Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
It was an ephemeral moment, yet despite its brevity, it packed a wallop that’s with me still. A wildfire’s raw, unpredictable power has a way of doing that. Last Wednesday afternoon, I had just checked on a...
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Monday, July 21st, 2014
The arson-caused wildfire that swept down from the foothills east of Stockton last Wednesday and threatened homes and contaminated the town’s water supply has been listed as controlled, a fire official said. And by Saturday afternoon, Stockton’s...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2014
A swift, coordinated response by firefighters and residents saved Stockton from a wildfire that threatened homes, forced evacuations and contaminated the town’s water supply. Tooele County Fire Warden Tom Wilson confirmed that a suspect, Timothy D. West,...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2014
I read somewhere once that a 3 percent loss of muscle moisture can cause a 10 percent loss of muscle strength. Hmm, that explains a lot. But what does dehydration do to the brain? To think logically? To...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
Taryn Aiken will tell you that if a community wants to prevent more youth and adult suicides from happening, “the silence has to end and everyone has to become involved.” Aiken should know, and not just because...
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Suicide awareness and prevention take center stage this week in the Tooele County School District with a series of presentations to help students and parents better understand the problem. A seminar by Unite 4 Life will be...
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The following Out and About was originally written by David Bern and published in the 2012 edition of Tooele County Magazine as the editor’s introduction. On the northeast end of South Mountain, far below an anthology...
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“Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.” — Alvin Toffler The effort to convince the world’s 7 billion people to cut greenhouse gas emissions before the global climate goes totally kooky and imperils...
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Thursday, January 9th, 2014
A devoted soul skier for most of my life, I yearn for deep, untapped powder in the backcountry during cold, whiteout conditions that keep less enthusiastic skiers huddled at home. So I must love winter, right? I...
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A most unwelcome adventure awaits the person who falls seriously ill while traveling hundreds or thousands of miles away from home — especially while in a foreign land where the doctor, if there is one, doesn’t speak a...
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