Train-car accident leaves man critical
WEST BOUNTIFUL -- An man whose car stopped on the tracks of a Union Pacific train Sunday remained in critical condition Monday, suffering from multiple traumatic injuries.West Bountiful Police Chief Quinn Lewis identified the injured motorist as Phillip Dutcher, 18, of Centerville. He was taken to LDS Hospital after an 11 a.m. accident at 400 North and 600 West.
Lewis said Dutcher and a friend wanted to find out how far they had walked on Saturday, so they were retracing the route in separate cars.
"One made it over the tracks and the other didn't," Lewis said.
The engineer apparently saw the front of Dutcher's car stopped on the tracks, sounded the whistle and applied the brakes, but he could not stop in time, Lewis said.
The accident happened on private property owned by the railroad, so there were no crossing arms in place, Lewis said.
Fall from trampoline injures teenage boy
A 15-year-old boy remained in critical condition Monday morning at LDS Hospital after he fell off a trampoline and landed on his head.
The boy, whose identity was not released because his father had not been located, was injured just before 3 p.m. Sunday at a Riverton home.
When paramedics arrived, the youth was unresponsive and unconscious, Salt Lake County Fire Capt. Bill Brass said.
He was flown by helicopter to the hospital.
YWCA announces new CEO in S.L.
Anne Burkholder has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of the YWCA of Salt Lake City.
Burkholder, currently the YWCA's acting director, was named to the post by the YWCA board of directors after a national search. She replaces Susan Sheehan, who left last fall to head the Salt Lake chapter of the American Red Cross.
Burkholder brings 12 years of nonprofit agency management and leadership experience to her new job, the past nine in health and human service organizations in Seattle and Salt Lake City. She has master's degrees from Yale University Divinity School, the University of Connecticut and Oxford University. She assumes her new duties immediately.
Juab students face new activity rules
NEPHI -- Next time there is a school event in which students from Juab High School are allowed to attend, they will be required to show up at the event.
"Many students bought a ticket to attend the state basketball playoffs and didn't show up," said Julie Smalley, board member. "They bought a ticket, in other words, to not attend school."
The district did not make a student bus available but relied on students to supply their own transportation to and from Utah Valley State College, where the playoffs were held.
Many students stayed at home, in the area, and ran around town. Others went to Orem and spent the day having fun but didn't show up at the game.