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By Tom Haraldsen | tom.h@davisjournal.com

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atering your lawns and gardens will look a bit different in Bountiful this summer, out of necessity. The state’s drought, the most severe on record, has forced a lot of restrictions to be passed in various communities in Davis County.

Bountiful City Council approved a Proclamation Declaring Scarcity of Water, and set into motion a series of restrictions for the use of culinary water for outdoor watering. The restrictions will remain in place until April 15, 2023 unless conditions improve or are renewed for an additional period by the council.

The Weber Basin Water Conservancy District is delaying the discharge of secondary water systems until mid-May due to the severe drought conditions in the state of Utah, and adopted restrictions for lawn and garden watering that limit it to one day a week.

In Bountiful, a number of east side homes do not have access to secondary water for irrigation of their lawns and gardens and therefore use culinary water in their yards. The proclamation also sets forth a series of regulations for culinary water usages. Here is a summary of those restrictions: Outdoor watering with culinary water is expressly prohibited between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. (This is not new – it’s already part of the city code).

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Greens and tee boxes at Bountiful Ridge Golf Course will be spot watered as part of the city’s ongoing effort to combat the drought situation. Photo

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Colors will return to Bountiful flower beds

Continued from front page Outdoor use of culinary water is not permitted on any Wednesday.

This is known as a “recovery day” for the city’s water system.

Landscaping, which includes turf, plantings and gardening on residential properties, may only be watered once a week. Zone run times can be no longer than 20 minutes for pop-up sprinklers and 40 minutes for rotary style sprinklers.

Hand watering is allowed one time per week for a maximum flow rate of 5 gallons per minute for established trees and shrubs. This includes newly installed landscaping.

Rinsing or washing of sidewalks, driveways, patios or other outdoor surfaces is prohibited.

Residential swimming pools may only be filled by using a hose connection to a primary structure, with a maximum flow rate of 5 gallons per minute.

Some public facilities such as the Bountiful Ridge Golf Course and certain city parks will be permitted to spot water to prevent damage from wide public use. That will include hand watering of greens and tee boxes, while exteriors of some fairways will be watered less and “rough” will be allowed to grow taller—all water saving procedures.

There are enforcement actions to be implemented for any violations of the water restrictions, starting with a written warning and spanning to include substantial fines for ongoing offenses, including possible termination of culinary water services until fines are paid. The city website has more information about the water restrictions.l

By Tom Haraldsen | tom.h@davisjournal.com

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s soon as weather conditions allow, flower beds along Main Street, in the roundabout on 1500 South, at Bountiful Town Square, on the 400 North island, in the city parks and at a few other locations in Bountiful will become seasonally green and eventually full of color. Parks Department personnel will begin to plant flowers they’ve been planning for, growing and nurturing in the department’s greenhouse for months.

Parks Department Director Brock Hill plans to plant at least 15,000-20,000 flowers starting in mid-May. They will be largely drought tolerant as the state continues to suffer through the most severe drought in its history.

“This year has been a little different,” he said. “We’ve tried plugs – seeded plants – but also used just seeds and propagated them ourselves. We actually start in December, and within a couple of weeks if they are a seed, they actually start to grow rather quickly. We have warming beds and that helps propagate and push the flowers to produce.

From there, a combination of nutrients and the climate in the greenhouse helps them take off.”

Hills’ plan is to have everything ready to go into the ground starting on May 15, about a week after Mother’s Day. Hill said the primary crop for this year are annuals, but more and more perennials will be planted, along

with drought-resistant flowers.

“You’ll start seeing more of that in our flower beds this year,” he said. “They bloom for a short period of time, and even when the flowers stop the plants continue to grow and be green.

They go dormant in the winter and come back in the spring.”

Crews will plant wave petunias that spread and take up lots of space, and require just light watering, as well as pansies, sweet potato, zinnias and lantana bandana peach, a very colorful flower that holds up in the heat.

Plans for this year began last August, when Hill said seed orders needed to be submitted.

Most of the plants are acquired locally, with a few coming from out of state, but Hill said “we support the Utah growers as much as we can.” For the first two or three weeks, the new plants require a lot of water, but once established, do well with lighter watering.

“It’s a huge undertaking,” he said. “This year we’ve scaled back from years past when we’ve planted as many as 30,000 flowers.” Added to the drought conditions is a smaller seasonal staff. Hill has had as many as 30 temporary workers helping in the past, but last year had just 18 and “we barely got by. We’re still hiring through the city website (bountifulutah.gov) for those interested in a summer job.” l

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Kyle Nelson, left, and Jason Miller tend to flowers in the Bountiful Parks Department greenhouse that will soon be planted at locations around town. Photo

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Boys volleyball approved for sanctioning in 2023-24

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epresentatives of the Utah Boys Volleyball Association had sat in meetings with the Utah High School Activities Association before – over the past four years in a formal fashion. So, when the UHSAA board again put the sanctioning of boys volleyball to a vote, the UBVA members braced themselves. They had been here before, and had walked out disappointed every time. Yet, on this day – March 24, 2022 – it would finally be the outcome they had wanted when their organization was formed in 2015.

After decades of boys playing the sport in Utah, boys volleyball is official, and – with a 10-4 vote – will now be a UHSAA-sanctioned sport beginning in the 2023-24 school year, joining the ranks with 25 other states nationwide.

“We had a lot more hope and momentum this time, but it was so surreal to sit there and hear it announced. We were just in shock,” said UBVA co-founder Jill Davis.

This latest attempt at sanctioning laid 10,000 signatures in front of the UHSAA board along with written support from local politicians, including Norm Thurston of the Utah House of Representatives – who was in attendance at the meeting, to BYU athletic director, Tom Holmoe, BYU men’s volleyball coach Shawn Olmstead and USA national men’s volleyball coach Jon Speraw.

UHSAA assistant director Jan Whittaker said, “The UHSAA is excited to be sanctioning boys’ volleyball for the 202324 school year. This will allow many boys who have not been competing in a sport for their school the opportunity to be part of the high school sports experience. They will be able to benefit from the positive impact that high school athletics has on students.”

“It’s very exciting to see us get sanctioned,” Randy Bremner, who coaches a team with Bountiful, Viewmont and Woods Cross, said. “This is a sport that, from what I can tell, takes players that are not playing standard sports. The boys play at a very high level and are so much fun to watch.

Davis said, “It’s a wonderful sense of accomplishment and it was an honor to be in the seat. A lot of people told us it wouldn’t happen, but our grass roots efforts and the community support made this happen. This is a victory for everybody, especially the boys and their families.

Davis, UBVA co-founder Warren Van Schalkwyk and Duke Mossman, who coaches at Wasatch High, formed a collaborative effort of continually gathering statistics and surveying coaches statewide to keep up with the growing interest and participation in the sport.

What they found was: • Boys volleyball is one of the fastest growing sport in high schools across the nation.

• Boys volleyball is one of the largest club sports in Utah.

In 2015, the state had 24 club teams; last fall, that number was up to 56.

• In 2019, 81 high school teams represented 56 schools in Utah. This year, 122 high school teams are playing from 64 schools with more than 1,500 boys competing.

• More than half of those 64 high school teams had such a demand in numbers that coaches had to cut players at tryouts – due to popularity of the sport and lack of facilities.

• Most of the 5A and 6A schools have full teams with the 3A and 4A classifications having a more mixed representation and the more rural schools in 1A and 2A coming in with the lowest participation rates.

• 53% of the boys volleyball programs pay for gym rentals from their schools in order to play and practice.

• 90% of participants statewide just play boys volleyball and are not multi-sport athletes.

Whittaker noted how the Emerging Sports Program that the UHSAA formed three years ago played a key role in the sanctioning of boys volleyball. “That program was created to grow meaningful participation opportunities for student-athletes, particularly for female student-athletes, in sports and ac-

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Woods Cross High’s Clarence Pututau gets up to attack a ball during a recent match this season. Bountiful’s Jack Nelson and Spencer Jenkins along with Woods Cross’ Mitch Sterne and Bountiful’s Tyler Bremner (pictured left to right) are also on the court. Photo courtesy Randy Bremner

tivities,” she said. “A sport can be considered for sanctioning after it meets a certain threshold of participation of our students in member schools. Boys participating in volleyball have steadily grown over the past few years.”

