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SALT LAKE CITY — Greg Bell is hitting the ground running in his new role as lieutenant governor. The former Farmington mayor and state senator has been in office exactly one month – he was sworn in on Sept. 1. “If I have a dental appointment, it has to be on the schedule or it doesn’t happen,” he said in an interview with the Clipper on Monday at the State Capitol.“Every hour of your life is scheduled.” A key man in making sure that schedule is pieced together is former legislator and Bountiful resident Paul Neuenschwander. Bell’s role includes what he called “overflow from what the Governor can’t do,” but he also has plenty of duties that fall under the lieutenant governor’s purview. With a staff of nine people, he is responsible for everything from elections, with the municipal elections coming up shortly; to renewing licenses for several thousand notary public, and a lot more. “He’s crisscrossed the state,” Neuenschwander said. For example, last week saw him speaking in Logan one day, visiting Dugway on the state’s far west another day, the Uinta Basin the next, and St. George the following day. “It’s really helpful to meet city councils, chambers of commerce, school officials,” Bell said of traveling the state. “I don’t want to get locked away in an ivory tower. You’re a servant. You’ve got to serve,” the former attorney said.
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Hospitals take H1N1 precautions BY TOM BUSSELBERG Clipper News Editor
since settlers had first come to Bountiful, the first pioneers to enter what is now Davis County. Unlike today, minutes were written on what are now thin, frayed paper pages. “The penmanship was incredible,” Millburn said, with its flourishes, etc. He and other commissioners wondered how any corrections
BOUNTIFUL — With the seasonal flu and H1N1 season anticipated to be fast approaching, hospitals are taking proactive stances to protect patients, visitors and employees. Davis Hospital in Layton is joining with two Ogden hospitals in not allowing visitors under the age of 14,starting today,Thursday, Oct. 1. Lakeview Hospital has not taken such action, yet, but is well aware of concerns and is closely working with the Utah Department of Health and other agencies, said Tiffany Burnett, the hospital’s communications director. “We have a number of precautionary measures we are putting into place,” she emphasized.“We don’t have widespread flu yet, and have not chosen to restrict visitors. We don’t think the situation warrants that yet.” She said Lakeview is following recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and state health department. “We feel we don’t want to send people into a panic,” Burnett continued. “We’re asking visitors to not come to visit the hospital if they have had flu-like symptoms or have been around someone with those symptoms,” she continued. “We have implemented a system for all caregivers and every employee to receive a flu shot. If not, they wear a mask because they care about our employees and patients and their safety,”
n See “COMMISSION,” p. A12
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GREG BELL, Utah’s new lieutenant governor sworn in Sept. 1, has hit the ground running. “I wondered if my run was up,” Bell said of his role in public service spanning nearly 20 years, which, up until now, has been part time. “When the governor called me, and
explained his mission, what he could offer, I shut down my legal practice,” which had to be n See “BELL,” p. A12
Commission looks back at history BY TOM BUSSELBERG Clipper News Editor FARMINGTON — “The issues have not changed that much,” said County Commission Chair Bret Millburn. He said that in light of minutes recorded since the county was organized in 1852 that were briefly reviewed by county commissioners, recently.
They literally came “from the trenches” of a secure storage facility in the Clerk/Auditor’s office, which has responsibility for storing and preserving all such material. Those particular minutes will be “carefully microfilmed” and then stored in a vault, Clerk/Auditor Steve Rawlings said. The county was organized only two years after the Utah Territory was established, a scant five years