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As the coronavirus spread and most Utahns were hunkering down, she was trying to figure out how to get to the front lines in one of the hardest-hit areas of the U.S. “I was watching as it progressed through the world very carefully,” Harris said. “When we were preparing here, we saw that it was getting so hard in New York. [Coronavirus] is a disease in my field and knowing how much work it is to take care of these patients I had an incredible desire to go help my colleagues in another state.”

At the beginning of April, Intermountain Health Care put out a call for medical volunteers to assist in three New York hospitals that were hit the hardest by the coronavirus. Over 800 people volunteered, and Harris was one of 100 healthcare workers including physicians, advanced care providers, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and support staff that were chosen to help on the front lines.

Harris was assigned to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, New York and arrived on April 15. For 15 days, including 10 overnight shifts, Harris was thrown into a highly stressed hospital system treating COVID-19 patients who were in critical condition.

“Southside Hospital is a moderate-sized community hospital about the size of St. Marks,” said Harris. “They went from 14 medical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds up to 150 at the peak of their surge.”

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Draper pulmonologist Dixie Harris was part of a team of caregivers that volunteered in New York. (Photo courtesy of Intermountain Healthcare)

Continued from front page Harris said. “This tidal wave of patients hit over a very short time period and they continued to keep coming. They kept thinking this will maybe slow down but week after week they had to keep opening more ICUs.” Harris provided backup for other doctors covering the hospital’s six ICUs. Five out of six units were COVID-19 positive patients and she was directly responsible for one to two ICUs. Southside Hospital had four critical care physicians who had been working day and night for five weeks and the Intermountain volunteers allowed them the opportunity to rest and recuperate. Harris’ typical shift in New York started with going over cases with the outgoing medical team.

“We talked about where each case was going, ideas and things that needed to be changed and improved,” Harris said.

Besides the stress from the sheer number of severely ill patients and a shortage of supplies and staff, Harris said another difficult part of treating COVID-19 patients in New York was updating family members on

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“These are very unique circumstances,” Harris said. “It’s the first time I’ve been in an ICU setting where family members could not be there in the waiting room. Previous to COVID-19 we followed national standards with families at bedsides or in waiting rooms and as things change for the good or worse we update their families.”

With family members not allowed at the hospital, Harris and the other medical workers had the difficult tasks of keeping families informed and connected and helping frightened patients in any way they could. Sometimes that meant holding up an iPad so intubated patients could see family members.

For Harris, that meant holding the hand of one particular patient.

“Some of the patients were on mechanical ventilation,” Harris said. “But some didn’t have to be heavily sedated. They were in bed, looking around with big eyes at the other patients around them and unable to talk because they were intubated. There was one patient who would wave her hand every time

I walked by her bed. She didn’t have family nearby and she couldn’t have visitors... she just wanted someone to hold her hand.

We didn’t have extra staff but every time I was in the ICU I would try to hold this lady’s hand. It was very impactful.”

Over the phone, Harris had to tell an elderly man about the condition of his wife whose organs were quickly shutting down.

The man, who was older than his wife and had already recovered from his own bout with COVID-19, was distraught that he couldn’t be by his wife’s side.

“He didn’t understand how he could have it and get better but his wife was dying,” Harris said. “It shows how cruel this virus is. One person can get it and not have to go to the hospital and the next person gets it and can die from it.”

After 15 days working on the front lines in New York, Harris returned home to her family in Draper. She said the experience has made her more vigilant and more vocal.

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care System told us, ‘Respect this virus,’” Harris said. “Until we get a vaccine this virus will probably go through the whole community. People with risk factors like obesity, heart disease and diabetes tend to get sicker but I’ve seen patients with no medical problems end up in the ICU.” Harris said seeing firsthand how medical care is impacted by an overwhelmed system is why Utahns need to continue to be vigilant in social distancing.

“Everything you saw on the news [about New York] was not an exaggeration.

That’s exactly how it was. I went from a hospital that was completely overrun to a hospital that had COVID patients with enough nurses and everything we needed to do the best care possible,” Harris said. “Being back in a hospital in Utah was like night and day.

If we aren’t overrun with patients we can do so much good.”

She also encourages people to contact their physicians if they are having other medical problems.

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Schools scramble to refund students for classes, sports participation, tours

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s in-person schools were dismissed abruptly under Gov. Gary Herbert’s “soft closure” order in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many school activities were canceled, from spring sports to academic tours.

High school classes, which require fees such as woodworking and ceramics, now have classrooms of projects left in progress, uncertain when, if and how students will return to complete them.

In the midst of all this, school districts and school administrators are in the process of refunding students’ fees.

At Hillcrest High in Midvale, junior Abby Morrell had been looking forward to going to Washington, D.C. with the vocal ensemble, wind ensemble, and chamber orchestra for a festival.

Her mother, Barbara Morrell, was asked last minute to be one of the 90-student group’s chaperones and just paid her tour fees two days before she got an email on March 12, saying that the trip scheduled for March 2630 was canceled and it was being looked into rescheduling or refunding.

Twelve days later, Barbara emailed the school, inquiring about the $1,250 refund for both herself and her daughter. The next day, Principal Greg Leavitt emailed saying the school’s decision was to reschedule the trip next spring and so all the funds would roll over for that tour. No new tour dates were provided.

The 21 seniors, chaperones of senior students, or those who weren’t planning to commit to the classes were to be refunded unless the fee was paid for out of fundraising. The latter would be donated to the music department.

“The rest of us weren’t given the option of getting a full refund,” Barbara said. “I’d love to get the money back to pay something or be able to use it. Some people may want or need to free up those funds now.”

Hillcrest vocal ensemble and chamber orchestra director RaNae Dalgleish said that the decision was made by administration after talking to parties involved, including WorldStrides that was hosting the festival where the groups would perform, be evaluated and participate in clinics given by notable musicians and professors.

The tour also included vocal ensemble performing the national anthem at a flag-raising ceremony at Fort McHenry, giving a tribute at the Martin Luther King Memorial and singing at a local cathedral. The groups also would go sightseeing in the area.

