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L OCAL N EWS • P EOPLE • B USINESS • S CHOOLS • S PORTS • E VENTS See Inside DavisThe Clipper 75 cents THURSDAY MARCH 10, 2016 WX makes semi-finals TOM HARALDSEN, D1 Providing help to vets Continue Mission assists veterans in transition at home. BECKY GINOS, C3 Counselors ready in crisis School district team prepared to help at schools. LOUISE R. SHAW, C5 INDEX Opinion - A3 Showcase - B1 Calendar - B2 Davis Life - C1 Horizons - C3 Church - C4 Obituaries - C5 Sports - D1 Davis Chamber of Commerce recipient for the 2014 Small Business of the Year Award. Useful things you can do with today’s newspaper. (after you read it, of course) #18 Emergency toilet paper. WHAT’S GOING ON? Find out with the Clipper’s Calendar! Plan fun around town for the week ahead every Thursday. LIST YOUR Like what you see? EVENT. IT’S FREE! Email the details, including date, time, place, cost, etc. to rjamieson@ davisclipper.com, or bring the info to the Clipper office, 1370 S. 500 W., Share articles online by visiting ... Bountiful. Deadline: Fridays, 4pm davisclipper.com Find us wherever you go! Listings will be published at our discretion on a www.davisclipper.com space-available basis. THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN! DavisThe Clipper BEST O F D A V I S Coming March 24th DavisThe Clipper Celebrating 125 years as Davis County’s news source Useful things you can Celebrating 125 years as Davis County’s news source Competitions in do with today’s robotics, debate newspaper. The add to education (after you read it, of course) ON C1 # Davis Clipper 18 75 cents VOL. 124 NO. 54 THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2016 Emergency toilet paper. DOWNTOWN BOUNTIFUL Major redevelopment project planned By TOM HARALDSEN [email protected] BOUNTIFUL—For years, Bountiful City leaders have been HAT’S working on projects to rejuvenate W and reenergize the city’s Main GOING Street corridor. Now, they are set to proceed with the next phase of ON? redevelopment. Merchants in downtown Bountiful as well Find out with as members of the city’s historic commission were told of plans to construct a new city hall the Clipper’s and plaza at the site of Stoker School. The Calendar! school, which was built in 1905 and closed by the Davis School District in 1983, is owned by Plan fun around the city and currently leased to the University town for the week of Utah for its Davis County extension. The ahead every new plaza will be located between Main Street Thursday. and 100 East, and between 100 and 250 South. “This project is a perfect part of our plan for downtown,” Mayor Randy Lewis said. YOUR “When we look downtown, we see a place LIST Like what you see? where we’ve had great success with our EVENT. redevelopment in the past, and where we will have more success with this new city center. ’S FREE! It’s like with the Bountiful Davis Arts Center IT (opened last year). You know it’s going to be great, and it’s even greater than you thought.” Email the details, including He cited the increase of activity on Main date, time, place, cost, etc. Street in recent years, with the opening of the to rjamieson@ BDAC, new shops and eateries that have been davisclipper.com, or bring added, the Bountiful History Museum that is the info to the Clipper being developed on the roadway, and myriad office, 1370 S. 500 W., Share articles online by visiting ... activities such as Summerfest and the Tour of Bountiful. Utah that have come to the downtown sector. Lewis said city officials have been studying Deadline: Fridays, 4pm davisclipper.com Find us wherever you go! the options of renovating or replacing the Listings will be published existing city hall for several years. at our discretion on a “We’ve taken the time to evaluate this www.davisclipper.com building, to see what it would take to make space-available basis. it more functional and efficient. Even if we were to invest in making some of the changes necessary—at a cost of $4 to 6 million—it would still not be in the ideal location and would not be ADA functional.” THE NEW CITY HALL PLAZA will be located between 100 East and Main Street, running from 100 South to about 250 South. Bountiful leaders are hosting an open house on March 23 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. for residents to get a closer look at the project. Courtesy photo THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN! n See “DOWNTOWN” p. A4 The Monitoring bill on governor’s desk BY BECKY GINOS Barrus brought it to me after for residents’ rights. “Our concern [email protected] experiencing a family matter,” Hawkes is that some residents might feel said. “He laid a lot of the groundwork pressure to have it (monitor) when lipper for the legislation.” they don’t want it,” she said. “They DavisC Hawkes said the bill went through a can have an ombudsman come in SALT LAKE CITY—It’s few changes before it passed through to mediate. That’s what they do. We never easy