TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S THURSDAY June 24, 2021 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 128 No. 8 $1.00 School board adopts $273 million budget district competitive with school School property tax rate will drop by 2.8% districts in Salt Lake County. The school board also adopt- TIM GILLIE 23.7% increase. ed the certified property tax EDITOR However, $50.,5 million of rate of .009296, which is down The Tooele County School the increase will come from 2.8% from the school district’s District Board of Education bonds approved in the 2020 0.009565 property tax rate adopted a budget for their election for new schools. included in the 2021 budget. 2022 year with a $52.6 mil- The budget includes a The certified rate is the tax lion increase in expenses, pay $2,000 annual salary increase rate that allows the school raises for employees, and no in the base pay for salaried district to collect the same tax increase. employees over the already amount of property tax they The school board adopted a negotiated $5,000 increase did in the previous year, plus budget for 2022 with $273.7 in the base pay, for a total property tax from new growth million in total expenses and increase of $7,000 in the base — meaning new houses and the certified property tax pay. A commensurate increase commercial buildings. rate during their meeting on is budgeted for hourly employ- If the school board had Tuesday night at the school ees. adopted a flat property tax district office. During the June 8 school rate by keeping the rate at The $273.7 million for 2022 board meeting, Tooele County 0,009565, the owner of a is $52.6 million over the pro- School Superintendent Scott $300,000 home would pay an FILE PHOTO jected $221.1 million in total Rogers said the salary increas- Students gather at Sterling Elementary School on a winter morning. The Tooele County School Board adopted a SEE BUDGET PAGE A8 ® expenses for 2021, which is a es was need to keep the school budget on Tuesday night and lowered their property tax rate to the new certified rate. Tooele City’s busy 4th of July CEILLY SUTTON place at the England Acres STAFF WRITER Park located at 880 N. 400 Tooele City will host sev- East. eral Fourth of July events, “We are retiring American including the Miss Tooele City flags that have served their pageant, a flag retirement purpose that are a little bat- ceremony, a Corvette show, tered or torn,” said Darwin movie night, and a new event Cook, parks and recreations from Friday to July 1. director at Tooele City. The celebration kicks During the year, individu- off on Friday evening with als have dropped old flags off another Fridays on Vine con- at the city hall in a box to be cert featuring Peter Breinholt, retired. an indie folk artist from Salt During the ceremony, 200 Lake City. to 250 American flags will Breinholt will be perform- be retired in an official cer- ing at 7 p.m. at the Aquatic emony. Center Park located at 200 W. Members of the public are Vine Street. welcome to bring flags to the On Saturday, the Miss event to be retired, according Tooele City Pageant will begin to Cook. at 7 p.m. in the Tooele High “We want this to be a sol- School auditorium located at emn event,” he said. A WELCOMED RAIN 301 W. Vine Street. Those who would like to On Monday at 7 p.m. a flag CLAYTON DUNN/TTB PHOTO retirement ceremony will take SEE 4TH PAGE A8 ® Tooele High School’s football field greens up after a well needed Thursday morning rain. Despite the rain, fire danger remains extremely high, according to fire officials. 3 grand marshals Firefighters for Grantsville July urge fireworks Fourth parade safety practices While still legal in some areas, firefighters 2 for 2021 and 1 from 2020 will recognized in for July 4th encourage no fireworks for July 4th CEILLY SUTTON STAFF WRITER CEILLY SUTTON STAFF WRITER Grantsville City Mayor Brent Because of the drought, risk for fires is high Marshall chose two grand mar- and fireworks are unsafe, according to firefight- shals for the Fourth of July cel- ers. ebration this year. “Fire danger is extreme right now,” said Along with the 2021 Grand Grantsville Fire Chief Travis Daniels. “With the Marshals, Grantsville’s parade will drought we have going on, you can never exercise also include the grand marshal too much caution. You really can’t be too careful.” selected for 2020, as the pandemic Shirley Johnston In Grantsville City there will only be a small altered plans for last year’s cel- area where fireworks are allowed, according to ebration. Hunsaker’s. Daniels. Marshall has chosen Teryl and Johnston was born on Sept. 3, “If you do plan to put fireworks off, have