Millcreek City Journal | July 2020

July 2020 | Vol. 02 Iss. 07

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MAYOR ADDRESSES MILLCREEK’S STANCE ON POLICING

By Kirk Bradford | k.bradford@mycityjournals.com

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ast month, Millcreek Mayor Jeff Silvestrini told the public the council wanted to create some dialogue with residents regarding any suggestions for a policing system that respects the safety of every resident.

This followed the Black Lives Matter and police brutality protests that began after a black man named George Floyd died under police custody in Minneapolis.

“This week I was flooded with Millcreek residents’ concerns and suggestions for improving policing and preventing excessive use of force, racial bias and other bias,” Silvestrini said. “As mayor and a Unified Police Department board member, I hear you loud and clear. I know something of the character of our officers and the efforts our department has already undertaken to prevent tragic results like we saw in George Floyd’s death and far too many other unacceptable instances.”

The event sparked outrage throughout the nation and protests have continued over the weeks in various parts of Utah.

Millcreek Precinct officers have participated with others in Salt Lake County as protests continue to push for more police reform.

Salt Lake City Council members are weighing their options.

Elected officials and staff are said to be looking at a multipronged plan that includes moving some funds from the police department to what are called nondepartmental accounts.

Also putting certain funds on hold until later in the year to be used after conducting a third-party evaluation of the law enforcement budget.

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Mayors Mike Peterson (Cottonwood Heights), Byron Ames (Francis), Erin Mendenhall (Salt Lake City), Celeste Johnson (Midway), Andy Beerman (Park City), Jeff Silvestrini (Millcreek), and Kelleen Potter (Heber), masked for the COVID-19 pandemic, joined protesters in Salt Lake City to express their support for policing systems that respect the safety of every resident, free of fear and violence. They posed with signs gifted to them during the protest. (Kirk Bradford/City Journals)

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Continued from front page reportedly written to officials in Salt Lake and the most common demand from city residents was said to be a $30 million dollar cut to police operations. Salt Lake City Councilman Darin Mano estimated receiving “one or two emails a minute” from constituents calling on his support for $30 million dollars’ worth of cuts to the city’s police department budget. At a work session Council Chairman Chris Wharton said, “That’s just not possible.”

He went on to explain why the law doesn’t allow it saying, “We must identify cuts specifically or we are delegating our responsibility to establish the budget.”

Wharton said the $30 million figure came from a proposed formula for cuts to the Minneapolis Police Department, but had been scaled for Salt Lake City. As protests continue nationwide and in Utah, the Minneapolis department is in the spotlight because it is where Floyd died.

Millcreek’s Silvestrini expressed the gratitude of the council toward the community and policing and feels there is more to be done by engaging in further community dialogue regarding appropriate police tactics, training and behavior.

Silvestrini addressed the protests that had eventually turned into looting in downtown Salt Lake saying, “I honor peaceful protest as a necessary and fundamental right.

I participated with other mayors of cities in Salt Lake, Summit and Wasatch Counties in a peaceful protest at Salt Lake City’s City and County Building. The experience was humbling and informative. I got yelled at, and I got thanked for showing up. I talked with several Millcreek residents who came to express their anger and frustration. I saw many of our UPD officers assisting SLCPD to ensure the risk of injury to people and property we witnessed does not reoccur.”

Silvestrini addressed the current strategies of policing saying, “As much as I honor the right to peacefully protest, I also recognize the professionalism and restraint our UPD officers, 40 from our own Millcreek Precinct have demonstrated over the past

week. Theirs is no easy task maintaining composure with protesters confronting them and blaming them for acts they did not commit. Certainly, our officers are not perfect.

But I do know that UPD expends significant resources training them.”

Silvestrini issued a statement saying Millcreek is already investing in many of the strategies protesters are suggesting we implement. Among them being UPD officers train in de-escalation tactics, continuum of force protocols, using non-lethal force and avoiding implicit bias.

Silvestrini also stated, “UPD officers are trained to react to behavior, not personal characteristics, particularly race, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc. UPD officers are subject to discipline for bad behavior, required to report every use of or threat to use any force, and there is space for peers to correct and criticize improper use of force by peers. The restraint method we saw with George Floyd is against UPD policy; so is maintaining any restraint beyond handcuffs once compliance is achieved.”

The full statement from Silvestrini can be found on the Millcreek Government website and it details more about the current tactics and training. Silvestrini closed the statement saying, “I don’t report these things to foreclose better ideas and suggestions for improvement. Rather, I hope to share what we have been doing to reassure Millcreek residents and to set a baseline from which we can determine how we can do better. I intend to sponsor discussions, where hopefully we can have a constructive dialogue about how to improve our police force and move toward actual, reform. I have responded, as have our Councilmembers, to the communications we have received. We will continue to evaluate your emailed suggestions and work with our UPD officers and command staff to implement reforms to effect real and positive change. We hear you, and we want our policing in Millcreek to become the best it can be.” l

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Holladay-Lions center used in the fight against COVID-19

By Zak Sonntag | z.sonntag@mycityjournals.com

A statue outside the Holladay-Lions Recreation Center. (Zak Sonntag/City Journals)

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he Holladay-Lions Recreation and Fitness Center, located at 1661 E. MurrayHolladay Road, has been temporarily repurposed as a quarantine and isolation center by the Salt Lake County Health Department in an effort to combat the spread of COVID-19, according to a statement released by Holladay City in April. Medical privacy laws, however, compel officials to keep a lid on the details, which has caused some community members to take offense at what they see as a lack of transparency.

