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By Jet Burnham | j.burnham@mycityjournals.com auren Schouten, Stella Snyder and Oliva Rindlisbacher, seniors in the advanced sewing class at Herriman High School, made 50 masks during two class periods for Utah’s Special Olympics athletes.

“Our students want to give back,” sewing teacher Jen Glassey said. “I love that they’ll learn something in this class where they have a skill, and they can use it to give back to the community.”

While students in beginning sewing classes usually make items for themselves, the advanced class students often use their skills to make items for others. Last year, they made more than 100 quilts, which they donated to homeless shelters, Primary Children’s Hospital and the children who benefitted from HHS’s Hearts of Gold fundraiser.

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Oliva Rindlisbacher has also used her sewing skills to make gifts for others—a stuffed animal for her sister and doll clothes for her younger cousins. She was thrilled with the assignment to make masks for Special Olympics athletes.

“I love the feeling that it’s given me,” she said. “I’m such a people-oriented person, and knowing that this is going to help people out, I love that.”

Senior Lauren Schouten feels lucky to be a part of this project.

“I’m happy that we can help them out and give them what is right now an essential,” she said. It’s as essential as food or water right now for everybody.”

The three students in the advanced sewing class worked together to measure, cut, press and sew all 50 masks in just two class periods. Glassey said they’ll probably sign up to sew more if they decide that’s what they want to work on.

Often, the assignments in advanced CTE classes are project-based and meet students’ interests. Wing said Glassey never says no to a project.

“The cool thing about the sewing program is we can ask the students what they want to do,” Glassey said. Last year, a student was interested in costume design, so the class worked together to make costumes for the school play. This year, senior Stella Snyder is interested in outdoor production and design. Class assignments have included making a hammock and designing clothing for outdoor sports.

All three advanced students are interested in fashion and design. Last year, they were invited to participate in a design project for the TV show “Project Runway.” Due to COVID-19, the event was cancelled. The girls are working to find a way to complete their projects and hold a local event to showcase their designs.

Glassey said HHS offers six different

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Oliva Rindlisbacher begins the first step in making a mask-- measuring and cutting the fabric. (Doug Flagler/Jordan School District)

sewing classes. She was excited when the sudden need for masks this year inspired a renewed interest in sewing within the community. Those with sewing skills were able to make masks for family and friends and to sell their products on Etsy and Facebook.

Special Olympics of Utah will provide all materials needed to anyone interested in sewing masks for their athletes. You can sign up at sout.org. l

“Our students want to give back. I love that they’ll learn something in this class where they have a skill and they can use it to give back to the community.”

— Jen Glassey, sewing teacher

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Conquering fear one peak at a time

By Linnea Lundgren | linnea.l@mycityjournals.com

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hat does it take to overcome a fear of heights? For Daisy DeMarco, it took a mindset flip, 24 Wasatch peaks and a whole lot of PB&J sandwiches.

When the 36-year-old school teacher moved here from New Jersey six years ago, she was immediately taken with the magnificence of the Wasatch mountains. But when she attempted to climb the steeper hikes, she’d reach a point and be paralyzed by fear. She would have to crawl down.

“It was so debilitating,” said DeMarco, who lives in South Jordan and teaches third grade at Herriman’s Silver Crest Elementary. Her hiking opportunities were suddenly limited to trails with minimal altitude. “It became a mindset, one that started to define me.”

But this summer, something clicked.

The pandemic shut down school, so she was able to spend time in the mountains, but fear held her back from hiking the big peaks. Her mindset needed changing, so drawing from lessons learned in her yoga training, she slowly started working on facing her fear.

“I realized I had the ability to change that mindset [of fear] with effort and work,” she said. “I was creating [a] story that I had a fear of heights. I had the ability to change that.” She started to become aware when fear-filled, negative thoughts crept into her mind before or during a hike, and she would intentionally replace them with positive, helpful thoughts. Tuning into her body and breath helped when trails became steep.

Throughout the process, DeMarco found it important to be kind to herself.

When frustration arose as others passed her up, she’d just stay with that feeling and notice how it rises and falls away. “I’ll meet myself where I am at,” she said explaining the importance of staying in the moment.

On July 18, she put her new mindset to the test and conquered the strenuous 11,330-feet Broads Fork Twin Peaks, with the help of fellow climbers in the Wasatch Mountain Club. The members cheered her climb up the vast scree field and patiently coached her on proper foot and handholds on the boulder-covered ridgeline.

Feeling confident by this accomplishment, she was determined to continue climbing more peaks.

Referencing the classic book “Wasatch Eleveners” by Randy Winters, and with support from her club climbing buddies, she developed a plan: climb 24 of the 11,000 foot-plus peaks along the Wasatch.

Someone said it would take a year to accomplish, so, she said, “I allowed the comment to limit me. I just went with it.” Soon, though, DeMarco realized that needing a year to accomplish these hikes didn’t seem right. “I thought, ‘Wait, I could do this in

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Teacher Daisy DeMarco, who reached her goal of climbing 24 of the Wasatch’s 11,000-foot peaks in two months, descends from Broads Fork Twin Peaks. (Photo courtesy Daisy DeMarco)

one summer.’ That felt right,” she said.

During August and September, she bagged several peaks each week, saving Mt. Nebo at 11,928 feet—the tallest peak—for her final ascent. On each summit, she photographed herself holding a

sign with the peak’s name and height. Then she sat down and treated herself to a Gatorade and PB&J. The mountains, she learned, are transformative. “These types of challenging summits hold a special place in my heart,”

she said. “I learn so much from the mountains and the climb, from the struggles and the accomplishment, from the fear and the joy. How to overcome and let go. I am grateful for this connection to nature and for all the beautiful people I get to share

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it with.”

As she has become well-versed in hiking the Wasatch, she has developed some opinions on the peaks. The most difficult hike was the one she did before officially starting her 24-peak quest, Broads Fork Twin Peaks via Robinson’s Variation, a demanding, exposed 12 ½-hour hike. “It was mental exhaustion,” she said.

The easiest hike was the two-peak hike of Sugarloaf (11,051 feet) and Baldy (11,068 feet). “Walks in the park,” DeMarco joked, referencing the description from “Wasatch Eleveners.”

Pfeifferhorn (11,326 feet), which required maneuvering around boulders, was the scariest hike. “I did a lot of concentrating on my breath on that one,” she said.

DeMarco found Lone Peak (11,253 feet) to be also one of the most difficult, but also the most breathtaking. “I could sit up there forever,” she said. “The amount of granite is dizzying.”

Lessons learned from climbing peaks translated well to her elementary school class, a group of terrified third graders who were not scared of heights but of learning multiplication. Adults forget how scary memorizing times tables can be for children, she noted.

“I tell my kids we can work on flipping that fear of math and make it something that excites us,” she said. She will show them pictures of her Lone Peak hike and tell how

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“The mountain isn’t going anywhere,” she said. “I can always go back, summit, conquer and work toward my goal.”

DeMarco complements her stories by reading the Dr. Seuss book, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” and encourages students to write about or draw their dreams. “It helps them embrace the idea that we can do things that may seem out of our reach or really far away,” she said. Displayed in her classroom is a poster that reads, “You Can Do Hard Things.” Every other week she introduces an inspirational poster and talks about the theme and how kids can apply it to school and everyday life.

