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TUESDAY September 5, 2017
Vol. 124 No. 28
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Fire tears through egg farm
Shortage of
water impedes
firefighters efforts
at Fassio Egg Farms
STEVE HOWE
STAFF WRITER
Fire crews from around the
county battled a fire at Fassio
Egg Farms in Erda, which was
sparked early Tuesday morning.
The fire was first reported
around 7:30 a.m. when a
supervisor observed smoke
in one of the chicken coops,
according to Corby Larsen,
vice president of operations at
Fassio Egg Farms.
As North Tooele Fire District
was notified, employees were
evacuated from the premises and everyone left safely,
Larsen said.
The fire spread from the
initial coop into another coop
to its south, according to Ryan
Willden, North Tooele Fire
District public information
officer. Both buildings are considered total losses.
The fire spread from the
coop into the second coop
through a connecting corridor,
Willden said. At press time
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FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO
An early morning fire at Fassio Egg Farms in Erda on Tuesday brought a response from fire agencies across Tooele County. The fire started in a chicken coop building housing more than 120,000
chickens and spread into a second coop that also contained chickens. Both buildings were destroyed. Employees were able to evacuate safely and watched the fire from Erda Way.
Grantsville City Council decides to
nix subdivision moratorium plans
STEVE HOWE
STAFF WRITER
The Grantsville City Council agreed
to set aside plans for a moratorium on
approving major subdivisions during a
work meeting on Aug. 29.
Grantsville City Mayor Brent
Marshall said attorneys had cautioned
the city against the moratorium due
to the possibility of lawsuits. Also,
Grantsville City Attorney Brett Coombs
said he had received phone calls from
TTB FILE PHOTO
Stericycle would like to move its operation in North Salt Lake, shown
above, to a location in Tooele County near Rowley. The Utah Department of
Environmental Quality approved air quality and solid waste permits for the
company on Friday.
State OKs
key permits
for medical
waste burner
SUNDAY
MONDAY
MARK WATSON
spokeswoman Jennifer Koenig.
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Stericycle is one giant step
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permit approvals from the
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State of Utah,¡± said Stericycle
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Dugway
94/65
Lake Point
93/68
Stansbury Park
Erda 94/68
Grantsville
94/66
Pine Canyon
95/68
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Bauer
Tooele
93/65
93/64
Stockton
93/65
Rush Valley
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STAFF WRITER
MARK WATSON
Tue Wed Thu
impact and subdivision fees.
¡°I think we can do everything we
need to do without doing a moratorium,¡± Marshall said.
The city council reviewed the possibility of a 90-day moratorium, allowing
time to revise the city¡¯s capital facilities
plan and code to allow for wider streets,
more green space, and other changes.
In lieu of a moratorium, the city
Local effort to deliver donated
dog and cat food to Houston
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developers asking how the possible
moratorium could affect them.
¡°The moratorium ¡ª a developer is
going to hook onto that and find some
way to sue us,¡± Coombs said.
Marshall said the city had received
an influx of subdivision plans from
developers after they received news of
a possible moratorium. He also outlined
the financial impact of a moratorium, as
the city collected $542,346 from April
to June in fees, including plan check,
Sat
A mother-daughter-son team from
Tooele are on their way to Houston to
deliver 1,440 pounds of pet food to animal shelters in need.
The transport team includes Debbie
Moline, her daughter Lacy Fors and
her 3-year-old son Tony Tanner. They
planned to leave for Houston today at
noon. Fors is owner of Tooele¡¯s NighTime Donuts.
Autotech Tooele owner Brian Hall
spearheaded the drive to collect dog
and cat food to send to Houston.
He said he was contacted by a business associate who works for a company called Launch Leads that helps with
business development.
¡°They asked me to see what I could
do at my business to collect dog and cat
SEE HOUSTON PAGE A9 ?
SUE BUTTERFIELD/TTB PHOTO
Trent Moline, Wayne Story and other volunteers help prepare to transport 1,440 pounds of
donated cat and dog food to Houston, Texas.
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RIVERS AND LAKES
Teen wins state
award for dry ice
experiment
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Music fans gather
on Labor Day
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TUESDAY September 5, 2017
VINTAGE MOTORCYCLES
FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTOS
Racers (top) line up at the start line in race 5 on Sunday at UMC as part of
Bonneville Vintage GP. The event is the longest running annual race in track
history. Bruce Gibson (above) moves a sidecar racer. Motorcycle enthusiast
and racer Larry Morris (left) prepares to race in the sportsman 500 class
in race 3 of the Bonneville Vintage GP at Utah Motorsports Campus in
Grantsville on Sunday afternoon.
FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTOS
Ralph Wessell (top) rides an Indian after racing in the Class C Handshift.