to place a loved both the House and Senate. “We made just want the resident and family to some amendments to the bill after communicate. We’re just advocating one in assisted living care, meeting with a senior ombudsman against a potential conflict but they but some family members and heard concerns raised by the have added some things to the bill to industry,” he said. “We don’t want to address this.” believe a monitoring device take rights away from the residents Hawkes said the device is not a in the room could ease their or family. The resident and a legal “nanny cam” that is connected to representative must consent in writing the Internet that could potentially be concerns. (to the device) unless the resident is hacked. “It records to a hard drive Rep. Timothy Hawkes, R-Centerville incapable of informed consent. We or memory stick,” he said. “The ran HB124 this session that would don’t want the resident to feel bullied.” purpose is to have a deterrent effect. REP. TIMOTHY HAWKES (left) talks with a colleague. He is allow for monitoring devices to Kristy Cottrell, division director A facility can post a notice that the pursuing legislation to help families monitor senior care. be installed in a resident’s room if of Davis County Health Department room is being recorded. It might help Photo by Louise R. Shaw/Davis Clipper desired. Family Health & Senior Services said BEST “Former representative Roger their main concern with the bill was n See “BILL” p. A4 O F D A V I S Shuttle between Lagoon, DAYLIGHT Station Park set to expand SAVING TIME BY LOUISE R. SHAW 75 percent of the cost and the city [email protected] and its partners pay the rest. Currently, the remaining 25 percent is split between Lagoon, Coming FARMINGTON— Station Park, Hampton Inn and Farmington. Shuttle service between This year, a partial year Lagoon and the Front- with eight months of service Runner stop at Station remaining, the city’s portion March 24th would total $40,276. Park will soon expand to The service connects the • Don’t forget to set clocks include more stops and east and west side of the city, to “spring ahead” this according to Millheim, something Sunday, March 13. year-round service. that’s necessary due to the • The time officially The At their March 1 meeting, hazards of crossing Park Lane. changes at 2 a.m. members of the Farmington City City residents are working to • Most digital devices are Council voted unanimously to get a pedestrian and bike lane updated automatically. support the city’s portion of the built to allow safe passage, but no A UTA SHUTTLE between east and west Farmington will add stops, extend season. increased cost to broaden the one knows when that’s going to be Photo by Louise R. Shaw/Davis Clipper • It’s also a good time to Davis Clipper shuttle schedule. completed, he said. change batteries on your The UTA shuttle service has “While we get that resolved, we FrontRunner schedule. the council. smoke alarm or make sure been operating over the summer need a way for people to safely get “It doesn’t do any good to have Millheim anticipates the shuttle carbon-monoxide detectors Celebrating 125 years as Davis County’s news source months at no cost to the public across,” he said. the buses going in a circle if they are working properly. for years, according to Dave The service runs every don’t meet the schedule,” he told Millheim, city manager. UTA pays 30 minutes and is tied to the n See “SHUTTLE” p. A4 A2 CRIME BRIEFS/NEWS CLIPPER • THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2016 CRIME BRIEFS IRS offering low-income clinic grants Compiled by Becky Ginos The Internal Revenue Service has grants of up to $100,000 per year to Examples of qualifying organizations Police say Bountiful man accused of rape announced it will accept applications qualifying organizations to develop, include: for a part-year Low Income Taxpayer expand or continue low income • Clinical programs at accredited may have other victims Clinic (LITC) matching grant from taxpayer clinics. The LITC program law, business or accounting schools UNITAH—Another victim has come forward to accuse qualified organizations, in certain funds organizations to represent whose students represent low in- Ryan Meloni, a 20-year-old Bountiful man of rape. identified geographic areas, such as low-income taxpayers who have a come taxpayers in tax disputes with Meloni was arrested in January after he allegedly left Utah, to provide representation to tax controversy with the IRS and the IRS; a party with two girls and dropped one off at her home, low income taxpayers and education to educate individuals who speak • Organizations exempt from tax but then assaulted the other girl by his about taxpayer rights and respon- English as a second language (ESL) under Internal Revenue Code Sec- vehicle and left her on the side of the sibilities to individuals who speak about their rights and responsibili- tion 501(a) whose employees and road, according to court documents.