“It was unprecedented and ultimately, WorldStrides canceled the entire festival, which involved hundreds of tours or more,” Dalgleish said. “We had made the final tour payment days before. Our choices were to use the money on next spring’s tour at the same or a different location, but equivalent-priced tour, or get a refund and lose half the airfare,

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Seen here in 2018, Cottonwood High School students participated in their music tour in Los Angeles, however this year, the performing arts students weren’t able to travel to San Francisco after schools were put on “soft closure” during the COVID-19 pandemic and now students are awaiting refunds on tour fees. (Amber Tuckness/ Cottonwood High)

because the airline wasn’t given a full refund.”

Dalgleish said that right now, the school will absorb the cost of the seniors, and hope to be reimbursed as new members in the groups pay to go on tour next year.

She also said that while the tour is meant to celebrate and learn about music from other parts of the country, the absence of performing together also has had a powerful, bonding effect.

“The kids are all in and they’ve learned not to take this for granted. They even got together, six feet apart, to sing in the lawn of one of the students as they were missing singing and performing together. I think when we come back, we’ll be stronger and ready to start again,” Dalgleish said.

At Corner Canyon High in Draper, about 80 choir students were to participate in a festival in New York City. As of press deadline, negotiations were still being made with hotels to ensure students receive a full refund. The airlines reimbursed flights in vouchers and the two Broadway shows the group was to attend were reimbursed in full.

The group also planned on seeing Little Italy, Chinatown, 9/11 Memorial and the Brooklyn Bridge.

“Right now, we have $1,100 of the $1,250 or so back and we’re still negotiating the onenight deposit on the hotel,” Principal Darrell Jensen said. “We had a choice to roll over the funds, but we don’t know if we’ll travel next year or even what next year would be like, so we decided to make it a clean break.”

Students who paid for the trip through fundraisers will have their funds be earmarked to the music department, he said.

Jensen said that school officials are looking at all students’ accounts, including class fees, activity or participation fees, and fines, to determine the amount that may be refunded by early June.

Canyons District Chief Financial Officer and Business Administrator Leon Wilcox said that he wasn’t aware of any of the five or six

trips approved for the remaining of the school year that were not in the process of reimbursement.

He also said that Canyons School District does not take out travel insurance, but individuals or schools can do so.

In an April 28 memo, Canyons School District outlined refunds to students, including that trips and tours should be worked with parents and teachers to determine the best method.

The memo continued to state $15 of activity fees to high school seniors should be returned while other students would have their fees reduced the next school year by the same amount. Participation fees for all sports would be refunded, but spirit packs that students already received would not. Dances and banquets that weren’t held should have money returned, while classes, would be up to the discretion of the teacher on materials used to determine any refunds. And if driver’s ed was completed online, money would not be refunded, but rather a time to schedule driving instruction would be determined when restrictions have been lifted.

At Brighton High, Principal Tom Sherwood said his performing arts groups planned to participate in the WorldStrides festival in Anaheim. Fortunately, the 150 students’ fees had been collected in the office, but not paid yet to the festival so he won’t have to be dealing with airlines, hotels and transportation to refund students’ money.

Sherwood said that refund process as well as the collection of student checkedout items, such as textbooks, calculators, uniforms, musical instruments and Chromebooks, will take place in late May. Even Canyons School District’s community education classes were in the process of prorating refunds for students in various afterschool programs and community education courses for approximately 1,080 people, said Jose Rincon, head administrative assistant.

Cottonwood High’s 130 members in choir, band, orchestra and jazz band were ex-

pecting full $750 refunds from their canceled San Francisco tour, that included a WorldStrides festival as well as “Hamilton” tickets and Alcatraz tour tickets that they had just purchased weeks prior to the tour cancellation.

“San Francisco was an early hot spot for the coronavirus, so we were watching what was happening,” said band director Amber Tuckness. “If I canceled our trip, we wouldn’t receive refunds, but when Gov. Herbert made it official, then we could get the refunds.”

However, students who fundraised, including seniors, will not be receiving refunds and instead, the money will be given to the music department, she said.

Murray High Principal Scott Wihongi, who had just returned with the drill team in early March from New York City, said that the only trip that hadn’t happened at his school involved 15 students who were scheduled to go to San Francisco with the AP art history class in late April.

“We’re getting a full refund from the hotel and tours, but we’re working with the airline and travel agency to see if we can get refunds for the flight instead of vouchers,” he said. “This was an opportunity for the students to see different art styles at museums, as a way to enhance what they’re learning.”

He also was working with his staff in the process of refunding student-athletes’ fees, including the canceled tennis and baseball teams’ trip to St. George, and students’ partial class fees if materials weren’t used. School officials also were collecting textbooks, library books, some athletic uniforms, and seniors’ Chromebooks.

“I think the programs and students will be fine heading into next year,” he said.

“Right now, we prioritized and streamlined our teaching to get in the standards. The students got through three-fourths of the meat of everything and it’s how much time students focus on learning that will determine how much we’ll need to reteach and reinforce that material when we return.” l

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Virtual County Library available as reopening takes shape

By Joshua Wood | j.wood@mycityjournals.com

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esidents of Salt Lake County have gone without a lot of things over the past couple months. Some resources and services previously taken for granted have suddenly been dearly missed. One of those resources is the Salt Lake County Library system. Since midMarch, all 18 full-service physical branches

have been closed. However, many of the library system’s services have been available online, and its staff members have worked to expand virtual offerings while the community stays at home.

“Everything is online right now,” said Sara Neal, marketing and communications

manager for Salt Lake County Library. “Limited staff is going into branches to do some prep work for opening the libraries.”

In the meantime, and for the past several weeks, librarians have worked to make themselves more available online to the community. They started a daily online story time for kids on the library’s Facebook page each morning at 10:30. The library’s focus on children home from school has driven an expansion of online book offerings for kids of all ages.

