Man Dead After Shooting at Clean Harbors Facility STEVE HOWE Office
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FRONT PAGE A1 TOOELE RANSCRIPT Don Wayne T Nelson wins SERVING prestigious TOOELE COUNTY award SINCE 1894 See B1 BULLETIN TUESDAY February 28, 2017 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 123 No. 78 $1.00 Man dead after shooting at Clean Harbors facility STEVE HOWE Office. Zumwalt declined STAFF WRITER assistance but followed other A man making threats employees into the fenced against the Clean Harbors haz- perimeter at Clean Harbors a ardous waste disposal facility short time later. near Aragonite was shot by law Clean Harbors employees enforcement officers and died reported they approached Sunday morning. Zumwalt after he passed the The Utah County Sheriff’s fence and told him to leave, Office identified the suspect according to Utah County Tuesday morning as Barry Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Spencer Michael Zumwalt, 36, of West Cannon. After he was asked Valley City. to leave, Zumwalt initiated a The Tooele County Sheriff’s physical confrontation with Office and Utah Highway employees and threatened to Patrol were dispatched to blow them up. the remote incinerator facil- During the altercation, ity around 6:30 a.m. after Zumwalt raised his arms, employees said a suspicious exposing a holstered gun to man threatened to blow up the employees, according to the facility’s propane tanks, Cannon. A call to dispatch according to Tooele County reported the man had a hand- Sheriff Paul Wimmer. gun and knife, according to The incident began after two Wimmer. employees at the facility spoke A sheriff’s deputy and troop- with Zumwalt outside the er arrived together at the facil- entrance and asked if he need- ity about 15 minutes after the ed help, according to a release FILE PHOTO from the Utah County Sheriff’s SEE SHOOTING PAGE A7 ➤ Clean Harbors hazardous waste disposal facility at Aragonite was the scene of an officers-involved fatal shooting Sunday morning. School teachers Former football to get retention coach headed to bonus in March trial over witness TIM GILLIE according to TEA vice presi- STAFF WRITER dent Rick Harrison. tampering case Local teachers will get a In a joint statement issued $200 bonus just in time for St. by TEA and the school district, STEVE HOWE Patrick’s Day this year. the two groups said they would STAFF WRITER The Tooele County School continue to work together to The former Grantsville High Board approved the retention increase compensation of local School football coach already bonus for all full-time teachers teachers. charged in connection to the at its Feb. 21 meeting. The school district gave sexual abuse of two underage Teachers who work three teachers a 1 percent cost-of- female students will stand trial quarter to full-time will receive living adjustment for 2016. in a felony witness tampering $200. Teachers who work For the average teacher in the case. less than three quarter time county, the increase totals Curtis Ware, 48, is charged but more than half time will $18.43 per paycheck before with third-degree felony tam- receive $150. Teachers who withholdings. pering with a witness. In a sep- work less than half time will The district also fully funded arate case involving the same receive $100. the salary chart for teachers in victim, Ware is charged with Curtis Ware The one time bonus will be 2016 that offers pay increases first-degree felony forcible sod- paid out on March 15, accord- for steps. Those steps are based omy, three counts of second- sexual abuse and four counts of ing to school district superin- on years of teaching experi- degree felony sexual exploita- misdemeanor lewdness. tendent Scott Rogers. ence and lanes, which are tion of a minor, four counts of “This bonus was an integral based on additional education. second-degree felony forcible SEE CASE PAGE A7 ➤ part of contract negotiations Total salary and benefits for the 2016-2017 school for classroom teachers in the year,” he said. school district ranked at the The bonus amount for bottom of Utah’s 41 school teachers is after withhold- districts, according to the 2015 ings. The combined cost to the State Superintendent’s Annual school district for the bonus is Report. FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO $200,000, according to Rogers. Employees eligible for the Stansbury Park Elementary first-grade teacher Kelly Wendt (above) College, career The school district and the bonus include all teachers, and teachers throughout the Tooele County School District will Tooele Education Association receive one time retention bonues in their paychecks on March worked together on the bonus, SEE BONUS PAGE A3 ➤ 15. The bonuses were