From the classroom window, she points up to the Wasatch and shows students her goal for next summer—hiking the WURL or Wasatch Ultimate Ridge Linkup—ridgeto-ridge hiking along 22 peaks with some 18,000 feet of elevation gain and approximately 32 miles total distance.

“People say, ‘Daisy, you can’t do that,’” she said. “But tell me that, because then I can. I am already practicing the routes and hiking sections one at a time because, you know, they aren’t easy.” l

Teacher Daisy DeMarco, who reached her goal of climbing 24 of the Wasatch’s 11,000-foot peaks in two months, makes a sign for every peak she climbs. (Photo courtesy Daisy DeMarco)

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Generosity and kindness thrive during tough times

By Erin Dixon | e.dixon@mycityjournals.com item [in the 2020-2021 city budget],” said Korban Lee, West Jordan chief administrative officer (CAO).

Such examples of kindness included a West Jordan police officer who organized and purchased a small birthday celebration with his own money for a young girl involved in a recent crime.

“After a recent horrific tragedy...the mother mentioned in passing that a 7-year-old in the family was having a birthday in a couple of days. Our patrol officer quietly took note. This officer teamed up with one of our support staff and a detective to organize a surprise birthday party (from 6 feet away) for the little girl. They delivered gifts, pizza and a visit from a K9 officer with no fanfare and without telling the Chief or their supervisor,” Lee said.

Hispanic Star is a branch of the organization We Are All Human that seeks to support all Hispanics across the country.

Edgar Carreon, Utah hub leader for Hispanic Star, described the organization’s efforts.

“The purpose of the Hispanic Star is to create a platform that highlights and share stories of contributions Hispanics make to society. It is also a platform for Hispanics of all backgrounds to come together to bring about positive acts of kindness in our community,” Carreon said.

After receiving almost 200,000 personal care items (soaps, hair products, feminine hygiene products, laundry detergent) Hispanic Star sent out a call to anyone in the area who needed basic supplies. They organized five locations in the Salt Lake valley to distribute 2,000 kits during the summer.

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Around the United States, zoos offer free viewing from their animal cams, celebrities read children’s stories for a cause, and children’s book authors offer drawing lessons for house-bound families.

Closer to home, generosity gets personal.

With locations in Sugar House, South Jordan and Taylorsville, Schmidt’s Pastry Cottage began offering free loaves of bread after Gov. Gary Herbert quarantined the state. Since then they have baked and donated 90,000 loaves.

Owner Steve Borg said, “It’s been a lot of work but it’s opened up our hearts. We’ve had a lot of generous people volunteer, donate here and there. We have a flour company donate some flour and so it keeps going.”

All school districts and charters in Utah have been given permission by the USDA Family and Nutrition Service to waive lunch fees for all students, whether they qualify for reduced or free lunch normally.

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A West Jordan employee donated $15,000 from his own salary back into the city budget to support other employees who have offered exceptional service during the pandemic.

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Precinct Chief Randy Thomas said, “We’ve never had so many doughnuts delivered in my entire life. I can’t eat another doughnut.” l

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he Herriman City Council discussed possible options for establishing a fiber network throughout the city that would allow residents to access more high-speed internet options.

Currently, mostly just newer developments are connected to a fiber network.

The rest of the city relies on cable networks, which have limited options (Comcast or CenturyLink). If the whole city were connected to fiber, residents would enjoy higher internet speeds and be able to select from dozens of internet service provider options.

The question is, how does the fiber network get built, and who pays for it?

One option for the city is to partner with a company called Utopia, a Utah-based company that has brought fiber to cities such as Orem, Murray, Midvale and West Valley City. The company offers to a city to build the fiber network infrastructure, which is about a two- to three-year project and would cost about $30 million. Then, if at least 35% of Herriman residents sign up to use that newly built fiber connection, the city doesn’t owe Utopia a cent. However much of the city falls short on sign-ups, the city has to pay the difference.

Regarding this option, Councilmember SALT LAKE VALLEY JOURNALS 7.73x5.49.eps Jared Henderson expressed concern that it

Recent events have highlighted the importance of making sure all residents have access to high-speed internet options. (Wikimedia)

would amount to awarding a monopoly for what many people consider to be a utility, to just one company.

“The city’s basically bankrolling one company’s ability to put the road in, then they get to own it and charge our residents to use it,” he said.

Another option for the city would be to adopt high-speed internet as a utility that it manages, like electricity or water. It would finance the construction of a fiber network di1 10/6/2014 2:38:03 PM rectly and manage it as it does with any of its

other utilities—charging fees to residents and hiring a staff to maintain it. Residents would just be paying for connection to the network and would still have the freedom to select a service provider of their choice.

This solution drew some concern from Councilmember Sherrie Ohrn.

“My concern is competing with the private market,” she said. “I fundamentally don’t think the government should be setting up organizations that compete against private markets with taxpayer funds.”

Councilmember Steven Shields said he’s not too concerned with that because it’s a service the private market isn’t providing at the moment.

“The truth is, private enterprises aren’t providing this service to the city,” he said.

“They have an opportunity and they’re just not doing it. In fact, the only way we’re going to get a private company to do it is if we backstop their cost of building it. They’d still be using taxpayer money to guarantee their cost of construction and then have a utility they can make profit off of for the rest of time. Either way we’re still using taxpayer money.”

“I think high-speed internet should be considered a utility,” Mayor David Watts said. “While normally I’m not a huge fan of city government getting into a business per se, I look at this like electricity or water.”

The council briefly discussed the option of commissioning a feasibility study to formally assess the different options but ultimately decided that would be too costly at an estimated $75,000 to $100,000.

Instead, the council elected to form a committee composed of Ohrn and Shields, along with relevant staff members, to continue examining the issue in an attempt to figure out the best path forward. l

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wo Herriman charter schools are teaming up on the basketball court this fall.

RSL Academy and Athlos Academy are forming a youth basketball program for kids in grades 3–8. The program is part of a broader effort on the part of RSL Academy to incorporate basketball into its mission.

This July, the RSL Basketball Academy was formed. In a press release, the academy declared its goal “to become the premier athletic and academic basketball development program in the United States.”

Like their soccer-playing peers, players in the new basketball program will live in the on-campus residence halls and attend RSL Academy High School, whose blended learning model allows athletes more flexibility to travel the country with their team throughout the year.

Helming the new team will be David Evans, who led former teams at Lone Peak and Wasatch Academy to national prominence.

Like any program with lofty goals, the RSL Academy basketball team will need a way to identify and develop future talent.

One way to do that is with a youth program.

The two schools already have a matriculation agreement (when eighth graders at Athlos Academy graduate, they have a guaranteed spot at RSL Academy High School if they want to go there). So, Evans began working with Athlos’ lead athletic coach Dan Price to put together a youth program.

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kid gets a chance to play, and a focus on skill development and having fun,” Price said.

“When we started talking about it, it ended up being a very natural partnership.”

The program will compete in local Bantam leagues, which are a step above local recreation leagues and Junior Jazz but also not the highest level of competition either. That balance is increasingly important in today’s world where the pressure to win sometimes causes kids to lose interest in sports.

