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www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE RANSCRIPT Tooele rose to T decisive league victory over Ben Lomond 47-6. See A10 BULLETIN October 3, 2006 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 113 NO. 37 50 cents No Child Left Behind snags three schools Costumes by Jesse Fruhwirth keep pace. arrive STAFF WRITER The NCLB testing standards divide The day of reckoning for schools students into subgroups including State test passes schools that failed federally all across Utah came last Friday as students with disabilities, Hispanics, Friday the State Office of Education released Caucasians, economically disadvan- by Jesse Fruhwirth Proponents of U-PASS criti- the federal test results mandated by taged and more. If any of the sub- STAFF WRITER cize NCLB for, in the words of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Three groups fail to keep pace with the ever- The state released the results of Superintendent Michael Johnsen, for next schools in the Tooele County School increasing NCLB demands, the entire the Utah Performance Assessment “measuring last year’s third grade District did not make “adequate yearly school is deemed not adequate. System for Students. The U-PASS was versus this year’s third grade.” U- progress,” or AYP. The two schools that A group of 35 students with dis- created by Utah educators, as opposed PASS, by contrast, follows one class day’s show did not make AYP last year succeeded abilities at Harris Elementary, as well to federal No Child Left Behind that as it goes through the years, mea- by Mark Watson in pulling up their scores in 2006. as the group of 42 Hispanics had con- was created in Washington D.C. suring the progress of each student For a school’s progress to be deemed siderable difficulty with the math test. Three schools did pass NCLB did against his or her own results the STAFF WRITER The routine is similar each adequate, they must make gains toward Only 26 percent of the test scores not pass U-PASS: East Elementary, previous year. 100 percent graduation and 100 per- from students with disabilities and 40 Northlake Elementary and Tooele time the Missoula Children’s cent proficiency in math and language percent of the Hispanic students were Junior High School. SEE STATE ON A2 Theatre visits Tooele. Two arts by 2014. Every school will have to adult directors arrive in Tooele score considerably better in 2007 to SEE BEHIND ON A2 from Montana in a truck with all the scripts and costumes for the show. The directors hold auditions Lake Point on Monday night, select a cast, rehearse each night throughout the week and then hold two man dies performances on Saturday. This time through, however, there was a glitch. On Sunday in quarry night or Monday morning, thieves broke into the truck and stole all the costumes, scripts, musical scores and commemo- accident rative T-shirts for the kids. by Jesse Fruhwirth “They were never able to STAFF WRITER recover the costumes, but A quarry south of Five Mile someone on Tuesday found Pass was the scene of a deadly a box of scripts and musical accident yesterday afternoon. A scores in a field,” said Terra worker at the rock pit fell over Sherwood, a Tooele City Parks a cliff while driving a Caterpillar and Recreation employee who excavator and was dead when helped bring the theater com- authorities arrived. pany to Tooele for the first Wes Jenson, 68 of Lake Point, time in April 2000. was an employee of Ames The scripts and musical Construction Inc. He was eject- scores were recovered, but the ed from the cab of the vehicle costumes and T-shirts were as it rolled 40-60 feet down a never found. The T-shirts were cliff at the Topliff quarry. valued at about $1,500. “At the According to statements end of the week the children made to authorities by workers are usually able to purchase at the site, Jenson was an expe- the T-shirts, but this time rienced operator. they weren’t able to do that,” Tooele County Sheriff Frank Sherwood said. Park said the cause of death is The show must go on, how- still under investigation. “We’re ever, and “Beauty Lou and the looking for the cause of death Country Beast” played at the to see if any medical conditions Tooele High School Auditorium played into the accident,” Park twice on Saturday. It marked said. the eighth time MCT has vis- Park said the cause of the ited Tooele. accident itself has not yet been On Monday, the directors photography / Troy Boman called their home base in The Caterpillar excavator lies in the Topliff quarry after driving over a cliff Monday. It’s driver’s