part of teacher contract negotiations for the 2016-17 school year. readiness folders SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE UV INDEX missing at school The Sun Rise Set WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY TIM GILLIE figure out why these specific Wednesday 7:03 a.m. 6:21 p.m. STAFF WRITER Thursday 7:01 a.m. 6:22 p.m. folders were targeted. Nothing Friday 7:00 a.m. 6:23 p.m. Leaders to host opioid info event Around 50 to 60 folders else was taken from either Saturday 6:58 a.m. 6:24 p.m. Sunday 6:57 a.m. 6:25 p.m. containing college and career office.” Monday 6:55 a.m. 6:26 p.m. W Th F Sa Su M Tu counseling information on A counselor at the school Tuesday 6:54 a.m. 6:27 p.m. Public invited to help reverseThe higher the AccuWeather.com county’s UV Index™ growing opioid ‘epidemic’ students are missing from Blue noticed the folders for her The Moon Rise Set number, the greater the need for eye and skin Wednesday 8:59 a.m. 10:04 p.m. protection. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Peak High School. tenth grade students were Thursday 9:35 a.m. 11:13 p.m. MARK WATSON dueVery to High; poisonings. 11+ Extreme The data shows who are at risk of overdose, according Bryce Eardley, Blue Peak missing from her desk when Friday 10:15 a.m. none STAFF WRITER Tooele County having one of the highest to Bate. High School principal, she tried to retrieve one on Saturday 10:58 a.m. 12:21 a.m. ALMANAC Sunday 11:47 a.m. 1:27 a.m. Leaders from several Tooele County ratesStatistics in forthe the state.”week ending Feb. 27. To get information out to the public, reported the loss at the Tooele Dec. 12. Cold with periods of Times of clouds and Times of clouds and Intervals of clouds and Monday 12:40 p.m. 2:30 a.m. Partial sunshine Mostly cloudy Mostly cloudy organizations are joining forces to make TemperaturesSix Utahns die every week from an event called “Stop the Opidemic, County School Board’s Feb. The counselor checked Tuesday 1:39 p.m. 3:28 a.m. clouds and sunshine sun sun sunshine citizens more aware of local residents’ opioidHigh/Low overdoses, past week according to60/15 a news A Community Solution” will be held 21 meeting. The folders are with another counselor at the First Full Last New excessive use of opioids. releaseNormal fromhigh/low the past Utahweek Department 47/28 of Tuesday, March 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the missing from counselors’ desk school, who then opened her 41 25 45 22 46 30 49 35 51 30 48 30 51 36 Average temp past week 33.4 “This is a major problem in Tooele Health.Normal average temp past week 37.7 Tooele Community Learning Center, drawers. drawer and found her career TOOELE COUNTY WEATHERCounty,” said Amy Bate, Tooele County DailyLocal Temperatures health leaders alsoHigh want Low the 211 S. Tooele Boulevard in Tooele City. “We have continued to and college folders were miss- Mar 5 Mar 12 Mar 20 Mar 27 Shown is Wednesday’s Health Department public information public to know about naloxone, a drug Sponsors include Tooele County search every part of the school, ing, too. Forecasts and graphics provided by weather. Temperatures are Wednesday’s highs and director. “Tooele has a significantly that can save lives and reverse the School District, Tooele City, Tooele City every nook we can think of, The folders contained notes AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Wednesday night’s lows. higher rate than the state for emergency effects of an opioid overdose. It is now and we haven’t found any- department visits and hospitalizations available in Tooele County for those SEE OPIOID PAGE A3 ➤ thing,” Eardley said. “We can’t SEE FOLDERS PAGE A3 ➤ UTAH WEATHER Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Logan BULLETIN BOARD B4 Grouse 35/16 Wendover PrecipitationINSIDE (in inches) Creek 44/23 Knolls Clive WEATHER Lake Point CLASSIFIEDS B6 37/17 44/23 45/25 42/25 Ogden Stansbury Park German teacher Spelling Bee HOMETOWN A8 36/21 Erda 42/25 OBITUARIES A6 Vernal Grantsville 43/25 Pine Canyon enjoys time in comedy hits the Salt Lake City 32/8 42/26 35/23 1.00 0.46 1.97 1.66 4.03 3.07 OPEN FORUM A4 Tooele 40/25 Bauer Tooele stage at THS 41/25 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal 41/25 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D SPORTS B1 Provo Roosevelt 41/25 See A8 See A3 37/13 40/16 See Stockton Snowfall (in inches) Price complete 41/26 41/16 Nephi forecast Rush Valley 38/16 41/26 Ophir on A7 36/23 Delta Manti 39/16 41/17 9.0 11.0 57.5 Green River Last Month Season 56/21 Dugway Week to date to date Richfield Gold Hill 44/23 47/17 Moab 43/17 SNOWPACK Hanksville 49/23 Beaver 48/22 Vernon Tooele Valley-Vernon Creek Basin 42/13 Ibapah 39/20 44/14 Snow Water Equivalent as of 12 a.m.