Wessell tooks the top spot in his race class finishing first with a total time
13:0.519 with a top speed of 60 mph. The race was part of the 12th annual
Bonneville Vintage GP at UMC. Dennis Donahoe (above) races in the 200
Grand Prix.
Performance¡¯s new manager wants a ¡®hometown dealership¡¯
TIM GILLIE
STAFF WRITER
If Scott Turner has his way,
Tooele County residents thinking about buying a vehicle
won¡¯t drive any farther than
Performance AutoMall Tooele.
Turner is the new general manager of Performance
AutoMall Tooele. He took the
reigns on the only new auto
dealer in Tooele County on
Aug. 28.
¡°I want people to see that
we are their hometown dealership,¡± Turner said. ¡°People
should have the best experience buying a vehicle right
here, that they have no reason
to drive any further.¡±
Turner should know how to
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do that; he¡¯s been selling cars,
or as he prefers to call it, ¡°helping people to buy cars with a
smile,¡± for almost 14 years.
Born and raised in Phoenix,
Arizona, Turner served a
mission for the LDS Church
in Mexico. While he was in
Mexico, his mother moved to
Salt Lake City. When his mission was completed, he came
home to Utah.
¡°My mother has a chronic
illness and can¡¯t work,¡± Turner
said. ¡°So I needed to find work
to help support my family.¡±
Turner went to work for his
cousin, Kirk Bengtzen, selling
cars at Menlove Dodge Toyota
in Bountiful.
¡°I went in and interviewed
for the job like anybody
would,¡± Turner said. ¡°Nobody
found out I was related to the
owner until I had been there
for nine months.¡±
In 2004, Turner was promoted to management and
moved to Blackridge Subaru
Mitsubishi in St. George as
sales manager.
After a while in St. George,
Turner decided he wanted to
go back to Arizona. While in
Arizona, he said he worked
for an automobile sales training and consulting company
and traveled all over North
America.
Turner also went back to
Mexico for a year and a half
as a facilitator, or trainer, for
Honda of Mexico.
After eight years of traveling, Turner wanted to settle
down, so he went to work
for one of the largest retail
auto dealers in the U.S.
called AutoNation. Between
Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona,
AutoNation owned 15 dealerships. Turner was its sales
trainer.
In 2014 Turner became
the general sales manager for
a Honda Store in Chandler,
Arizona.
After a year in Chandler,
Turner decided to take a break
from daily work. He traveled to
North and South America with
his wife while working parttime for the consulting firm he
worked for previously.
After nearly a two-year
break, Turner reconnected
with Bengtzen in 2017.
Bengtzen was now a partner in
Performance Automotive Utah.
Turner became the sales
trainer for Performance
Automotive Utah. He spent
four or five days a month with
the sales staff in Tooele.
¡°On Sunday Aug. 27, I had
a conversation with Kirk,
and on Monday Aug. 28, I
was the general manager for
Performance AutoMall Tooele,¡±
Turner said.
Turner works with a staff
of 62 people, including a sales
force of 12 people.
¡°Our team feels very committed to making Performance
AutoMall people¡¯s first choice,¡±
he said. ¡°Not just for new or
pre-owned vehicles, but for
parts and service as well.¡±
Performance AutoMall
Tooele has been selling an
average of 100 vehicles, new
and pre-owned, per month
according to Turner.
¡°That¡¯s not bad for our
market,¡± he said. ¡°We have
had sales of up to 150 cars a
month, and we hope to get up
to an average of 150.¡±
But simply counting the
SUE BUTTERFIELD/TTB PHOTO
Owner Kirk Bengtzen (left) hired his cousin Scott Turner as the new general manager of Performance Automotive.
number of sales isn¡¯t the way to
improve sales, Turner said.
¡°We know that the best measure of success isn¡¯t the number
of cars you sell, but how many
return customers you have,¡± he
said. ¡°It¡¯s the number of people
that you help that have such
a good experience that they
won¡¯t go anywhere else.¡±
Performance AutoMall
Tooele offers seven brands of
cars and trucks: Ford, Chrysler,
Dodge, Jeep, Ram, Chevrolet,
and Buick.
¡°If we don¡¯t have the vehicle people want on the lot,
through our connection with
Performance Auto in Bountiful,
we can usually get the car here
in one or two days,¡± Turner
said.
The sales staff at
Performance AutoMall in
Tooele can also connect people
with Toyota or Honda cars in
Bountiful, he said.
Turner wants to make sure
that Performance AutoMall
Tooele is connected to the
community. His first week on
the job has been filled with
meetings with government,
civic, and school leaders to
talk about how Performance
AutoMall can be part of the
community.
For the month of September,
Performance AutoMall
is donating $150 to the
Huntsman Cancer Institute in
the name of every customer
that purchases a new or used
vehicle.