“The emphasis goes away from having fun and developing skills, which are really important for lifelong physical activity and goes more toward winning, being the best on the team,” Price said. “After several years of that, kids start to crack, and they don’t enjoy the sport anymore.”

The program is fielding teams of kids in grades three through eight to compete this fall. While the teams will mostly be coached by parents, they’ll also benefit from the involvement of Evans, who will be running skills clinics for all the players throughout the season. At a parents’ meeting before a Sept. 16 tryout, Evans said he likes to develop young players with the same system he employs, one that emphasizes a fast-pace of play and ball movement.

Tryouts for the new program will be over by the time this print edition reaches Herriman mailboxes, but residents who are interested in future participation can follow the Facebook pages for Athlos Academy or RSL Academy for updates or email Dan Price at dprice@athlosutah.org for questions. l

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Sales tax numbers show large, sustained COVID-19 boost for most cities

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his June, the City Journals featured an article about how the first sales tax reports released by the state showed early signs that COVID-19 had actually boosted sales tax collection in the month of March, relative to the same month the previous year.

Readers responded with valid feedback, pointing out that sales tax numbers for March included all the panic-buying of food and toilet paper that was going on at the time. They theorized that sales tax numbers would go down in the following months as the bulk-buying relaxed and as the County’s order to not allow dine-in eating was put in place.

Others pointed out that an increase in sales tax from year to year should be expected, as populations grow and new businesses open.

They suggested that the Journals compare 2020 sales tax numbers not just to 2019, but to previous years as well in order to provide more context to how COVID-19 is impacting our economy.

So with these two pieces of feedback, this reporter downloaded additional sales tax reports from the Utah Tax Commission for the months of March through June between the years of 2017 and 2020. What this reporter found is that COVID-19 has been a big boost for the coffers of most cities in the Salt Lake valley.

Twelve out of 15 cities collected more sales

tax in the four-month period than in the same period any of the previous three years. The only cities that didn’t were Salt Lake City, Murray and Sandy. (Murray and Sandy trailed previous years’ numbers March-May, but rebounded in June to beat previous June numbers.)

Many cities have experienced a sustained period of increased sales tax collection throughout all four months, suggesting that there’s been more than just a two-week period of panic buying that’s kept Utah dollars flowing.

Seven of the 15 cities have stayed ahead of previous years’ numbers for all four months.

Many of them by quite a bit. Riverton’s sales tax collection is up 36% relative to its 20172019 average. West Jordan is up 26% and Holladay 22%. Five others are in the 10-20% range (West Valley City, Taylorsville, South Salt Lake, Millcreek and Cottonwood Heights).

The question is: why the big increase?

Stocking up on toilet paper in March doesn’t explain it. And the growth is more than what one would expect from regular economic expansion. So why are Utah businesses as a whole collecting more sales tax during COVID-19?

One possible reason could be that Utahns who normally would be traveling out-of-state for vacation—spending their money at Disneyland or Las Vegas or in Europe—are staying

home and spending that money here instead.

There also may have been an influx of college students who normally would have been living on campus, in places like Provo or Logan or other university towns out of state, but who returned to their parents’ houses in Salt Lake County, bringing their generous young adult spending habits with them.

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Upper-grade students explore reverse printing. (Photo courtesy of Lisa Evans.)

Teachers are singing a different tune at new arts charter school

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eachers at Advantage Arts Academy, a new arts integration K–6 school in Herriman, love art. They are dancers, singers, thespians, musicians and artists, and they integrate music, theater, dance and visual art into every subject.

“What we teach is the curriculum; how we teach it is the art,” Principal Lisa Evans said. “Everybody is researching and working with the art integrationist and doing it in different ways but all four modalities are in every classroom.”

Students sing songs in math, dance in science, act out stories they read, and draw, paint and create to learn academic concepts.

Classroom furniture is on wheels to easily clear a space to dance or accommodate a group art activity.

First grade teacher Annie Iverson uses music to signal transition times and to teach and reinforce academic concepts.

“I teach them songs all the time; it’s one of my favorite things to teach young kids how to sing,” she said. “We do a lot of actions and movement with the songs. It makes it easier

for them to remember things. I often will play my guitar with them, and they love it.”

Iverson said when they are having fun, students are more engaged in learning.

“I feel like all my kids are watching me and are with me when we are singing or when we’re doing a dance movement,” Iverson said. “It helps them to actually stay focused and be with me as I teach.”

Even older students are motivated by this interactive style of learning. Fourth graders sing a song with actions to remember a math concept. Fifth graders learn a song and dance to remember the 50 states and their capitals.

To reinforce what they learned about space in science class, sixth grade students made a paper mache replica of the solar system and created artwork to illustrate the phases of the moon.

“This is a really good opportunity for the kids to buy in to their own learning,” said fourth grade teacher Alyssa Gastelum.

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part of their day, every single day, they’re more willing to work hard to get to that.”

AAA teachers encourage students to see mistakes as growth opportunities, to appreciate everyone’s differences and to celebrate their individuality.

“Art is all about self-expression,” Evans said. “If the kids can really look at themselves and evaluate how they see their environment, how they see a situation, then they’ll be able to create something with it.

Whether it’s a painting, a mosaic, a dance, or a song, it’s all their perception of their environment.”

Evans said students can look at the same thing and see something different according to their background knowledge, who they are and what they’ve learned at home. This applies to art as well as academics, such as reading comprehension.

“The way you understand the story and the way you understand what the character is feeling is based on your background knowledge,” she said.

Students are encouraged to take pride in

their unique perspectives. When they studied Hispanic cultures in social studies, Gastelum invited her Hispanic students to share some of their culture’s traditional foods, stories, music and dances with the class. Her students explore various cultures through art and music. While learning about the people of Gabon, Africa, students constructed their own African musical instruments. When the class read a Cuban story that mentioned a song sung to sell fresh, hot corn tamales, Gastelum grabbed her guitar and made up a tune which the class sang together.

Evans said the environment at AAA empowers students.

“Our goal here is to not only to create children that love art but also that they are personally strong children that can stand for what they believe and stand for their opinions, but they’re open to others’ opinions also,” Evans said.

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Clockwise: Movement is an important part of learning at AAA. (Photo courtesy of Lisa Evans.)

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Sixth grade students learn about the solar system and the phases of the moon through art projects. (Photo courtesy of Lisa Evans.)

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Taking a look into how Jordan School District determined its back-to-school re-entry plan

By Julie Slama | j.slama@mycityjournals.com

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eturning to school this fall during the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t just a vote at a Jordan Board of Education meeting.

There were hours—and not just the Tuesday board meetings “that are seven hours long”—that were spent studying the issue for the safe return of 56,000 students, said Jordan Board of Education Vice President Tracy Miller.

“I’m probably spending 10 hours per day, from morning to night,” she said. “I try to shut it off by about 8 o’clock, but we’ve had a few things we’ve had to deal with later that than this week. The biggest thing that has come this week is trying to figure out how to do contract tracing. We had some students go to school the first day and get sick [with COVID-19], and after that, test positive. So, we’re looking at contact tracing—how to notify families. The process is well in place; we have the guidelines from the state and letter templates from the health department, but this is our first experience with implementing this process now.”

