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[] | 2016-08-30T20:51:46 | null | null | Workers could take job action as early as Thursday -- right before the Labour Day long weekend. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fnews%2F391776381.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/3630vicnewsEmpressWikipedia.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Empress Hotel workers give 72-hour strike notice | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Unionized workers at the Empress Hotel gave 72-hour notice of job action on Tuesday morning, right before the Labour Day long weekend.
The earliest a strike could begin is Thursday morning if a deal cannot be reached.
“The ‘new’ Empress has a dirty secret: the renovations have led to harm and stress on the people who work there,” Stu Shields with Unifor said in a statement.
He said staff are being forced to work overtime because they aren’t enough people on shift. Some have worked 60 days straight.
The hotel announced its renovation plans earlier this year, including in the popular Bengal Lounge.
“The renovations are incomplete if the staffing levels remain stuck in the past,” Shields said.
Uniform Local 4276 represents nearly 500 workers at the Empress, including those in housekeeping, groundskeeping, serving, engineering and guest relations.
More to come. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/391776381.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/538e157b771920a2ff9549009656dc13e523153b453f86e6e88fa97238cda324.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:56 | null | null | What we don’t need is yet another distraction or something that obstructs the field of view. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F382412251.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: How about nothing in roundabout centre? | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Whoa now!
The News-Mirror’s on-the-street interview asked what should be put in the middle of the roundabout, and we get everything from a statue to a clock tower to a lighthouse.
How about nothing?
It is evident to everybody who uses the roundabout regularly that it is already tight to navigate, too small in diameter, and is confusing the dickens out of too many drivers
What we don’t need is yet another distraction or something that obstructs the field of view.
So forget about it – grow a few flowers instead, as Highway14 traffic is only going to get worse in the coming years.
Andy Neimers, Sooke | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/opinion/letters/382412251.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/6c0c792560a2a2d292926f3a16b74c9a5644462b0e600cba293f1b038c922ac0.json |
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"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:16 | null | null | Premier Christy Clark isn't going into next year's election with a promise to jack up Canada's only significant carbon tax | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fopinion%2F391051701.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/42735BCLN2007ClarkPolakNissanLeaf7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | BC VIEWS: B.C. fails to save the planet | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Premier Christy Clark and Environment Minister Mary Polak plug in an electric car at an announcement of the government's latest climate change plan in Richmond Aug. 19.
A B.C. Liberal operative was out with the online spin hours before Premier Christy Clark confirmed the much-leaked news in a Friday afternoon announcement at an obscure location in Richmond.
The, er, freeze is continuing for B.C.’s ground-breaking, world-saving carbon tax, which hasn’t changed since before Clark was elected in 2013.
The spin was Olympic-themed, with a picture labeled to show B.C. as a swimmer far out in the lead in the pool, to symbolize that it’s the other provinces that need to catch up in the race to save the planet.
Clark has been saying that for years, and there is merit to it. Even without a tax on “process emissions” such as from cement kilns, B.C.’s carbon tax encourages imports of non-taxed cement from the U.S. and China.
Alberta business professor Andrew Leach, who advised the Stephen Harper and then Rachel Notley governments on greenhouse gas policies, summed up the problem this way.
“Until the rest of the world has policies that impose similar cost, you’re not actually reducing emissions to the extent you think,” Leach said. “You’re just displacing the emissions and the economic activity to other jurisdictions.”
Alberta is moving to join B.C. with a modest carbon tax, but the NDP government plans to spend the proceeds rather than return them in income tax as B.C. has done. And Washington state and most of the rest of the world have no carbon tax as such, so their businesses benefit from B.C.’s “climate leadership.”
B.C.’s foreign-funded eco-radical community was, needless to say, appalled. The Pembina Institute’s Matt Horne and career protesters Tzeporah Berman and Merran Smith were named to the premier’s advisory committee last year, along with business, academic and aboriginal representatives.
They concluded that increases to B.C.’s broad-based tax on carbon fuels should resume its upward march in 2018.
Other committee members, including the mayors of Surrey, Comox and Burns Lake, were not heard from. Public discussion on this issue is now reduced to a staged conflict between those who demand a holy war on deadly carbon dioxide “pollution,” and those who don’t care if their grandchildren perish in a hell-fire of fossil fuel use.
We’ve just come off another El Nino year, like the hot year of 1998. Regular readers will recall the last time I discussed this topic was this spring, where I questioned the premier’s dire warnings of another horrendous forest fire season.
What followed has been one of the slowest forest fire seasons in the last decade, although dry conditions have finally emerged this month. Climate predictions, like next week’s weather forecast, are less than consistent.
I am regularly sent messages calling me a “climate change denier,” the nonsense term that continues to be used by federal Environment Minister Catharine McKenna among many others. I know of no one who denies that climate is always changing, at times dramatically.
If you wish to believe that paying an extra seven cents a litre for gasoline in B.C. is helping to slow the very gradual increase in temperatures we’re seeing in the northern hemisphere, you are free to do so.
You may even be persuaded to take a government subsidy and buy an expensive, short-range electric car. Me, I’m off to Prince Rupert and Revelstoke pretty soon, so I’ll stick with my little four-cylinder gas sipper for now.
Hydro-powered B.C. represents a small fraction of the less than two per cent Canada contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions. We’re not the problem, and no, the world is not looking to us for guidance.
Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca Twitter: @tomfletcherbc | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/opinion/391051701.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/ec74c4e44ad3358ab53340e3da53ffba64bec191e3fcececfbc4988b755b3717.json |
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"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:54 | null | 2014-02-04T00:00:00 | Guns intercepted at Pacific region border crossings up 116 per cent compared to this time last year | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fnews%2F391214101.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/12413BCLN2007Gunsabb-HuntingtonCBSA2014-2.4.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | U.S. border gun seizures double | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Guns seized from visitors entering Canada at the Huntington-Abbotsford border crossing, 2014.
Canadian Border Services Agency has seen a 116 per cent increase in the number of firearms seized in the Pacific Region in the first half of 2016.
With a 10 per cent increase also recorded in the Prairie region, the CBSA is working with U.S. officials on a firearms awareness campaign to remind Americans about restrictions on bringing guns into Canada.
"Attempting to smuggle firearms across the border can result in immediate forfeiture, hefty fines and even significant jail time," said Kim Scoville, CBSA's regional director general for the Prairie region.
Visitors entering the border inspection line should declare any firearms at their first opportunity. Border services officers will take possession of the weapon if it is declared, but the visitor has the option of shipping it back under CBSA supervision or surrendering it without prosecution.
The RCMP has procedures for visitors bringing firearms into Canada | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/391214101.html | en | 2014-02-04T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/3184890bc9aad28e7c2ba0e3c88a6c92659c5f98e0cd9ba84a93c9a07f68aed1.json |
[
"Octavian Lacatusu"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:44 | null | null | Consumers must understand the most important difference of all: in a strata, you’re all in it together. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fnews%2F391225201.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Strata ownership not for everyone, warns advocacy group | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | As housing prices in B.C. continue to climb, prospective owners look to cheaper alternatives, such as a strata, for their new home. But before signing a sales contract, there are a few things to consider, warns an advocacy group.
At nearly half the price of a single home, strata developments have sprouted up throughout the province.
But there is a difference between owning a strata and a single-family home, says Sandy Wagner, president of the Vancouver Island Strata Owners Association, noting that consumers must first understand the most important difference of all: in a strata, you’re all in it together.
“If it’s your own home and your roof is leaking, or your basement is flooding, it doesn’t affect anyone else but you. In a strata, it affects everybody, and everybody’s in it together,” she says.
Wagner suggests to ask for several years worth of strata council meeting minutes to get a better idea of any ongoing or upcoming issues or repairs that new owners would be subject to.
“It’s not required by law to supply those to prospective purchasers. They have to know to ask for them,” she says, adding some owners feel blindsided by certain issues in the strata that would otherwise been known if they had read the minutes beforehand.
A strata purchaser is also entitled to a document called a Form B, which has all the rules and a copy of all the financial statements, about parking assignments, planned special levies, strata fees and if there’s any debt for the strata lot.
This includes a depreciation report, which shows a 30-year projection of expenses for the large part of the complex, such as the roof, the structure and the boiler.
Strata council meeting minutes also highlight recent projects or issues the strata is dealing with.
The rules are also different from the bylaws set by the strata.
“The bylaws may say that the owners are responsible for repairing their own patios, or it can say that the strata corporation is responsible for that,” Wagner says, adding that it varies from strata to strata.
It’s certainly a lot to watch out for though, such as in the case of owners of a strata on Townsend Road in Sooke, who have to collectively pay thousands of dollars to rectify a poor drainage system that floods their backyards in fall and winter. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/391225201.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/a02545dec822b26d8cbc8e358d80e52566a666164d7b59325510570979bb4469.json |
[
"Rick Stiebel"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:58 | null | null | I still haven’t played a video game since the invention of Pong in 1972 | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fopinion%2F390721231.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | RICKTER SCALE: Thanks for the memory | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Riverside four, one oh, seven seven.
That was my home phone number that I memorized somewhere around the age of six while growing up in Ville St. Laurent, a suburb of sprawling subdivisions just outside Montreal, ironically far removed from any view of a river.
By the time I turned 10, there were probably a dozen phone numbers tucked away in my memory banks; mostly a collection of frequently called friends.
The total mushroomed through my teens and early working years to include work-related numbers, family members no longer living at home, Mike’s Submarines and a couple of pizza joints that delivered the Montreal version of all dressed; pepperoni, mushrooms and green peppers.
A period of dealing or living with dealers spared the need to commit their phone numbers to memory and improved my math skills during the metric shift from pounds and ounces to kilos and grams.
When I moved to B.C. in 1974, I had, conservatively, 50 numbers that didn’t require a peak at a five-pound phone book.
Since the dawn of the iPhone, you would have a difficult time rounding up a handful of twenty-somethings who can rattle off three of the numbers they dial up every day without checking a screen.
Whether that’s a reflection of the age we live in or the product of a tidal shift in education is open for debate.
It is, however, eerily similar to the shrinking skill set that prevents most young people from performing the most basic math without a calculator. Test that with anyone under 20 the next time you’re at the checkout.
If your total is $16.40 and you want a five dollar bill instead of a fistful of change, hand over a twenty dollar bill with a loonie, quarter, nickel and dime and let the games begin.
If it sounds like I’m bashing technology, it’s because I’m the Fred Flintstone of the computer age, a self-inflicted moniker I earned in 1990, the only one in my journalism class who had never worked on a computer.
Still unable to comfortably embrace the technological marvels at our fingertips, I take a grudging, halfhearted hug approach because the machinery senses my fear each time I need to learn a new task.
Despite that, I managed to carve out a semi-successful career as a reporter by learning only what was absolutely necessary, and I take a perverse pride in not owning a cellphone, much to the disbelief of my friends.
I still haven’t played a video game since the invention of Pong in 1972, when I retired as undisputed champion at Friar’s Pub on Crescent Street where I worked as a cook, another point of misplaced self esteem.
While I admit I’m embarrassed by my techno no how, I can at least take some comfort in simple memory and math functions that are increasingly beyond the reach of a much younger computer savvy generation.
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Rick Stiebel is a Sooke resident. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/opinion/390721231.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/ace5e65994c26fa22336143b68185c21fad3cd829fef11359a9b5630cb0b659f.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T22:50:22 | null | null | The foundation has joined with more than two dozen Greater Victoria attractions to offer free admission, parking and perks on Sept. 1. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fcommunity%2F391214001.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Victoria Foundation marks 80th anniversary with special gift | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | To celebrate its 80th anniversary, the Victoria Foundation is giving you a gift.
The foundation has joined with more than two dozen Greater Victoria attractions to offer free admission, parking and perks on Sept. 17, including Sooke Region Museum and Sooke Potholes. Among the other attractions are Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Robert Bateman Centre, Craigdarroch Castle, Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard National Historic Site, Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea and B.C. Aviation Museum.
For more information and a full list of attractions, please go online to victoriafoundation.bc.ca/VFDAY. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/community/391214001.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/e0a12bcc4276f69aa716cc8bda3f4f13fb3e297d61cafc67777f00f58ae70371.json |
[
"Kevin Laird"
] | 2016-08-26T13:04:44 | null | null | The students will travel to Sooke and stay for a full school year or as little as a few weeks | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fcommunity%2F391345861.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/69521sookeN1608P21001C.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | 47 international students to call Sooke home | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Edward Milne Community School will be home to 47 international students this year.
Edward Milne Community School will be home to 47 international students this year.
The students will travel to Sooke and stay for a full school year or as little as a few weeks, coming from China, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Japan, Korea and Switzerland.
Enrolment in the international program at EMCS expanded this year and has been increasing over the last three years, said Nancy Blundell, manager of Sooke School District’s Homestay program.
The increase is due mainly to a partnership the district has with a private school in China.
“There are two or three reasons why students come here. Number 1 is to get their English levels up for university. Students from Europe usually come here for the experience of a different culture, while other students come for English to get work back in their home country,” Blundell said.
International students pay $12,000 a year for public education in B.C.
Students are housed in the community.
The Homestay program is looking for families to host students. Each student pays $800 a month.
“The role of the Homestay parent is critical to the student’s academic success,” Blundell said.
“The Homestay parent’s role requires curiosity, patience, good humour and understanding, not to mention a considerable amount of energy.”
Homestay parents must provide a bedroom, food, transportation and opportunities for the student to participate in family activities.
For more information, please email homestay@sd62.bc.ca. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/community/391345861.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/b2a9f9239d616db0c3b61c0477cdee95e68c3f3937313df9fa8f8e154450087e.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:32 | null | null | Small communities have more than 400 doctor vacancies, with 'telehealth' and visiting specialists filling gaps | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Flifestyles%2F385489111.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/32759BCLN2007Kelly-Doug15-2.4.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Video links grow as rural health care shrinks | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Doug Kelly, chair of the B.C. First Nations Health Council
With patients in urban areas having difficulty finding a family doctor, the situation in rural B.C. is going from bad to worse, MLAs on the province's health committee were told Monday.
Ed Staples, a member of the B.C. Health Coalition, described his efforts to improve the situation in Princeton, a community of about 5,000 people that four years ago was down to one doctor providing on-call service.
Princeton now has four full-time doctors and two nurse practitioners, but there are still people who can't find a doctor in the region, including Penticton an hour and a half away. A recent search of the College of Physicians and Surgeons website turned up the nearest doctor accepting patients in Courtney on Vancouver Island, Staples said.
Health Match BC, the province's web portal for recruiting doctors, nurses and other health professionals, currently has more than 400 general practitioner vacancies, with 37 communities seeking 85 doctors. The result is "bidding wars" between communities to offer incentives to relocating doctors, and foreign doctors using a rural community as an entry point before relocating to the Lower Mainland, he said.
The B.C. government has announced its latest videoconferencing service for health care, linking psychiatrists with young people in Cranbrook. The service is available twice a month at the local Children and Family Development office, supplementing visits by specialists in communities such as Cranbrook and Princeton. Health Minister Terry Lake says video conferencing and electronic health records are a key part of the solution for reaching patients across B.C.
Doug Kelly, chair of the B.C. First Nations Health Council, told the committee of an Abbotsford doctor who travels to Carrier Sekani territory around Prince George for part of his practice, in a pilot project with Northern Health.
Kelly said video links and nurse practitioners are part of the solution to delivering rural and remote care, but the main obstacle is the business model for doctors that has them cycling through as many as 20 patients an hour to bill enough to cover their office overhead.
Committee members were also reminded that graduating doctors are increasingly reluctant to take on the demands of family practice, especially in smaller communities where they may find themselves on call around the clock. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/lifestyles/385489111.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/ed1ce168020cc686a2edc72e377ac3932086587e5ba3fc575cc9435e7923ecb6.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:38 | null | null | Representative of Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation says it doesn't support efforts to stop oil and gas development | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F388602211.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/64474BCLN2007DonnyWesleyjrLelu7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: U.S. foundations protecting salmon | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Re: Tree spikers cling to Lelu Island (B.C. Views, July 20).
Tom Fletcher seems to believe protecting salmon is not only bad, but dishonest. He suggests it’s an effort to cover up an international plot to kill B.C.’s oil and gas opportunities and Alberta’s oilsands.
His column falsely asserts that, along with other groups, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has “poured money into anti-LNG campaigns in B.C., as they funded opposition to oilsands development before them. Indeed, the record suggests the long project to establish what environmental front groups named the Great Bear Rainforest was a strategy to stop hydrocarbon exports from western Canada, even as U.S. sources ramped up production.”
The foundation’s Wild Salmon Ecosystems Initiative supports groups working to ensure that all factors – social, environmental and economic – are fairly respected in development decisions. It does not fund efforts to stop oil and gas development.
Salmon support a huge economy that provides jobs, social and cultural benefits. And, in British Columbia, unlike many other parts of North America, we still have a chance to keep most salmon watersheds intact. This is why the foundation supports the efforts of communities to protect these fish. This means ensuring that scientific evidence is fully addressed in project development, including siting decisions.
We are proud supporters of the Great Bear Rainforest, not because we are “anti” anything else, but because this is a unique region. Like the Amazon and the Great Barrier Reef, it is recognized by experts around the globe as one of the planet’s most important and unique natural wonders.
It is a region that deserved to be protected on its own merits – a fact so clear that federal, provincial and First Nation governments came together with industry and environmental groups to ensure it would be. To portray this impressive collaboration as an anti-oil and gas does a disservice to the broad array of Canadians and First Nations that prioritized its preservation.
The Moore Foundation supported this as part of our commitment to assist groups that seek to protect wild salmon habitats along the West Coast. People, issues, organizations and funds cross the Canada-U.S. border all the time. There isn’t anything unusual about Canadian environmental groups requesting and receiving donations from international foundations that share the same environmental goals.
Ivan Thompson, B.C. Program Officer, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Vancouver | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/opinion/letters/388602211.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/3743cb6596e4a7a531694ec176f0addcfd78fd7d1d44154e9cbdd11b2ccc9a62.json |
[
"Jeff Nagel"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:51 | null | null | $60 a year increase for most drivers once optional auto insurance increase is included | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fnews%2F391304001.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/52753BCLN2007CarcrashLangleyfile.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | ICBC seeks 4.9 per cent basic rate hike as crashes, costs climb | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | ICBC wants to increase basic auto insurance rates by 4.9 per cent – the fifth straight annual increase – as it continues to grapple with rising numbers of crashes, claims and dramatically increasing costs.
The typical driver will pay $3.50 a month or $42 a year more for basic insurance if the hike is approved.
But the corporation is also raising optional rates by 2.8 per cent so the average customer who buys both basic and optional insurance with ICBC will see their insurance bill rise $5 a month, or $60 a year.
ICBC CEO Mark Blucher said the basic rate hike would have been much worse – 15.5 per cent translating into a $130 annual premium increase – had the province not approved another major transfer of $472 million from the optional to the basic side of operations.
A compounding factor has been the long decline of interest rates, which result in less investment income revenue to ICBC.
"These external pressures have really created a perfect storm and it's a really significant challenge for the organization," Blucher said in an interview Thursday.
ICBC had raised rates 5.5 per cent a year ago, and the province's rate smoothing policy requires the annual change be within 1.5 per cent of the previous year's increase.
The number of crashes has climbed 15 per cent in two years and damage claims are up 11 per cent.
Vehicles are increasingly reliant on technology and expensive materials that have become more costly in recent years as the loonie sagged against the U.S. dollar.
Despite much safer vehicles, injury claims have soared to $2.4 billion, up 60 per cent from $1.5 billion in 2008.
"We've seen no evidence that these strong trends are abating," Blucher said. "In fact, if anything, they're continuing to escalate going forward."
Blucher also noted there are more cars on the road in B.C. today – 3.1 million up from 2.8 million in 2011 – and people are driving more because of cheaper gas, contributing to more accidents, particularly in densifying urban areas.
And he pointed to personal injury lawyers as an aggravating cause of ICBC's spiralling claims costs.
"B.C. is the only province in Canada where you can sue another motorist for even a minor traffic accident," Blucher said, noting an increase in lawyer-represented claims and advertising by injury law firms.
Internal operating costs have been cut by $186 million a year, and ICBC is counting on more savings ahead, through its modernization program, by more aggressively combatting insurance fraud and from a hoped-for drop in distracted driving as motorists respond to stiffer penalties.
But transfers from the optional side to bolster the basic side will likely be needed for the foreseeable future, Blucher said, because basic premiums can't keep up with rising costs.
In a surprise move, the B.C. government will this year forgo extracting its usual $160-million annual dividend from ICBC's optional side into general revenue.
"Forgoing the dividend this particular year is one strategy amongst a litany of others we're employing to get that basic trate increase down," Transportation Minister Todd Stone said.
Stone said the $514 million the province has transferred out of ICBC in dividends since 2012 is small compared to the $1.4 billion over the same period that has been shifted from the competitive optional side to basic to apply downward pressure on basic rates.
The minister would not say if the government would permanently give up the ICBC dividend.
Adrian DIx, the NDP critic for ICBC, said the dividends to government have exceeded $1.2 billion since 2010 and predicted they'll resume after next year's election because the BC Liberals are "addicted" to using ICBC as a "profit centre."
Dix said the reliance on shifting huge amounts of capital from optional to basic raises troubling questions.
"Next year they've got to find that $472 million," Dix said. "What they've done is create a disaster at ICBC and their only hope is to deceive the voters until after the election."
He said ICBC's new move to hire more claims staff underscores problems with completing the computer modernization that was supposed to make operations more efficient.
"The transformation project has taken longer than World War 2 and is not close to finished."
ICBC's basic rates rose 11.2 per cent in 2012 and at least five per cent every year since.
The new rate hike is subject to B.C. Utilities Commission approval.
ICBC Rate Pressure Charts | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/391304001.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/b17f3b518728d2ea774bf5a344353fdf55753e949b9b0a6e0229aa0400afea5c.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T18:52:03 | null | null | Weekly letters to the editor from within the Sooke community. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fopinion%2F391765821.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: Tunnel vision on anti-pot agenda disrespectful | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Re: Pot dispensaries
Interpretations of reality are only our opinions and the need for some to be correct, regardless of whether there is any expertise supporting it, is simply arrogance.
Petitions are a democratic pasttime on the Island, even if it is a response to the inevitable.
Recreational marijuana will be legalized in 2017.
Enraged Sooke residents concerned about legalities and community reputation are petitioning to stop access to medical cannibis. Their actions are based on emotion and selective interpretation.
When emotion rules any situation, new information is blocked. When one’s life changes in a second and the diagnosis of the reality to manage chronic lifelong pain or a life ending disease, some are able to see the world with new eyes.
The petitioners and opposers need to read the pharmacy info sheet accompanying the legal drugs they consume and consider the side effects and risks listed and then compare them with medical studies on medical cannibis.
Unless there is a direct impact on the naysayers quality of life, they need to exercise respect and stop their judgments.
One day someone they love may need to look at all the pain management options. Tunnel vision is too easy and is disrespectful to those we should be offering support and acceptance whose reality is constant pain.
Bravo to Sooke council for granting business licenses in these times of changing social and legal norms to support local business and residents.
Carmen Neumann
Sooke | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/opinion/391765821.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/7ce27bf2e7ac93ebd74b5c30a8ccf594974c92c83e3918e8ec64732281a83d65.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:16 | null | null | Sooke had three champions take the reigns in the horseshoe competition. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fsports%2F391090301.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Horseshoe players win championships | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | The Sooke Horseshoe Pitching Association celebrated with three champions in the Canadian Horseshoe Championships in Victoria last weekend.
“We, as a new club, should be very proud of our achievements considering we had our grand opening in June,” said Rick Hobday, club president.
These are the results from the championships:
First place
Steve Bishop, Men’s 30 ft.; Chantal Wilson, Ladies 30 ft.; Sierra Hitchin, PeeWee
Second place
Ron Dumont, Men’s 30 ft.; Gordon Butts, Men’s 40 ft.
Third place
Parker Bligh, PeeWee
Fourth place
Mike Hitchin, PeeWee
Fifth place
Tom Dezeng, Men’s 30 ft.
Sixth place
Rick Hobday, Men’s 30 ft.
Seventh place
Tom Blight, Men’s 30 ft.
Gail Bishop, Ladies 30 ft. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/sports/391090301.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/e9ebd4dceed2c2301990be2096468d33b63d492e8599fbd07eac584705c689f0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:30 | null | null | The big change for the upcoming season is B.C. Hockey’s new policy for cross ice play for all levels below atom division. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fsports%2F390323981.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Sooke Minor Hockey set for puck drop in fall | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | The ice hasn’t been put in yet, but Sooke Minor Hockey executive is busily preparing for the upcoming season.
“We have close to the same number [of players]as last year with an expected increase in novice age,” said president Dee Vivian.
The big change for the upcoming season is B.C. Hockey’s new policy for cross ice play for all levels below atom division.
The cross ice changes will see lots scrimmages between the novice players.
“We expect this to be a tremendous development opportunity for the novice players,” Dee said.
Tryouts will begin in atom to midget rep starting Aug. 29., the schedule can be found on Sooke Minor Hockey website at sookeminorhockey.ca under ice schedule. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/sports/390323981.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/42959aac9fbdbbec51421e80267365338f5e4ccd7a2f8f45afe59c155b5dc93e.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T16:51:15 | null | null | The first day of school is Sept. 6. All schools will be in session for one-half day. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fnews%2F391215571.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Summer almost over for students | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | The end of summer is near for the 10,000 students in the Sooke School District.
The first day of school is Tuesday (Sept. 6).
All schools will be in session for one-half day.
Parents can register new students from now until Sept. 2 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
For school start and dismissal times, please go online to sd62.bc.ca. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/391215571.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/c7119019ab2d7a3291092b918c4bec6524c387c5d7ea2520a5c95b20ca10c923.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T00:50:03 | null | null | The chorus seeks members from Sooke, Westshore and Victoria | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fentertainment%2F391214521.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Sooke Philharmonic Chorus needs new members | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | The Sooke Philharmonic Chorus wants you to sing.
The chorus is seeking new members for its 2016-17 season.
Open to choristers from Sooke, Westshore and Victoria, this year the Sooke Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra will be performing choral works by Bach and other masters.
For more information, please call Lynda Rose at 250-642-3536. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/entertainment/391214521.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/a358616c59909637a5152c2b0c069860fb3c51d0c45cb027c53e5d3c2f0fef44.json |
[
"Octavian Lacatusu"
] | 2016-08-26T13:05:03 | null | null | The Legion is looking for ideas and support from Sooke residents to help bring the branch into a more attractive to meet and play. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fcommunity%2F391085551.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Legion turns to community for more support and ideas | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | The Royal Canadian Legion is looking for ideas and support from Sooke residents to help bring the branch into a more attractive, enticing place to meet and play.
One of the first things on the list is a fresh coat of paint on the outside of the building on Eustace Road, which will be followed by murals by local artists.
Making the legion a more attractive place to come to isn’t going to be easy, which is why it now turns to the local community for support.
“If you support the [Sooke] community, why would you want to fly a tattered Canadian flag?” asked Bruce Corlett, a longtime member and Sooke resident.
Corlett noted that cost to paint the building is more than $15,000, with murals separately at $10,000, unless artists are willing to provide their skills solely as volunteers.
Regardless, a unified community support is needed to bring the building into a more modern time.
“We have to make it look decent to the community, and have some pride, so the community can have pride, not just the legion,” Corlett said, adding that in order to raise the funds for the paint, the Legion will hold a beer and burger night fundraiser on Sunday (Aug. 28).
It would certainly be an opportunity for Sookies to give back a little bit, added Paul McTavish, Sooke Legion branch manager.
“We’ve been giving to the community since 1926,” he said. “We would like the community to give back to us by helping us with this fundraiser.”
For perspective, in 2015, the legion raised $17,993.50 for various local, regional and national organizations, from hospitals, to sports leagues, to community choirs, to medical research foundations.
Recently, work was completed on the building’s upstairs floor, which was made possible by a $25,000 grant.
McTavish said they’ve applied for another grant to enlarge and improve the kitchen, but that’s all still in the planning stages.
Without any support however, these are just dreams.
“We can’t just rely on grants, we also need to rely on the community,” McTavish said, adding that one of the renovations planned is laying out a cement pad on the patio in the rear. “We’re always trying to improve the place, but we need help now.”
Times have certainly changed.
Legions across Canada are struggling to stay in business as they think of ways to attract a younger clientele, and the stigma of what the legion offers still hangs in the public’s minds.
“We’re not a good ol’ boys drinking club anymore ... everybody’s got that perception that it’s dark, dingy, smoky place, and it’s just not the case,” McTavish said.
Legion membership is not limited only to military, civilians can join as well.
McTavish hopes for the upcoming fundraiser that Sooke comes out and shows its love for what the legion meant and still means to this country.
“We have to say to people, can you think of Canada without a legion in it. If the legion closes, the community loses,” he said. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/community/391085551.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/9561df4cc6b7781b592c76029dc6acd0eafba5f9452b2fe08d79e8d230aba6cc.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T12:52:55 | null | null | Victoria Grizzlies play the Nanaimo Clippers in a Junior A exhibition game at SEAPARC arena on Saturday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fsports%2F391427141.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/11111sookexxxGrizzlies.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Grizzlies in Training | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | The Grizzlies will play the Nanaimo Clippers in a Junior A exhibition game at SEAPARC arena on Saturday.
Tynan Ewart (gold jersey) watches as the puck slides harmlessly into the corner during a drill at the Young Stars portion of the Victoria Grizzlies’ training camp. The Grizzlies will play the Nanaimo Clippers in a Junior A exhibition game at SEAPARC arena on Saturday (Sept. 3). Game time is 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available at SEAPARC. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/sports/391427141.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/1e8732b4402b627e931b03d7f3bd0bee0595bd5a030b2eab441948c465067731.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T14:51:15 | null | null | Three of these artifacts are paintings depicting logging sports at All Sooke Day, by local artist Linda Anderson | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fcommunity%2F391438171.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/15758sookeCurator-sCorner-28.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | CURATOR'S CORNER: All Sooke Day celebrations depicted in art work | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | The three paintings by Linda Anderson of All Sooke Day logging sports.
By Brianna Shambrook
The Sooke Region Museum has several artifacts relating to All Sooke Day. Three of these artifacts are paintings depicting logging sports at All Sooke Day, by local artist Linda Anderson (nee Walker).
The first All Sooke Day was on Wednesday, July 25, 1934 at the Sooke River Flats. Before it was called All Sooke Day, it was called The First Annual Celebration of the Progress of Sooke.
The celebratory event was born out of the struggles of the Great Depression and also the 70th anniversary of the discovery of gold in this region. This annual celebration included food, games, contests and logging sports competitions. It was run by the Sooke Community Association for nearly 70 years.
The last All Sooke Day was on July 20, 2002.
Linda Anderson was raised in Sooke and began her art training as a teenager attending Milnes Landing High.
Her first job was painting signs for Sunder Transport located in Victoria. She attended the Victoria Art College and was trained by artist Bill Alexander, who taught her the wet on wet painting method. This artist also trained the beloved Bob Ross, who uses the same technique in his television show called The Joy of Painting.