Turner has also put the word
out that food trucks are welcome at Performance AutoMall
on Saturdays.
¡°We would like to make
shopping for a car on Saturday
a family activity,¡± he said.
Performance Automotive¡¯s
slogan is ¡°Put a smile on your
face, every customer, every
day.¡± But according to Turner
it¡¯s more than a slogan.
¡°It¡¯s the way we do business,¡± he said. ¡°Buying a car
should make you smile.¡±
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Gov¡¯t study committee looking at October to select final form
TIM GILLIE
STAFF WRITER
The Tooele County
Government Study Committee
is starting a march toward its
final recommendation.
On Aug. 23, the committee
narrowed its choices down to
the expanded five-member
commission or the councilhired manager forms of government.
The committee agreed on
a tentative schedule that, if
followed, may produce a final
decision on a form of government by Oct. 12.
For the next four weeks the
committee will use its weekly
meetings to study different
aspects of the final two recommended forms of county government.
The first week the committee will look at the organization of each form of government, and define functions and
authority of the different parts
and members of each form of
government.
The second week the committee will undertake an organization chart for each form of
government, including devel-
oping procedures and organizational performance metrics.
The third week will be spent
on the schedule of transition
of each government form. The
fourth week will consist of
looking at the transition methodology and budget costs, both
ongoing and one-time, for each
form of government.
The committee is expecting
to have a report at its Oct. 5
meeting on what it has learned
about the implementation of
each of the two forms of government.
Completion of the selection
of a final recommended form
of government is scheduled for
the committee¡¯s Oct.12 meeting.
The expanded five-member
commissioner form of government involves keeping the
current commission form of
government where the county
commission is both the legislative and executive authority of
the county, but the commission would have five instead of
three members.
The study committee also
needs to determine if it recommends the expanded five-
member commissioner form of
government, would the commission be elected by district¡¯s,
at-large, or a combination of
at-large and districts. It also
needs to determine if the commissioners would be full-time,
part-time or a combination of
full and part-time.
The council-appointed
manager form of government
separates the legislative and
executive authority. It gives
the legislative authority to
the council and the executive
authority to a manager hired
by the council.
The study committee would
also need to look at the number of council members and
their election by districts or
at-large.
According to state code,
the plan for an optional form
of government shall contain
detailed provisions relating to
the transition from the existing
form of county government
to the form proposed in the
optional plan. The plan should
include provisions relating to
the election or appointment
of officers and the retention,
elimination, or combining of
existing offices. If an office is
eliminated, the plan needs to
specify the division or department of county government
responsible for performing the
duties of the eliminated office.
The plan must also include
the continuity of existing ordinances and regulations, and
the continuation of pending
legislative, administrative, or
judicial proceeding. Interim
and temporary appointments
and the preparation, approval,
and adjustment of necessary
budget appropriations are also
to be included in the plan,
according to state code.
For the council-hired manager form of government, code
also specifies that the plan
must state the initial compensation, if any, of county council
members and procedures for
prescribing and changing compensation.
The study committee has
until Feb. 8, 2018 to produce
its final report on Tooele
County government, after
which it will be reviewed by
the Tooele County Attorney¡¯s
office. By state code, any
proposed change of govern-
ment within a county must be
approved by voters in an election before being enacted.
The public can send
email comments to the
study committee at
studycommittee@,
according to Mitchell.
The study committee holds
regular weekly meetings
on Thursdays at the Tooele
County Health Department
Building, 151 N. Main Street
in Tooele City at 7 p.m. Those
meetings include time for public comment.
The study committee also
has a website, .
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County seeks public input
on proposed pathway
For walkers and cyclists, route will wind from Erda
through Stansbury Park and end in Lake Point
Local health officials will
seek public input on a proposed walking and cycling
path that would start south of
Erda, wind through Stansbury
Park and end in Lake Point.
¡°We could incorporate other
walking/cycling paths off of
this main path,¡± said Brad
Gillies of the Tooele County
Health Department.
Gillies said that the Erda to
Lake Point path will be a major
part of Tooele County¡¯s Active
Transportation Plan, which is
in process of being developed
to improve the overall active
transportation of walking and
cycling in unincorporated
Tooele County.
¡°People at the health department, and others from the
county, have been meeting
for about a year formulating a
route for this path, and working on the active transportation plan,¡± Gillies said. ¡°Now
we want to go to the public.¡±
The public is invited to an
open house Thursday from 57 p.m. at the Stansbury Park
Clubhouse. There they can
learn about the project, review
the county¡¯s active transportation goals, take a survey, and
show county leaders where
they would like to walk and
bike.