The County Library has developed programs like its Stay at Home Challenge encouraging people to do things like write a letter to a grandparent they can’t see in person. Kids were also challenged to read a short book in a half hour. “We wanted to help people fill some time and try to take their minds off things,” Neal said.

Online offerings have expanded to include access to more books, magazines and movies. People can even get their library card by applying online.

“Librarians are not at a desk right now, but they are still getting resources available Salt Lake County Library is offering many of its usual programs and events in a digital format during to the community,” Neal said. The virtuCOVID-19 shutdowns. (Photo courtesy of Salt Lake County Library) al Ask a Librarian service offers the kind

of help that librarians typically offer when physical branches are open. People can ask their librarians online for help with research, writing a resume, or how to apply for unemployment.

That type of online assistance will not go away when physical branches start to reopen.

“We are working on how to serve members of the community who might be high risk,” Neal said.

The County Library has worked with government officials to plan how to reopen safely. “We are working closely with the county and state,” said Cottonwood Heights Communications Manager Timothy Beery.

“We have to take into account our needs and the needs of our neighbors.”

As communities work toward reopening, the County Library has worked on how to keep patrons safe when libraries reopen.

Everything from a safe curbside pickup program to properly cleaning materials as they come in has to be considered.

“How do you monitor a 6-foot distance in a library?” Neal asked. “We are looking at what other urban libraries are doing to find what’s safest for the community.” l

More traffic on local trails as residents seek escape

By Joshua Wood | j.wood@mycityjournals.com

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alt Lake County’s trails have afforded residents a nearby escape from COVID-19 restrictions. While crowded routes have added waste and social distancing concerns, they have also helped grow community appreciation of local trails.

Mitt Stewart and members of the Wasatch Trail Run Series still hold out hope for some form of in-person running events later in the summer. Meanwhile, they have taken their popular series online. Stewart has worked on developing an online feature that will enable people to find challenges and trail routes to run, log their times, and compete with others.

“The whole reason for doing this is to offer people some connection while we’re not connected,” Stewart said. “We’ll be running virtual races.”

To do that, people can look up the race route and take it on individually. They can then submit verification of their effort using their favorite fitness app. Stewart hopes to help people connect as a running and biking community while they maintain a safe distance.

Keeping that distance has been a challenge with increased trail usage.

“Any increase in trail or usage is anecdotal, but it is clear that our public spac-

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es have been a place of refuge during this time,” said Clayton J. Scrivner of Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation. “Last month we launched our ‘Be Park Smart, Stay Apart’ campaign that is designed to educate users of

our public spaces on responsible use according to current health guidelines.”

Stewart has noticed the increased traffic on the trails as well. While more people on the trails can create problems, it also gives

people throughout the community a healthy outdoor activity.

“A big reason to go out is to have solitude, so that’s been a bit of a buzzkill,” Stewart said. “On the flipside, it’s healthy and good for people.”

Stewart likes the idea of people connecting by sharing their appreciation of local trails and their achievements on them. He also thinks measures could be taken to help vulnerable members of the community enjoy the trails. More signage at trailheads instructing people on trail etiquette and social distancing could help, he said. Stewart would also like to see special hours set aside for the elderly to enjoy trails without the crowds.

Those crowds have plenty to enjoy, though. “Salt Lake County maintains over 100 miles of trails and pathways,” Scrivner said. “Jordan Parkway, Dimple Dell, Rose and Yellow Fork Canyons, Parley’s, and Utah and Salt Lake Canal trails are the most extensive.”

While increased trail use has produced things like more garbage and animal waste bags left behind, it has also helped the community through unprecedented times.

“People need to get out and exercise,” Runners have been able to connect online until they can race together in person again. (Photo courtesy of Stewart said. “It’s a great way to keep people Mitt Stewart) motivated.” l

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What’s your legacy?

Juan Diego basketball coach named Best of State

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uan Diego Catholic High School’s boys basketball coach Drew Trost, who led his team to its sixth straight region championship this past season, received Best of State recognition as the Best High School Coach for Private Schools K-12 statewide.

“I feel very honored to receive this award,” Trost said. “There are so many terrific coaches out there at public, private and charter high schools and so many different sports. To be named the best high school coach, I think my wife and mother must have voted at least a thousand times each.”

“The most important thing to know about Drew Trost is that first and foremost, like all good coaches, Drew is a teacher,” JDCHS Athletic Director Chris Long said.

“He not only teaches and coaches basketball skills, he emphasizes teamwork, work ethic and sacrifice for the good of the team.”

Trost feels that this type of award is not just based on accomplishments during one season. “Since coming to Juan Diego, I feel like we have built the basketball program into one of the very best in the state,” he said. “We are consistently competing at a high level and have been able to send many players on to play basketball in college.”

During his seven years at Juan Diego, he has led his program to at least the quarterfinal round in the state tournament six of those seasons. His 2016, 2017 and 2018 squads were state runners-up with a buzzer-beater to defeat Bingham and a 57-40 victory to reach the title game in 2018 that Trost counts among his coaching highlights. This past season, the Soaring Eagle team reached the semifinals before losing to Dixie 52-50.

“That never gets old,” Trost said. “I love helping our players achieve this kind of con-

tinued success.”

Since he began his coaching career in 2005, Trost has helped 14 players develop into college players with four going to the Division I ranks.

Trost also acknowledged that this individual honor is possible because of those around him. “I am just very grateful for this award. This is definitely a team effort though,” he said. “I have been blessed with terrific assistant coaches, a very supportive administration, talented players and an incredibly supportive wife and family. This success would not be possible without these.”

In coaching his players, Trost teaches skills that begin on the basketball court but certainly don’t end there. “It’s not just about basketball,” he said. “It’s really about preparing them for life. I just love working with my players and helping them improve on and off the court. I try to push, challenge and inspire them to grow not just athletically, but also emotionally and spiritually.”

Juan Diego was additionally honored for the third consecutive year as the best private school in Utah while the school also won Best of State honors for the Senior Service Project.

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“It’s great to see hard work getting recognized,” Trost said.