Anderson has always been eager to share her talent with the Sooke community. She opened the first art gallery in Sooke called the Moureen Gallery, which was located where the Lazy Gecko restaurant is today. She has also painted several murals including some in the Sooke Legion.
Anderson remains an active participant in Sooke’s art scene; her pieces can be seen at galleries, exhibits and cafes around town.
These three All Sooke Day paintings are oil on canvas and were professionally framed (1990.038.001-003). Two of the frames measure 20 inches wide and 24 inches high and one is 24 inches wide and 18 inches high.
These pieces were initially part of a series, called The History of All Sooke Day, that was painted for a B.C. artists show. Anderson donated these three paintings to the museum in 1990, the year she painted them.
One painting depicts Ron Hartill performing the log chop. The second painting shows Norm Goudie doing the chokerman’s race. The third painting shows Susan Hansen and an unidentified man log burling.
For these three paintings, Anderson was inspired by her father who was a high rigger at Elder’s Logging Camp and participated in the All Sooke Day logging competitions. She also volunteered at All Sooke Day as a young adult.
You can refer to the April 6, 2016 Curator’s Corner in the Sooke News Mirror for details on the museum’s All Sooke Day trophy collection.
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Brianna Shambrook is the collections and exhibits manager of the Sooke Region Museum. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/community/391438171.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/2c94572b9b5f5aa80e77b478b28f6019b8813c2a4b04d272a54cd128b9398b34.json |
[
"Octavian Lacatusu"
] | 2016-08-26T13:01:30 | null | null | Consumers must understand the most important difference of all: in a strata, you’re all in it together. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fbusiness%2F391225201.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Strata ownership not for everyone, warns advocacy group | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | As housing prices in B.C. continue to climb, prospective owners look to cheaper alternatives, such as a strata, for their new home. But before signing a sales contract, there are a few things to consider, warns an advocacy group.
At nearly half the price of a single home, strata developments have sprouted up throughout the province.
But there is a difference between owning a strata and a single-family home, says Sandy Wagner, president of the Vancouver Island Strata Owners Association, noting that consumers must first understand the most important difference of all: in a strata, you’re all in it together.
“If it’s your own home and your roof is leaking, or your basement is flooding, it doesn’t affect anyone else but you. In a strata, it affects everybody, and everybody’s in it together,” she says.
Wagner suggests to ask for several years worth of strata council meeting minutes to get a better idea of any ongoing or upcoming issues or repairs that new owners would be subject to.
“It’s not required by law to supply those to prospective purchasers. They have to know to ask for them,” she says, adding some owners feel blindsided by certain issues in the strata that would otherwise been known if they had read the minutes beforehand.
A strata purchaser is also entitled to a document called a Form B, which has all the rules and a copy of all the financial statements, about parking assignments, planned special levies, strata fees and if there’s any debt for the strata lot.
This includes a depreciation report, which shows a 30-year projection of expenses for the large part of the complex, such as the roof, the structure and the boiler.
Strata council meeting minutes also highlight recent projects or issues the strata is dealing with.
The rules are also different from the bylaws set by the strata.
“The bylaws may say that the owners are responsible for repairing their own patios, or it can say that the strata corporation is responsible for that,” Wagner says, adding that it varies from strata to strata.
It’s certainly a lot to watch out for though, such as in the case of owners of a strata on Townsend Road in Sooke, who have to collectively pay thousands of dollars to rectify a poor drainage system that floods their backyards in fall and winter. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/business/391225201.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/76188b1958a0d16982b06e740ec9b09ff7ad29dcf505306366bee612afc62317.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:10 | null | null | Sookapalooza is back in town this weekend for its 11th annual run with seven local bands and a variety of music. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fentertainment%2F389660031.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/76984sookeSookaoalooza.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Sookapalooza this weekend will feature seven bands | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Johnny Galactic (pictured) is one of seven bands to play on Sunday.
Sookapalooza is back in town this weekend fresh off the Sookahalla or its 11th annual run with seven local bands and a variety of music.
The event, which is held on Saturday (Aug. 13) runs from 3 p.m. until closing at the 17 Mile House Pub.
The lineup kicks off with Josef Mieto, a folk singer and songwriter, who lives in Victoria. With every one of his live performances, he has the uncanny ability to soothe and incite a riot.
Following that comes Hype Man and the Worms, a “genetic freak of nature.” He partied with Moses, he conquered the khans of Asia, he’s danced for kings and deflowered their queens. Made famous by his dance moves and hype along side local hero Jesse Roper, Hype Man has his own project going on now.
For a more Sooke taste comes Paper Friends, behind it, local singer songwriter Katrina Kadoski, best known for her one-woman show Cougar Annie Tales, has a new project she wants to share with the world. The Paper Friends play some of Kadoski’s more folky, upbeat originals she’s written in recent years.
Then comes Sweet Disasters, a four-piece folk/country band who are also regulars at the 17 Mile House Pub and play a mix of covers and originals. They are coming back for their second year at Sookapalooza with some new members and a whole bunch of new material to share with their fans.
Sookaplooza alumni who are in the midst of recording their next album have decided to dust off their festival shoes and try some of their new songs out in public, such as Johnny Galactic. From campfire jams to nightclubs and festivals, the live show this energetic trio brings to the stage challenges the crowd to sit still, but from the moment they hit the stage it’s obvious that no one is having more fun than the boys themselves.
Last, but not least, Dirty Harriet is what you get when you take a group of 90’s grunge/punk rocker kids with a serious passion for music and give them a few years to perfect their craft and come out of the fog without forgetting where they came from.
The final band has not been confirmed as of the time of this press release, is expected to be a hoot.
Tickets are $20 and available in limited numbers at the 17 Mile House Pub. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/entertainment/389660031.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/7452a27e42152fdf0cb12609ceaa7b3c904c9fd1a0b1f559492be4b2fb647a77.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T18:52:01 | null | null | Weekly letters to the editor from within the Sooke community. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fopinion%2F391765521.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: Instead of dumping it - think of recycling | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | When I first noticed the pile of stuff sitting next to the mailboxes on Woodhaven Road in Shirley, I thought it might be a curbside offering. After a few days, however, I noticed the pile was not disappearing so I checked it out.
A large garbage bag contained dirty vacuum hoses and attachments, recyclable bottles and garbage. A large box contained equally grubby glasses and bowls, a stained glass lamp and a playset for My Little Pony. This was no donation – it was a dump!
I loaded everything into our truck, took it home and discarded items that were broken or trash. Unbroken glasses, cups, bowls and the stained glass fixture all went into the dishwasher. The vacuum cleaner attachments and toys were scrubbed with a brush and bleach.
Everything, now clean and usable, was then donated to a thrift store in Sooke except for the toys which were gratefully accepted by a private daycare. Three little girls reacted like they won a prize when I delivered the My Little Pony donation.
Yes, it took time to clean and organize what at first glance was a pile of junk. It takes environmental awareness to re-use and recycle rather than leave an unsightly mess for others to remove or clean up.
Fortunately, I had the time and motivation to rid our beautiful community of this eyesore.
Please, everyone, take a moment and do the right thing. Don’t dump!
Thank you for thinking about how other people might be able to use whatever we no longer need or want. Thank you for donating to others rather than dumping at the landfill or worse, by the side of the road.
C.E. Hawkins
Shirley | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/opinion/391765521.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/a5437f6abd4fef6925da07963b7269da85d62288157fe99d50792a0b47efcb1e.json |
[
"Kevin Laird"
] | 2016-08-27T18:50:40 | null | null | Police have opened an investigation into the alleged harassment incident | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fnews%2F391422161.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Angry group confronts Sooke CAO at home | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Police have opened an investigation into an alleged harassment incident outside the home of District of Sooke chief administrative officer Teresa Sullivan.
The incident occurred on the evening of Aug. 10.
On Thursday, Sooke RCMP Staff Sgt. Jeff McArthur confirmed police have begun an investigation to look at “why people were in her (Sullivan’s) yard harassing her.”
McArthur would not say how many people were involved in the incident, but police were called after it occurred.
“We’re trying to figure out if we have any offence being committed here,” he said, adding that the starting point in the investigation is whether any mischief or criminal harassment occurred.
Police look at any criminal complaints filed by public officials seriously.
Sullivan said she was taken aback by the incident.
“This invasion of the personal privacy of my home left me feeling threatened in a community that has been very welcoming. I do not feel this small group of individuals is reflective of the community at large,” Sullivan said in a written statement.
“I am very proud of the work that has been accomplished since I arrived in Sooke. Mayor and council have been working very successfully with staff to move the community forward in many positive directions.”
Neither McArthur or Mayor Maja Tait can recall such an occurrence ever happening in Sooke with a public official.
Tait said she has had people come to her house with questions and comments, but never to express any form of malice or dissatisfaction.
“I wish I knew who it was because then I would like to have a conversation with whomever it is. It just seems such peculiar, outrageous behaviour,” Tait said.
“If someone is out of step why can’t you phone the mayor to have a conversation about what’s upsetting you? Why would you go to a staff member’s house in the middle of the evening and say unkind things?”
Sullivan was hired last December as CAO with unanimous approval from council. Tait continues to back Sullivan and doesn’t believe the attitude on council has changed.
While Sullivan’s short tenure has been controversial at times, she has received support from council, Tait said.
Bullying, especially the online kind, has plagued council and district staff for months.
Earlier this year, Coun. Kerrie Reay, while acting mayor, lashed out at social media which she said were filled with vitriolic attacks and misinformation, while last month, Tait said at an open council meeting that she wouldn’t put up with any harassment involving council or district staff.
Tait said the district will take disciplinary measures, corrective action, “or any other appropriate action as it is required” under provincial law against those looking to defame, or otherwise harass, a councillor or district official.
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Is there more to this story? We’d like to hear from you about this or any other stories you think we should know about. Please email editor@sookenewsmirror.com or phone 250-642-5752. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/391422161.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/a5622ff47042354f33f46a7bec72a2ba77474fbd4cc65908c329f81ea570c973.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T00:51:34 | null | null | CRD lifts boil-water advisory area known as the Wilderness Mountain Water System | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fnews%2F391678221.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Water advisory lifted in East Sooke neighbourhood | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Residents of about 80 homes in East Sooke in Mount Matheson Estates can go back to drinking tap water.
The Capital Regional District lifted a boil-water advisory Friday for the area known as the Wilderness Mountain Water System.
The boil-water advisory was issued on July 28 as a precaution against parasites, bacteria or viruses.
The water is drawn from the Wilford Lake Reservoir, which had high turbidity over the summer, said CRD senior manager of infrastructure and operations Matt McCrank.
McCrank said that the water became potable again through various efforts and seasonal changes. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/391678221.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/c384b785d7da42c5b4b8be1553ad03cfeb0725ba2bec4c247a6d28c9b125df6b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:48 | null | null | Re: Speeding drivers creating havoc in Sunriver area (News, Aug. 10) | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fopinion%2F390353271.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: Better policing needed on Townsend Road | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Re: Speeding drivers creating havoc in Sunriver area (News, Aug. 10)
Grateful to see your news story on the problem of speeding in Sunriver. Now could you focus on other areas right in the middle of Sooke?
Townsend Road has a posted speed limit of 30 km/h on both sides of the road from Rhodonite Drive through to Waddams Way and on to Sooke Road. No one pays attention.
There is absolutely no enforcement of the speed laws on Townsend Road. I realize the limitations of the RCMP in Sooke, but if they put a speed trap on Townsend within a couple of days they would rake in thousands of dollars in fines.
Please take some action as multiple domestic animals have been killed, as well as wildlife. Are you waiting for a child before you act?
Jeanne Evans
Sooke | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/opinion/390353271.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/bcf7af179eace2c7b0c0969d50b4230599b8aa598d0638bdc0ec880b28b8e198.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:44 | null | null | 1,800 new spaces in 30 communities to start construction this fall, minister Stephanie Cadieux says | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Flifestyles%2F381686451.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/36574BCLN2007daycarewikimedia7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Child care spaces funded for 30 BC communities | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Daycare spaces are in short supply in some areas of B.C. and costs are high.
More than 1,800 new child care spaces should be under construction by this fall, with the latest round of financing from the B.C. government.
New or expanded facilities in 30 communities have been selected from funding applications received in January, said Children and Family Development Minister Stephanie Cadieux. The $11.3 million budget for this year is the third phase of a child care expansion project funded by the ministry.
The province's goal is to have construction underway by September.
"It will vary somewhat from provider to provider, depending on whether they are building a facility from the ground up with this money, or whether they are adding to an existing facility," Cadieux said.
Projects in the Lower Mainland include six sites in Surrey, two each in Abbotsford, Langley and Coquitlam and one each in Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, Burnaby, Delta and Squamish.
On Vancouver Island, funding goes to three projects in Duncan and one each in Nanaimo, Victoria, Comox, Port Hardy and Tofino.
In the B.C. Interior, three projects are approved for Kelowna, two in Penticton, and one each in Naramata, Castlegar, Cranbrook, Enderby, Princeton, Houston, Kamloops, Merritt, Vanderhoof and Dawson Creek.
For a full list of facilities and number of spaces, see backgrounder here.
The ministry has posted a new child care map on its website to help parents locate facilities here.
The province provides child care subsidies to qualified low-income parents, and covers about 15 per cent of daycare operating costs. But the cost of land and operations drives the price of child care up to $1,400 per month or more in urban areas. Cadieux said the province is working with municipalities to review regulations.
"We're looking at the restrictions we put on child care providers in terms of outdoor space, in terms of sun access," she said. "We want to make sure that child care is safe and that we have quality, but we also want to make sure that we're not creating a situation that is unreasonable." | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/lifestyles/381686451.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/aa5c6b47ed453ae6206a20ae50c2f00a9f82013be8fdae81a88c7d21750d5936.json |
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"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T12:53:18 | null | null | Premier Christy Clark protests to Prime minister Justin Trudeau about latest claims of softwood subsidy | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fbusiness%2F387881572.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/80455BCLN2007wfpmillworkers7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | U.S. Senators 'inaccurate' on lumber claim: Premiers | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Canada's softwood lumber agreement with the U.S. expired last fall, and U.S. interests are pushing to reduce the share allowed to go south.
Premier Christy Clark and other provincial and territorial leaders have written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, asking him to refute the latest lumber trade action by U.S. interests.
"Unfair and inaccurate allegations of Canadian lumber subsidies" have been made by 25 U.S. Senators to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, seeking a reduction in the cap on Canadian lumber sales, the premiers wrote from their meeting in Whitehorse this week.
The premiers cited decisions by the World Trade Organization and NAFTA in 2006 that found Canadian subsidies to be less than one per cent and ineligible for trade action.
Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama reported progress on negotiating a new softwood lumber deal after their meeting in Ottawa in late June.
Trudeau and Obama's joint statement acknowledged the increase in cross-border ownership of forest products producers, and said a key feature a new agreement would be "designed to maintain Canadian exports at or below an agreed US. market share to be negotiated."
The last Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement expired in the fall of 2015, leaving trade unrestricted as Canadian producers benefit from a stronger U.S. dollar and housing construction. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/business/387881572.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/9d92ec2b47917dde896dc8b1f396d7c4528201aea0453469517d2412e7226ad4.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:08:45 | null | null | Collector plates will be available next year for modified as well as stock cars made between 1958 and 1974 | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Flifestyles%2F389536851.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/25111BCLN2007Chevrolet_Camaro1969-wikim7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Collector program expanding to 'muscle cars' | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Modified versions of the 1969 Camaro SS and other popular vehicles will soon be eligible for B.C. collector plates, allowing occasional use for parades and car shows.
The B.C. government is expanding its collector vehicle licence system to include eligible modified cars made between 1958 and 1974, to capture the popular "muscle car" era of the 1960s.
The ICBC collector plate program gives car enthusiasts a lower-cost licence plate that allows occasional use for parades and classic car shows. ICBC plans to take applications starting in 2017 for eligible modified vehicles up to 1974, and replica cars resembling North American production cars from 1942 and earlier.
With strict rules that the cars must be in "collectible condition," changes will take in modified popular cars from the Dodge Duster to the Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang, as well as replicas of the popular Ford "deuce coupe" from the 1930s.
Premier Christy Clark announced a break for older cars this spring, allowing vehicles from 1940 or earlier and their replicas to run without fenders or mud flaps when the highway is dry and paved.
Transportation Minister Todd Stone said the collector car industry is significant for B.C., with registered collector vehicles having doubled to 26,000 in the past 10 years.
"We want to see this specialty vehicle program remain viable, preserve vehicle history and evolve with the times," Stone said. "That's why we are opening up the opportunity to owners of specialty cars within the 'muscle car' era."
Currently, the standard collector plate is available to cars 25 years or older, as well as discontinued or limited production vehicles 15 years or older. It requires a stock engine with no performance enhancements, no rust, dents or "significant wear and tear" of the interior.
Modified vehicles from 1958 or older are currently eligible for collector plates, if they retain the shell of the original body but have parts replaced or modified in the chassis, engine, suspension, steering or brakes.
Owners have to apply for a collector or modified collector plate, with purchase and parts bills, photos and inspection reports.
Applications for collector and modified collector programs are available on ICBC's website, www.icbc.com, and can be dropped off at Autoplan brokers. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/lifestyles/389536851.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/6d998117d3eaee1f8313a69902f1b4b6e8d2a72dcacc78ca55917397f849d504.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:10 | null | null | Former Sooke resident pens book on fraudulent food practices | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Flifestyles%2F381705991.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/44902sookeBook.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Where's the beef. You'd be surprised | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Author Nicola Temple: “It was the first time I encountered food fraud, and it was happening in UK supermarkets, not a Third World country, with brand names you wouldn’t expect.”
The world today is a much more accessible place than ever before, so we tend to spread our roots across countries, perhaps even continents, more often.
Regardless of where we go though, we will never forget a place that brings warmth to our hearts and peace to our minds.
For former resident Nicola Temple, Sooke is such a place, which is why she’s come back to visit from the UK, where she has been living for the last five years.
Before that, she lived in Australia for three years.
“It was lovely to be back in Sooke ... it’s incredibly friendly, which is something you just don’t get in the UK,” Temple said.
Having worked as a conservation biologist throughout B.C. and overseas, Temple settled in the UK, where she continues her career and a passion for scientific writing.
But then, something clicked.
When the horse meat scandal took the UK by storm, Temple found herself asking the same thing everyone else was: what is it exactly that we’re eating?
The outrage came from meat that was used in ready meals like lasagna and hamburgers were testing for 100 per cent horse meat rather than beef.
As a scholar of scientific literature and writing, Temple began looking into it with fellow co-writer Richard Evershed, an academic at the University of Bristol, who developed analytic methods in chemistry that determined how much cheaper oil had been added to corn oil to stretch it out.
The duo then came to a disturbing conclusion: what we eat is not what we always know.
“It was the first time I encountered food fraud, and it was happening in UK supermarkets, not a Third World country, with brand names you wouldn’t expect,” Temple said.
The result was their book, Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics, which dives into the world of food processing and how many shapes it takes before it goes into our belly.
“There’s no real issue with eating horse, it was just a matter that it was fraudulent, because it was labelled as beef,” Temple said, adding it took more than a year of research and writing until the book finally came together.
She always took a liking to science. Originally from Ontario, Temple graduated from EMCS in 1991, heading later to University of Victoria to study science and biology.
She continued living in Sooke, working at Coast Capital Savings for 10 years before leaving the Island altogether.
Now, she feels she’s finally aligned her skills with her passion.
“I love doing scientific writing, and clearly there’s an obvious hiding of cheaper ingredients going on, even on the labels, so making it for the average consumer to understand what is happening is really important,” Temple said.
As she heads back to the UK, Temple isn’t yet certain what her next book is, but will certainly focus on the cool science of what makes this big blue Earth so fascinating. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/lifestyles/381705991.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/8ff27d2430267c6a66db62ed4bfed439dcba1d9c79ca357f7127a4fb45c9cc55.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:03 | null | null | Sooke needs to really step up and become the artistic hub it thinks it is. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fopinion%2F390351611.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | EDITORIAL: Painted rocks offer opportunity for artists | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Now that it has been determined the painted rocks in the town centre will remain, here’s a suggestion.
Instead of admiring the painted rocks from afar, artists and art group should take it to the next level and organize a program that will produce many more of the fanciful rock work.
Let’s see Sooke Road from Otter Point to Church roads brightly painted.
It will be unique to Sooke and well talked about, and then we really can call Sooke an arts community. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/opinion/390351611.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/9d2b74442df801ff793e9a4e4ca6f2fa51601469d23500fedab47ba8f4e95361.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T22:50:20 | null | null | Volunteers to ask seniors about staff, food, privacy, medications and other conditions in residential care | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Flifestyles%2F391445481.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/18269BCLN2007Nursinghomeflickr7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Senior home survey seeks volunteers | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | B.C. has 300 seniors' care facilities, and residents and their loved ones are to be surveyed on conditions.
More than 250 volunteers have signed up to compile a survey of seniors in residential care, and B.C.'s Seniors Advocate is looking for more.
The 27,000 seniors living in 300 residential care facilities around the province are being asked about their experience with care home staff, the quality of food, privacy, medications and other conditions.
It's the first comprehensive survey done in B.C., to measure resident satisfaction and provide a "roadmap" for improvements, said Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie.
Interviews will be conducted in person by trained volunteers, and a matching mail-out survey will be sent to each resident's most frequent visitor.
The project is seeking volunteers with a range of professional backgrounds, ages and ethnicities. To apply as a volunteer, visit www.surveybcseniors.org or call the Office of the Seniors Advocate at 1-877-952-3181. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/lifestyles/391445481.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/d25e968a784ef23d8f05fe4387ffa6fca9a1c74b5d080340a72efe45d96b2844.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:53 | null | null | Saltwater Fishing for Chinook salmon in Sooke is back to normal summer time levels | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fsports%2F391089801.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/57779sookeSalmon-40pounder.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Summer fishing back to ‘normal’ | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Whopper of a fish: Local charter boat operator Kel Young shows off his prize catch: a 40-pound salmon he caught off Sooke recently. Larger salmon have caught local fishers’ lines in recent weeks.
Ron Neitsch
Contributed
Saltwater Fishing for Chinook salmon in Sooke is back to normal summer time levels– everyone has a great chance to land a nice chinook salmon to 40 lbs.
We’re seeing lots of fish from 20 to 30 lbs. coming into the docks.
All the Sooke hot spots now have some salmon, especially Sheringham, Otter and Possession points.
By the Sooke time table we only have another three weeks to target these great fish for some delicious treats in the freezer for winter time.
Spoons and anchovies have been the bait and lures of choice. Most of the natural bait in the water now is fairly small so 3.5 or 4-inch spoons are working fine.
Gibbs Bon Chovy, No Bananas and Irish Cream, Silver Horde Coho Killers, especially the White Lightning spoons, have been landing lots of nice springs.
Anchovy teaser heads in green, chartreuse, glow, glow green, Bloody Nose, Joanne, and solid chrome are hot right now, try a super tight role, so the bait fish is spinning rather than flopping over.
Look for results from the Juan De Fuca Derby which should be out by print time, some local Sooke boats were doing very well in the derby Sunday morning.
Tides and wind this last week have not been great for halibut (too fast) for many, but I always pack hali bait, you never know when a good weather and tide combination will present itself.
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Ron Neitsch is owner of 2 Reel Fishing Adventures, based in Sooke. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/sports/391089801.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/84ff0a5a5ba637d67aba6fa525e18266d58840ab8a0a264a5f782c9734d013f9.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:42 | null | null | Thanks to Stacey Scharf and her family, our 2016 Grade 12 graduates were treated to a wonderful after prom party | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F384321861.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: Kudos and big thanks to Stacey Scharf | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Thanks to Stacey Scharf and her family, our 2016 Grade 12 graduates were treated to a wonderful after prom party at the Scharf’s property in East Sooke.
The grads were welcome to set up their tents, everyone was safe, plenty of yummy food and great tunes.
I hope it’s OK for me to speak for the teachers, parents and students when I say, ‘it takes a village’ and Stacey, you really came through for us!
The Shah Tozer Family, Sooke | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/opinion/letters/384321861.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/bafa7042f527fd5aeb6de7fec550b7b3d5298b7a7b48c56bf8fd321e9fb85652.json |
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"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-30T18:51:47 | null | null | Some urban districts struggle with overcrowding, special funds for declining rural schools, bus service to take effect | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fnews%2F391773061.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/2045BCLN2007Schoolstudentblurwide-BJ7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | B.C. school enrolment up for second year | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Students return to public school next week, with changes to curriculum and some provincial exams.
Students are returning to class next week in most of B.C.'s public schools, with enrolment expected to be up province-wide for the second year running.
Education Minister Mike Bernier says early forecasts show about 529,000 students, an increase of 2,900 from last year. But that increase is centred on fast-growing school districts, while many rural areas continue to struggle with declining student numbers.
Among changes that parents and students will see this year is a new curriculum in place up to Grade 9, with a test year for changes in the senior grades. Bernier said the new emphasis on collaboration and communication skills does not mean a watering down of the basic skills, and is designed to improve students' ability to work at modern jobs.
Report cards are to continue this school year, but the ministry is reviewing its system with an eye to providing more frequent updates. Parents are being consulted on the changes, Bernier said.
Foundation Skills Assessment tests in grades four and seven are also continuing after years of protests from teacher unions, but that program is also being examined for possible changes. FSA tests will be "enhanced" but not eliminated, Bernier said.
Provincial exams continue for graduates in math and English, but science and social studies will now be assessed at a classroom level rather than school-wide tests, Bernier said.
The ministry provided a series of top-ups to education funding this year, for bus service and to keep selected rural schools from closing. Applications are still being taken for a transportation fund until Sept. 30, requiring districts to drop across-the-board school bus fees to qualify.
Districts may still charge transportation fees for international students or those from outside a school catchment area.
NDP leader John Horgan highlighted the crowding in Surrey school district, where 7,000 students remain in portables despite an expansion program. The NDP says the B.C. government's claim of record per-student funding ignores a reduction of education funding as a share of the provincial economy.
"Since 2001, the B.C. Liberals have dragged public education funding in this province from the second best in Canada to the second worst," Horgan said. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/391773061.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/7cbb1dae167a83577f76496c31f4638f9a253e79ee5a09f9ad16a6102c30cd24.json |
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"Octavian Lacatusu"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:30 | null | null | The cougar is believed to be the same animal captured, tagged and relocated from the Florence Lake area last spring | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fnews%2F391209931.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/10838sookeCougar_closeup.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Problem cougar returns to Whiffin Spit area | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | A young cougar has been spotted in the Whiffin Spit area
The Whiffin Spit area in Sooke is on edge after a cougar was seen peering into a resident’s home last week.
The cougar is believed to be the same animal captured, tagged and relocated from the Florence Lake area last spring, said conservation officer Peter Pauwels.
“There are very few that get ear tagged and released, so there’s only two possibilities which one it is,” Pauwels said.
There have been 15 cougar-related calls in Sooke region since April.
Still, a cougar sighting is rare and unusual.
Pauwels pointed out a rumour in another Sooke news outlets stating that an ear-tagged cougar has been seen in the Whiffin Spit area for years is “absolutely untrue.”
If captured, the cougar, a two-year-old male, will not be relocated again.
“We’re only allowed to do that once. With the behavior it’s displaying now, it wouldn’t be a candidate anyway because it’s showing unusual behaviour. It’s walking up to houses, looking in windows. It’s not afraid of people,” Pauwels said.
“Relocation can work in certain situations, but if you have an animal that’s habituated to people, that prefers to live around people, if you take it up in the bush, it’s going to come back.”
Pauwels said the cougar seen in Whiffin Spit is not acting aggressively towards people, but that doesn’t make it less of a concern, either.
“It has no fear of people, so it’s going to live amongst us. That makes it a concern because if somebody was to see it and do the wrong thing like run away, it could actually trigger an attack.” | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/391209931.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/f3b5c5961e15be04a3b470b0becd90ddc44f7637ebc46d48bf9fcb6d6d16feb4.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:58 | null | null | Registration is up substantially from last year at this time. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fsports%2F390323491.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/2867sookeSoccer.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Sooke soccer squads ready to kick off new season | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | The Sooke Soccer Club begins its 2016-17 season on Sept. 7 with its annual Kickoff Jamboree at Fred Milne Park.
By Laura Lockhart
With just a few weeks until our Kickoff Jamboree on Sept. 7, we are getting into full swing at Sooke Soccer Club.
Registration is up substantially from last year at this time.
Since a late fee was implemented at the end of last season, we are already ahead of the game and intend to make it known to our members, all season long, that early registration is key to a successful start to the season.
Youth teams are looking great.
Most 11-a-side teams are in Silver, with the exception of the U16 girls pooling with Juan de Fuca to make a Gold team. SSC wishes all those players that made VIPL or a GOLD team the best of luck this season.
Adult teams could use some help. Division 3 and Over 30B women is looking for players.
The Division 2 men’s team is seeking some new talent and is also in need of a coach to replace former coach/manager/player Mike McKay who just wants to play this year. Contact Laura at lockhart@shaw.ca if you are interested.
Division 4 men and Over 40 men won’t turn anyone away either, so if you are thinking about taking the plunge back into soccer, get registered!
We are enrolling in the Timbits program this year for the Sandlot age group. Tim Hortons provides T-shirts, and other bonuses to our club for free.
We are launching our own soccer academy with new technical coach Joe Bratanovic. Details are on our website. Bratanovic will also be teaching coaching courses at our club this year. Certification is mandatory as of 2016.
We are launching a new website through our new software program called Soccer Registrar, which is the registration system all clubs in Lower Island Soccer Association use. Please bare with us as we all adjust to the new format.
We will be launching a SSC clothing line that can be ordered through the website.
We have a new concession manager and plan to be open with a new tasty menu Friday night games, Saturday and Sunday games. Employment opportunity for a part-time cook is available. You must have food safe.Contact Cari Ormiston at cariormiston@hotmail.com
Sooke is hosting a small sided referee clinic on Sept. 11, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for anyone age 12 and over. Great way to make some money.
IMPORTANT DATES
SSC is taking part in the Sooke Music Festival on Aug. 27 to help raise money for Hannah Day and the Sooke Food Bank. Registration will be available.
Club Meeting on Aug. 29, all former and new coaches/managers encouraged to attend, everyone welcome.
Jamboree – Sept. 7, 6 to 7 p.m.
Registration – Sept. 7, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Minis Assessments – Sept. 14, 6 to 8 p.m.
Soccer Academy starts on Sept. 19
Coaches Meeting with Tech Coach on Sept. 21, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Picture Day on Oct. 1.
