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TOOELETRANSCRIPT BULLETIN THURSDAY November 26, 2020 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 127 No. 52 $1.00 County approves management agreement Tooele County Relief Services. Friends of Switchpoint may use county’s Vine Street building while working on old Harris Elementary building Operational costs were fund- ed by an $117,000 three-year TIM GILLIE Switchpoint to make them expanded services, according Hansen in April 2011. The property was purchased HUD grant that was matched EDITOR the property manager for the to Christy Johnson, direc- The 6,796-square-foot home for $458,570 with a $320,770 by United Way funds. The Friends of Switchpoint county’s supportive housing tor of the Tooele Community was once the company hos- Community Development Tooele County reached may soon have a facility for facility on Vine Street. Resource Center. pital for the Tooele Smelter, Block Grant through the Utah out to Switchpoint, a non- expanded community services Once approved by the Tooele County’s supportive and includes a five-bedroom State Division of Housing and profit organization based in St. in Tooele County. Department of Housing and housing facility got its start home on the first floor, four part of a federal Department George, and contracted with The Tooele County Urban Development, the when Tooele County pur- apartments, and a basement of Housing and Urban them to take over the Tooele Commission approved an Friends of Switchpoint may chased the home of former that was remodeled into three Development grant that agreement with Friends of start using the facility for Tooele City councilman John bedrooms. provided partial funding for SEE AGREEMENT PAGE A11 ® Barracks burn on THE HOLIDAYS ARE HERE historic Wendover airfield Monday by flames. Barracks destroyed The West Wendover Fire Department and the Wendover CEILLY SUTTON Airport Fire Department STAFF WRITER were called to assist and the A barracks at the Historic Wendover Police Department Wendover Air Force Base was began conducting an investiga- destroyed by a fire Monday tion to find out the cause of evening. The cause of the fire the fire, according to the press is unknown at this time. release. When crews arrived at 5:15 Wendover Fire Department p.m. Monday evening, they determined that the origin of immediately began fighting the fire was unconfirmed at the fire that had broken out at the time and they are awaiting a historic military structure, the Utah State Fire Marshal’s according to a press release Response. from the Wendover Fire The barracks were com- Department. pletely destroyed. The historic barracks that The fire was put out and no were being rented out by a injuries were reported. third party were fully engulfed [email protected] COURTESY WENDOVER FIRE DEPARTMENT Firefighters from Wendover City Fire Department battle a blaze in a CLAYTON DUNN/TTB PHOTO barrracks building at the Historic Wendover Airport on Monday evening. A crew of Tooele City workers hang holiday banners on Tooele City’s Main Street on Monday. National retail group expects Tooele City Council approves increased holiday sales required housing report TIM GILLIE Federation forecasted November and CEILLY SUTTON cipally,” he said. “First, it required almost EDITOR December sales will increase between 3.6% STAFF WRITER all cities to adopt their moderate-income While AAA released a report earlier this and 5.2% over 2019 to a total between The Tooele City Council approved their housing plans to identify moderate income month that said their original estimate $755.3 billion and $766.7 billion. That fore- annual moderate income housing report for housing within their communities. That was of 50 million fewer travellers during the cast excludes automobile dealers, gas sta- 2020 during their Nov. 18 meeting in the to be done and submitted to the state by Thanksgiving holiday was probably on the tions, and restaurants. council meeting room at Tooele City Hall. December 1, 2019. We submitted that report low side, the National Retail Federation sent The average increase for holiday sales over Jim Bolser, community development almost a year ago. The second thing that leg- out a report on Monday that said they expect the last five years has been 3.5%, according director, presented the report. islation did was require communities to file retail sales to be up from last year for the to the NRF. Bolser began by talking about how the an annual report on strategies and how we holidays. “We know this holiday season will be state Legislature changed state law regard- are addressing those strategies.” Citing a rebound in retail sales due to ing housing for cities. consumer resilience, the National Retail SEE SALES PAGE A11 ® “That legislation did two things prin- SEE HOUSING PAGE A11 ® BULLETIN BOARD B5 CLASSIFIEDS B6 Thanksgiving OBITUARIES A6 CORONAVIRUS TRACKER dinner SPORTS A8 donations Data as of November 24, 2020. Source: Utah Department of Health See A2 TOOELE COUNTY- Known Cases: 2,675 UTAH- Known Cases: 182,121 Hospitalizations: 90 • Deaths: 9 Hospitalizations: 7,702 • Deaths: 808 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN THURSDAY November 26, 2020 Tooele man helps provide 132 Thanksgiving meals to families in need ‘We were really surprised by how many families needed help’ CEILLY SUTTON “This October I posted on who is struggling, or my neigh- STAFF WRITER Facebook that I wanted to do bor is having problems, can A Tooele resident raised a food drive and I got lots of you go surprise them with a money and collected dona- donations,” he said. “Our goal meal?’” Hunter said. “A lot of tions to provide over 130 was 50 but we received 75 them didn’t even know it was families in Tooele County with families who needed a meal. coming.” Thanksgiving dinner. So, I posted seeing if I could Lucky Grocery Store helped James Hunter said he has beat 75. Then, I got to 100 and Hunter by preordering the been purchasing Thanksgiving it just kept going up. I just kept meal items and Walmart meals for two families with getting more and more. I just saved boxes for the meals and his own money for around 10 kept adding more families.” allowed Hunter to use one of years. Over 80 members of the their fridges to store the tur- Last year, before community and Hunter’s keys. Thanksgiving, Hunter posted family and friends donated He also created a Facebook on Facebook that he wanted Thanksgiving meal items and group called “Thanksgiving to provide two families with cash through Venmo or by food drive with James Hunter,” Thanksgiving dinner. dropping off cash at Hunter’s where individuals could chat “When I woke up the next house. about donations, nominate morning, I had like twelve “We raised a little over families, and ask to volunteer requests for those two meals,” $3,000 plus turkeys,” said when the time came to pack up he said. “I didn’t know how Hunter. “We had donations and deliver the meals. COURTESY JAMES HUNTER to pick which two families from friends and family from 25 individuals, including Assembled Thanksgiving dinner food boxes at the Elks Lodge wait for delivery. the meals would go to. So, I Washington D.C, Montana, and members of Hunter’s family reached out to my family to see Saint George. I had donations helped him pack up the meals. morning. families. Hunter said. “The people we if they wanted to help me and from everywhere!” The Elks Lodge in Tooele “We did kind of a knock Hunter said the reaction have dropped meals off to are I just got a bunch of donations. Individuals were able to allowed Hunter and his volun- and drop thing,” he said. “We from the community has been messaging constantly saying, I ended up doing 40 families nominate a family in the teers to use their building to would ring their doorbells and amazing. ‘When I saw the food, I started last year.” county in need of a meal or pack up the meals. run, so it was a contactless “Even people who didn’t to cry.’ It’s been amazing. We This year, Hunter decided he themselves. When the meals were ready, delivery. want meals would comment knew we were going to have a wanted to provide 50 families “We had people who were the volunteers helped Hunter On Sunday Hunter deliv- on Facebook and say, ‘Hey, this lot of families needing meals, with Thanksgiving meals. like, ‘I know an elderly couple deliver them on Saturday ered five more extra turkeys to is a great thing you’re doing,’” because of COVID but it was more than we thought. We were really surprised by how many families needed help and how many people stepped up to help them. It was amazing to see the reaction.” Next year Hunter plans on hosting another food drive and possibly finding more families to donate to. “We want to try to help as many as we can,” Hunter said. “This year we didn’t turn away a single family. We will do as many meals as people request next year. There’s no way I would have been able to do this on my own. I want to say thank you to all of my family and friends and everyone who donated and came and volun- teered.” [email protected] COURTESY JAMES HUNTER COURTESY JAMES HUNTER James Hunter, with family and friends, assemble Thanksgiving dinner food boxes at the Elks Lodge in Tooele. A truck load of food for Thanksgiving dinner for families in need. Subscribe Today 435-882-0050 Flu season revs up as usual Percent of Outpatient Visits Due to Flu-like Symtoms 7.5 2015-2016 Flu and COVID-19 different illnesses with common symptoms 2016-2017 2017-2018 TOOELE RANSCRIPT T TIM GILLIE 19.