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Draper’s doggone poop problem

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hough Mayor Troy Walker didn’t go “on the record” regarding the reality of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy (nor was he pressed to do so by this reporter), he did declare that there’s no such thing as the Poop Fairy ready to magically whisk away your dog’s waste.

One of many discarded doggy poop bags left along Corner Canyon’s roads and trails. (Linnea Lundgren/ City Journals)

“If you spend any time on our trails, you will see these little bags of dog crap that people pick up but tie in a bag and leave there.

I don’t know who they think will pick it up.

There’s no Poop Fairy. It’s perplexing. Obviously, they’ve taken the bag with them, they sort of pick up after their dog, but for whatever reason, they leave it. It makes no sense to me. Or you see an occasional pile that they didn’t pick up at all. At the dog park, it’s a constant thing for our staff,” Walker said.

The city already banned dogs on many Corner Canyon trails for the sake of the watershed. “The watershed has improved to drinkable levels. It totally changed the quality of the water, so banning dogs has had the effect we wanted,” he said.

The city’s Dayland Dog Park off 300 East is the most used park in the city. A second dog park at Galena Park is slated to open late this summer. While dog owners are expected to bring their own dog waste bags, the city also provides bags at most trailheads and at Dayland Dog Park.

“When everybody stopped going to work (because of coronavirus) and were all outside with their dogs, the more dogs in the parks, the more poop we’ve seen,” Walker said.

Two young brothers, Reef and Talon Heikkila, took it upon themselves to clean

up other people’s dog poop in their neighborhood. “They saw our Facebook messaging about it. They’re awesome young men that wanted to do some service…but they shouldn’t have to. It’s not a service project we should have in Draper. No one else should have to pick up after your dog,” he said.

Walker, himself a dog owner, said it’s not just the poop that’s a problem. “Another thing people need to know is that dogs

need to be on leashes everywhere—parks, neighborhoods, trails…they’re only allowed off leash in the Dayland Dog Park, a designated area in SunCrest, and the dog park at Galena that is under construction. But every trail, every other city park and every neighborhood, they’re required to be on a leash.

We’re going to start enforcing that because it’s gotten a bit out of hand. It’s basic dog ownership 101,” he said. l

Mayor Troy Walker poses with a sign from the city’s campaign to remind dog owners to pick up after their dogs.

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Local moms create nonprofit to help working single parents

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Alissa Harrod (second from left) and Meghann Brimhall (fourth from left) with volunteers at a fundraiser at Chick-fil-A. (Photo courtesy of The Single Parent Project)

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erendipity, fate, a higher power...whatever you want to call it there has been something at work in how quickly the nonprofit organization The Single Parent Project has come together.

Meghann Brimhall had long recognized how valuable her support system was when she was a single mom. As she interacted with

other single parents who didn’t have as much help, her desire grew to do something about it.

“The vision came to me about how great it would be to pay it forward,” Brimhall said.

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Brimhall’s goal for 2019 was to start a nonprofit organization for single parents. On Dec. 26, she was upset that another year had passed and she hadn’t accomplished her goal.

“I started doing research and The Single Parent Project name came to mind,” Brimhall said. “There was no group with that name on Facebook so I hurried to create a page. I saw I could use the name on Instagram and there was an available website with that name so I went for it.”

In January 2020, Brimhall started working on the Facebook page and added close friends to get feedback. One of her friends misunderstood and shared the fledgling page, and The Single Parent Project took off.

“We raised $1,500 fairly quickly and were able to help three parents right off the bat,” Brimhall said. “It was super exciting, and I started posting on social media.”

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A former Riverton High classmate, Harrod saw Brimhall’s posts and offered to help.

She too, had always had a dream of starting an organization to help others.

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Although Brimhall and Harrod had no experience starting or running a nonprofit organization, they have been able to learn and accomplish many goals in a short time frame.

They applied for the nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status in February.

“We were told by multiple other nonprofits that for some people it was taking between nine months to three years to get approved,” Harrod said. “We got the approval in eight weeks.”

They moved into a physical space in Draper in April and in just 12 weeks, The Single Parent Project raised over $15,000 in monetary and in-kind donations. They were able to provide financial help for 120 families that ranged from rent money and daycare expenses to groceries and gas bills and many other expenses in between.

The focus of the Single Parent Project is to help working single parents who fall in the gap between receiving government assistance and making enough money to live comfortably.

“When I was a single mom I applied for Medicaid and got denied,” Brimhall recalled.

“I had a house payment, and I was also paying for type 1 diabetic insulin and diabetic needs. [Government assistance] doesn’t take everything into consideration.”

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It’s important to take care of yourself so you can be a better mom, a better employee, and a better person all around.”

Brimhall and Harrod have a one-year goal to assist 500 families in 2020.

“I would say that we are on track to hit that goal,” Harrod said. “We are hoping with grant opportunities we will hit the $150,000 mark and then some. We’ve already started working on educational courses and support groups.”

“Our goals are always changing as we learn all we can do to assist these families,” Brimhall said. “We’ve always said that we

Members of The Single Parent Project team at a community needs drive at Valley High School. (Photo courtesy of The Single Parent Project)

want to help with short-term housing and now we also want to assist with long-term housing.”

They also hope to help families reach educational goals and would love to partner with local universities and offer scholarships.

The Single Parent Project is a passion project for the cofounders who also have jobs and are moms to a blended family of six kids (Brimhall) and three kids (Harrod).

They hope that helping people will one day be their full-time gig.

The duo is amazed and excited about how quickly their project has grown and appreciate all of the support from friends and community members.

“We’ve had a lot of support from people who were single parents or raised by single parents,” Brimhall said. “It has been very rewarding to see these people give back and have our community rally behind us. It is fun to see it grow and have everybody celebrate successes with you.”

“To raise the amount of money we have in such little time helps us know that we have found that niche that is overlooked,” Harrod said. “This is happening for a reason.”