SEASON START UP DATES
GOLD/VIPL – Sept. 10-11
SILVER/BRONZE and SUPER 8s – Sept. 17
TIMBITS/MINIS – Sept. 24
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Laura Lockhart is president of the Sooke Soccer Club. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/sports/390323491.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/3d36529b6c704328ac5dcabde0a5cf8aca2fdc1045297959736d2a0ef381bd0a.json |
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"Octavian Lacatusu"
] | 2016-08-26T12:59:51 | null | null | Behind the enterprise is funeral director Telford Nault, a 58-year veteran of the funeral business | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fbusiness%2F387297621.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/69824sookeCareServices.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | First-ever funeral home opens in Sooke | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Telford Nault has opened Care Funeral Services in Sooke. The new business is located at 2016 Shields Rd.
For years, Sooke residents had to go out of town to make funeral arrangement. Not anymore.
Care Funeral Services is the first caretaking business ever to open its doors in Sooke, serving as a satellite office to the Colwood facility.
Behind the enterprise is funeral director Telford Nault, a 58-year veteran of the funeral business who’s owned and operated funeral homes all over the Island.
“Life being what it is, I’ve never had a bad day in the funeral business,” he said.
“What other job can you have where you are invited to sit down with strangers who are going through the worst time in their life and being able to do something for them, and not to them.”
In a morbid twist of irony, Nault’s involvement and dedication to funeral services started at the age of 15, when both his parents died within a year of each other.
Stuck with the funeral bill, his only option was to pay it off – and he did – by joining as an apprentice at a funeral home in Courtenay.
Since then, Nault always worked within independent funeral homes instead of corporate ones, believing that even though it’s still a business, it’s not about the money, but about the service.
“The reason why I’ve been an independent all my life, and the most important thing is that when a family comes in, it’s all about the family, not about the funeral home,” he said, adding Care also provides seminars and information sessions for those either arranging a funeral or preparing for one.
Not that funerals and death are a dinner-table subject for many.
“Up until the end of 1960s nobody wanted to talk about funerals. Many cultures don’t want to talk about it even today,” Nault said.
“There are still a lot of people who won’t take out life insurance, who won’t prearrange a funeral or even make a will.”
The funeral business has certainly changed though. Nault pointed out that today, much of Care’s services are 95 per cent cremations and five per cent burials, where more than 40 years ago, it was the other way around.
Nault said the current office is just a test to see how things will go in the next little while. If it gets more popular, they may consider a full-sized facility in Sooke.
It’s also a sign the town is growing and extending its services to the local community, added Mayor Maja Tait.
“We now have businesses that provide service to the full circle of life,” she said. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/business/387297621.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/61cbd84946fc4ebd3020c99ee20af120e086c8f181362c28c5d10e3e51f533ce.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T18:51:43 | null | null | Residents reported smoke in the area of where a fire started inside a workshop on Otter Point Road. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fnews%2F391768811.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Fire damages Otter Point workshop | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Otter Point, Sooke and Metchosin Fire and Rescue crews were called to a structure fire in Otter Point on Monday night.
Residents called 911 after noticing smoke in a Otter Point Road workshop around midnight.
The building was empty. The tenant had been working in the workshop earlier and had locked up and gone home.
The flames were contained within the building.
Cause of the fire is being investigated, but doesn’t appear to be suspicious, fire officials said. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/391768811.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/f68e74cb85e51fd7a0eed454a82455d8fb911197998fe15d65bfc1b6b0dff254.json |
[
"Elida Peers"
] | 2016-08-30T20:51:06 | null | null | Rupert was a son of Lady Emily Walker, and therefore his growing up years were a little different than most of us. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fcommunity%2F391425571.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/4610sookeElidapix.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | SOOKE HISTORY: Rupert Walker, son of Lady Emily | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Rupert Walker, circa. 1912, at his Raglet home in East Sooke.
Little boys are endearing whatever the era they grow up in, and surely none more so than little Rupert Walker, photographed in East Sooke at Ragley shortly after 1912.
Most little guys of the pioneer era in Sooke would not have been wearing a fine outfit such as this, but Rupert was a son of Lady Emily Walker, and therefore his growing up years were a little different than most of us.
Rupert’s mother Lady Emily Walker arrived in the summer of 1912, with her husband Rev. Reginald Walker.
A titled member of Britain’s famous Seymour family arriving on our shores, settling in this remote corner of the far-flung British Empire, naturally caused speculation about the reason they left a comfortable Anglican parish where Rev. Walker was the Vicar of Frant, near London.
There is no record of the Rev. Walker ministering to a parish after their arrival here.
It is now 104 years since their property, called Ragley after the magnificent Ragley Manor in Derbyshire, became home to these unexpected immigrants.
It was understood that Lady Emily, born Lady Emily Seymour, daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Hertford, had been a close friend of Prince George, Duke of York.
Possibly this friendship was relatively acceptable, but when the old King Edward died in 1910, there was a new era, and the Duke of York became King George V.
At any rate, for whatever reason, Lady Emily and her husband, accompanied by four sons and a daughter, arrived at this outpost of Empire in 1912.
While the family was accompanied by a retinue of servants, a tutor and governess, most soon left for new pastures and much pioneering work to establish the farm was done by the Walker family themselves.
The only daughter, Margaret, became the wife of Frank Caffery, and it was her daughter Kay (Caffery) Jeffrey that many Sooke folk got to know so well.
All of Lady Emily’s children are listed in Burke’s Peerage.
Sadly, three of her sons, Seymour, Eric and Lionel, met an untimely end.
Son Rupert (in the photo) became a registered nurse, and Sooke’s well-known Joan Titus recalled nursing with him at Royal Jubilee Hospital in the 1960s.
Driving west on East Sooke Road today, watch for the two stately Douglas-fir trees framing a driveway to today’s Ragley farm, which now runs a popular market garden and gathering place.
In time, this little fellow Rupert was the only son left. In possession of his mother’s personal diaries, he chose to burn them rather than have them fall into outsiders’ hands.
We’ve sometimes speculated on the secrets they contained, and what light they might have cast on how the Walkers came to leave their Anglican parish in Britain for the wilderness of East Sooke.
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Elida Peers is the historian of Sooke Region Museum. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/community/391425571.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/d809f87932dff213e4db450c2cd3551702eeaaa435d7d8765e4188ccfec77d5e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T20:50:27 | null | null | T’Sou-ke Nation will begin construction of coffee shop and gas bar in October, say officials. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fnews%2F391420361.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/8201sookebrand.gif.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Sooke's Tim Hortons expected to open in March | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Tim Hortons expected to open here in March
Sooke, rejoice! Tim Hortons is expected to open up shop in Sooke as early as March.
The coffee shop will be part of a 3,600-square-foot convenience store that will serve a Petro-Canada gas station.
Construction is expected to start in October. Originally the store was expected to open this fall.
The proposed half-hectare development will be built on a parcel of T’Sou-ke Nation land located between Saseenos elementary and Edward Milne community schools, said Jeff Frank, senior director with Castle Main Group, a First Nations development company.
For the last few years, Frank worked closely with the T’Sou-ke band, Tim Hortons, and the B.C. Transportation Ministry to get the project off the ground.
“It’s been a long way coming, but the [T’Sou-ke] band has shown a lot of perseverance and doing it for the right reasons,” Frank said.
“They want to build a project that will service the community for many years.”
The issue now is that the site doesn’t have a wastewater system.
And while that’s OK for phase one, Frank said they will need to have discussions with the District of Sooke for subsequent phases.
There’s also the concern of keeping the flow of traffic going as locals cram into a lineup to get their hands on a fresh doughnut and coffee.
Frank said the group is negotiating with the Ministry of Transportation on the best possible layout.
Frank is optimistic of the outcome.
“The ability for bands to create wealth on reserve is one of the key items in that process of reconciliation,” he said. “What the T’Sou-ke Nation is doing is exemplary.” | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/391420361.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/af6ab621afa09aa664c515dfbc2cf032bed2aac0872fb6c8bdc781981cdf724a.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T12:58:52 | null | null | Four per cent rate hike already in effect, more to come as BC Hydro looks for savings to offset slow industrial demand | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fbusiness%2F388687371.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/9960BCLN2007DamRevelstokewiki7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | BC Hydro rates rise as demand slows | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Revelstoke dam on the Columbia River is due to have a sixth water turbine added, but Site C is BC Hydro's priority today.
BC Hydro is going ahead with its planned four per cent rate increase this year and deferring more debt to future years as it revises its electricity demand forecast downward.
The provincially-owned utility has not asked for an increase in its government-imposed rate plan despite a revised demand forecast with $3.5 billion less revenue over the next 10 years. BC Hydro has filed a three-year plan with the B.C. Utilities Commission that would increase rates four, 3.5 and three per cent in the next three years. The four per cent increase is already showing up on customer bills as an interim increase.
With the Site C dam on the Peace River and other upgrades amounting to $2 billion a year, the plan includes additional deferred debt until 2023, when Site C is due to be completed. BC Hydro CEO Jessica McDonald said the long-term nature of capital projects means its capital cost savings don't start until the next decade.
BC Hydro has also cut some of its familiar Power Smart activities, such as the fridge buy-back plan and incentives for energy efficient light bulbs.
McDonald said BC Hydro is seeing lower revenues due to two warm winters and downturns in mining and forest products. It still projects growing overall demand as population and economic growth continue.
NDP energy critic Adrian Dix said the new deferred debt represents roughly $500 for each of BC Hydro's two million customers, and it is a political move to get the B.C. Liberal government past next year's election.
The 10-year rates plan imposed by Energy Minister Bill Bennett in 2013 overstated demand to justify the construction of Site C, and translates to a 28 per cent rate increase. It allows the utilities commission to regain control over approving customer rates by 2020, after five years of political direction.
Dix said with the new demand forecast and commodity prices expected to remain low, BC Hydro should have added a sixth turbine to its Revelstoke dam for $450 million before embarking on the $9 billion Site C project. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/business/388687371.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/3e4378ffc0c2882efdd48a15442ed0151931b219327270e7cc69a03d6fcee158.json |
[
"Rick Stiebel"
] | 2016-08-26T13:06:07 | null | null | Will be living in the city of Cali as part of a youth exchange | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fcommunity%2F390605161.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/17319goldstreamGNG-RotaryColombia2.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Eleven months in Colombia awaits young Metchosin Rotarian | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Metchosin resident Lucas Christ-Rowling is off to Colombia to learn Spanish and immerse himself in a different culture as part of Rotary International’s Youth Exchange program.
Lucas Christ-Rowling is positively pumped about the opportunity to immerse himself in Colombian culture for the next 11 months. The Metchosin resident will soon head to Cali, the country’s second-largest city, about eight hours from Bogota.
The trip is part of a Rotary International Youth Exchange – in conjunction with the Sidney By The Sea Rotary – which arranges for students to spend a year in a foreign country while facilitating the same experience for students from other countries to come to Canada.
Christ-Rowling, 17, got interested in the program through his mother, who spent a year in Denmark as part of a Rotary International Youth Exchange when she was in high school in Ontario.
“She really encouraged me to try it and said it was a really rewarding experience,” he said. His mother, a former Rotarian, hopes there will be a similar program available for youth on the West Shore soon.
Christ-Rowling, part of the first class to graduate from Royal Bay secondary in June, will be returning to high school in Cali.
‘I want to accelerate learning Spanish,” he explained. “I’m also really looking forward to learning about the culture and history of Colombia.”
Christ-Rowling feels fortunate that the family he will stay with lives across the street from the school he’ll attend. That should expedite the learning curve, because he won’t have to waste time commuting, he explained.
While he plays drums, guitar and piano, Christ-Rowling has never learned to dance, so he is looking forward to that challenge as well. “It’s the salsa capital of the world,” he said.
Another aspect of the trip that intrigues him is the opportunity to play soccer. “I’m very excited about playing in a country where they are so passionate about the sport,” he said with noticeable enthusiasm. “The passion and energy is there every day for soccer and I’m really looking forward to experiencing that.”
Christ-Rowling will also be making presentations to different youth groups and organizations about what life is like in Canada.
“I’m also open to volunteering opportunities that arise,” he added.
Although he admitted being a little nervous about learning a new language and adapting to a different lifestyle and culture, Christ-Rowling said he’s fortunate that there is a well-organized support network in place.
“Living with a second family there will also give me a more personal connection to the country,” he noted.
Once his time in Colombia is complete, Christ-Rowling is leaning towards studying political science and humanities.
“Gaining a global perspective and understanding will help with that,” he said. “Being bilingual will help open doors to many education and career opportunities.”
reporter@goldstreamgazette.com | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/community/390605161.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/29e3d6412eb8be763cfdc9dcc1377b6cdc6be2e1485f85b6fce1b51c7c0a0ebd.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T12:58:29 | null | null | No permit required for weddings, festivals on farms if fewer than 150 people attend, says Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fbusiness%2F388995481.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/15664BCLN2007farmWeddingCarriagewikim7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Brides, bands allowed back on farmland | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Almost a year after B.C. farm weddings were banned due to a crackdown on agricultural land use rules, the B.C. government has clarified what commercial activities are allowed on farmland.
Farmers can host up to 10 commercial weddings, concerts or non-agricultural events per year without a permit from the Agricultural Land Commission. Farmers can take payment to host a wedding or other event as long as no more than 150 guests attend and a list of conditions are met, according to regulations that took effect Tuesday.
To qualify, event hosts must provide all parking on the farm rather than along roads, with no permanent parking lots or structures, and the event must end in less than 24 hours. For more than 10 events a year or exceeding 150 guests, properties with farm tax status must apply to the ALC for a permit.
The new regulation also clarifies ALC policies to allow, with no permit, farm tours and demonstrations, hayrides, corn mazes, pumpkin patch tours, harvest and Christmas fairs and special occasion events to promote farm products.
Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick said the regulation requiring farms to generate at least 50 per cent of its revenue from farm products is also scrapped, after consultation in the past year suggested the new rules instead.
The crackdown on farm weddings came last fall, when the ALC issued stop-work orders to B.C. farms including the Fraser Valley, Kelowna and Vancouver Island.
The restriction came after the province expanded farm uses to allow breweries and distilleries to operate on protected farmland with the same rules used to permit wineries. The rules allowed for processing of farm crops into products such as juice or jam for commercial sale. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/business/388995481.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/a1ba215de433dcd228d76641085784733416320553651b23c612df5db9025c03.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:11 | null | null | Sooke baseball players Brad Cox and Tommy Hueston had a pretty special weekend at the provincial baseball championships | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fsports%2F388995401.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Sooke players earn provincial championship | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Sooke baseball players Brad Cox and Tommy Hueston had a pretty special weekend at the provincial baseball championships with the Triangle Reds.
The team started off with a loss but came back in the second game with Cox on the mound and earning his first MVP of the weekend. Triangle won 11-1.
Winning the third game and taking a loss in the fourth game the team stepped it up in the semifinal against Ridge Meadow Royals.
With Cox on the mound again and earning his second MVP of the weekend, he pitched a 5-0 shutout only letting up two hits.
With spirits high and lots of excitement, the team went on to play in the final game against the Cowichan Mustangs.
With Hueston on the mound, the two teams were scoreless through four innings.
Cox scored the first run but Cowichan then went up by three.
At the bottom of the seventh inning with Cowichan leading 4-1, Cox got on base with no outs. He was hit home, with runners in scoring position. A walk off home run clinched the win and the provincial championship. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/sports/388995401.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/bdffd5a92cff90e795569bc7a7a2b5e2e95890b7e6035b68371eca06401485e3.json |
[
"Shannon Lough"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:37 | null | null | Two months after having an endoscopy Joan Dudoward received a letter telling her that the endoscope used was not cleaned properly. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fnews%2F391353941.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/73852princerupertWEB.Joan-Dudoward.SL.35.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | VIDEO: Prince Rupert woman treated with unclean medical equipment, Northern Health, B.C. Centre for Disease Control confirms more than a hundred affected | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | A routine check-up at the hospital has turned into a nightmare for a Prince Rupert woman.
A month-and-a-half after having an endoscopy to inspect her nose and throat, Joan Dudoward received a letter from Northern Health stating that the endoscope used at the Prince Rupert Regional Hospital was not cleaned properly.
From April until the end of June 2016, the endoscope, which is a flexible tube with a light and a camera used in nonsurgical procedures, was being cleaned with the wrong cleaning solution to disinfect the equipment. There were 104 patients affected and Dudoward was one of them.
“I was majorly stressed out,” she said in an exclusive interview with the Northern View. “I'm a cancer survivor. I try to keep my health up for my mom, I'm a caregiver for a 95-year-old woman.”
Dudoward had gone to the Prince Rupert hospital for an endoscopy on June 29 at 3:30 p.m. after complaining to her physician about reoccurring plugged ears and a sore throat. She received the letter from Northern Health on Aug.24, which stated the error did not impact the diagnostic outcome of the tests and the process error has been corrected.
The letter also states that the BC Centre for Disease Control has been consulted and “the risk of a patient being exposed to a virus as a result of this process error is extremely low.” The contact number for the director of acute care services is offered in case she has any other questions or concerns. Dudoward has many.
She called to find out why the instrument wasn't cleaned, what had happened and how many people had gone through the procedure before and after her. “She said she's not permitted to tell me anything about this,” was the response Dudoward said she received.
The vice-president of medicine for the Northern Health authority, Dr. Ronald Chapman, was quick to respond to media inquiries and stressed the importance of transparency. He said, based on previous experience, once they realized the mistake had occurred they consulted the BC Centre for Disease Control as well as the Northern Health infectious disease specialist in Prince George.
“The risk for the patient is extremely low. We're not concerned that it will at all have any negative impact on their health,” Dr. Chapman said. He added that it's Northern Health's policy to make patients aware even if the risk to them is low. “We believe it's important to be open with those patients and to be fairly transparent so at least they are aware of the mistake. In this case, we don't recommend any particular follow up or tests for the patients.”
This type of process error has happened before, Dr. Chapman confirmed. Not with the same scope, but he said there are many different endoscopes used and each are made by different manufacturers that have various recommendations on how to clean the equipment.
“The health sector is run by human beings and it's fairly complex. If mistakes do happen what we encourage our staff to do is to make management aware so they can learn from that experience,” he said. “I'm happy to say where those mistakes have happened in our environment, a process has been put in place and we haven't had any repetitions after some of those learning experiences.”
For the 104 patients that were affected by this incident, Dr. Chapman said their general practitioners have been notified and if they have any questions they can speak to them and the infectious disease specialist. They can also contact Northern Health's Patient Care Quality Officeto register a complaint.
For Dudoward, who had a bone marrow transplant in 2011 to battle leukemia, she is concerned and has already scheduled a meeting with her physician in early September.
“I'm thinking that my body is not going to be able to fight off infection like I was able to before the cancer because chemo takes a lot out of your body so this is like a bomb exploding in my life,” she said. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/391353941.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/0a2de43df62abb56097f22b66c7f38979542c7010c1f6819b3ae728c88be6497.json |
[
"Kendra Wong"
] | 2016-08-26T22:50:28 | null | null | Thirty metres below the surface, engulfed by kilometres of ocean and fish and other sea life is where Ashleigh Boyd feels comfortable. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fnews%2F391224211.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/16395vicnewsVN-DivingfeaturePAug2616-WEB.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Unlocking the secrets under local waters | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Victoria diver Scott Stevenson captured this image of a stellar sea lion in local waters. The Steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus also known as the northern sea lion and Steller's sea lion, is a near threatened species of sea lion in the northern Pacific. It is one of hundreds of marine life that can be found in the waters off Victoria.
Thirty metres below the surface, engulfed by kilometres of ocean and surrounded by fish and other sea life is where Ashleigh Boyd feels most comfortable.
Open water diving is like entering a different world. The diver becomes completely weightless, breathing underwater and kicking through the dark water, deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean. The only sounds come from the motor of nearby boats or the echo of a bang in the distance.
It’s an environment that Boyd, a Victoria resident and dive instructor with Ogden Point Dive Centre, has quickly grown to love.
“I’m a big thing diver, seeing manta rays or sharks. I love looking for the small things,” she said.
“I love being underwater and just looking around. I just enjoy being underwater,” said Boyd, adding she suffers from cerebral palsy, which affects her legs.
“When I’m underwater it’s no issue, I’m exactly the same as the person next to me. It’s very relaxing, it’s peaceful. No one can talk to you down there.”
Boyd, who is originally from Scotland and has dual citizenship between the U.K. and Canada, started open water diving in 2013. After several brief stints in post-secondary (she admits school wasn’t the right setting for her), her parents suggested she travel and join a U.K.-based charity called Reef Doctor, which focuses on the restoration of coral reefs. With the charity, she travelled to Madagascar, Africa where she helped monitor coral and fish growth, and educated local fishermen and schools on the impacts of overfishing. It was here that she also learned to dive and received her certification.
But Boyd admits she hated her first diving experience, in which she crashed head-first into an artificial coral table. But it was her second dive in which she really got hooked.
“I don’t know what changed but after my second dive, I absolutely loved it,” she said, noting she wasn’t as nervous the second time.
After leaving Reef Doctor, she then moved on to Australia to become a dive instructor and six months ago, landed in Victoria.
Over the past three years, Boyd has participated in roughly 600 dives and has encountered all types of sea life in both Madagascar and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, including seals, manta rays, tiger sharks, whales, sea anemones, barnacles, and sea slugs.
Her most bizarre encounter came during an open water guided dive on the reef in Australia late last year. She was swimming along when suddenly a manta ray swam by being chased by a tiger shark and two king fish. The sea life circled around the group and swam off.
Since coming to the Island, Boyd said the waters off Ogden Point have the most diverse sea life in Victoria, even diving 12 to 15 metres below surface, divers can see a range of specimens from crabs to ling cod, and wolf eels to giant pacific octopus, as well as macro-organisms.
Diving is a year-round sport in Victoria, since local waters usually hover around 10 to 13 degrees Celsius, the winter months tend to have better visibility. Divers can usually see between 10 to 15 feet in front of them.
Vancouver Island’s diving community is thriving as well, with more than 10,000 divers exploring the waters around 10 Mile Point, Race Rocks and the Saanich Inlet.
Scott Stevenson has been diving for the past 20 years and has spent time in Mexico, Honduras, Panama, Belize the U.S. and Canada. Stevenson said the biggest difference between Victoria’s marine ecosystem and warmer waters is that it has more kelp as opposed to coral, which results in darker, “more intimidating” looking waters.
“It’s quite an amazing experience to go underwater when it’s quiet in a very remote place and just enjoy what very few people actually get to see, especially here because of the temperate waters,” he said, adding he dives roughly four to five times a week.
“Kelp provides a breeding ground and protection area for thousands of species. It’s why our waters are so green because there’s so much life in it. We have an incredible amount of biodiversity, which is second to none in the world.” | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/391224211.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/4d827d217b659a9f4b9179e510936149a76ebfbf4edbd5729a959c341e1bb726.json |
[
"Kevin Laird"
] | 2016-08-26T13:04:23 | null | null | Where will the money go if Sooke wins? For a much-needed natural gas furnace for Sooke Community Hall. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fcommunity%2F390709171.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | Sooke Community Association is a finalist for a $15,000 Fortis Community Giving grant | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | It could be toasty warm in the Sooke Community Hall this winter.
The Sooke Community Association is a finalist for a $15,000 Fortis Community Giving grant.
Where will the money go if Sooke wins? For a much-needed natural gas furnace.
Earlier this year, Fortis invited more than 900 elected officials from the Island, Lower Mainland and B.C. Interior to nominate an organization in their community for a grant.
Sooke Coun. Rick Kasper nominated the local community association.
“I have a keen interest in the community association. They very rarely ask for anything and rely heavily on volunteers,” he said.
The community association rents the hall to more than a dozen different community groups at reduced rates, and some do not pay at all, depending on need.
The hall is in dire need of a furnace. Three areas of the basement have different heat set up from electric heat to electric mounted heaters, while the food bank has no heat whatsoever.
Fortis will judge about 50 projects from across the province – about 15 from the Island alone, said Carmen Driechel, the company’s community and aboriginal relations manager.
“I’m very impressed with the application that we received across the province, and selfishly, I feel really proud to be an Islander. The programs happening here on the Island are really outstanding,” she said.
She was particularly thrilled with the Sooke application.
“Living locally I think Sooke is a great community. I had no idea all of those groups were functioning out of that community hall. I think of the hall as the fall fair which is awesome, but there are a ton of volunteers doing a ton of volunteer activities that feed, clothe and support this community,” Driechel said.
Last week, a film crew from Fortis was in Sooke to videotape the activities of the community association’s work to be shown to provincial politicians at their annual convention in Victoria this fall. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/community/390709171.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/f3eed65825c3c1e7920ed4f70c65926bb95d3eca77b05317f1439db3f9b4dd45.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:26 | null | null | Gift From Within aims to register 1,000 more registered donors and raise money for the Canadian Transplant Association | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Flifestyles%2F379725191.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/77020BCLN2007EilieenandWeiZhang7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Cross-Canada ride to encourage organ donation | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Eileen Zheng donated a kidney to her mother Wei and is encouraging other people to register as organ donors.
When Eileen Zheng wanted to donate one of her kidneys to her mother, family members were at first concerned about the effect of the procedure on both of them.
But five weeks after the surgery, Wei Zheng was recovering from polycystic kidney disease after seven years on kidney dialysis, and Eileen was logging up to 65 km a day on her bicycle. And a year later, Eileen is preparing to ride across Canada to encourage more people to support organ transplants.
"I want to raise awareness, so more people are willing to register after seeing that I'm healthy after donating an organ," Eileen said at a ceremony at the B.C. legislature to launch the bid Monday. "We're hoping to raise at least 1,000 more organ donors compared to last year, and around $75,000 for the Canadian Transplant Association, for the life-saving work they do."
She has three and a half months to make the journey, starting with a Terry Fox-inspired dip of her bike wheel in the Pacific before heading east towards St. Johns, Newfoundland. Eileen's ride is called Gift From Within has a website where people can link to organ donor registration sites in each province, and her route stops and updates will be posted.
There are more than 45,000 people currently waiting for organ donations across Canada. B.C. residents can check their registration status or sign up to become a donor here. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/lifestyles/379725191.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/c03bc39c9040e54d2d5210da6a3c37f567ec0a781ef9bcef14ba25d368e2c0d4.json |
[
"Kevin Laird"
] | 2016-08-30T18:52:12 | null | null | Start up group will soon move into new digs and looks to expansion | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sookenewsmirror.com%2Fsports%2F391764111.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/98498sookeBoxing4.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Sooke Boxing Club hoping to land a knockout punch | null | null | www.sookenewsmirror.com | Sparring partners Tammy Johnson, left, and Melanie Bishop get into their workut at Sooke Boxing Club.
Ten years ago, boxing changed Ellen Connor’s life.
It started with taking her son to boxing class at Olson’s Martial Arts Karate and Boxing Centre in Langford.
Now, Connor is head coach of the non-profit Sooke Boxing Club.
“It stemmed on how I found boxing in my mid-30s to how it changed my life, and I want to bring that to everyone,” Connor, 45, says.
Connor started out as a runner and after she got injured moved to weightlifting and Highland Games competition.
But it was boxing where she found real success – and quite by accident.
When she took her young son to boxing, she joined an adult’s class right after her son’s class.
“I never looked back,” she says.
Connor took her boxing to a new level by fighting in four amateur bouts, but changed focus after a few years from fighting to coaching.
After coaching at Olson’s gym, Sooke Health and Fitness and Sooke School District, she’s branched out with the Sooke Boxing Club.
The club started out of the basement at Sooke Health and Fitness, moved to Sooke Community Hall, and soon will have its own place at the old Salvation Army building on Sooke Road.
“We want to make this a community club,” says Connor, who works as a corrections officer at William Head Institution, a federal prison facility.
“The club is not all about the fighters. It’s not about the testerone and beat ’em up and bang ’em out. That’s not what we’re about – we’re empowering everyone.”
Sooke Boxing Club has more than 50 members from age seven to 70, with a good mix of children, men and women.
Some members do train to fight, while others like to train without stepping into the ring.
“The whole focus of the club is that it’s for everyone,” Connor says.
Soon the club will start a new program called box-tech which is operated similarly of karate where there is no contact.
Boxers earn coloured wraps, much like coloured belts in karate, as they progress through different levels.
“If you have a child and you’re really scared about the contact side of boxing, you can put them in boxing and do it as a non contact sport and learn the sweet science,” Connor says.
The Sooke Boxing Club is the only chartered Boxing B.C. club in Greater Victoria, and has many boxers who compete in the ring.
Boxing B.C. eased the rules last year to allow children between eight to 10 years of age to get in the ring and have a match.
“It’s a great program because it’s not scary to them anymore,” Connor says,
“It’s not the sense of getting in there at 13 or 14 and taking hard punches, while at 8, 9, 10 they’re not so hard and it’s an introductory to boxing.”
Connor says the best word to describe boxing is empowerment.
“It empowers people and makes them feel good about themselves,” she says.
For more information on the Sooke Boxing Club, please phone 250-634-4941 or email ellenconnor@shaw.ca. | http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/sports/391764111.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.sookenewsmirror.com/c468fbd5c58ce50b38e916a05cc515b0f75809405fb70f25815bc7a8e9320dad.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:01:48 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Faragon-will-undergo-competency-review-in-murder-case%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/plugins/facebook-page-publish-2/line.png | en | null | Aragon will undergo competency review in murder case | null | null | tooeleonline.com | The Tooele man charged with the murder of his mother in July will be subjected to a competency hearing before he will be able to request a change of venue.
Jesus Aragon, 44, is charged with first-degree felony murder and first-degree felony aggravated burglary. He appeared before 3rd District Court Judge Robert Adkins on Tuesday and the continuance for the competency review was requested by his public defender, Jaime Topham.
Tooele City police was dispatched to Marcella Aragon’s home at 245 E. 600 North around 7:30 a.m. on July 22 for suspicious circumstances and a welfare check, according to Tooele City Police Officer Tanya Turnbow. The reporting party, who was a family member of the victim, alerted dispatch that Jesus “Jesse” Aragon was in the area and acting suspicious.
Jesus Aragon was not a resident of his mother’s house, according to the probable cause statement.
When officers arrived on scene, they went to the front door and knocked but received no response. They made contact with Jesus Aragon through an open window on the southeast side of the home, where he was found asleep on a bed, the statement said.
Officers asked him to come out to speak with them and he did so willingly, Turnbow said.
Tooele City police entered the home and found Marcella Aragon deceased on the living room floor with obvious signs of an assault, according to the probable cause statement.
The responding police spoke with Aragon but he resisted arrest and got into a scuffle with officers, Turnbow said. He was safely taken into custody and transported to the Tooele City Police Department for questioning, where he was cooperative with investigators.
During an interview with Tooele City police, Aragon admitted to the murder of his mother, the probable cause statement said.
Tooele City police have not released a cause of death or motive in the case.
Aragon is expected back in 3rd District Court for his competency review on Oct. 25 at 9 a.m. before Adkins. | http://tooeleonline.com/aragon-will-undergo-competency-review-in-murder-case/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/ed68fa4b705e77a6ce900d576b3b013e964c06166ebb6ae02dac3d57401749f6.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:25 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fkeebler-federal-trial-delayed-indefinitely%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/plugins/facebook-page-publish-2/line.png | en | null | Keebler federal trial delayed indefinitely | null | null | tooeleonline.com | A mountain of evidence in the case of a Stockton man charged with attempting to blow up a federal building will push a potential trial date out by several months after a status conference last Friday in U.S. District Court.