Whittaker said once boys volleyball had met initial criteria for sanctioning consideration the UHSAA Board of Trustees looked at several factors in the ultimate decision-making process including: • “The impact on Title IX compliance • The percentage of member schools that facilitate interscholastic competition in the emerging sport • Participation in community-sponsored leagues for the sport • Whether other state high school athletic associations sponsor or sanction competition in the sport • University, college and junior college opportunities for participation after high school • Whether the sport is a lifetime sport or activity, easily accessed in later life, that contributes to public health or fitness • Whether the NFHS or other recognized governing body publishes rules for interscholastic competition in the sport • Assistance available for growing the sport from national governing bodies, in-state coaches association and/or in-state officials associations • Significant obstacles to growing the sport, such as lack of facilities, expensive equipment, risk of injury, lack of experienced coaches and officials • The opportunity for student-athletes to participate equally from all socio-economic backgrounds • Whether sanctioning the sport will divert participants from and weaken an existing sanctioned or emerging sport • Whether there is significant competition for student-athletes to participate in this sport outside of school

• The length of time the sport has been an emerging sport • The burden on member schools, districts and on the UHSAA of sanctioning the emerging sport • Utah Division of Risk Management concerns and input” “This is not a check off list, but are items that were discussed prior to making the decision to sanction boys volleyball,” Whittaker said, adding that each school and district will “make the determination whether they will sponsor a sport that UHSAA sanctions.”

Davis said that the sanctioning of boys volleyball is a “win-win. This legitimizes it for the boys and creates stability and consistency across the board under a fabulous umbrella.

Scholarships are secondary,” she said. “Plus, county rec leagues can still function for those who were cut from their high school teams as well as those who just want to play.”

Bremner said that the expectation is that Viewmont High will have its own team next year and Bountiful and Woods Cross may still be open clubs, depending on the amount of players at each school. “The excitement is there and the level of play is so high, so hopefully we can just continue to build our team to where the schools can have their own program,” he said.

The UBVA will continue to host the state boys volleyball tournament for the next two seasons as budgets, schedules and regional alignments are put in place for the 2024 spring season when UHSAA will take the reins. For more information on the UBVA, visit http://www.ubva.info or email ubva.info@gmail. com.

The addition of boys volleyball will come just after Salt Lake City hosts the high school boys volleyball national championships in the summer of 2023.l

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Bridger Bay is a popular attraction to visitors on the Island.

A look back at the history of Antelope Island

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hough archeological evidence dates the earliest habitation of Native Americans in Utah to about 12,000 years ago, and artifacts discovered on Antelope Island date back to more than 6,000 years, it was in 1843 that legendary explorer John C. Fremont first mapped the topography of the Great Salt Lake and its islands. Two years later, he returned to visit the Great Salt Lake.

Area Native Americans had told him he could easily ride his horse across the sandbar that linked the large island in the lake to the shore. Taking them at their word, Fremont took his guide Kit Carson and a few men and rode “across the shallows to the island,” recording later that the water never reached “above the saddle-girths” and that the “floor of the lake was a sheet of salt resembling softening ice, into which the horses’ feet sunk to the fetlocks.” When they finally reached the island, the party found grass and water, as well as a considerable herd of antelope, a few of which Fremont and his men killed for food. When they at last left the island and returned across the sandbar, they were accosted by a local Native American who claimed all the antelope on the island were his and they would have to pay for the animals they had killed. Fremont, not wanting to anger the man, gave him some cloth, tobacco and a knife to make up for the dead

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By Tom Haraldsen | tom.h@davisjournal.com antelope – and to the island he gave the name of the beasts that roamed it. It became Antelope Island.

Two years after that, the first Mormon pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.

By then, there was already at least one settler living on the Island, a man called Daddy Stump. Historians believe he might have been a “mountain man” who built a cabin and had a small peach orchard near a water spring on the south side of the Island. Fremont never mentioned him, but as pioneers began to travel to the Island, they encountered Stump, who LDS Church President Brigham Young himself later met.

According to a history written by Fielding Garr, Stump helped bring the church’s cattle to the island in 1848. Garr built his ranch house about the same time, and the Fielding Garr Ranch remains a popular tourist attraction today on the Island. Stump disappeared sometime between 1849 and 1856, some assuming he may have been killed by Native Americans in the Cache Valley.

Garr himself died on June 15, 1855, a year after grasshoppers depleted the island of feed, so cattle owned by the LDS Church were moved to Cache Valley for a season.

They later returned, along with a sheep herd.

Mining on the Island By 1874, another industry of sorts came

Early Utahn Fielding Garr built a ranch on the Island that stands today.

to the Island with the start of slate mining.

The Deseret News of Aug. 12, 1874, reported that “ an inexhaustible body of slate, unsurpassed in fineness of texture and richness of color, has been recently examined and thoroughly tested and is pronounced equal if not superior, in purity, strength, and colors to

any in the world.”

Homesteaders began staking claims on the Island and the Union Pacific Railroad started acquiring patents on much of the land, and the LDS Church lost interest in the Island. In the late 1890s, bison, mountain sheep and English pheasants were brought

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to the island, and mining activities ramped up. The Davis County Clipper of March 17, 1899 reported that “of late considerable prospecting has been done on the west side of the first island (Church or Antelope) west of here, and since Prospector Leeche was killed over there, still more interest has been aroused in mining in that locality.”

Later that year, reports in the Clipper and the Salt Lake Mining Review further detailed advanced mining activity. The Review reported that “Claim Holders on Antelope Island have filed a protest in the local U.S. land office against the issuance of patents to certain portions of the island as agricultural land, as they claim the ground is more valuable for minerals than for raising corn, wheat, Lucerne, or potatoes. With the magnificent showing of copper ore in the holdings of the mineral claimants, it looks as if it would be an outrage on the part of the government to bar them out and to give this barren section to individuals who merely want the Island as a grazing place for their cattle.” And in 1904, a few oil wells popped up on the Island as well as near Farmington. The Fountain Oil and Gas Company eventually had six rigs in operation on and around Antelope Island.

Wildlife on the Island Bison were introduced to the state when William Glassman, a local politician, thought to bring back the species in 1891 — though things didn’t go quite as planned.

As noted in excerpts from “East of Antelope Island,” a book commissioned by Daughters of Utah Pioneers in 1948 and published in the Deseret News in 2006, Glassman visited friends in Texas and saw bison grazing in the fields owned by a man that went by “Buffalo Jones.” Glassman was so intrigued, he bought a dozen of them and sent them to Ogden.

For whatever reason, the bison were accidentally delivered to a small town in Tooele County instead. They remained there until they were eventually purchased by the White & Sons Company in 1893 and relocated to Antelope Island. The same company added elk the following year, but the elk were later killed off by vandals.

More bison were added to the island in 1911, park officials stated in the book. By then, it had become one of the largest herds in the country. The Antelope Island herd was even featured in the 1923 film “The Covered Wagon.” Today, somewhere between 500 and 700 bison remain on the island, and 100 to 200 calves are born into the herd each year.

The Causeways In 1967, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) investigated two potential sources for sand and gravel on the northern part of the Island for use in the construction of a causeway between Syracuse and Antelope Island. It was finished in 1969, the same year the state of Utah bought 2,000 acres on the north end of the Island to create a state park. Flooding in 1974 washed away that first causeway, and it was replaced in 1976

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at a cost of $1.7 million. In 1981, the state bought 26,000 acres of the southern part of the Island, built a parking lot, picnic shelters and restrooms near the Bridger Bay beach and constructed 6-½ miles of paved road and 20 miles of gravel road on the Island.

The Floods of 1983 No one could foresee what would happen two years later, in 1983. That was the year of tremendous rainstorms in the West.

Flooding occurred from California across the deserts of Nevada and Utah, and the park closed when waters flooded the causeway, which was 5 feet under water. The white-sand beach at Bridger Bay was gone, and much of the developed visitor area along the bay was sliding into the Great Salt Lake. Utah Gov. Norm Bangerter purchased pumps to send water from the Great Salt Lake into the western desert. It was the year the Island held its first bison round-up, an annual event since.

Visitation dropped to about 5,000 a year via a ferry boat service from Syracuse. The cause- Bison remain a permanent resident on the Island. way was eventually rebuilt in 1992 and in 1993, Antelope Island State Park opened to the public. It was the same year pronghorn sheep were reintroduced, and in 1997, nearly two dozen Bighorn sheep were also back on the Island.

Visitors Center – Phase One and Phase Two In 1996, the current visitor’s center was built as a two-phase building project, but phase two has never been built and will be now. The director of Utah State Parks in 1996, Cortland Nelson, spoke at the April 8 press conference where plans for the new visitor and learning center were announced.

