in Tooele County over the last church will build eight more Philippines. She maintained a two decades. temples. relationship with the church’s Twenty years ago there were One of them will be in leadership until she passed five Latter-day Saint stakes in Tooele Valley, he said. away in 2017 at the age of 102. Tooele County; today there are Shortly after the announce- Grimm told the Transcript 11. Six stakes are centered in ment on Sunday, Tooele Bulletin during an interview Tooele City, two in Grantsville, COURTESY THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS County residents were specu- in 2010 that she told Church President Russell M. Nelson, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announced at the end of the lating on social media about President Gordon B. Hinckley SEE TEMPLE PAGE A7 ® church’s General Conference on Sunday that a temple will be built in Tooele Valley. Children’s Justice Center raises awareness about child abuse April is National Child Abuse Prevention month; public open house with tours set for April 24 STEVE HOWE view,” Sorensen said. STAFF WRITER The number of flags is The yard in front of the lower, however, than the num- Tooele County Children’s ber of cases the justice center Justice Center is full of flags, advocates for, Sorensen said. which are in turn full of mean- “So there’s actually more ing. cases than that that we advo- Each of the yellow, red, and cate for, because some children blue flags represent a child are not verbal and can’t be interviewed at the justice interviewed or there’s some center in 2018. All told, there circumstances where the chil- were 256 children interviewed dren might not be interviewed at the justice center for alleged here,” she said. abuse last year, according The flags are intended to to office coordinator Kari raise awareness about the mis- Sorensen. sion of the Children’s Justice “It’s pretty shocking to see FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO the amount that we do inter- SEE ABUSE PAGE A10 ® Jeff Stephenson gives a presentation on the Rio Tinto Adobe Rock development at the Tooele County Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Monday afternoon at the USU Science and Tech Building. Kennecott official explains plans for Stansbury child doing development at chamber lunch well after tumble out TIM GILLIE EDITOR With 19 months left before of upstairs window an election that may decide the fate of Kennecott’s plan to build a planned community in STEVE HOWE drive the child to the hospi- Tooele Valley, a company offi- STAFF WRITER tal, Scharmann said. Around cial promoted the project and A 3-year-old child is back 10:45 a.m., the neighbor, answered questions at a meet- home in Stansbury Park and the child and his mother ing in Tooele City on Monday. doing well after falling out a were pulled over by a Utah Jeff Stephenson, a repre- window Friday morning and Highway Patrol trooper for sentative of Kennecott, spoke requiring an airlift to Primary speeding. about his company’s 1,444- Children’s Hospital in Salt The trooper called for an acre Adobe Rock Ranch project Lake City. ambulance and the child was during a luncheon held by The child was at an upstairs then flown by medical heli- the Tooele County Chamber bedroom window, which was copter to Primary Children’s of Commerce and Tourism at open but there was a screen Hospital, according to Utah State University – Tooele in place, according to Tooele Scharmann. Science and Technology build- County Sheriff Lt. Travis As a result of the tumble ing. Scharmann. There was pos- onto the concrete driveway, The Tooele County Planning sibly a dog outside, which the child suffered a non-life- Commission recommended, caused the child to lean on threatening skull fracture and the County Commission the screen and it popped out, and rib fracture, according to approved, a rezone request sending the child falling to Scharmann. As of Monday, from Kennecott for the prop- the driveway below. the child had already returned erty the company owns in the FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO The parents quickly home and was doing well. Jason Stout and Adam Kowalk talk about a slide showing the Rio Tinto Adobe Rock development plan arranged for a neighbor to [email protected] SEE KENNECOTT PAGE A10 ® before a Tooele County Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Monday afternoon. INSIDE BULLETIN BOARD B4 CLASSIFIEDS B6 Excelsior Grantsville Tooele Soccer HOMETOWN B1 science teacher soccer wins at ties Ogden OBITUARIES A6 wins award home against See A8 OPEN FORUM A4 See A2 Wendover SPORTS A8 See A8 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN TUESDAY April 9, 2019 Excelsior Academy science teacher honored Hendershot receives state, national agriculture education awards TIM GILLIE EDITOR If you wore clothes or ate food today, thank agriculture. That’s how Brad Hendershot, a science teacher at Excelsior Academy in Erda, started a school assembly presentation on the Greenthumbs class that he teaches. Hendershot was awarded Utah State University’s Excellence in Agriculture Education Award during the assembly on Friday at noon. In addition to the state award, Hendershot was selected SUE BUTTERFIELD/TTB PHOTO by the National Agriculture Brad Hendershot gives Denise Stewardson of the Utah State University SUE BUTTERFIELD/TTB PHOTO Education in the Classroom Agriculture Department a greenhouse tour at Excelsior Academy Friday Hendershot accepts the “Excellence in Teaching about Agriculture Award” and $500 check from Stewardson. Organization, an affiliate of the afternoon. U.S. Department of Agriculture and Farm Credit, as one of Through their work as crews, eight teachers nationwide to students are able to see the pro- receive its National Excellence gression from seed to sale. in Agriculture Education Award. Hendershot’s classroom, in Farm Credit is a nationwide Excelsior Academy’s new junior network of customer-owned high school building, has a financial institutions that serves professional quality greenhouse farmers and agribusinesses. attached to it that wraps around “Mr. Hendershot is one of the the outside corner of the build- best,” said Denise Stewardson, ing. director of Agriculture in the A door in the back of his Classroom for USU. “His teach- classroom opens up into the ing is outstanding and his greenhouse, making the green- students really learn about and house an extension of his class- experience agriculture.” room. SUE BUTTERFIELD/TTB PHOTO Stewardson presented The greenhouse is equipped Students and staff give Hendershot a standing ovation as he receives Hendershot with the state with boxes of raised beds for the “Excellence in Teaching about Agriculture Award” at the Excelsior Academy Friday afternoon. Excellence in Agriculture growing vegetables and flow- Education Award, which comes ers. A watering system that system, also built by students, sure that his students aren’t just through USU’s Extension pro- segments each box into one- another student explained the learning about growing plants. gram. foot squares sits on the top of thermophilic composting pro- He harnesses his students’ inter- Along with teaching sci- the potting soil in each bed. cess and how they turn scraps est in gardening to teach them ence, Hendershot also teaches Students are assigned to take from the school’s kitchen, science, math and technology, two “Greenthumbs” classes at care of specific squares, which Soelberg’s grocery store, and along with a healthy lifestyle. Excelsior Academy. Students is part of teaching square foot neighbors’ yard waste into the But that’s not all. receive a science credit for tak- gardening — a technique potting soil used in the green- “They are learning leadership ing a Greenthumbs class. that allows a large amount of house. as they take on their responsi- In the Greenthumbs class, healthy food to be grown in a “The idea of growing food bilities,” he said. students are divided into four small amount of space, accord- always fascinated me,” said As a recipient of the National crews: greenhouse, garden, ing to Hendershot. Hendershot, a native of Grand Excellence in Education Award, nursery, and sales and market- Students have been involved Rapids, Michigan. “But I grew Hendershot will receive an ing. Each student has a respon- in every step of the greenhouse up in the big city. I was never a expense paid trip in June to sibility, from shoveling compost process, he said. farmer.” the National Agriculture in to organizing sales events, During a tour of the green- Hendershot said he is the Classroom Conference in according to Hendershot. house after Friday’s assembly, amazed at how his students Littlerock, Arkansas.