“We had a problem not (that) those people were there, but that we weren’t told. We had to put it together ourselves after we saw cot boxes beside the dumpster and even an ambulance show up,” said Maxine Turner, a Holladay resident and center patron.

The city’s disclosure walks a fine line between public transparency and individual privacy. In revealing the purpose of the facili-

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ty, which is owned and operated by Salt Lake County, city officials may contradict broader public health prerogatives of protecting individuals’ legal rights to medical privacy.

“The decision was made from the beginning not to identify locations or how those public facilities were used in the pandemic response, because then anyone seen at a facility might be assumed to be positive [for COVID-19], and that’s protected health information,” explained Chloe Morroni, the communications director for the Salt Lake County mayor’s office. “That wouldn’t be OK because there is a health privacy component. Everyone has a right to have that information protected.”

The park’s repurposing came at the direction of the county’s coronavirus emergency response authority, known as Unified Command, headed by Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson, along with its Chief of Emergency Management and Executive Director

of Health. Unified Command transferred the Holladay-Lions operations from the parks department to the health department. And though residents have been unnerved about the lack of available information, health officials remain tight-lipped about specifics.

“We are required by state law to protect the identity of people under investigation for all kinds of infectious disease, from anthrax, to botulism, to HIV, and now COVID. The laws come under review all the time and we are confident we’re acting in accordance,” said Nicholas Rupp, communications director for the Salt Lake County Health Department.

These type of medical privacy laws have been in place for over 100 years, and they began in the early 20th century in response to the stigma around tuberculosis. Current legal privacy protections are found in a federal infectious disease act, as well as Utah’s Communicable Disease Act. “Public health does this sort of work all the time, but when we do our job really well the public doesn’t hear about it. A conundrum is that people don’t appreciate the work we do until it reaches something of this [coronavirus] magnitude,” said Rupp.

On a June afternoon outside the Holladay-Lions facility there was a sheriff’s dispatch vehicle in the west parking lot. Yellow cordoning tape fluttered in the wind. No one came or went.

“It is very, very quiet here all day long,” said a parks department grounds crewmember, who asked not to be identified. “Occasionally, someone will come out to smoke a cigarette, but they have to stay behind those metal barrier fences. Then they go right back in. Other than that I don’t see much.”

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such competing threat exists with the usage of county facilities, which raises questions about Holladay City’s decision to disclose the Holladay-Lions Rec Center implementation as a quarantine and isolation facility. Rupp said the city’s decision to release a statement of disclosure was not without justification, but he nonetheless hesitated to encourage such disclosures generally.

“If a city wants to reveal location uses, first of all I would ask them what their rationale is and why they’re making the choice, especially because we’re talking about buildings they’re not even running, and we don’t share many specifics. Secondly, it’s risky because our building uses evolve very quickly, and if their statements are true at one point, they might not be true for long.”

Holladay Mayor Robert Dahle’s decision to release the statement reveals the city’s attempt to appease residents asking for details while also respecting the health department standards.

“We put the post on our website and we vetted the post through the county. There are things we can and can’t say about it. Hopefully, they’ll do their best to manage that population so that it impacts our residents as little as possible, and that’s all we can say about it,” said Dahle during a May council meeting.

Still, residents are pushing public leaders to be more communicative.

“We want to tell them they have to trust your community. We want to know immediately when these situations arise,” said Holladay resident Turner. “Our small discussion with our mayors was not enough, we need to be assured as a community that we are being communicated with in the future. And we need to know in the future that our rec center is clean, without concern with lingering virus.” l

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GSD Board discusses surplus, salaries and strategies for COVID-19 second wave

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live-streamed Granite School District Board meeting on June 16 was an important one for the coming school year. The 2019-20 budget was reconciled, and the budget for 2020-21 was proposed. One main finding was GSD’s surplus from activities that were canceled at the end of the year.

There was also a discussion about learning scenarios during a COVID-19 spike.

Mitch Robison, director of Budget Development, called it a “weird year for everything, including the budget.” Robison said though the legislature has met and allocated funds for schools, the Board anticipates a special session where education funding may be adjusted.

The last day of the legislative session was March 12. Schools closed on March 13.

The closure was meant to last two weeks, but went through the end of the school year.

The canceled activities came with a silver lining: less money spent. There was also a “savings” on wage payments when some employees decided to leave early. The official amount of one-time savings will be known in September or October.

Despite the uncertainty of the year, the Board is obligated to follow a timeline. GSD met the requirements to publish the proposed 2020-21 budget online and advertise the

By Heather Lawrence | h.lawrence@mycityjournals.com hearing, get public input, adopt the budget and set a tax rate for the coming school year.

The proposed 2020-21 budget is $854 million. The biggest piece of the pie is the General Fund, which pays out teacher compensation.

Robison said the General Fund “is really dependent on the legislature…and 90% of it goes for salaries and benefits.” GSD proposed a raise for new teachers and a 5% COLA (cost of living adjustment). Incoming qualified teachers with a bachelor’s degree will start at $50,000+ per year. That makes GSD “competitive with their neighbors” such as Canyons District, which adopted a similar pay scale for 2019-20.

The closing of two schools, Sandburg and Westbrook, each represent a savings of $700,000. GSD must hire two PBAT internal support employees at $200,000 to help transition to the new PBAT state licensure program. Seventy-five million dollars was requested for health insurance costs.