This is after Miller and other Board member had studied the guidelines set by the Center for Disease Control, the Salt Lake County Health Department and the Utah Board of Education, and made their re-entry plan for students.

Miller said the state’s manual on reopening schools “is the thing I relied on the most. We received a lot of detailed information, and that was developed with the state health department, state school board, state epidemiologist and governor’s office. Those guidelines are the ones I follow when making decisions. They include all the recommendations to mitigate risks within our schools and also stress the importance of having kids in school.”

Even so, she also listened to her community.

“Everything has tugged at my heart, and people’s stories are all over the place,” Miller said. “I feel for everybody on all sides. I think it was an agonizing decision for parents on what’s best for my child and how do I balance the risks of COVID and still make sure what my child gets is what they need. A lot of teachers had to make that decision. Everyone I talked to, I get it, I feel for everybody. I wish we could come up with the perfect solution for everybody. Everyone wants someone else to make the decision, and we’ve tried as school board to own our decisions. We’re doing the best to do the best we can.”

That plan introduced is one that includes flexibility and balance as well as individual choice.

“The plan we came up with, is the best we could do, that is, by having students in school four days per week and having more flexibility on Fridays—which is a good thing,

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Jordan Board of Education Vice President Tracy Miller, third row on right, spent a day touring South Jordan with school children, education and city officials, and Mayor Dawn Ramsey, who is taking the selfie. (Julie Slama/City Journals)

I think, to be able to provide more personalized, individualized instruction, and [it] gives teachers more time to plan and collaborate,” she said. “That extra time is very much needed this year. To me it’s a balance; COVID is not the only disease in society. We’re dealing with a lot of other issues—mental health is a huge issue we’re dealing with—and how to balance the needs of how can we mitigate risk as much as possible and still provide high-quality education and social and emotional needs for our students. That’s the balance we’ve been trying to find, and finding the right balance because there are pros and cons to every single decision. There’s not a clear [answer]—‘this is great; it works for everybody.’ That just isn’t the case. What we’ve tried to do is provide as much choice as possible.”

To provide students with that choice, a team of teachers worked over the summer to develop the K–8 curriculum online, and districtwide curriculum was made available for specialty high school classes, Miller said.

That meant that “every family got a choice” whether they wanted in-person or online education for elementary students or those same options or a hybrid for middle and high school students—as well as “every teacher got a choice where they were more comfort-

able teaching: online or in person. Choice has been the big thing we’ve focused on.”

Even though the decisions have been made and school has started, Miller still finds herself facing long days.

“I am getting, I don’t even know how to quantify it, dozens of phone calls and emails every day that I respond to; I’ve been out to schools, several teachers invite me to their classrooms,” she said, adding that she had just spent an hour with Riverton High faculty answering questions that morning. “I’m meeting with another group of teachers this afternoon, so just a lot of time this week being in the schools and seeing how it’s working and finding out what the challenges are with our teachers. It has been hard because we all want to plan and want to know what tomorrow will look like. It’s been hard on a lot of people.”

Addressing education concerns at a time while dealing with COVID-19 isn’t the only discussion for Jordan Board of Education.

Members are addressing changing South Jordan Elementary’s year-round schedule to a traditional calendar year, relocating the accelerated program at Jordan Ridge Elementary to another school, growth issues that result in building additional schools, having boundary changes and more.

“As a school board, we continue to discuss other issues and move forward on other things,” she said. “We have respect for each other, and we don’t agree, for sure. We have different perspectives and different opinions, and that’s how it should be. We make better decisions if we have a diversity of perspectives.”

However, it’s not always easy, especially the past six months.

“It’s been brutal; I think it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,” Miller said.

“But there’s also a lot of great people out there. I’ve got a lot of thank-you emails and even some thank-you cards in the mail. Some people may not agree with my decision, sometimes, but they appreciate and see that I’m trying. They see that I’m taking everyone’s best interest in and that it’s impossible to make everyone happy. I’ve just gotten a lot of support from people—a lot of quiet support; it’s been touching. There are a lot of good, kind, understanding people. That has been what sustained me.” l

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Pay attention in health class to save lives

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Jackson Johnson, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey and Hunter Olsen look at footage from a school security camera that recorded Hunter saving Jackson’s life. (Photo courtesy of Jordan School District.)

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hen the Jordan Board of Education held a late-night meeting Sept. 16 to close Riverton High School for two days due to a high number of positive cases of COVID-19, it didn’t immediately address RHS students who attend classes at JATC. There was confusion about whether these students should attend class the next morning.

Students taking the first aid and CPR concurrent enrollment class were supposed to be passing off their CPR certification that day. Because the manakins used for the test were reserved by another class the next week, it was one of the only chances they had to complete their test.

“The certification that I give the students is the health care level, the basic life support, so it has to be in person,” instructor Becky Stone said.

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Missing class could turn out to be a situation of life or death for these students. That may sound like an exaggeration, but on Sept. 2, West Jordan Middle School ninth grader Hunter Olsen saved the life of his friend, who was choking in the school cafeteria, using first aid skills he had learned in his health class.

Hunter said the hands-on instruction he received in health class last year gave him the confidence to use abdominal thrusts to save his friend, Jackson Johnson. He said knowing how it felt to perform thrusts on a manikin helped prepare him to perform the technique on a real person.

“It was pretty similar, but it’s a lot scarier because you can hear them trying to breathe and struggle, and there’s a bunch of tension,” Hunter said.

Jackson, who is also familiar with the technique (his dad is a police officer), was able to assist Hunter when the first few thrusts didn’t dislodge the food from his throat.

“I realized his hands were in the wrong place, so I pushed them down to the correct spot,” Jackson said.

After six thrusts, the food was dislodged, and Jackson could breathe. Full of adrenaline, Hunter pumped his fist in the air and shouted “Ms. Howa!”

“I yelled my eighth grade health teacher’s name,” Hunter said. “It was just in the moment

and she was the one that taught it to me. If she didn’t teach me how to do it, I wouldn’t have done it.”

Jackson is grateful that Hunter paid attention in class. Kathy Howa is, too.

“You hope that those children are actually listening to you,” said Howa, who has taught for 28 years. “And when something like this happens, and you find out that they did—there is no greater reward than somebody that’s actually saving somebody else’s life.”

Stone had been concerned that not all of her students would be in class for the lessons and practice to pass their certification. She has had one student who missed the CPR section of the class because she was in quarantine.

“I chose to do CPR in the first couple of weeks, anticipating that there would be quarantines and problems developing later on in the school year, and so I’m actually feeling pretty good that only one student needs to make it up versus half the class,” Stone said.

Howa is considering moving up the first aid skills to earlier in her curriculum, too. She plans to show current and future students the video footage of the incident (captured by school cameras) and a picture of Hunter to reinforce that learning the skills can and have saved a life in their own school.

“To be able to use a real-life situation is priceless,” Howa said. “Unfortunately, that had

to happen, but it sure had a good ending and kids will understand that this really can happen.

I think it will open a lot of eyes when it becomes real in your family and your community.”