¡°Walking, bicycling and
other ways of getting around
using one¡¯s own two legs are
called active transportation,¡±
Gillies said. ¡°Increasingly,
active transportation is a
popular way of staying healthy,
improving communities and
reducing roadway congestion.¡±
Gillies said the county is
partnering with the Wasatch
Front Regional Council to
develop a plan entirely focused
on improving active transportation in the central, unincorporated area of Tooele Valley,
which includes Stansbury Park,
Erda and Lake Point.
The Active Transportation
Implementation Plan includes
six goals:
? Integrate active transportation into new and improved
major transportation facilities.
The goal is to include proper
sidewalks, pathways, bike
lanes, crossing and other facilities in the planning, design and
construction of major new and
expanded roads and streets.
? Build active transportation trunk routes through the
valley. This means planning,
designing and building primary pathways connecting
central Tooele Valley communities. These pathways
should support all pedestrians,
cyclists and other active travelers; include trailheads, unique
branding, rest stops and
other amenities; and plan for
¡°branches¡± linking communities with developments.
? Connect Tooele Valley¡¯s
active travelers to key destinations. This means focusing
investment on routes that
link Tooele Valley residents,
employees and visitors to destinations important to them.
? Ensure that new developments have connected active
transportation infrastructure.
The goal is to provide networks
of paths and sidewalks that
connect to major places and
streets.
? Enable pedestrians and
cyclists to thrive while remaining safe. The goal is to cultivate high rates of safe walk-
FILE PHOTO
Jason Montrose walks his bicycle at the Peterson-Ninigret Industrial Depot. Tooele County Health Department
and Tooele County are working on an active transportation plan that would include pedestrian and bike paths
throughout Tooele Valley.
ing, cycling and other active
transportation among Tooele
Valley¡¯s communities.
? Increase community visibility, awareness and support
active transportation. The goal
is to promote active transportation and create examples
of quality infrastructure that
people can see.
The public will have an
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A popular jazz pianist with
a knack for inspiring piano
students will speak this week
in Tooele.
Jerald Simon, the author
of 21 music books and a motivational poetry book, will
speak at 10 a.m. Thursday at
the Tooele Valley Academy of
Dance, 291 N. Main Street in
Tooele.
The event is sponsored by
the local chapter of the Utah
Music Teachers Association.
¡°We chose Jerald to start the
school year out, because he is
always so much fun, and has so
many good ideas,¡± said Jenean
Christensen, chapter president.
¡°Any music teachers, students,
parents or anyone interested
will be welcome.¡±
Simon is a composer,
author, poet and music mentor/piano teacher. His piano
teaching focuses on theory,
improvisation, composition
and arranging.
He grew up learning the
piano, organ and string bass.
His father had sung tenor
in a performing group in
Wisconsin, and the Simon family often played together at a
retirement home.
Simon said he began teaching piano lessons in 2003,
and started his own company
called Music Motivation in
2004. Initially, he used the
company to help him find venues to perform on the piano,
but he also wanted to use it to
motivate and inspire his piano
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Motivational piano
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Thursday in Tooele
students.
About that time, Simon
published his first two music
books: ¡°An Introduction
to Scales and Modes¡± and
¡°Variations on Mary Had a
Little Lamb.¡±
¡°Because of those two
books, I had piano teachers
calling me left and right, telling me about their students
who weren¡¯t as motivated,¡±
Simon said. ¡°They wanted to
know if I could motivate them.
Most were teenage boys. In a
matter of months, my piano
students went from 40-something students to over 88 piano
students.¡±
To help motivate his new
students, Simon asked each
one what kind of music they
liked and wanted to learn to
play. He offered to write an
original song just for them
based on the style they chose.
¡°It was fascinating, because
the next week they¡¯d come
back and not only had they
practiced their piece, but
they¡¯d perfected it, and at the
next lesson they challenged me
to do something new,¡± Simon
said. ¡°It wasn¡¯t that they didn¡¯t
want to play the piano, they
wanted to play something they
liked.¡±
Several years and published
books later, Simon still teaches
some piano students. He also
does teacher workshops and
motivational speaking. To try
to reach more people, he also
posts weekly musical theory
instruction videos on YouTube.
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Jazz pianist and music teacher Jerald Simon wlll present a workshop
Thursday in Tooele at the Tooele Valley Academy of Dance at 10 a.m. The
public is invited to attend.
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school?
After Thursday¡¯s meeting,
the active transportation plan
will be developed, according
to a project overview document. The overview indicates
that another community open
house will be held at the end of
November, and a finalized plan
will be adopted in March 2018.
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opportunity at the meeting to
answer questions as to whether
they walk or cycle near their
homes, and if they do, where
do they go.
Other questions to be asked
include: Do you support walking infrastructure? Do you support biking infrastructure? Do
your children walk to school?
