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5-18-21 Transcript Bulletin TOOELE 3A State TRANSCRIPT High School S golf results T C See B8 BULLETIN S TUESDAY May 18, 2021 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 127 No. 101 $1.00 Latter-day Saints break ground, dedicate site ‘The temple is truly a house of peace’ TIM GILLIE live online. EDITOR Latter-day Saint prophets A dot landed in Tooele City and leaders since Brigham on Saturday morning. Young have spoken of the time Around 300 members of when temples would “dot the the Church of Jesus Christ of earth.” Latter-day Saints gathered on a For Merna Dalton, who spot on the east side of Tooele spoke at the groundbreaking to witness the groundbreaking ceremony, a temple in Tooele and dedicatory prayer for the meant that day had arrived. site of the Deseret Peak Utah “Remember the saying — Temple. that ‘temples will dot the earth Members of the ground- someday?’ It’s someday,” she breaking committee aided by said. “We love temples, and we local contractors and a nursery love that Heavenly Father puts transformed the dry, almost temples so that it will remind barren land, into an oasis of us that families can be together landscaping boulders and forever.” greenery with the background Elder Brook P. Hales of of the snow-capped Stansbury the Quorum of the Seventy, Mountain range with Deseret and a Grantsville resident, Peak in center stage. presided at the groundbreak- Attendance at the temple ing ceremony. Elder Berne S. site was limited by state and Broadbent, Area Seventy, also local COVID-19 restrictions attended and participated in that were in place at the time the ceremony. CLAYTON DUNN/TTB PHOTO the ceremony was planned. The setting for the groundbreaking ceremony for the Deseret Peak Utah Temple was prepared by local contractors with flowers, plants, and trees loaned The ceremony was broadcast ® by a local nursery. Combined with the backdrop of the Stansbury Mountains, groundbreaking attendees had a stunning view for the occasion. SEE SITE PAGE A7 Woman killed in accident at Purple Manufacturing plant slowly reopening ‘A BIG DAY IN A SMALL TOWN’ CEILLY SUTTON Grantsville brings home softball, baseball state titles The softball team won its fourth state title in a row, beating top-seeded STAFF WRITER Manti 6-5 in the championship game Saturday afternoon in Spanish Fork. DARREN VAUGHAN Later, the baseball team captured its first state title since 2018, beating A woman died Thursday at the SPORTS EDITOR Purple Warehouse in Grantsville. Carbon 14-4 in the second game of the championship round after a tough The worker was reportedly pulled Saturday was a day that won’t soon be forgotten in Grantsville. 5-4 loss to the Dinos in Game 1 at Cate Field in West Jordan. into a machine. This was the second Mere hours apart, the Grantsville High softball and baseball teams After posing for a group picture following the baseball team’s victory, OSHA report within the last month captured their respective Class 3A state championships, with the softball the teams returned to Grantsville for a celebratory parade through town. at Purple, according to Sgt. Jeff squad able to watch the final moments of the baseball team’s triumph in For more on the teams’ triumphs, see Sports on Page B1. Watson with the Grantsville Police person. [email protected] Department. The Grantsville City Police Department received a call about a medical assist May 13 at 4:41 p.m. “At the time of the call, it came in as a medical assist,” said Watson. Tooele Technical College “Someone had their arm stuck in a machine. We had an officer who was right around the corner and was there holds 2021 graduation within minutes.” When police arrived, they discov- ered that a maintenance worker, Anita With 2020 ceremony canceled Thursday’s Coester, 51, got caught on moving parts and was pulled into one of the ceremony honored 451 graduates machines at the warehouse. Coester had her arm and part of her TIM GILLIE with the traditional presentation torso caught in the machine, accord- EDITOR certificates. ing to Watson. Tooele Technical College stu- Around 120 students, dressed in “By the time they were able to get dents, faculty, friends, and guests black robes, walked across the stage her free from the machine it appeared gathered on the school’s east lawn to receive their certificate from their she was already deceased,” said for their graduation ceremony on instructors. Watson. “Medical personnel did try to Thursday evening. With the two years accumulation work on her, but it appeared like she With 2020’s graduation canceled of graduates and the school’s open was already deceased.” due to COVID-19, Thursday night’s enrollment and competency-based “OSHA will look into