January 2019 | Vol. 16 Iss. 01
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FRIEND TO FRIEND BRINGS HOLLADAY
COMMUNITY TOGETHER FOR NIGHT OF SERVICE By Lindsey Baxter | l.baxter@mycityjournals.com
Friend to Friend with youth from He First Loved Us. (Courtesy of Amy Johnson)
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he Holladay community came together to serve at the end of November, hoping to demonstrate its charitable heart. Monday, Nov. 26, from 6–9 p.m., was a special night of service at Olympus High School. The organization Friend to Friend put together a major event. Over 13 different charities had 30 projects put together for them with donated items from community sponsors. The event had dancers that performed for the volunteers, music, and food trucks to provide great food to snack on while
putting together all of the service projects. Taygin Dehart, a senior at Olympus High School, is the president of the Friend to Friend organization. “Friend to Friend is a nonprofit organization that runs out of Olympus High School but has students that participate from Skyline High School, and the middle schools that feed into Olympus and Skyline High School,” she said. “There is like 250 of us and we usually invite the community to come out and serve with us. We do an evening of service every year but this is the first year it’s been here.”
Jen Wunderli has been director of Friend to Friend for five years now. She said they have over 200 “amazing kids” from Olympus, Skyline, Olympus Jr. High, Evergreen Jr. High and Riverwalk Elementary in Lehi. “We are starting to expand a little bit. Our mission is building friendships through service and that’s why we do it,” Wunderli explained. “This is our big annual event where we teach the kids about gathering and resourcing and getting all of these kids together.” Continued on page 4...
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