William Keebler, 57, appeared before Magistrate Judge Paul Warner a month after his last court date. Keebler is charged with one count of attempting to damage federal property by use of explosives and one count of carrying a firearm in the commission of a violent crime; both charges carry a minimum sentence of five years if convicted.
Warner requested Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Choate to prepare spreadsheets that detailed the contents of more than 170 DVDs of video and audio evidence in the case, which Choate completed prior to the status conference. Choate said the only possible evidence remaining in the case would come from FBI field offices around the country that were working on additional cases with a connection to Keebler.
Keebler’s public defender, Lynn Donaldson, said his office had already begun to go through hundreds of hours of video recordings from undercover FBI agents that infiltrated Keebler’s organization and surveillance footage. Donaldson said he believed someone working 72 hours a week would take a year to watch all of the footage and he has other responsibilities.
“I honestly don’t know how long it will take,” he said.
The original trial date of Sept. 12 for Keebler was removed from the court calendar and another status conference was set for Nov. 30 at 10:30 a.m. in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City.
Keebler faces federal charges after he attempted to detonate a pipe bomb at a cabin near the main Bureau of Land Management building at Mount Trumbull in Arizona on June 21, according to charging documents from the FBI. Keebler’s militia, the Patriot Defense Force, was infiltrated by undercover FBI employees for about a year.
One of the FBI operatives was tasked with making explosives for Keebler, to be used at a BLM facility in the “middle of nowhere.” According to the FBI, Keebler was present at the Bunkerville, Nevada standoff between cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and the BLM over unpaid grazing fees. | http://tooeleonline.com/keebler-federal-trial-delayed-indefinitely/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/febe1ec60d718636da406268f12e04d3db6f6a4acec0a278f65c1dbfefc42eee.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T08:47:55 | null | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fbuffaloes-bowl-over-cowboys%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/plugins/facebook-page-publish-2/line.png | en | null | Buffaloes bowl over Cowboys | null | null | tooeleonline.com | After an at-times-sloppy effort in his team’s season-opening win a week ago, Tooele football coach Kyle Brady wanted to see the Buffaloes look sharper in Friday night’s rivalry game against Grantsville.
The Buffs rose to the challenge, racking up 436 yards of total offense and shutting out the Cowboys for the first three quarters of Tooele’s 40-14 win at Buffalo Stadium.
“We challenged our guys to come out and not play as sloppy as we did last week,” Brady said. “Our guys played well, but we’ve got a lot of work to do still. I think we definitely improved from last week.”
Tooele (2-0) grabbed the lead on its third play from scrimmage as Jeno Bins sprinted for a 63-yard scoring run just one minute into the game. It marked the first touchdown Grantsville (1-1) had allowed this season after yielding two field goals in last week’s win over Cyprus.
“We all came out hard, 100 percent and punched them in their face,” said Bins, who finished with 68 rushing yards on just three attempts. “We didn’t give them any chance to hang with us.”
After Grantsville’s ensuing possession stalled in the red zone, Tooele embarked on an eight-play, 86-yard drive that culminated in Mikey Dunn’s 12-yard touchdown run that put the Buffs up 14-0.
“The offense made strides but the defense took 10 steps backward,” Grantsville coach Curtis Ware said. “Our defense – I don’t know where they were tonight. They flat-out didn’t come to play tonight.”
Grantsville’s offense, which struggled in the Cyprus game, was much better Friday, gaining 214 yards on the ground on 47 attempts. But when the offense faltered on a pair of fourth-down conversions in the second quarter, the Buffs wasted precious little time making the Cowboys pay.
Tooele senior Lincoln Powers scored on a 51-yard run with 7:17 left in the first half, two plays after Grantsville quarterback Coy Johnson overthrew teammate Gavin Eyre on a fourth-and-4 from the Tooele 43-yard line.
The crushing blow came when a failed pass attempt on fourth-and-6 gave the Buffaloes the ball back with less than a second left – just enough time for Tooele quarterback Austin Meono to find Pete Smith open down the right sideline for a 38-yard touchdown pass as time expired.
“We had nothing to lose,” Brady said. “We figured if we threw a pick or something happened, the chances of them returning it were not very good. We tried to take a shot to the end zone and get a score, and fortunately we were able to do that.”
Ware said his team wasn’t caught off-guard by the Buffs’ aggressive approach at the end of the half.
“We told them they were going to throw,” Ware said. “I would have done the same thing. We were confused in the secondary about what coverage we were in, so we’ve got a cornerback chasing the post when he’s supposed to stay over in the flat, and we’ve got two guys colliding into each other. It’s just mental stuff that we’ve got to fix.”
Even with a 27-0 lead at halftime, the Buffs didn’t take their foot off the gas, playing at a frenzied pace. On its first possession of the second half, Tooele went on an eight-play, 82-yard drive that took just 2:08, thanks in large part to a pair of long runs by Dunn that helped set up Meono’s 2-yard scoring run.
Dunn also helped set up Tooele’s final touchdown of the evening after a short Grantsville punt, carrying the ball three times for 31 yards before Smith capped the drive with a 4-yard TD run.
“Open field – that’s what I was seeing,” said Dunn, who finished with 102 yards on six rushing attempts. “I was looking for TDs.”
Eight players had at least one rushing attempt each for Tooele, which ran for 382 yards as a team. Powers led the way with 148 yards on 13 carries, with 138 of those yards coming in the first half. Smith had 56 yards on nine attempts.
Grantsville’s offense finally ended Tooele’s shutout bid on the first play of the fourth quarter on Johnson’s 4-yard TD run, capping a five-play, 57-yard drive. Johnson later added a 21-yard TD run with 6:53 left in the game.
Despite the loss, Johnson was pleased to see that his team didn’t quit, even battling through injury.
“Coming out in the second half and all of our guys not just dying – AJ Rainer went out and he kept telling them to put him back in,” said Johnson, who threw for 58 yards and rushed for 66 more. “I think that shows a lot of heart to our team.”
Riley Smith led Grantsville with 124 rushing yards on 21 attempts, while Eyre caught three passes for 41 yards.
Tooele travels to Murray next Friday for its final tune-up before the Sept. 9 Class 3AA North opener against rival Stansbury. Grantsville travels to Stansbury on Friday, with the Cowboys’ home opener slated for Sept. 9 against Desert Hills and the Class 3A North opener Sept. 16 against Union. | http://tooeleonline.com/buffaloes-bowl-over-cowboys/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/954e120d4f7b64f39520d7a58dc3b45da07c07fcaa983fafb70eaf28ed62dd52.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:00:22 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fpreparing-for-new-world-threats%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Dugway-1-8-25-16-150x150.jpg | en | null | Preparing for new world threats | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Dugway provides venue to test new technology against simulated threats ♦
In a poorly-lit dead-end cave, a table is covered with petri dishes and flasks that contain a broth-like substance. Rough, gray walls and a string of dim overhead lights give the place a clandestine, and perhaps sinister, appearance.
Luckily, that’s the intention of the Brauch Tunnel, a training facility at Dugway Proving Ground. While the interior appears to be a rock-hewn tunnel, the facility is really a series of 15 shipping containers used to simulate tunnels found in locations like Afghanistan.
The rock-like appearance is created using a wood frame, wire mesh and spray foam. The modular nature allows different arrangements of the containers to create a new simulated cave layout.
The facility, which is slated to double in size, allows hands-on training operations for the U.S. military, foreign allies and domestic first responders, according to Chris Johnson, chief of the Special Programs Division at Dugway.
Different chemical and biological production setups can be located in the “cave” and military personnel have to quickly assess the purpose of the facility. The scenarios range from heroin production to the creation of biological weapons, according to Lance McEntire, chief of the Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction branch of the Special Programs Division.
Soldiers without backgrounds in biology or chemistry need to be able to process clues such as the type of lab apparatus and materials being used to identify the laboratory’s purpose, McEntire said.
“As our soldiers come in, they’re looking at those visual indicators,” he said.
The shipping containers are safer than a real series of tunnels and much cheaper than blasting tunnels into mountain ranges on base, McEntire said. The training also involves other mock training areas, such as hotel rooms, he said.
The Brauch Tunnel and other facilities at Dugway Proving Ground were on display for U.S. departments and agencies, as well as foreign and private representatives, during the third annual S/K Challenge. The event allows government agencies and private industry an opportunity to test new technology against simulated threats during a two-week period.
A number of vendors had gathered Wednesday afternoon in the Joint Ambient Breeze Tunnel, a 530-foot-long structure used for large-scale testing on devices like tents, vehicles and chemical and biological detection equipment.
When the facility is in use, operators can control the wind speed and concentration of chemical simulants, which form a cloud that is directed past the equipment being tested by massive fans. The simulants are non-lethal chemical or biological agents that share an attribute with a more harmful agent, so they behave similarly in testing and detection.
The size of the testing area can also be adjusted through movable panels that can adjust the height or width of the test area, from the maximum dimensions of 42-feet wide and 58-feet tall. Being able to adjust the conditions in the tunnel allow for more tests to be conducted without concerns about wind speed and other external factors, according to Kenneth Gritton, technical director for the West Desert Test Center.
“This facility allows us to control the ambient conditions in such a way that we can do many, many more tests in an evening,” Gritton said.
By adjusting the wind speed and concentration of simulant, equipment parameters can be established, Gritton said. This determines the range of conditions a vehicle may protect its occupants from a biological weapon attack, for instance.
“We can put boundaries on the upper and lower limits of the protective value or the detection values of the material we’re testing in here,” Gritton said.
The Joint Ambient Breeze Tunnel is used frequently during the March to September window the facility is open. Due to its coated-fabric exterior and size, it can’t be used in the winter as the liquid simulant won’t react properly in the cold, Gritton said.
Once chemical and biological detectors are ready to transition from a lab environment, they are taken to the Target S test range for field testing. A sensor grid at the remote site allows for the open air release of simulants, with detectors attempting to determine the spread, concentration and particle size of the substance.
During a test Wednesday evening, the simulant was released into the air via a detonation of plastic explosives. Sensors on the testing grid returned real-time results to Dugway staff in a command center about a mile from the detonation site.
Inside the command center, Dugway Proving Ground staff monitor the way the simulant cloud forms and moves across the testing grid. Those results serve as the control to which equipment from private companies and government agencies are compared, according to Vincent Liddiard, the chief of the Test Management Branch at Dugway.
“We are the ground-truth information for what their equipment is supposed to detect,” Liddiard said.
Dugway Proving Ground Commander Col. Sean Kirschner said the S/K Challenge was an opportunity for the Department of Defense, as well as international and private partners, to use the varied and unique facilities at the installation. The event showcases Dugway, which Kirschner called an “international treasure.”
“They’re out here observing what our capabilities are,” he said. “We have merchants out here right now with systems under test, looking at improving their detection capabilities.” | http://tooeleonline.com/preparing-for-new-world-threats/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/1780695ff9d39df619be0d633fc9bd938d7ccc70ef592f1bb045ac80ab2a4974.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:16 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fjuly-19-fire-victims-make-do-with-temporary-housing%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/plugins/facebook-page-publish-2/line.png | en | null | July 19 fire victims make do with temporary housing | null | null | tooeleonline.com | An estimated 40-50 people were displaced when a grass fire destroyed 10 homes and damaged 17 others in a west Tooele City neighborhood on July 19.
But insurance companies and support from family, friends and the community have put roofs over those residents’ heads.
“There are probably five families in contracts for apartments or temporary housing,” said Bucky Whitehouse, director of Tooele County Emergency Management. “I understand there are also some that are still with family members. It just really varies depending on which family you’re talking about.”
For some families, their insurance company covers the housing bill. For Albert Arellano and his wife Sandra Martinez, community donations pay the rent.
“Our rent comes out of the funds that came from the KSL and Zions Bank fundraisers,” Arellano said.
People in and outside of Tooele County have donated more than $140,000 so far to the victims of the July 19 fire, via a KSL-organized fundraiser and Zions Bank’s Tooele Fire Relief Fund. Tooele City officials set up a special committee, headed by Whitehouse, to divide and distribute the funds.
The committee started distributing the funds earlier this month. It allocated $10,000 for homes that were a total loss, $5,000 for partial loss and $1,500 for damage, said city finance director Glenn Caldwell.
In the case of rentals, owners received 60 percent of their property’s allocation while renters received 40 percent.
Arellano and Martinez are still working with their insurance company to get compensation for the loss of their home, garage and shed. They plan to rebuild and hope to start soon after receiving the insurance money, Arellano said.
“We’re expecting a check this week for the [house],” he said. “I think a check for the other structures is coming soon.”
In the meantime, they live in Camelot Leisure Condominiums. The three-story building was originally home to Tooele’s Central School. The school building was closed in 1994 and converted into condominiums between 2001 and 2014, reopening in June 2014.
As an alumnus of Central School, living at Camelot is a little strange, Arellano said.
“It’s [our condo is] my old sixth-grade classroom. I never thought that would happen,” he said.
But he and Martinez are grateful to be there.
“It’s all right. It’s not really our style, but at least we have a roof over our heads,” Arellano said. “They’re nice. They did a good job on them — whoever redid them did a really good job.”
Nine local agencies and more than 80 firefighters responded to the July 19 fire, which started in a grass field around 10:45 p.m. and burned through the night. The blaze was pushed by 20-30 mph winds toward homes on Van Dyke and American ways, as well as South Coleman Street and Concord Drive.
The fire quickly grew, despite having the first crew on scene within three minutes of the reported fire and the first engine within six minutes. It destroyed 10 homes and damaged 17 others, said Whitehouse, who in addition to directing TCEM is chief of the Tooele City Fire Department.
In terms of loss of structures, the blaze was the biggest fire in Tooele City’s known history, said Jim Bolser, city director of community development and public works.
Tooele City Police Department and state fire officials continue to investigate the fire as arson.
Total costs of the blaze are still being determined. | http://tooeleonline.com/july-19-fire-victims-make-do-with-temporary-housing/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/d3c2103bbfff975da1d7c6df30245008dc3688513b7600c771f7217609345c94.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:16 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fst-marguerite-catholic-school-gets-new-playground-equipment%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Playground-8-25-16-150x150.jpg | en | null | St. Marguerite Catholic School gets new playground equipment | null | null | tooeleonline.com | When school started on Monday, St. Marguerite Catholic School was working on a new addition — in new playground equipment.
The playground equipment — a tall swing set and two towers — used to belong to East Elementary. Before Tooele County School District started demolition of the old elementary school, it stood at 135 S. 7th Street, only about two city blocks from St. Marguerite.
Lorena Needham, principal of St. Marguerite Catholic School, asked school district officials if her school could have some of East’s playground equipment before workers finished the demolition.
“They were just going to bulldoze them,” she said. “So I asked if we could have them.”
TCSD officials agreed and sold the playground equipment to St. Marguerite for $10, said Marie Denson, communications director for the school district.
The school district had decided not to keep the playground equipment for itself because of the difficulty in reassembling it, Denson said.
“Once it’s taken apart, it’s very difficult to put back together,” she said. “But since they [St. Marguerite] have the volunteer base they do, I think they’re reassembling it right now.”
Prior to acquiring the new swing set and towers, St. Marguerite Catholic School had only one small tower and swing set, Needham said.
“Since we were a preschool for 30 years before we became full pre-K through eighth grade, we only had pre-K stuff,” she said. “East had equipment that was for older kids. … I guess you could say it’s part of our maturing as a school — we realized we didn’t have equipment for all age groups.”
The equipment isn’t ready to play on yet, but it will be soon, Needham added.
“We still have one more pouring of concrete and putting mulch in place and landscaping,” she said. “We just have to make it child-safe at this point.”
TCSD demolished East Elementary to make room for a new school. When it opens sometime in fall 2017, the new school building will become home to Sterling Elementary, which combines the student bodies from Harris and East elementary schools. | http://tooeleonline.com/st-marguerite-catholic-school-gets-new-playground-equipment/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/92662cb3c80b81b5d314a15ca25a4d3734f09e5dd7e60faa9f9c32e048d6ec53.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:18 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fsouth-rim-residents-want-permit-pulled-for-commercial-gravel-pit%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Gravel-Pit-1-8-30-16-150x150.jpg | en | null | South Rim residents want permit pulled for commercial gravel pit | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Concerns include size of pit and dust flying into nearby homes ♦
Residents of one of Tooele County’s fastest-growing subdivisions aren’t happy they may be getting a new neighbor — a commercial gravel pit.
Nearly 50 South Rim residents gathered Saturday evening under the pavilion at their community park to plan a strategy to stop what once was a 10-acre temporary gravel pit from growing into a 176-acre pit operating seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
An operation plan for the Southside Gravel Pit, approved by Tooele County Planner Blaine Gehring in February 2015, says the gravel pit has already grown to 15 acres and may grow to an additional 160 acres.
South Rim is a subdivision west of Stockton and north of Silver Avenue. The subdivision consists of homes on one-acre lots or larger. An aerial photograph shows more than 60 homes in the area. In 2015, Tooele County issued 14 building permits for new homes in South Rim.
“I don’t want the dust, the noise, and the huge increase in traffic,” said Natalie Bunker, who built a home in South Rim nine years ago.
Bunker’s home sits less than 75 yards from the gravel pit, which is due south of Silver Avenue from her home.
“I could throw a rock from my house and hit the gravel pit,” said Mark Bunker, Natalie’s husband. “The prevailing winds will carry the dust into our house and will ruin our view.”
Tooele County Commissioner Shawn Milne said the county is in the process of gathering information about the gravel pit before determining its future.
But South Rim residents aren’t waiting for the county. They voted 43-0 Saturday night to use every avenue possible to have the 20-year-old conditional use permit for the gravel pit revoked.
A majority of the group is ready to financially back a lawsuit, if needed, to revoke the gravel pit’s permit. But the first round of action is a formal request to revoke the pit’s conditional use permit.
Tooele County code gives the planning commission the authority to revoke a conditional use permit for failure to observe requirements of the Tooele County Land Use Ordinance.
According to a petition to revoke the conditional use permit, prepared by South Rim resident Scott Hunter, the gravel pit violates county ordinance because the owners failed to submit required five-year plans and therefore the permit expired.
The petition also asserts that expanding the pit beyond the original 10 acres to a proposed 160 acres exceeds the scope of grandfathering.
The county planner also approved the continuation of gravel operation without the permit meeting the minimum requirements of county code, according to the petition.
The Tooele County Planning Commission issued the conditional use permit for gravel operations at the 10-acre parcel in 1996 when Tooele County owned the property.
Conditions for approval of the permit noted that the pit was for use “only on a temporary basis for [the] county road department.”
Planning department staff also noted that the pit’s location wasn’t near any residential area. Plans for South Rim didn’t appear until 2001.
The permit was to expire in five years from the date of approval, according to the staff recommendations. South Rim L.C. acquired the pit from Tooele County in August 2001.
Leland Hogan, who along with other members of his family developed South Rim, managed South Rim L.C. and operated the gravel pit.
“I really can’t complain about the way the Hogans operated the pit,” said South Rim resident Josh Maher. “My driveway was built with gravel from that pit.”
However, the Hogans’ intermittent use of the pit doesn’t compare to the present owner’s plan for a seven-day-a-week operation, according to Maher.
In February 2016, South Rim L.C. petitioned the county to redraw parcel boundaries on their property south of Silver Avenue. As a result, the gravel pit was included in two new parcels of approximately 88 acres each.
In April 2016, South Rim L.C. sold those two parcels to Southside Gravel, managed by Jay Harward and Drew Downs. Harward owns interest in other gravel pit operations in Tooele County.
Southside Gravel in turn has leased the gravel pit to Staker Parsons, according to a sign posted at the entrance to the pit.
Heavy machinery operating in the area, a new fence and improvements to the entrance, along with the new sign, have South Rim residents concerned that the new leasee is preparing to expand the former temporary pit, according to Maher.
Milne said county officials need more time to research the gravel pit and its permit before they can determine a proper solution.
“To settle this, we’ve got to look at the history of who received permits, for what and when,” he said. “We also have to look at what kind of conditions may have been set and what the laws were at the time the permits were issued.
“Back in 1996, they didn’t keep records like we do now,” he said. “For instance, we don’t have audio recordings of those meetings.”
However, Milne said he has talked to the current owner and they are willing to wait until the matter can be settled before proceeding with plans to increase gravel production.
However, South Rim residents aren’t willing to wait for the county.
“I do not have much trust or faith in the county right now,” said one unidentified South Rim resident at Saturday’s gathering. “Forget the county. We need to push this all the way through.” | http://tooeleonline.com/south-rim-residents-want-permit-pulled-for-commercial-gravel-pit/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/36e340ffaf10696ef062bc56d31377a88272f715f0efc73267f680c648d8c316.json |
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Senior Center
The senior center is for the enjoyment of all seniors 55 and older. New and exciting activities include bridge, pinochle, bingo, exercise program, line dancing, wood carving, Wii games, watercolor class, movies and health classes. Meals on Wheels available for homebound. Lunch served weekdays. For age 60 and above, suggested donation is $3. For those under age 60, cost is $5. Transportation available to the store or doctor visits for residents in the Tooele and Grantsville areas. For transportation information call (435) 843-4102. For more information about the Tooele center, call (435) 843-4110.
Books for the Whole Family
Donated children’s books and paperbacks are for sale for 25 cents, and hardcovers are being sold for $1 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Fridays and 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Tuesdays at the Tooele City Library. All proceeds go back to the library for projects and programs.
Grave decorations
Tooele City Cemetery has set its schedule for grave decorations for 2016. Decorations are allowed for seven days before and seven days after St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day, Independence Day, Pioneer Day, Labor Day and Halloween, as well as seven days before and seven days after the anniversary of death and seven days before and seven days after the birthday of the deceased.
Bingo is Back!
St. Marguerite Catholic Church has started its bingo games again on Fridays starting at 6:45 p.m. Come and have a good time! Food is available. Call 435-882-3860 with questions.
Grantsville
Family History Center
Greet your ancestors free at the Grantsville Family History Center, 117 E. Cherry St. All are welcome, with consultants there to assist you. Open Mondays noon to 4 p.m., and Tuesday through Thursday noon to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
Senior Center
The senior center is for the enjoyment of all seniors age 55 and older. For info, call (435) 884-3446. Activities include Bunco, exercise programs, bingo, ceramics, pinochle, movies and wood carving, etc. Meals on Wheels available for homebound. Lunch served weekdays. For age 60 and above, suggested donation is $3. For those under age 60, cost is $5. Transportation available to the store or doctor visits for residents in the Tooele and Grantsville areas. For transportation information, call (435) 843-4102.
Daughters of Utah Pioneers
The DUP is seeking any family histories, photographs, books, stories or vintage artifacts (before 1900) to display at our DUP Grantsville Museum, located at 378 W. Clark St. (in the basement of the J. Reuben Clark Farmhouse across from the Grantsville Cemetery). For more information, call Ellen Yates at (435) 884-0253 or Coralie Lougey at (435) 884-3832. Visit www.grantsvilledupmuseum.com or www.exploretooele.com.
Stansbury Park
Restoration at Benson Gristmill
The Historic Benson Gristmill Restoration Committee is seeking donations from individuals, groups, and businesses to help with restoration efforts and the operation of the historic Gristmill site. Donations may be sent to Tooele County Benson Gristmill Fund, 47 S. Main Street, Tooele, UT 84074. For more information contact Mark (435) 241-0065.
Schools
Story and Craft Hour
Join us every Monday at 10 a.m. at the Tooele Family Center-PIRC as we enjoy the adventures of books and make fun crafts. For more information, call (435) 833-1934 ext. 1410. We are located at West Elementary School, 451 W. 300 South, Tooele. Please enter through the south side doors.
Free Preschool Hour
Every Tuesday at 10 a.m., the Tooele Family Center-PIRC has a fun activity hour of learning, singing and creating. This class is for all children 0-5 years old. Please come and enjoy the fun. For more information, call (435) 833-1934 ext. 1410. We are located at West Elementary School, 451 W. 300 South, Tooele. Please enter through the south side doors.
Saint Marguerite Catholic School
Enrolling now for the 2016-2017 school year in grades PK–8. All day Kindergarten. All day preKindergarten/preschool. Junior High grades 6–8. Curriculum features an enhanced STEM curriculum called STREAMS with religion, Spanish, and art classes included. Small class sizes. Free trial days available with advance notice. 15 S. 7th Street in Tooele. Call (435) 882-0081 or visit www.stmargschool.org. All faiths welcome. Financial assistance available. Come and see us.
Tooele Jr. High School
Nominations are now being accepted for the Tooele Jr. High School Community Council. Any parent or guardian of a current Tooele Junior High School student is eligible to run. If you are interested in being nominated please contact the office no later than Sept. 6, 2016, so that ballots can be prepared. Candidate names will be posted on Sept. 12 on the school’s website and at the office. The election will be held at Tooele Junior High School, during business hours, 7:45 a.m.-3 p.m., Sept 12-14. If you have any questions about the council or the election, please contact Principal Bill Gochis at (435) 833-1921.
TATC
Diesel Tech class
Become a Heavy Duty Diesel Technician and start earning an attractive income. Employer partners are waiting to employ diesel technician graduates. Enroll today and begin an exciting lucrative career. Visit tatc.edu or call 435-248-1800 for more information.
Education
Online courses
Online courses in Network+ and Security+ IT are designed for the IT professional seeking to upgrade their skills and knowledge of networking and security, and prepares you for the CompTIA Network+ and Security+ exams. Call the TATC at (435) 248-1800 for more information or to enroll.
Adult education
Get your high school diploma this year. All classes required for a high school diploma, adult basic education, GED preparation and English as a second language are available. Register now to graduate — just $50 per semester. Located at 211 Tooele Blvd., call (435) 833-8750. Adult education classes are for students 18 and over.
ESOL
ESOL conversational classes are held Tuesdays and Thursdays. ESOL students may also come anytime the center is open for individualized study. Registration is $50 per semester. Call (435) 833-8750 for more information.
Early Head Start
Do you have a child under age 3? Are you currently pregnant? VANTAGE Early Head Start is a free program for eligible families that offers quality early education for infants and toddlers in the home; parent education; comprehensive health services to women before, during and after pregnancy; nutrition education and family support services. Call (435) 841-1380 or (801) 268-0056 ext. 211 to apply or for free additional information.
Free developmental evaluation
DDI VANTAGE Early Intervention offers a variety of services to families with infants and toddlers from birth to age 3. Individualized services are available to enhance development in communication, motor development, cognition, social/emotional development, self-help skills and health concerns. Contact us for a free developmental evaluation at (435) 833-0725.
Budget 101
Get control of your money with this free class! This 1 1/2-hour class will help you with the tools you’ll need to set up a budget — and tips to follow it. To get the most of out the class bring your income and debt information. You will not need to share this info with anyone — it is just for you to use. Classes are offered each month. Classes held at USU Extension at 151 N Main. Register by the Monday before by emailing darlene.christensen@usu.edu or call/text 435-840-4404.
Hunter Education
Utah Hunter Education courses will take place Sept. 6, 8, 13, 14 and 15 from 6-9 p.m. at the Tooele County Health Building, located at 151 N. Main Street in Tooele. The range day will be Sept. 17. State law requires students to attend all sessions of class. All students must purchase a Hunter Education voucher for $10 from a license agent/vendor before attending a class. Bring the voucher to the first class and give to the instructor. The voucher includes all costs for the class and includes a small game license that is validated upon completion of the class. For more information, call Gene at 882-4767 or Bryan at 882-6795.
Gardening
Free Plant Diagnostic Clinic
A free plant diagnostic clinic will take place every Wednesday through October from 3-6 p.m. at the USU Extension Office Library, 151 N. Main, Tooele. Staffed by experienced and friendly Master Gardeners, you’ll find quick answers for what is troubling your garden and yardscape. Questions can also be submitted via email at tooelemastergardeners@usu.edu.
Charity
Tooele Children’s Justice Center
Tooele Children’s Justice Center is in need of DVD-Rs, soda, bottled water and snacks. We appreciate all donations. For inquiries or drop-off call (435) 843-3440. 25 S. 100 East, Tooele.
United Methodist dinner
Tooele United Methodist Church offers a free dinner every Wednesday. Coffee and social hour starts at 4 p.m. and dinner is served from 5-6 p.m. All are welcome.
The Tooele Valley Resource Center
The Tooele Valley Resource Center, now sharing a building with the Tooele County Food Bank at 38 N. Main Street, is currently in need of donations. Please consider donating items such as deodorant, chapstick, lotion, diapers, formula, toilet paper, shampoo, conditioner, combs and brushes. Cash is also welcomed. Those who receive services include individuals or families in crisis, the homeless and families at risk of becoming homeless. For more information, call (435) 566-5938 or fax (435) 843-0244.
First Baptist Food Pantry
The First Baptist Church in Tooele is offering an emergency food pantry to meet the needs of our community. The food pantry is available for emergency needs. Hours of operation are Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon. We are located at 580 S. Main Street. For information call (435) 882-2048.
The Tooele County Food Bank & Grantsville Emergency Food Pantry
The Tooele County Food Bank and Grantsville Emergency Food Pantry are in need of canned meats, soups, pasta and any non-perishable foods. We are accepting donations for Pathways Women’s and Children’s Shelter (victims of domestic abuse). They are in need of socks, underwear, blankets for twin beds, hygiene products (hairspray, hair gel, body wash, nail polish and remover), toys. Anything will be appreciated. Underwear and socks must be new. Other items can be gently used. Please help us help our community. Drop boxes are located in the Intermountain Staffing Office, 7 South Main Street #203, Tooele, UT 84074.
Baby blankets needed
Baby blankets are needed for the nursery at Mountain West Medical Center. Blankets should be new and in good condition. Homemade blankets are also accepted if new. Donations can be turned in to the volunteer desk at Mountain West Medical Center, 2055 N. Main St. in Tooele. Call Diane at (435) 843-3691 with any questions.
Community Closet
Clean out your closets. The Community Closet is accepting donations for gently used clothing. Donations are accepted at your neighborhood school. Contact Christy Johnson at (435) 830-4706 with any questions.
Moose
Meals at the Lodge
Friday and Saturday night dinners will be served from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday night dinners include clam chowder or homemade soup, and/or fish baskets (halibut, shrimp), or chicken strips. Saturday night dinners include 12-ounce ribeye or T-bone steak with choice of baked potato/fries, salad and roll; halibut or salmon steak with choice of baked potato or fries, salad and roll, or Jumbo shrimp with choice of baked potato or fries, salad and roll. All meals are for a reasonable price. No orders are taken after 8:45. Daily lunch specials are available at the lodge from 11 a.m. After purchase of 10 (ten) meals either Friday/Saturday nights you get a free one. If you have more than four people in your party, please call ahead to ensure the cook can plan better. For members and their guests only.
Entertainment
The band Rock-A-Holics will play at Camp Wapiti on Friday, Sept. 16 at 6 p.m. The band Horse Brothers will play Saturday, Sept. 17 at 6 p.m.