(See separate story in this issue) “It’s only been 25 years,” he said as those gathered laughed. “When we dedicated this building, I said, ‘This is phase one – phase two is coming.’ It is a wonderful opportunity to be here today. I have high praise for all of those who have had the sticktoitness to get this done – the Friends of Antelope Is- Flooding has twice destroyed the causeway from Syracuse, but has been rebuilt each time. Photo courtesy land, the state leaders like Steve Handy, and of Utah State Parks. the dedicated staff that have been out here through the years. They have all contributed in their own way.”

“We recognized almost immediately after it was built that the visitors center was inadequate,” said Spencer Kinard, a member of the Friends of Antelope Island, the organization formed in 1995 to promote the Island experience. “It’s seriously undersized.

Students come by the thousands and we’ve had no place to host or teach them. So it’s been our dream to find the money to do this remodel and expansion. We want to get the learning center, the theater and the auditorium built. We’re going to make a movie about the Island, so when people come here, they can stop at the center, watch the film, get an idea of what the island’s all about, and then go out and enjoy it.”

Final design work is nearly complete, and leaders hope to break ground on the expansion before year’s end. l The Tour of Utah twice used Antelope Island as part of its route in Davis County. All photos by Tom Haraldsen unless otherwise noted.

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Sarah’s story: Helping others with epilepsy live their best lives

By Tom Haraldsen | tom.h@davisjournal.com

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or Sarah Hawkes, it happened the first time without her realizing it.

She was 15, sitting in her room painting, and waiting for the 9 p.m. family tradition of gathering to read scriptures. But 9 p.m. came and, as she recalled, “that time passed with no one saying anything, so I continued to paint. Eventually, I looked up from my work and the clock read 10:30.”

So she groaned, set down her brush, and went downstairs where her dad sat casually reading on the couch.

“From the staircase, I complained like the teenage girl I was, ‘Ugh, can we just read already so I can go to bed?’ My dad raised his eyebrow at me and told me, ‘We already did.’ Again, like a teenage girl, I folded my arms and huffed. ‘What? Why didn’t you tell me?’ That was when he gave me his full attention, staring at me, and said, ‘Sarah… you were there.’”

She had just had an epileptic seizure.

That was 11 years ago. Now Sarah, 26, works as an education coordinator for a company in Washington, D.C. She has graduated from universities with two degrees, including an LLM in Peace Operations, Humanitarian Law, and Conflict from the National University of Ireland at Galway; played competitive rugby at BYU, and lived with a neurological disorder that affects nearly 3.5 million people in the United States, including 470,000 children, according to the CDC. It has led Sarah, who attended both her sophomore and junior years at Viewmont High School and graduated from the Waterford School, to create a blog called “AuraYou-There?” on the Spaces app (spaces.do).

“I’m passionate about discussing this topic,” she said from her home in Arlington, Virginia. “I’ve lost two jobs because of my seizures due to time I had to take off, and I’ve found the best way for me to speak to this is through my writing.”

She recently wrote a blog on Spaces called “Blink.” It’s a wonderful article discussing what it’s like to experience this nightmare, particularly if it happens in public.

“There is such a negative connotation to epilepsy,” she said. “We don’t want to ‘advertise’ it, or talk about it openly. When it happens around others, we ask ‘did they notice it – do they think we’re stupid now?’

It is so stressful beyond just the physical exhaustion and toll that it takes.”

By definition, epilepsy is marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions, associated with abnormal electrical activity in the brain. As Sarah wrote in “Blink,” seizures are distinguished into two types.

“First are the convulsive (grand mal) seizures. The second kind are called

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Sarah has traveled extensively throughout Europe, including time spent in Moscow, where this photo was taken between a Krispy Kreme and the Kremlin. Photos courtesy of Sarah Hawkes

non-convulsive (absent) seizures. Absent seizures are infinitely harder to explain because they can’t be seen.” She has had both.

There are no definitive triggers for the seizures, though lack of sleep, stress and either not enough or too much sugar in a person’s diet could be a contributing factor. Whatever the cause, for family or friends, witnessing a seizure for the first time is very traumatic.

“It's a very scary experience for a parent to watch your child go through that and not know how to help,” said Sarah’s mother, Sharlene Wells. “I learned quickly how to catch her (if I was lucky enough to be around when it happened), hold her head, lay her on her side, and wait for the seizure to stop. It's like a full ‘reboot.’ For the last 10-plus years, she has bravely tried to live life to its fullest despite the ever-present fear of not knowing when another seizure will happen.”

Sarah’s seizures don’t follow regular patterns in terms of severity or regularity.

She does have a calendar to track them.

Some of the grand mals are a bit more severe now when they occur. They can leave her confused, as she wrote in “Blink.”

“Imagine that you blinked and when you checked your phone, two hours have passed,” she wrote. “You go to the bathroom to get ready for bed, but when you look in the mirror with a toothbrush hanging out of your mouth, a trickle of blood is trailing from your ear. You brush it off as meaning nothing, but in the morning bruises have blossomed on your hips and knees. A person who’s never had a seizure would panic.

I usually groan and say, ‘Dammit.’”

Lots of life events we take for grant-

Sarah with her mother Sharlene Wells in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., the city where Sarah lives and works.

There is such a negative connotation to epilepsy, we don’t want to ‘advertise’ it, or talk about it openly. When it happens around others, we ask ‘did they notice it – do they think we’re stupid now?’

Sarah Hawkes ed take a back seat for those with epilepsy.

Sarah does not have a driver’s license, instead maneuvering around the challenges of the nation’s capital on public transportation.

But she hasn’t let it stop her from pursuing her dreams, like those two years of rugby at BYU (“she explained to me that her epilepsy was not the same as a concussion, so therefore she could play,” Sharlene remembers her daughter telling her), or earning that Masters degree in Ireland.

“I used to worry about freaking out strangers if I have a seizure,” she said. “But I have faith in my fellow man – that someone will be there to help me, like happened once when I was in Chicago. You have to be ready to adapt when you have epilepsy.

I live by myself right now because I prefer to be alone, even though I know it’s a big

stresser for my Mom. I’ve studied what to do in the case of a seizure and share that with friends so they have an awareness of how to help.”

Through her blog, she wants to raise awareness of “something that is not as uncommon as you may think. One in 26 people will have some sort of seizure in their lifetime – and it may not be epilepsy. I want people to share their stories, to learn how to adjust their schedules if necessary, to do a better job of finding things they are limited to in a realistic, responsible way, but still enjoy proactive, good fulfilling lives. Sharing with one another can help do that.”

“Blink” is very well worth reading.

Sarah pours her heart and soul into her words, knowing the challenges that those with epilepsy face, but never losing sight of the blessings she, and all of us, enjoy in life.

“The brain is beautiful,” she writes. “It turns electricity and tissue into thoughts and personality; it connects with every part of our body in a fascinating puzzle; it learns and adapts like no other organ has the capacity to; it stores decades of memories and stories and emotions. Emotions like fear.

“But that beauty, with its complexity, comes at the cost of fragility. The same electricity that creates thought can malfunction and send the entire body to the floor in convulsions and spasms. Those malfunctions can damage those memories held safe in the brain. Temporary or permanent, the damage is there. Those malfunctions happen in a fraction of a second – in the blink of an eye.

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Book Nook – Tsalix Silverthorn works to fulfill the promise he made to King Elosha

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ollowers of Tsalix Silverthorn and his fellow villagers Asur and Kwercus in author Richard Siddoway’s four-book series won’t be surprised by the new challenges facing these three young men. Their goal, their desire and their mission is to recover the Specter of Destiny so that freedom and righteous leadership can continue in their kingdom.

As the final book in this series begins, the death of the beloved King Elosha has expedited the need for our heroes to fulfill a promise made to the king – to use the talismans they’ve successful retrieved in the previous three books in recovering the Specter before Elosha’s evil son Abadon takes possession of it. Tsalix Silverthorn and the Glittering Peak is a fitting conclusion to that challenge.

If you haven’t read the first three novels in the series, this fourth is the story of a courageous young man (Tsalix) leading a dangerous quest to restore peace and order in the tiny village of Aravah in the Kingdom of Sodizen.

King Elosha’s twin sons, Princes Abadon and Johona, are engaged in a battle to take over the throne. As you might guess, one of the sons (Abadon) has evil intentions of becoming dictatorial, while Johona is much more loving and peaceful. King Elosha had summoned Tsalix and his friends to retrieve three talismans from their hidden places, and then the Specter, to prevent Abadon from taking power.