both of the ceremony celebrated all graduates education programs — meaning reports,” he said. “They will see if from 2020 and 2021. some programs have students start- there was anything that could have The graduation included 451 ing and and completing at different been done to prevent this.” graduates. times all through the year — not “We are saddened to report that a The evening’s program included all graduates were able to return to Purple employee was injured while two student speakers followed by a campus for graduation. working and later succumbed to her CLAYTON DUNN/TTB PHOTO keynote address from Joyce Hogan, Student speaker Crystal Fowler, a Graduates lineup to receive their certificates at Tooele Technical College’s gradua- chair of the Tooele Technical SEE PURPLE PAGE A7 ® tion ceremony on Thursday night. College Board of Directors, along SEE GRADUATION PAGE A7 ® BULLETIN BOARD B3 CLASSIFIEDS B4 Police open OBITUARIES A6 CORONAVIRUS TRACKER house OPEN FORUM A4 See A8 SPORTS B1 Data as of May 18, 2021. Source: Utah Department of Health TOOELE COUNTY- Known Cases: 7,319 UTAH- Known Cases: 402,731 Hospitalizations: 229 • Deaths: 43 Hospitalizations: 16,532 • Deaths: 2,259 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN TUESDAY May 18, 2021 Father and sons lost near TOOELE TECH GRADUATES Knolls Recreation Area found CEILLY SUTTON STAFF WRITER A father and two sons who were recreat- ing in an area by Knolls became disoriented and lost were found the next day by a Search and Rescue team member. On Saturday a family and friends, which included a father and his two sons, were camping at the Knolls Recreation Area, according to Tooele County Sheriff Paul Wimmer. CLAYTON DUNN/TTB PHOTO “At about 6 p.m., the father and two Tooele Technical College President Paul Hacking greats a student with boys went for a ride,” he said. “Each boy a fist bump. was on their own individual motorcycle and the father was riding a four wheeler. They were going to go for a short ride that evening. They told everyone where they were going and which direction they were headed. While they were on the ride a big dust storm came through and it seems that when the dust storm subsided it got them COURTESY TOOELE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE turned around.” Search and Rescue volunteers prepare to look for a lost father and his two sons in the Knolls The father and two boys headed back Recreation Area in Tooele County on May 13. to where they thought their camp was, which ended up being the wrong direction, copter located the four-wheeler and two to locate them, because no one had any according to Wimmer. motorcycles. idea that they had gone that far,” Wimmer “Darkness was moving in on them and “The search and rescue team member said. so they didn’t make it back to camp that saw a set of tracks that looked like a four The father and sons abandoned their CLAYTON DUNN/TTB PHOTO evening. We got a call around 11 p.m. wheeler and two motorcycles, so they equipment because they ran out of fuel and Tooele Technical College graduates wait for the graduation ceremony saying that they went for a ride and they started tracking that the best they could the battery on the father’s cell phone died, to start of Thursday night. didn’t come back. The family was look- and yesterday afternoon about 2:30 or 3 so he wasn’t able to be tracked. ing for them and couldn’t find them,” said they found the machines. So, then they “The family feels blessed and we are Wimmer. put the search and rescue member down very fortunate to have had a good out- The sheriff’s department called in a on the ground and he started tracking the come,” Wimmer said. “They were exhaust- Department of Public Safety helicopter footprints leading away from the machines. ed and a little bit dehydrated, so we gave to search for the lost individuals but they There were three sets of footprints. Then, them water. All things considered; they were unsuccessful. the helicopter would pick the search and were pretty well prepared for the nature “They couldn’t locate them,” Wimmer rescue member up and they would fly until of their quick ride. They had some extra stated. “The night set in and we had no they couldn’t discern where the footprints water with them and some granola bars. idea where they were or where to look, were. They then put him back on the This probably gave them the energy to because the area where they were sup- ground and they would leapfrog and even- keep going and keep looking for camp. posed to be was searched pretty well, so tually they caught up to the father and two Obviously the longer a search goes on, the they ended up spending the night out lost.” sons walking.
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