Golf scramble
The next Moose golf scramble (Steve Bevan Patriot Tournament) is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 11 at Oquirrh Hills Golf Course with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start. Cost is $50 per person and includes golf, cart, prizes and lunch. Hole sponsorships are available for $50. There will be raffle prizes. Golf passes and/or personal carts will be honored. Please sign up at the lodge or call 435-882-2931.
Tri-Lodge at Camp Wapiti
The fifth annual Tri-Lodge at Camp Wapiti will be held Sept. 16-18. Please plan on attending and enjoy different bands on Friday and Saturday nights and great food all day Friday and Saturday. Campsites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. For Eagles, Elks and Moose members and their guests only.
Moose Association convention
The annual Idaho/Utah Moose Association Convention will be held Sept. 22-25 at the Glens Ferry Lodge in Idaho.
Craft Fair
On Oct. 15, the lodge will have its annual Craft Fair. If you are a vendor and would like to participate, please call the lodge at 435-882-2931.
Eagles
Sunday breakfasts
There is a breakfast served each Sunday from 9-11 a.m. There is a special every Sunday for $5 per person and you can order off the menu for $7 per person or $3 for seniors who order very few items or for kids age 11 and under. The breakfast includes one glass of juice or milk and coffee with refills. Bad beer is available and the food is delicious. The Aerie will serve breakfast on Sept. 18 and the Auxiliary will be in charge of the Sept. 25 breakfast. Public invited.
Steak nights
On Sept. 16, the dinner special is a 12-ounce top sirloin for $12. On Sept. 23, the special is a five-piece shrimp dinner for $11. On Sept. 30, the special is a half-and-half six-ounce top sirloin for $10.
Steaks and breakfast
Steaks on Friday, Sept. 2 and breakfast on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, have been canceled due to the Labor Day holiday.
Kids’ Steak Night menu
Something new at the Friday Night Steaks: there is a new kids menu. The Auxiliary will offer a new menu for kids 12 and under ONLY. For $2 per person, they have their choice of a large corn dog, four mini corn dogs, a hot dog or a grilled cheese on Texas Toast with their choice of French fries or tater tots. You cannot beat this. Parents, come down to steak night and let the kids join you and try our new menu for the kids.
Tri State Ritual Conference
Tooele Aerie and Auxiliary will host the Utah, Idaho and Wyoming Tri State Ritual Conference Sept. 8-11, 2016. Ritual Competition will be the main activity. Meals will be served: dinner Thursday evening at 6 p.m.; breakfast, 7-10 a.m., lunch 10 a.m.-6 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m. both Friday and Saturday. Monte Carlo will be the name of the game on Friday with a special dinner dance with Dave Bickmore’s Band playing for the dance on Saturday evening, starting at 6 p.m. with the dinner, stuffed chicken breasts with the trimmings. Sunday morning breakfast will start at 6 p.m. See the Eagles’ Facebook page for the other menu items.
Steak night canceled
Steak night on Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, has been canceled due to Tri State Ritual Conference; however, a SPECIAL Monte Carlo Night will be held.
Monte Carlo night
There will be a SPECIAL Monte Carlo night for the Tri State guests on Friday, Sept. 9, 2016, starting at 6 p.m. The cost of the dinner, Sloppy Joes with the trimmings will be $5 — this includes $700 of play money to play the games with. Games will be played until 9 p.m. and then, there will be an auction for the gifts/prizes, using the play money with PWSP Gene Bennett as the auctioneer. Fun to be had by all. Members and guests invited.
Tri State dinner/dance
There will be a Tri State dinner/dance on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016. Dinner —stuffed chicken breasts with the trimmings — will be served at 6 p.m. for $10 with our local Dave Bickmore’s Band playing for the dance to follow dinner. Members and guests invited.
Tri State Breakfast
Members and guests are invited to come to breakfast on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, from 6 a.m. through ? when all are served that wants to eat. The SPECIAL is sausage or bacon with eggs for $5; add scones with honey, jam and butter for $2 more.
Tri Lodge get-together
The Tri Lodge, Eagles, Elks and Moose annual get-together will be held Sept. 16-18, 2016. Check the Eagles’ Facebook page for more information.
Planning meeting
The next planning meeting is Sept. 20, 2016, at 6 p.m. ALL officers are supposed to be there for both and Aerie and Auxiliary and committee chairmen also are to be there to plan the activities for October. Please come.
PPs monthly dinner
PMP Rosalie Fox will host the dinner at the Casa Del Rey Mexican Restaurant in Grantsville on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, at 7 p.m. All PPs are invited.
Elks
Meetings
Lodge meetings are held the second and fourth Tuesday of every month. House committee meetings are held every third Tuesday of the month. All members are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Historical Society
Seeking Historical Items
Tooele County Historical Society would like members of the community who have any family or personal histories, photographs, books, brochures, DVDs, VHS tapes, or newspaper articles that you would like to donate to our organization to please call us. We are also looking for books, newspaper articles, photos, brochures or any history that pertains to the Tooele County area. If you would like to donate them to our organization, or if you would let us make a copy for the Tooele County Historical Society, please call Alice Dale at (435) 882-1612.
Historical books
Tooele County Historical Society’s books will be available to purchase at our meeting. The History of Tooele County Volume II is $30, The Mining, Smelting, and Railroading in Tooele is $20, and we also have eight note cards depicting four different pioneer buildings for $4. These will make great gifts for your family and friends. Please call Alice Dale at 882-1612 if you would like to purchase these books.
Groups and Events
Local author seeks photos
A local author and historian is seeking original photographs of Saltaire, Black Rock, Garfield Beach and/or Lake Point, as well as any similar turn-of-the-century attractions and resorts for an upcoming book project. Those who wish to contribute information or photographs of these parks should contact Emma Penrod at elpenrod@gmail.com. Contributions will be printed with credit in a yet-to-be released pictorial history book. There is no such thing as too many photographs as the author needs a minimum of 160 photographs, and any help is greatly appreciated.
Tooele Valley Flute Choir
The Tooele Valley Flute Choir seeks members interested in our inaugural effort to raise the profile of local flautists. If you love to play the flute and want to grow your musical horizons, please join us! All levels of skill and experience welcome. Contact Emma at elpenrod@gmail.com.
Tooele Valley Free Masons
The Tooele Valley Free Masons meet the second Friday of each month for dinner and socializing. If you are interested or have questions please join us at the Lodge, located at the corner of Settlement Canyon Road and SR-36, or give us a call at (435) 277-0087.
Tooele Valley Family History Center
Research your ancestors free with trained FamilySearch volunteers at the Tooele Valley Family History Center, 751 N. 520 East, Tooele. Phone (435) 882-1396. Hours of operation: Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday evenings 7-9 p.m. Wednesday evenings by appointment only. Special classes offered regularly. Call the center for more information.
Take Off Pounds Sensibly
If you are struggling with your weight, you don’t need to travel the road alone. TOPS can help you achieve your goals and support you in your journey. We provide accountability through weekly weigh-ins and support and encouragement in a non-judgmental environment. TOPS is open to all men, women, teens and preteens. There are now two TOPS chapters in Tooele to accommodate your schedule. UT 330 Tooele meets Tuesday at Cornerstone Baptist Church, 276 E. 500 North. Weigh in from 5:30-6 p.m., meeting at 6 p.m. Call Mary Lou at (435) 830-1150 for information. UT 365 Tooele meets Saturday at the Bit ‘n’ Spur Clubhouse, 240 W. 500 North. Weigh-in from 9-9:30 a.m., and the meeting is at 9:30 a.m. This chapter will meet occasionally at a private residence, so call ahead for the exact location. Call Lisa at (435) 882-1442 or (435) 830-5651 for information. TOPS is a nonprofit organization. See the TOPS website at www.tops.org.
Tooele Gem and Mineral Society
Our club meets the third Tuesday of the month from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the Pioneer Museum downstairs conference room located at 47 E. Vine Street, Tooele. Come learn about rocks, minerals and ways to craft with them and enjoy field trips for rock collecting. Membership $10/year. Email TooeleGemAndMineralSociety@gmail.com.
Sons of Utah Pioneers
The goal of the Sons of Utah Pioneers Settlement Canyon Chapter is to keep our pioneer heritage alive. We do this through histories, stories, artifacts, monuments, museums, service and scholarships. Much of this labor of love is found in the Tooele Pioneer Museum at 47 East Vine in Tooele, as well as various statues and monuments around the county. The Tooele Pioneer Cemetery at the mouth of Settlement Canyon is another of our projects. We are always looking for artifacts and histories as a loan or gift to be displayed for everyone’s benefit at the Tooele Pioneer Museum. If you are interested in the values of honoring past and future pioneers and in visiting their historical settings and learning more about those who settled and shaped Utah, attend our business and education meeting the first Thursday of each month. A potluck dinner followed by various presentations starts promptly at 6:30 p.m. in the new TATC Center at 88 S. Tooele Blvd. Call Robert Hansen at (435) 249-0703 for more information.
Mood disorder support group
Do you or someone you love have a mood disorder? NAMI-Tooele affiliation offers help, hope and healing. Please join us for support group sessions every Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. at the New Reflection Clubhouse on 900 South in Tooele. For more info, contact Kelly at 841-9903.
Tooele Family Al-Anon
Wednesdays at 11 a.m. at the Tooele Pioneer Museum, in the basement at the back of the building. For questions or more information, please call Allene at (435) 830-0465 or Elizabeth at (435) 884-0825 or (435) 241-9200.
Tooele Al-Anon Choices 4U
This group meets Sunday at 5 p.m. at the Mountain Faith Lutheran Church, 560 S. Main Street. For more information, contact Gesele at (435) 224-4015 or Jo-Ann at (435) 849-4180.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Meeting daily at noon and 8 p.m. at the Oasis Alano Club, 1120 W. Utah Ave. For more information, contact Lance at (435) 496-3691 or Wendy at (801) 694-2624.
Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous
Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) is a free, 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food addiction. Meetings are held every Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Pioneer Museum, 47 E. Vine St. in Tooele. Enter at the north back entrance. For more information, call Millicent at (435) 882-7094 or Denise at (435) 830-1835 or visit www.foodaddicts.org. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Tooele County Aging
Tooele County Aging is looking for volunteers to help us meet the needs of seniors in the community. Many seniors require assistance and need rides to doctors or other health professionals. Rides help seniors live more independent lives. Call (435) 843-4114 for more information. The Grantsville and Tooele Senior Centers also are in need of volunteers. For more information about volunteering at the Grantsville Center, call Dan at (435) 843-4753. For volunteering at the Tooele Center, call Debbie at (435) 843-4103.
Life’s Worth Living Foundation
Suicide support group every third Thursday at 7 p.m. at the TATC, located at 88 S. Tooele Blvd., Tooele. If you struggle with suicidal thoughts or have lost a loved one to suicide, please plan on attending. Please go on Facebook and like our page to keep current with our latest news and events. Contact us on that page. lifesworthlivingfoundation.com.
Life’s Worth Living Golf Tournament
The Life’s Worth Living Foundation will host its second annual golf tournament fundraiser Saturday, Oct. 1 at The Links at Overlake. Registration for the four-person scramble begins at 7:30 a.m. with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. Register your team before Sept. 1 for a $50 team discount. Single players are welcome for $65 per player. Breakfast will be provided by Denny’s and there will be a BBQ pig-on-a-spit lunch. For more information or to register, call Ted Young at 435-849-1773 or visit lifesworthlivingfoundation.com.
Disabled American Veterans Chapter 20
The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) will hold its monthly executive and general meetings on the third Thursday of every month at the Pioneer Museum (rear entrance). The executive meeting will be at 7 p.m. and the general meeting will be at 8 p.m. The DAV is looking for volunteer drivers — no DAV membership is required. Will need a VA physical. No monthly meetings are held in July or December. Call commander Curtis G. Beckstrom at 435-840-0547 or adjutant Eric Suarez at 435-241-9781.
Health Department and Aging Services hours
The Tooele County Health Department and Aging Services’ new hours of operation are Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., and Friday from 8 a.m.-noon. Check out our calendar on our main page for holiday hours and closures. For more information, call (435) 277-2301.
Caregiver Support Group
Join us the third Monday of each month from 2-3 p.m. at Mountain West Medical Center, 2055 N. Main Street in Tooele. The Tooele County Health Department’s Aging Services program is the sponsor for these Alzheimer’s Association’s Caregiver Support Groups. The groups are designed to provide emotional, educational and social support for caregivers. They help participants develop methods and skills to solve problems. The meetings encourage caregivers to maintain their own personal, physical and emotional health, as well as optimally care for the person with dementia. Questions call 435-277-2456.
Caregiver Class
Bring your lunch and join us Friday, Sept. 2 from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Tooele County Health Dept. Bldg. Room #180 for a lunch and learn seminar. Kim Meichle with the Utah Independent Living Center will be presenting Assistive Technology: Tools to Help You. Come learn about different devices that may ease some of your daily tasks as a caregiver and see equipment that may enable your loved one to be more independent. Call Aging Services 277-2456 with any questions.
Parkinson’s Disease Support Group
A diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease can be overwhelming for the newly diagnosed. Tooele has a support group for persons with Parkinson’s Disease and their caregivers. You can learn how others are coping with PD and how to live well. We meet the third Friday of each month from 1-2 p.m. at TATC, Tooele Applied Technology College, 88 S. Tooele Blvd., Tooele. For information, call Barb at (801) 656-9673 or Hal at (435) 840-3683.
Tooele Valley Country Players
We meet and play for each of the four assisted living nursing homes in Tooele County. From 3:30-4:30 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday, we are at one of these homes. We are looking for fiddle and guitar players and singers to add to our group. If you are interested, call Jay Flanders at (435) 882-4278 or Thiel “Tilly” Peck at (435) 224-4807.
TC Squares
TC Squares is ready to gear up and start dancing again. We will have beginner classes each Monday from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Clarke N. Johnsen Junior High School Cafetorium, located at 2152 N. 400 West in Tooele, Utah. We are a casually dressed family-friendly club and welcome dancers of all ages — we just ask that those under age 12 be supervised by an adult at all times. The first three nights in August will be free for new dancers. Come out and learn to square dance for free and find out how much fun it is and enjoy friendship set to music. The schedule for September is as follows: Sept. 5 — dark for Labor Day; Sept. 12 — New dancer class at 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 19 — New dancer class at 7:30 p.m., plan and prepare for anniversary dance, melons, melons and more melons; Sept. 23 — One-year anniversary dance from 7-9:30 p.m., pre-rounds start at 7 p.m., alternating tips and rounds until 9:30; Sept. 26 — New dancer class at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Woody at 435-850-2441 or Roberta at 801-349-5992.
Tooele Naranon “Circle of Hope to Recovery”
Tooele Naranon meets Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. at 134 W. 1180 North, Suite 4 in Tooele (Bonneville Mental Health). Open to all those affected by someone else’s addiction. As a 12-step program, we offer help by sharing our experience, strength and hope. For more information, please contact Terri at (435) 313-4851.
Red Cross blood drives
During National Preparedness Month in September, the American Red Cross encourages eligible donors to give blood to help ensure a readily available blood supply for emergencies. To make an appointment to give blood, download the Red Cross Blood Donor app, visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767). Donors are encouraged to make appointments and complete the RapidPass online health history questionnaire at redcrossblood.org/rapidpass to help reduce wait times. Blood drives will be held Sept. 10 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Tooele East Stake, 721 N. 520 East, as well as Sept. 13 from 2-8 p.m. at the Tooele Utah Stake, 253 S. 200 East.
Corey Melville Men’s Softball Tournament
This tournament, sponsored by the West Wendover Recreation District, will be Sept. 10-11, 2016, in West Wendover, Nevada. Cost is $250 per team with a two-game guarantee. For more information or to register, call (775) 664-3289. | http://tooeleonline.com/bulletin-board-august-30-2016/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/c8a853752776cfdb8dc34cc7e6067ce2783acedec71584b8b459da2dbc451768.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:59:56 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Ffundraiser-set-for-this-friday-to-help-girls-medical-expenses%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/plugins/facebook-page-publish-2/line.png | en | null | Fundraiser set for this Friday to help girl’s medical expenses | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Janna’s Java will host a fundraiser Friday for the girl who fell through a skylight at Tooele Junior High School on July 11.
Maddie Olsen, 12, was hurt when she and another girl climbed onto the school’s roof to retrieve a ball. While walking on the roof, she fell through a skylight, falling approximately 15 feet into the school building. She was transported by medical helicopter to Primary Children’s Hospital in stable condition, according to Tooele City police.
Olsen broke her left femur in the accident, said her grandfather Randy Morehead. She will be in a wheelchair for six months, according to a flyer for the fundraiser posted at Janna’s Java.
Morehead has organized a car and bike show to take place from 6-9 p.m. at Janna’s Java, 402 N. Main Street in Tooele.
“With all the medical bills, it’s kinda rough right now,” he said. “She’s gonna be all right, though.”
Registration for the car show costs $10. Anyone interested in entering their car or bike can call Alisha Perez at 435-849-3687, said fundraiser volunteer Carlos Perez. All cars and bikes should check in at 5 p.m. Friday.
In addition to browsing the car show, people can buy pulled pork sandwiches, salad and corn for dinner. Tooele Valley Meats donated the pork, Perez said.
All proceeds from the fundraiser will go to Olsen’s family. Volunteers will also be accepting donations. The goal is to raise $3,000 to meet the family’s insurance deductible, Perez added.
Janna Millard said she was happy to donate her coffee shop’s parking lot for the fundraiser.
“It’s a good cause,” she said. “I hope a lot of people show up for it.” | http://tooeleonline.com/fundraiser-set-for-this-friday-to-help-girls-medical-expenses/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/26134016d77c57e58d4a7058e4f67c747b0b7db60e7a69033e5e907ed338e99a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:04:10 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fcommissioners-vote-to-sell-umc-to-countys-rda%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/UMC-Hearing-1-8-25-16-150x150.jpg | en | null | Commissioners vote to sell UMC to county’s RDA | null | null | tooeleonline.com | The Utah Motorsports Campus is one step closer to belonging to the Tooele County Redevelopment Agency, and one step closer to being sold to a yet-to-be-determined new owner.
The Tooele County Commission approved a resolution Wednesday night that authorizes the county to enter into an agreement to sell UMC to the county’s RDA for $20 million.
The unanimous vote to approve the potential sale came immediately after a public hearing. A total of 15 speakers spoke for two minutes each.
Some supported the sale to the RDA. Others opposed it, claiming the sale was a “back-door deal” to sell the racetrack to a Chinese-based owner for less than what an American company offered.
The commissioners who approved the $20 million asking price and terms of sale will meet again in one week. But this time they will be serving as the Tooele County Redevelopment Agency Board, and will vote on accepting the offer and terms of sale.
According to the county’s RDA attorney, it’s all legal.
“The state specifically provides for counties to form redevelopment agencies for the purpose of economic development,” said Craig Smith, attorney with Smith Hartvigsen, a Salt-Lake based law firm that includes government, real estate, and redevelopment in their list of practice areas.
State law requires the RDA board to be the legislative body that created the RDA. For Tooele County that means the county commission is the RDA board, although the RDA and the county are two separate legal entities, according to Smith.
“There is nothing back-door, under handed, or sneaky going on here,” he said. “The county is being transparent and conducting the sale just how state law says it should.”
The county could have transferred the property to the RDA at no cost, according to Smith.
The RDA is the best suited to conduct the sale of the property to the final user because when an RDA sells property it can retain controls or establish restrictions and covenants running with the land that are consistent with the RDA’s plan for the area.
Without the RDA, the county can essentially only control future land use through zoning laws.
Regardless of who the final buyer will be, if the county wants to use the land for economic development purposes, the RDA can control the future use of the property, according to Smith.
Some of the speakers at the public hearing supported selling the property to the RDA so the RDA can conduct the final sale of the property.
“I like putting the motorsports park in the hands of the RDA,” said David Kizerian, with the National Auto Sports Association Utah Region. “Let them look at the proposals and make a decision based on what is the best long term interest of the county.”
“I’m all for the movement to the RDA,” said Grantsville resident Chris Fields.
Others were concerned that the county was looking at a $20 million deal when there was a $28.1 million offer on the table.
Terra Pincock said she was afraid the sale to the RDA was a back door attempt to sell the property for less than what it’s worth.
“I do not support the sale to the RDA,” she said. “I think $20 million is not enough. The county is constantly saying there isn’t enough money to do the things they want to do. Here we have $28 million on the table and yet consistently the county has agreed to take $20 million leaving $8 million on the table.”
Others at the public hearing were concerned that the sale to the RDA was setting the stage to sell the property to a foreign owned company.
Mitime Investments, the parent company of UMC that currently manages the racetrack for the county, is owned by Chinese billionaire businessman Li Shufu.
“The land of America is sacred,” said Tooele County resident Tom Cramer. “I don’t want my land sold to a foreign government or a foreign country of any kind. It’s sacred.”
“I fought against communism,” said Ken Goodrich, a Vietnam War veteran and resident of Grantsville. “I want to keep communist people out of my country. We need to keep America in American hands. Don’t throw dirt on those that died to protect our freedoms. What you’re doing is wrong and you know it’s wrong.”
Las Vegas real estate developer Andrew Cartwright, manager of Center Point Management, the Wyoming incorporated limited liability company registered to do business in Utah, also spoke during the public hearing.
The county commission turned down Center Point’s initial offer of $22.5 million in September 2015 for the motorsports park when they accepted the $20 million offered by Mitime.
County officials claimed that Mitime’s offer and proposal had a better long-term economic impact for the county. But Center Point successfully sought a court action that set aside the proposed sale to Mitime.
In December 2015, 3rd District Court Judge Robert Atkins stopped the sale to Mitime, ruling that the county had not received fair market value for the property.
Atkins defined fair market value as the highest offer for the property.
Center Point’s $22.5 million, which was later raised to $28.1 million to agree with the county’s assessed value of the property for tax purposes, was the highest offer, according to Cartwright.
Cartwright said he renewed the $28.1 million offer in an email to county commissioners the morning of the public hearing for the sale to the RDA.
“They just approved a $20 million sale and I have offered $28.1 million,” he said. “They aren’t following what the judge said. I’ll file for a temporary restraining order to block the sale first thing [Thursday] morning.”
Cartwright said his plans for the track have been misrepresented or misunderstood.
“I’ve been made out to be the villain,” he said. “I’ve been fighting to pay more for the track, keep it open and operating as is, and make a $275 million investment in the track and surrounding property.”
The Tooele County RDA Board will meet at 7 p.m. on Aug. 31 in room 321 of the county building to vote on accepting the $20 million purchase price and terms of sale. At the meeting, the RDA board will outline the process they will follow for the sale of the motorsports park, according to RDA board member Shawn Milne.
The agenda for the meeting does not include a public hearing or a public comment period. | http://tooeleonline.com/commissioners-vote-to-sell-umc-to-countys-rda/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/b23058679bac0926301a4cddd71543dcfd217094e5f25699dddb8ac8502b6ad4.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:53:35 | null | 2016-07-10T18:51:35 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fescargot-in-erda-yum%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Worms-7-7-16-150x150.jpg | en | null | Escargot in Erda? Yum! | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Last week, I extolled the virtues of a vital and growing garden space. While I would like to pick and choose what comes to live in the habitat that has developed around our place, it’s not up to me. There are desirables and undesirables. It helps to keep in mind that even those things that I or my wife don’t like each have their place and make a contribution in some form.
My wife doesn’t like bats, but having them show up from time to really helps control the flying insect population! That hawk that has “taken out” a songbird or two is also busy keeping the field mice count manageable.
Yet another set of cousins has moved in and gotten a full community going — slugs and snails. Even with our dry climate and heat, these creatures thrive in cultivated and irrigated areas due to needed shade, daytime temperature protection and food (that would be your plants and lawn). They don’t pose as much a threat to commercial agriculture because host plants and areas to retreat to and ride out the heat of the day don’t as readily exist as they do in a home yardscape.
The common yard snail isn’t native to Utah, but it’s found its way here along with most other temperate parts of the world. It is believed to have originated from the Mediterranean or Middle East.
Snails and slugs have become a part of the food chain, as a food source to some birds, lizards, frogs and insects. That’s the good news! The bad news is that they can be extremely damaging to a host of different ornamental and edible plants. They are primarily herbivores that do quite well with many food and habitat sources. They feed on several types of vegetable crops, ornamental flowers, fruit trees and cereal grains. The slugs around our place are quite partial to rhubarb, and the snails enjoy keeping the grass mowed down near the flower beds. These creatures will also feed on decomposing plant and insect matter.
In the spring, they have a voracious appetite for recently sprouted plants, including veggies! Many a gardener has put out transplants only to find them decimated the following morning. If this has happened to you, it’s highly likely the culprits were our slimy friends.
On larger leaves, they will leave smooth-edged irregular-shaped holes. There are other pests that do this type of damage (caterpillars come to mind), but the dead giveaway is the dried slime trail that slugs and snails leave behind.
Keep in mind that snails and slugs are not the typical garden pest that can be controlled with typical pesticides for insects. They are from the mollusk family, not the bug clan! So, this calls for a different control strategy.
The first approach you can take is hand picking. C’mon, you can do it! Disposable surgical or painter’s gloves make the task a bit easier for the squeamish among us. As you collect them, put them in a container for disposal. Soapy water works well, as does brine water (avoid dumping brine water on your flower beds — most plants have a low tolerance). Some people like to step on them and crush them (ewwww!), however there’s a good chance that any eggs that a fertilized snail or slug has in its body will survive and hatch — even after you’ve crushed them. (Sort of like some bad zombie movie, huh?)
When on the hunt for these creatures you’ll need a flashlight after dark. Sprinkling an area near sunset will bring help bring them out of hiding sooner.
Another strategy is to have the snails and slugs come to you. This is accomplished by setting traps or collection points. You can put boards on the ground between plants, raised slightly on 3/4” wood blocks, so there is space underneath for the creatures to congregate. If you wish to “supercharge” the attraction, you can place some bran-type cereal under the boards, or even under a slightly elevated terra cotta flower pot, placed where it will be in the shade all day. They will feed, then rest in clusters on the walls of the pot. That makes “harvesting” convenient!
You can also use partially buried plastic beverage cups with beer or commercially available baits in them. To do this, take larger plastic drinking cups and cut some windows sideways around the cups about a third of the way down from the top. Make sure the windows are large enough for the snails to enter. Partially bury the cups in the soil, upright, with the bottom edge of the windows slightly above the surface of the soil — about 10 feet apart. Place the bait of your choice in the cup, and then set a small board over the top. This makes the bait last longer, and keeps dirt as well as irrigation water from readily finding its way in and spoiling or diluting the bait. You will need to check the traps ongoing, cleaning out and refreshing as needed.
There are a wide variety of effective poisonous baits to kill snails and slugs. However, some can be quite toxic. Suffice it to say, these should be avoided around cats, dogs and small children, or precautions taken to assure the bait is not accessible to them during use.
Baits that use iron phosphate are good candidates for yards where small children and pets frequent. The iron phosphate “stalls out” the snail and slug digestive systems, but is not harmful to other more sizable creatures.
An interesting feature of the snail and slug is that they are hermaphrodites, meaning that each creature produces both male and female gametes. You could say that these guys can use whatever restroom they want! You may recall from biology class that it takes a male and female gamete to unite to form a zygote, the first cell to start dividing and culminating in the creation of a new individual within the species.
Although self-fertilization can and does sometimes occur, reproduction is typically done the usual way. Both walk (or should I say, glide) away impregnated. About two weeks after fertilization, they will lay a batch of approximately 50 to 80 eggs. In a year, up to six batches can be laid.
It’s because of this that control of these creatures needs to be done ongoing to assure that the “next batch” is greatly reduced. Control this year will have a definite correlation with both this year’s and next year’s population.
For those of you that are culinary adventurers, our snail friends are edible. Although they are not the true “escargot” species treasured in French cuisine, they are sizable enough and have the proper taste to be served up (mostly to the unsuspecting, I suspect). I have never done this, so what I’m about to tell you is second-hand information, obtained by poring over culinary, homesteader and self-reliance websites.
The gist is that the most sizable snails are harvested using the non-bait collection methods outlined earlier. Once you have your prizes in hand (or should I say, bucket), you will need to put them through a 10-day cleansing process — as in a digestive cleanse! You’ll need about six to 10 snails per serving you plan to prepare. Put the snails in a five-gallon bucket, with plenty of small ventilation holes. Make sure the lid will snap on securely as the snails can gather around the edge of the lid and exert quite a combined lifting pressure (you don’t want a prison break, do you?). Feed them grape leaves, lettuce, bran, or cornmeal for ten days to purge the contents of their digestive tracts.
Keep the bucket in a cool place, out of the sun. A temperature range of 55-75 degrees Fahrenheit is good. They need water, so a small chick waterer works well. You could use a small dish, but you’ll need to monitor it ongoing to assure water is readily available to your “meals in a shell.”
On day seven, withhold all food, but keep providing water. This will flush out any remaining, well… you know. On day 10, de-slime them in brine and vinegar water and then cook them. Escargot (sounds better than “snail,” doesn’t it, although the word comes from an old French term for, you guessed it, snail) is typically served with a butter and garlic sauce.
Yummy. So if you join us for dinner some time at our home, and you are served something you don’t quite recognize, don’t bother inquiring. If “don’t ask, don’t tell” is good enough for the U.S. military, it’s good enough around our house too.
Jay Cooper can be contacted at jay@dirtfarmerjay.com, or you can visit youtube.com/dirtfarmerjay for videos on gardening, shop skills, culinary arts and landscaping. | http://tooeleonline.com/escargot-in-erda-yum/ | en | 2016-07-10T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/5c23d49b527f6dd3b3b9f109102a4a92f685364e71ac78e5510e54011de4136f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:57:23 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fin-1991-dugway-experiences-nerve-agent-leak-from-a-fixture%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/plugins/facebook-page-publish-2/line.png | en | null | In 1991, Dugway experiences nerve agent leak from a fixture | null | null | tooeleonline.com | The Tooele Transcript Bulletin has published Tooele County news since 1894. Here is a flashback of local front-page news from 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago that occurred during the fourth or fifth week of August.
Aug. 27 and 29, 1991
A small quantity of nerve agent called Soman leaked from a test fixture into a larger test chamber at Dugway Proving Ground. The test was stopped as soon as the leak was detected, and medical personnel found no contamination in the workers. A separate front-page story highlighted Mickey Rooney’s visit to Tooele. Rooney was acting for a movie in Middle Canyon at the time.
The first day of school saw the return of 7,300 students to Tooele County classrooms. In other news, about 50 people packed into the Tooele County Commission chambers to comment on the county’s proposal to close an access road to Stansbury Island. Some people protested while others voiced support. The commissioners told the crowd they had not yet decided whether to close the road.
Aug. 23 and 26, 1966
Preparations were underway for the 1966 Tooele County Fair. Tooele City Police also warned that any “curiosity seeker” caught following a fire truck to a fire would be ticketed. The announcement came after Tooele volunteer firemen were hindered by both teen and adult drivers as they tried to answer five fire calls on Sunday, Aug. 21.
