www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY TOOELE St. John RANSCRIPT + Shambip T + Johnson’s Creek + Clover = Rush Valley’s sesquicentennial See B1 BULLETIN February 28, 2006 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 112 NO. 80 50 cents City stymied in eminent domain plan for alleyway by Mark Watson STAFF WRITER A longtime feud between Tooele City and owners of property on Main Street is alive and well. In an effort to spruce up Tooele’s down- town, the city would like to purchase an alley- way at about 35 N. Main, but the land owners are refusing to sell. The small parcel of property and other buildings on Main Street are owned by the Bevan Estate, said Paul Bevan, who lives in Washington County. Bevan reeled off a long list of complaints against the city. A sign in one of his vacant buildings on Main Street urges people to close- ly follow the redevelopment money used by the city. His opinion is that the owners of downtown buildings should have more say in how the money is used in the downtown area. He says the city oftens diverts money targeted for downtown development to other projects in the city. Bevan has closed off the alleyway that runs from the west side of Main Street to a park- ing lot behind the buildings. “Keep Out” signs were also posted. One neighboring business manager said the closed-off alley has created access problems for utility companies. Managers of Lincare Home Medical, adjacent to the alleyway, said they plan to move when their lease is up. They photography / Troy Boman like the location, but said they are having some Emotionally and physically drained, the Tooele High School Buffs gather in the locker room after losing 40-29 to Judge Memorial in the state championship game access problems for deliveries. Saturday night in Ogden. The Buffs dedicated the season to their late coach Gary Alverson who led last year’s team to the school’s first state title. Managers of a Dish Satellite store to the south of the alleyway say they are having access problems as well because owners of Tears, triumphs mark team’s journey the parking lot have blocked some of the SEE ALLEY ON A3 by Nick Drake Unlike a year ago, this one didn’t all, the Tooele players had dedicated their “I’m so proud of you. I love you all. I’m SPORTS EDITOR have the fairytale ending Tooele hoped season to the team’s head coach, the late proud of every kid in this locker room. Tooele appeared poised Saturday for it would. Gary Alverson, who passed away Feb. 7 You guys never quit. You proved how another dramatic victory in Saturday’s The Bulldogs captured the prestigious after a year-long bout with cancer. much you learned from my husband, not Gay clubs, waste, Class 3A State Championship battle with state championship with a 40-29 triumph Coach Alverson’s wife, Lois, and assis- only in basketball but life’s lessons. You Judge Memorial. The game’s emotional over defending state champs Tooele. tant Coach Danny Medina summed it up paid the best kind of tribute to him by evolution bills charge reached a fever pitch as the team After Saturday’s game and disappoint- best for the tearful-ridden team. the way you have handled yourselves on played to win a second-straight state ing outcome, the entire Buff squad was “You are winners,” she stated in the championship. quite emotional in the locker room. After Buff locker room after the title game. SEE BUFFS ON A12 get veto threats by Jesse Fruhwirth STAFF WRITER Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. has E-Solutions threatened to veto numerous bills passed Warm Greeting by both Republican controlled cham- bers of the Legislature. The governor has helps clean threatened to veto bills regarding radioac- tive waste licenses, access to government records, evolution and gay clubs in high radioactive schools. At odds with the fundamentalist wing of his own party, Huntsman threatened water spill to veto two controversial bills sponsored by Mark Watson by Sen. Chris Buttars (R-West Jordan). Huntsman told the Deseret Morning STAFF WRITER News if Buttars’ bill attempting to ban State officials said any health Gay-Straight Alliance groups came to him threats from a spill of radioactive without significant amendments he would water in southern Utah were min- veto it. imal and the area is now clean. Buttars’ other high-profile bill, a law A tanker truck en route to an that would require science teachers to EnergySolutions disposal site in tell their students that there is no sci- Tooele County last week spilled entific agreement on the origins of life an estimated three gallons of con- was flayed then defeated in the House taminated water at a truck stop Monday. Huntsman had earlier threatened