Diane Hunsaker as the grand mar- 1928 to Gilford and Amy Watson. water handy, fire extinguishers out, and a garden shals for this year. She grew up with an older half- hose out and ready to go,” Daniels said. “Always Last year, because of the pan- brother Gayle, and two younger follow safety rules and brace your fireworks demic, Shirley Johnston wasn’t sisters, Kerma and Helen, accord- up. Sometimes people light them off and the able to fulfill her duties as grand ing to Debra Allred, Johnson’s FILE PHOTO firework falls over and shoots fireworks into a marshal, so she will be recog- The state has issued a prohibition on fireworks on state owned lands and all nized this year along with the SEE PARADE PAGE A8 ® unincorporated private lands. Persons with a display operator license issued SEE FIREWORKS PAGE A8 ® by the state Fire Marshal’s Office and any required local permits are exempt. WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE BULLETIN BOARD B5 CLASSIFIEDS B7 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Clark Farm OBITUARIES A6 starts concerts See A2 72 82 84 88 90 93 95 61 57 55 57 61 63 66 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN THURSDAY June 24, 2021 First Clark Historic Farm concert on Saturday Linkletter who said he was Mustang Alley kicks off series retired and found a drummer and wanted to get together TIM GILLIE singer and Tom Majerus on the and jam. EDITOR drums. That turned into Mustang The Grantsville Clark “We play some Freddie Alley. Historic Farm starts their sum- Mercury along with Soggy Mustang Alley has played at mer concert series on Saturday Bottom Boys, Iron Butterfly the Honey Harvest Festival and at 7 p.m. with a local Utah and Johnny Cash,” Hearty the Tooele Arts in the past. band, Mustang Alley. said. “I hope people come out “We play recognizable music According to Hearty, he and that want to have a good that people love to dance and Linkletter used to play guitar time,” Hearty said. “Because sing to,” said Pat Hearty, the together 40 years ago at his that’s what we plan on doing.” band’s lead guitarist, who lives apartment until life took the The concert starts at 7 in Grantsville. two of them in different direc- pm. on June 19 at the Clark COURTESY MUSTANG ALLEY Along with Hearty, the tions. Historic Farm in Grantsville at ‘Mustang Ally’ will perform at Clark Historic Farm this weekend. The rock and country music band include (left to band includes John Linkletter About six years ago Hearty 392 W. Clark street. right) Pat Hearty, Tom Mageras, and John Linkletter. as rhythm guitar and lead said he got a call from [email protected] Rollover accident on Stockton man charged with I-80 causes death CEILLY SUTTON officer at the Utah Highway manslaughter in overdose death STAFF WRITER Patrol. An SUV rolled over The travel trailer began to CEILLY SUTTON to do a controlled buy of the neath the deceased female’s Upon Johnson’s deten- Interstate 80 resulting in one fishtail and sideswiped the STAFF WRITER drugs at the location. After body. The baggie had a black tion, officers searched him death and various injuries on trailer of an eastbound com- A female died as a result they entered the residence, substance in the immediate and found a white rock-like Tuesday. mercial vehicle, he said. of an overdose of heroin in they were told the person vicinity of where the victim substance and a black tar-like A silver Ford Excursion SUV The SUV and travel trailer Stockton earlier this month they were buying the drugs was found. Based on the offi- substance in his pocket. A pulling a 29-foot bumper pull began to “whip violently” and and the alleged drug dealer from was out of heroin and cer’s training and experience, presumptive test of the white travel trailer was traveling rotated into the center median has been charged with homi- was waiting for a restock, and they recognized the black rock-like substance proved it eastbound on I-80 near mile- where it rolled onto its top, cide. they left without buying the substance as heroin, accord- to be methamphetamine. The post 78, on Tuesday at approxi- according to Street. William Camacho heroin, according to the prob- ing to the probable cause black tar-like substance tested mately 8:11 p.m., according to The SUV contained 10 occu- Johhnson has been charged able cause statement. statement. positive for heroin. Johnson Nick Street, public information pants during the time of the in 3rd District Court with The probable cause state- Officers spoke with the was interviewed at the sta- crash, two adults and eight manslaughter, a second ment said that later that eve- deceased female’s mother tion, where he admitted to children.