www.tooeletranscript.com THURSDAY TOOELE RANSCRIPT Dentist: soda T pop at root of oral health woes locally and in Guatemala See B1 BULLETIN January 12, 2006 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 112 NO. 67 50 cents $168M comet dust speeds to Dugway Township by Karen Hunt rezoning STAFF WRITER When man first walked on the moon in 1969, it was a his- torical milestone. Since then fires up the space program has been a combination of successes and failures as subsequent voyages residents into the great unknown have resulted in more knowledge of by Alleen Lang outer space — and the world CORRESPONDENT we live in. A public hearing to change Tooele County played an zoning of an area of Pine Canyon important role in history when from 20-acre agricultural lots to the Genesis space project five acre residential lots brought crashed at Dugway Proving a large turnout to the Tooele Ground, the largest overland County Commissioners meeting air space in the nation. The Tuesday. project brought solar wind par- The Pine Canyon Township ticles back to earth September Planning Commission voted 4-1 2004. against recommending a change Although the capsule in the general plan and allow- crashed, most of the particles ing a zone change to allow RR- have been retrieved and are 5, said County Attorney Doug being analyzed in the Johnson Ahlstrom. The recommendation Space Center in Houston, was included in the record for Texas. the public hearing process. Early Sunday, the county Pine Canyon residents will once again be the focus of opposed to the proposal said international attention when the rezoning would change the the Stardust sample return open, rural feel they enjoy in capsule lands at Utah Test & their community. They also Training Range. voiced concerns about the com- Weather permitting, specta- munity’s ability to provide water tors in Wendover may observe and fire control for additional a black shape pass in front of homes. the moon. For 30 seconds, a While those in favor of the bright light like a comet will change said growth in Pine appear in the sky. Canyon was inevitable and the After seven years in space, proposed five-acre lots were the Stardust capsule carries preferable to high density resi- cometary and interstellar dust dential subdivisions, others said particles from comet Wild 2. they were loathed to tell prop- The particles collected Jan. 2, erty owners what they should 2004, are virtually unchanged photography / Troy Boman do with their land. Stardust’s principal investigator Dr. Donald Brownlee highlights a piece of aerogel with a laser at a press conference in Dugway Thursday morning. The unique “People in Pine Canyon don’t SEE STARDUST ON A2 lightweight gel — nicknamed “frozen smoke” — is the same material used in the approaching space capsule to capture interstellar dust. want that change,” said Lowell Shields, Pine Canyon resident. “We want to keep it open ground for horseback riding.” Carrie Palmer said she lives IRS changes threaten child tax credit for working poor in Pine Canyon because she pre- fers the rural atmosphere to a by Jesse Fruhwirth ents’ tax refunds became stuck in tax changes and risk falling into those that included Earned Income fully eligible for the return amount city subdivision, but added five- STAFF WRITER bureaucratic quicksand sometimes the same months-long quagmire of Credits, many of which turned out they had filed, while another 14 per- acre lots will allow residents For working but low-income for years because they are falsely correspondence with the Internal to be legitimate. Working parents cent were eligible for a portion of to “have all the animals they families who qualify for substantial suspected of fraud. Revenue Service. with low incomes who are eligible their claim. Over 26,000 cases were choose to have and still main- tax credits, tax time usually means Little-noticed changes to the In a presentation made to the for Earned Income Credits were fought all the way to the advocate’s tain a rural area. a big refund. federal tax code this year about Senate Monday, IRS National being unfairly targeted, according office while hundreds of thousands “I have a hard time telling Usually. who is eligible to claim a child Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson to Olson. more were settled or given up on people what they can do with A recent report by the federal as a dependent may cause many reported that a computer program Of the suspected cases that earlier. their property,” she added. government’s own taxpayer advo- more taxpayers to enter the same intended to catch fraudulent tax were brought to the advocate’s According to the advocate’s Another property owner, cate charges