Abadon has alerted his troops to capture the men and thus the Specter, but he needs the knowledge of Tsalix and his friends in order to find the hidden Specter from

its resting place in the mountain, and then to use it.

Siddoway is of course a New York Times bestselling author whose first published novel, The Christmas Wish, was made into a TV movie starring the late Debbie Reynolds along with Neil Patrick Harris and Naomi Watts.

It is shown almost annually on CBS. Siddoway said it took him about a year to complete each of the four books in this series.

In a previous interview, Siddoway said that, “Every book I have written has the underlying theme of good over evil. In Tsalix Silverthorn, I hope readers will get a sense of the uplifting undertones within the larger concept of the story.”

The journey is formidable for these young men, who exercise extreme faith, and overcome a number of obstacles, as they summon within themselves the strength necessary to fight against opposition.

Lovers of fantasy will enjoy Siddoway’s situational creativity, not to mention all those names of people and

Bountiful author Richard Siddoway’s four-book series about Tsalix Silverthorn concludes with this novel of good fighting evil. Courtesy photo and photo of books by Tom Haraldsen

places he has conjured up!

In addition to “The Christmas Wish” and now the Tsalix Silverthorn series, his other books include “The Christmas Quest,” “An Honest Heart,” “Christmas of the Cherry Snow,” and “Mom and Other Great Women I’ve Known.”

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Z.T. Bright hopes to become a new name in fantasy writing

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vid sci-fi and fantasy readers are familiar with Utah authors Orson Scott Card, Brandon Sanderson and David Farland, but what about Z.T. Bright?

Bright, a North Salt Lake resident, is a winner in the Writers of the Future Contest.

His short story “The Magic Book of Accidental City Destruction: A Book Wizard’s Guide” earned him a spot in the bestselling anthology “L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 38” which will be released on April 12.

“What’s fun about this contest is some of the biggest names in the industry are involved as judges or instructors,” Bright said. “I have to learn to balance the feeling of success but continue to move forward. It’s not the end goal but hopefully a step toward more. This is a whole new world for me.”

Along with a cash prize, and the opportunity to attend the black-tie awards gala in Hollywood, Bright will attend a week-long writing workshop led by top professionals in the industry.

Bright started submitting short stories to the Writers of the Future Contest seven years ago. His winning story is based on the concept of a magic book, the Book of Truths.

“It’s about characters navigating a fantasy world in which a magic book can provide people answers to any questions they have, but

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By Peri Kinder | The City Journals with no guarantee of its accuracy,” Bright said.

“Reality is subjective. Things we read on the internet are very different based on the sources they come from.”

John Goodwin is president of Galaxy Press, publisher of the fiction works of L. Ron Hubbard. He said judges of the contest included best-selling authors Card and Sanderson, and Farland was a coordinating judge before his unexpected death in January.

Judges look for originality and creativity in submitted stories and must be engaging enough to keep a reader’s interest.

“Bright's story was a very clever tale that he claims was inspired by the explosive growth of the internet and its impact on people,” Goodwin said. “I found it to be a fascinating and very interesting read, almost allegorical in its parallel to the effect social media has on people.”

The contest is one of the most prestigious writing competitions in the world. It’s become a vehicle for new creative talent to enter the world of contemporary fiction. More than 450 past winners of the contest have published 1,150 novels and nearly 4,500 short stories.

Contest winners have also produced 32 New York Times best-selling books, selling more than 60 million copies.

Bright, who has four children and a job as a financial planner, hopes writing can become

Z.T. Bright’s short story tackles the danger of misinformation and earned him a cash prize and trip to Hollywood.

his full-time job.

“Storytelling is foundational from the start of humanity,” Bright said. “That’s how we lived. That’s how we learned and taught our young. It’s something that’s in our blood.” l elizabeth.s@thecityjournals.com

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Public opinions mixed as permit for proposed private school in West Bountiful denied

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n March 15, the West Bountiful City Council, acting as the Appeal Authority for the city, held an appeal hearing. The request for the hearing was made by representatives of CHOICE Education LC3, a private school. While the merits of the school and the character of the petitioners was not in question, the issue under consideration was whether the municipal code allowed for a private, for-profit school in a residential zone. The proposed school would be located near the intersection of 400 North and 800 West.

Jevonne and Paul Tanner filed the appeal after the West Bountiful Land Use Administrator denied the application for a conditional use permit before submitting it to the planning commission for consideration. The decision to deny was made on February 16, and the Tanners were informed of the decision.

The West Bountiful municipal code allows for conditional use permits to be granted for specific business types within a residential zone. Most of the debate centered around the term “quasi-public” use. The petitioners argued that quasi-public was not defined in the code, and could be interpreted to include a private school.

Considerable research was done not only to determine the definition of quasi-public, but to defend the city’s interpretation of the term against that of the Tanners.

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By Julie Thompson | The City Journals of the appeal hearing, several residents of West Bountiful spoke during the public comment period of the city council meeting which preceded the hearing. Residents expressed support of the school and vouched for the character of the Tanners, while others shared their concerns. A request was made for West Bountiful to be forward-thinking and inclusive of entities and activities when considering businesses and activities. Concern was expressed over the proposed school’s proximity to West Bountiful Elementary where traffic is already an issue at times. Another citizen stated that the denial of a private school in a residential zone could affect parents who home school their children, as home schools are considered private schools.

Ultimately, the Appeal Authority was satisfied that while the term “quasi-public” was not defined in the code, the Land Administrator’s interpretation that the term referred to a business that served the general public, rather than a specific group, was correct. Using language from the state legislature concerning the interpretation of terms in municipal codes, the Appeal Authority denied the appeal, and unless the municipal code is amended in the future, private schools will not be allowed in residential zones in the city.l

Journal columnist wins Best of State award

eri Kinder, who has written her Life and Laughter column for almost 19 years for the Davis and City Journals, was named winner of the Best of State award for journalism for 2022. She will receive her award at a gala on May 26 at the Salt Palace Grand Ballroom.

It’s the latest of a cavalcade of awards she has won for her humor column, and this is her first nomination in the Best of State award program. She earned two first-place awards from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2021 for both humor column and editorial for all newspapers in Utah, as well as dozens of other SPJ and Utah Press Association awards for her columns.

Kinder was raised in Murray and is a graduate of Murray High School. In addition to her duties as a columnist, she also writes feature stories for our newspapers. She is a certified yoga teacher and a life coach, and

produces and hosts a weekly podcast on her website – Life and Laughter Coaching (https://www.landlcoaching.com/).

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Water restrictions adopted by West Bountiful

By Peri Kinder | peri.k@davisjournal.com

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o get a glass of the best-tasting water in Utah, you’ll have to travel to West Bountiful. The city’s drinking water was recently recognized by the Rural Water Association of Utah as the best in the state. It’s the second time the city has been awarded this designation. The first award was in 2015.

“We have a really good water source,” said Blake Anderson, West Bountiful’s water master. “[The judges] tested the clarity of the water and taste, and decided ours was the best.”

Anderson, who has worked in the West Bountiful Public Works Department for 23 years, is happy with the drinking-water designation but hopes to educate residents in the city about the reality of drought in the area.

Like most of Davis County, West Bountiful gets its water through the Weber Basin Water Conservancy that provides water to more than 700,000 residents over five counties. Some reservoirs in the district have only 20% of normal water levels.

Most counties in Utah are experiencing severe to extreme drought conditions and Anderson said steps need to be taken to ensure residents have the water they need. West Bountiful has incorporated the Weber Basin Water Conservancy’s guidelines, asking residents to be careful with water use this summer.

“Hopefully we get more water,” he said. “But if the water stays the way it is right now, that’s probably what the restrictions will be.”

The district advises residents to: • Water no more than once a week for 20-minutes with overhead sprays and 40 minutes for rotor sprinklers.

• Hand-watering trees and shrubs once a week • No watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

• No hosing down sidewalks or driveways • New landscaping must meet watering restrictions • Hold off on new landscaping as new plants use more water to establish roots • Keep lawns mowed no less than three inches tall • Limit car washing • Practice indoor water conservancy practices • Take shorter showers • Fix leaky faucets, toilets and pipes West Bountiful is creating plans to significantly reduce water use at city hall, the Lakeside Golf Course, parks and other public properties. The Weber Basin offers free classes on how to maintain a water-wise landscape. Visit WeberBasin.com for more

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Young Artist Concert set for May 13 in West Bountiful

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his year’s annual Young Artist Concert, hosted by the West Bountiful City Arts Council on Friday, May 13, will celebrate the developing talents of young artists ages 5 to 18.