Do your children cycle to
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OUR VIEW
Positive impacts
Summertime community day events
help keep county¡¯s rural feeling real
To most people, the Labor Day holiday weekend marks the unofficial
end of summer. That tradition eventually developed after Labor Day was
adopted by Congress and signed by President Grover Cleveland in 1894
after the tragic Pullman strike.
In that strike, railroad traffic was stopped almost nationwide for weeks
while Pullman Palace Car Company workers in Chicago protested cut
wages, unfair living standards in company-mandated housing, and other
grievances. With the nation¡¯s freight delivery and railroad passenger service jeopardized, Cleveland eventually sent troops to enforce a court order
that demanded the strike end. Violence ensued and scores of striking
workers died in the chaos.
The Pullman strike, and how the federal government responded to
it, is a dark chapter in U.S. labor history. Yet, it could be said the strike
was a major contributor to advancing the cause of American workers,
who sought more power and respect at the bargaining table. It also led
Cleveland and Congress to establish the first Monday of September as a
national holiday to commemorate labor¡¯s advancements and contributions. However, it must be said that 23 other states had already created
their own respective Labor Days by the time Congress and the White
House made it an official national holiday.
Here in Tooele County, Labor Day is also recognized by many citizens
as the last day of summer. Over the holiday weekend, area canyons and
recreation areas were hard hit, while many local citizens made it the last
getaway weekend of the summer. But further contributing to that end-ofsummer feeling is students going back to school a week prior ¡ª and Lake
Point Days, the last local community day celebration on the calendar.
Lake Point Days was held Aug. 25-26, and for those two days, citizens
of unincorporated Lake Point celebrated their community, which was
established in 1854, with a parade, music, food and other events. Citizens
and visitors gathered, and shared a common bond that generates a sense
of cooperation and unity, but more importantly, a sense of belonging to a
place and its people.
All of which isn¡¯t the province of Lake Point alone. Erda, Stockton, Rush
Valley and Stansbury Park also hold special community days every summer. And each one gives residents and families an opportunity to spend
quality time together, do fun and simple activities that restore old friendships and acquaintances, and create a renewed sense of commonwealth.
In all, thousands of local citizens participate in these community day
events, and we¡¯re glad they do. With all of today¡¯s modern conveniences
and distractions, it has become increasingly easy for citizens and neighbors to become isolated. To the many leaders and volunteers in Lake
Point, Erda, Stansbury Park, Stockton and Rush Valley who organize their
respective community days, your service is exemplary and applauded
¡ª and creates lasting, positive impacts.
Tooele County is growing in population by leaps and bounds, but with
the help of community days events held every summer, its citizens haven¡¯t
forgotten how to keep the area¡¯s rural, friendly feeling fresh and real.
And touchable for everyone.
GUEST OPINION
Stop making excuses
for anifa thuggery
O
ne of the least safe places to
be in Berkeley, California, is
in the vicinity of someone
holding a ¡°No Hate¡± sign.
So-called anti-fascist, or antifa,
activists bearing shields emblazoned with those words assaulted
any of the handful of beleaguered
Trump supporters they could get
their hands on at a small political
rally. All in the cause, mind you,
of demonstrating their supposed
opposition to hatefulness.
Too many people were willing
to perfume antifa in the wake of
Charlottesville, where it clashed
with Nazi thugs who caused, and
deserved, a wave of national revulsion. But Berkeley demonstrates
once again the true nature of this
left-wing movement, which is thuggish in its tactics and totalitarian
in its sensibility. Anyone who at
this point makes excuses for antifa
¡ª or worse, justifies it ¡ª is participating in its moral rot.
The antifa goons showed up
in force at Berkeley at what had
been a small ¡°anti-Marxist¡± rally of
Trump supporters at a public park.
Antifa wore its usual fascistic garb
of black masks and body armor.
They overwhelmed the police who
had been trying to maintain order
and, holding aloft smoke-spewing
flares, chanted, ¡°Whose park? Our
park!¡±
They then treated suspected
Trump supporters with all the
decorousness of torch-wielding
medieval villagers who believed
they had stumbled upon a witch.
A leader of a pro-Trump group
had to run from a mob that pepper-sprayed and beat him, until
he was taken into police custody
for his own protection. The targets
weren¡¯t Nazis bearing Nazi regalia,
but supporters of the duly-elected
president of the United States.
Antifa benefited enormously
from the horrific events in
Charlottesville. It became Nazis
versus the people standing up to
the Nazis, and in that formulation
GUEST OPINION
25K Launch Tour event not to be missed
H
ere in Utah, we¡¯ve felt what
it¡¯s like to be the fastest growing state in the nation, to have
unprecedented economic growth and
experience low unemployment.
However, not all of Utah¡¯s communities are full participants in this
economic success. Many counties off
the Wasatch Front are experiencing
challenges.
