Cancer Claims Beloved Coach Big League with Alverson Led Team Until His Final Days New Acquisitions by Nick Drake and Karen Hunt Lake City
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www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE Water color RANSCRIPT artists find T venue at Tooele gallery See B1 BULLETIN February 7, 2006 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 112 NO. 74 50 cents Envirocare goes IN MEMORIAM Cancer claims beloved coach big league with Alverson led team until his final days new acquisitions by Nick Drake and Karen Hunt Lake City. by Mark Watson STAFF WRITERS The recent moves will more STAFF WRITER Coach Gary Alverson served a A company which bolsters than quadruple the size of the mission for his church beginning Tooele County government cof- company and open the way for in 1965, but he may not have fers and provides 500 jobs at its it to explore recent develop- known that his other mission had low-level radioactive disposal ments of reprocessing nuclear just begun. site in the west desert is on fuel rods. His wife Lois Alverson believes the verge of becoming America’s “We are creating a U.S.-owned coaching was her husband’s life leader in the nuclear waste man- nuclear services company work- mission. agement industry. ing in all aspects of the nucle- Thursday morning Tooele High With an announcement today ar fuel cycle, which will bring School Coach Gary Alverson was that it will acquire the Maryland- improved operational efficien- released from this life when he based company Duratek, Inc. cies to our customers and better passed away after a fight with coming on the heels of Friday’s serve the needs of the govern- lung cancer. announcement that it has joined ment and industry in the nuclear The passing of the beloved forces with BNG America and waste management process,” coach left the school saturated Scientech, Envirocare of Utah said Steve Creamer, president with emotion and gratitude for will become EnergySolutions and chief executive officer of the man who taught so much with 2,000 employees in 40 EnergySolutions. more than just basketball, states and internationally. English or history. Headquarters will be in Salt SEE SOLUTIONS ON A2 That gratitude has been expressed by former students and associates statewide. From the time Alverson was a Clean Harbors worker student at THS, he left a legacy of hard work, quiet leadership and selflessness. Upon hearing of Alverson’s suffers severe burns passing, a classmate from THS class of 1963 told Principal Mike by Jesse Fruhwirth she said, “but he is stable.” Westover that Alverson was an STAFF WRITER Doctors performed surgery photography / Troy Boman A man was severely burned at Monday to remove burnt tissue and Tooele High School Coach Gary Alverson shouts instructions to the players during last year’s victorious cham- the Clean Harbors waste incinera- start a series of skin grafts. SEE ALVERSON ON A8 pionship basketball game. Alverson passed away this morning after battling cancer for more than a year. tor near Aragonite Thursday night. “The doctor said the surgery According to a company represen- went better than expected,” Jenni tative, the very man in charge of said. “They only had enough skin regularly inspecting the fuel lines to graft his back and the back of that feed the three-story tall after- his legs.” Smoking, food tax bills rile lawmakers burner unit was doused in highly Jenni said her father will likely be flammable fuel from a leak. kept heavily sedated for the rest of by Jesse Fruhwirth that have divided lawmakers Counties, respectively. passed the Senate at the end of Despite third-degree burns the week and will undergo another STAFF WRITER and how Tooele County’s two Democratic Rep. Jim Gowans’ last week but has yet to be put that cover 60 percent of his body, skin graft operation later this week. Few controversial bills in the representatives in the House district encompasses all of on a House committee agenda Grantsville resident Tom Dansie, Philip Retallick a representative Utah legislature ever make it to and its four Senators voted. Tooele City, Erda, Stansburry and will die if not given the 47, was not able to be taken by at Clean Harbors Environmental a committee to be discussed. Senate majority leader Peter Park and Lake Point. Republican attention of that committee. helicopter to Salt Lake City. He still Services headquarters in Braintree, Most of the time legislators Knudson (R-Brigham City) along Rep. Ronda Rudd Menlove The bill sponsored Sen. had highly flammable material on Mass., said Dansie was conducting arrange the votes they will need with Sens. Brent Goodfellow (D- represents the rest of Tooele Michael Waddoups’ (R-West his body and so was rushed