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Mountain Man Rendezvous, Powwow gathering See A8 TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S TUESDAY September 25, 2018 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 125 No. 33 $1.00 Tooele County School District Enrollment School enrollment up 5 percent 17,000 2009, to offer a complete kin- Online schools add 705 students; regular schools up by 136 students dergarten through 12th-grade 16,000 online education experience TIM GILLIE school district’s preliminary a 5 percent increase. for students. STAFF WRITER headcount to the school board Out of the 841 new stu- The online school launched Enrollment in the Tooele during its Sept. 11 meeting at dents, 705 are enrolled in in the fall of 2017 with 2,026 15,000 County School District is up the district office. either Blue Peak High School’s students enrolled, 170 of those by 5 percent, even though two “We are up 841 students,” online program or the school from Tooele County. Prior to charter schools in the county Pitt said. “Most of that growth district’s K-12 online program offering the online school, drew students away with new is in students that are new to offered through My Tech High. the school district had over 14,000 junior highs that opened this our online programs.” In 2017, the school district 100 students enrolled in other fall. The school district’s total teamed up with Spanish Fork- school district’s online schools. Dolene Pitt, Tooele County enrollment was 16,995 as of based My Tech High, which has With an additional 136 stu- School District assistant Sept. 11, 2018 compared to been working with school dis- 13,000 superintendent, presented the 16,154 for Oct. 1, 2017. That’s tricts and charter school since SEE SCHOOL PAGE A10 ® 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Grantsville selects contractor for phase one of Main Street upgrade project STEVE HOWE the first phase of the project, STAFF WRITER but contractors had to submit The Grantsville City Council estimated costs for the entire selected the contractor for the project. first phase of its $8 million The first phase of the project project to replace water and includes asphalt, installation of sewer lines under Main Street a new section of 12-inch PVC during its Sept. 19 meeting. pipe, replacement of service A total of seven qualified connections, installation of bids were submitted for the a new fire hydrant and other city’s project and reviewed by miscellaneous installations and Jones & DeMille Engineering, services, such as traffic control. the firm hired to provide engi- Jones & DeMille recom- neering services and consulta- tion. The bids were only for SEE UPGRADE PAGE A10 ® Moniek Breen looks at striped jasper at the Tooele Gem Show held in the Dow James bulding. Breen traveled from Sandy to attend the show. Public hearing FINDING GEMS AT THE TOOELE GEM SHOW PHOTOS FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE set for police Visitors gathered at the Dow James building in Tooele Friday through Sunday to look at rocks, minerals and other items on display and available for purchase at the annual Tooele Gem & Mineral Show. Fossils, rocks, gems, jewelry and other merchandise building’s loan were provided by vendors. Visitors also participated in other activities at the show. Tooele Gem & Mineral Show coincided with the MARK WATSON 7 p.m. at Tooele City Hall. The American Heritage Festival outside at Dow James Park. STAFF WRITER public is invited to make com- The festival included a mountain man rendezvous, Tooele City will seek an $8.5 ments in regard to the loan at Native American Powwow. See photos of the American million loan at 2.5 percent the meeting. Heritage Festival on A9 and A10. interest rate with a term of “The last time we bonded 30 years from the Permanent through the CIB was to build Community Impact Fund Board the City Hall, pool, library of the State of Utah to build and golf course clubhouse,” a new public safety building, said Council Chairman Steve according to documents pro- Pruden. “Already we’ve vided by Tooele City. received some comments from Randy Sant, economic the public opposed to what we Braxton and Addy Allred (above) watch the prize wheel development consultant for are doing.” to see what number it lands on. Connie Dow and her the city, is scheduled to present Pruden also is the chairman grandson Kaiden Dow (left) pick out grab bags of rocks information about the loan at at the The Tooele Gem & Mineral Show on Saturday. a public hearing Wednesday at SEE LOAN PAGE A10 ® Grantsville may update cemetery code after citizens’ plea for compromise DAVID BERN