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Daphanie Snow lives near 8300 S. 2700 West in West Jordan. Just beyond her backyard is a canal, with TRAX rails crossing a bridge above the waterway.

She has an autistic 8-year-old grandson who likes to wander beyond the yard, oblivious to the peril train tracks can present.

Earlier this month, Snow noticed her grandson had gotten onto a platform below the bridge, climbed up the support beams, through an opening on the bridge, and started walking along the rails.

Screaming from her yard, she coaxed him below the bridge before an eastbound train arrived. He then climbed back up despite her pleas. Knowing a westbound train would be coming soon, she called Utah Transit Authority's dispatch, which stopped the train.

At first, UTA safety officials were unsure they could put a cover on the openings without someone from below pushing it open and onto the tracks. But after further examination, they devised a plan and the openings will be closed by planks heavy enough that a child cannot push them open, said UTA spokesman Remi Barron.

Censorship has many forms • When former Salt Lake Tribune reporter Carol Sisco got word of staffer Lee Davidson's Saturday story about the Utah Transit Authority blaming the paper's coverage for the agency's decision to close committee meetings, she was eager to read it.

But when Sisco got to her front porch, she was greeted not with a Tribune, to which she subscribes, but with a Deseret News, to which she does not subscribe.

Alas, there was nothing in the LDS Church-owned Deseret News about the UTA controversy.

It may be just a coincidence that the UTA Board chairman, who was in the middle of the closure issue, is H. David Burton, former presiding bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

When she called MediaOne, which handles circulation for both newspapers, she was told it was too late to get a Tribune delivered because she called after 8 a.m.

It was 8:05.

Sisco protested, and those of us who know Carol were not surprised that MediaOne caved to her tenacity and promptly brought her a Tribune so she could read the UTA story.

Can't be too careful • Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes, R-Draper, had a fundraiser scheduled at the Rail Event Center on Wednesday evening, but when guests arrived to hand over checks for his campaign, they were locked out. They waited in the parking lot for about 20 minutes before they were allowed in the building.

It turns out the Legislature's special session Wednesday had not ended when the fundraiser was supposed to start. Legislators are barred from raising money when in session, so Hughes was taking no chances.

Didn't make the cut • The Deseret News and The Washington Post carry the syndicated comic strip, Mother Goose & Grimm, and the same cartoon appears in all the subscribing newspapers each day — except for this past Tuesday.

The Mother Goose & Grimm strip in the Deseret News that day was about Mother Goose buying a cheap electric car that turned out to be a bumper car.

The Post's version featured a corporate boardroom in which a man is presenting a graphic resembling the Fruity Pebbles cereal box. The box instead reads "LGBT Pebbles." He then says the legal department recommended the change.

The bumper-car strip ran in The Post on Wednesday.

Coming home • When President Barack Obama makes his historic visit to Hiroshima this month, a special guest will be in attendance — from Utah.

Tosh Kano, longtime public works operations supervisor for Salt Lake County, has been invited by the White House to observe the first visit by a sitting U.S. president to the site destroyed by an atomic bomb at the end of World II.

Kano was there — in a way — when the devastation hit the Japanese city. He was inside his mother's womb; she was three months pregnant at the time.

Kano grew up in Japan before his family moved to the United States when he was 16. He began working for the county in 1968 and spent 48 years in public works. He now is a consultant with Holladay.

He was contacted by French media recently to help translate interviews with Hiroshima survivors. The French arranged for credentials for Kano and will fly him to Hiroshima, where he will witness the president's visit to his hometown.

Kano wrote a book, "Passport to Hiroshima," with his wife, Rita, published in 2015.