Tooele City Council Candidates Speak out Incumbents and Challengers Address Tough Questions on Growth, Infrastructure and Crime Ahead of General Election
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FRONT PAGE A1 www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE Vernon couple TRANSCRIPT to celebrate 99th descen- dant this year See B1 BULLETIN October 23 2007 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 114 NO. 44 50¢ Tooele City Council candidates speak out Incumbents and challengers address tough questions on growth, infrastructure and crime ahead of general election compiled by Sarah Miley Mike Johnson service with the Tooele City Council. STAFF WRITER Mike Johnson, a lifelong Tooele res- He has lived in Tooele for nine years, TOOELE CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES ident, has served on the city council and has worked for the LDS Church Tooele voters will head to the polls since 1999. He was interim mayor in for 27 years as a seminary teacher. Nov. 6 to decide between six candi- 2005. He is a partner in Snell & Wilmer, dates — two incumbents and four a Salt Lake City law firm and director Q: If elected/re-elected to the challengers — vying for three open of Tooele Federal Credit Union. city council, what will your top seats on the Tooele City Council. three priorities be? The Tooele Transcript-Bulletin Dave McCall sent each of the candidates a ques- Dave McCall retired from the Ellsworth: My first priority would tionnaire addressing issues current- United States Marine Corps in 2000 be to question current methods of ly facing the city. The candidates’ after 20 years of active duty. He has decision making. I intend to show responses, along with condensed lived in Tooele for more than 14 years. the benefit of a female council mem- biographical information, are includ- He is currently employed as a human ber who doesn’t have ties that create ed below. resources supervisor at Carlisle favoritism. I intend to hear citizens’ Grantsville City Council candi- SynTec, a manufacturing company concerns and suggestions without Teri Ellsworth Mike Johnson Dave McCall dates will be featured in Thursday’s located in the Utah Industrial Depot. preconceived ideas. My second pri- edition of the Transcript-Bulletin, ority would be to focus on sustain- while candidates for the Stansbury Shawn Milne able growth and how that impacts Service Agency will be featured next Shawn Milne is the current chair- quality of life in Tooele. This might Tuesday, Oct. 30. man of the Tooele City Planning and mean more shopping and restaurant Zoning Commission and the owner of choices, and more cultural options. Teri Battison Ellsworth Ivy League Image and Sound, a local My third priority would be to help Teri Battison Ellsworth was born business. He has lived in Tooele for existing business and attract new and raised in Tooele. She is a business more than seven years. business. owner, consultant and trainer, who Johnson: My first priority would has worked in Santa Fe, N.M., as a Richard Olson be continued development of water sustainable development consultant. Richard Olson has lived in Tooele resources. Second, completion of She returned to Tooele two years ago for 11 years and is a carpenter. capital facility upgrades and improve- after living her entire adult life away ments, such as repairing deteriorated from the area. Steve Pruden Steve Pruden is in his first term of SEE CANDIDATES PAGE A5 ➤ Shawn Milne Richard Olson Steve Pruden Local housing market slowing down, but prices still climbing by Doug Radunich an home sales prices in the STAFF WRITER county are still rising — up 13.4 percent to $189,950 in The number of homes Tooele, and up 19 percent selling in Tooele County has to $217,900 in Grantsville. In fallen dramatically over the fact, those two cities rate of first three quarters of 2007, appreciation outpaces the but home prices continue other four counties. to trend upward over the Tooele’s Re/Max Platinum same period, according to Broker/Owner Dan Egelund data from the Wasatch Front said the trend of declining Regional Multiple Listing volume and rising prices just Service. means the market is stabiliz- Tooele County had the ing after last year’s boom. largest decline in sales vol- “The market is still good ume of the five counties and healthy right now, even — the others were Salt Lake, though you wouldn’t think Davis, Utah and Weber — for so compared to last year,” which data was compiled. he said. “For home sales, Tooele County home sales last year was extremely hot, dropped 36.4 percent com- but this year it’s just been pared to the previous year. healthy. Prices have stabi- At the same time, medi- SEE HOUSING PAGE A6 ➤ Tooele teen dies in photography / Troy Boman Lt. Robert Anderson recently took