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Eighteen-year-old Zachary Schryver found himself at the wrong place at the wrong time Wednesday morning.
Schryver was exiting a parking lot at Southern Utah University in Cedar City about 9:30 a.m. at the same time he says a driver for Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff was veering into Schryver's lane to avoid a barricade at the entrance of a restricted parking lot.
The result was a minor collision between Schryver's car and Shurtleff's car. Shurtleff's car was in an entourage with Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., when the minor collision occurred. Shurtleff exited the car and joined the group of state officials.
When a security officer for SUU investigated, he told Shurtleff's driver he also could leave and told Schryver to accompany him to his office, where he cited him for unsafe movement of a vehicle.
Schryver protested and asked for the other driver's name and insurance information, but he didn't get that info until his father tracked it down the next day.
Shurtleff and Huntsman were there for first lady Mary Kaye Huntsman's "The Power in You" initiative to promote self-esteem among teens. Schryver intends to bolster his self-esteem by fighting the ticket in Cedar City's Justice Court.
Speaking of fender benders: You would think that Deputy Salt Lake County District Attorney Kent Morgan has had his fill of fireworks, toiling in the office of D.A. David Yocom during the hectic times of prosecuting former Mayor Nancy Workman.
But apparently, he is attracted to fireworks.
Morgan, who will be a Republican candidate for district attorney next year, was involved in a minor fender bender in West Jordan last week in which neither driver was assigned blame. The other driver was a Drug Enforcement Agency officer whose trunk was full of explosives.
Got past the censors? The Utah Senate has initiated its own blog, http://www.senatesite.com, where senators can post comments and the public is invited to respond with criticisms and observations.
Not all criticisms are acceptable, however.
After Sen. Curtis Bramble, R-Provo, posted comments about his possible run for Congress next year and stated he would announce a decision between Thanksgiving and the end of the year, an anonymous responder asked on the blog if Bramble planned to sell his interest in a Utah County building between Thanksgiving and the end of the year. That was a reference to rumors that Bramble may finance part of his campaign with proceeds from the sale of the building in which he owns an interest.
That posting lasted a day, then it was taken off the site.
Power testing energy: Questar Gas President Alan Allred and a team of 10 pipe workers will challenge Utah Power President Rich Walje and a team of 10 line workers in a tug-of-war at the Gallivan Center today at 12:30 p.m. to kick off a statewide challenge between the two utilities designed to increase employee giving to local United Ways throughout the state.
The losing tug-of-war team will end up in a pool of water. The winner gets a 1 percent head start in the employee-giving challenge.
The utility president whose employees give the most will have a company vehicle washed personally by the losing CEO.