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www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY Tooele classic car enthusiasts make impressive showing at AutoRama TOOELE See B1 TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN March 7, 2006 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 112 NO. 82 50 cents Grantsville Catching Wind Filing begins today traffic flow for county, state, insufficient school board slots for lights by Karen Hunt In addition, positions belong- STAFF WRITER ing to Tooele County Assessor by Mary Ruth Hammond It’s time for Tooele County resi- Jarrie Paystrup, Attorney Douglas STAFF WRITER dents with political intentions and Ahlstrom, Auditor Mike Jensen, Grantsville does not yet have incumbents hoping to remain in Clerk Dennis Ewing, Recorder sufficient and continuous traffic office to make it known. Calleen Peshell, Sheriff Frank flow to warrant signal lights in Filing to run for office started Park, Surveyor Doug Kinsman and the middle of the city. this morning and extends until 5 Treasurer Valerie Lee will open up. That news was presented by p.m. on March 17. Steven Dana of Grantsville has city councilman Wayne Butler In Tooele County all offices are filed to run for County Assessor. at a meeting last Wednesday. up for election, except for County Douglas Hogan of Stockton has UDOT spent several days last Commissioner Colleen Johnson’s filed to run for attorney. Michael month monitoring traffic at the seat. Jenson of Tooele has filed to keep corners of Main and Hale and County Commissioners Matt his seat as auditor. Current Chief Main and Quirk streets. Lawrence and Dennis Rockwell’s Deputy County Clerk Marilyn Traffic flow was also moni- terms are nearing completion, leav- Gillette and Dee K. Leo, both of tored at the intersection of state ing two seats open. Both seats are Tooele, have filed to run for County Routes 112 and 138. As of last four-year terms. Already Bruce Clerk. Calleen Peshell of Tooele has week, UDOT had not completed Clegg of Erda and Rockwell, Bill filed to keep her seat as recorder. a report on their findings con- Dixon and Walt Shubert, all of Lt. Anthony Tony Garcia of Lake cerning a need for a light at that Tooele, have filed to run. There are Point, Wm. Judd Ericson of Lincoln location. no filings yet for the Commissioner Butler reviewed the findings A seat currently held by Lawrence. SEE FILING ON A3 with Mayor Byron Anderson and other council members last week. “Although [Grantsville] has Clean Harbors seeks OK enough traffic on Main Street for a signal light, the side streets [Hale and Quirk] do not have to store radioactive waste adequate traffic,” Butler said. by Mark Watson has been operating. We want to What’s more, there’s only one have our permit amended so we hour during the day when Main STAFF WRITER EnergySolutions’ recent can dispose of low-level nuclear Street has sufficient traffic flow acquisitions have garnered a lot waste. We met with the state last to warrant a signal light. The of media attention. In its quest to October and discussed moving heaviest traffic flow at the inter- become a major player nation- forward in that direction. We section of Quirk and Main is ally in the hazardous waste dis- will ask the county to amend from 2-3 p.m., which coincides posal industry, it also caught the our permit,” said Phil Retallic, with the dismissal of school. attention from a major competi- Clean Harbors’ senior vice presi- Butler explained the traffic on tor. dent for compliance and regula- Main Street would have to main- photography / Troy Boman A spokesman from Clean tory affairs. tain a high-rate of traffic flow Low temperatures, high winds and scattered showers did not prevent Colten Greenhalgh from getting Harbors said on Monday that his Retallic said his company is for at least eight hours per day some air on his dirt bike at the Deseret Peak Complex Monday afternoon. company plans to appeal to the North America’s largest hazard- to warrant UDOT’s placement of state, county, legislators and the ous waste company. “We already a signal light in the area. governor to do the same thing have the facilities and exper- Another criteria UDOT looks EnergySolutions does in the tise to handle low-level nuclear at before approving traffic sig- Tooele County hazardous waste waste. We don’t need to do any nals is the number of accidents Baby cougar captured in Grantsville corridor in the west desert - expansion,” he said. “America is in a particular area. condition,” said Tooele County South Street runs east and west by Mark Watson dispose of low-level radioactive looking to alternatives to fossil “Rear-end