A select choir from West Bountiful Elementary, under the direction of teachers Melanie Miller and Ronda Dalrymple Turnblom, will treat concertgoers to a special performance. The full choir of K-6 students rehearses one morning a week at 7:45 a.m. They usually perform twice a year, at Christmastime and in the spring, and have performed at the Dickens Festival as well as at several care centers.

This select choir of 28 will be made up of 6th graders and their siblings. They will sing “You’re Welcome” from Moana; and “When I Grow Up” from Matilda.

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The program will also showcase nine special grandchildren with a variety of developing talents and include, a dance routine to music from “High School Musical,” organized and directed by a 12-yearold granddaughter, two vocal solos (ages 8 and 12), a grandma- granddaughter piano duet, and a Karate demonstration by two great-great grandsons (ages 4 and 7). The evening will culminate with a performance by an 18-year-old granddaughter soprano soloist, who recently performed in New York City with her Madrigal group.

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West Bountiful Youth City Council is in the room where it happens

By Peri Kinder | peri.k@davisjournal.com

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or teens who love to provide service, enjoy connecting with local organizations and have leadership potential, West Bountiful City Councilmember James Ahlstrom encourages them to apply to serve on the West Bountiful Youth City Council.

“It’s a great opportunity for youth in our city to understand the city’s principles they’ll be dealing with all of their lives,” said Ahlstrom, city council liaison to the YCC. “It develops leadership skills and it’s just plain fun. There’s fun social interaction and it’s a good resume item on a college application.”

Viewmont High School senior Nicole Wood, 17, has served on the youth council since her freshman year. In ninth grade, she worked as the group’s historian, as a sophomore she was mayor pro-tem, and this year she’s been the YCC mayor.

“I loved the idea of getting involved,” Nicole said. “I’ve always loved leadership and being involved in service projects.

Service has been a big part of my family’s life. I try to do it as much as I can.”

The YCC works closely with the city council to promote pride and strength in the community. Organizing several ser-

vice projects during the year is one of the group’s duties. In 2021, the YCC worked with the Bountiful Rotary Club to put on the Coats for Kids car show and fundraiser. Youth members also organize the city’s Christmas event with Santa, and the “legendary” Easter egg hunt.

“It’s going to be a lot of work and there will be times it won’t be as fun as you’d like it to be,” Nicole said. “ But you get to know the city council and police officers, and get to make friends with other members of the council. It’s 100% worth it.”

Applications to serve on the West Bountiful Youth City Council are available at WBCity.org and will be accepted until June 22. All applicants must live in West Bountiful, be in 7th through 12th grade and have a GPA of 3.0.

Jen Jacobsen and her husband, Chris, work as advisors to the YCC. She said the youth mayor and youth council make decisions that directly impact the community.

By working with the city council, members of the YCC learn to listen to different points of view and promote West Bountiful's values of strength, unity, and family.

“Local government is where magic

Members of the West Bountiful Youth City Council attended a team-building retreat at Boondocks to learn how to work together effectively.

happens. This is where the vast majority of things that affect daily life happen,” Jacobsen said. “In a small community like West Bountiful, the opportunity to be involved in local government is the opportunity to see that magic happen close up, and to be

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GRASP provides support for people who have lost loved ones to substance misuse

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atara Martin’s younger brother was supposed to celebrate his birthday. But instead of a party, Martin ended up planning his funeral. In November 2020, Dalen Nyberg died 18 days before his 26th birthday from an accidental drug overdose.

The grief was overwhelming, made even worse by the way she felt stigmatized in her community.

“He was not a bad person. He got lost and eventually the addiction took over,” Martin said. “I call it ‘disenfranchised grief.’

When someone dies of an overdose, people don’t know how to respond to you. You feel very much alone.”

She looked online for support groups for people who’ve lost family members through substance-related overdoses, but there weren’t many options. While communicating with the medical examiner, Martin saw a link to GRASP on his website and found a new community.

GRASP, which stands for Grief Recovery After Substance Passing, has chapters all over the United States and Canada, but there wasn’t one in Utah. Martin reached out to the national headquarters and was given permission to start a GRASP chapter in the summer of 2021.

“I didn’t know what I was looking for or that I was even looking for something,” Martin said. “GRASP was a solace for me. The people there are going through the same experience. You’re not going through it alone.”

Tamara Olt, M.D., is GRASP’s national executive director, based in Illinois. When her son Josh died of an overdose in 2012 at the age of 16, she was shattered. Finding a GRASP chapter was a lifeline, providing a safe place to heal and connect with other families suffering through the same type of loss.

“The first year or two is horrific,” Olt said. “You’re just in a daze and a fog, trying to figure out what happened. But don’t let anyone tell you how to grieve. I had to let go of the ‘Why?’ and the ‘What if?’ and forgive myself.”

Olt, Martin, and many GRASP members, now advocate for fentanyl testing strips, clean syringe exchange programs, safe using sites, and the decriminalization of drug crimes, hoping for mental health counseling instead of jail time or prison.

Martin said Naloxone kits (to help reverse an overdose) are free at most public libraries in Salt Lake County, but said most people experiencing an overdose need two doses to be revived.

GRASP’s national Facebook page has nearly 10,000 followers, and the number grows every day as more families lose loved ones to substance misuse.

“One in five people know someone who’s passed away from a substance-related death. This group says they’re not alone,” Martin said. “There are lots of people who’ve had this same experience. Find a group like this one and start going as soon as possible. It makes you feel better and it helps heal you.”

The location of GRASP meetings is kept private until a person can verify they’ve lost a loved one through a substance-related death, whether it’s alcohol, street drugs or prescriptions. At the in-person, monthly meetings, people can share their grief, their anger, their feelings of shame, blame and loss, and their love for family members who have passed away.

Contact Martin at gslgraspchapter@ gmail.com for more information about the Greater Salt Lake Chapter of GRASP. There is no charge to attend the group but pre-registration is required “Drug use is heavily stigmatized,” Olt said. “So not everyone is helpful and supportive when you lose a family member because of an overdose. It’s so important to learn that

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Debunking Hearing Aid Myths Millions of adults in the U.S. suffer from hearing loss. However, only 1 in 7 use a hearing aid. Hearing healthcare professionals recognize that the vast majority of individuals with hearing loss would benefit from hearing aids. So what is stopping people from seeking help? If you have noticed a decrease in your hearing or more difficulty hearing family and friends, don’t let these common hearing aid myths hold you back from healthy hearing.

1. “My hearing isn’t that bad. I can still hear most things.

If people could just speak up and stop mumbling, I’d hear them.”

Hearing loss is typically a very slow, unnoticeable progression. Studies have shown that patients with hearing loss are extremely poor judges of their own hearing sensitivity. As Dr. Luekenga says, “Hearing loss is a lot like snoring. It doesn’t affect you as much as it affects the people around you.” You may not realize how frequently you are needing to ask for repetition, or how carefully you have to watch someone’s mouth and face to understand what they are saying to you.

2. “Hearing aids are for old people, I’m not ready for that.”

On average, hearing aid users wait nearly 10 years before they pursue help for their hearing loss.

During that time, many individuals suffer decreased interactions with loved ones and decreased confidence in social situations. While there is a stigma associated with wearing hearing aids, Dr. Gehmlich likes to ask

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patients this question: “What is more embarrassing?

Having a tiny hearing aid on your ear, or having to ask someone to repeat themselves multiple times, or giving the wrong answer to a question?”

3. “Hearing aids are big and clunky – I don’t want people to see them.”

Gone are the days of large, unattractive and cumbersome hearing devices. Advances in technology have focused in on cosmetic appeal allowing various styles and sizes to be sleek and discreet. As your hearing healthcare providers, we want to make you look good!

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4. “My friend has hearing aids and hates them. He says that they just sit in his dresser drawer.”

Becoming a successful hearing aid user isn’t nearly as difficult as you may think! The number one most important factor in patient success is consistency.

Hearing aids are meant to be used all day, every day, giving the brain plenty of chance to adapt and relearn how to process specific sounds. If you are motivated improve your quality of life and consistently utilize an appropriate, high-quality device, there is no reason not to love the devices! Additionally, having a doctor of audiology on your team to provide support and guidance is crucial to patient success.