They still need as much help as they can get to reach their goals and assist as many working single parents as possible. Find out more information on how you can help or receive help on their website www.thesingleparentproject.org or their social media pages on Facebook or Instagram @thesing-

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“Anytime we feel like there is a roadblock something else happens and pushes us forward,” Harrod said. “We know we are in the right place doing the right things. It has been a great experience.” l

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Canyons Board President Nancy Tingey said the appointment comes at an “unprecedented time” as the world copes with the COVID-19 pandemic. That was evident in Robins’ approval as some board members cast their ballots from remote locations in light of the COVID-19 social distancing guidelines.

It not only was an unprecedented time in the school board naming its fourth-ever superintendent, but also as earlier that day, April 14, Gov. Gary Herbert announced that K-12 public schools would remain online for the rest of the school year.

Robins met challenging questions about the extended school closure after the announcement, by a scattering of media, who were in attendance and could sit in chairs spaced apart from one another.

“None of us, any of us, could predict this, or see it really coming, so, yes, it’s a real challenge, one for the ages,” Robins said about the pandemic. “It’s overwhelming for everybody right now, for sure. As I mentioned, we’re in it together. It’s really unprecedented. We’ve never really experienced something like this. So, I think really the key is to take care of our kids and our family and make sure they’re OK.” As a self-proclaimed optimist, Robins is “holding out hope” that schools will be back in session next fall.

“Our families and especially our students are really looking forward to the day they’re back in the schools. Mov-

ing into next year, I think really the discussion points will be around the bridge and coming from this situation we’re in right now to the fall and trying to address those gaps,” he said, adding that there likely will be baseline assessments in the fall to do “what’s best for each individual student.”

Robins applauded school faculty and staff statewide in helping families during this crisis whether it’s academics, nutrition, support or whatever is needed.

“I have full confidence in the teachers and staff of Canyons School District, just like the rest of our teachers and staff around the state. They’ve been amazing in this transition. I see this as a ‘we’ proposition. It’s not educators and parents separately. That’s one of the beauties of Utah; we work together well, and in times of crises, like this, we come together,” he said.

Robins earned his bachelor’s degree from Southern Utah University where he was inducted to the university’s hall of fame in 2013 after being a four-year starter at quarterback for the football team. He received his master’s degree from Grand Canyon University and a doctorate in educational leadership from University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

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While the Board welcomed Robins, they also praised Briscoe’s leadership.

“This district just got a whole lot better” with Robins’ appointment, Briscoe said, adding that the two bonded as they were both appointed superintendents of schools the same year.

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The couple have four children, ranging from age 8 to college—including one who is spending her senior year at their Nephi home.

Robins credited seniors for the tough year to end their public education years.

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One sixth-grader shared her insight.

“We’re still dealing with what happened during the Holocaust today,” Olivia Smith said. “And we still have inequality, not exactly the same, but still people are treated unfairly. I’d hope we learned and are more humane now.”

“Prisoner B-3087” tells the story of a Jewish boy who grew up to see his Polish neighborhood walled up, had his bar mitzvah in the rubble of a building’s basement, lost his immediate family in the Nazi roundups, survived famine, cattle car transportation, beatings and death marches to concentration camps and was freed by Americans six years later.

“It’s based on a true story, and it gave us insight into the mind of prisoners and how people treated each other,” said Maggi Draper Park Middle School’s book club attracts more students than can attend during the Welliver, who has worked in both Crescent three-lunch periods. (Julie Slama/City Journals) View’s and Draper Park’s middle school library for about 20 years. “They learned how read the book and join in. This book club, we have more hissome people who had little, the Czechs, gave them what they tory teachers as they want to contribute to the discussion,” had, while the Nazi leaders in the camp treated them worse Arbon said. than animals.”

The goal not only is to encourage students to read more Olivia and other sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders genres, but also to get them into the library so they can check were given the book when their names were randomly select- out books they may want to read for pleasure and not just for ed from entering to attend the book club. assignments, she said.

“It’s a good experience where we all read the same book “English classes in seventh- and eighth-grade come in and talked about it. ‘Prisoner B-3087’ taught me more about every other week to work on projects and assignments, usuhistory, about the Holocaust, and how it was like,” she said. ally book talks. Sixth-graders it’s less, maybe once a month.

Sixth-grader McKaylee Curtis also attended book club. Our goal is to have students read more,” Arbon said, add“I love to read; this title really sucked me into reading ing that students who participate in America’s Battle of the it,” she said. “I wanted to know more, and I couldn’t put it Books also come into the library more often, reading differdown. I liked how we shared and learned from each other’s ent genres of books on the reading list. opinions without anyone putting us down.”

Displayed around the library are many of the book McKaylee had signed up before to attend a book club, covers book club students have read, from “My Side of the but this was the first time she was selected.

Mountain” to “Mr. Lemoncello’s Library” from “Where the Arbon said that’s because more than 60 students enter Red Fern Grows” to “Tangerine.” each of the three or four book clubs per school year.

The book club formed from former Crescent View Mid“It can be upward of 20 to 25 we turn away,” she said. dle School brown bag book club, formed by English teacher “A large part is that kids hear about it from their friends and Jolene Jenkins and later coordinated by librarian Tim Rausch. teachers promote it in their classes and they want to come It developed into the Viking Book Club at Draper Park Midget and read dle School under Welliver and former librarian Jim Wilson, a book.” who now oversees all media centers in the district.

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n an effort to help local businesses survive, Draper City has acted as a conduit for information and assistance from federal and state levels, they’ve offered marketing using the city’s social media outlets, and they’ve eased temporary signage fees and restrictions.

When the pandemic hit, the city reached out to more than 1,000 local businesses with a survey. “We asked them what their needs and concerns were and what resources they needed. A lot of it was quick access to capital, or loans and grants. But one thing we could help with was increased marketing, so we started highlighting businesses on the Draper City Facebook page and also on the city’s Twitter and Instagram accounts,” said Russ Fox, assistant city manager.

The city also chose to waive temporary signage fees for all businesses who apply between March 20 through Sept. 19. And a new ordinance was enacted that allows businesses to obtain a temporary permit to post signs indicating that they’re open or offering services like drive-thru or curbside pickup.

