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Cruz wins Republican Caucus in Juab CountyJuab Republican Caucus Presidential Results, Garrick Hall, County Republican Party Chairman

Ted Cruz Donald Trump John KasichLevan 69 13 5NE01 71 8 10NE02 45 15 9NE03 41 16 8NE04 69 16 12NE05 49 14 2Mona 133 19 18RockyRidge 131 2 2Eureka 11 7 10

Totals 619 110 76

Juab County Caucus Results

Sanders wins Democratic Caucus in Juab County Juab Democratic Caucus Presidential results for Juab County

Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton 55 16

Residents get out to vote in Tuesday caucus meetings

By Myrna Trauntvein

Times-News Correspondent

The scene was calmer in Juab County than in other places during the Democratic and Republican presidential caucuses Tuesday night. The long lines reported in Davis County, Salt Lake County and Utah County, among others, were not a problem with the voters in Juab County. There was a shortage of ballots at the Republican cau-cus. But registration went smoothly and there were enough seats found for every-one. “We don’t have anymore ballots,” said Garrick Hall, at the Juab High Republican Caucus site. “I am just tell-ing the precincts to hand out blank papers and allow the voters to write the name of the candidate of their choice on those.” The ballots were then sub-mitted along with the others and were counted with the fi nal count submitted to the state. “We have more people out this year than I remember being here in the past,” said Jared Eldridge, Juab County Attorney, who served as pre-cinct chairman for Republi-can Nephi Precinct 2. The Juab County Demo-cratic Convention was held in Juab County Commission Chambers on Tuesday. Results on the Republican side show that Ted Cruz had a commanding 619 votes over Donald Trump at 110 and John Kasich at 76. Results from the Demo-cratic caucus showed Bernie Sanders had 55 votes and Hillary Clinton had 16 votes. Utah’s director of elections Mark Thomas told AP about 20,000 people started regis-tering to vote online in recent days, with about half of those doing so Tuesday.

PACKED ROOM • Residents of Juab County got out on Tuesday night to vote in the Presidential caucuses. No problems were reported at either voting site.

By Myrna Trauntvein

Times-News Correspondent

Juab County Sheriff ’s Of-fi ce has obtained another JAG grant to help purchase needed safety equipment. Grants also are bringing in money for AEDs. In addition, permission from Juab County Commissioners was needed to allow purchase of a dress uni-form for deputies to wear on special details. Juab County Sheriff ’s Of-fi ce Administrative Lieuten-ant Brent Pulver is over the Homeland Security (Emer-gency Manager), said Doug Anderson, county sheriff. The announcement was made at county commission meeting on Monday. “The thing I like about this guy (referring to Pulver) is that he is always looking out for the residents of Juab

County,” said Anderson. As funding becomes avail-able from the Bureau of Jus-tice Assistance (BJA) Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) pro-gram, funding announce-ments are posted. Pulver keeps informed and does the work needed to get available funding for Juab County. “He has received a grant for 10 helmets and two shields,” said Anderson. The Bureau of Justice Sta-tistics (BJS) calculates, for each state and territory, a minimum base allocation which, based on the statutory JAG formula, can be enhanced by (1) the state’s share of the national population and (2) the state’s share of the coun-try’s Part 1 violent crime sta-tistics. Once the state funding is calculated, 60 percent of the allocation is awarded to the state and 40 percent to eligible

units of local government. The grant will allow the purchase of $2,000 worth of needed equipment to be used to protect offi cers. Unless a state bid is avail-able, said Jared Eldridge, county attorney, the equip-ment will need to go through the competitive bidding pro-cess. “They are a state contract supplier,” said Pulver. He has also obtained grants that have brought fi ve AED (Automated Defi brillators) to be used by areas in the county. “Three went to Eureka and Nephi City Police got two,” said Anderson. “He is getting 10 more through a grant.” Levan will also be covered, he said. Sudden cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. Over 350,000 peo-ple will suffer from sudden cardiac arrest this year . It can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere and at any age. An AED is the only effective treat-ment for restoring a regular heart rhythm during sudden cardiac arrest and is an easy to operate tool for someone with no medical background. The American Red Cross supports the position that im-proved training and access to AEDs could save 50,000 lives each year. The Red Cross be-lieves that all Americans should be within four min-utes of an AED and someone trained to use it. Time is of the essence: The average response time for fi rst responders once 911 is called is 8-12 minutes. For each min-ute defi brillation is delayed, the chance of survival is re-duced approximately 10 per-cent. “We wanted to have 12 in the county,” said Anderson. The cost of that equipment will amount to $21,000 but is being paid for by grants. “We also need permission to purchase dress uniforms,” said Anderson. “The money we

would use is in our clothing budget.” He said that, when offi cers represent the offi ce at a dress occasion, such as the recent funeral for a fallen offi cer in Utah, they have to wear their regular daily uniform. It does not represent the county well when all the other offi cers from around the state and the country have dress uniforms to wear. It appears that Juab County Sheriff ’s Offi ce is the only law enforce-ment agency to not have a dress uniform. “It will take $7,000 but that will come from our uniform budget,” he said. The uniform will consist of a dress blouse and pants. The uniform will have an Ike jack-et, named for President Eisen-hower, that comes to the waist and features brass buttons. “The jacket comes just to the top of the gun belt,” said Anderson. The uniform can also be worn to court when an offi cer wants to look more profession-al but does not want to wear a suit and tie. Of course, it will be worn at all affairs where the deputies are representing the county in an offi cial manner, such as at state and national events. “I had to buy such a uniform when I was in the military,” said Byron Woodland, com-missioner. “I wore it only once. Will this be worn more often?” Clinton Painter, commis-sion chairman, said that the uniforms do look professional when worn. “It can also be worn for com-munity events,” said Pulver. Rick Carlton, commission-er, said he would support the purchase as long as the money for the expenditure was in the budget and said that would mean the sheriff would need to be more discrete in handling the rest of the uniform budget for the remainder of the year.

Sheriff’s offi ce receives grants to pay for safety equipment, AEDs and gets permission to buy new dress uniforms