council may take another appeal to the city council city utility bill. It said items EDITOR look at the code because of to reconsider requiring all left after Nov. 1 would be The Grantsville City citizens’ concerns and the graveside decorations that removed by cemetery person- Council heard a citizens’ plea city not fully enforcing the are in violation of cemetery nel. Wednesday night for the city code for years, some council code to be removed by Nov. “As long as I have lived in to back down on enforcing an members said. 1. Grantsville … none of these existing code that prohibits During Wednesday night’s That date was published ordinances have ever been or limits graveside decora- public comment period, in Mayor Brent Marshall’s fully enforced. My question DAVID BERN/TTB PHOTO tions at the city cemetery. Grantsville resident Necole recent newsletter, which Grantsville leaders may reconsider a proposed cemetery code after listen- And it appears the city Anderson gave an emotional was distributed in residents’ SEE CODE PAGE A7 ® ing to citizens’ concerns at a city council meeting. INSIDE BULLETIN BOARD B4 CLASSIFIEDS B6 Fast action Sculptor Two plays in HOMETOWN A8 highlights completes two weeks OBITUARIES A6 Nitro World statue at Tooele High OPEN FORUM A4 Games See A2 School SPORTS B1 See B1 See A3 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN TUESDAY September 25, 2018 Local sculptor completes statue for Veterans Park TIM GILLIE and soliciting donations spe- STAFF WRITER cifically for the statue to reach It’s ready. the $50,000 goal to cover After one year of fundrais- the expenses of installing the ing by the Life’s Worth Living statue in Tooele, according to Foundation, both a bronze Gossett. statue and the $50,000 to pay “An average of over 20 for it are ready. veterans are lost each day to The Life’s Worth Living death by suicide,” Gossett said. Foundation hosted an open “A total of 58,220 soldiers house at Dan Snarr’s Sandy, were killed in the Vietnam Utah, studio on Monday night War,” he said. “We have lost FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO to present Snarr’s bronze nearly 170,000 of those same Dan Snarr looks at photographs of his first World War II soldier statue that statue of a World War II soldier Vietnam vets to suicide since now stands in Garden City. entitled “Proud” to the founda- the beginning of the war. tion and its supporters. Three times the amount lost before he passed away in 2014, The top of the flag extends The statue will be presented in the war have now died by according to Gossett. above his head with enough to Tooele City as a gift at a suicide.” Snarr, a professional sculp- height to make the statue ceremony in Tooele City’s The statue is an 8-foot tall tor who lives in Stansbury reach 13 feet in total height. Veterans Memorial Park on portrayal of World War II vet- Park, was commissioned by The contract with Snarr Nov. 10, according to Jon eran and purple heart recipient Calder’s family to create a allowed him to create and Gossett, president of Life’s Robert Calder. Calder did not bronze statue of Calder that place a second copy of the Worth Living Foundation. die by suicide. was placed in Garden City, statue in the location of his “We wanted to raise funds Calder was shot while he Utah, near Calder’s home, in a choice. to cover the cost of placing was fighting in France and ceremony held in May 2018. “It turned into such a fan- FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO this statue in Tooele as a way then later fell down an eleva- The statue weighs over tastic piece that I would love Colin Marshall looks at “Proud” the statue of a World War II soldier sculpt- ed by Dan Snarr at on open house held on Monday night in Sandy. The to bring awareness to the tor shaft while policing a build- 80 pounds and has been to have a copy of it in Tooele,” statue will be placed in the Veterans Park in Tooele. Work begins on Friday unthinkable tragedy of veteran ing in the dark. The fall broke appraised at a value of Snarr said. to build a base for the statue. It will be unveiled in November. suicide,” Gossett said. ”We both of his legs and his back. $250,000, Gossett said. Snarr’s other work includes would never consider leaving He came back home to Garden Calder is depicted wearing two larger-than-life statues of will be placed in Tooele City’s unveiling ceremony at the park our men and women in the City, Utah, where he served on muddy boots from spending Theodore Roosevelt for a park Veterans Memorial Park on a is scheduled for Nov. 10. It will battlefield to die. We know we the town council for 20 years. time in a fox hole in France.