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Vaccines administered in Tooele County ♦ The Tooele County Health Department vaccinated some of their employees Tuesday. Vaccinations for members of the community will be available soon. Currently, Tooele County has had 4,359 positive cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Utah Department of Health. There have also been 123 Tooele County residents hospitalized since the start of the pandemic and 12 deaths. According to Amy Bate, public information officer for...

It was the morning of Christmas Eve when Transcript Bulletin associate publisher Clayton Dunn, controller Bruce Dunn and editor Tim Gillie pulled up to Gibb’s family home in Tooele City. After ringing the doorbell, the door opened and they were met in the front yard of the home by Jared Gibbs, 44, his son, Jaceton and daughter, Dreya, both 17. The oldest son, Cayden, 20, who has muscular dystrophy, had a rough night and was still asleep inside, Jared said. Christmas is normally a joyous seaso...

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The Tooele Transcript Benefit Fund is still accepting donations to help the Gibbs family. The Gibbs lost their mother, Trisha, to COVID-19 on Dec. 6. Trisha was the primary caregiver for her son, Cayden, 20. Cayden is in a wheelchair due to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a progressive muscle-wasting disease. Jared, the father, works as a maintenance supervisor in Salt Lake City. The family also has two 17-year old twins, Dreya and Jaceton. The Transcript Bulletin Benefit Fund is a registered not-...

“It was difficult,” said her daughter, Dreya Gibbs. “Because of COVID we couldn’t even visit her.” Trisha Gibbs left behind her family; husband, Jared, 42, son Caden, 20, and two 17-year old twins — daughter Dreya and son Jaceton. The Transcript Bulletin Benefit Fund selected the Gibbs family of Tooele as the 2020 recipient of the fund, to raise funds and other donations to help the Gibbs family with some of their burdens as they approach Christmas and the New Year without Trisha. T...

Sixteen Tooele County artists have teamed up to produce a free CD for the public. For the music industry, the pandemic has been hard, according to Chance Boekweg who is a part of the band “Some Fish”. Boekweg and his friend, Chris Toohey, who owns 7th Street Studios in Tooele, decided to create a compilation CD featuring local artists to allow for their music to be heard during the pandemic. “The people on the CD are people who record in their spare time,” Boekweg said. “You know, may...