FRONT PAGE A1 www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE RANSCRIPT THS football T Check out the upsets Orem features on our new Web site: See A10 BULLETIN tooeletranscript.com September 16, 2008 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 115 NO. 035 50¢ Trio of local businesses betting on downtown coming into the southern end right next door to Allen’s at 18 Largest venture will of the area. N. Main Street. The businesses are The Grandma’s Closet opened its be Liddiard’s discount Budget and Clearance Center, doors this month, while The furniture store a division of Liddiard’s Home Budget and Clearance Center Furnishings that is moving into will open this Thursday, and by Doug Radunich the old Al & Lid Furniture and Allen’s expects to open by the STAFF WRITER Appliance building near 100 end of the month. South; Allen’s Floor Coverings, The largest of the three ven- The movement to revitalize which has been in Tooele for tures is the new discount fur- Tooele’s downtown appears several years and will move niture store, which will reuse to be gaining fresh momen- into 24 N. Main Street; and tum with three new businesses Grandma’s Closet, which is SEE DOWNTOWN PAGE A5 ➤ photogrpahy / Maegan Burr Students take notes while attending class at USU Tooele Monday. Enrollment at the campus has seen a large increase as more first-year college students earn credits closer to home. USU Tooele student enrollment skyrockets Officials say biggest increase of 21 percent over last “The cost of getting an educa- fall’s enrollment. That’s the largest tion is rising, and students are single-year increase ever year-over-year growth the cam- looking for ways to save money,” is being driven partly by pus has experienced ever, accord- Anderson said, adding that local ing to university officials. students can save on housing and high school students “We are seeing a new trend of food costs by staying at home for high school graduates enrolling their first year while completing by Tim Gillie here at USU Tooele to complete university-level courses. STAFF WRITER general education courses,” said “Some of these students have Suzanne Anderson, student advi- jobs in the community or are Utah State University Tooele’s sor at USU Tooele. “This account- waiting to serve LDS missions,” enrollment has boomed this year ed for a big part of our increase in Anderson said. with a flood of incoming fresh- enrollment.” The Tooele campus has expe- men. The enrollment boom is also rienced steady growth over the Enrollment at the USU Tooele partly being driven by the econo- campus this fall is 789 — an my, according to Anderson. SEE USU PAGE A8 ➤ Erda man killed in SR-36 crash said. The Buick sustained signifi- by Jamie Belnap Oborn safely maneuvered the cant damage, requiring firefight- STAFF WRITER Buick out of the main flow of ers to cut the doors off to extri- traffic and into the west emer- cate Oborn. He was pronounced An Erda man was killed Friday gency lane. He then called dead on scene. Police believe morning when the parked car he Quality from his cell phone and Oborn had removed his seat belt was in was hit from behind by a asked another employee to come prior to the crash. minivan on SR-36 in Tooele. help him. While Oborn was wait- “He was hit very, very hard,” Brent Oborn, 47, a mechan- ing for help to arrive, a Mercury Wimmer said. “It pushed the rear ic with Quality Automotive in Villager driven by Amy Price, 32, tires way up into the vehicle. You Tooele, was field-testing a cli- of Tooele, veered off the road and couldn’t open the doors.” ent’s Buick Century in the south- slammed into the backside of the Price, who was the only occu- bound lanes of SR-36 just south Buick while traveling 60 mph, pant of the minivan, sustained of the 2400 North intersection according to Wimmer. minor injuries, Wimmer said. shortly after 11 a.m. when the “It was pretty much a straight- Oborn, a father of eight, has vehicle stalled, according to Lt. on strike from the back,” Wimmer lived in Erda for 11 years and Paul Wimmer of the Tooele City said. “The rear of the car was worked at Quality for nearly 15 Police Department. lifted slightly by the hood of the years. “He had just been doing some van and the two vehicles spun Police are still investigating photography / Troy Boman work on the vehicle and was out around and ended up facing Jordan Jones and Tyler Eyre (l-r) move a mattress into Liddiard’s Home Furnishings’ new The Budget and Clearance seeing if it was fixed,” Wimmer north.” SEE CRASH PAGE A8 ➤ Center, located at Al & Lid’s previous location on 100 South in Tooele Monday. The store is one of several new busi- nesses opening or scheduled to open soon in downtown