The 2020-21 proposed tax rate is .007429%. The time was opened for comments from the public. Director of Communications Ben Horsley reported that no one from the public had come in person to comment or sent in comments. The Board motioned to adopt the budget.

The topic of the meeting shifted to how

COVID-19 may affect learning in 2020-21.

There was discussion over what was necessary—was the requirement masks or physical distancing, or masks and physical distancing?

John Welburn, assistant superintendent of School Leadership & Development, gave a presentation on possible learning scenarios based on the color code for Utah. Different schools could be in different colors.

Utah experienced an increase in cases after trying to reopen. The date of the meeting, June 16, Salt Lake County was in the yellow phase, but Salt Lake City, where many GSD schools are located, was back in the orange phase.

In the scenario, schools would operate as normal during a green phase. The yellow phase could be a hybrid of in-school learning and distance learning, such as half the students attending school on Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday, and distance learning for all on Fridays. Orange and red phases would mean distance learning only for all students.

Board members questioned aspects of the scenarios. There are potential difficulties for families with parents working full-time, those who utilize day care, have children at multiple schools on possible different schedules or those with limited access to computers and internet.

Some parents may not feel comfortable sending children to school at all, even in a

green phase. Students with special needs may be highly vulnerable and fall in high-risk health categories.

Welburn said he gets comments from community members to, “Just do this, just do that,” and the schools should work fine. “What people need to understand is that we don’t have the authority to make those decisions. We are required to comply with policies. And we will always put the safety of our students first.”

In addition, Welburn reported that the average class size at the secondary level is 38 students. “You can’t do face-to-face instruction with that many students and do 6 feet apart,” Welburn said.

Board members questioned whether students could be compelled to wear a mask.

There are also concerns about air turnover in classrooms. Guidance from the CDC seemed to be “a moving target.” Others worried that students might feel they need to leave GSD and register for a special online school instead of setting that up within the district.

Despite sympathy for those who just want to get back to normal—students, parents, teachers—it is a time of uncertainty for face-to-face learning. “Regardless of the color phase we’re in, if distancing guidelines can be met, we’ll meet in school. If they can’t, we’ll have to do something else,” Welburn said. l

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A one-man operation that keeps on building

By Kathryn Elizabeth Jones | k.jones@mycityjournals.com

C. Timm Custom Furniture opened shop in 1982.

Chris Timm says he likes being his own boss. (Photo courtesy Chris Timm)

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hris Timm, owner and operator of C. Timm Custom Furniture, believes in sticking your neck out, especially when things get tough.

While his wife works full time at home at her computer, finishing out her last week for the Granite School District, Timm is keeping two boys busy and far away from the living room couch where cushions have been used as mini trampolines.

“It’s tough,” he said. “Before COVID-19, I worked at the shop during the day, now I’m home with the kids—two boys—and work at

Chris Timm loves dabbling in electric guitar engineering and sharing his creations with friends and family. He is teaching two electric guitar engineering classes come fall semester at SLCC. (Photo courtesy Chris Timm)

the shop at night. My schedule right now is a little warped.”

Currently, Timm has “five jobs” at the shop “going at once.” Something, he says, is fantastic, especially during now when so many businesses are struggling. “I am backed up three months.”

Recently, he got a call for a project he just didn’t have time for. And he is hopeful things will continue to move forward.

“I haven’t missed a step for the last two to

three months,” he said. “I always have work to do. Currently two of my jobs are with interior designers.”

Timm typically uses other people’s designs, from restoration to building, but said he sometimes wishes he could do more creative work, stuff that he could fill a studio with, but said frankly, “How do you make a living doing that?”

C. Timm Custom Furniture, established in Millcreek in 1982, focuses on repair, restoration and building custom-made furniture.

A one-man business that is not too far off the mark from where Timm began as a 14 year old learning the ropes from his father. Timm’s business is about “making the best product possible no matter the size of the piece.”

Timm’s latest project was a recently restored chair. “I still have it in my shop,” he said.

“There’s a lot of cording on it and blue leather. I was worried about that, but it looks really cool.”

Mostly commission based, Timm spends much of his time “building new designs, or making reproductions of various period furniture,” he said.

The family business, Vintage Arts, which opened in 1967, and where Timm learned the skills of furniture restoration and finishing, was located just around the corner from his current location at 3474 S. 2300 East. Today, Timm speaks excitedly about where he has taken his

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father’s business—from restoration and finishing, to furniture building and even electric guitar making.

A few hundred people have found a home for their new electric guitar built by Timm. He has even built 50 or so for himself and admits “he plays a little bit.”

“I’m not a musician, though,” he said.

“And building guitars is more of a hobby.”

He has been refinishing, building and engineering the electric guitar for about seven years, and though he doesn’t see himself making a living at it, he does admit that this particular skill, as well as the skills he’s learned since 14, has allowed him to step out of his shop every once in a while and have some fun.

Timm enjoys hiking, camping, biking, skiing and fishing.

He loves living close to Parley’s Canyon and said he went fishing “just last week.”

As of fall semester, Timm will be continuing his work as a teacher at Salt Lake Community College. His classes in electric guitar engineering, furniture refinishing, and building personal projects, has interested students from teens to retirees.

“I like being a part of the school,” he said.

