FRONT PAGE A1 THURSDAY www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE RANSCRIPT Martial arts T classes teach defense, respect and confidence See B1 BULLETIN January 29, 2008 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 114 NO. 73 50¢ Low-income dental clinic up and running by Doug Radunich STAFF WRITER After several months of preparations and construction delays, the Tooele County Health Department’s Healthy Smiles Dental Clinic finally opened its doors and accepted patients last week. The clinic will offer dental care and treatment to low-income residents, including Medicaid and uninsured patients. Manager Cindy Searle said the clinic’s “soft opening” last Thursday drew several patients needing care. “We had about 13 reservations on the list on opening day, and the people were mostly in for exams and x-rays,” said Searle, who is also a certified dental assistant for the clinic. “We are now open to phone calls and are filling schedules, and we’ve had people tell us they’re so glad we’re here.” Searle is currently the only full-time employ- ee at the clinic, but other health department employees will help out with billing, reception work and scheduling appointments. The clinic will primarily perform examinations, extrac- tions, fillings, route canals and other minimal surgical procedures, but may add other ser- file photo / Troy Boman vices in the future. “We don’t do dentures or anything like that LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley waves lights during a 2005 celebration at Rice Eccles Stadium. Hinckley passed away Sunday night at his apartment. He was yet, and we are planning on doing hygiene 97 years old and had been serving as prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for almost 13 years. work at the clinic in the future,” said Jeff Coombs, environmental health director for the health department. “Our services right now Hinckley remembered as personable, are largely driven by what Medicaid or PCN — which has a more extensive list of services and is for pregnant women and children — will provide. As of now, we’re also primarily just visionary by longtime county residents serving adults at the clinic because we’re not set up to serve children right now.” The clinic also features new state-of-the-art by Sarah Miley hearing him speak or his seem- “My first impression of him was ies in May,” Grimm said. equipment, including a panorex x-ray machine STAFF WRITER ingly never-ending energy, one he was very friendly and cooper- In June, four missionaries came Tooele resident will likely remem- ative,” Grimm said. “He was very and started the missionary sys- SEE CLINIC PAGE A8 ➤ Gordon B. Hinckley was ber much more. giving and offered his assistance tem in the Philippines, she said. remembered yesterday by those Maxine Grimm, 93, has had a and help in any way.” “Elder Hinckley was assigned he touched in Tooele County as special friendship with Hinckley The next time she met Hinckley the whole area, the Orient actu- a witty man with an infectious for decades. she was living in the Philippines ally, so he would come to the smile and a powerful love of While serving with the with her husband. The Grimms Philippines frequently,” she humanity. American Red Cross in the post- held church meetings in their said. “I continued this associa- Hinckley, the 15th president of World War II reconstruction effort home, and wanted the mission- tion with President Hinckley and The Church of Jesus Christ of in Japan in 1946, Grimm wanted aries to come to the Philippines sometimes Sister [Marjorie Pay] Latter-day Saints, died at his Salt some Mormon Tabernacle Choir to proselytize. The couple per- Hinckley would come with him. Lake City apartment Sunday at 7 records to broadcast so she could sistently asked President David I’d take her shopping in the open p.m. He was 97. talk about the church. When O. McKay to send missionaries, market.” He became president in 1995, she returned to Tooele on rec- according to Grimm. He finally On one occasion, Grimm said and led the church for almost reation leave, she was sent to a sent Hinckley and they held a she and Sister Hinckley, who 13 years. His work as president then 36-year-old Hinckley, who conference at the U.S. military passed away in 2004, were in the photography / Maegan Burr — and in other leadership capac- was secretary of the church’s new cemetery in Manila. marketplace, where all the ani- Cindy Searle, manager of Healthy Smiles Dental Clinic, ities in the church — took him all Radio, Publicity and Mission “And Elder — he was only an mals and fish are alive, when an walks through the new clinic space at the Tooele County over the