Tooele. SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE CountyUV INDEX prepping for largest election ever The Sun Rise Set WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Wednesday 7:12 a.m. 7:34 p.m. Thursday 7:13 a.m. 7:33 p.m. by Tim Gillie increase of 31 percent. able to group voting machines together Friday 7:14 a.m. 7:31 p.m. 6 6 6 5 5 5 6 Saturday 7:15 a.m. 7:29 p.m. STAFF WRITER The budget for the 2008 presidential to make better use of them,” Gillette said. Sunday 7:16 a.m. 7:28 p.m. election is $100,000. Four years ago, the “We also had some polling places that did Monday 7:17 a.m. 7:26 p.m. Wed ThuTooele Fri CountySat Sun ClerkMon Tue Marilyn Gillette is county spent $75,000 on that presidential not have adequate space for the machines Tuesday 7:18 a.m. 7:24 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ The Moon Rise Set number,preparing the greater the for need whatfor eye and will skin likely be the largest election. Part of the increased cost is for needed with the growth in the precincts.” Wednesday 8:30 p.m. 9:53 a.m. protection.voter0-2 turnoutLow; 3-5 Moderate; in 6-7the High; history 8-10 of the county operating three early voting sites. In 2004, Most of the changes were designed to Thursday 9:04 p.m. 11:08 a.m. Very High; 11+ Extreme Friday 9:45 p.m. 12:25 p.m. during this year’s presidential election. the county had one early voting location consolidate several precincts into one Saturday 10:37 p.m. 1:38 p.m. “InALMANAC 2004, the voter turnout was 66 per- at the county courthouse, and Gillette location. That move won’t reduce the Sunday 11:39 p.m. 2:45 p.m. Statistics for the week ending Sept. 15. Sunshine and patchy More clouds than Rather cloudy with a cent. That is pretty typical of a presiden- said it was overcrowded. The county is number poll workers needed, according Monday none 3:41 p.m. Mostly sunny Mostly sunny Clouds and sunshine Partly sunny Temperatures Tuesday 12:48 a.m. 4:26 p.m. clouds sunshine t-storm possible tial election,” said Gillette. “But this year also renting laptops for poll workers to to Gillette. Instead of saving money or High/Low past week 88/46 Last New First Full NormalI expect high/low pastthe week turnout will 80/52 be higher. Voters use to look up voter records this year manpower, the idea is to try and make 83 56 80 56 80 55 69 54 78 53 75 49 73 50 Averagehave temp strong past week feelings about 65.6 the presiden- — a move designed to increase speed and voting lines move faster and provide a Normaltial average candidates temp past week and people 66.3 in general are accuracy in checking records. private and comfortable experience for TOOELE COUNTY WEATHER Daily Temperatures High Low Sep 21 Sep 29 Oct 7 Oct 14 Shown is Wednesday’s more aware of the issues and want their Polling locations have also been rear- voters, Gillette said. say in the election.” ranged to handle the anticipated turnout. “In some of the old locations, we had to Forecasts and graphics provided by weather. Temperatures are file photo / Troy Boman 88 Wednesday night’s lows and 79 80 82 AccuWeather, Inc. ©2008 74In 2004,71 74 there were 25,198 registered “Some locations did not have enough squeeze machines into the hallway close Wednesday’s highs. Poll workers Nancy Burgoyn and Diane Parish (l-r) wait for voters to cast ballots at the voters in the county. Today there are parking, others were not handicap acces- county courthouse in this 2007 file photo. Tooele County Clerk Marilyn Gillette expects 33,026, according to Gillette. That is an sible, and in some cases we wanted to be SEE ELECTION PAGE A7 ➤ the largest voter turnout in county history during this year’s presidential election. 62 57 57 UTAH WEATHER 46 48 53 48 Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Logan Grouse 84/44 Wendover Precipitation (in inches) BULLETIN BOARDClive B2 INSIDE Creek 86/57 Knolls WEATHER Lake Point 84/49 86/59 86/58 86/58 12.76 13.64 Ogden CLASSIFIEDS B6 Stansbury Park 83/57 Erda 86/58 Polish professor HOMETOWN B1 Grantsville THS students Vernal 85/57 Pine Canyon 0.68 Salt Lake City 81/46 86/58 74/50 0.10 0.35 0.27 moves to teach at remember 9/11 Tooele 86/58 OBITUARIES A7 Bauer 83/56 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal 83/55 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D USU Tooele See A3 Provo Roosevelt OPEN FORUM A4 83/56 84/47 See B1 82/52 See Complete Stockton Pollen Index Price SPORTS A10 83/55 81/49 High Nephi Forecast Rush Valley 82/51 TV LISTINGS B4 81/54 Ophir Moderate on A9 73/50 Low Delta Manti Absent 88/53 81/49 Green River Tu W Th F Sa Su M 88/54 Dugway Source: Intermountain Allergy & Asthma Richfield Gold Hill 83/55 82/50 Moab 82/49 RIVERS AND LAKES Hanksville 88/54 Beaver 86/54 Vernon In feet as of 7 a.m.