5. “Hearing aids are too expensive” Quality hearing devices are certainly a large investment in both hearing and cognitive healthcare. While the cost of hearing aids can range from a few hundred dollars to $8000 dollars, we typically recommend that our patients avoid both extremes. Remember, also, that a large portion of the cost of hearing aids includes access to all of the services that doctors of audiology offer in order to facilitate successful hearing aid use.

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Buy a bike during the Davis County Children’s Justice Center sales event and help a victim of child abuse

By Peri Kinder | peri.k@davisjournal.com

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very year, Floyd Baham’s front lawn turns into one of the biggest bike sales in the county. Baham is a board member of the Friends of Davis County Children's Justice Center and the annual bike sale brings in between $10,000 and $14,000 to fund programs and services for victims of child abuse.

Located at 198 S. Main Street in Kaysville, directly across from the Kaysville Fire Department, the sale will be held on Saturday, May 7, from 7 a.m. until noon. Unclaimed stolen or confiscated bikes are collected from local police departments throughout the year and sold to support the Davis County CJC in Farmington.

“One of the most important things is the bike sale helps to pay costs for the kids that come in,” said Tanya Perkins, the Davis County CJC Director. “Children come here and are interviewed by people who are very specially trained in these types of interviews. We interviewed 509 children at the Davis County center in 2021.”

Proceeds from the sale also pay for equipment and furniture, food and snacks, registration costs for officials to attend the Children’s Justice Symposium and upkeep of the saltwater aquarium.

“The aquarium helps calm children that come to the center but it’s kind of expensive to maintain a saltwater aquarium,”

Perkins said.

In the past, child abuse victims were interviewed at police stations, often in interrogation rooms. The CJC was started 25 years ago to provide a comfortable, safe environment for children. Victim service coordinators meet with parents while the child is being interviewed to help parents fill out forms and tell them what to expect. They partner with counseling centers to provide mental health services.

“The Children’s Justice Center model helps communities respond more effectively to child abuse,” Perkins said. “Every child that’s interviewed gets to take home a stuffed animal and a blanket. Davis County is so generous and people donate these items all year. It’s something the kids really treasure.”

The Davis County CJC accepts donations all year. A list of needed items can be found at DavisCountyUtah.gov.

Working with children from infants to 18-years-old, specialists at the CJC partner with the attorney general’s office, police departments, Child Protective Services, and Primary Children’s Hospital specialists who do medical exams of the children at the center.

An average of 100 medical exams are done each year at the Davis County location, which serves more than 1,000 people annually.

The annual Davis County Children’s Justice Center Bike Sale on Saturday, May 7 in Kaysville is expected to bring in more than $10,000 to fund programs, services, and equipment at the center.

“The bike sale is a great way to come out and support your community,” Perkins said. “It’s a really good community event. People can leave with something they need and it will benefit us.”l

Linford becomes the 19th superintendent in the Davis School District

By Becky Ginos | becky.g@davisjournal.com FARMINGTON—The Davis School District Board of Education voted unanimously during a special meeting on April 20 to appoint Dr. Daniel R. Linford as the next superintendent. Linford will succeed Reid Newey who is retiring as superintendent in June. He will officially begin his position on July 1.

Linford currently serves as a secondary school director for the district and was among seven finalists for the position.

With his appointment, Linford becomes the 19th superintendent in the Davis School District. Linford has 23 years of experience in education and began his career teaching high school English. He became the assistant principal of Viewmont High School in 2005, then principal in 2011. Linford obtained his bachelor’s degree in English teaching from Weber State University and a master’s degree and doctorate in Educational Leadership & Policy from the University of Utah.

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Secondary school director Dr. Daniel Linford was appointed as the new Davis School District superintendent. Courtesy DSD

The district has been under a microscope after a Department of Justice investigation showed widespread racial discrimination but Linford said he is prepared to tackle the issues.

“It certainly happens here, but we want to lead out. We’re compelled to lead out. If a day or two goes by without a report we never stop and wipe our brow. We never have the mindset that we’ve conquered it.”

The Board issued the following statement after Linford’s ap-

pointment: “The Davis School District Board of Education unani-

mously affirms Dr. Daniel Linford as the new superintendent of Schools. The board is confident about this decision after a robust process of community engagement, stakeholder reviews, portfolio evaluations and interviews. Linford is highly qualified and well respected in DSD and across the state for his work ethic and academic rigor. He has applied his teaching and administrative experience to support schools across the district in his director role. We see Linford as an innovative leader who will utilize his communication skills and open-minded approach to be a problem-solver and relationship builder.

“The board recognizes the unique challenges of our time and expects leadership that is accountable and equitable in working with all stakeholders. We look forward to continued excellence and progress in Davis District with Linford’s collaborative leadership and commitment to student achievement.” l

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The Children’s Center of Utah recognizes Children’s Mental Health Awareness Month

By Peri Kinder | peri.k@thecityjournals.com

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ach year on May 7, Children's Mental Health Awareness Day brings recognition to the value of a child’s mental health. But The Children's Center of Utah will highlight the importance of children’s mental health all month long.

“Our organization is inviting the whole community to become involved,” said Rebecca Dutson, The Children's Center of Utah president and CEO. “On our website, people can find a whole lot of ideas they can be engaged in or their business can be engaged with. The more we talk about it, the less there will be a stigma.”

The Center is asking businesses to give a portion of proceeds to The Children’s Center of Utah during May and invites everyone to promote its mission on social media platforms.

Yard signs are available to put outside a home or business, promoting awareness for children’s mental health. Anyone interested can contact Joni Clark at jclark@tccutah.org to reserve a sign. Or visit childrenscenterutah.org/ awareness for more ideas on how to become an ambassador for mental health and raise money for the cause.

“The best thing we can all do is start talking more openly about not just our own mental health but mental health in the family,” Dutson said. “There is so much support. One

of the promises we make to our community is that we do not turn anyone away for inability to pay.”

Supporters are also invited to attend The Children's Center of Utah’s SHINE Gala on Friday, June 3, at the Gallivan Center Plaza.

The gala will be in-person, the first time in two years, and there is lots of interest from longterm supporters.

The SHINE Gala, which started more than 20 years ago, features a social hour, silent and live auctions, entertainment and a buffet dinner. In the past, the event has raised more than $500,000 to help pay for children’s mental health services. Registration is available on the The Children's Center of Utah website.

“We’re shining a light on the importance of early childhood mental health and comprehensive mental health care for children,” Dutson said. “Every child and every child’s needs are unique. We encourage families who have concerns about their child to reach out and start a conversation.”

COVID shone a light on mental health issues. Children were heavily impacted by their parents’ stress, the change of schedules and isolation from friends and family during the pandemic. “[The pandemic] allowed for more conversations about mental health. We just want to

Attendees at the 2019 SHINE Gala helped raise money for The Children’s Center of Utah. The annual fundraiser helps pay for comprehensive mental health treatment for children up to 6 years old. Photo courtesy of Sparkle Photography

continue to build on that,” Dutson said. “The relationships that children have with their caregivers and parents are so important. It’s usually those adults that realize there might be a concern. When we talk about mental health it can change the trajectory of a child’s life.”

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Davis Heritage Festival set for May 19-21

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By Tom Haraldsen | tom.h@davisjournal.com

he Davis Heritage Festival, hosted by the Utah State University Botanical Gardens, will take place May 19-21 as a family-friendly spring event held in conjunction with Baby Animal Days. The 4-H Horse and Livestock Show will be held as a separate event Aug. 18-20. Tickets for the Festival are now on sale.

It will take the place of the Davis County Fair, which will no longer be held.

“The purpose of this change is to focus on agriculture, give community members and local businesses a chance to share their creative endeavors through locally made or grown projects, and to celebrate the heritage of Davis County,” said Randy Elliott, Davis County commissioner, in a release from USU Extension. “In addition, it will honor the past, promote the strong future ahead, and more accurately reflect what has built the Davis County community.”

“There is symmetry between USU Botanical Center’s mission and Davis County’s efforts in promoting and supporting agriculture and local heritage,” said Jerry Goodspeed, director of the USU Botanical Center.

“We look forward to sharing this wonderful new event with the community. Our new Davis Heritage Festival committee has some wonderful local talent, demonstrations, an

adventure zone, entertainment, and of course baby animals ready for the event.”

Annual 4-H events are still moving forward with the county fair horse show on Saturday, Aug. 13 at the Hooper City Arena at 8 a.m. and the stock show held Aug. 18-20 at the Golden Spike Arena in Ogden.

