Downtown Closures Continue by Tim Gillie STAFF WRITER
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FRONT PAGE A1 www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELETRANSCRIPT G-ville Legion pounds out 21 runs ULLETIN See A10 B JulyJuly 20,20, 2010 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 117 NO. 15 50¢ Downtown closures continue by Tim Gillie STAFF WRITER Three stores have closed on one block of downtown Tooele in recent months, with two other store fronts on the same block unoccupied and now for sale, slowing what appeared to be a revival for downtown. Tooele City officials claim the closings are part of the normal business cycle. The closures provide a reason to search for new stores for downtown, but it’s not a crisis, according to Mayor Patrick Dunlavy. “Of course the city is interested in the health of busi- nesses in the city, but closures happen during good as well as bad economic times,” Dunlavy said. “This is a normal process that has been exacerbated by the current state of the economy. We will continue to look for and encourage more stores to locate downtown.” The Tooele Overstock Store, which opened at 5 N. Main in October 2009, closed in the middle of June. Anything Cute, a non-profit thrift store that supported the New Hope House at 33 N. Main, closed this month and the space is for lease. Sandee Julz, a clothing, accessories and jewelry store located at 19 N. Main Street, has a large for lease sign in their front window and will close July 30, Maegan Burr Carlson Miller Brands employee Nate Seal unloads a truck at Zacatecas Market on the corner of Main and Vine streets in Tooele on Tuesday morning. While some businesses SEE CLOSURES PAGE A5 ➤ downtown have shut their doors, Zacatecas Market owner Samuel Berumen says keeping regular store hours has helped keep them in business for the last three years. Erda To wnship weighs pros CELEBRATING ERDA and cons of incorporation As property owners petition for withdrawal, residents consider their options Next month, the commission will incorporating into a municipal- by Lisa Christensen hear a bid to withdraw nearly 219 ity. STAFF WRITER acres more, and Erda seems to be Last Wednesday night, Tooele feeling the pinch. City Attorney Roger Baker, an In May, 421 acres were with- Between the withdrawn land Erda resident, presented pros drawn from Erda’s township and recent proposed expansion and cons of incorporation to give boundaries following a success- from surrounding cities, some residents and the Erda Township ful petition by two landowners to in the township feel threatened the Tooele County Commission. enough to entertain the idea of SEE INCORPORATION PAGE A3 ➤ Maegan Burr Dry grass blows in the wind over the northeast end of Erda Monday afternoon. Erda is weighing the pros and cons of incor- poration following landowners’ petitions to withdraw from the township. SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE UV INDEX The Sun Rise Set WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Wednesday 6:16 a.m. 8:55 p.m. 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 Thursday 6:17 a.m. 8:54 p.m. Friday 6:18 a.m. 8:53 p.m. Saturday 6:19 a.m. 8:52 p.m. Overstock.com call center to Sunday 6:20 a.m. 8:51 p.m. Monday 6:21 a.m. 8:50 p.m. Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Tuesday 6:21 a.m. 8:49 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ The Moon Rise Set number, the greater the need for eye and skin Wednesday 5:49 p.m. 2:10 a.m. open at Utahprotection. Industrial0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Depot Thursday 6:42 p.m. 3:00 a.m. Very High; 11+ Extreme Friday 7:28 p.m. 3:55 a.m. Saturday 8:06 p.m. 4:55 a.m. by Tim Gillie by USANA at theALMANAC Tooele County “We are remodeling the cur- Sunday 8:39 p.m. 5:56 a.m. Statistics for the week ending July 19. Hot with sun mixing Times of clouds and Sunshine and patchy Intervals of clouds and School District Office at the rent space to match our call Monday 9:06 p.m. 6:58 a.m. Mostly sunny Plenty of sunshine STAFF WRITER Partly sunny Temperatures Tuesday 9:31 p.m. 7:58 a.m. with clouds sun clouds sunshine Utah Industrial Depot as soon center and training space in Salt High/Low past week 100/60 Full Last New First Up to 200 more jobs are head- as remodelingNormal high/low is past completed.week 91/63 Lake City,” said Brian Popelka, 93 66 90 63 92 61 92 64 91 64ed for Tooele91 thanks63 to an agree-92 59This willAverage be a temp new past call week center for 80.3Overstock.com vice-president of Normal average temp past week 77.0 ment between Overstock.com Overstock.com. customer care. Jolie Gordon TOOELE COUNTY WEATHER Daily Temperatures High Low July 25 Aug 2 Aug 9 Aug 16 Shown is Wednesday’s and the Tooele County School Overstock.com has leased Once remodeled, 50 new District. 