Gov. Gary R. Herbert recognized
the need to do something to help
these communities, including Tooele
County. In his 2017 State of the State
address, he challenged the private
sector to create 25,000 jobs in the
25 counties off of the Wasatch Front
over the next four years. The governor asked me to lead Team Utah to
determine how to achieve this goal
and identify what success would look
like. From those meetings, the 25k
Jobs initiative and Launch Tour were
born.
The 25k Jobs Initiative focuses on
helping grow businesses in the 25
counties off the Wasatch Front. While
the ultimate goal is to create 25,000
jobs in four years, the initiative does
more than that. Not all of these communities are the same, and we realize
they all have different challenges.
Part of the goal of the 25k initiative is
to help communities clear roadblocks
that are impeding economic progress,
whether that is infrastructure, transportation, seasonal employment, etc.
To launch the initiative, I partnered with Derek B. Miller, president
and CEO of World Trade Center
Utah Lt. Governor
Spencer Cox
GUEST COLUMNIST
Utah. Together, we have teamed
up with more than 25 business and
employment service providers on a
25k Jobs Launch Tour. A few of the
organizations participating include
the Utah Department of Workforce
Services, Zions Bank, the Economic
Development Corporation of Utah,
the Governor¡¯s Office of Economic
Development, USTAR, the Salt Lake
Chamber and the Utah Department
of Agriculture and Food.
The 25k Jobs Launch Tour will be
stopping in Tooele County on Sept.
6 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Benson
Gristmill.
At this family-friendly launch
event, you can expect to network and
meet with representatives from business, education and government. If
you¡¯re a business owner or manager,
you can connect with business service
providers who can help you find new
customers, be more efficient with
your time and even help you expand
internationally. If you¡¯re a job seeker,
you can meet with employment specialists who can help you prepare for,
and land, your next job. Activities for
all ages and free meals will be provided, so bring your family, coworkers
and friends.
For counties struggling with high
unemployment and lack of available
jobs, the state is trying to arm local
companies with the resources to
grow/diversify. We are encouraging
companies that are located along the
Wasatch Front to add a rural component to their expansion strategies. A
great success story of a company that
did this is HealthEquity.
HealthEquity, a company located
in Draper that provides tools for
health savings accounts and other
health financial services, recently
found themselves looking for
qualified workers to meet growth
needs. HealthEquity¡¯s team realized that these jobs did not have to
be located along the Wasatch Front
and decided to look for people who
could work remotely from rural Utah.
HealthEquity¡¯s new hiring initiative
resulted in more than 60 permanent,
benefited employees in Price, Utah.
This example shows that real
change can come from industry. The
goal is to find other companies that
are able to partner with rural Utah
to find innovative solutions to their
workforce needs.
We look forward to seeing you at
the 25k Jobs Launch Tour here in
Tooele County on Sept. 6. Whether
you are an entrepreneur, job seeker,
employer, community leader or
just a resident interested in getting
engaged, there will be something
for you. Join the effort to elevate
our state to even greater heights and
make sure all Utahns experience the
quality of life they deserve.
GUEST OPINION
the people standing up to the Nazis
always win. There can be no moral
equivalence, we were told, between
Nazis and their opponents. But that
depends on who the opponents
are ¡ª there is a vast difference
between peaceful counterprotesters and violent thugs, even if they
are marching on the same side.
Bully-boy fascists spoiling for a
fight and black-clad leftists looking to beat them up exist on the
same moral plane. They both thrill
to violence and benefit from the
attention that comes from it. They
both reject civility and the rule of
law that make a democratic society
possible. They both are profoundly
illiberal.
All this was lost in the reaction
to Charlottesville. Liberal commentators spread memes comparing antifa to American GIs who
stormed the beaches at Normandy.
The comparison would be apt if the
1st Infantry Division got together
to spend an afternoon beating up
fellow Americans rather than giving its last measure of devotion to
breaching Hitler¡¯s Atlantic Wall.
There will always be goons who
enjoy breaking things and hurting
people. The real scandal is that
otherwise respectable people are
willing to look the other way or
explain away the violence, so long
as its perpetrators are on their side.
They are just as cowardly as the
mask-wearing antifa thugs who are
brave enough to punch and kick
people, but not to show their faces.
Rich Lowry is editor of the
National Review.
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France¡¯s Macron must remain steadfast
D
uring a recent trip to
Bucharest, Romania, French
President Emmanuel Macron
declared that ¡°France isn¡¯t a reformable country. Many have tried; they
didn¡¯t succeed, because the French
detest reforms.¡± He did say, however,
that the country was ¡°transformable.¡±
Watching the speech, I sensed that
Macron was frustrated. The abrupt
gesture he made ¡ª as if he were
swatting at a pesky fly with the back
of his hand ¡ª when he referred to
¡°the people¡± and their rejection of
change drew widespread criticism. I
didn¡¯t see contempt, but rather exasperation.