Tickets for the Davis Heritage Festival are available at https://www.eventbrite. com/e/davis-heritage-festival-2022-tickets-257475144087. For further information and updates, visit https://extension.usu.edu/ davisheritagefestival/ or usubotanicalcenter. org.

The Utah State University Botanical Center located in Kaysville guides the conservation and wise use of plant, water and energy resources through research-based educational experiences, demonstrations, and technology. l

Baby Animal Days will be held May 19-21 as part of the Davis Heritage Festival at the USU Botanical Gardens in Kaysville. Courtesy photo

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Dr. Heaton prides himself in serving all patient populations and treating all areas of dermatology from children through retirement age. He places a strong empahsis on catering to the retirement population in his community as skin cancer is more prevalent in this age group.

Dr. Heaton earned an undergraduate degree in International Relations with a minor in Asian Studies from Brigham Young University (BYU). His medical degree is from Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine (AZCOM). He completed both his internship and medical residency in Tampa, Florida.

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$540k donation from Intermountain Healthcare will provide help for domestic and sexual violence survivors

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ne in three women will experience domestic violence in the state of Utah.

Statistics also demonstrate that one in six women and one in 25 men experience rape or attempted rape, and one in three women will experience some form of sexual violence.

With such concerning numbers, Intermountain Healthcare is donating $540,000 and partnering with the nonprofit Utah Domestic Violence Coalition to assist Utahns who need help in recovering from the impacts of abuse.

“Access to resources is an essential part of the healing process,” said Mikelle Moore, senior vice president and chief community health officer at Intermountain. “The members of the UDVC work together to support domestic violence survivors in a way that makes access easier and the use of funds more efficient. Intermountain is proud to support their efforts ensuring services are available where and when survivors need it.”

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, sexual and domestic violence cases have risen 8.1% in Utah. The UDVC provides advocacy and education to member programs and community partners. Its membership includes nonprofit domestic violence shelters and sexual assault advocacy organizations.

The donation from Intermountain will

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help cover the operations costs of UDVC members. These community organizations provide resources to address healing from trauma such as the reduction of psychological suffering.

UDVC will distribute the donation to more than a dozen local organizations: Canyon Creek Services, CAPSA, Dove Center, Friends Against Family Violence, Gentle Ironhawk, Healing Pathways, New Hope Crisis Center, New Horizons Crisis Center, Peace House, The Refuge, Safe Harbor, Seekhaven, South Valley Services, YCC, YWCA, Rape Recovery Center and Restoring Ancestral Winds. To learn more about the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition, visit udvc.org.

"The Utah Domestic Violence Coalition and our member programs are so grateful for the financial support from Intermountain Healthcare in meeting the increased need for services for survivors,” said Jennifer Campbell, executive director of UDVC. “Having operational funding will help our programs continue to provide their life-saving services and ensure that when someone is in need, they can find help." l

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Advance directives important at any age

By Becky Ginos | becky.g@davisjournal.com

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t’s a tough conversation to talk about the end of life, but an advance directive gives patients a voice when they can no longer speak for themselves. It’s not just for the elderly either. Life changing events can happen at any age so having a directive in place can make it easier for family members to honor their loved one’s wishes.

“We all live in a world where we want to live life to the fullest and have our last moments as comfortable as possible,” said Kencee Graves, MD, associate chief medical officer for inpatient health, University of Utah Health. “But we don’t always have control of what happens so sometimes things can be disastrous like a stroke or car accident. I think we don’t want to think about those things but one way to protect our loved ones is to have conversations about what we would and would not want to help us have the quality of life that fits us best.”

Dominic Moore, MD, medical director of palliative care, Intermountain Healthcare sees a large number of children with serious illnesses that need to make these types of emergency plans. “I see what a great benefit it is for those families even though it’s a tough conversation,” he said. “It allows people to just focus on things emotionally and get through it together.”

Studies show how difficult it is for families and doctors to discuss someone’s long-term planning for death, said Steve Cherrington, MD, MountainStar Healthcare. “Most don’t talk about it so many people are unprepared. If you don’t have a directive you may not get the care you want. So often I see a lot of hurt and a lot of grief on the part of the family left behind that weren’t able to answer those ques-

tions.”

Without an advance directive, doctors do what they have to in order to save lives, said Dr. Arlen Jarrett, chief medical officer, Steward Healthcare. “We do a full court press until we know we’re not supposed to. The first thing we’re looking for is that spokesperson, that decision maker.”

When someone is sick and in the ICU and there’s not a designated spokesperson, on occasions situations can become very difficult, he said. “One sibling or one son or daughter may not feel the same as one of the other siblings or son or daughter. These directives would probably help keep the peace which most of us would want for our families.”

“I was basically my dad’s voice as he was admitted to the emergency room,” said Aimee Smith. “When you go to the ER you really don’t know what’s going to happen there.

Palliative care came into speak with us and helped foster that conversation because it’s a hard conversation to have, one many people are really uncomfortable with. My dad in particular struggled with the idea of his own mortality.”

Smith said she’s the only child that lived nearby so the decisions fell to her. “During those moments you’re highly emotional and highly erratic. I felt so relieved that when this will likely happen again some of this will be done and I don't have to do this whole thing again.”

An advanced directive should be where family members have access to it, said Moore. “Make sure they’re aware of it and have it in a designated place in the house. Talk to your doctor about it and have the document on file at the hospital.”

These are living documents, he said. “They should

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Having an advance directive helps loved ones and doctors know what your wishes are for end of life care. Courtesy photo

be revisited using the four Ds. Diagnosis, decline, divorce or death. Sometimes a patient has designated a spouse but they’ve become their ex spouse or perhaps they have already died.”

Cherrington said he had a 35-year-old patient who was in the hospital for weeks with COVID. “He and his wife had never talked about it at all. They were able to have a few discussions before he was intubated. You’re not too young to talk about this. Many of my patients that pass away are very young, so these discussions really need to be taken on very early.” l

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Long-time educator appointed to lead school district’s Office of Equal Opportunity

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County has plans to build an Emergency Coordination Center

By Becky Ginos | becky.g@davisjournal.com FARMINGTON—Davis County Emergency Manager Chad Monroe started his job Feb. 28, 2020. The next week the pandemic hit followed by an earthquake, high winds and flooding. The pandemic spilled over into 2021 and now into 2022. It’s impossible to predict when an emergency will happen, but it’s his job to try.

“I was a fish out of water a little bit,” he said. “The Davis County Health Department (DCHD) brought me in and took me under their wing.”

The pandemic was obviously totally new to most people, said Monroe. “It’s something emergency management had never dealt with. It was a trying time. There was a great deal of responsibility to help everybody. We didn’t know if we’d have masks, whether we’d need full suits to take care of people, nursing staff and how to help people with disabilities, the elderly and the homeless.”

Some great partnerships were formed, he said. “We worked with hospitals, the state, IHC and Steward. We also made great partnerships with the school district to make decisions about their staff and students.”

It was crazy, he said. “We made a lot better connections so we can work togeth-

er in the future, not just in a pandemic.

We learned what to do in a wildfire, flood, hazmat and winds. We have built a response at the county and city level to be better prepared.”

During the pandemic Monroe said there wasn’t a good central location for everyone to come together to plan effectively and work out of. “The commissioners and Sheriff’s Office as a whole identified that something was lacking. So they’re working to get an ECC (Emergency Coordination Center) facility built to handle small to big responses. We’re lucky to get some funding to do things like this.”

The goal is to make a robust place size wise with high tech present to communicate and monitor situations, he said. “It’s something that Davis County has needed for a long time. It’s in the first phases but we hope to have it in the next few years.”

Labor shortages pose a challenge, but it’s well on the path, said Monroe. “It will help us be better prepared to respond more efficiently in Davis County to protect lives and property.” l Heavy rains caused flooding last year in some areasareas of Davis County. The county is working to build an Emergency Coordination Center facility to handle small to big responses. Photo by Roger V. Tuttle

Chamber expo helps members share their crafts

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embers of the Davis Chamber of Commerce enjoyed an afternoon with a motivational speech and the opportunity to show their wares during the annual Business to Business Expo on April 14.

The event, held at the Davis Conference Center, marked the first “full” expo since before the pandemic upended business two years ago.

“It’s great to meet again with what is our largest expo we’ve had in several years,” said Angie Osguthorpe, president and CEO of the Chamber. “This year we have almost 90 vendors, and we had a great talk earlier from Rob Ferre to kick things off during our luncheon.”