Stone always tells her classes about the student from West High School who had learned the skills and helped save the life of a stranger on the side of the road a few years ago.

She said she will add Hunter’s story to her curriculum.

“It takes a lot of courage to step in there,” Stone said. “I give that student full credit for stepping in at a middle school and identifying that help was needed and doing it. Because that’s half the battle—identifying an emergency and acting—especially during coronavirus and especially today, where everybody’s so worried about what everybody else thinks, especially at the middle school level. It’s very commendable.”

While all students are required to take health in eighth grade, students who take Stone’s class are those who are considering careers in which they can help people.

“All of the students in my classroom want to help in some way,” Stone said. “They may not become the PTs, EMTs or CNAs that they intended, but they’re going to be helpers just like that little middle schooler. And that’s what we need more in this country, is more helpers.” l

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Herriman marching band sporting new uniforms thanks to donation

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he next time you see the Herriman High School marching band, they’ll be sporting some brand-new uniforms.

The upgrade is thanks to a donation from RSL owner Del Loy Hansen, who has a grandson in the marching band.

After enjoying one of its competition performances, Hansen asked Herriman band director Brandon Larsen what he could do to help them get even better. Larsen knew exactly what to ask for.

“The current uniforms are 90s-style even though the school opened in 2010,” Larsen said. “They were old when we got them.”

After working out some details with Hansen, Larsen said the money just showed up in the band’s foundation account one day, and it was no small sum.

“A marching band uniform isn’t like a sports uniform,” Larsen said. “A marching band uniform’s average life is 8 to 10 years. It’s a heavy investment. There’s a jacket and bibbers and hats and pins and shiny things. We’re talking about a $100,000 investment.”

The uniforms will be more in line with current marching band aesthetics. For example, the current “Aussie” hat, which slightly resembles a cowboy hat with a feather attached, will be replaced with a “shako” hat, a tall cylindrical military cap.

To thank Hansen for the donation, the band presented him with a plaque at a recent friends and family performance.

“We’ve been fortunate to have Del Loy as a partner,” Larsen said. “He’s really taken the Herriman High Marching Band under his wing.”

The uniform is an important part of a marching band’s performance, said Larsen. It can even account for three to

four points of a team’s visual score. “That can be all the difference when you’re in the competitive arena,” he said.

“Uniforms add to the story,” said Riley Mecham, the percussion platoon leader. “You’re telling your show, you’re telling your story. Your uniforms are part of that.”

“They show the representation of our school and that we have pride in what we do,” said Tommy Henderson, a senior trumpet player.

The band members also think the new uniforms will give them a confidence boost as they compete this year.

“In anything I do, if you look good you feel good; if you feel good you play good,” said Stillman Ballstaedt, a junior drum major. “It’s going to help us competitively.”

“I think it will be good for the band as a confidence booster,” tenor saxophone player Jo Hansen said. “It feels good to look good.”

The band is expected to perform in the new uniforms at a competition hosted at Herriman High School on Sept. 26 and again sometime in October when it hopes to be able to perform at halftime of one of the football games.

So far this year, the band has been unable to do halftime performances because of COVID-19 -restrictions, which has been tough on the band Larsen said.

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As for the band itself, Larsen said that despite boasting over 140 members, it hasn’t had a single positive case of COVID-19 since it began practicing in June. In addition to regular mask wearing and social distancing, Larsen said the band has followed research done at the collegiate level that’s shown how to minimize exposure risk. l

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Local school districts to provide free breakfast, lunch this fall

By Julie Slama | j.slama@mycityjournals.com

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he American Academy of Innovation charter school in South Jordan is joining local school districts in providing free breakfast and lunch to all enrolled students, thanks to a temporary meal waiver granted by the United States Department of Agriculture.

The USDA free meal waiver will continue to the end of year or until all funds are gone, whichever comes first. There’s no need to apply for the benefit; all students are automatically eligible. However, with most locations, children must be present to receive meals, so check with your individual school.

The new breakfast program at AAI will be offered before the bell and lunch will be served as scheduled during the school day.

Students enrolled in AAI’s online and independent study learning programs may pick up meals at the front office at designated times.

“At AAI, we strive to offer fresh housemade meals to our students,” food service Director and chef David Kimball said. “We are grateful to do what we can to ease the financial burden for all of our families, particularly any who are facing difficult times.”

At nearby Jordan School District, officials are encouraging parents to continue applying for free and reduced meal eligibility so that they won’t experience a lapse in benefits because of the potential expiration of this waiver.

All Jordan District schools will serve

free meals for face-to-face students in the school cafeteria. Online and at-home learners may pick up meals at specific times and locations designated by each school.

In addition, free curbside lunch and breakfast for the next morning will be available for all children 18 years old and under at Elk Ridge Middle School, Joel P. Jensen Middle School and South Hills Middle School. Meal service at these three locations will be weekdays from 10 to 11 a.m.

At Canyons School District, Nutrition Services Director Sebasthian Varas said this was welcome news for their communities.

“We have families who may not qualify for free or reduced-price lunch but have been financially hurt by the pandemic,” he said. “This will hopefully bring them some peace of mind and take at least one worry off their shoulders.”

Four schools—Butler Middle School, Draper Park Middle School, Jordan High School and Midvale Middle School — will make grab-and-go sack lunches and breakfasts available to remote learners and non-Canyons students. Parents or guardians may pick up these meals without having their children present; however, students are encouraged to preorder if they are enrolled online or at-home. Members of the community who do not have students enrolled at those schools do not need to preorder.

Children across the Salt Lake Valley can receive free meals this fall, thanks to a USDA meal waiver. (Photo courtesy of Jordan School District.)

Granite School District Child Nutrition Director Dana Adams also welcomes the free meal service.

“There will be some challenges to navigate, but it’s such good news for our students and families,” Adams said.

Because of staffing limitations and safety measures at all schools, meals will be available only to students (both in-person and distance-learners) who are enrolled in Granite schools. Distance-learners need to arrange meal pick-up times with their individual schools.

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Want to keep Utah’s museums open? Visit or donate

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ccording to a July survey by the American Alliance of Museums, some 16% of museums across the United States are in danger of closing their doors due to the financial strain of the pandemic. Even those that aren’t in immediate danger of closing are still under immense financial pressure. Utah’s museums are, sadly, no exception. The Hogle Zoo, the Living Planet Aquarium, the Tracy Aviary, Utah’s numerous dinosaur museums—all of them are under a lot of strain, and if they’re to stay open, need the public’s support.

While most museums do have endowments and financial reserves to fall back on, they’re not big enough to keep them going for very long, and closures earlier in the year have already eaten up almost all of that cushion.

Funding is particularly important, and tight, in facilities with live animals. Places like the Natural History Museum of Utah have the option of closing up completely for a while: the dinosaur bones won’t get any deader if no employees come in for weeks at a time. But zoos don’t have that option. The animals need to be fed and cared for whether visitors are coming in or not, and that makes funding disappear even faster.

The Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, the Tracy Aviary, and the Hogle Zoo all closed for around 50 days from mid-March to midMay—the high season for most zoos—and all three are still reeling from the impact.