Macron also conveyed vulnerability
with his semantic gymnastics and
agitation. The leftist sharks have been
circling, and now they have drawn
blood. While it¡¯s just a drop, one can¡¯t
forget that this is France ¡ª a country
with a history of bloody leftist revolution. It doesn¡¯t take much to start a
feeding frenzy.
Macron and his majority government have introduced and passed a
flurry of reforms since taking power
in June: everything from increasing
government transparency to reducing
corruption to making the French labor
market more meritocratic and globally competitive. This week, Macron is
tackling immigration by meeting with
European and African leaders in Paris
to seek a solution to the flood of asylum seekers coming to Europe.
Meanwhile, Jean-Luc Melenchon,
leader of the far-left France Insoumise
party, has whined about having to
work evenings and delay his monthlong, taxpayer-funded vacation
because he must perform the laborious task of voting in parliament. He¡¯s
singing the ¡°hands off my entitle-
Rachel Marsden
GUEST COLUMNIST
ments¡± tune that so many French citizens know by heart.
A new French Public Opinion
Institute poll shows that Melenchon
is considered the most viable opposition leader in France, even though
his party and its French Communist
Party allies hold only 27 of the 577
seats in the National Assembly. Blame
the power vacuum on the other
party leaders, who are still stumbling
around and trying to figure out their
identity after voters subjected them to
an electoral pummeling a few months
ago. When faced with a choice
between the same old unproductive
leftist rhetoric and changes that might
pull the country out of the downward
spiral it¡¯s been in for so long, the
French apparently would rather cling
to the familiar comfort of continued
demise.
The French actually do want
change and renewal, but they want it
to occur by magic. They mistake their
presidents for Houdini.
Since he took office in May,
Macron¡¯s approval rating has dropped
from 62 percent to 40 percent. Over
the same honeymoon period, former center-right President Nicolas
Sarkozy¡¯s approval rating rose from
65 percent to 69 percent, and yet the
system chewed up Sarkozy and spit
him out. Like Macron, Sarkozy had
also hoped to unshackle the country
from its deeply entrenched socialist
infrastructure. He ultimately failed,
as his enthusiasm faded over his five-
year term, and he seemed resigned to
a fate of political impotence. His 2012
loss to Socialist Francois Hollande
mostly erased whatever had remained
of Sarkozy¡¯s policies.
Former British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher once said of her
free-market reform agenda, ¡°Yes, the
medicine is harsh, but the patient
requires it in order to live.¡± She fired
Cabinet ministers who disagreed
with her actions. She survived an
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GUEST OPINION
Democratic silence on
antifa is dangerous
T
here is a disturbing
silence from leaders of
the Democratic Party
over those gangs of blackmasked leftist thugs shutting
down free speech and beating
people to the ground with
clubs.
We¡¯ve seen such leftist violence before, and we saw it
again just the other day at a
protest in Berkeley, when the
city police backed off and the
thugs who call themselves antifa swarmed peaceful protesters
of the right.
It¡¯s all over the internet,
young men of the hard left
in black masks, black gloves,
armed with clubs, hunting
down prey who dare speak
their minds.
What¡¯s striking about all this
is the silence.
There has been no concerted media effort to pressure Democratic politicians to
denounce Democratic muscle.
So Democratic politicians have
been relatively silent, as have
many of their loyal pundits.
A few pundits of the left have
even compared the thugs with
American soldiers hitting
Omaha beach, a ridiculous
attempt to legitimize the violence.
This is all corrosive and dangerous. And in a loud political
year, the silence of Democratic
politicians explains so very
much.
Because silence is consent.
And in this silence you may
hear something terrifying: the
rule of law breaking down.
When politicians aren¡¯t pressured to declare themselves,
they don¡¯t. Most Republican
and Democratic pols are transactional personalities who
hate taking a stand until after
consensus is formed. They¡¯d
rather wave a moist finger in
the air to see which way the
wind blows.
This business of political
muscle and politicians can be
found in the history of Chicago
politics too. Any alderman
would condemn violent street
crime to get journalists off
their back. But if you asked
them to condemn specific
street gangs or Outfit crews by
name, asked them to call out
thugs who provide them politi-
Marsden
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assassination attempt by terrorists. She dug in her heels
and didn¡¯t budge ¡ª much like
U.S. President Donald Trump is
doing in the face of opposition
from the left. This is the only
way to win.
Legendary statesmen
¡ª from Thatcher to Ronald
Reagan to Winston Churchill
¡ª all faced staunch opposition
before their actions bore fruit.
Macron¡¯s mistake would be
to back down as the battle for
France¡¯s survival gets underway.