“This truly is a Chamber event, so people who know and love us are the ones who tend to come,” Osguthorpe said. “We always have a lot of prizes for our drawings, as well as food from some of our vendors, great music and a lot of free giveaways all day long. Both small and large businesses alike who are part of the Chamber participate in the expo.”

She said the Davis Chamber covers all of the county – which has a population of almost 360,000. “We’re all about business – helping them, and connecting them to people, customers and to each other. We’re

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By Tom Haraldsen | tom.h@davisjournal.com about advocating for them.”

She said the Chamber’s Legislative Affairs Committee is “very policy driven.

We want to make it favorable here in Davis County for businesses. As we raise the business community, that goes along with the quality of life for everyone.”

The Chamber is preparing for future events as well – including two golf tournaments in June and July (“we added a second one last year because they are so popular,” Osguthorpe said), the annual awards banquet in September, plus its monthly Women in Business and general membership luncheons, and its Business Alliance luncheons twice a month, as well as the annual Women in Business Summit and Economic Summit.

Osguthorpe said the Chamber staff talks about the acute employee shortage in the state “on a daily basis. We’re helping with those who organize career or job fairs, or with schools offering scholarships. Also, we get together resources for people who want to move here, and we have a subcommittee that discusses the challenges of business and labor. We’re helping in any way we can.”l

Members of the Davis Chamber of Commerce introduced their products and services at Business to Business Expo on April 14. Photo courtesy of the Davis Chamber of Commerce. Photo by Tom Haraldsen

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Summer Nights with the Stars announces 2022 season

By Tom Haraldsen | tom.h@davisjournal.com

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he Davis Arts Council has announced its summer lineup for the 2022 Summer Nights with the Stars season, and it’s filled with musical talent and variety. All of the concerts will be performed at The Kenley Amphitheater in Layton, starting on Thursday, June 16.

Among this year’s headline acts are 38 SPECIAL, America, Sara Evans, Blue Oyster Cult, Suzy Bogguss, Jocelyn & Chris, the Oak Ridge Boys, and KANSAS. This is the 26th season for the concert series, and with a seating room for less than 2,000 patrons, the audiences are always close to the performers.

“In the Kenley Amphitheater, you are never more than 200 feet from the stage,” said Tessa Vaschel, executive director of the arts council. “Being so close to the stage at a large show like 38 SPECIAL, even if you are sitting in the very back row, is a completely unique concert experience.”

Season ticket purchasing and renewals will occur from April 11-15. New subscribers can purchase a general admission season ticket package that starts at $104 per person, with the option to add Special Engagement events at a discounted rate before the general public on-sale date. Individual show tickets go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, May 3 at 10 a.m. At that time, tickets can be purchased online at davisarts.org/tickets, over the phone at 801-546-8575, or at the DAC box office at 445 N. Wasatch Dr., Layton, 84041.

Phone and box office hours are Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. through the end of April. Beginning May 1, box office hours are Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Ticket prices vary for each performance, with Special Engagement Events higher.

Here’s a look at the acts coming to Layton. Special engagements are marked as such: Thursday, June 16 – STARSHIP featuring Mickey Thomas With hits like “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” and “We Built This City,” STARSHIP featuring Mickey Thomas will start

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the season. He is the owner of the soaring voice that propelled Starship through the decades of the 80s and 90s.

Monday, June 20 – 38 SPECIAL (Special engagement) After more than four decades, 38 SPECIAL will bring their signature blast of Southern Rock to the Kenley! 38 SPECIAL’s many Gold and Platinum album awards stand in testament to the endurance of a legendary powerhouse.

Wednesday, June 29 – The Brit Pack The Brit Pack plays only the most epic classics by British artists. Come and hear some of the most iconic hits by The Beatles, Queen, David Bowie, Elton John, and more.

Thursday, July 7 – America (Special engagement) America, the perennial classic-rock favorite, celebrates its 50th anniversary. High School friends Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell quickly harmonized their way to the top of the charts on the strength of their signature song “A Horse with No Name.”

Saturday, July 16 – Sara Evans (Special engagement) Multi-platinum entertainer Sara Evans is the fifth mostplayed female artist at country radio the last two decades, with five No. 1 singles that include “No Place That Far,” “Suds in The Bucket,” “A Real Fine Place to Start,” and “Born to Fly.” Wednesday, July 20 – Winter Dance Party: The Official Tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper John Mueller’s “Winter Dance Party” ® is the official live and authentic re-creation of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper’s final tour.

Thursday, July 28 – Forever Simon & Garfunkel Forever Simon & Garfunkel celebrates the best-selling duo in rock n’roll history. Sean Altman and Jack Skuller will lead you on a journey through all things S & G. Wednesday, Aug. 3 – Blue Öyster Cult For five decades, Blue Öyster Cult has been thrilling fans of hard rock worldwide with their influential albums loaded with

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classic songs including “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” and “Burning for You.” Saturday, Aug. 6 – TOAST – The Ultimate Bread Experience: Toast – The Ultimate Bread Experience is a live band that faithfully re-creates all the hits of the 70s hit band Bread and the solo work of its founders David Gates and James Griffin.

Thursday, Aug. 11 – Suzy Bogguss Grammy award-winning and Platinum-selling artist Suzy Bogguss has covered Country, Swing, Jazz, Folk, Americana, and Roots music with style and grace.

Saturday, Aug. 20 – The Johnson Files (Special engagement) The Johnson Files Improv Show is a hilarious, one-of-akind show where everything is entirely made up on the spot based on audience suggestions!

Wednesday, Aug. 24 – Jocelyn & Chris Meet Jocelyn & Chris. Siblings, Harvard grads, and two analog souls, intent on inciting a new rock revival. Lauded by American Songwriter as “pure American rock goodness.”

Tuesday, Aug. 30 – The Oak Ridge Boys (Special engagement) One of the most distinctive and recognizable sounds in the music industry, the four-part harmonies and upbeat songs of The Oak Ridge Boys have spawned dozens of Country hits and a number one Pop smash!

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Tuesday, Sept. 6 – KANSAS (Special engagement) KANSAS has firmly established itself as one of America’s iconic classic rock bands! This “garage band” from Topeka released their debut album in 1974 and has gone on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide.

Saturday, Sept. 10 – The Bon-

ner Family Comprised of Mom, Dad, eight kids, and the eldest grandchild, The Bonner Family enjoys creating music together with a Christ-centered focus as the theme for their music. l

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e might not have a parrot or an eye patch, but my dad has found more buried treasure than any pirate. Inside his mild-mannered dad costume lurks the heart of Captain Jack Sparrow, ready to tackle any adventure with dashing flair and comic grace.

On a blustery day in April, he took a pickaxe and hammer to help his great-grandkids find fossilized shells and pieces of quartz on the side of a mountain near his home in central Utah. He was excited about every discovery, and everywhere he looked, he saw treasure.

He pointed to the west and said, “That mountain is full of blue agate.” He pointed down and leaned in to whisper, “We’re standing on the biggest gold mine in the state.” He pointed east to where dinosaur bones hide in the hills and pointed south to Native American sites where he’s examined petroglyphs and rock paintings.

I’ve explored with Dad many times, usually only finding spiders, cacti and the occasional rattlesnake. He can stick his hand in a hole in a rock and pull out gemstones, old coins and a jackalope skull.

Dad’s always had a sense of adventure. If he could make a living exploring

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ghost towns and spelunking in caves for lost treasure, à la Indiana Jones, he’d be the happiest man on earth.

With his keen, scientific mind, he built model airplanes and assembled rockets that exploded in midair, not always on purpose. He’d ignite a mini cannon on the Fourth of July that freaked out the neighbors, cracked a basement window and set off car alarms. We’d run inside and hide like the Feds were after us. They probably were.

For him, life has been one big treasure hunt. He often takes his metal detector to parks and always shows up when a road is being dug or a house demolished.

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Even with his work, he stood on the leading edge of discovery. In the ’60s, he helped build the first communications system for Air Force One. Later, he created cameras that flew on the space shuttle, were installed in telescopes and helped aerial refueling tankers.

A camera he designed took the first pictures of the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean.

Never one to pass up a good conspiracy theory, Dad talks about his close encounters with UFOs, ghosts, the Illuminati and home teachers. He also plays the accordion, although how can you tell if someone does that well?

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If Dad had the chance to take a rocketship to the moon, he’d already be packed. He’d love to fly in a fighter jet

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