“The Hogle Zoo has taken a major hit, there’s no doubt. We were closed for 50 days during a time of year that is critical to the financial health of the zoo. Spring is when we fill our coffers to help keep us afloat during the fall and winter when attendance declines,” said Erica Hansen, the Hogle Zoo’s public relations manager.

A lot more was lost than just ticket revenue. Spring is also a key time for many zoos’ fundraising events, most of which had to be canceled or moved online.

“We had to cancel our conservation fundraising garden party, and our education fundraiser, which raises money for camp scholarships and free nature programs,” said Patricia Dark, the Tracy Aviary’s marketing director.

“Additionally, we had dozens of weddings booked that had to be canceled. All in all we lost about $500,000.”

Keeping zoos open is important, and not just because they’re fun to visit. Zoos are crucial for wildlife conservation, both locally and abroad, and they sponsor a lot of habitat protection and breeding programs for endangered animals. The Living Planet Aquarium farms coral and uses it to bolster struggling and dying coral reefs, which are vital to marine life.

The Tracy Aviary hosts and breeds several species that are extinct in the wild, such as the Guam kingfisher. Zoos are the only chance we have at introducing such species back into their native ecosystems.

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The Living Planet Aquarium’s timed ticketing system ensures that the building never gets too crowded for social distancing. (Loveland Living Planet Aquarium)

In addition to helping breed critically endangered birds from all over the world, the Tracy Aviary works closely with over a hundred volunteers across the state to protect the habitats of Utah’s native birds, including barn owls like this one. (Tracy Aviary)

volunteers each year in local and state-wide projects that help conserve birds and their habitats. Our work helps many species—from rosy-finches, owls, and hummingbirds in Utah to macaws, pelicans, and plovers in Central

America,” said Dark.

To keep doing the important work, zoos need every bit of money they can get, according to Loveland Living Planet Aquarium CEO Brent Andersen. “It costs over $2 million a

year just to care for all of the animals—that includes food, veterinary care, staffing, habitat maintenance, etc. The closure happening right before spring break, our busiest two months of the year, has had a tremendous negative impact on funding,” Andersen said. “The reopening has relieved some of that pressure,” but not all of it.

To make things even harder, all three zoos are currently operating at limited capacity—in the aquarium’s case, this is by design, as they have been forced to limit ticket sales in order to enforce social distancing requirements in their mostly-indoor buildings.

“We’ve created a timed ticketing system.

This online reservation system allows guests to reserve a specific day and time for their visit. This system ensures that there is always enough room for guests to make physical distancing possible,” Andersen said. It’s a system that helps keep everyone safe, but it also means they’re seeing 40% less attendance than they have in prior years, which makes things hard. “Fewer guests means less revenue, while the cost of caring for the animals and running the facility remains.”

At the mostly outdoor Hogle Zoo and Tracy Aviary, tickets are being sold as normal, but visitors still seem to be hesitant to return in the numbers they used to. According to Dark, the Tracy Aviary is only seeing 40% of its usual amount of visitors. The story at the Hogle Zoo is similar, even though staff are doing everything they can to make sure that visiting the

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zoo is as safe as possible.

“We were among the first three zoos in the country to reopen and our team worked tirelessly to make that happen,” Hansen said of Hogle Zoo. “We have hours for high-risk and elderly on Monday mornings, 8 to 10 a.m. Masks are required indoors and strongly encouraged outside, we have numerous hand sanitizer stations throughout zoo grounds, distance markers and lots of reminders for guests to take caution. We’ve had a few vocal parties on the great mask debate of 2020, but otherwise, most guests seem to be enjoying their time and are happy to have a safe place to stretch their legs.”

With this decrease in visitor revenue, there’s a fair amount of worry as to what will happen should a winter resurgence of the virus trigger a second wave of closures. Will the museums be able to survive it?

“Boy, we sure hope so,” Hansen said.

“That could be tough for us, and we’re currently counting on revenue and attendance during our popular BooLights and ZooLights events to help us out.” At BooLights and ZooLights, which occur around Halloween and Christmas respectively, the Hogle Zoo grounds are bedecked in hundreds of colorful holiday-themed lights. Both events are good family fun, and have been well attended in the past. Unfortunately, they also take place in fall and winter, which is when epidemiologists say a resurgence of the virus is likely.

Government aid is also a possibility.

“Depending on the length of any closure, we would be seeking federal and local funding

like those that were allocated through Congress in April,” Andersen said of the aquarium. This would also be an option for Utah’s other zoos.

Representatives from all the state’s museums and zoos said the public can help them to stay open. People can make a difference, through visiting them and simply donating.

“We need visitors now more than ever.

Or we at least need your support. There are many ways to donate,” Hansen said.

Many museums, including the Hogle Zoo, are currently holding silent auctions, with prize packages donated by community businesses. Some even open after regular hours on fundraiser nights: the aviary is holding $30 socially-distanced outdoor movie nights throughout September, which gives people an opportunity to explore when the sun is less intense and nocturnal birds are active.

Buying annual memberships to your favorite museums functions as a donation as well as a pass to visit them often. And, of course, there’s always the tried-and-true simple cash donation, which can be made through most any museum’s main website.

Donations really do make a difference for museums. It sure made a difference for the Natural History Museum of Utah, whose curators were, earlier this summer, worried whether it could survive the year. But after their Fund the Future drive in June yielded nearly triple their original goal, their future is secured. With the public’s help, that same security can be given to other favorite museums. l

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With a gentle nudge from our mountain biking friends, we have an opportunity to take some of our Salt Lake County open space and make it more accessible. We have the chance to build a multiuse trail system in the southwest corner of the Salt Lake Valley and tie together Butterfield, Yellow Fork, and Rose Canyons. This exciting opportunity has been made possible with a partnership between Salt Lake County, the Bureau of Land Management, Rio Tinto, private property owners, and some dedicated

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rowing up in Spanish Fork, Aaron Reimschiissel always celebrated Halloween with his family in a big way. His mother’s birthday happened to be on Oct. 31 and she celebrated every year with a special party. By carving jack-o’-lanterns for her annual celebrations, Reimschiissel discovered his special talent for transforming ordinary pumpkins into works of art.

This year, Reimschiissel plans to create his unique pumpkin carvings at Halloween events around the state including the Utah Water Conservancy Pumpkin Walk and the Pumpkin Walk in Daybreak. Last year, he carved pumpkins at Pumpkin Nights in Salt Lake City. He specializes in carving very large pumpkins that often can weigh several hundred pounds. These pumpkins have extremely thick and hard rinds which allow for sculpting depth and texture. He has carved everything from faces to monsters and animals to elaborate castles out of pumpkins.

“I try to do something a little bit different each time,” explained Reimschiissel, who uses the name “The Carving Chizel” professionally. He never knows what the pumpkin will look like in advance. “Within just a couple of minutes I have to decide what to make. I have to look at the shape and see what fits into it. That’s the biggest challenge. A face can fit any type of shape. You have to adjust with the pumpkin,” he said.