“I love the energy and creativity in the guitar class. It’s kind of cool to see what the students come up with.” l

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Mindful support for young ones during confusing times

By Katy Whittingham | k.whittingham@mycitjournals.com

A chalk drawing at Edgemont Elementary in Sandy in preparation for their “Reverse Parade.”

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e are often told, and probably even more often lately in a consolatory manner, that young children are resilient. While this may be true in many cases, not all children can just bounce back from major changes in their school and home life without resources and support.

Erin Troup, a licensed professional counselor specializing in early childhood social and emotional needs based out of Pittsburgh, seeks to help people understand resilience is not just a given. “I always want folks to understand that ‘resilience’ only happens for kids if they have security, stability and support. Right now there is not a lot of security and stability for many families.”

There has been much attention, and rightfully so, on graduating and transitioning students during the COVID-19 school closures with all of their losses including canceled graduations, proms and ceremonies. Disappointments of that level are hard to process for teens and even adults, but with younger children, even a canceled field trip or not being able to say goodbye in person to their teacher can create emotional turmoil, especially without proper supports in place.

Ann Kane, the principal at Mill Creek Elementary, credits an overall successful transition for K-1 students last year on the strength of previously established relationships.

“Students knew their teachers.

Teachers knew their students and what to expect from them for the most part,” she said. “Coming into this new school

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year, the main question we need to answer is how do we build those important relationships and develop school culture in a new world of blended learning or all online learning.”

Paul Cuttica, an early educational expert and teacher with more than 46 years of experience and based out of Texas, agrees that while children have the ability to adapt especially in the long term, there are measures that can be taken to help students feel more at ease in the short term and starting the next school year.

“I really don’t worry about longterm effects,” he said. “I do see some short-term concerns including more issues with separation anxiety, especially with kinder and pre-k students.

Depending on the ‘look’ of schools for the 2020-2021 year, an effective plan will help,” Cuttica said.

Teachers might want to put some thought into making the transition as easy as possible for each student, which could include meeting a few students each day for a bag lunch in the classroom, allowing the child to see the room they will learn in and meet their teacher, and having something like a welcome back craft night for students and parents a few days before school starts, according to Cuttica. Depending on parameters put in place, he says even, “a simple phone call to each student before school starts can help as well.”

Principal Kane says plans for the fall remain unseen as they wait for the district’s instructions on how they will operate.

“Once we have this information, we will develop opportunities for students and teachers to meet. Mill Creek usually has a Registration Back to School Night. This year we are not planning on it. We will do smaller meetings with teachers if allowed.”

While they are unsure exactly how they will start the school year, Kane says, “it will be focused on getting to know students and having them learn expectations. We also are going to focus on teaching how to use Chromebooks and the technology we will use. That will be difficult with kinders. Most likely they’ve never used a Chromebook for learning. That will be our challenge.”

Three girls who will be entering second grade at Edgemont Elementary in Sandy might sum up the excitement and worry some younger students are facing the best. When asked what they are most excited about for the next school year, they responded almost in unison, “A new teacher, new friends, a new classroom!”

When asked what they worried about they repeated the same things they were also excited about with the addition from one student, “I worry we will never go back to school, and my brother will break my iPad again, and I don’t think you can get a job if you don’t get through second grade.”

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Millcreek mayor says community used creativity, technology to cope with pandemic

By Kirk Bradford | k.bradford@mycityjournals.com

Millcreek Mayor Jeff Silvestrini talks positives during the pandemic. (Photo courtesy Jeff Silvestrini)

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he pandemic has either affected or completely changed the way we communicate in our personal life. The City Journals asked Millcreek Mayor Jeff Silvestrini how the pandemic has affected his communications.

Silvestrini said that it has really improved his communications and time management.

The pandemic has even allowed him more time to focus on the city’s needs. Silvestrini said, “The pandemic has actually given me time to attend more meetings and to spend more time

on city-related correspondence and reading.

Nearly all of my meetings are now electronic. This means I spend less time traveling to and from them, which I can use for the matters mentioned.”

Silvestrini said his interaction with the public has improved because being connected electronically allows for quicker access to questions, phone calls and writing email correspondences to the community.

“I have had more time for calls and emails with Millcreek residents, and I have attempted to be even more attentive,” he said. “I am not sure the communication is improved, as there is so much lost when communication is not in person. However, our city’s capabilities to communicate electronically have been improved and we have focused a great deal of time and effort to improve the ability of Millcreek residents to apply online for city services and we have assisted our planning commission and community councils to interact virtually as well as the city council and our departments.”

In comparison to other cities, we asked Silvestrini where he has seen Millcreek excel and positively react to the pandemic. Silvestrini praised residents and the community.

“Millcreek has been a leader in public

engagement in the electronic space,” he said.

“We were streaming our city council meetings years ago when other cities did not. That transition was something we were ahead on.

Our planning and building permit applications have not declined since the pandemic. We just moved everything online. Thus we continued to function efficiently, more so than other cities. We never closed our City Hall. Other cities (and the county) did. We have had many employees working remotely, and they have been able to remain efficient and productive. This is a credit to them and to the modern technology we have installed as a new city. We were not bound to legacy systems and we have been nimble enough to react to this changing time.

Also, our economic development team have been all-stars in thinking up ways to assist Millcreek businesses. We relaxed our sign ordinance and license renewal process, created a business directory to show how our businesses adapted to promote COVID safety, and provided helpful information about how and where to apply for PPP and other assistance. I am really proud of them.”