15,000 square feet of99 the 9831,000-100employees who have already Cordell and Austin Cull smile at the Erda Days parade Saturday. See more photos from Erda Days Forecasts and graphics provided by weather. Temperatures are 93 91 95 Wednesday night’s lows and 90 AccuWeather, Inc. ©2010 Overstock.com will move into square-foot building owned by on A5. Wednesday’s highs. the space previously occupied the school district. SEE OVERSTOCK PAGE A3 ➤ 77 UTAH WEATHER 67 67 66 61 60 60 Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Logan BULLETIN BOARD A8 Grouse 94/49 Wendover PrecipitationINSIDE (in inches) Creek 99/67 Knolls Clive WEATHER Lake Point CLASSIFIEDS B5 90/54 97/70 95/68 99/63 10.70 11.61 HOMETOWN B1 Ogden Stansbury Park 96/60 Erda 100/63 Teaching duo Stansbury Health OBITUARIES A6 Grantsville Vernal 97/68 Pine Canyon OPEN FORUM A4 Salt Lake City 95/60 100/63 82/59 0.00 0.21 0.05 0.52 makes an Center going digital Tooele 99/63 Bauer 93/66 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal SPORTS A10 91/65 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D unlikely pair with MyChart Provo Roosevelt 93/66 93/60 98/61 See Stockton See B1 See A3 Price complete 95/65 93/63 High Nephi forecast Rush Valley 91/61 91/63 Ophir Moderate on A9 80/58 Low Delta Manti Absent 97/65 90/61 Green River Tu W Th F Sa Su M 99/70 Dugway Source: Intermountain Allergy & Asthma Richfield Gold Hill 94/65 92/62 Moab 86/59 RIVERS AND LAKES Hanksville 98/71 Beaver 99/73 Vernon In feet as of 7 a.m. Monday 93/61 Ibapah 90/62 24-hour 89/58 Stage Change Vernon Creek at Vernon 0.97 +0.01 Cedar City Blanding South Willow Creek St. George 94/63 95/63 at Grantsville 1.40 -0.01 106/80 Kanab 94/66 Eureka 86/60 Great Salt Lake Elevation at Saltair Boat Harbor 4194.22 A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN TUESDAY July 20, 2010 SHS team doesn’t take top prize in NASA competition, but gains good experience by Emma Penrod Carolina School of Science and final report.” the experiment demonstrated CORRESPONDENT Mathematics took first prize in Nonetheless, Grimshaw said there was a correlation between the competition, which took place he would enter the competition the atmospheric humidity and Although NASA ultimate- during a scientific symposium at again, and already has plans for the temperature at ground level ly didn’t award first prize to NASA’s Glenn Research Center on another upcoming experiment. — the higher the humidity, the Stansbury High’s Team Daedalus May 25-27, for their experiment, “Just getting the certificate that higher the temperature. Adams for their weather balloon experi- “Variations on polyethylene hard says you won — we got so much believes the historical data they ment, the team of four high disk radiation shields.” No other more than that,” Grimshaw said. collected demonstrated that the school students believe what placements were awarded when “I learned so much about space true effects of global warming they learned while at the Glenn the announcement was made and about science and about Research Center in Cleveland, last Friday. working with others. I think it haven’t been felt on the ground Ohio, is worth more than the As one of the four nation- was an awesome experience.” due to decreasing levels of mois- award. al finalists in NASA’s 2010 Ben Burge, the oldest mem- ture in the atmosphere. “I wasn’t really too distraught BalloonSat High Altitude Flight ber of Team Daedalus, said “Because there is a direct cor- when we found out we didn’t (BHALF), brothers Sam and Ben his experience with NASA has relation, we think there may need win the competition,” said Sam Burge, Brock Grimshaw, Nathan encouraged his dream of going to be more research on what gas- Burge, one of the members of Fox, and their adviser, Jonathan into computer science when he ses are up there,” Adams said. Team Daedalus and a junior at Adams, earned the opportuni- returns from an LDS mission. “Our thinking is that we would Stansbury High School. “I think ty to develop and conduct an “It was just a great experience want to understand what is caus- it was actually more about the experiment of their choice along- to see how everything worked ing the moisture to drop.” experience than winning the side NASA scientists.