body was found dead outside the vehicle.. SEE ACCIDENT ON A3 Missoula, Mont. Fortunately, one of the traveling groups that performs the same play Burn under control was not on the road, so cos- Army chases deer away from Dugway tumes were available. Those costumes arrived in Salt Lake by Mark Watson City on Friday via Greyhound STAFF WRITER bus just in time for Saturday’s Fortunately for the U.S. Army, shows. deer and antelope are not on the The program provides kin- side of terrorists. If so they would dergarten through sixth-grade pose a major threat at Dugway children an introduction to the- Proving Ground. atrical arts. During the past five years “My daughter was so excit- these creatures have methodically ed to be in the play,” said slipped past the guards at Dugway’s Chennelle Roth, mother of main entrance and settled in at Abrey Roth, 10, who played the English Village, the housing and young “Beauty Lou.” “She has administrative area at Dugway. It been in these plays a couple of was novel at first, but now it’s a times and is really interested nuisance. The deer population has in acting. There aren’t a lot of swelled so much that the Army opportunities for children here wants to renegotiate its alliance to learn about acting.” with the herd. About 50 to 60 children par- “They have gotten used to living ticipate each time the theater in there. Some of these animals group comes to Tooele . have not known anything different. Missoula Children’s Theatre Some were born there. Even when has been touring for more than they’re herded out of there they 30 years, visiting nearly 1,100 photography / Troy Boman want to return,” said Tom Becker, communities annually in all 50 Mule deer like to make their home inside Dugway Proving Ground. Utah Division biologist with Utah Division of states, four Canadian provinc- of Wildlife Services pushed the growing herd off the base twice this year. Wildlife. es and overseas. Its mission is On Friday, Becker and about 30 the development of life skills in able to chase away all the animals eaten so much there is lack of suffi- others used a helicopter and all- children through participation except 10 deer. Six months later, cient forage for them to consume. terrain vehicles to chase out about in the performing arts. however, the animals were back Becker knows the animals will 200 deer and 70 antelope. “It didn’t McKylee Taylor played on base. start to migrate back to the base. go as well as expected, we left the grown-up Beauty Lou. Dugway requested removal “They are bound and determined more deer than we wanted. This Daughters were played assistance because the animals to go back. We would like them to time we left about three antelope by Kirsten Asher, Hannah have caused damage to landscap- find deer migrating to other areas photography / Troy Boman and 50 deer ran us ragged.” Christopherson, Collette ing and flowers and the installation and join them,” he said. “This win- Brody Worsencroft throws a branch into a controlled burn on Bates The 50 deer evaded the assault Jones, Madeleine Miller, Ema Canyon Road Monday morning. Police and fire officials stopped by to and remained within English wants to avoid any possibility of ter we plan to drop a net on some investigate the plume of smoke, but the Worsencroft family had a Village. human health concerns due to ani- SEE DEER ON A3 SEE SHOW ON A2 permit and followed proper procedure. Back in March the team was mal wastes. In addition, they have WEATHER OPEN FORUM A4 DOINGS A9 INSIDE Thunderstorms possible OBITUARIES A6 SPORTS A10 G-ville resident sings with Wednesday. Upper 70s Thursday. the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Low around 45. PUZZLES A7 HOMETOWN B1 See A9 Complete Forecast: A2 TV LISTINGS A8 CLASSIFIEDS B2 A2 TUESDAY October 3, 2006 ETCETERA ... Temps/Precipitation Valley Weather Forecast Date High Low (prec./inches) Sept. 28 80 51 Local Weather Sept. 29 79 50 Wed 75/51 Sept. 30 81 54 10/4 Oct. 1 84 59 Oct. 2 81 57 .08 Isolated thunderstorms ending by noon. Ned Bevan, Tooele’s weather observer for the National Weather Service, reports that his recording station at 139 S. Main Thu received .08 inches of precipitation between 70/46 Sept. 28 and Oct. 27 and a total of .08 so far 10/5 this month. Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the For the water year, which ended Oct. 1, low 70s and lows in the mid 40s. 2006, Tooele received 18.47 inches of pre- cipitation. The normal for the year is 18.49 inches of precipitation. Fri 59/44 Pollen Count 10/6 Plenty of sun. Highs in the upper The Intermountain Allergy 50s and lows in the mid 40s.