In coping with the pandemic, there have been a number of changes made. Silvestrini explained why Millcreek has done so well at flat-

tening the curve while staying positive through such a difficult time.

Silvestrini said he had noticed a number of positives during the pandemic, one of them being creativity.

Silvestrini said, “I marvel at how creative our residents have been to cope with the pandemic—sidewalk chalk art in neighborhoods, treasure hunts and themed displays which have been designed to entertain bored school children (and parents) and accommodate social distancing have been fun to watch.

Social-distanced graduations—I was able to attend three—(is) another example of thinking out of the box by our residents. I am also happy about the level of volunteer efforts to assist older or compromised residents in our community get groceries and other assistance. We also had volunteer efforts to distribute food to those needing assistance through our Millcreek Promise Program and in partnership with the Utah Food Bank. We have run a food distribution in Millcreek every week since November and have assisted thousands of families to cope with this crisis. I am pleased with the level of cooperation we have seen to flatten the curve and with the way Millcreek residents helped their neighbors.” l

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A Career of Service, Inspired by Dad

Local student wins people’s choice award at state entrepreneurship challenge, Skyline team in top 20

Dr. Jonathan Daniels reflects on how his father, a World War II veteran, helped shape his service

By Julie Slama | j.slama@mycityjournals.com

Growing up, Dr. Jonathan Daniels aspired Like his father, Dr. Daniels also volunteered to be an aviator like his father and his grandfather to serve. He was in the Air Force ROTC at the before him. Dr. Daniels became a navigator, de- University of Utah in the mid-1970s and signed voting 13 years of service flying in the backseat up for Vietnam even though he had a high draft of the F-4 Phantom II as a navigator/weapons systems officer. He served another 13 years in the U.S. Air Force as a physician, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

“My dad has always been my hero,” said Dr. Daniels, an obstetrician/gynecologist at Rocky Mountain Women’s Health and a member of the medical staff at Salt Lake Regional Medical Center.

His “hero,” Courtney Daniels, a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, celebrated his 100 th birthday earlier this year. He spent a storied career as an aviator, flying B-17 bombers in World War II, as well as hundreds of missions piloting the B-29 bomber, the B-50 bomber, and the C-130. He also flew the C-47, supplying the city of Berlin, Germany with food, fuel, and medical supplies during the Berlin Airlift, which commenced on June 26, 1948.

“I always wanted to fly,” said Courtney Daniels, who grew up on a farm in Mount Emmons.

“When Japan dropped their bomb on Pearl Harbor, the next day I went down to the federal building and signed up for flying cadet school.”

Mr. Daniels was a 21-year-old college junior in 1941. He was dispatched to England in 1944 aboard the B-17, “Maid Marian”- named after his wife. He was assigned to the 8 th Air Force, 34 th Bomb Group, flying 25 combat missions out of Mendelsham Airfield, including 18 as the lead crew. Missions entailed bombing German railroads, oil fields, and airfields. On at least one mission, his Bomb Group led the entire 8 th Air Force. One of his close friends, Gale Halverson, also of Utah, gained fame during the Berlin Airlift as “The Candyman” for flying missions that dropped chocolate candy bars to children, a practice Daniels and his crew also adopted. He went on to serve in the Korean War and Vietnam, completing his military career at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., retiring in 1968. He then went into carpentry and home-building.

“I’m a happy 100-year-old man,” he said.

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number that would have spared his service. He served with the Air Force in Florida, as well as Hill Air Force Base in Utah., and in North Carolina. Following his seven-year commitment to the Air Force, he continued in the Air Force Reserve and was accepted to medical school at the University of Texas. With a demanding internship requiring 80-100 hours a week, he retired from flying and continued to serve as an Air Force physician.

“I wanted to fly, and I got to do that,” said Dr. Daniels. “When I got to the end of my initial commitment with the Air Force, I decided I wanted to do something to help people. When you’re in the military in a combat crew, your job is to kill people. I was trained to do that. I was trained to drop nuclear bombs.”

Despite that rigorous training, he wanted to do something different. “I really appreciate the ability to be able to help people and save lives,” Dr. Daniels said. “It’s a real privilege.”

Dr. Daniels has served more than 20 years as a physician, delivering more than 4,000 babies throughout his career. In July, he will wind down his time with Steward Medical Group. He will continue to do call coverage with Steward Health Care and also work in Elko, Nevada to provide greater access to OB/GYN care to residents within that 100,000-population community.

Several years ago, Dr. Daniels experienced a nagging desire to return to the skies and since then has obtained his private pilot’s license and is currently working on his instrument rating license. One of his first flights as a private pilot was to take his father back up in the air, flying him around Salt Lake City. He recalled that when his father gave a talk at a Veterans’ hospital several years ago, he told several stories.

“He didn’t focus on the war and the good bombing he did. He focused on the Berlin Airlift, the good things that helped people,” Dr. Daniels said. “Sometimes we have to fight wars, but we should also do good, and help people as much as we can.”

Murray High junior Liberty McBride created “Pocket Change” app, which won the people’s choice award of the 2020 High School Utah Entrepreneur Challenge. (Photo courtesy of Stephanie Jorgensen/FLASH Jorgensen Photography)

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unior Liberty McBride plays volleyball and softball at Murray High and will be senior class president in the fall.

Liberty also wants to make money in school, but she said that is hard to do with her afterschool activities. Yet, that hasn’t stopped her from finding a way.