Melenchon has already
called for a Sept. 23 protest
against what he describes
as a ¡°social coup d¡¯etat by
Emmanuel Macron,¡± echoing his previous calls for a
¡°moral insurrection¡± against
Macron¡¯s reforms. For leftists,
democracy only exists when
they¡¯re in charge ¡ª even if it
means hijacking the agenda
of a democratically elected
president and government. The
far left will always attempt to
use the citizenry as a human
shield against rational action,
hoping to woo enough pawns
with their emotionally charged
wailing.
Macron has no choice but to
keep forging ahead and seizing
every opportunity to change
French mindsets. France is the
nervous swimmer who stands
paralyzed on the high diving board, afraid to take the
plunge. If you give him a shove
and he¡¯s forced into the water,
he might yell at you all the way
down, but he¡¯ll be proud of his
achievement by the time he
bobs back up to the surface.
France badly needs such a
shove.
Rachel Marsden is a columnist, political strategist and
former Fox News host based in
Paris. She is the host of the syndicated talk show ¡°Unredacted
with Rachel Marsden.¡±
John Kass
GUEST COLUMNIST
cal leverage in the precincts,
they¡¯d look at you as if you¡¯d
sprouted six heads.
Now, it¡¯s not just a Chicago
thing. Political street violence
is a national thing. The thugs
of the left have shut down free
speech at college campuses,
at political protests ¡ª and
they do so at will. Cops in
Democratic-run towns now
either stand down or step back.
And the hunting begins.
Conservatives see the danger to the republic, but so
do a few liberals who have
been bold enough to warn
against the hard, violent left.
Alan Dershowitz, the former
Harvard Law School professor,
is one.
¡°Do not let the hard left,
the radicals, represent the
Democratic Party,¡± Dershowitz
warned recently. ¡°There is an
alt-left and we cannot deny it.
The alt-left are radical people
who want to deny us free
speech, who want to close the
campus to conversation, who
want to stop people from having dialogue, who want to use
violence ...
¡°Antifa is not our friend.
They will not help us win elections. ... I do not want to give
a pass to the hard radical left,
which is destroying America,
destroying American universities, destroying the Democratic
Party,¡± Dershowitz said.
The easy parallel to antifa
and Berkeley is the properly horrified reaction of most
decent Americans to the white
supremacists and Nazis rallying recently in Charlottesville.
The rally was ostensibly about
protecting Confederate history,
but in effect, with Nazis and
the Klan there, it became the
theater of white tribalism.
It resulted in the death of
a counter protester, Heather
Heyer, struck by a car driven in
rage by a mad and angry thug
of the right.
And President Donald
Trump¡¯s ridiculous equivocation after Charlottesville
¡ª chastising extremists but
also saying that among them
were some ¡°fine people¡± ¡ª
cost him dearly. He was loudly
condemned by many, including
me.
But at least at Charlottesville
and after there was a common
understanding, among most
journalistic elites, among political elites of both parties, that
Nazis and white supremacists
would be loudly condemned.
Not so with antifa at
Berkeley. Leftist thugs seem to
be a protected class, as far as
Democrats bosses and much
of the Washington media are
concerned. Until quite recently,
antifa was described not by
name, but merely by the neutral term ¡°counter protesters.¡±
Counter protesters?
Such weakness and partisan
favoritism breeds cynicism,
and the rule of law breaks
down.
Berkeley happened just as
the deadly hurricane hit Texas,
and just as Trump pardoned
his ally Joe Arpaio, the notorious former sheriff of Maricopa
County, Arizona.
Arpaio had been convicted
of a misdemeanor for violating
a court order seeking to stop
his office from discriminating against Latinos in a war
against illegal immigration
that has overwhelmed Arizona.
He¡¯s become something of a
hero to the right, even though
he was a lawman openly defying a judge.
There is an easy argument
that Arpaio represents the
weakening of the rule of law.
He was a sworn lawman yet
brazenly ignored the courts.
But that¡¯s a political slogan.
Slogans are too easy. And they
don¡¯t get to the thing itself.
Because long before Arpaio
was sheriff, the borders with
Mexico had been corrupted.
Republican big business
wanted cheap and compliant
Mexican agricultural labor.
Democrats wanted a new
dependent class of compliant
constituents.
Federal immigration laws
were already a joke. And when
the rule of law is mocked by
the political elites, it breaks
down. History tells us that men
like Arpaio enter the breach.
So ask yourselves: With
leftist antifa thugs becoming increasingly violent, and
mealy-mouthed Democratic
politicians hesitant to
denounce potentially useful
political muscle, who steps into
the breach?
I hope it worries you a bit. It
worries me, too.
John Kass is a columnist for
the Chicago Tribune. His Twitter
handle is @john_kass.
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