Judges awarded Marilyn Halladay of Grantsville the title of Tooele County Fair Queen. Annette Sandberg of Grantsville was made first attendant and Jackie Steele of Tooele second attendant. Meanwhile at the Bonneville Salt Flats, 37 racers competed in the 1966 Bonneville Nationals event.
Aug. 26 and 29, 1941
The entire front page of the Aug. 26 edition of the Transcript Bulletin was dedicated to James O. Elton, a native of Washington state who became manager of the International Smelting and Refining Company and subsidiaries in Utah, Idaho, Nevada and California in 1921. Tooele City and state officials paid tribute to Elton after his company built a $1.5 million tunnel to Bingham, which was expected to add 2,500 more jobs to the mining industry in Tooele County.
Later that week, a city Labor Day celebration was announced. The Tooele County School Board also learned the federal government had appropriated $10,514 to buy shop machinery in county schools “in the interest of national defense training,” according to Superintendent Sterling R. Harris.
Aug. 25, 1916
An Ibapah correspondent reported, “Harvest is in full blast in this valley with only half crops. … Cold and dry weather is what we are having at the present time, almost cold enough for winter furs.” In Grantsville, Maj. Ruel Barrus turned 95 on Aug. 11. At the time, Barrus was one of only three remaining survivors of the Mormon Battalion. “Mormon Battalion” was a name given to five companies of LDS men who enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1846.
Jessica Henrie compiled this report. | http://tooeleonline.com/in-1991-dugway-experiences-nerve-agent-leak-from-a-fixture/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/48729999eb136814964253507de9d34ce4f4029c82f2c98f2120d14aa84339db.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:53:04 | null | 2016-08-05T19:27:24 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fdavid-andrew-lassen%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Obit-David-Andrew-Lassen-200x300.jpg | en | null | David Andrew Lassen | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Our wonderful and most loved fiancé, son, brother, dad, grandpa, uncle, and friend, David Andrew Lassen, 52, returned to his Heavenly Father on Aug. 2, 2016 after a long and valiant fight with chronic illness. He was born and raised in Tooele, Utah. David was a military veteran, having served in the U.S. Air Force as a firefighter for several years. After leaving the military, he was employed at Hill Air Force Base as an EMS dispatcher until he retired in February of this year. David had a passion for antique cars, fire engines and trains. His greatest love is his family. David leaves behind the love of his life and soulmate, fiancé Marty Davis; his mom Carol Lassen; sister Julie (Rick) Bell and his children Johnathon (Tanya), Heather (Shawn), Steven, Matt (Lindsie), Andrew Martin and Amanda. He also leaves behind 10 beloved grandchildren, Matthew, Serenity, Kameryn, Avia, Dixie, Isabella, Brandon, Wyatt, Jace and Liam, who were the light of his life. David also leaves behind many other family members and friends who love and will miss him every day. David is the sunshine in our day and the stars in our night. He had an awesome sense of humor and an infectious smile. He reunites with his grandparents, sister, and other family members in heaven. The funeral will be held Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016, at Tate Mortuary in Tooele. The viewing is from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. with the funeral following at 1 p.m. We have brought him home to be buried at the Tooele City Cemetery. WE LOVE YOU, DAVID!! We will miss you every day and look forward to being with you again someday!! | http://tooeleonline.com/david-andrew-lassen/ | en | 2016-08-05T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/5216bc08c4933cfdd79b3a857eed88f79bb1cd414397b12d18cbd27f3cad9a2f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:54:02 | null | 2016-07-08T10:18:24 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fray-lamar-fowler%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Obit-Ray-LaMar-Fowler-200x300.jpg | en | null | Ray LaMar Fowler | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Ray LaMar Fowler, beloved son, brother, husband, father, grandfather and friend returned to his Father in Heaven on Saturday, July 2, 2016. Ray passed away peacefully in his home surrounded by his family. Ray was born Aug. 3, 1957, to James and Lucy (Hammond) Fowler in Tooele, Utah. On May 2, 1980, Ray married the love of his life and best friend Diane Lea Gull in the Salt Lake City Utah Temple. Ray and Diane were blessed with two children and five grandchildren. Ray was very active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was known for his dedication to his callings. Ray especially loved working with the youth. Ray’s favorite activities included spending time with his family and touring the west on his Goldwing with Diane. Ray liked to travel and see the world but home was his favorite place to be. Ray is survived by his wife Diane Gull Fowler; children Andrea (Jeremy) Bruening and Chase (Rebecca) Fowler; grandchildren Jordan, Lillian, Drake, Kate and Arianna; father James Fowler; brother Ron (Lupe) Fowler; sisters Linda (Gene) Cook and Laurie (Steve) Cozart; as well as many other extended family members who love and miss him dearly. Ray is preceded in death by his mother Lucy and we are sure it was a wonderful reunion. A viewing will be held on Wednesday, July 6, 2016, from 6-8 p.m. at Tate Mortuary in Tooele. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 7, 2016, at the Erda LDS Chapel with a viewing beforehand at 10 a.m. Burial services to follow at the Grantsville City Cemetery. | http://tooeleonline.com/ray-lamar-fowler/ | en | 2016-07-08T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/102f3879f7444c37402bdc349457dc6c4ec2ab6448737d5a32a603c421e09d34.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:11 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fhang-glider-crashes-in-middle-canyon%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/plugins/facebook-page-publish-2/line.png | en | null | Hang glider crashes in Middle Canyon | null | null | tooeleonline.com | A hang glider accident in Middle Canyon Friday evening left the pilot with a back injury that required he be airlifted to a Salt Lake hospital.
First responders were dispatched to locate and extract the hang glider operator around 8 p.m. on Friday, said Tooele County Sheriff’s Lt. Travis Scharmann.
The Tooele County Search and Rescue team was not dispatched to find the victim in the crash.
When medical crews reached the scene, it was apparent the pilot suffered some sort of back injury, according to Scharmann. The victim’s back had an abnormal bulge but he was able to move his legs and feet.
Medical crews found the pilot near the former mine waste dump in Middle Canyon, Scharmann said. A medical helicopter arrived at the scene to transport the victim to a hospital in Salt Lake Valley.
The condition of the crash victim was not known at the time of transportation to the hospital, according to the Tooele County Sheriff’s Office. | http://tooeleonline.com/hang-glider-crashes-in-middle-canyon/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/b60fb580f1577b740a7128faa4f1fdb7dc8358017d979120f5c398ffd5b55781.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:01:21 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fcopper-thieves-may-have-caused-trailer-fire%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Burmester-Fire-8-25-16-150x150.jpg | en | null | Copper thieves may have caused trailer fire | null | null | tooeleonline.com | A fire sparked late Tuesday morning burned down a vacant mobile home on Burmester Road near Interstate 80.
The fire was likely sparked by individuals stealing copper wire from nearby power lines, according to Ryan Willden, North Tooele Fire District public information officer. The vacant home provided an opportunity to operate on the property undetected, he said.
The blaze destroyed the trailer and also caught a nearby corral on fire before fire crews arrived on scene. A total of 25 firefighters responded to the fire from NTFD and Grantsville City Volunteer Fire Department, Willden said.
The state fire marshal’s office will investigate the official cause of the fire, which started shortly before noon. While some fire apparatus were parked on Burmester Road, the roadway was not closed during firefighting operations. | http://tooeleonline.com/copper-thieves-may-have-caused-trailer-fire/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/e5aee190486bb0dd526841eca4386ec822ee94a21e2795e6656def50e80275c5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:51:04 | null | 2016-07-07T18:54:39 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fedward-j-simonich%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Obit-Edward-J.-Simonich-200x300.jpg | en | null | Edward J. Simonich | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Dear Dad,
I would like to take this opportunity to remind you of your manners. Generally when you make plans with someone, it is polite to inform them you have other intentions. I, for one, had not expected you to pass away on July 4, 2016, at your home and had no plans to write your obituary. Maybe with a little more notice, I would know better what to say.
Dad, I miss you. I miss your stories about how you were born to Mike and Kathryn Long Simonich on Jan. 25, 1957, as the fourth of six boys raised in Tooele, Utah. I miss hearing of the challenge they faced keeping six boys out of trouble. There were casualties — an innocent babysitter tied to a clothes line pole, peers subjected to the wrath of the Broadway Bombers, and a brother or two caught in a failed attempt to tunnel under an irrigation canal. I guess they were successful though, because you graduated from Tooele High School and earned a horticulture degree from Utah State University.
I miss my teacher. Between your time working as the houseplant manager at Engh Floral, propagator at Native Plants, and nearly 30 years as grower and co-owner of Progressive Plants, I don’t know many with as much knowledge or passion for plants as you.
I miss my friend — the one who enjoyed beating me in a tennis match as much as recounting his adventures in horseback riding (or falling off). The one who could claim to hate cats, but would still buy food for the strays every week.
I’ll make you a deal. While you are gone, I’m going to try to forgive you for the fact that I know more about the Beach Boys than anyone my age should, that I still feel shock at discovering John Wayne was not actually a member of our family, and for telling that stupid flying purple pope joke — and no, it did not get any funnier the more you told it — as long as you remember how much I love you.
There are many people here who care for you and will miss you too. Your brothers Pat (Sue), Bill (Cheryl), Mark (Sandy), ex-wife Janet, Tim and Jim (Lori); nephews and nieces Greg, Jeff, Kate, Melissa, Daniel, Jake and Samantha; your incredible friend Julie and all others whose lives you touched.
We will be holding a graveside service at Tooele Cemetery, 361 S. 100 East in Tooele on Saturday, July 9 at 11 a.m. for those who wish to join us as you embark on your next journey. I hope you can be there. Laku Noc, Eddie Basketti. All my love, Lacey. | http://tooeleonline.com/edward-j-simonich/ | en | 2016-07-07T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/a994a52bbd04c7cb2572c6f7973081e2fafb9875e4f950263b7e115edcb80f53.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:55:14 | null | 2016-07-20T14:49:18 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fbryce-durfee%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Obit-Bryce-Durfee-194x300.jpg | en | null | Bryce Durfee | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Bryce was a thoughtful, giving, and fun loving kid known for his quirky grin, big heart, and even bigger hugs. He was unexpectedly taken from us on July 15, 2016, as a result of a lifelong medical condition. Bryce was born April 17, 1999, to Bryan Scott Durfee and Amy Jasper. We will always look back on the moments that made his life so meaningful. He was a hardworking, stubborn, spur-of-the-moment kind of guy. He loved working with his hands, taking things apart and making something new. He once turned a lawn mower into a go-kart. He was great at — and enjoyed — making PVC pipe air guns in the backyard. He could dream up anything. Bryce was able to take any idea and bring it to life. Many times throughout the years he surprised his mom, Lacie, with hand-crafted treasures. He loved doing little things for her that showed how much he cared. He often told people how grateful he was to have her in his life. He loved riding 4-wheelers and horses, camping, and getting his hands dirty. He loved hunting and shooting with his idol, his dad. Despite not always seeing eye-to-eye, he wanted to be just like him and was into Fords, NASCAR, fishing, and anything else his dad enjoyed. Like any little brother, Bryce could drive his sister, Hailey, crazy. However, the two truly had a special bond. He loved to go anywhere and do anything with her. He always looked up to her and made sure she knew how much he loved her. It was easy to see he meant it. Bryce loved to be involved in harmless late-night shenanigans with his best friend and partner in crime, Sean. The loyalty and dedication between the two was incredible. When we look back on his short but meaningful life, we will smile knowing that he lived his life his way and lived it to the fullest. He wasn’t afraid to take chances or get hurt. He was confident in everything he did. We will never forget the sound of that contagious giggle or how he would always let you know that he loved you even if he had already told you several times that day. Bryce is survived by his parents Bryan and Lacie Durfee and Amy and Don Kunzler; sister, Hailey; Grandparents Ken and Connie Durfee, Bret and Sabrina Anderson and Boyd and Judy Jasper; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins. A viewing will be held on Wednesday evening, July 20, 2016, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Grantsville 7th Ward Chapel (415 W. Apple St). Funeral services will be on Thursday, July 21, 2016, at noon with a viewing prior to the services from 10:30-11:30 a.m. at the same location. Interment will be at the Grantsville City Cemetery. Services entrusted with Didericksen Memorial, 435-277-0050. | http://tooeleonline.com/bryce-durfee/ | en | 2016-07-20T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/ef4542f60bac46874999a92e4f2a0419f16f1411687be0e255aa0613e4984b9b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:59:32 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Flocal-students-sage-scores-continue-to-make-improvement%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/SAGE-Test-Results-2016-150x142.jpg | en | null | Local students’ SAGE scores continue to make improvement | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Erda charter school again sets a high test mark for science; several other district schools also exceed state averages ♦
Local students’ scores in a statewide test continued to improve in the third year of testing, but their scores still trail slightly behind the statewide average.
Student Assessment of Growth and Excellence math test scores in the Tooele County School District rose from 40 percent in 2015 to 44 percent in 2016.
The reported percentage reflects students who were rated at or above proficiency on SAGE tests administered in the spring of 2016.
The school district’s SAGE score for science also went up from 44 percent in 2014 to 47 percent in 2015. English language arts (ELA) test scores remained at 38 percent for 2016, the same as they were in 2015.
The statewide SAGE test score for ELA in 2016 also remained the same as 2015, at 44 percent.
“Overall, we are pleased with the direction we are going with SAGE scores,” said Debra Bushek, TCSD curriculum, instruction and assessment director. “The kinds of growth we have seen over the last three years of SAGE indicate that learning is improving.”
The district uses SAGE data to guide decisions in adoption of curriculum and materials. It also uses SAGE scores to make sure curriculum and instruction are aligned with the state core, according to Bushek.
Classroom teachers will also have access to SAGE test data on both their current and previous year’s students. The information available to teachers shows how each student did on specific SAGE reporting categories, which correspond to the different parts of the state core.
Teachers can use the data from the previous year to evaluate their teaching strategies. Data on a teacher’s current students may indicate areas where a student may need help to master a concept, Bushek said.
While the district’s total test scores did not exceed the statewide average, several individual schools did have scores higher than the state average.
Excelsior Academy, a charter school in Erda, along with Rose Springs and Stansbury Elementary schools, and Clarke N. Johnson Junior High School, met or exceeded the state average in ELA, math and science.
Grantsville Junior High School and Willow Elementary School met or exceeded the state average in math.
Scholar Academy, a charter school in Tooele City, along with Grantsville, Middle Canyon, Northlake and Overlake Elementary schools, met or exceeded the state average in science.
Excelsior Academy’s 89.5-percent proficient rate in eighth-grade science ranked as the highest middle school eight-grade science score in the state. The state average for eighth-grade science was 48.9 percent.
Bushek pointed out that some schools have made significant improvements over the three years that SAGE data has been collected.
West Elementary’s science score went from 23 percent in 2014 to 47 percent in 2016. Wendover High School’s math score jumped from 7 percent in 2014 to 27 percent in 2016.
Harris Elementary improved its ELA score by 12 percentage points. It went from 23 percent in 2014 to 35 percent in 2016.
This is the third year SAGE has been used by the state to assess student proficiency in ELA, math and science.
SAGE is a computer-administrated adaptive test designed specifically to measure only the mastery of Utah State Board of Education-adopted core standards.
As an adaptive test, in an effort to determine an individual student’s mastery of a subject, SAGE presents more challenging questions when a question is answered correctly.
If a question is answered incorrectly, less challenging questions are presented to the student.
SAGE proficiency scores are used to calculate school grades, which will be released on Sept. 15, according to state education officials. | http://tooeleonline.com/local-students-sage-scores-continue-to-make-improvement/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/eba49d3c70fda75ade6e22c24bcd53324febde96b09485a36af2ef755974ee39.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:20 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Flocal-health-department-raises-the-bar-on-tobacco-education%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/plugins/facebook-page-publish-2/line.png | en | null | Local health department raises the bar on tobacco education | null | null | tooeleonline.com | A local project to decrease illegal sales of tobacco to youth received national recognition last year, according to Tooele County Health Department.
In 2013, while reviewing department procedures for enforcing legal sales of tobacco, staff members found a need to offer a tobacco handlers class on a more flexible basis. The class is a requirement for retailers to receive their tobacco handlers permit, said Hilary Makris, tobacco prevention specialist for the county.
“It was a quality improvement project to see if there was something we could fix on our end to see if we could decrease the number of people [selling tobacco illegally],” she said.
Makris added, “Basically what they found was that having the class once a month didn’t really work for everyone’s schedule, so now we offer it online. We actually don’t do any classes in person anymore, we only do it online and then they bring their paperwork and stuff in here to get their permit.”
By September 2014 after 11 months of offering the class online, 74 percent of tobacco clerks in Tooele County were permitted. Previously in October 2013, only 42.5 percent were permitted, according to a report done on the project.
“Staff recognized the need to improve tobacco compliance check pass rates and identified that clerks who possess a valid permit were less likely to sell tobacco products to minors,” the report states.
Quality improvement coordinator Matt LaFrance published the report in July 2015, receiving national attention. In March 2016, the Public Health Quality Improvement Exchange posted a video about the project on their website, according to Tooele County Health Department’s annual report for 2015.
The Public Health Quality Improvement Exchange is an online community designed to share information about quality improvement in public health efforts by governments throughout the country, according to phqix.org.
In addition to enforcing legal sales of traditional tobacco products, the health department also enforced regulations on e-liquid manufacture and sale in Tooele County last year. Department staff made 95 tobacco compliance checks in total last year, its annual report states.
Tooele County’s Health Regulation #18, passed in 2014, includes specific rules for how e-liquid must be manufactured, packaged and labeled for retail sale. It also limits how much nicotine e-liquid can contain and forbids retailers from selling e-cigarettes and related products to anyone under 19.
However, the regulation may be affected by the federal Food and Drug Administration’s new regulations on e-liquid, which came out last month.
“We’re in the process of deciding if we’re going to retire it [Health Regulation #18],” Makris said. “The reason we had that bill was because no one was regulating any manufacturing. We were waiting for the FDA to kind of take over but we didn’t know when that would be; if it would be months or years.”
Aside from enforcement, Tooele County Health Department also advocated for health by helping Mountain West Medical Center become a smoke-free campus in November 2015. It also organized a youth celebration of Kick Butts Day, helped eight local businesses adopt new tobacco policies, had 86 people register on the tobacco quit line and enrolled 10 youth in a tobacco cessation class, according to the annual report.
Tooele County School District and the local court system refer students to the tobacco cessation class. The program costs $30 and includes four classes that explain tobacco’s harmful effects in depth and offers alternative ways for students to deal with stress, Makris said.
“It’s a really good class,” she said. “It’s evidence-based and a statewide program used by most health departments.”
Anyone can register on the tobacco quit line, 1-800-QUIT-NOW, Makris added. The hotline allows people to talk with a counselor over the phone. | http://tooeleonline.com/local-health-department-raises-the-bar-on-tobacco-education/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/7494409ff3ebf2eb791d7a0d17685d3483709af12fe331b16c072c8dada4d57b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:50:33 | null | 2016-07-26T16:09:39 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fmarcella-viola-aragon%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Obit-Marcella-Viola-Aragon-199x300.jpg | en | null | Marcella Viola Aragon | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Our beloved mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and great friend Marcella Viola Aragon passed away on July 22, 2016. She was born to Elizardo and Sally Vigil in Embudo, New Mexico on April 20, 1950. She attended school in Tooele, and grew up in TAD Park and Tortilla Flats (TF). It is these neighborhoods where she met her husband and many lifelong friends and made great memories along the way. She married Robert Aragon in 1970 and together they had four beautiful children: Marty (Michelle) Aragon, Danny (Tina) Aragon, Jesse Aragon and Stephanie Aragon. She had 14 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren whom she loved with all of her heart. Robert and Marcella later divorced but she remained very close to him and his family; especially Grandma Trudy who was like a mother to her. She worked at Curry Insurance for over 25 years and was a devoted employee. It was there where she greeted many people with her beautiful smile and kind “hello.” She made many friends during her time there and was well-known and liked throughout Tooele. Mom loved crafts, shopping, yard sales, decorating and gardening. She kept her home immaculate and was complimented frequently on her classy style. Mom had an infectious smile and sweet soul that would always make your day. We couldn’t go anywhere that she didn’t know someone and always knew their name. It would take forever to get through the store. Mom never knew how to drive a car from the front seat but she sure tried from the back.
She loved all things beautiful in this world, but most of all she loved her children, whom she never gave up on to the very end. It has been said that a mother’s love is unconditional; her life is testament to this fact. She is survived by her children, sister Rosie (Larry) Herrera and brothers Gerald “Lele” (Geniel) Vigil and Lawrence Vigil. She is preceded in death by her parents, sister Cecelia Salazar and grandchildren Joe, Angela, and Daniel Aragon. Funeral services will be held on July 29, 2016, at St. Marguerite Catholic Church in Tooele. Mass will be at 11 a.m. and friends may pay condolences one hour prior starting at 10 a.m. Interment will be at Tooele City Cemetery. Following interment, we would like to invite friends and family to a luncheon at St. Marguerite’s in her honor. Services entrusted with Didericksen Memorial, 435-277-0050. | http://tooeleonline.com/marcella-viola-aragon/ | en | 2016-07-26T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/ee6a0f0dac47f2214ed5b379c4d6e08671bed2758b1bb664ba6986e77bfaf090.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:56:54 | null | 2016-08-16T21:11:05 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fearl-jones-jr-tex%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Obit-Earl-Jones-Jr.-Tex-1-200x300.jpg | en | null | Earl Jones Jr. (Tex) | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Earl Jones Jr. (Tex), a special uncle to all, is free from battling Parkinson’s disease on Aug. 2, 2016, in Tremonton, Utah. He was born in Mabank, Texas, on Oct. 6, 1932, to Earl Sr. and Effie Lee Bullard. He was raised there and attended school. He joined the Air Force in 1951. He was stationed in Wyoming and Texas. He also spent a year in Fort Lewis, Washington, with the Berlin Crisis. While on leave to Moroni, Utah, he met his sweetheart Connie Everett. They were married March 8, 1955, and later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. He worked at the Tooele Army Depot in many places. He retired after 35 years. He loved to camp and fish with family and friends also going to Arizona in the winter. He had many callings in the LDS church. He is survived by his wife and children Diane (Roger) Cooper, Lynette Sustacha, Earl (Doris) Jones and Robert (Sherry) Jones; also 10 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his parents and sister Ruth; brother-in-law Donald Flowers and son-in-law Jon Sustacha. Funeral services are Monday, Aug. 8, at 11 a.m. at the 14th Ward, 192 W. 200 South, Tooele, Utah, with visitation an hour prior. A viewing will be held Sunday from 6-8 p.m. at Tate Mortuary, 110 S. Main Street, Tooele, Utah. Interment will be at the Tooele City Cemetery. Special thanks to hospice, kitchen staff, active staff, nursing staff, CNA staff and Dr. Schow. | http://tooeleonline.com/earl-jones-jr-tex/ | en | 2016-08-16T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/a74eaf18a498c07791259069cdf6fd744c0a086cb004d67ffbd61d3e473fcaee.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:10 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Flocal-suicides-declined-in-2015%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Suicide-1-8-30-16-150x150.jpg | en | null | Local suicides declined in 2015 | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Numerous suicide prevention programs in Tooele County may be seeing some results.
The suicide rate in the county was down last year, according to the Tooele County Health Department’s annual report for 2015.
Last year, 13 county residents died from suicide. That’s seven fewer deaths than in 2014, said Amy Bate, public information officer for the department.
However, Bate will wait until 2016’s numbers come in before saying for sure the county’s prevention programs are working.
“I’m anxious to see how this year’s numbers compare,” she said. “I don’t want to be too quick to say what we’re doing is working. And there are so many factors — some people might have a terminal illness or are under the influence.”
Bate added, “Even one death is too many, so it’s going to be a problem we’ll focus on until people get the help they need. People can be suicidal … and never be suicidal again if they get the help they need. They can lead a really happy life.”
Suicide by the numbers
Suicide statistics on the county published by the Utah Department of Health may look too high. But that’s because not all people who die here from suicide are county residents, Bate said.
According to the state’s age-adjusted rate, 25.7 people per 100,000 population die from suicide in the county. The rate is based on data from 2012-2014.
But some of the people counted in the state’s data are residents of other counties who traveled to Tooele County’s desert or canyons before taking their lives, Bate said.
While the health department takes state data into account, its vital statistics office also collects its own numbers. It uses the data to bring programs to the county that can help save lives.
Prevention in the community
Getting people help is the premise of a new brochure designed by the local health department last year, as well as a lantern release, sunrise 5k run and billboard posted on eastbound Interstate 80. The billboard declares, “With Help Comes Hope.”
“That’s kind of the name of our cause,” Bate said.
Getting help is also the basis of Question Persuade Refer, a suicide prevention training program offered by Tooele City. QPR encourages all community members to participate in suicide prevention by recognizing warning signs, asking directly if someone wants to kill themselves, persuading them to live and then finding them help.
The QPR presentation used by Tooele City states, “Asking someone directly about suicidal intent lowers anxiety, opens up communication and lowers the risk of an impulsive act.”
It also says, “Suicide is the most preventable kind of death, and almost any positive action may save a life.”
Tooele City’s next QPR training will be held Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. in Tooele City Hall. Anyone interested in attending the free two-hour class should register through tooelecity.org or with Heidi Peterson, heidip@tooelecity.org, according to the city’s website. Peterson is a certified prevention specialist and director of the city’s Communities that Care program.
Last year, 2,500 people were trained in QPR, according to the health department’s annual report.
In addition to supporting QPR, Tooele County Health Department coordinates suicide prevention efforts with Tooele County School District, Valley Behavioral Health and local law enforcement, Bate said.
“We have a coalition for suicide prevention,” she said. “It’s like a subgroup of TIP [Tooele Interagency Professional Coalition]. … It really is cool. I think what we’re doing is we’re really coming together … with that common goal of preventing suicide. We’re really taking steps to get people in the right places trained and using evidence-based programs so we know that they’re really going to make a difference.”
A community support group called the Life’s Worth Living Foundation also meets every third Thursday at 7 p.m. at Tooele Applied Technology College, 88 S. Tooele Boulevard. The group is for anyone who struggles with suicidal thoughts or who has lost a loved one to suicide. It posts information about local events and resources online at lifesworthlivingfoundation.com.
Prevention in schools
Tooele County School District first started implementing Second Step in 2013. In 2014, it received funding to implement the program in all schools, kindergarten through eighth grade, said Safe School Coordinator Kara Strain. Second Step aims to teach kids problem-solving skills for meeting social and emotional challenges.
“Obviously … we don’t talk about it as suicide prevention to our younger students. We focus on building life skills, such as being a good friend, communication and empathy,” added Safe School Coordinator Julie Spindler. “We are really building those skills and tips, so if when they get older if they do have thoughts or feelings of sadness or depression or whatever it may be, they have the skills and knowledge of who to trust and what to do. They know suicide is not a way to solve the issues they may be having in their life.”
Teachers share lessons from the Second Step curriculum for about 30 minutes every week, and schools have seen a difference in their students, Spindler said.
“All the schools are really loving the outcome of all their efforts — the climate it builds within their schools has been very positive,” she said.
The program has also helped teachers, Strain said.
“It gives teachers a framework and foundation to talk about social/emotional issues impacting students at school,” she said. “They can reference the lessons and prompt students to use skills they’ve learned while coaching them through peer interactions and appropriately expressing their needs and feelings. It also provides consistency for students and a common language throughout the district.”
In addition to Second Step, the district also organizes Hope Squads in junior high and high schools and Buddy Squads in elementary schools. Hope Squad members are elected by their peers and trained in suicide awareness, while Buddy Squad members are taught to offer support to kids who need a friend, are being left out or bullied.
In addition, schools throughout the district follow principles of Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports.
“PBIS is a national initiative,” Strain said. “PBIS is a system change process that emphasizes every behavior is form of a communication that equally impacts academic success. … One example of a behavioral intervention is the Check In/Check Out program. This is where students work with a mentor at the school on an individual basis to address concerns that are impacting their adjustment and success at school. … We are pleased with the tremendous success this program has [had] in making the difference in the lives of our students.”
In April 2016, the school district joined the SafeUT app, which gives students an opportunity to anonymously report when they or someone they know may be experiencing thoughts of suicide, bullying, substance abuse or another challenge. Students can also call a 24-hour crisis line at 1-800-273-TALK.
“Suicide prevention requires a comprehensive and multi-tiered approach,” Strain said. “Many of the programs implemented and areas of focus are drawn from the SHARP survey data. … As a prevention coalition [we] are able to analyze the data, identify high risk areas specific to Tooele County and develop a comprehensive plan to reduce those risk factors.”
SHARP refers to Utah’s Student Health and Risk Prevention survey, which is conducted every other year to students in sixth to 12th grade. The survey requires parental permission and answers are anonymous. Results of the 2015 SHARP survey indicated more youth are struggling with suicidal thoughts than in 2013 or 2011.
“Postvention” training
Despite the help and suicide prevention programs available, there are some tragic situations where people may still decide to take their own life, Bate said. The health department has a program for that, too.
“That [postvention training] is how to move forward from the shock and grief after a community is affected by suicide because there are ways of doing things that could actually hurt more people than help them,” she said. “This is more like a way to reduce future risk and promote healing.”
One common mistake made after someone dies from suicide is to glamorize the action by focusing too much on the individual. Dedicating an event or a thing to that person may make another suicidal person think dying is a good way to be remembered, Bate said.
“We don’t necessarily want to focus on the person who took their life, we want to talk about prevention in the future,” she said. “Postvention training is to get everyone in the community on the same page. We want everyone to say suicide is a tragedy that affects everyone around you. We want to make sure you ask the questions to help people around you and get the best help possible for families affected.”
Last year, Tooele County Health Department trained 125 people in postvention, according to its annual report. | http://tooeleonline.com/local-suicides-declined-in-2015/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/8135303891c3f3d883f2e9ef3f99796249230e9ac11e0e89eb8053164a7821ee.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:51:36 | null | 2016-08-02T15:23:37 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fsaved-by-an-angel%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Dalton-1-7-28-16-150x150.jpg | en | null | Saved by an Angel | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Marlee Dalton celebrates six-year anniversary of organ transplant ♦
Marlee Dalton’s life was changed almost exactly six years ago, on July 30, 2010.
Dalton, who works as a family nurse practitioner and midwife at Northpointe Women’s Clinic in Tooele, became gravely ill after falling and breaking an ankle. Dalton said medicine the doctors prescribed destroyed her kidneys within two months, and she underwent dialysis for 15 months.
Being diabetic, Dalton was authorized to also receive a pancreas transplant at the same time. She received a couple of phone calls about possible organ matches, but neither matched well enough to go through with the procedure.
When she received a phone call from Intermountain Donor Services on the morning of July 29, 2010, she knew everything was going to be OK.
“When that phone call came, I knew that really was mine; it was really going to be for me this time,” Dalton said. “The surgery was postponed just a little bit due to medical delays at the hospital, but on July 30, 2010, I had my kidney/pancreas transplant.”