that hundreds of thou- nightmare. Unmarried couples with returns was casting too broad a office after having been rejected sands of low-income working par- children will face the most dramatic net. Claims being targeted were for months, nearly 66 percent were SEE TAXES ON A6 SEE REZONE ON A3 Teacher shortage sends New landfill closer, but costs about the same recruiters far from home by Mark Watson by Karen Hunt educational system is different STAFF WRITER here,” Ashby said. Even though Tooele County STAFF WRITER uses a new landfill within the Terry Christensen has trav- The remaining teacher, Isabel county near U.S. Magnesium, it eled as far as Spain to recruit Molina, is nearing completion has not reduced cost as much teachers to Tooele County of her third year in Wendover. as the county would like. School District. More com- “She’s done really well here,” “It costs us less in trans- monly, he recruits new teachers said Principal Parsons. “She’s portation because the new from the United States, particu- adapted and she’s a team play- landfill is closer, but their larly Utah, Colorado, Idaho and er, she does things kind of in tipping fees are higher than Montana. an old school way, very strict, they are in Price,” said David It’s a challenge to get certified very regimented and actually Lore, director for the county’s teachers in special education, that’s very good for her kids. I department of solid waste. Up math and science. The hardest try to give her a lot of [Spanish] until August, garbage taken at locations to fill include schools speaking kids and she does Bauer, about four miles south in Wendover and Dugway. fine.” of Tooele, was then shipped to The trip to Spain — funded Now is the busy time of year a dump in Carbon County. through the Utah State Office for recruiting, as graduates pre- Tipping fees in Carbon of Education — yielded three pare to enter the workforce. County are $2 per ton, but tip- teachers for Wendover. And “It’s very dynamic. I spend a ping fees at the new landfill in only one teacher from Spain lot of time on the road [recruit- Tooele County are $10 per ton. is still employed by the district. ing] and, whenever I find a lead Ironically, the two landfills are Dawn Ashby, originally on a college that’s putting out a run by the same company, of Tooele City, was hired to lot of graduates on something I Allied Waste. replace one of the recruits from specifically need, plan on going The landfill in the west des- Spain. Principal Kent Parsons there or send [brochures],” said ert takes nearly 700 tons of said the teacher from Spain Christensen, who works as the garbage a day from Salt Lake had difficulty disciplining the district’s human resource direc- County and the entire region. class, although he said Ashby tor. The county receives $1 per has done well. While Christensen wouldn’t photography / Troy Boman A new landfill has not reduced costs as much as county officials would like. The private landfill opened in “I think he just struggled with SEE LANDFILL ON A3 the whole system. The whole SEE RECRUITMENT ON A3 August and is approximately 15 miles north of I-80 near U.S. Magnesium. WEATHER OBITUARIES A6 DOINGS B3 INSIDE Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. CROSSWORD A6 JUST 4 KIDS B5 Tooele rolls to decisive Lows in the mid 20s. victory over Cowboys Highs in the mid 40s. SPORTS A8 TV LISTINGS B6, B7 See A8 Complete Forecast: A2 HOMETOWN B1 CLASSIFIEDS C2 A2 THURSDAY January 12, 2006 ETCETERA ... instance was the Genesis mis- Stardust sion in 2004. If something goes wrong — as Temps/Precipitation Valley Weather Forecast continued from page A1 Local Weather it did with the Genesis — a back- Date High Low (prec./inches) since the planets and sun formed up plan is in place. If conditions Jan. 10 41 22 Fri nearly 4.6 billion years ago. appear dangerous, the Stardust Jan. 11 55 31 trace 44/35 1/13 Scientists consider comets craft will not release the capsule. Intervals of clouds and sunshine. Ned Bevan, Tooele’s weather observer some of the most informative Then the craft will complete two High 44F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 for the National Weather Service, reports occupants of the solar system. mph. more rotations through space, that his recording station at 139 S. Main While the capsule Stardust went repositioning itself for another received a trace of precipitation between halfway to Jupiter to get the landing in approximately three Jan. 10 and Jan. 11 and a total of .43 so far this month. The normal for January is sample, the comet itself is from years. 1.07 inches. Sat 48/29 the edge of the solar system near But, NASA scientists say that’s For the water year, which began Oct.