parking lot near Parowan. to veto that bill if it passed the House, but “The liquid was water with very perhaps under the pressure of needing low concentrations of radioactivi- a two-thirds majority to eventually put ty,” said Dave Finerfrock, director the bill into law, the House defeated the of the Utah Division of Radiation evolution bill. Control. “The ground has been Of local interest to Tooele County resi- decontaminated, back-filled and dents, Huntsman has also said he will the disturbed area restored.” make an effort to retain the stronghold “We are not responsible for he has on radioactive waste licenses in the material until it arrives at the state. Huntsman last year defied the our site in Tooele County,” said Legislature and the County Commission EnergySolutions spokesman that had both already approved the Mark Walker. “However, when we expansion of Envirocare, now known as were notified that this leak had EnergySolutions. occurred we did everything we photography / Troy Boman Under current law the governor’s rejec- could to assist them in getting it Chelsie Chadwick gets a warm greeting from her dog Fonzi Monday evening in Stansbury Park. Monday’s high hit 64 missing by tion of the license application cannot be cleaned up.” five degrees the record set in 1972. High winds took over last night and this morning with wind gusts up to 57 mph in Tooele. SEE SPILL ON A3 SEE VETO ON A2 WEATHER OPEN FORUM A4 HOMETOWN B1 INSIDE Rain and snow showers tonight. OBITUARIES A8 DOINGS B3 Grantsville super sport fans Partly cloudy Wednesday. Lows take center court at state final in the mid 30s Highs around 50 CROSSWORD A8 TV LISTINGS B6 See A2 Complete Forecast: A2 SPORTS A9 CLASSIFIEDS B8 A2 TUESDAY February 28, 2006 ETCETERA ... Grantsville super fans get accolades News Briefs ValleyLocal WeatherWeather Forecast by Mary Ruth Hammond Experts, community to discuss STAFF WRITER Wed earthquakes at free event 51/34 When it comes to supporting 3/1 The Utah Science Center’s young athletes, no one in Utah does “Science in Society” free public dia- Mostly sunny skies. High 51F. it better than Grantsville’s Grant Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph. logue series will present “The Shaky and Marjie Gundersen. Wasatch,” Thursday March 2, 2006 As proof of that statement, the from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. in the audi- couple was presented with the Utah High School Activities Association’s torium of the main downtown Salt Thu 53/36 Lake City Public Library, 210 East 3/2 (UHSAA) annual Utah Super Fan 400 South. Sunshine. Highs in the low 50s award during state basketball play- Scientists, emergency services and lows in the mid 30s. offs Friday night, Feb. 24, 2006. personnel and audience members The award was presented at the will discuss earthquakes and how Dee Events Center at Weber State University in Ogden during the they might affect us here in Utah, Fri 50/31 and beyond. The dialogue, which 3/3 Tooele/Dixie state basketball play- off game. is free and open to the public, will Showers. Highs in the low 50s and be audience-driven and will include lows in the low 30s. Nominated for the award by topics like: Grantsville High School Principal -- The science of large earth- Leon Jones, Grant and Marjie said quakes in Utah Sat they had no idea until a few weeks 43/29 ago that they would be honored -- When and how big will they 3/4 be? with a state award. A few snow showers. Highs in the “We were at a basketball game -- Can we predict or forecast low 40s and lows in the upper 20s. earthquakes? in Grantsville recently,” Marjie - Are we ready for a big one? said Monday. “During that game, “The Shaky Wasatch” is made Sun Principal Jones came up to us possible by support from TerraTek, 51/35 and presented Grant and me with 3/5 a Grantsville Cowboy blanket. He Inc., and Reaveley Engineers and photography / Troy Boman Times of sun and clouds. Highs in then told us we would be further Associates, Inc. Grantsville’s Grant and Marjie Gundersen were the recipients Friday night of Utah’s Super Fan Award. the low 50s and lows in the mid honored at the state playoffs.” The “Science in Society” pub- 30s. Presenting the award to the couple was Evan Excel, president of the Utah High School Athletic Association During half-time activities of lic dialogue series is sponsored bi- ©2005 American Profile Hometown Content (left) along with another UHSAA official. Grantsville High School Principal Leon Jones stands the Gundersons monthly by the Utah Science Center Service Friday’s game, the Gundersens as the couple waves to the hundreds of fans watching the state playoff games at Weber State University’s (www.utahsciencecenter.org).