Dalton said the surgery lasted about eight hours and was a complete success.
“The kidney worked immediately and the pancreas worked immediately,” she said. “It was called the perfect match.”
Little did she know at the time how perfectly it would go on to change her life during the next six years.
Getting directions
In the hospital after the surgery, Dalton said she had a deeply spiritual experience in which she saw a vision of a young man, who from the newspaper obituaries she quickly identified as Brandon Curtis, a Springville High School football player who died tragically after practice in an automobile accident two days prior.
“I knew in my heart that that was my organ donor. There was never, ever a question in my mind,” Dalton said. “I followed that football team the whole year. … The whole season was dedicated to the Springville Red Devils number 30, (which) was his number. That team went on to go to the state championship.”
Intermountain Donor Services allow organ transplant recipients to write one thank-you letter to the family of the donor. Dalton said she wrote multiple letters every day for the first year, but never sent any of them.
“There was never one that depicted what I wanted to say and say it in a meaningful way,” she said. “There was never one that came out just right; you can only do so much on paper.”
It wasn’t until a year after the surgery that she had any contact with Brandon’s family.
Dalton took her parents to Springville on the one-year anniversary of the transplant to honor Brandon’s gravestone. After hours of searching for the cemetery — Dalton said they never did find his grave on that 2011 trip — she asked her father to stop and ask for directions at a nearby grocery store. He reluctantly agreed, coming back a few minutes later to tell her Brandon’s mother was working at the customer service desk.
“It never, ever crossed my mind what was about to happen,” Dalton said. “I just kind of walked up to customer service and asked ‘are you Dianne?’ … She got somebody to kind of cover her, and we went out and sat down. I just kind of hung my head down and started to cry. She just put her arms around me and she said ‘I know, it’s been a tough week.’”
An emotional meeting
Reflecting back, Brandon’s mother Dianne Curtis said her son’s decision to be an organ donor has helped her find a little solace.
“I had never had any qualms about donating organs, it was never one of those things I’d really thought about. When Brandon died, I was so grateful to know that … his life was over. but he really does continue onward, and it helps us heal in a major way,” she said. “I’m so grateful it worked out that he was in the hospital, that all those requirements were met. If he had died at the scene, none of that could have happened. For me, it helped the grieving process a lot.”
Curtis said organ donation doesn’t need to be an awkward or uncomfortable subject because of the number of lives that can be saved just by checking the ‘yes’ box on a driver’s license.
“People need to not be as scared of the unknown,” she said. “Maybe it’s an education thing. I don’t know how to get the education out, but this isn’t a scary thing. It’s a huge, largely beneficial to more than just the receiver. It’s beneficial to the giver as well, to know. Brandon saved five lives.”
Though she struggled with grief and planned to take the week off work during the one-year anniversary of her son’s death, Curtis offered to cover the shift of a coworker the same day the Daltons came looking for his gravestone. When Dalton came to the customer service desk at the grocery store, Curtis didn’t have any idea who she was or why she wanted to speak outside.
“I didn’t even cry until she said that she had seen him,” Curtis said. “I missed him so much that I just — that’s what I would love to have, just to see him. Even if it was in my dreams.”
Curtis said she has only ever met one other recipient, a person who received one of Brandon’s corneas.
“It was a very sweet experience to meet (Dalton) and realize all she had gone through,” Curtis said. “Of course I could never have found that all out in the few minutes we had met, but she had gone through a lot. I don’t know how long she would have lasted if that kidney had not become available.”
Curtis invited Dalton to take part in the Brandon Curtis 5k fun run in Springville a couple weeks after the unexpected grocery store meeting, which gave the two families an opportunity to properly meet.
“It never ended after that. We still get together. I talk to her pretty much every day,” Dalton said. “So many lives have been crossed and touched. It’s just the rippling effect of one little thing.”
The softball tournament
Dalton has understandably become an advocate for organ donation. She organized the Dalton Donate 4 Life softball tournament in 2012 to raise funds and awareness for the cause.
“I wanted to do something to give back to our community and to show appreciation, because everybody really rallied around me when I got sick,” Dalton said.
By her own description, Erda has always been her home. Her beautiful house sits near the railroad tracks in Erda’s east bench. She grew up eating Erda Burgers and playing in tournaments at the Warr Memorial Ballpark just off of SR-36.
Those hometown ties are part of what makes the Dalton Donate 4 Life tournament so special each year.
“It’s such a great community, I’ve always lived here,” Dalton said. “I could go to the Deseret Peak, I could open (the softball tournament) up to 30 teams, I could make a lot of money. It’s not about making money because not one single penny goes to me.”
Perhaps nothing says Erda more than a softball tournament, which may be one reason the Dalton Donate 4 Life tournament has been so successful.
Each year, Dalton said she enters a BC30 team — Brandon’s initials and jersey number at Springville — made up of the Curtis and Dalton families.
“We’re not good, but we have fun,” Dalton said.
The tournament itself typically kicks off on a Friday night in late June with an opening ceremony and runs all night until a winning team is crowned sometime the following day. Dalton said next year’s tournament is scheduled for June 23-24 and the entry fee is $300, including the event T-shirts. Those interested in registering may contact Amber Lowder at 801-891-0687.
The proceeds raised at the softball tournament go to help three causes Dalton is passionate about: Intermountain Donor Services, Dalton Donate 4 Life and the Brandon Curtis Forever Strong Foundation.
The Dalton Donate 4 Life funds go toward six scholarships given annually to high school seniors from Tooele County School District who are pursuing higher education in medicine or nursing.
“That is my way of continuing through other individuals to take care of others and to give back and save others’ lives. Part of that application process is writing an essay on organ donation,” Dalton said. “The majority of scholarships are awarded in a deceased individual’s name. For me to be able to stand there and present these awards and scholarships is a humbling experience.”
Dalton said she has given more than 30 such scholarships since the tournament began, including seven at the most recent tournament in June.
The Brandon Curtis Forever Strong Scholarship is given to “outstanding student-athletes who have proven themselves through Academics, Athletics and Community service and demonstrates a ‘Forever Strong’ attitude and work ethic,” according to the foundation’s website.
A perfect match
As the oldest of seven children, Brandon Curtis’ legacy is perhaps most visible in the lives he has brought together — namely that of his mother and Dalton.
“It was one young man bringing two families (together),” Dalton said. “In so many ways, we’ve saved each others’ lives. I was, and continue to be able to live because of Brandon, and they get to see that. I get to be a part of their lives, and that’s their son that continues to live.”
Curtis said she knows she’ll see her son again and she doesn’t worry about his well-being.
“I know there is life after death. I know Brandon is at peace, that he is happy. That’s given me a lot of peace in these past six years. I would love to see him again, and see his crooked little smile and his mischievous grin,” she said. “I think about him all the time and I miss him every day, but I don’t worry about him.”
But an underlying legacy is found in what he has done after death to further the awareness of organ donation.
“His decision to be an organ donor saved my life. How grateful I was to (Curtis) for honoring his decisions to be an organ donor and what a difference it had made in my life and the lives of so many others — family, friends, community,” Dalton said. “I have two great big families now.”
Dalton said she is grateful to be alive because of a successful transplant.
“I really know we were a perfect match,” she said. | http://tooeleonline.com/saved-by-an-angel/ | en | 2016-08-02T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/c83e027e6ff294f2647852a03fa0ca887bda8e8e13c51baada16e03b858a04f8.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:56:26 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Ftooele-city-offers-reward-for-july-19-fire-information%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/plugins/facebook-page-publish-2/line.png | en | null | Tooele City offers reward for July 19 fire information | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Tooele City is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and prosecution for the grass fire that destroyed 10 homes and damaged an additional 17 last month.
The July 19 fire, which investigators believe was intentionally set, displaced residents and final clean-up efforts are still underway in the community surrounding Van Dyke Way. In the weeks following the blaze the police department has seen fewer tips and leads after an initial influx of information, according to Tooele City police.
The reward for information and prosecution is intended to motivate anyone with information that has yet to come forward to give detectives new leads, according to a department release.
“We hope that this is an incentive for someone who may have been holding on to information to come forward and share what they know,” said Tooele City Police Chief Ron Kirby.
The state fire marshal’s office is leading the investigation into what started the fire and where it originated. The criminal side of the investigation is being handled by Tooele City police.
During a July 20 press conference. Deputy Utah State Fire Marshal Bryan Thatcher said intentional burning of a structure or setting a fire that causes injury or death can be classified as first-degree felony arson.
Anyone with information can contact Tooele City police at 435-882-5600 or by texting TOOELETIP7101 with a message to 274637 (CRIMES).
Donations to the city’s reward fund for the fire investigation can still be made through the Tooele City mayor’s office. | http://tooeleonline.com/tooele-city-offers-reward-for-july-19-fire-information/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/ad5c3b16ca2cf2cb0f7bd189a6787fbeaf42863aebe045c268efdb8abb08b309.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:15 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fdeath-notice-jimmy-lee-stevenson%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/plugins/facebook-page-publish-2/line.png | en | null | Death Notice: Jimmy Lee Stevenson | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Rush Valley resident Jimmy Lee Stevenson, age 47, passed away at his home on Friday evening, Aug. 26. Services are pending at the Dalton-Hoopes Funeral Home in Grantsville, 435-241-9308, www.daltonhoopes.com. A full obituary will appear in Thursday’s edition of the Transcript Bulletin. | http://tooeleonline.com/death-notice-jimmy-lee-stevenson/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/0e0c826229fbd0011b9061d33a0af60ddffbe0603cedaef9a48d9a2d598165f2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:25 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fati-to-idle-its-titanium-facility%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/plugins/facebook-page-publish-2/line.png | en | null | ATI to ‘idle’ its titanium facility | null | null | tooeleonline.com | Decision effects 140 employees; plant to be idled by the end of the year ♦
One of Tooele County’s largest employers will indefinitely suspend its operations in Tooele County by the end of this year.
Allegheny Technologies Incorporated announced Wednesday that it will idle its titanium production plant at Rowley.
ATI currently employs 140 people at the Rowley plant, according to Dan Greenfield, director of corporate communications for ATI.
ATI will offer a severance package to those employees, he said.
“Increased global capacity and decreased demand for titanium means we can purchase titanium for less than production costs at Rowley,” Greenfield said. “It was a difficult decision to make. We appreciate the employees at Rowley, but we can’t continue to operate the plant at a loss.”
ATI will keep a small crew on hand at Rowley to keep the plant ready to open when the global titanium market improves, but Greenfield would not predict how long the plant will be idled.
A news release posted on ATI’s website states: “ATI has entered into long-term, cost competitive supply agreements with several leading global producers of premium-grade and standard-grade titanium sponge. The lower cost titanium sponge purchased under these supply agreements will replace the titanium sponge produced at ATI’s Rowley facility.”
“We have a significant investment in the Rowley plant,” Greenfield said.
In March 2007, ATI broke ground on the $450 million titanium plant near Rowley. The plant includes nine buildings totaling 230,000 square-feet on 125 acres of land.
The plant opened in the third quarter of 2009 and slowly ramped up production of high-grade titanium sponge.
Wednesday’s announcement may have an effect on ATI’s Rowley neighbor, U.S. Magnesium. The two plants have a symbiotic relationship.
The titanium plant uses magnesium from U.S. Magnesium and combines it with titanium tetrachloride, which is brought in by rail, to produce premium-grade titanium sponge.
Magnesium chloride, a byproduct of titanium production, is delivered from ATI to U.S. Magnesium. Attempts to contact U.S. Magnesium officials for comment were unsuccessful at press time. | http://tooeleonline.com/ati-to-idle-its-titanium-facility/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/5aa9578fbae1bcff98f3e9d7cfc6f2731651de3513b26d3c3df15af01399d634.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:23 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fman-assaulted-at-i-80-view-area%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/plugins/facebook-page-publish-2/line.png | en | null | Man assaulted at I-80 view area | null | null | tooeleonline.com | A traveler was assaulted by an unidentified man in an incident at the view area on Interstate 80 near mile marker 100 early Friday morning, according to the Utah Highway Patrol.
The original dispatch call came in for an assault at the Flying J convenience store in Lake Point and the Tooele County Sheriff’s Office responded. Once deputies spoke with the man and learned the assault occurred off of I-80, they brought in UHP, according to Trooper Ronny Corona.
The victim had entered the convenience store near the Denny’s restaurant and was bleeding and had visible lacerations on his face, Corona said. Due to the extent of his injuries, the victim was transported to a Salt Lake hospital by medical helicopter.
Despite the injuries, the victim was conscious and alert, Corona said.
The windows on the driver’s side of the victim’s vehicle had been smashed and there was blood inside the car, according to Corona. When deputies investigated the view area where the assault occurred, they found more glass and blood, as well as pieces of the bat used in the assault.
According to the victim, he was parked at the view area when he was approached by a white male in a black jacket and black bandana who asked him for money. The suspect then returned and started to beat the vehicle and victim with a baseball bat, Corona said.
The State Bureau of Investigations responded to the view area where the assault took place to gather evidence and information, Corona said.
Anyone with information on the assault should contact the Utah Highway Patrol via Tooele County Dispatch at 435-882-5600. | http://tooeleonline.com/man-assaulted-at-i-80-view-area/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/63c648db0ed43ee9e0d98df01f994b4e7c73493e616a15b6a85b4d43421c4d02.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:13 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Tooele Transcript Bulletin provides News, Classifieds, Events and Business information to Tooele County, Utah since 1894. | http%3A%2F%2Ftooeleonline.com%2Fatv-crash-may-have-caused-wildfire-in-davenport-canyon%2F.json | http://tooeleonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Davenport-Fire-8-30-16-150x150.jpg | en | null | ATV crash may have caused wildfire in Davenport Canyon | null | null | tooeleonline.com | A wildfire in the Stansbury Mountains burned more than 300 acres over the weekend but has been contained by fire crews, according to a fire official.
The fire, which started Friday in Davenport Canyon, reached its maximum acreage by early Saturday morning, said Tooele County Fire Warden Daniel Walton. An initial attack on the fire involved four engines from the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, as well as the state of Utah.
Despite the size of the wildfire, which peaked at 316 acres, no structures were threatened, with the primary threat to grazing land, Walton said. The fire was confirmed as 100 percent contained as of 10 a.m. Monday.
Walton said 70 firefighters were working on the fire Monday but the number was expected to decline to about 50 by the end of the day. Remaining fire activity is expected to be turned over to the U.S. Forest Service, as the land involved in the fire is owned by the agency.
While crews battled the fire, the Davenport trailhead was closed, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Sage, grasses and juniper were all burned in the blaze that lasted through the weekend.
Walton said the cause of the fire has not been confirmed, but it’s believed to have been sparked by an all-terrain vehicle accident on an illegal trail. A steep hill climb section on the trail is a common area for accidents and the ATV in a crash rolled a long way, which could have ignited the blaze. | http://tooeleonline.com/atv-crash-may-have-caused-wildfire-in-davenport-canyon/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | tooeleonline.com/6c93da4605bfc6fa5ac99f04df362851170b926a6bfbb5fd26e57d6e84c9dddb.json |
[
"Steve Mills"
] | 2016-08-31T06:52:54 | null | 2016-08-31T06:00:45 | Visit now for the latest theatre & comedy news - direct from the Northamptonshire Telegraph | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fwhats-on%2Ftheatre-and-comedy%2Fcuffs-star-makes-professional-stage-debut-at-northampton-1-7550835.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7550834.1472565057!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Cuffs star makes professional stage debut at Northampton | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | It’s been the best of times and not the worst of times for actor Jacob Ifan since leaving drama school.
He landed the lead part in the BBC cop show Cuffs and now appears in the Royal & Derngate’s production of A Tale of Two Cities playing in Northampton from Saturday September 10 to Saturday September 17 before going on a UK tour.
Interweaving one family’s intensely personal drama with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution, it is an epic story of love, sacrifice and redemption amidst horrific violence and world changing events.
Jacob said: “A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens most classic works, such a privilege to do on stage.
“It’s about the plight of the French peasentry under the arostiocuty and we also see the counter plight.
“He was a French nobleman and aristocrat, he gives away his wealth, and lands because he sympathises with them but inevitably he is drawn back to France.”
How aware was he of the book when he started the job?
Jacob added: “More than the part was the play. I had never read Dickens before, I had only watched it on the television and was a massive fan. Started reading the book and fell in love with the writing.
“I heard about the previous production and saw photographs and fell in love with the set. I immediately realised this was something I wanted to be a part of.”
There’s a number of challenges that come with putting on a production set in two places. Jacob has already showcased his English accent in Cuffs, how is he finding the French accent?
Jacob said: “It’s probably one of the better choices that we have decided to keep everyone on the RP English accent because us doing mock French accents would be, it is something I hate when productions decided to do that. Me trying to do it might come out a bit Allo Allo. I think I’d probably think I was doing a really good job but everyone disagree.
“The challenge is putting yourself in that period. Physically and emotionally. It’s finding a nuanced way of emotion when people are not allowed to. And to to justice to the hardship of the times.
“Your responsibility as an actor is to do the research. As a cast, we were all given research topics. I manage to surmise in 15 minutes, what people were drinking, eating.”
For someone who speaks so eloquently about the Victorian author, what does Jacob think is the appeal of the show
“I remember my local arts productions of Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby but I think he is such a marvellous writer because he is so accessible to actors at any age.
“He creates stories that are universal and widely related to audiences of all ages and I think that is why he has lasted so long.
“He’s hilarious, you don’t get in translations, but he is a comic and an actor. He was a show off. He liked to have the limelight on him. I suspect that is why he was the narrator in a lot of his works, you get his voice, but it is unique and special.”
We chat to the star during rehearsals for the show and then comes up with possibly the most unique analogy to describe the process.
Jacob said: “You start and feel precarious, it’s like a tortoise. It’s slow but hopefully by the third week it is more of a lubricated dolphin.
“You’re nervous about people thinking you are the worst actor in the room, especiallu when you are working with a whole load of new people. You are also nervous about learning your lines. The puzzle starts to fall into place and you can see what the play is.
And is he enjoying being back on the stage rather than working on television.
Jacob said: “I think stage and TV are completely different animals. I miss doing stage work, I hadn’t done anything since I was at drama school.
“It’s lovely and being in a rehearsal room makes you use a part of your brain daily.
“You get time to explore rather than working on it at home, then being driven to set and expected to go, bang, deliver it straight away.”
The actor’s big break came on working on the Brighton based cop show Cuffs broadcast on the BBC last autumn. A job which was short lived but one that he was delighted with.
Jacob said: “I was really lucky with Cuffs. We do a showcase at college and we get to go to the Royal Court and perform in front of a couple of hundred casting directors and agents. I think from that I got the audition for the show and then lucky enough to get it.
“It was a fortunate break. I got to spend the whole summer in Brighton which was lovely.
“Julie who wrote the show said she has been writing Prisoner’s Wives for years and she asked herself why have I set a series in the North during the rain and the winter. My next series, I’d love to spend the summer in Bright and she went off and created Cuffs.”
He also speaks highly of one of his co-stars Ashley Walters who he formed a double act with on the show.
Jacob said: “He’s a brilliant, so much fun to work with and he’s so laid back. Ashley really took me under his wing. I didn’t realise until one of the actors said on set, you are very lucky. I didn’t understand and asked what she meant. And she said, she had never worked on a show where the entire ensemble and crew all get on so well. For me that was the norm, I didn’t know anything else.”
And is he still proud of the show despite it being not renewed for a second series.
Jacob added: “You are disappointed when you put a lot of work into something and I thought it was a fantastic show. I think we ended in a good place. Sometimes TV series can go on and on for series and series. At least we can be happy with what we produced. We are really proud of it.”
To book tickets for the show call 01604 624811 or visit www.royalandderngate.co.uk. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/whats-on/theatre-and-comedy/cuffs-star-makes-professional-stage-debut-at-northampton-1-7550835 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/710e1faeba62bfa44aa866e39a0d7195a9dfaac6736a5e52837c86f404c6c3c6.json |
[
"Kate Cronin"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:34 | null | 2016-08-15T07:00:15 | Visit now for the latest news from in and around Corby - direct from the Northamptonshire Telegraph | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Four-region%2Fnorthamptonshire%2Fcorby%2Ftraffic-misery-for-kettering-to-corby-drivers-set-to-continue-till-december-1-7526388.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7526384.1471359041!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Traffic misery for Kettering to Corby drivers set to continue till December | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Drivers are being held up by traffic blocking half a mile of road on the main Kettering to Corby route - despite the fact there are no roadworks taking place there.
The cones are blocking the left hand lane of the A43 northbound carriageway between the hamburger roundabout next to Prologis, and the new A43 / A6003 roundabout.
Drivers have taken to social media to complain about the lane closure on the A43
There are no roadworks planned for the A43. The lane closure is ain place to make it safe for vehicles from Network Rail contractors Carillion to access a makeshift car park off the A43. The workers are creating an extra railway line to increase capacity between Corby and Kettering.
But the lane closure will be in place until December and fed up road-users are already facing long delays at rush hour - which are only set to worsen when the school summer holidays end.
Northants County Council road bosses asked the contractors to shorten the planned lane closure before work started, but say they will now ask them if they can come up with any other solutions to help motorists.
Drivers have phoned the Northants Telegraph and have taken to social media to voice their displeasure.
The road closure has not gone down well among road users
Corporate affairs manager Tracey Davies from Corby said on Twitter: “I witnessed a lorry nearly take out the cones earlier trying to merge and it’s bound to happen again.
“Until December is ridiculous. Any other route for me is a big diversion so I’ve little choice.”
The lane closure is placed at a point where the right hand lane also closes, meaning traffic from all three lanes has to merge into the middle lane.
A spokesman for Northamptonshire County Council said: “A lane has been coned off on the northbound carriageway of the A43 north of Kettering to allow site access for works traffic.
Northamptonshire County Council's highways department say safety of road and rail users is paramount
“This traffic management is there for the safety of the public and traffic having to exit a dual carriageway, with a 70mph limit, into the site
“The site has large vehicles entering and exiting through what is effectively a field access point off the A43.
“We received proposals for this work some weeks ago and after reviewing them, saw the potential for the coned-off lane to be reduced so that it didn’t cover such a long length of the A43. We raised this with the works promoter who is undertaking work on behalf of Network Rail and they amended their plans.
“It is planned that the traffic management will be in place until December this year. We will raise the concerns with the contractor so that they can review whether there is any potential to amend the layout.”
The road that is closed was formerly part of the A6003 but was reclassified as part of the A43 when the Corby Link Road opened two years ago. The A6003 now starts at the Corby Link Road roundabout and goes north to Corby.
Although road users will have seen Network Rail vehicles on Barford Bridge, the Cariliion contractors are working on the Glendon Iron Coyes bridge, just off the A43 north of the hamburger roundabout. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/our-region/northamptonshire/corby/traffic-misery-for-kettering-to-corby-drivers-set-to-continue-till-december-1-7526388 | en | 2016-08-15T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/cd85737fb44c94379dc4d5394e3569ec6748c57e876ac68f0811aa8adc6f2dae.json |
[
"Jon Dunham"
] | 2016-08-26T13:08:38 | null | 2016-08-26T10:35:12 | Visit now for the latest Kettering Town football news - direct from the Northamptonshire Telegraph | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Fkettering-town%2Fpoppies-swoop-for-frontman-kaid-1-7545768.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7545767.1472204097!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Poppies swoop for frontman Kaid | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Kettering Town have completed the signing of striker Kaid Mohamed.
The frontman is currently being registered with the Evo-Stik Southern League and should be available to feature for the Poppies over the bank holiday weekend, which kicks-off with a home clash against Stratford Town tomorrow (Saturday).
The 32-year-old Welsh-born forward joins Kettering having played at Eastleigh and Tamworth on loan last season.
He started his career in Wales and had spells at Bath City, Cheltenham Town, AFC Wimbledon and also Northampton Town.
The new arrival comes after boss Marcus Law confirmed he was on the hunt for “new recruits” earlier this week following the news that Callum Westwood is facing up to six weeks on the sidelines with a knee injury.
Law has now confirmed that both Liam Bateman and Liam Canavan should be fit for tomorrow’s clash while Wilson Carvalho is available again following a six-match ban.
And with Mohamed now on board, Law is hoping tomorrow will signal the “start of our season”.
“Kaid has got a proper goalscoring record against his name,” the Poppies manager said.
“But he is also a wide player and a winger bringing that goal average with him is very exciting when you add in the opportunities he will create for others.
“We have lacked creativity and that’s why I have gone out of my way to try to make this happen.
“With Liam Bateman, Liam Canavan and Wilson Carvalho all being back, it’s like having four new signings in place for tomorrow.
“They all bring qualities to this level of football and I hope this can be the start of our season.”
The Poppies’ clash with Stratford is followed, 48 hours later, by a trip to King’s Lynn Town on Monday (3pm). | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/kettering-town/poppies-swoop-for-frontman-kaid-1-7545768 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/ffa3e7e68ab43ee2dabc143077e5dc4d765bb6f9a5e52b7f5bf89f3f201b19b4.json |
[
"Paul Lynch"
] | 2016-08-28T16:51:10 | null | 2016-08-28T11:42:26 | Get the latest breaking news from the Northamptonshire Telegraph - politics, transport, education, health, environment and more, updated daily. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fbreaking-news-body-found-after-boat-rescue-team-sent-to-stretch-of-river-by-northampton-roundabout-1-7547958.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7547856.1472381144!/image/image.jpg | en | null | BREAKING NEWS: Body found after boat rescue team sent to stretch of river by Northampton roundabout | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Police have confirmed that the body of a man has been recovered from the River Nene, after a boat rescue team was dispatched near a busy Northampton roundabout last night.
A number of police and fire service vehicles were dispatched to the Barnes Meadow Interchange last night after a member of the public dialled 999 to report a body in the river.
Earlier this morning Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue could only confirm it had deployed a specialist “boat team” from Wellingborough to the scene, which is surrounded by the River Nene.
Two crews of fire fighters from The Mounts and Moulton stations were also scrambled.
The major roundabout is where the Nene Valley Way and the Bedford Road meet and last night motorists witnessed several police cars on a grassed area by the roundabout, with much of it taped off.
Northamptonshire Police has now confirmed the body of a man was recovered from the river.
His death is not being treated as suspicious and officers are preparing a report for the coroner.
The male has not been formally identified at this stage. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/breaking-news-body-found-after-boat-rescue-team-sent-to-stretch-of-river-by-northampton-roundabout-1-7547958 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/3809d88790b6bbd92e6212c5b5cf083db4f423600753765b6c86f5332148000a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:45 | null | 2016-08-11T11:51:33 | Get the latest breaking news from the Northamptonshire Telegraph - politics, transport, education, health, environment and more, updated daily. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fwireless-hack-can-unlock-100m-volkswagens-1-7522023.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7522022.1470913004!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Wireless hack ‘can unlock 100m Volkswagens’ | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Security researchers claim to have uncovered a vulnerability in the locking systems of Volkswagen cars that could leave up to 100 million vehicles exposed to break-ins.
The computer scientists from the University of Birmingham say that a flaw in the German firm’s remote locking systems allows hackers to wirelessly unlock the doors and could affect practically every VW sold since 1995.
According to Wired Flavio Garcia and his team will, along with engineering firm Kasper & Oswald, reveal two vulnerabilities in remote locking systems to the Usenix security conference. They will show how the VW flaw affects up to 100m vehicles and how a second hack could leave millions of cars from other manufacturers, including Ford, Fiat, Nissan and Vauxhall, also open to attack.
The VW flaw stems from an internal encryption which uses a handful of key values across almost all vehicles. Using a cheap radio transmitter/receiver hackers could intercept the unique code sent by the target vehicle when it is locked and, using a computer, combine this with the common code to allow them to clone the car’s remote key fob.
The weakness affects cars from across the VW Group, which includes Skoda, Seat and Audi. And while they won’t reveal their exact methods the scientists have warned that four shared keys cover nearly 100m vehicles, meaning a hacker who managed to root out even one of the codes could leave millions of vehicles vulnerable.
The team previously exposed a weakness that allowed them to bypass the immobiliser feature of millions of vehicles from various manufacturers, including VW, and start them without a key. Combined, the two flaws would leave vehicles not only exposed to break-ins but to being driven away as well. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/wireless-hack-can-unlock-100m-volkswagens-1-7522023 | en | 2016-08-11T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/851da7ad088dda3912e935aaf73d32b1818904827f5548eab62e328e5632d672.json |
[
"Jon Dunham"
] | 2016-08-26T13:07:48 | null | 2016-08-26T09:00:00 | Visit now for the latest Kettering Town football news - direct from the Northamptonshire Telegraph | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Fkettering-town%2Fcarvalho-is-raring-to-go-as-he-gets-ready-to-return-for-poppies-1-7543267.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7543265.1472119974!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Carvalho is ‘raring to go’ as he gets ready to return for Poppies | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Wilson Carvalho says he is “raring to go” as he prepares to make his return for Kettering Town over the bank holiday weekend.
The winger has missed the first five games of the Evo-Stik Southern League Premier Division season after he was suspended for six matches the end of the last campaign following his red card for a ‘spitting offence’ in the 1-0 defeat to Bedworth United in April.
Up until that game, the former Corby Town man had played a key role in the Poppies’ charge up the table, although they just missed out on a play-off place.
And his return could provide Kettering with a timely boost as they prepare for a home clash against Stratford Town tomorrow (Saturday) before heading to King’s Lynn Town on Monday (3pm).
It has been an inconsistent start for Marcus Law’s team and they were soundly beaten 3-0 at Basingstoke Town last weekend.
And Carvalho is ready to do what he can to get the season going while insisting there is plenty of time for the Poppies to gather some momentum.
“It’s been really hard having to watch from the sidelines and all I was hoping for was that the team would be in a decent position by the time I came back,” Carvalho said.
“It has been frustrating but I am raring to go, I just want to be playing again.
“I hope I can give the team an extra edge from the wings but, to be honest, I’ll do whatever job the manager wants me to do.
“I just want to be scoring and creating goals and helping the club get to where they want to be.
“We probably haven’t had the start that we all wanted but there have been some tough games in the early part of the season.
“It’s early days, there are a lot of games to be played.
“We just have to make sure we are picking up points in every game and see if we can get the same sort of momentum going as we did at the end of last season.
“I don’t see why we can’t do that. This squad did it then and we need to do it again.
“We have games with Stratford and King’s Lynn this weekend and we must be looking to win both of them.”
Carvalho, meanwhile, insists he has “learned some lessons” following that incident against Bedworth when he was alleged to have spat at an opponent.
“I have definitely learned a few lessons,” he added.
“I said to the manager that I don’t even want to get any yellow cards this season.
“I have learned the hard way and it’s up to me to keep my head and just focus on my own job and not react to situations.