Melany Moras of AMYS Martial Arts is especially grateful for the support of her students’ families through the “There are limitations on how long they pandemic. (Mimi Darley Dutton/City Journals) can have those banner signs, but we suspended that time frame so there’s no time limit on them until Sept. 19,” Fox said.

Melany Moras of family-owned AMYS Martial Arts has been in Draper since 2012.

She was appreciative of the survey and the city’s promotion of her business. “It was reassuring to know that the city cared and was looking for ways to help us,” Moras said.

Her martial arts school switched to teaching all classes virtually on March 18. “Most of our students are kids so it was very important to give them some sense of normalcy, by continuing to teach them, to keep them physically active and healthy.” AMYS has slowly begun to reopen, starting with private instruction and then moving into teaching small group classes.

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Leo Janotti is general manager for NY Pizza Patrol, a family-owned business with a menu of traditional pizzas and pastas as well as Brazilian specialties, reflecting his family’s heritage. “We worked really hard on our deliveries and take-out, curbside orders. That kept us alive during the month and a half that we had dine-in closed,” he said. They did have to let a few employees go, and they still have far fewer numbers of dine-in customers now that those restrictions have been lifted, but they survived. “We feel for those who had to close their doors. At least we didn’t have to do that completely and we feel blessed,” Janotti said.

Dennis Garrett and Craton Edwards are co-owners/co-founders of The Clever Bean.

Their business was open nearly two years when they temporarily closed in March.

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Each business owner/operator spoke of positive experiences during the pandemic.

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“We had the support from our Draper and Sandy communities as well as from the Brazilian community. It’s what kept us going. We’re very thankful for that,” Janotti said.

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Oak Hollow students learn meaning in art as they sharpen their techniques

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ak Hollow third-grader Carter Mallard was learning how to draw a tornado-shaped body below an oval-shaped head, then adding two hot dog-shaped ovals as legs and arms to create his drawing of a human.

“I’m learning to draw a human better,” he said. “It’s fun to be creative.”

The third-grader learned the skills alongside his classmates earlier this school year when Springville Museum of Art Outreach Coordinator Rebecca Till taught the youngsters how to create a gesture drawing.

“We talked about having confidence in their drawing,” Till said. “It’s fun for them to draw their classmates and put into practice what they learn.”

Till said that Springville Art Museum reaches about 90 elementary and junior high schools per year and teaches tolerance and acceptance, creativity and provides an avenue to express emotions through art.

At Oak Hollow, she introduced pieces of art, “Youthful Games” by Gary E. Smith and “Camille, Seated” by Robert T. Barrett, where students talked about meaning in the pieces, before she taught art skills appropriate to grade level.

That meant, fifth-graders learned figure drawing of humans beginning with shoulders three times the length of an oval head followed by a pentagon-shaped chest and trapezoid-shaped hips before adding the legs

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Fifth-grader Yulia Brattos practiced those techniques.

“It was cool making characters more realistic than just stick figures,” she said, “and it was way easier than just trying to draw them.”

After learning the initial figure drawing, Till asked for volunteers to pose, bending their bodies in different positions for classmates to draw. Fifth-grader Conner Russell was a model.

Classmate Elise Osborne, learned drawing his pose could be challenging, but rewarding.

“We learned how to make the figures bend and move as Conner did and it became tricky, at first, but then, as I got it, it really began to be fun. I now do them at home, grabbing a piece of paper and doodling,” she said.

Elise also planned to incorporate her art lesson into illustrations she was making for a poetry assignment for French dual immersion.

The art lesson was done during their regular time when they meet with the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program specialist Holly Taggert.

“Springville Museum of Art reached out and offered the lesson, and I thought it would be a great opportunity for the students to learn from their outreach program,” she said. “This

is providing them a good base on art appreciation and how to draw the human body and manipulate it proportionally.”

Taggert has taught all genres of art to Oak Hollow students, having them study art masters then create a variety of art from 3D collages to totem poles to plastic water bottle sculptures.

“I teach a variety of genres and mediums in art,” Taggert said. “When they do art, it helps them learn alternative ways to expand their Oak Hollow students try drawing realistic-looking human figures after mind in different ways. It can a lesson from the Springville Museum of Art outreach coordinator. (Jube included and reinforced in lie Slama/City Journals) the curriculum. It gives them a chance to be creative in a “They come in, without confidence, structured classroom day and it can serve as saying ‘I can’t do this,’ but when it is broken stress therapy.”

Earlier in the school year, Taggert said down into simple shapes that we put togethone student was sitting in class, apparently er, like today with Springville, it simplifies it and they believe in themselves and share having a difficult day.

“I said to that student, ‘Sometimes I what they can do,” Taggert said.

For Till, as she reaches students with her draw, and I don’t think about anything else. lessons, she sees them achieving more than I go home doodle, create, paint, and it helps me not be stressed.’ And the student reported they expected.

“I see them practice and feel proud of back to me that it helped,” she said.

Art also helps students build confidence, what they accomplished,” she said. “That says a lot.” l Taggert said.

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Draper Days delayed until 2021 amid coronavirus concerns, budget woes

By Stephanie Yrungaray | s.yrungaray@mycityjournals.com

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ith a $380,000 price tag and attendees into the tens of thousands, concerns over both cost and coronavirus spread caused officials to cancel the 2020 Draper Days festival.

“It wasn’t a decision that was made lightly,” said Robin McCulloch, president of the Draper Community Foundation. “It’s something we all love to do. We were saddened to see ourselves in this position but we didn’t have a lot of choice.”

Draper Mayor Troy Walker said the festival is one of his favorite Draper events but fiscal considerations made it important to cancel the event earlier rather than later.

“July 1 is the first day of our fiscal budget’s new year,” Walker said. “We don’t know the severity of the sales tax drop off because of the closing of so many businesses. A large chunk of our budget, more than half, comes from sales tax. We are trying to be prudent and not spend money on music contracts and other [Draper Days] contracts when we are not sure how we will come out.”