globe. Literature Committee, to retrieve elder at that time — Hinckley Health Department on Monday. The clinic, which offers While many may remember the records. dedicated the land for missionar- SEE HINCKLEY PAGE A8 ➤ dental care and treatment to low-income residents, will begin seeing patients next Thursday. Blizzard Whiteout weather paralyzes conditions blamed valley with in fatal car crash by Jamie Belnap snow, ice STAFF WRITER by Sarah Miley A 34-year-old West Valley woman was killed STAFF WRITER after her vehicle slid off a Skull Valley road and rolled during whiteout weather conditions at Gusting winds and heavy snow 11:38 Monday morning. caused several accidents Monday, and According to Utah Highway Patrol Trooper closed SR-138 for a time, when a mas- Randy Riches, Lena Knight was headed north- sive winter storm barreled down on bound on SR-196 when her 2004 Chevy Tahoe Tooele County and the state. slid off the road and rolled onto its side in a Whiteout conditions were reported culvert near milepost 32. all over the state, as several inches of Riches said excessive speed may have been snow fell in the span of just a few hours, a factor. just grazing the tail end of the morning No one witnessed the accident, but a resi- commute. dent from a nearby home heard it and called At least one weather-related fatal- his mother who lived down the road, Riches ity was reported when a 34-year-old said. The woman broke out the driver’s side woman rolled her car on SR-196 in Skull window, called 911 and initiated CPR, with the Valley (see related story). photography / Troy Boman assistance of several other passing motorists. Bubba Humke makes his way back to his jeep after sliding off the road and knocking down a stop sign on SR-138 near the Knight was pronounced dead at the scene. SEE STORM PAGE A6 ➤ Benson Grist Mill on Monday. Whiteout conditions across the valley caused many accidents and even closed some main roadways [email protected] for a time. WEATHER OPEN FORUM A4 HOMETOWN B1 INSIDE Snow today and Wednesday OBITUARIES A7, A8 BULLETIN BOARD A9 Tooele girls lose by one point with cloudy skies Thursday. TV LISTINGS B2 CLASSIFIEDS B4 after last-second miss Highs in the upper 20s. See A10 Complete Forecast: A2 SPORTS A10 ANNOUNCEMENTS B3 A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN TUESDAY January 29, 2008 Utah & The West Valley Weather Forecast Sundance is mecca for swag-gathering celebrities by Ryan Pearson fully gathered on the sidewalk Orange County chef. Across Local Weather ASSOCIATED PRESS from sunrise until it got just the table was Rex Lee of too darn cold (temperatures “Entourage,” awaiting an Akon Tue 28/25 PARK CITY (AP) — Film hovered near zero at night). performance in an upstairs 1/29 takes place, Sundance told us Photographers’ faces club. Cloudy skies with afternoon snow in its motto this year. scrunched up quizzically at Off Main Street, you could showers. Cold. High 28F. Also, celebrities take over. anybody bold enough to stroll be silently startled by the sight Parties, gifting suites and down Main Street holding big of a bundled-up Colin Farrell gawking have grown far shopping bags. If they were typing on a phone, Dennis beyond a mere sideshow at important enough to be given Hopper smoking a cigar or Wed the country’s most visible film free stuff, were they impor- Quentin Tarantino chatting 26/11 festival. tant enough to shoot? It was a with fellow Sundance juror 1/30 In droves, socialites and double-bulbed spotlight: the Sandra Oh outside a the- Light snow at times. Highs in the wannabes made the trek brands hoping to gain expo- atre. Crispin Glover trudged mid 20s and lows in the low teens. a half-hour northeast of sure also lent at least a few unnoticed through the snow Salt Lake City for chilly but camera snaps to their some- outside a gathering attended glamorous nightlife in ware- times unknown recipients. by Elisabeth Shue and Steve house spaces branded with If paparazzi and stock Coogan. Mischa Barton Thu the stamp of clubs like New photo agencies missed a shot, rushed past photographers on 27/24 York’s Butter. A publicist for gifting suites sent out press the way to a party. 1/31 one mountain chateau after- releases filling in the blanks. Sean Combs, after a series Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the hours party boasted of turn- Kim Kardashian and her NFL of interviews to promote “A upper 20s and lows in the mid 20s. ing away Bono because there beau Reggie Bush were regu- Raisin in the Sun,” emerged were too many people in his lar freebie gatherers. into a light snowfall on Park ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content Service entourage.