“What’s done is done. I can’t change what happened. I just want to move on and do my best for the club.” | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/kettering-town/carvalho-is-raring-to-go-as-he-gets-ready-to-return-for-poppies-1-7543267 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/99cdcda814a936a8e169e415b78ed7c78c92ff0125819ff8765c1b7310820b39.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T06:51:04 | null | 2016-08-28T06:00:00 | Get the latest breaking news from the Northamptonshire Telegraph - politics, transport, education, health, environment and more, updated daily. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fdo-you-think-it-s-okay-to-allow-children-to-drink-some-alcohol-at-home-1-7540293.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7540292.1471965034!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Do you think it’s okay to allow children to drink some alcohol at home? | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | A study has found that half of parents with children under the age of 14 allow them to drink alcohol at home.
And, perhaps more worryingly, one in 10 respondents to the Churchill Home Insurance survey allow children between the ages of five and seven to drink alcohol.
While it is not illegal for a child between the age of five and 16 to drink alcohol on private premises, it flies in the face of advice from the Chief Medical Officer whose official advice warns: “Children and their parents or carers are advised that an alcohol-free childhood is the healthiest and best option. However, if children drink alcohol underage, it should not be until at least the age of 15 years.
“Parents and young people should be aware that drinking, even at age 15 or older, can be hazardous to health and that not drinking is the healthiest option for young people.” | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/do-you-think-it-s-okay-to-allow-children-to-drink-some-alcohol-at-home-1-7540293 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/f671d4ca869e264368030ccf80bb98ce78ab09dfbaa725f83eb029037b2a00a4.json |
[
"Damien Lucas"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:20 | null | 2016-08-20T06:00:00 | Visit now for gadgets & tech news and features from the Northamptonshire Telegraph | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Flifestyle%2Ftech%2Fconsole-corner-no-man-s-sky-review-1-7528920.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7528918.1471347532!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Console Corner: No Man’s Sky review | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Video game escapism in its purest form.
No Man’s Sky in undeniably a work of art, but have you got time to look around the whole gallery?
No Man’s Sky launched last week after much hype and billed as quite literally the biggest video game ever made.
The self-perpetuating game, which promises to be potentially endless, was four years in the making by a tiny team in game production terms. And you can tell as it will instantly take your breath away.
Make no mistake there has never been anything like this before. As you fly ever deeper into the universe, new planets and solar systems roll silently into view – some will have been seen before, others discovered for the very first time. And you have 18 quintillion of them to choose from...
Each has its own set of flora, fauna and inhabitants. By exploring, players gain information about the planets that they can submit to The Atlas, a universal database that can be shared with other players of the game and for which they are rewarded in currency each time.
Each planet is a work of art you could spend hours studying, analysing and dissecting. These works of art are housed in an endless gallery and for art connoisseurs it will be Manna from heaven.
However, most people’s playing time will be finite.... unless you’re at university and can afford to miss the odd class here and there to squeeze in just one more exploration of a peculiar alien planet.
And that is where one of the game’s key sticking points comes in. As much as No Man’s Sky takes us to Infinity and leaves us wondering what waits beyond, there is also an almost irresistible itch which you can’t scratch because you can never truly “complete” this game in the traditional sense.
But that is very much a personal take on NMS, many people might enjoy jumping on for a couple of hours here and there, discovering lots of different things and logging it to the Atlas, if anything it could be cathartic but many people like a beginning, a middle and an end to their games.
No Mans Sky is undeniably a work of art
The care, thought, time and brilliance that has gone into this utterly original video game is mindblowing and deserves to be experienced by PlayStation gamers.
It is the purest form of video game escapism we have ever seen and should be celebrated as such.
But it will more likely go down as a cult classic than the blockbuster success it’s craft deserves. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/tech/console-corner-no-man-s-sky-review-1-7528920 | en | 2016-08-20T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/4743d5c0da1c21ec792f65db22aa9d169b5ba63b7ab77b4fd33a47314e773742.json |
[
"Kate Cronin"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:40 | null | 2016-08-12T09:51:02 | Visit now for the latest news from in and around Corby - direct from the Northamptonshire Telegraph | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Four-region%2Fnorthamptonshire%2Fcorby%2Fpictures-paletto-lounge-opening-night-1-7523785.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7523779.1470993108!/image/image.jpg | en | null | PICTURES: Paletto Lounge opening night | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Corby’s newest bar is open - and we were there to catch all the highlights
The Paletto Lounge in Corporation Street opened on Wednesday evening with a special event for invited guests.
Mayor of Corby Julie Riley enjoys some tasty food with her party at the bar opening
The venue is part of the Loungers chain that runs the Kino Lounge in Kettering and Castello Lounge in Wellingborough.
Food and drink is on offer all day and there is also a popular children’s menu.
The bar is the latest venue to open in Corby’s new leisure quarter alongside others including Olive, La Fonte and Nando’s.
Our photographer was on hand to capture the best bits of opening night.
Tapas is the order of the day at the Paletto Lounge in Corby
Dress code: glam.
It was all smiles at the celebratory event on Wednesday evening | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/our-region/northamptonshire/corby/pictures-paletto-lounge-opening-night-1-7523785 | en | 2016-08-12T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/2f01e3953c8514b5aa1903d7b5da1386f66bdaa0333be81323f13f52cac79562.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T06:49:59 | null | 2016-08-27T06:00:00 | Get the latest breaking news from the Northamptonshire Telegraph - politics, transport, education, health, environment and more, updated daily. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Ftv-company-s-search-for-modern-family-1-7541867.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7541866.1472047656!/image/image.jpg | en | null | TV company’s search for Modern Family | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | A TV company is on the hunt for separated families and parents across the UK, to take part in a new Channel 5 series.
The show, with the working title of The Modern Family, wants to talk to people who would like help resolving any issues they feel are getting in the way of co-parenting, or getting on with an ex-partner for the sake of their children.
Separation affects around a quarter of children in the UK, with the common belief being that being brought up by both parents after separation, where safe and possible, is in the best interests of a child.
“Breaking up with a spouse or partner is one of life’s biggest upheavals,” said a spokesperson for producers Pulse Films. “The difficult part is getting to the stage where separated parents are still able to do things for the sake of the child, like arrange a joint birthday party, or attend a parents’ evening together.”
So the team at Pulse want to film with separated mums and dads who may have moved on to other relationships, and are keen to sort out the issues with their ex for the sake of the children.
Francine Kaye, relationship expert, family mediator and author of Divorce Doctor said: “Kids don’t divorce, parents do. Paradoxically couples need to understand each other more during and after separation, than they did when they were together - in order to parent effectively.”
Working under the guidance of a trained therapist, anyone who has children with an ex and has difficulty with the complicated relationships this has created, can get more information by texting ‘FAMILY’ or call: 07983 640463 / 07555 242 993, by emailing: modernfamily@pulsefilms.co.uk, or by calling Janette Hodds or Lyttanya Shannon on 0207 426 5700. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/tv-company-s-search-for-modern-family-1-7541867 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/dc96fddd9136d7af855a719f0ae1a9ef8da1a5352de4cd53a8aa98c787782f4d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:06 | null | 2016-08-22T12:03:20 | Visit now for the latest entertainment and leisure news and features - from the Northamptonshire Telegraph, updated daily | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fwhats-on%2Ftop-dance-acts-to-play-in-woods-near-kettering-1-7537868.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7537867.1471863787!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Top dance acts to play in Woods near Kettering | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Shades Of Rhythm, Brandon Block and Signum are among some of the acts who will be playing Sound In The Woods festival next week.
The festival will feature a mixture of house, deep house, trance, hard house, drum and bass, grime, hip-hop, hardcore, electro, EMD, acoustic and reggae.
DJs performing at the festival include Brandon Block, Shades Of Rhythm, Signum, Amber D, Yomanda, Marc Smith, Phil Mackintosh, Al Storm, Allen & Envy, Kernzy & Klemenza, Gio, Cut-Up, Chris Fear, Padraig Ballyer, Mileage, DJ Bubble, Torro, DJ Intense, Sensiriti Sound System, Bam! Takeover!, Eq, Fresha, Goodkat & Gosha, Alisha, Forte, Rhythm Districk Djs, Stacy James, Jason Swift, Kris Mansfield, DJ Aybee, Paul & Sharon Creed, DJ Deadline, DJ Scottie, Guy Garrett, Manz Wid Morals, Jah Troopers, Iyf, Sid Seye Binge, Big Worm, Chris Duckett, DJ Rivum, DJ O.P.1, Mark ‘Crusoe’ Robinson and The Force
MCs include Mc Frikshon, MC Energy, DGS, Mc Twinnee and Devious MC.
There will be acoustic performances from Kenneth J Nash, Chris Duckett, Ross Alexander, The Abrahams, Taylor Louise Thomas, Tim Jon Brophy, Holly Perkins, Catherine Ashby and Luna Rosa.
Shades Of Rhythm (pictured) comprise Rayan Gee, Nick Slater and Kevin Lancaster and head to Sound In The Woods on the back of performances at Boomtown Fair and Green Meadows.
In 1989 a number of tracks from their album Frequency took hold of the emerging rave scene. Over the years they have played alongside the likes of Prodigy and 808 State and performed on Top Of The Pops.
Besides live music, there will be performance art, plays, circus skills and traders.
Sound In The Woods is on Saturday, September 3 at The Secret Woods at the Sir John Lowther Centre in Glendon, near Kettering.
Tickets are available now and cost £25 with free postage and no booking fee.
Visit www.woodsfest.co.uk for more details. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/whats-on/top-dance-acts-to-play-in-woods-near-kettering-1-7537868 | en | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/14bba94707e9e4ff08f2559e09ae38c7f1f3477b7a99ca171bf85be23742f011.json |
[
"Stephanie Weaver"
] | 2016-08-26T13:04:12 | null | 2016-08-25T14:48:43 | Get the latest breaking news from the Northamptonshire Telegraph - politics, transport, education, health, environment and more, updated daily. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fgcses-montsaye-academy-rothwell-1-7544305.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7544304.1472132910!/image/image.jpg | en | null | GCSEs: Montsaye Academy, Rothwell | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Students and staff at Montsaye Academy are celebrating a second successful results day this year with the release today of the outcomes for GCSE and equivalent examinations.
Jason Cumming, principal of the academy, said: “This year – as a result of the hard work of both students and staff – we have seen a 15 per cent increase in the percentage of students achieving A* to C in both English and mathematics. “Early indications would suggest that we have done well on the new Progress 8 measure of success, which judges a school across a broader range of subjects, and this is a great outcome for the students and the school.
“We are also pleased to have seen over 90 per cent of entries in the three sciences result in students achieving at A* to C.
“There has been particularly strong achievement this year in English Language, biology, physics, chemistry, dance, music and ICT.
“Following on from last week’s very pleasing achievement at A-level it has been a very positive end to the summer and has filled us with ambition for the year ahead.”
Top achievers in the year include Eleanor Jones (10 A*s and three As), Alice Sharman (five A*s, six As and one B) and Holly Williams (six A*s, four As and two Bs).
Mr Cumming added: “These results show that the ethos we have created of determination, ambition and resilience has paid off.
“The students’ results are a reflection of their hard work and the support that they have received from both home and school.
“We wish them all the best for the next steps they choose take into employment or education.” | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/gcses-montsaye-academy-rothwell-1-7544305 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/3c3345297d43bcf9866f1258f2f908c6a57642b93c2c9dc2ada88d1bcc85fed4.json |
[
"Kate Cronin"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:48 | null | 2016-08-19T08:50:52 | Get the latest breaking news from the Northamptonshire Telegraph - politics, transport, education, health, environment and more, updated daily. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fvideo-see-the-headache-facing-motorists-driving-from-kettering-to-corby-1-7533715.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7534622.1471604089!/image/image.jpg | en | null | VIDEO: See the headache facing motorists driving from Kettering to Corby | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | A fed-up motorist who is sick of traffic jams caused by a closed-off lane on the Kettering to Corby road has made a video plea to county council bosses.
The driver, who posted the video under the name of ‘humansatnav’ showed his stop-start journey on the Youtube video.
It shows the impact of a minor shunt on the A43 northbound carriageway on queuing traffic.
One of the lanes on the road is closed until December to allow workers access to a Network Rail car park. The railways contractors are working on the upgrading of the Corby line.
There are no roadworks planned for the stretch, which runs from the hamburger roundabout in Kettering to the new Corby link road roundabout, and motorists are annoyed that they are having to bear the brunt of the congestion.
The video maker said he made the video using dashcam footage from his car after seeing a small shunt which caused gridlock because it blocked the whole road.
He is also concerned that the problem will only worsen when the schools return in two weeks.
He said: “Today was about the third time I’ve seen the aftermath of a shunt since they started. Enough’s enough.”
In the on-screen narration for his video, he said: “This is a plea to Network Rail and Northamptonshire County Council to find a more common-sense solution to the A43 roadworks at Kettering.
“This is a Tuesday in the summer holidays.
“What you’re about to see will get a lot worse when the schools go back.”
Last week, a county council spokesman said: “We received proposals for this work some weeks ago and after reviewing them, saw the potential for the coned-off lane to be reduced so that it didn’t cover such a long length of the A43. We raised this with the works promoter who is undertaking work on behalf of Network Rail and they amended their plans.
“It is planned that the traffic management will be in place until December this year. We will raise the concerns with the contractor so that they can review whether there is any potential to amend the layout.” | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/video-see-the-headache-facing-motorists-driving-from-kettering-to-corby-1-7533715 | en | 2016-08-19T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/4b344fbe47172f4a647d006175b099cf084f390833194ab656ed717391a720ad.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:39 | null | 2016-08-21T06:00:00 | Get the latest breaking news from the Northamptonshire Telegraph - politics, transport, education, health, environment and more, updated daily. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flife-ban-for-pokemon-go-cheats-1-7530984.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7530983.1471438432!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Life ban for Pokemon GO cheats | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Pokemon GO players who are found to be cheating will have a permanent ban slapped on them, it has been announced.
The game’s developer, Niantic, has altered the terms and conditions to include the condition that a life ban will ensue for anyone caught using trickery to bag Pokemon.
The new clause prohibits: “Falsifying your location, using emulators, modified or unofficial software and/or accessing Pokemon GO clients or backends in an unauthorized manner including through the use of third party software.”
It has been reported that some users have managed to fool the app into thinking they were at a different location. Some Pokemon are region-specific, although taken to extremes, a player could play the game without leaving their home.
“Our goal is to provide a fair, fun and legitimate game experience for everyone,” Niantic said:
“We will continue to work with all of you to improve the quality of the gameplay, including ongoing optimization and fine tuning of our anti-cheat system.”
Anyone believing that have been unfairly banned can access an appeals system. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/life-ban-for-pokemon-go-cheats-1-7530984 | en | 2016-08-21T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/a60a66b4cdc4a764a0c4de1c29f52547db34f2c3c617a6276e44ab139190a343.json |
[
"Tom Vickers"
] | 2016-08-26T18:50:32 | null | 2016-08-26T18:37:28 | Visit now for the latest Northants county and league cricket news - direct from the Northamptonshire Telegraph | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fsport%2Fcricket%2Fnorthants-beaten-by-worcestershire-in-new-road-thriller-1-7547015.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7547014.1472233030!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Northants beaten by Worcestershire in New Road thriller | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Northants suffered their third defeat of the County Championship Division Two season in dramatic fashion at New Road.
After both captains agreed to try to conjure a result, Northants set Worcestershire a victory target of 401.
And the home side chased it down with just an over remaining as Joe Leach’s unbeaten 33 steered them to a stunning victory.
It was Worcestershire’s fourth highest run chase of all time and it left Northants deflated after Ben Sanderson had put them in the hunt for victory.
Sanderson claimed four wickets for 74 runs during the hosts’ second innings as he threatened to spark a collapse from 268 for two to 275 for five.
But Leach held his nerve to ensure Worcestershire would claim the win they desperately wanted to keep their promotion hopes alive.
Northants had made a huge 551 all out in their first innings, with Rob Keogh, Steven Crook and Chad Barrett all hitting centuries.
Worcestershire made 201 for three before declaring on the final day as the captains agreed to try to ensure the game didn’t finish in a draw.
Northants racked up a rapid 50 for one in their second innings before declaring to leave Worcestershire needing 401 to win.
And centuries from skipper Daryl Mitchell and Joe Clarke set them up for the win before Leach left it late to secure an impressive triumph. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/northants-beaten-by-worcestershire-in-new-road-thriller-1-7547015 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/b8514eb06bfbf0c31c00cee4b3f3bc915d3cf9b454984a3debf8797cdcba9647.json |
[
"Kate Cronin"
] | 2016-08-26T13:01:01 | null | 2016-08-26T06:30:40 | Get the latest breaking news from the Northamptonshire Telegraph - politics, transport, education, health, environment and more, updated daily. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fcorby-theatre-is-a-storming-success-1-7544960.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7544959.1472142050!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Corby theatre is a storming success | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Audience figures for the Core Theatre in Corby Cube are beating all targets.
The theatre, which was opened in 2010, welcomed 34,958 adults and children in the last financial year against a target of 31,000 people.
The figures were revealed as part of a report to Corby councillors that will help them decide how they provide funding to the theatre in the future.
Core data also shows:
- Turnover for 2015/16 of £997,187 compared to a projected £865,000
- An economic impact on the area of £3,194,566
- 7,158 school pupils participated in events at the Core, beating a yearly target of 3,500
- There were 187 volunteers at the theatre last year, exceeding the target of 130
A report written by the council’s principal leisure officer Julie Cardwell will be presented to councillors at next week’s One Corby Policy Committee meeting.
It states: “The quality of the work undertaken at the Core has been recognised regionally and nationally with artists wanting to visit Corby to deliver workshops to local people which has increased opportunities for the community.
“The business model for the Core is dependent on maintaining a mixed economy of ticket income, bar sales, public subsidy, grants and sponsorship.
“The Core does receive other funding from other organisations such as charities and trusts for delivery of projects and initiatives within the theatre such as schools project work, performance workshops as well as development work that have been recognised nationally.”
Corby Council had provided grants worth £350,000 per year but financial belt-tightening meant that in 2011 the authority had to reduce its yearly grant by 15 per cent to £297,500.
The Core, a not-for-profit firm, has attracted grants worth £1,250,000 from the Arts Council since 2009 and future funding of £421,000 has already been agreed to run up to 2018.
Now Corby Council has five funding options to decide between, given its financial shortfall of up to £1.5m over the next two years. These include maintaining funding levels, cutting the amount of grants, handing over the theatre to a management firm or shutting the theatre as an unavoidable last resort.
Officers have recommended that councillors vote in favour of option two, which would see continuation of present levels of grant funding the Core for two years to allow it to consider its own financial constraints in the coming years.
A decision will be made at the meeting in the Cube next Tuesday. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/corby-theatre-is-a-storming-success-1-7544960 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/dad4a408001fffad35ecf69476d1fe399dc802efddebd73220f0f660f6f7a6ec.json |
[
"Steve Mills"
] | 2016-08-31T06:52:59 | null | 2016-08-31T06:00:45 | Visit now for the latest theatre & comedy news - direct from the Northamptonshire Telegraph | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fwhats-on%2Ftheatre-and-comedy%2Fhave-a-laugh-with-bobby-ball-in-kettering-1-7550784.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7550783.1472563888!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Have a laugh with Bobby Ball in Kettering | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | One half of a popular comedy duo will bring an afternoon of mirth and gospel to the Salvation Army in Kettering.
Bobby Ball’s Christian Comedy and Gospel Show takes place from 5pm on Sunday, September 4.
Bobby became a Christian in 1986 and now uses his comedic talents to show that God’s love and forgiveness are for real.
The doors at the Rockingham Road venue will open at 4.15pm and the show lasts for more than two hours.
Tickets for the event are £10. For more details or to book tickets visit www.eventbrite.co.uk and search for Bobby Ball. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/whats-on/theatre-and-comedy/have-a-laugh-with-bobby-ball-in-kettering-1-7550784 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/059811aa6cb0fef1b3cd37b9a55c5ec9a5678d6443b2fa8a4e23ec21fda82c0f.json |
[
"Paul Lynch"
] | 2016-08-28T12:51:09 | null | 2016-08-28T11:56:31 | Visit now for the latest crime news - direct from the Northamptonshire Telegraph | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fcrime%2Fhundreds-of-people-dispersed-by-police-in-illegal-rave-crackdown-across-northants-this-morning-1-7547970.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7535214.1472383168!/image/image.jpg | en | null | ‘Hundreds’ of people dispersed by police in illegal rave crackdown across Northants this morning | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Officers swooped on three illegal raves being held in Northamptonshire villages after complaints of noise in the early hours of this morning.
The raves, two in King’s Cliffe in the north east of the county and one in Gretton , north of Corby, were disrupted by officers, following reports from the public in the early hours of this morning (Sunday, August 28).
Officers attended the locations shortly after midnight after receiving reports of loud music.
A force spokesperson said there were “hundreds of people and cars at the locations with sound systems set up.”
Using powers under Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, officers seized equipment, took details of vehicles, their drivers and passengers, and directed people to leave the area and prevented those arriving later from entering.
Sector Inspector Julie Mead, for East Northants and Corby, said: “Thanks to calls from members of the public, we were alerted to the raves and were able to respond.
“Raves can be very disruptive in terms of noise and nuisance and can be more difficult to clear once they are established. It’s therefore vital that people let us know if they concerned about any suspicious activity.
“We are continuing to work today in the rave locations to minimise the disruption and ensure the safety of everyone.
“We would remind people to be vigilant and look out for signs of a potential rave. Often, those who are looking to set-up a rave will visit the potential site before the event. If anyone spots any suspicious activity in their village, along a country road or around farm land, please let us know.”
Some of the signs to look out for that might indicate a rave is being planned:
o Posters or messages advertising a rave
o Cropped bolts on a gate
o People in cars or vans stopping to look into a field or climbing over a fence into a field
o Flattened or disturbed hedgerows
o Anyone acting suspiciously
Extra officers will be on patrol over the bank holiday weekend ready to respond to any information about a rave taking place.
Anyone with information is asked to call Northamptonshire Police on 101 or in an emergency, call 999. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/crime/hundreds-of-people-dispersed-by-police-in-illegal-rave-crackdown-across-northants-this-morning-1-7547970 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/10259aec212a4c45e1e43ffa174818af4448d3a87bafc7af8a4b4e3a184839c9.json |
[
"Steve Mills"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:35 | null | 2016-08-23T15:25:44 | Visit now for the latest arts and culture news - direct from the Northamptonshire Telegraph | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fwhats-on%2Farts%2Fartists-putting-northampton-in-the-frame-1-7540165.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7540164.1471962332!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Artists putting Northampton in the frame | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Hundreds of artists from across the county will be displaying their work when Northants Open Studio Trails. gets underway on Saturday.
The largest visual arts event in and around the county taking place until Saturday October 1.
Artists invite you into their studios to witness at first hand the inspiration and motivation, which drives them to create.
Step inside a pottery studio, discuss carving with a stonemason or watch demonstrations of painting, printmaking and traditional crafts.
Many artists will also present their work as groups in galleries, shops, pubs and a host of interesting alternative venues.
NOST kicks off with a launch event on Saturday from 11am to 4pm in the Manor House Gardens at the Alfred East Art Gallery in Kettering.
There wil be pop up exhibitions, live demonstrations, free drop in workshops and entertainment for all ages, throughout the day.
At the launch event, visitors can enjoy artists’ demos in the gardens, as well as some free children’s workshops including pottery and Little Draw, a community drawing project. For adult visitors there is the chance to take part in THE BIG PAINT, a collaborative community art project.
The NN Contemporary Art Gallery in Northampton hosts work from Cordell Garfield, pictured above
The work of painters Allan Charles McIntosh and Minnie Teckman, photographers Val Sibley and Sue Feetham will also be displayed.
Printers Marlene Wlodarczyk and Maureen Forde will showcase their work at Bang & Olufsen in Northampton.
The Workbridge in Northampton host four different artists and Sue Brownridge will exhibit her work at St Margaret’s Church in Denton.
Duston is well represented with a number of different artists including Brian Mutton, Jean Edwards, Jamie Poole and Judy Davies who’s work can be seen at Picture Perfect at Lodge Farm. Katrina Solano will also open up her studio in Duston throughout the month.
Spratton based artists Emma Saul’s work can be seen at Brasserie 23 at the Kings Head while just down the road in Brixworth Helen West showcases her jewellery throughout September.
Gibbwood near to Walgrave is also playing hosts to different artists including Eddie Cockram, Catherine Staveley, Conny Bailey, Alison Bull, Brian Stainton and Sheila Beckingham.
Oundle, Corby, Rothwell, Crick, Winwick, Kettering, Raunds, Wellingborough and Daventry are among the other areas that will have artists displaying some of their work. The Alfred East Art Gallery hosts the trails central exhibition.
For further details about the event and to find out more about the artists visit www.kettering.gov.uk/nost. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/whats-on/arts/artists-putting-northampton-in-the-frame-1-7540165 | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/bf747f35b1dfd02bc8ba1be7d64887cd38e3e3dc971c18928048db06339ff72d.json |
[
"Stephanie Weaver"
] | 2016-08-26T13:04:33 | null | 2016-08-25T16:47:55 | Get the latest breaking news from the Northamptonshire Telegraph - politics, transport, education, health, environment and more, updated daily. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fcash-boost-for-wellingborough-youth-club-after-nomination-from-swansgate-shoppers-1-7544856.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7544854.1472140059!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Cash boost for Wellingborough youth club after nomination from Swansgate shoppers | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | A Wellingborough youth club has received a donation towards new equipment, and it’s all thanks to Swansgate Shopping Centre’s Community Chest initiative.
Fusion Youth Club, a weekly group for children up to the age of 15 where they can socialise and take part in various activities, received £100 from the shopping centre in July.
The Community Chest initiative gives local shoppers and visitors the chance to nominate a local fundraiser, challenge, charity or club, and then the centre chooses one cause to win the monthly £100 prize money.
Helen Bates from Fusion Youth Club said: “It was a lovely surprise to win the £100 which the kids will benefit from with some much-needed new equipment.
“A big thank you to everyone who nominated us.”
Lindsay Tickner, centre manager at Swansgate Shopping Centre, said: “We are thrilled to announce Fusion Youth Club as our Community Chest July winner.
“The club provides fantastic services to our young shoppers, and we are delighted to be supporting such a great local cause.”
And she added: “We’re now taking nominations for August, so whether you have a fantastic local club or charity in mind, we’d love to help.”
Nominations are taken until the last day of each month, by posting nominations in the Community Chest box in-centre located by Wilko.
A team from Swansgate choose the cause to support each month before it is announced on Swansgate’s website and Facebook page.
For more information on the Community Chest, go to www.swansgateshoppingcentre.com. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/cash-boost-for-wellingborough-youth-club-after-nomination-from-swansgate-shoppers-1-7544856 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/2d698724225dd13d3921d284062951eb64391bdeec4efcf8f474ca653e035454.json |
[
"Callum Jones"
] | 2016-08-31T06:52:28 | null | 2016-08-31T06:02:00 | Visit now for the latest crime news - direct from the Northamptonshire Telegraph | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fcrime%2Fteenager-who-sent-pictures-of-his-genitals-to-12-year-old-northants-girl-on-snapchat-locked-up-1-7551191.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.6595229.1472573499!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Teenager who sent pictures of his genitals to 12-year-old Northants girl on Snapchat locked up | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | A young man who sent pictures of his genitals to young girls in Northamptonshire and encouraged them to send him indecent images of themselves has been sentenced to 28 months in custody.
Joshua Manton, aged 19, used social media networks such as Snapchat to contact four 12 and 13-year-old girls across the country, including two from Northanmptonshire, and incited them to engage in sexual activity.
Northampton Crown Court heard Manton’s crimes were uncovered after the parents of a victim in Northants looked at her daughter’s phone and saw sexually explicit photographs.
Robert Underwood, prosecuting, said: “The mother said she could see images sent of a man’s genitals. She formed the view that this was not a boy of the same age but someone of more mature years.”
Officers managed to track Manton to his home address in Westwood Road, Burnley in January 2015.
They seized his mobile phone and analysed thousands of social media messages and text messages.
Mr Underwood said officers discovered Manton had sent a picture of his genitals and a video depicting him carrying out a sexual act to a young girl via Snapchat.
Evidence was also found of Manton’s requests to the young girls to send indecent images of themselves.
The court heard that Manton was aware of how old the girls were and had made attempts to arrange a meeting with one of them.
The mother of a Northamptonshire victim said she felt as if Manton had “taken away her daughter’s innocence.”
In a victim impact statement read out in court, she said: “Social media can be a problem for children and it is not easy for parents.
“Children need to be educated and parents need to know what children are up to online.
“I am grateful Manton has pleaded guilty. I’m not sure my daughter could gave gone through the court process.”
Micaela Williams, mitigating, said her client as “immature” and was “seeking attention” on social media.
She called for Judge Michael Fowler to give her client a suspended sentence as he was now at university and understood the consequences of his behaviour.
But Judge Fowler said he “could not avoid” an immediate custodial sentence.
He said: “The internet is now such a big part of young people’s lives. Those vulnerable due to their age have to be protected from those who prey on them by their use of the internet.
“We want the internet to be of benefit to children not a dangerous place.
“This contact went way beyond sexual talk. It is the number of offences and the number of girls involved that aggravates this offence.”
Manton was sentenced to two years and four months in a young offenders’ institution. He will serve half his sentence in custody before being released on licence. He will be on the sex offenders’ register for at least 10 years. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/crime/teenager-who-sent-pictures-of-his-genitals-to-12-year-old-northants-girl-on-snapchat-locked-up-1-7551191 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/1a1ca9292fe1c35e4dbc0be390e4b7ef523ad98f8a4644e1de71c85514014084.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:13 | null | 2016-08-19T06:00:57 | Get the latest breaking news from the Northamptonshire Telegraph - politics, transport, education, health, environment and more, updated daily. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northantstelegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Ftickets-on-sale-for-frightening-good-night-in-earls-barton-1-7530463.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/webimage/1.7530462.1471424996!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Tickets on sale for frightening good night in Earls Barton | null | null | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk | Adrenaline junkies are once again invited to test their fears at the multi-award winning, Dr Fright’s Halloween Nights.
Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Friday) for the event which starts on Friday, October 14, and ends on Monday, October 31.
The organisers are promising that this year’s event, “CineMassacre” will be the biggest yet.
Robert Gray, one half of the organising duo, The Gray Brothers, said: “For the first time, we are presenting five live action horror mazes, inspired by four decades of cinema. We have always been obsessed by horror movies, so being able to bring to life iconic scenes is very exciting!”
The 1950s inspired It’s Alive maze is joined by The Tribe and Slaughterhouse Rock, which will bring back memories of 1970s cannibal movies. 80s VHS horror is represented by the Cabin Of Evil and The Further features scenes from modern day, paranormal films. All feature live actors and special effects.
The event is held at White’s Nurseries in Earls Barton. For details and to book visit www.drfrights.com. | http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/tickets-on-sale-for-frightening-good-night-in-earls-barton-1-7530463 | en | 2016-08-19T00:00:00 | www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/ee3761114bae8336e888b77727f42032f34d38472f8c7edaf98b068c79a870bb.json |
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