Looking Back at Pages from the Past
The following stories are summarized from past issues of the Caribou County Sun over the last fifty plus years. The Enterprise thanks Mark Steele for permission to use the contents, and the Grace Public Library for access to the archives.
2014
The Idaho State Police awarded its Life Saving Award to two troopers, Master Corporal Denise Gibbs and Trooper Tyler Scheierman for the heroism they displayed during August. Trooper Scheierman is a former Soda Springs resident and SSPD police officer. The two trooper’s heroic acts began on August 6, at 9:18 a.m. MCpl Gibbs was on patrol on Cassia County when she heard a county dispatcher send an ambulance to assist an Idaho State Police trooper with a medical emergency on I-86 at approximately milepost 145. MCpl Gibbs realized that she was closer to the incident that the ambulance, and arrived at 9:26 a.m. When she arrived she saw Tpr. Tyler Scheierman administering CPR to a young male adult, later identified as Daniil Demciuc. He was not breathing and was otherwise unresponsive. Gibbs retrieved her defibrillator and assisted. A shock was administered, followed by 4 minutes of CPR, then another shock. EMT Stan Tharp arrived at 9:32, and resumed CPR. Demciuc finally began to breathe on his own, and was taken by Life Flight to Portneuf. The admitting physician credited the two with saving Demciuc’s life.
2004
Caribou Memorial Hospital announced at its annual strategic planning retreat that it had decided to update its policies to allow children, spouses, and significant others to be present in the hospital’s emergency room with patients, although they might be asked to leave during trauma situations. In the past, the hospital’s policy has been to exclude nonpatients for various reasons, including privacy. While patients can still request that anyone can be excluded from the ER, the move is deisgned to make the hospital more “user-friendly” for patients and
loved ones.
As a part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Kimberlee Williams of the Family Services Alliance reported that nearly one-third of women in the United States reported being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives. In 92 percent of reported domestic abuse cases, the violence is perpetrated against women by men. While women are overall less likely than men to be victims of violent crime, they are 8 to 12 times more likely to be victims of intimate partner violence, incuding 40 percent of female murder victims.
1984
The renaming of the school on Hooper Avenue—which has been called the Soda Springs Elementary School or Hooper School—to the William H. Hooper Elementary School will take place on Thursday, Nov. 1 in the multipurpose room. Guest speakers will include Dr. Stanford O. Cazier, president of Utah State University, and Joseph A. Anderson, president of ZCMI in Salt Lake. Dr. Cazier will talk about Mr. Hooper, who was the subject of Cazier’s thesis in 1956, which detailed the life of a “Merchant Statesman.” Anderson will talk about the early days of the ZCMI in Soda Springs, which was located in the building southeast across the street and is currently Stoor’s grocery [and now the Historical Society building]. According to the book “Tosoiba,” Capt. Hooper had a summer home in Soda Springs near the present school.
Caribou Memorial Hospital in Soda Springs announced that as a public service to area residents, it would be X-raying Halloween candy to detect metal objects. Any parents who had concerns about their children’s candy were advised to come to the emergency entrance at CMH from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31, or the following day. Bob Stoker will X-ray the candy at no charge. Hospital Administrator Pearl Fryar said CMH was glad to help the community with the service.