crashes or right- Wildlife Conservation Officer and is located south of Willow STAFF WRITER waste. Clean Harbors’ Grassy fuel for electricity and expand- hand curve accidents do not Troy Hammond. “I received a Elementary School. Nygreen is A small cougar eluded wild- Mountain facility is already ing with commercial nuclear count,” Butler explained. “A call about 3 p.m. Wednesday and the next street south, close to life officers, Grantsville Police within the corridor designated power plants which will create traffic signal would not prevent went up to South Street where it South Willow Estates. officers and others for about by the county commission last more nuclear waste to dispose those types of crashes.” had been spotted, but I couldn’t At about 7:30 p.m. the cou- an hour last week before they year. of.” The type of crashes UDOT find it. Then, later, at about 7:30 gar was spotted by 13-year-old finally captured the animal in a “Basically, we want to oper- Bricks and pieces of decom- officials are concerned about I got another call that it had Jacob Palmer while it rested in tree in Grantsville. ate our landfill the same way are left-hand turns. been spotted up at the (Gary) “It was only about 4 months Envirocare (EnergySolutions) SEE GRASSY ON A6 In 2004 there were zero left- old and was in pretty good Palmers’ on Nygreen Street.” SEE COUGAR ON A2 hand turns or serious accidents at the intersections monitored by UDOT last month, Butler explained. In 2003, there were School bond debaters ask: Who will grow faster? two such accidents. “It doesn’t make sense to have a signal light at either the Both sides have Quirk and Main, or Hale and Main street intersections at 5 growth projections a.m. when there are only a few to back up views, vehicles in those areas,” Butler said. but does it matter? Butler also agreed with UDOT officials that placing lights in by Jesse Fruhwirth certain areas of the city would STAFF WRITER only impede traffic flow and The Tooele County School could even increase the number District has proposed building a of rear-end type accidents. new high school on a parcel of “If you have to wait at a donated land in Stansbury Park, stop sign for three minutes, as igniting protests from some resi- opposed to waiting at a traffic light for three minutes, what’s ANALYSIS the difference?” Butler asked. dents of its larger neighbor, Tooele “The bottom line is, according City. As voters prepare their opin- to the UDOT study, [Grantsville] ions for the June ballot, many does not have the traffic flow are hearing arguments about the needed in those areas to install growth of the valley. traffic signals.” The school district states the Butler added that the inter- north end of the valley is growing section of state Route 112 and so fast that it makes sense to put 138 might warrant a traffic light. the school there. The critics say A strip mall is now opening at just the opposite, that Tooele is that intersection and traffic is projected to grow more dramati- increasing in the area. cally. In an ongoing investigation, “That intersection might be today we explore the following a different story when it comes questions: Who will grow faster? to the need for a signal light,” photography / Troy Boman SEE GROWTH ON A2 The crowding problem at Tooele High School is most dramatically felt in the lunch room. The first lunch period begins at 10:45 a.m. SEE LIGHTS ON A3 WEATHER OPEN FORUM A4 HOMETOWN B1 INSIDE Mostly cloudy tonight and Wed. OBITUARIES A6 DOINGS B2 Racially charged ‘Crash’ demolishes with rain and snow likely. Lows ‘Brokeback’ hopes for best picture in the lower 30s. Highs in the TV LISTINGS A8 CROSSWORD B3 See A9 40s. Complete Forecast: A2 SPORTS A10 CLASSIFIEDS B4 A2 TUESDAY March 7, 2006 ETCETERA ... The baby cougar was taken by the Salt Lake officer to a loca- News Briefs Valley Weather Forecast Cougar Local Weather continued from page A1 tion where young cougars are Millard sentencing delayed nourished back to full strength. a tree in his yard, but the cat Donald Millard, convicted in Wed 42/30 It will then be taken to a zoo. December of two counts of hir- 3/8 soon jumped down and scam- “If the cat were big enough ing hit men to kill his ex-wife, Intervals of clouds and sunshine. pered east to Robert Nohr’s we would probably tag it and was to have been sentenced High 42F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 house at 553 Nygreen. It was put a collar on it and transport mph. in 3rd District Court Monday finally apprehended at the Nohr it to another area far away,” the morning by Judge Randall N. residence by the group of 10 to wildlife officer said. 15 people. Skanchy.