to the a “walk through visual inspection of to pass a bill before it is given West Valley City), Darin Peterson County as well as all of Box Jordan) would attempt to amend Burn Unit at the University of Utah the afterburner unit” at the time of the attention of the full body. (R-Nephi) and Mark Madsen (R- Elder County excluding Brigham the Indoor Clean Air Act to ban hospital in an ambulance. the incident. Most bills in the 2006 Lehi) represent portions of the City. smoking in all public establish- His daughter Jenni Ogden, 22 of “He was classified as an incinera- Legislature that have been Tooele County’s population. For Smoking in Bars ments except hotel rooms and Taylorsville, said Tom was “intu- tor operator, responsible for oper- passed by one chamber or the each, however, larger portions A bill that would ban smoking special areas of the Salt Lake bated, unconscious, pretty much ating the unit, all the electronic other have done so overwhelm- of their constituencies reside in private clubs has yet to be dis- International Airport. sedated” as of Tuesday morning. ingly, if not unanimously. in other counties primarily cussed in the House health and “He’s still in critical condition,” SEE DANSIE ON A8 Below is a list of the few bills Cache, Salt Lake, Juab and Utah human services committee. It SEE BILLS ON A3 Raising grandkids has challenges, joys by Mark Watson dren. The process was difficult STAFF WRITER “The (legal) system is set up to Providing for and taking care let the parents run the children’s of Eboni, 12; Christopher 7; lives. I about fell off my chair and Satchel 5 can be extreme- when I learned that was the ly demanding for middle-aged case even if the parent is a drug Stockton grandma Sandra Fetzer. addict.” But she has no other choice, and At first, Sandra was simply she would have it no other way. angry about the situation. “You’re “I’ve always had Eboni with angry at your children, and you’re me. The two younger boys were angry because you have to give with their mother for awhile in up retirement plans.” she said. Texas before she got arrested for But a non-profit organization shoplifting,” Sandra said. called Grandfamilies proved to Sandra’s daughter Angela, 33, be a life-saver for Fetzer and also is a drug addict and has faced helped her grandchildren. The criminal charges. Angela’s cir- organization plans to do more cumstances make raising her own work in Tooele County and has children impossible. a meeting scheduled tonight at “She always would say ‘just 6:30 p.m. at the Tooele County give me a little more time’ but Courthouse. she could never get off drugs,” Eboni pokes fun at living Sandra said. The Stockton grand- in Stockton which she calls ma revealed that a person can Abandonton. “I do like riding usually kick the drug habit if they the four-wheelers around here,” take steps early in life, but after Eboni said. The family also the age of 30 it becomes extreme- recently acquired a dog to pro- ly difficult. vide the children more company photography / Troy Boman In June, Sandra became the Christopher Bozeman watches his younger brother Satchel play a computer game in their Stockton home while their sister Eboni Dubouis sits at the legal guardian of Angela’s chil- table behind them. Their grandma Sandra Fetzer now cares for the children with the help of a non-profit organization called Grandfamilies. SEE FAMILIES ON A3 WEATHER OPEN FORUM A4 DOINGS B3 INSIDE Mostly clear tonight. Lows OBITUARIES A7 TV LISTINGS B4 Buff swimmers battle to elite in the mid 20s. Mostly sunny status at state championships Wednesday. Highs in the mid 40s. SPORTS A9 CLASSIFIEDS B6 See A9 Complete Forecast: A2 HOMETOWN B1 CROSSWORD B9 A2 TUESDAY February 7, 2006 ETCETERA ... Temps/Precipitation Valley Weather Forecast Tooele pastor reflects on bishop’s service Local Weather by Jesse Fruhwirth Date High Low (prec./inches) STAFF WRITER Feb. 2 42 30 .17 Wed 46/29 Feb. 3 49 34 2/8 The premier Catholic leader Feb. 4 57 26 Mainly sunny. High 46F. Winds for the state of Utah received Feb. 5 53 24 .11 1” snow light and variable. a holy promotion late last year. Feb. 6 43 18 Ned Bevan, Tooele’s weather observer The former bishop will soon for the National Weather Service, reports take the helm as Archbishop of that his recording station at 139 S. Main Thu San Francisco. received .28 inches of precipitation 49/29 Bishop Niederauer has served between Feb. 2 and Feb. 6 and a total of .32 2/9 so far this month. The normal for Febuary Sunny. Highs in the upper 40s and Utah since 1994, and was widely is 1.33 inches. For the water year, which lows in the upper 20s. adored for his sense of humor began Oct. 1, 2005, Tooele has received 6.00 and his ability to connect with inches of precipitation.