At age 16, Reimschiissel tried his hand Aaron Reimschiissel, “The Carving Chizel,” carved this “punk beast” pumpkin which was displayed at Primary Children’s Hospital last year. (Photo courtesy

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Dead City Haunted House will be open with COVID precautions through mid-November. (Photo courtesy of Dead City)

Murray spook alley carries on in nightmarish times

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t might seem like there are enough anxiety-inducing things in the world lately, so a frightening Halloween venue might be the last thing people want. Yet owners of Murray’s Dead City Haunted House (5425 S. Vine Street) think now is a perfect time for patrons to get a supernatural scare.

“Entertainment via escapism is always needed in the darkest of times.

We can’t expect everyone to feel comfortable participating this year. We can, however, do everything possible to guarantee safety procedures are in place for those who do,” a Dead City spokes-monster (wishing to stay in character) said.

“This industry has its fans and artists that desperately need a distraction; we understand the responsibility not to disappoint, having invested in all the necessary resources to keep everyone happy and healthy.”

Dead City Haunted House is one of Utah’s newest indoor haunted attractions, now in its third season. They are featuring over 50 rooms of fear, with three all-new areas for 2020. Owner Tim Riggs has a history with the local spook alley industry, dating back to the Utah Fun Dome Haunted House, Rocky Point, and more.

With the COVID pandemic, attraction organizers have had to address customer safety by adding additional precautions and mothballing certain

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practices.

“We can only do this together, so face masks are mandatory—to keep the screams safe. The show has been completely overhauled this year while maintaining as many scare spots as possible.

Hands-on options have been suspended, while all actors are kept at socially distanced positions inside the show,” the Dead City spokes-monster said. “Surfaces are cleaned regularly, several UV air filtration systems have been installed above the show to run constantly, and nightly fog sanitizes surfaces from entry to exit. All mazes and claustrophobic tunnels have been removed to maintain group distancing and avoid touching. Online ticket purchases are encouraged at a discounted rate.”

All staff and cast members have temperatures checked before being allowed backstage. Employees communicate and operate through personal mobile devices, and all backstage meetings are kept outside whenever possible. Cast members apply their own makeup, with very few needing it due to the heavy use of masks this season. Bridges have been built above the tighter areas to give actors the ability to operate some new surprises from a safe distance.

As part of keeping staff and patrons apart, Dead City will employ puppets or animatronic monsters to provide the screams.

“You will all have to come see if you can tell who (or what) is real or not inside the show and what they (or it) might do.

Very cutting edge to our knowledge, just one of the many custom creations by our engineering owner that helps make Dead City Haunted House unique to Utah,” the spokes-monster said.

Halloween isn’t Dead City’s only exclusive holiday; they have adapted their attraction to multiple holidays this past year. They hosted a “Krampus Night” in December, based on the central European tradition of a half-goat, half-demon that visits naughty children on Christmas, a complete opposite of Santa Claus. The Krampus event allows Dead City to give the Christmas season a monstrous makeover with a visit by Krampus and his minions. Dead City also hosts “Love Bites,” a vampire-themed Valentine’s Day experience that they hope to do again this coming year.

Krampus Night caught national recognition, and Dead City was recognized

by HAuNTcon and Haunted Attraction Network as “2020 Haunters to Watch.”

The award stated, “Dead City Haunted House impressed us with their video creation, narrative tie into their overall theme, social media contest, and overall use of a limited budget.”

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at three-dimensional pumpkin carving and sculpted a Dracula face in a pumpkin.

That pumpkin was featured in a local newspaper article and he was asked to carve pumpkins at another Halloween party. It was there that he met members of the Utah Giant Pumpkin Growers Association. He has been carving for them ever since.

Reimschiissel credits his mom, who enjoys crafting and drawing caricatures, with encouraging his interest in art. He has studied drawing as well as sculpture. Reimschiissel continues to study form and shape to build his repertoire of pumpkin designs.

“Right now I’m learning about skeletons,” he said. “I just bought one to learn more anatomy. I have a lot of ideas in my head!”

Reimschiissel’s wife, Chelsea, had never seen 3D pumpkin carvings before she saw his work. “It’s so cool how creative he can get,” she said. “He never goes in with a plan. Most of the time he just wings it which is amazing to me.

He gets asked all the time how he plans [his designs] but most of the time he just shows up and carves.”

The spontaneous nature of Reimschiissel’s art and the fact that he is often carving in front of an audience is the most challenging aspect. “When people are watching there’s a level of thinking ‘you have to make it look good!”” he said.

He recalled a particularly difficult carving project in which he sculpted a winged devil out of a pumpkin and ended up inserting a separate piece of rind to make the head.

Reimschiissel’s two young daughters, Kaiyah and Kinlee, are his biggest fans. Kaiyah, who is 9 years old, is showing an interest in carving pumpkins as well. “They have so much pride in their dad’s pumpkins. The best thing is bringing them to events. They get so excited and will just stand there forever watching him. They like to tell people that’s their dad,” Chelsea said.

“It’s fun to see the kids’ reactions,” said Reimschiissel, describing the aspect he likes best about carving in front of an audience. In 2019, he carved a “punk beast” pumpkin at Thanksgiving Point. The Utah Giant Pumpkin Growers Association later took that pumpkin and displayed it in front of Primary Children’s Hospital. Being able to share his work with the hospitalized children was one of the highlights of his carving career.

He is looking forward to the upcoming Halloween season and carving more unique pumpkin creations. Images of Reimschiissel’s carved pumpkins as well as updates on the Halloween events he is appearing at may be found on http:// facebook.com/thecarvingchizel” “http:// instagram.com/Thecarvingchizel” l

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By Katy Whittingham | k.whittingham@mycityjournals.com tah, and Salt Lake City in particular, has seen a growth in film productions in recent years, and television series and films that fall in the horror genre are no exception.

According to a report that came out late last year by the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) which includes the Utah Film Commission, film production dollars spent in Utah more than doubled between 2015 and 2019 to about $87 million. The state film commission attributes the growth to a variety of scenery, economic incentives, and available talent. In a press release from this September available on the film commission’s website, it was announced that the GOED board has approved “five new productions for state film incentives, generating an estimated economic impact of $6.5 million and creating over 185 local jobs.”

Utah horror film enthusiasts will find no shortage of locations to visit this Halloween season. A recent production that was filmed around Salt Lake City and has a story set in the state is the critically acclaimed 2018 horror tragedy film, “Hereditary,” starring Gabriel Byrne and Toni Collette and written and directed by Ari Aster. The story follows a family in turmoil as they are haunted by a menacing presence following the death of a secretive maternal grandmother. School scenes were shot at West High School in the Salt Lake City School District and at Utah State Fair Park. The exteriors of the family’s house and tree house were shot in Summit County, and perhaps the most picturesque and hauntingly beautiful scenes at the cemetery were filmed at Larkin Sunset Gardens in Sandy.

“Hereditary” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2018 and was a critical and commercial success grossing over $80 million.

Two of the films in the legendary “Halloween” horror franchise were also filmed in Utah, primarily around Salt Lake City and Midvale: “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers” released in 1988 and “Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers” released the following year. Although receiving negative reviews from critics, much like the other films in the franchise, they have maintained a strong cult following. More than 40 years after the first film’s release, you will still find Michael Myers masks, costumes, and decorations in Halloween stores like Spirit Halloween.