McCulloch said Draper Days is entirely run by volunteers who start planning for the event as soon as the previous Draper Days festival ends.

“The Draper Days Committee works on acts, fireworks, and all of the events that happen during the course of the week like the 5K race, the rodeo, and those types of things,” McCulloch said. “We sign contracts and from the start of the year in January we are full speed ahead until the event starts in July.”

The committee is tentatively planning an event in the fall that won’t replace Draper Days but will hopefully celebrate the community’s successful reopening.

“We are trying to plan a one night concert and fireworks show on a scaled-down version,” McCulloch said. “We are hoping conditions with the state and county will allow us to have that many people meet at that point and we are hoping to do it before it gets too cold. We will have to see what happens.”

Draper residents will no doubt feel the absence of the event which is a treasured

The 2020 Draper Days parade will not be held amid coronavirus concerns. (Photo courtesy of Draperdays.org)

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“We love to live here, we love the city and we love to see the community come together,” McCulloch said. “We will miss it this year but we will move forward and plan for it for next year.” l

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igh school seniors across the Salt Lake valley are sharing a common experience they never anticipated…graduation during a pandemic. Although every school district is handling the end of the year differently, there is no doubt that the class of 2020 is not getting the graduation they dreamed of or deserve.

One Utah mom is trying to soften the blow of unmet expectations through a project called Adopt a Utah Senior and teens across the valley and state are being recognized by strangers in a very special way.

Monica Kennedy from Erda, Utah saw what her senior daughter Paige was experiencing and wanted to make a difference for all high school seniors.

“I was really sad for my own senior,” Kennedy said. “I reached out to family and friends for ideas to get some excitement into this season because I can’t make up for the stuff she’s missed out on.”

Modeling a Facebook group after a similar one in Alaska, Kennedy started the Adopt a Utah Senior project which has paired over 2,500 seniors with “adoptive” individuals and families. Parents or legal guardians share pictures and information about their high school graduates, and angel adopters offer to recognize the senior with cards and/or gifts.

Once they are paired, the adopter is encouraged to send or deliver something to the grad within two weeks.

Kimmy DelAndrae posted about her daughter Haley who is graduating from Bingham High School. After reading posts from other parents she decided she wanted to adopt another senior.

“I wish I could adopt every one of these kids,” DelAndrae said. “They are missing so much. I want to let them know that one, they are not alone and two, everyone is rooting for them. The whole thing just made my heart so happy.”

Haley helped her mom pick out another senior and together they put together a gift basket for him.

“It was a really fun experience to get one and to give one,” said Haley DelAndrae.

Luke Vickery, a senior at Alta High School, was adopted by Shalysa Meier from West Valley City. Meier also adopted two other seniors.

“Anytime I see a good thing it is a no-brainer to be a part of it,” Meier said. “Not only do I feel it impacted seniors on the receiving end, it brightened my spirits on my end. It gave me something to look forward to and a project I could do to spread kindness beyond my social circle.”

“As seniors, it’s a bummer we don’t get to experience the traditions that most people do,” Vickery said. “Everyone is trying to make a difference and [the Adopt a Senior Project] is a really cool way that people are

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doing something for our class to brighten our days. It’s really cool.”

Luke’s mom Kourtney, said she can’t believe how generous people have been.

“I love reading the kids’ stories and seeing the things they are involved in,” Kourtney Vickery said. “[The project] is giving people a chance to forget about what’s going on, all of the negative stuff in the world, and focus on other people. It is a bright spot I think.”

Kennedy said she was overwhelmed at how quickly the Facebook group grew.

Along with a team of eight other volunteers, she is spending many hours a day trying to make sure each senior is accounted for and matched to an individual or family.

“There is a lot of work involved,” Kennedy said. “We watch for posts that come in, make sure they have correct information including their high school and make sure they are posted by a parent or legal guardian. We tag them so it is easier for people to find who hasn’t been adopted and answer a lot of questions.”

Kennedy said the stories and pictures that come from the adoptions have been heartwarming.

“I love it when they find a common interest,” Kennedy said. “We will get emails with people who want to find someone who plays a certain sport or went to the high school they went to. We have people adopting from as far away as Alaska and Hawaii.

It isn’t about getting stuff, it’s about cheering up the class of 2020.”

Just like all good things, Adopt a Utah Senior must end. Kennedy said they will take their last senior on May 23 and allow 24 more hours for adoptions to be finalized. The following week they plan to allow gratitude posts.

Kennedy isn’t worried about any of the graduates not being adopted because of all of the generosity she has seen so far.

“Anytime we’ve gone on and said we need angels to take a referred senior we’ve had so much support,” Kennedy said.

She is sad to see the project come to an end.

“There has been so much love and random kindness,” Kennedy said. “It’s been so awesome to see smiles on these kids’ faces that have had so much taken away.” l

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ith about 5,000 student-athletes and many supporters submitting a #LetUsPlay petition to hold spring sports, the Utah High School Activities Association on May 5 upheld their earlier decision in midApril not to hold a spring season in response to Utah’s social distancing mandate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As of press deadline, UHSAA has not made an announcement about fall high school activities and sports.

Brighton High Principal Tom Sherwood, who serves on the UHSAA executive committee, said there is no timeline for a fall announcement.

“We are hopeful, but we are in the ‘wait and see’ mode still,” he said on May 6.

Once the spring sport decision was confirmed, and without direction about fall, many coaches who coach track in the spring can turn their focus to the upcoming fall cross country season — only virtually.

“We can’t coach or even meet in-person right now, but we can communicate with our athletes,” said Jordan High cross country coach Greg Shaw.

Shaw not only has a blog linked to the school website for his runners, but he emails them weekly and has the athletes report in their mileage so he can give them feedback.

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Some of the runners use the Strava app, where he and teammates can immediately see the runs and paces athletes are doing and support each other with comments and kudos.

He also has reached out to area middle schools, asking for them to send out fliers to incoming freshmen about the team.