Using skills from her personal finance and business management classes and lessons from her dad, who is self-employed, she created Pocket Change, an app that enables students to investigate educational and career options, acquire professional skills and enter the workforce in their career to gain a little “pocket change.”

“The main purpose is to provide jobs and paid internships so students can work with actual people in the field and decide if the career is something that they’d like to pursue,” Liberty said, adding that this way, high school students may be able to hold a job that has flexible hours around their schedules. “I showed my teacher and she thought it was great.”

Liberty then entered her app in the 2020 High School Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, coordinated by the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, a division of the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah.

Pocket Change advanced from the 350 entries from more than 40 state high schools to the top 20, then won the people’s choice award with 969 out of 3,757 total online votes.

While the full competition was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the top 20 teams were able to showcase their ideas online and allow the public to vote on their favorite teams.

“I talked to my friends and teachers and they thought it was a great idea. I just talked to as many people as I could to share the idea.

On the website, it showed that it had 16,000

views,” she said.

Liberty was awarded $1,000—a little more than “pocket change.”

She’s already decided to invest her winnings into taking her app to make it a reality and hopes to work with app developers to do so.

“I think every high school kid wants to make money for activities and dances and gas, but we also have limited time with high school activities—and we want to do something that will help us in our careers. It also is an avenue for employers who are looking for someone interested in entering their field,” she said.

While she is disappointed that she couldn’t present the idea in front of a panel of judges since the in-person portion of the contest was canceled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, she appreciated the chance to share her idea.

“This is what I want to do, go into business and help people. I want this to grow and provide people with jobs. It’s really exciting to see other people who thought the idea is great,” she said, adding that she’d like to take Murray High’s new entrepreneurship and business marketing classes. “I read the other ideas in the top 20 and there really are some cool ideas.”

Skyline High’s “Optimized Lawn Care,” which received 303 votes, aimed to help easily maintain your lawn while using less water and spending less money by actively measuring lawn soil and automatically creating an optimized sprinkler schedule.

Other area students from high schools High’s “TagTeam” with 192 votes; Hillcrest High’s “Pocket Gardens” with 135 votes; AMES’ “The Circle of Life” with 26 votes; AMES “EcoFashion” with 21 votes; and Waterford’s “Epicure” with 14 votes. l

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Millcreek councilmember apologizes for DUI and promotes the importance of self-care

By Kirk Bradford | k.bradford@mycityjournals.com

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t the June 8 city council meeting, Bev Uipi, Millcreek’s District 4 representative apologized to the council, those in attendance and the community via the live stream city council meeting. Uipi took accountability for an event that took place a few months prior.

On April 5 around 6:20 p.m., Uipi was traveling on I-215 and at 4100 South she exited. It was there on the off ramp where charging documents say she strayed from the road and struck a concrete barrier.

Uipi was taken to St. Mark’s Hospital to be checked for injuries. Immediately afterward an interview with the Utah Highway Patrol took place. Their affidavit stated Uipi had, “an odor of alcohol coming from her breath.” Test results from the Utah State Crime Lab registered a result of a blood alcohol content of 0.28%. The result is over five times Utah’s legal limit of 0.05%. Uipi was charged with a Class B misdemeanor.

Uipi has a long standing record of serving the Utah community over the past 15 years. After being recruited to be on the Junior National Volleyball training team at age 14, Uipi attended the University of Georgia on an athletic scholarship graduating with a degree in consumer economics and housing.

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Granite School District offers summer sack meals

By Julie Slama | j.slama@mycityjournals.com

Murray students will have several locations to pick up a free summer sack lunch and breakfast. (Julie Slama/ City Journals)

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ranite School District will serve free • Lake Ridge Elementary, 3400 S. 7400 breakfast and lunch this summer.

WestLincoln Elementary, 3400 S. 450 East Free student meals will be provided • Magna Elementary, 3100 S. 8500 West weekdays, 11 a.m. to noon, with the exception • Matheson Jr. High, 3650 S. 7730 West of July 3 and July 24. Their sack meals will be • Mill Creek Elementary, 3761 S. 1100 East available through Aug. 7.

• Monroe Elementary, 3100 S. 4450 West Serving sites are typically found at lo- • Moss Elementary, 4399 S. 500 East cal parks, but due to the current situation and • Orchard Elementary, 3800 S. 6744 West public health orders from Salt Lake County, • Pioneer Elementary, 3860 S. 3380 West the program will operate out of school sites • Pleasant Green Elementary, 2700 S. 8201 and one church location only.

West In the event a site needs to close, patrons • Redwood Elementary, 2650 S. 1700 West will be given a one week notice and directed • Roosevelt Elementary, 3225 S. 800 East to the nearest site.

• Silver Hills Elementary, 5100 S. 5770 West All children 18 and under will receive • Stansbury Elementary, 3050 S. 2700 West free meals. Meals cannot be picked up for • Taylorsville Elementary, 4230 S. 2010 West others not there. Parents are not required to • Truman Elementary, 4639 S. 3200 West accompany children and daycares within the • Valley Crest Elementary, 3100 S. 5240 area are welcome to participate.

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he forced closure of many businesses in the Salt Lake Valley because of COVID-19 precautions was not only a concern for business owners, but also city governments whose monthly revenue is heavily dependent on sales tax distribution. However, there is a two month delay from the time the sales tax is collected to the time it gets deposited into a city’s account.

