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TUESDAY September 5, 2017



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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

we will move forward with

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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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Tooele

93/65

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Stockton

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STAFF WRITER

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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

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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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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-

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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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? Walmart Logistics

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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

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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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