L OCAL N EWS • P EOPLE • B USINESS • S CHOOLS • S PORTS • E VENTS See Inside DavisThe Clipper 75 cents THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017 Stoker School demolished The building was de- molished earlier this week in a multi-step process. TOM HARALDSEN, A1 Summerfest fun set to start JENNIFFER WARDELL, C1 Tour arrives in Davis The Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah will hit Bountiful tomorrow. TOM HARALDSEN, D1 Voted best weekly newspaper in Utah by Society of Professional Journalists INDEX Editorial - A6 Thrive - B1 Showcase - C1 Horizons - C3 Church - C4 Calendar - C5 Obituaries - C6 Sports - D1 WHAT’S GOING ON? Find out with the Clipper’s Calendar! Plan fun around town for the week ahead every Thursday. LIST YOUR 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., Bountiful. 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FOCUS (after you read it, of course) • Advocacy & Action for Roads & Highways • Safe Walking & Cycling for School & Active Transportation # • Effi cient, Effective City Council Meetings 23 • Local Business Support to Increase City Revenue Start a fi re • Mayor Offi ce Hours & Public Service Line with it. • Preservation of Kaysville’s Character LEADERSHIP • Kaysville Planning Commissioner Visits with property owners - Understands private property rights & Utah land use regulation - Updated Kaysville General Plan for growth • Kaysville-Farmington Active Transportation Plan Committee Plans safer walking and cycling in the city - Receives substantial citizen input and broad support • Kaysville Business Support Meetings with Staff Support Volunteers management experience for over 100 individuals from our local business community including group meetings and individual consults • Windridge Elementary School Community Council in Kaysville Developed understanding of educator/parent/student needs and concerns and how our Utah education system funding works • Citizens Police Academy Graduate, Davis County Gained insight and appreciation for our fi rst responders' challenges, processes and programs QUALIFICATIONS • B.S. Marriott School of Management, BYU • Nationally recognized as a Small Business Owner Entrepreneur • Master of Public Administration, U of U, Reed Clegg Fellowship (2018) • Supported husband in his service in the U.S. Air Force 1993-2000 • Resident of Kaysville for 21 years • Mother of 5 Davis Darts • Elected Republican State Delegate • Women's Leadership Institute Political Development Graduate As Mayor of Kaysville City, Lorene Kamalu will continue to listen, learn, work hard and put citizen interests fi rst. No single political party, business interest, industry, government agency or group should be more important than the voice of our residents in determining the future of our city. No customers? Thru Clipper No sales? Advertising! No becomes . Yes Celebrating 125 years as Davis County’s news source South Davis WHAT’S Recovery Club GOING The offers hope ON? Davis Clipper ON A6 75 cents VOL. 125 NO. 51 THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017 Find out with the Clipper’s Calendar! Plan fun around town for the week ahead every Thursday. END OF AN ERA LIST YOUR Demolition crews take EVENT. FREE! down Stoker School IT’S By TOM HARALDSEN [email protected] Email the details, including date, time, place, cost, etc. BOUNTIFUL—When city officials signed the con- to rjamieson@ tract with Mkp Enterprises on July 25 for the demoli- davisclipper.com, or bring the info to the Clipper tion of Stoker School, it gave the company until the office, 1370 S. 500 W., end of September to complete the project. The con- Bountiful. tractor wasted no time in getting started. VOTE LORENE KAMALU Deadline: Fridays, 4pm On Saturday, July 29, demolition efforts began at the school site, located on 100 East between 100 and Listings will be published FOR KAYSVILLE MAYOR at our discretion on a 200 South in Bountiful. By midday Tuesday, Aug. 1, by August 15 space-available basis. most of the school had been demolished, with dozens of residents stopping by to watch the backhoe chew Primary Election Day through the brick walls of the school. A large photo Useful things you lorenekamalu.com can do with today’s of a school class from 1929 had been taped to one of newspaper. the still standing walls on Monday evening. FOCUS (after you read it, Some of the debris had been loaded in trailers and hauled away by of course) Tuesday morning, and a large dirt pile sat on part of the school’s parking • Advocacy & Action for Roads & Highways lot. That dirt was expected to be moved before Friday’s Tour of Utah • Safe Walking & Cycling for School & Active Transportation cyclist race activities along Main Street. There will be no work done at # the site on either Thursday or Friday of this week, and the site will be • Effi cient, Effective City Council Meetings 23 