Renovated Bible Baptist Church welcomes visitors See B2 TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S TUESDAY March 6, 2018 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 124 No. 80 $1.00 Big storm hits county High winds cause power outages and several crashes STEVE HOWE he said. STAFF WRITER Both directions on I-80 were temporar- A winter storm system blew into Tooele ily closed to light, high-profile vehicles County beginning Friday, causing a number and semis with empty trailers between of semitrailer crashes on Interstate 80 and Wendover and Lake Point due to high power outages affecting thousands of cus- winds beginning at 9:35 a.m., according to tomers. the Utah Department of Transportation. High winds on Friday caused four semi- Once snow finally arrived Saturday trailers to be blown over on I-80 in Tooele evening into Sunday morning, there were County, as well as a pickup truck towing a additional accidents on UHP patrolled trailer, according to Utah Highway Patrol roads, according to Judd. There were four Lt. Shawn Judd. The driver and a passenger in one of the semis suffered minor injuries, SEE STORM PAGE A2 ® FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO Strong winds ripped through Tooele on Friday leaving damage like this overturned shed on Stansbury Avenue. FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO Wind creates drifting snow underneath a bright sun in Tooele Valley near Erda. Snowfall in Tooele and Grantsville Mayor Winn explains exceeded the normal amount for February. details of city finances February weather brings Editor’s note: This is a follow-up story to last Thursday edition’s front-page story on Mayor Debbie Winn’s public town hall meeting on city finances and budget. The above-normal snowfall following story goes into more detail on the mayor’s PowerPoint presentation. But overall water year is still several inches below normal MARK WATSON STAFF WRITER MARK WATSON Total precipitation for the of 7.38 inches. Tooele City Mayor Debbie Winn pre- STAFF WRITER month measured at 1.21 inches Tooele City hit a high of 59 sented the basics of city finances to a Tooele City received 20.5 compared to normal precipita- degrees on Feb. 2, 8 and 9. The packed council chambers at City Hall inches of snow for February tion at 1.33 inches. coldest temperature for the last Wednesday as part of a Mayor and with more than half of that Total snowfall for the first month came on Feb. 21 when it Council Town Hall Meeting. amount falling Feb.18-19 with five months of the water year dropped to 5 degrees. “If I told you everything about the 13 inches of snow, according for Tooele stands at 39.5 inches Grantsville received 13.3 budget, we would not only be here all to Ned Bevan, local weather compared to normal snowfall of inches of snow for February night, but also all weekend,” Winn said. observer for the National 57.6 inches. compared to normal snowfall “The presentation will include some Weather Service. Total precipitation for of 7.5 inches, according to the FRANCIE AUDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO great things, but not all the details. It will The good news is normal the water year by the end of NWS. Grantsville received .81 Tooele Mayor Debbie Winn reviewed city financ- snowfall for February in Tooele February was 4.13 inches com- es for citizens who attended a town hall meeting SEE WINN PAGE A8 ® SEE WEATHER PAGE A8 ® on Wednesday. City is 14.1 inches. pared to normal precipitation SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE UV INDEX The Sun Rise Set WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Wednesday 6:54 a.m. 6:27 p.m. Thursday 6:52 a.m. 6:28 p.m. Friday 6:51 a.m. 6:29 p.m. Stansbury Park organizes Saturday 6:49 a.m. 6:30 p.m. Sunday 7:48 a.m. 7:31 p.m. Monday 7:46 a.m. 7:32 p.m. W Th F Sa Su M Tu Tuesday 7:44 a.m. 7:34 p.m. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ The Moon Rise Set free lake watchnumber, the greater the needtraining for eye and skin Wednesday none 10:22 a.m. protection. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Thursday 12:40 a.m. 10:59 a.m. Very High; 11+ Extreme Friday 1:36 a.m. 11:39 a.m. STEVE HOWE Utah Water Watch, a water looking to register for the class Saturday 2:29 a.m. 12:23 p.m. STAFF WRITER ALMANAC Sunday 4:18 a.m. 2:11 p.m. quality educationStatistics for and the week data ending March 5. can call 435-797-2580 or email Sun and areas of high Partly sunny, a shower Rain or snow showers Mostly cloudy with a Monday 5:03 a.m. 3:03 p.m. Partly sunny Sunny to partly cloudy Stansbury Park residents Partial sunshinecollection programTemperatures managed [email protected]. Tuesday 5:45 a.m. 3:58 p.m. clouds in the afternoon possible couple of showers interested in volunteering to by the UtahHigh/Low State Universitypast week Attendees 49/12 will learn about Last New First Full help monitor Stansbury Lake Water QualityNormal Extension. high/low past week monitoring 49/30 lake health, includ- 46 29 53 35 51 32 50 35 53 40 56 42 59 42 Average temp past week 31.7 can sign up for training this There willNormal be a average lake tempcare past week ing the39.7 collection and report- TOOELE COUNTY WEATHERThursday at the Stansbury strategy andDaily public Temperatures comment Highing ofLow water quality data. The Mar 9 Mar 17 Mar 24 Mar 31 Shown is Wednesday’s Park Clubhouse. meeting at 6 p.m., followed service agency is looking to ©2018; forecasts and graphics weather. Temperatures are provided by Wednesday’s highs and The free training, organized by the training which begins recruit at least five volunteers Wednesday night’s lows. by the Stansbury Park Service at 6:30 p.m. and is scheduled Agency, will be conducted by to run until 9:30 p.m. Anyone SEE LAKE PAGE A8 ® TTB FILE PHOTO Stansbury Lake is shown in early Summer of 2016. UTAH WEATHER Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Logan BULLETIN BOARD B5 Grouse 46/22 Wendover PrecipitationINSIDE (in inches) Creek 42/26 Knolls Clive WEATHER Lake Point CLASSIFIEDS B6 38/23 47/25 47/26 46/32 Ogden Stansbury Park All-County Boys School raises HOMETOWN B2 45/28 Erda 47/31 Basketball Team money for girl OBITUARIES A6/7 Vernal Grantsville 46/31 Pine Canyon Salt Lake City 46/23 48/32 38/27 0.31 0.48 0.31 0.34 2.61 3.48 See B1 battling cancer OPEN FORUM A4 Tooele 48/32 Bauer 46/29 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal 46/29 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D See A2 SPORTS B1 Provo Roosevelt 46/29 49/24 47/25 See Stockton Snowfall (in inches) Price complete 47/29 50/26 Nephi forecast Rush Valley 50/28 46/28 Ophir on A7 43/25 Delta Manti 43/25 53/28 4.4 4.4 43.9 Green River Last Month Season 59/29 Dugway Week to date to date Richfield Gold Hill 47/27 53/26 Moab 43/24 SNOWPACK Hanksville 57/30 Beaver 54/28 Vernon Tooele Valley-Vernon Creek Basin 51/25 Ibapah 45/25 46/27 Snow Water Equivalent as of 12 a.m. Monday Rocky Basin Mining Vernon Settlement Fork Creek Cedar City Blanding Snowcover 9.5 8.1 5.1 St. George 55/28 49/31 Average 17.2 15.1 8.5 64/38 Kanab 58/29 Eureka Percent of average 55% 54% 60% 40/24 Source: Utah Natural Resources Conservation Services A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN TUESDAY March 6, 2018 Jr. high students raise $4K in ‘penny war’ with teachers Money contributed to teacher with daughter fighting cancer TIM GILLIE off. The teachers also kissed a STAFF WRITER pig while greased up. Friday’s Clarke Johnsen Junior challenge was a burger bust, High School students raised with three teachers and the $4,000 in a one-week penny assistant principal each trying war for the family of one of the to eat 12 McDonald’s hamburg- school’s teachers whose daugh- ers. Tooele McDonald’s provid- ter is battling cancer. ed the burgers at a discount to One can for each the school for the challenge. teacher was placed in the The total raised in the first school’s library last week by day was $207. By the end the school’s student body of the week the total raised officers, according to Linda reached $4,000, according to Kirby, who along with Debbie Krista Sparks, Clarke Johnsen Hiteman, serve as the stu- Junior High School assistant dent body officer advisors for principal. CJJHS. “I figured with 800 students, “Students, as well as teach- if we averaged $2 per student, ers and parents, could place or $1,600, that would be doing pennies or other coins or pretty good,” Sparks said. bills in a teacher’s can,” Kirby The total jumped partly due said. “At the end of the day, to bidding wars by teachers. the money in each can was Also, parents called in and counted with pennies counting wanted to make donations to ‘for’ the teacher and bills or the cause, according to Sparks. silver coins counting ‘against’ The money raised was the teacher.” donated to the family of CJJHS The teacher with the most science teacher Tai Lauti.