Although principal photography for “Halloween 4” was completed in California, filmmakers moved production to Salt Lake City in the spring of 1988 because of rising costs and had to import fall leaves and other fall scenery to make it look like October.

The film follows the iconic antagonist, Michael Myers, as he awakens from a 10-year

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Merchandise and masks depicting Michael Myers, the iconic villain from the horror franchise, “Halloween” films, are displayed in a Spirit Halloween store in Taylorsville. (Katy Whittingham/City Journals)

comatose state and escapes transport to a sanitarium in a plight to kill his only living relative, his niece, Jamie Lloyd, daughter of Laurie Strode, a prominent character in the first two and later films in the franchise. The McGillis School in Salt Lake City stands in for Jamie’s school, and her home with her foster family is located in the lower Avenues and was actually up for sale in late 2019. Much of the outside shots and roads for the town of Larkin Sunset Gardens in Sandy served as the location for cemetery scenes in the 2018 horror film, “HerediHaddonfield, Illinois, where the story is set, is tary.” (Katy Whittingham/City Journals) Midvale on 1-15.

A foreshadowing scene when Jamie’s foster sister, Rachel, takes her to get a Halloween costume where her boyfriend also happens to work was filmed at Vincent Drug in Midvale. A popular soda and shake shop in the ’40s and ’50s, Vincent Drug has served as a filming location for many other film and television shows of the ’80s and ’90s, including Stephen King’s 1994 horror miniseries, “The Stand.”

Filming for “The Stand” began in and around Salt Lake City in the bitter winter of 1993 and stood in for the setting of the novel the miniseries was based on, Boulder, Colorado. The jail sequences of the series were filmed at the Utah State Prison in a wing where the prisoners were temporarily moved during filming. In some confusion, Terms & conditions apply crew members mistook actual prisoners’ beExpires 10/31/2020 longings as props and moved them between cells not realizing the mistake until after the first day of shooting.

Other upcoming horror films that were or are currently being filmed in Utah include the werewolf, horror-comedy, “The Wolf of Snow Hollow,” set for limited release in theaters NMLS 1693655 on Oct. 9, and the feature, “Deadstream,” written and directed by local filmmakers, Vanessa and Joseph Winter, and described as a “love letter to ’80’s horror cinema.” It’s exRANLife Real Estate pected to be released in January 2021.

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Ghosting ghosts

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As the Halloween season looms near, the fear of supernatural beings does too. Decorations remind us of the existence of ghosts, vampires, goblins, werewolves, and other non-human creatures. We may even become a bit more startled by that unexplained noise in the middle of the night. We might wonder if others from beyond share our space.

There are many stories, myths, and folklores concerning ghosts throughout historical contexts. The common foundational plot for all these tales is a spirit has moved on from its original form and is now somewhere between our world and the afterlife. Some lore focuses on the ghosts of animals and objects, but let’s focus on the human ghosts for now.

Ghosts may be noticed through electromagnetic interference, a drop in temperature, items moving seemingly on their own, unrecognizable whispers or other audio abnormalities, and/or environmental features like fire, water, electricity, and wind behaving rather strangely.

“Ghost Adventures,” a 19-season television show, sends out a crew to investigate hauntings.

The crew members commonly have a variety of tools to help them locate ghosts through the avenues mentioned above. They even created their own device called the Extra Investigator Box which detects magnetic, infrared, and other physical events.

If you’re not a star on this Travel Channel show, there are a few household devices that can help detect a ghost. Thermometers, infrared cameras, and motion detectors can be used to detect temperature changes and minimal motion changes. A tape recorder can be used to convert communication outside of our perceptual field into sensations humans can understand.

Ghosts are often believed to be attached to a place, item or person. There are varying stories about why and or how ghosts stick around, but regardless, they often do. Some cultures around the world welcome these ghosts, as they are believed to be visiting family members or other loved ones.

In America, we often do not welcome ghosts and try to rid them from our spaces. If you do suspect a ghost to be in your space and wish to remove them, perhaps helping it to move on,

what can you do? There are a few different recommendations from varying sources for getting rid of a ghost. Before I dive into a few, let me provide a word of caution. When dealing with the supernatural, always do your research, be respectful and cautious, and stay aware.

If you’re convinced a ghost is in your space, you might figure out why it’s there in the first place. Some believe a ghost can become attached to an item, location, or person, continually haunting them. Another belief is that a ghost has unfinished business. If possible, determine why a ghost is still lingering and then the more effective course of action would be to help the ghost resolve their business.

However, if it’s impossible to figure out why a ghost is hanging around, there are some possible actions. A popular television series worldwide with 15 seasons in just as many years, “Supernatural,” shows audiences how “hunters” track monstrous creatures and rids them from this earthly plane. “Supernatural” shows perpetuate the idea that ghosts can be temporary eliminated with salt and iron. It is commonly believed that supernatural beings are aversive to salt. If known, hunters will try to salt or burn the bones or item the ghost is attached to.

In addition, ghost-repelling spells are used in “Supernatural” when other avenues of riding a ghost fail to work, along with holy water. A common lore throughout contexts is that ghosts cannot enter or be on holy ground.

Suggestions from entertainment and television should be taken with a grain of salt though (no pun intended). Outside of entertainment, momentary interaction may be recommended.

If you suspect a ghost is frequently hanging around, it may not be malicious. In which case, it is possible to speak directly to them. When talking to a ghost, experts believe it is important to set boundaries, be assertive, respectfully ask them to stop bothering you and confidently let them know that they are not welcome in the space. After interacting, do not do it again.

If a ghost still lingers, it may be best to seek out professional help for a ritual or ceremony. Or, alternatively, remove yourself from the space by moving out.

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It’s been a decade since COVID-19 reached our shores, ushering in 45 years of hand sanitizer, remote learning and face mask protesters sporting apostrophe-addled signs like “Your an idiot” and “Parent’s against masks”.

But now it’s October. Halloween is at risk.

S*** just got real.

Nothing could be scarier than 2020, with its earthquakes and hurricane-force winds and rising COVID infection rates and elections, but Halloween isn’t just about fear. Halloween is the one day a year conservative moms can buy push-up bras and dress like lusty dog catchers, guilt free. It’s the day Snickers for breakfast and Reese’s for lunch are appropriate meals. It’s the day politically-inappropriate celebrities get tagged on social media.

But COVID changed everything. Los Angeles prohibited trick-or-treating along with haunted house venues, Halloween carnivals and other spooky activities. After a swift and furious backlash from parents who need to give their kids ONE thing to look forward to this year, the city backed down and “recommended” common sense. Like that’s a thing.

Even then, it’s gonna take a lot to scare our children anymore in 2020. They spent months locked in the house, learning fractions online and wearing face masks to the grocery store. Their stress levels are sky-high and adrenal fatigue has caused weepy breakdowns and heartbreaking acceptance.

On the bright side, COVID-19 ushered in a whole new series of costumes for the holiday, including coronavirus outfits, teachers in hazmat suits and the very funny Elsa in a plastic bubble.

I think I’ll dress up as a mail-in ballot since that seems to be the most terrifying thing in the country today. (Sidenote: Vote on Nov. 3. Vote by mail, vote in person, drop your vote off in a ballot box. I don’t

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