surrounded by protective fencing. • Local Business Support to Increase City Revenue Start a fi re “It’s a sad day,” said Tom Tolman, a former city councilmember who • Mayor Offi ce Hours & Public Service Line with it. has been involved in preserving the city’s history. He watched the • Preservation of Kaysville’s Character demolition on Monday afternoon. His great grandfather helped build the school, he said. “If I went over to the cemetery right now, the earth would probably be uneven because he would be rolling over in his grave.” LEADERSHIP He spoke of his own years at the school and of an aunt who taught there. “Probably half of Bountiful went to school there,” he said. • Kaysville Planning Commissioner Bountiful City Manager Gary Hill said on Monday that he was Visits with property owners - Understands private property rights & surprised that the contractor was “as far along as they are at this point. Utah land use regulation - Updated Kaysville General Plan for growth The contract set up the parameters for the project, and I guess they • Kaysville-Farmington Active Transportation Plan Committee just decided to get started right away.” He said the Bountiful Historical Plans safer walking and cycling in the city - Receives substantial Society finished salvaging some items from the school, as did the city, citizen input and broad support before the demolition began. The contractor also had to finish asbestos • Kaysville Business Support Meetings with Staff Support mitigation and be cleared by the state before they could begin to knock Volunteers management experience for over 100 individuals from our down the walls. local business community including group meetings and individual consults City officials asked Mkp Enterprises to collect 10 pallets of bricks from Stoker, some to be reserved for a future monument of some kind that will • Windridge Elementary School Community Council in Kaysville be built as part of a proposed city plaza on the site, and the remainder to Developed understanding of educator/parent/student needs and be distributed by the historical society. A few residents who swung by concerns and how our Utah education system funding works also grabbed a brick or two as memorabilia from the school, which was • Citizens Police Academy Graduate, Davis County built in 1905. Gained insight and appreciation for our fi rst responders' challenges, Louise Shaw also contributed to this story processes and programs DEMOLITION OF STOKER SCHOOL progressed throughout the day on Monday, with QUALIFICATIONS photos taken, from top, at noon, 3 and 4 p.m. Crews were expected to finish knocking down the walls by Tuesday evening. The Davis Clipper will post a series of additonal • B.S. Marriott School of Management, BYU photos on our website. Photos by Tom Haraldsen and Louise R. Shaw | Davis Clipper • Nationally recognized as a Small Business Owner Entrepreneur • Master of Public Administration, U of U, Reed Clegg Fellowship (2018) • Supported husband in his service in the U.S. Air Force 1993-2000 • Resident of Kaysville for 21 years • Mother of 5 Davis Darts • Elected Republican State Delegate SilverEagle makes Major improvements underway • Women's Leadership Institute Political Development Graduate upgrades to be part along Farmington’s 650 West As Mayor of Kaysville City, Lorene Kamalu will continue to listen, learn, work hard and put citizen interests fi rst. No single political BY LOUISE R. SHAW party, business interest, industry, government agency or group of the solution [email protected] should be more important than the voice of our residents in determining the future of our city. BY BECKY GINOS [email protected] FARMINGTON-- Anyone needing WOODS CROSS—Residents in to access a home south Davis County have lamented near 650 West and over the presence of refineries in 500 South in Farm- the area for years. Concerns over ington would be air quality and community safety wise to go in a four- after an explosion rocked homes wheel drive. near one of the refineries several Major improvements are being made along the years ago have kept people on road between the new edge. Farmington High School The refineries are most likely here to stay but and Station Park, but SilverEagle is making a concerted effort to be they’re not coming without HEAVY EQUIPMENT FILLS 650 West north of Glovers Lane as a part of the solution rather than the problem. some major upheaval. new road, plus utility pipelines, curb and gutter are installed. “Our top goals are, safety, environmental Only southbound traffic compliance, operations reliability and energy is allowed on the stretch, Photo by Louise R. Shaw | Davis Clipper efficiency,” said Jerry Lockie, General Manager, and drivers must work Refining. “We completed an electrical infrastruc- around backhoes and road It will be done in two TIGER (Transportation ture upgrade this spring.