the reins of the Utah Highway Patrol’s Tooele office. Anderson has worked as a commander in Davis County, and at the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department for 10 years. weekend I-80 rollover by Suzanne Ashe over as it went off the right- New commander to take over UHP post STAFF WRITER hand side of the road and ended up on the frontage and buckle up. of four LAPD officers in 1992 was the last A 19-year-old Tooele High road. by Suzanne Ashe “The biggest issue in Tooele County is assignment Anderson had in California. School graduate was killed Ginnett, who was not STAFF WRITER increased traffic flow,” he said. With the After that, he moved with his wife and over the weekend after being wearing her seatbelt, was county growing, traffic will continue to four children to Utah. He has since had ejected from a car she was ejected from the car. She A 25-year law enforcement veteran increase over the next few years. several different assignments for the driving. died at the scene from her is now heading up the Utah Highway One aspect of the county that most UHP including working in the technol- Utah Highway Patrol injuries. Patrol’s Tooele office. surprised Anderson is the “Over 100” ogy department. troopers said three pas- Also in the car were Tiffany Lt. Robert Anderson, 47, who had pre- board in the Tooele office. It is an annual Anderson’s Los Angeles experience sengers in the car were M. Naill, 22, of Tooele, who viously worked as the commander in log of each citation issued to drivers trav- echoed his father’s — a retired Los also injured. The accident is pregnant. She was airlift- Davis County, said he is looking forward eling more than 100 mph — an average of Angeles police officer who was at the occurred at about 1:30 a.m. ed to LDS hospital. to the new challenges Tooele County one a day. 1965 Watts riots. A framed, 40-year-old Sunday on westbound I-80 Laurence D. Miles, 20, brings. Anderson’s career began at the Los article from Life magazine featuring a near mile post 111. of Stockton and Joshua D. “I think it’s a beautiful county,” Angeles Sheriff’s Department, which he photo of Anderson’s father is one of the According to the UHP Wheeler, 22, of Bountiful Anderson said. left after 10 years. few things he has unpacked at his new report, Nicole L. Ginnett lost were transported by ambu- Anderson expects to patrol with his “We would be investigating one drive- office on North Aaron Drive in Tooele. control of the Pontiac G6 lance to University Hospital. officers and explore more of Tooele by shooting and hear another drive-by,” Leaving Davis County will also be a GTP, possibly due to winter- Wheeler was the only County. He also wants to put more of an he said. change of pace for Anderson, who is like weather and road con- person in the car wearing a emphasis on prevention and continuing Quelling the Los Angeles riots spawned looking forward to being out in the field ditions. It’s unknown how seatbelt, the UHP reported. campaigns to get drivers to slow down by Rodney King’s arrest and the acquittal many times the car turned [email protected] SEE UHP PAGE A9 ➤ OPEN FORUM A4 HOMETOWN B1 WEATHER INSIDE Sunny skies through Thursday OBITUARIES A7 BULLETIN BOARD A8 Collin Jefferies gets wish of with highs in the mid- to TV LISTINGS B2 CLASSIFIEDS B4 playing in varsity football game upper 60s. See A10 Complete Forecast: A2 SPORTS A10 A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN TUESDAY October 23, 2007 Utah & The West Valley Weather Forecast Local Weather Arizona union joins fight against vouchers Tue 61/43 10/23 by Brock Vergakis A mainly sunny sky. High 61F. ASSOCIATED PRESS Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Arizona’s largest teachers’ union is joining the fight inside Utah to kill the nation’s broadest school Wed 68/46 10/24 voucher program, asking volunteers to par- Abundant sunshine. Highs in the ticipate in a telephone tree and speak to upper 60s and lows in the mid 40s. Utah voters ahead of a Nov. 6 referendum. Utah’s Legislature created a voucher program earlier this year that gives par- ents $500 to $3,000 per child, depending Thu 69/44 10/25 on income, to use on tuition at a private Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s and school. Unlike voucher programs in other lows in the mid 40s. states, even affluent families in well-per- ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content forming districts qualify for the program. Service But voucher opponents gathered enough signatures to suspend the program before Temps / Precipitation any vouchers were issued. Critics say vouch- ers are poor policy when Utah is starving its Date High Low (prec./inches) public schools of money. Utah spends less Oct. 18 50 34 .01 per student than any other state and has the Oct.