That meant that city leaders around the valley weren’t able to see the initial economic impact of COVID-19 on their city budget until the month of May, when the Utah State Tax Commission released its report for the month of March.

The report surprisingly showed that many cities in Salt Lake County saw increases in taxable sales relative to the same month in 2019 meaning people actually spent more money in spite of all the store closures. How could that be?

Interestingly, it seems that the smaller a cities’ economy is, the better they have fared so far during the pandemic. Of all the municipalities in Salt Lake County, the nine smallest economies all experienced increases in sales from March 2019 to March 2020.

Of the six largest, four experienced decreases (Salt Lake City, Sandy, Draper and Murray).

Herriman City, for example, had less taxable sales than any other city in the county in March 2019, with just over $18 million.

However, in March 2020, that number grew to $26 million. That’s a growth of 43%, the

highest in the valley. (Of a city’s taxable sales, 1% of the sales tax goes toward local government, with half being allocated based on where the purchase occurred and the rest being allocated to cities based on population.

Because of this, the amount of sales tax funds a city receives isn’t exactly proportional to the amount of taxable sales in that city.)

So what has caused cities with smaller economies to fare better during the pandemic? Basically, smaller cities have a higher proportion of “essential” businesses. In a smaller and younger city like Herriman, a larger portion of its businesses are things like grocery stores and fast food, which were able to not only stay open, but to even see record sales.

Herriman Assistant City Manager Tami Moody told the City Journals that what many consider a weakness of Herriman (it only has fast food and grocery stores) turned out to be a strength during this time.

“Herriman obviously has fast food and grocery industry. Those two have actually been the industries that have fared better than most. Fast food is already set up to have a drive-up window. When this all started, people were heading to the grocery store to make sure they had everything they needed,” she said.

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was still able to produce more sales tax than it had in 2019.

Of course, all these numbers come from March, the first month that the virus began to seriously impact the United States and people bought so much that they literally emptied grocery store shelves. The sales tax report numbers for April and May will likely yield more insights into the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on city budgets. l

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tah’s State Parks welcomed more visi- itation was on the rise this spring. East Can- more people in April than in years past, acIn Southern Utah, campgrounds in state tors than normal this spring as residents yon, Deer Creek and Willard Bay all saw cording to Swalberg. parks have been full, while day use has also sought a safe escape from COVID-19 quarincreased. Kodachrome Basin State Park antine. With restrictions easing throughout reported full campgrounds in spring once much of the state and people looking for safe county-level restrictions were eased for state ways to get out, officials anticipate that visiparks. The appeal of open spaces has contintation to continue. To keep people safe during ued to attract visitors. peak seasons, officials encourage visitors to “Once you hit the trails, you’ve got room practice responsible recreation in state parks. to spread out and practice social distancing,” “We didn’t close any doors,” said Eusaid Nathan Martinez, park manager at Kogene Swalberg, public information officer dachrome Basin State Park. “I think people with the Utah Division of Parks and Recrewere tired of being cooped up. They wanted ation. “Many of the parks saw greater than to get outside and do some hiking, and this is normal seasonal visitation.” a great place to do your social distancing.”

Initial lockdown measures restricted visUtah has 44 state parks and museums itation to Utah State Parks to county residents and over 2,300 campsites. Visitors can hike only in April. Then, as restrictions eased in or bike 324 miles of trails in state parks. The May, park visitation took off. The four state parks reflect the diverse landscape of Utah parks near St. George, for example, all saw and offer visitors the opportunity to get out. higher than normal attendance this spring A list of parks and COVID-related updates even with limitations in place. In fact, some can be found at stateparks.utah.gov. parks had to limit visitors on busy days as For those who journey to the parks, the parks like Quail Creek State Park filled up.

Utah Division of Parks and Recreation en“Many reservations were canceled due courages visitors to be safe when visiting. to COVID for a period early on,” Swalberg “The buzz word is responsible recreation,” said. Reservations and day use then increased Swalberg said. “We encourage social disas restrictions eased and people looked for tancing, and for people to not congregate at ways to practice social distancing in the great trailheads, clean up after themselves, and to outdoors. stay home if they’re sick.” l Utah has 44 state parks and museums. (Joshua Wood/City Journals) Even in cooler Northern Utah, park vis-

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Pandemic: How to save money and support the local economy

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The world is a new place, at least for now there is a new normal. Many of us are waiting to see if the new normal will become the normal, or if the old normal will come back. Either way for now we have to live in this pandemic shaped economy.

According to the US Bureau of Economic Analysis the personal savings rate hit a historic high of 33%. With the uncertainty of the current situation, and scars from the 2008 recession still fresh, it’s understandable that people would be very hesitant to spend. Not to mention how much toilet paper can one person stockpile?

But there is another side of the story, the economy. If everyone stops spending then everyone would stop earning. So how does one balance the line, spend enough to keep the economy strong but save enough to be responsible.

I propose that the answer to that question is not how much you spend, rather how and where you spend it. Here are five ways to balance the save money vs. build the economy problem.

1. Buy Local has to be a priority now. Over the last 10 years

our economy has been strong. Its been OK, not awesome, but OK if people shifted some of their spending from local. But remember the more local you spend your money the stronger your local economy is.

Now buying local is not as easy at it sounds. Sure it is easy to make the choice to buy your products at a local store instead of Amazon or a website. But it goes deeper than that. Every shopping decision has a different factor of localness.