On top of that, the second-year head coach is introducing a “Coach Challenge,” which includes a 40-day challenge including core, cardio, healthy eating and workouts.

“My hope right now is to have a great start for the season, starting in June,” he said about his young team. “It’s hard not being together and without track, speed will be impacted, and we may need to do more this summer to be ready for the fall.”

Riverton High cross country coach Chase Englestead said that if restrictions are lifted so training can be done in small groups, he likely will hold four practices per day for his 60- to 80-member team, meeting or running with all the individuals. In the meantime, he plans to post weekly workouts, track his runners with Strava, and hold Zoom meetings.

“It’s important to communicate about what run they did, what time or pace it was, how they feel, so we can support these students in their goals and mindsets,” he said.

“It’s hard to build the good relationships and culture of the team when we’re not practicing together. It’s invaluable for every single person. We want them to work hard, go through the process, be praised for that and carry over to not just be better runners, but better people.”

Englestead said that building the team also is more difficult without being amongst students as the best recruiters are the student-athletes themselves, where they become a social group, interact, support one another and find their passion.

“I’m hoping when they come back, they’ll want to work hard, be more focused and motivated since they’ve missed this competitive environment,” he said.

Corner Canyon coach Devin Moody is hoping that he can hold a cross country camp in July, but if not, the training will be more individual and self-motivated like he plans for in June. His workouts will include running, strength workouts with body-weight exercises and conditioning.

He plans to communicate with his team via Instagram Live as well as monitor and give them feedback through Strava.

“It’s a good way for the team to hear from teammates, feel their energy, rally behind each other’s training to support one another,” he said. “I’m hoping to find my team returning from this unique resilience challenge and having reflected on why they do the sport to find more enjoyment in it.”

While Corner Canyon lost five seniors

on the boys team that was nationally ranked, he said the team has depth so it’s “not a rebuilding year, but a refocusing year” and the team “should be really good.” He also said that the girls should be stronger this year, even with two seniors graduating.

However, many coaches are uncertain what the fall season will look like and if it will happen, as health officials have stated one of the best ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is social distancing.

Some are hopeful for a full season, while others say, even if it’s reduced to a matter of weeks, it’s doable. UHSAA also was considering adding in a divisional race, which would fall between region and state, but that, too, has yet to be determined.

Herriman coach Jonathan Haag said that if there is to be a shorter season, he’d rethink the schedule and likely make August a training month instead of the traditional start of the season.

“That would give time to make sure all our athletes are in shape and we can provide even more individualized workouts,” he said.

“We can make it work, but those kids who are training on their own, will benefit more.”

Haag is keeping in touch with his team through GroupMe and he and an assistant coach are talking to every team member about how they are doing “running or not.”

“We want to know where they’re at, what their family support is like, how their motivation is, where they want to be next season,” he said. “There’s a good chance we can’t run

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together, but we can help them reach those goals if we’re able to communicate.”

Haag is asking athletes to run a time trial in place of getting times from track meets.

Then, he can use that as a baseline and build speed, strength training, endurance workouts from those. He even hopes to have intersquad meets this summer to help runners get their best times and build confidence, if allowed by the UHSAA. “The biggest thing that hurts from not having a track season, apart from the seniors, is the confidence it gives our athletes. I feel pretty confident though if our kids stay working hard and are motivated, they’ll be in good shape and we’ll contend to be a top team.”

Hillcrest High coach Scott Stucki also is having his athletes run time trials and speed workouts, just to see how fast they are, and for seniors, to see if they could run their personal bests. He also is supporting student-athletes to run road races, if they’ll be held this summer.

Stucki doesn’t see being able to coach them personally until maybe after the traditional moratorium week of July 4.

He regularly posts workouts and tracks their distances; some runners he communicates with regularly and knows their mileage, some have focused on year-end testing and have taken a break from running. Stucki expects his boys team to be good, better than last year if they dedicate themselves.

Hillcrest girls team should improve over last

year, too, with six juniors returning.

Stucki already has named two seniors as captains in anticipation of a season, although he isn’t sure what the UHSAA will decide.

“I don’t know about the season. I haven’t even put together a schedule as meets aren’t sanctioned yet,” he said.

Copper Hills coach Garth Rushforth also is hoping for “some kind of program” this fall as he’s been providing his squad workouts, including drills, such as lunges and body squats, that can be done at home without a weight room, and tracks his runners’ mileage on a Google document. He said it’s important for student-athletes to get their training in all summer to prevent injuries.

“There’s a greater risk of injuries if we have a shorter season. For some kids, who are self-motivated and are dedicated to their training, they’ll have a good season, others who aren’t, not so good. We’d like to be as ready as we can be if the season happens,” he said, adding he hopes that a decision will be reached before June.

Rushforth expects his girls team to be solid this season. The boys graduated some “very good seniors, but I have a junior and sophomores who show promise.”

He is in charge of his region’s meet so he already scheduling a park for the race.

“It’s hard since the parks aren’t sure if they’ll be open and we’re not sure if the season will happen,” Rushforth said. “We’ll cry a lot if there’s not (a season).” l

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Spring is the time for new beginnings… after graduations. During those events, you might overhear stories about someone’s parents buying them a new car for graduation, or someone’s rich relative flying them and their three closest friends to an island for a few weeks. Depending on how many people you know who are graduating, and how high the expectations have been set for you, buying gifts for grads can be expensive. Instead of spending more money, try one of these doit-yourself (DIY) gift ideas.

One of the most common DIY graduation gifts are graduation leis, similar to those Polynesian garlands of flowers, but without the flowers. You’ll need a lot of plastic wrap for this one. Gather the things you wish to include in your lei. This may include snacksized candy bars, gift cards, rolled-up dollar bills, mints, etc. Be very careful as you lay out a long piece of plastic wrap. (Alternatively, you may choose to use smaller pieces of plastic wrap and tie all the pieces together at the end.) Place all your goodies out, side by side, leaving about 2 inches between each item, down one edge of the plastic wrap.

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