Save the sucker: It's out with the carp and in with the June sucker, as state natural resource officials continue a laudable attempt to restore the natural order of things in Utah Lake. The state stocked 43,000 of the endangered suckers last week, after removing tons of carp, an invasive species that competes with the sucker, from the lake earlier this year. The fish were raised in a hatchery from brood stock netted in the lake, and supplement about 10,000 suckers that live in the lake. June suckers were an early source of food and trade for Utah pioneers. The fish are indigenous to Utah Lake only, and their numbers dwindled to about 1,000 by 1986 raw sewage and carp are to blame before the restoration effort began.

Too much information: Employees of Centennial Middle School in Provo School District made a mistake. They put about 800 documents containing students' names, addresses and excuses for absences in a recycling container instead of shredding them. That violates district privacy policy that says all such documents must be shredded before they're dumped. This time, nothing too sensitive was revealed, and a parent discovered the documents before identity thieves did. But employees need to be reminded that, in this day of stolen identities and criminal threats to children, all information is sensitive.

Here comes the sun: Local governments have landed a grant from the U.S. Energy Department to give solar power projects in the Salt Lake Valley a jolt. We're all for that because photovoltaic cells and solar panels that heat water are two examples of renewable energy that don't burn fossil fuels that pollute the air and create greenhouse gases. The Solar Salt Lake project will get $200,000 in cash and another $250,000 in technical expertise. That's not a lot of seed money, but it can be leveraged through tax credits and financial assistance. The idea is to identify barriers to solar power and then develop policies to overcome them. With 300 of days of sunshine annually, Salt Lake is a natural.