For instance if you need to buy a power tool or some home improvement product, you can buy it from Lowes or you can buy it from a locally owned hardware store. Both Lowes and the hardware store create local jobs, and they both pay local taxes. but more of the profit at the hardware store will stay local.

Look for local products. Harmons grocery stores does a great job at showing you what products are local. I wish all stores did this.

Last month I was at a hardware store, OK honestly I was at Lowes, I needed a ladder. As I looked at the assortment I realized that

Little Giant ladder systems were a Utah business, so it was an easy decision.

2. Buy Services not Products. If you are trying to help the economy you will likely do more good buying services rather than products.

Let’s consider an example.

When you purchase a lawn mower, the majority of the purchase price goes to the manufacturer which is probably not a Utah Company. But when you pay someone to mow your lawn, nearly all of it stays local. The person who is mowing your lawn is much more likely to do business with the business you work for than say Honda.

3. Launch a side hustle or two. I realize that this is not really saving money, unless you consider the age old advice a dollar saved is a dollar earned, then this is just the flip side of that. In today’s world there are an abundance of ways you can start a side hustle. Sell some of your unneeded stuff on eBay, breed your dog (everyone wants some type of oodle these days), rent out storage on apps like Neighbor, drive for Uber or Lyft, I saw a new App to rent your RV,

and there is one to rent your car, or second home, or bedroom in your first home.

4. Get rid of the storage unit. I laugh everytime I pass one of these storage unit businesses. I realize that there are certain legitimate reasons that one would need to rent a storage unit, but I don't think most people are using it for that type of reason.

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This stupid pandemic has changed our relationship with food. With most restaurants and bars closed, people are looking for new ways to stay nourished and inebriated.

Working from home for several weeks, we prepared three meals a day, plus snacks, for five people and a needy puppy. And by “snacks” I mean we pretty much ate all day long. We wore a groove in the tile from the living room to the pantry.

When the lock-down started, I innocently said, “Think of the money we’ll save by not eating at restaurants. We’re going to lose so much weight not eating fast food!”

Things went downhill fast.

Not only do we spend a dump truck load of money for groceries each week, but we’re stress-eating 24 hours a day. I’ve baked cookies, cakes, muffins and brownies – and that was just this morning.

My daughter and I take turns making meals. We try to find things everyone will enjoy, which is absolutely impossible. We have lots of pasta and rice dishes, fish sticks and take-out pizza. My daughter is a vegetarian, so her meals are full of veggies, chickpeas and quinoa, or what my hus-

band calls “sadness foods.”

One vegetarian dinner started the “Things I would never eat, even if I was going to die” conversation. My husband’s list is basically vegetables, but I have a bounty of foods I would never want to eat again. Things I was forced to eat as a child top my list.

For not growing up in the Great Depression, my mom was

said, “Those are just the eyes of the potato” which gave me a potato phobia for several decades as I envisioned eating little potato eyeballs.

My grandma made lima beans to spite me. She’d serve a big bowl of pale-green mushiness mixed with greasy, globular pork fat, then shame me for not eating it.

adept at whipping up meals that could have been served in a Dickensian orphanage. She’d buy things at the grocery store and I’d cry because I knew what was coming.

Jars of dried beef? Creamed chipped beef on toast. Sour cream? “Beef” stroganoff made with noodles, sour cream gravy and textured vegetable protein.

Once I complained about lumpy mashed potatoes and my dad

“When I was a little girl, I’d be happy and grateful for lima beans,” she’d say. “I wasn’t spoiled.”

“Were lima beans invented when you were a little girl?” I’d ask, which usually got me another spoonful of the vile stuff.

Stewed tomatoes, tapioca pudding (eyeballs again), my dad’s flour pudding (don’t ask), deviled eggs (obviously) and potato salad (eww) round out my list

of things I’ll never eat again.

But back to today, where my food choices are substantially subpar. If I’m going to die from a ridiculous coronavirus, I might as well eat what I want.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel. And it’s not some murderous chef with a flamethrower.

Following COVID-19 restrictions, some restaurants are opening again. The hubbie and I donned our face masks, took a swig of hand sanitizer, put on some plastic gloves and hit a Mexican restaurant for the first time in months. The chile verde almost brought me to tears. The margarita definitely did.

It will be an interesting summer as picnics, BBQs, family reunions and vacations are being reimagined. So many of our celebrations revolve around food and sharing it with the people we love.

The trick is finding the balance to do it safely.

Our dishwasher runs nonstop. The grandkids (and husband) complain about eating asparagus.

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This followed the Black Lives Matter and police brutality protests that began after a black man named George Floyd died under police custody in Minneapolis.

“This week I was flooded with Millcreek residents’ concerns and suggestions for improving policing and preventing excessive use of force, racial bias and other bias,” Silvestrini said. “As mayor and a Unified Police Department board member, I hear you loud and clear. I know something of the character of our officers and the efforts our department has already undertaken to prevent tragic results like we saw in George Floyd’s death and far too many other unacceptable instances.”

The event sparked outrage throughout the nation and protests have continued over the weeks in various parts of Utah.

Millcreek Precinct officers have participated with others in Salt Lake County as protests continue to push for more police reform.

Salt Lake City Council members are weighing their options.

Elected officials and staff are said to be looking at a multipronged plan that includes moving some funds from the police department to what are called nondepartmental accounts.

Also putting certain funds on hold until later in the year to be used after conducting a third-party evaluation of the law enforcement budget.

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