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AFTER FOUR YEARS OF SERVICE, LISA ADAMS STEPS DOWN By Natalie Mollinet | natalie@mycityjournals.com

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When asked about my service on the City Council, I tell people that I feel like I have been in a four-year graduate program called, ‘Salt Lake City Studies,’” former Salt Lake City councilwoman Lisa Adams said in her monthly email. Now, after four years of working on the council and doing her unofficial “Salt Lake City Studies” degree, she has decided not to run for another term and move onto the next chapter in her life. In 2014, Adams ran for city council after having lost before. But this wasn’t her first time working with the city. Adams worked with the Salt Lake City Planning Commission from March 2012 to January 2014 and also served as a trustee for Utah Dispute Resolution from January 2013 to January 2015. When she saw the opportunity to run for City Council, she felt that her background working with the government and also as an attorney might help her on the council. “I just saw that there was a need for a council member in the city,” Adams said. “I felt my background as an attorney and being really involved in schools and knowing the community well, I felt I’d do a good job on the council.” When she first ran, she didn’t get the votes and lost, but when the opportunity came again, her family rallied around her and pushed her to run again in 2014. This time she won. Adams grew in up in Salt Lake City in The Avenues, graduated from East High School and went onto the University of Utah to get her B.S. in Mass Communications and B.A. in English, and later getting a certificate from Stanford University’s Mass Media Institute. After working with words and literature, she went on to graduate from the University of Utah Law School in 1986, something different from her previous degrees. “I thought it would be an interesting thing to pursue,” Ad-

For the past four years, Lisa Adams has worked tirelessly to help her district including Sugar House. (Courtesy Salt Lake City Council)

ams said when talking about going to law school. “I probably had watched too much ‘Law and Order’ and I really was interested in doing legal things in helping family and children.” Adams was actively involved in Salt Lake City’s schools as a volunteer, worked as a PTA board member, served as chair of a school community council, and president of the Salt Lake City Secondary Schools PTA board. She has four children, two boys went to East High School and two girls who went to Highland High. When she attended games, Adams would wear both school colors and sit right in the middle of the parent section and cheer on her East High football player in the field and her Highland High Pep Club president in the stands.

She’s been a longtime resident of the neighborhood near Parley’s. “I love representing Sugar House because it’s a vibrant community and we have really different parts of Sugar House who have different opinions,” Adams said. “It really required a lot of balancing and being fair and representing what my community cares about.” Adams said one thing she learned while being on the council is not only being balanced but working to get the information out to the community on issues. She said that sometimes if she felt differently about an issue than most in the community, she needed to work to put her district’s wants before hers and understand that’s Continued on Page 5...

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ith technology taking over the art of writing, letters have become a novelty. It’s almost as fun to get a handwritten letter as it is to get a thoughtful gift from someone. In Amber Pulley’s fifth-grade class this past year, her students, along with another fifth-grade class at Escalante Elementary, brought the art back to life and became pen pals, mailing letters through almost the entire year of school. Before coming to Highland Park, Pulley started at Escalante which is a Title 1 school. When she transferred, she noticed a great divide in the eastside schools and westside school and wanted to bridge that gap. So, she and a former colleague decided to create pen pals between two fifth-grade classes, so that the students could better understand each other. “If you focus on what you have in common it allows you to be more tolerant and compassionate,” Pulley said. “I’m hoping to teach tolerance, compassion and teach writing in an authentic way.” The students encouraged each other to correct their spelling and grammar in their letters and some even had to learn cursive because their pen pal only knew how to write that way. Pulley said that the letter exchange was beneficial for all students. Many Escalante students are refugees who are trying to learn how to live in the United States, and some only knew how to write their name. Highland Park students saw first hand how challenging learning a new language can be and their interest grew on what their pen pals were doing.

Zeke with another pen pal Senyat. (Collette Mitchell/Parent)

Pulley said that the Highland Park students’ compassion grew to their pen pals and their interest in the world around them peaked. “We got pen pals near the beginning of the school year,” Zeke Mitchell, one of Pulley’s fifth-graders, said. “I got a pen pal named Senyat. We wrote to each other about things we did during the year. A lot of time we would go on the same field trips, so we wrote about what we thought of those or things we liked to do.” “It was powerful as a teacher to watch my students grow their interpersonal skills in a way which you can’t teach from a textbook,” Pulley said. “I just gave them a resource and this avenue allowed them to experience it in an authen-

tic way.” After writing back and forth for a year, the classes decided to meet for the first time. A field trip was set up at a park between the two schools on the second to last day of school. Pulley said a lot of the kids were nervous. “I wondered what they would look like and what we would do at the park,” Zeke said about meeting his pen pals. “It was good meeting them. We gave our pen pals notebooks with pens. Inside we’d written a letter back to them on the first page.” When they arrived, there were twice as many students from Escalante than Highland Park since Escalante had two classes that were involved in the project.

“There were some kids there who could barely speak English and hadn’t been in the US all that long,” Collette Mitchell, Zeke’s mother and parent helper, said. “There was a language barrier, cultural differences and gender differences, too. I was really impressed to see how the kids handled it.” Mitchell said the kids mixed well together even though some were shy at first, but eventually they were playing on the playground together, playing tennis and shooting hoops. When the time came to leave their new friends and pen pals, hugs were exchanged and friendships were formed through a simple school project. l

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Sugar House dazzles during July 4th celebrations By Natalie Mollinet | natalie@mycityjournals.com

here’s something exciting about looking into the sky as fireworks flash red, white and blue, with the music playing John Phillips Sousa with the blasts beating in your chest. Thousands of spectators from around the county gathered at Sugar House Park to watch the show and celebrate the Fourth of July. Celebrations started early throughout Sugar House, at places like Wilmington Plaza, Hidden Hollow and Sugarmont. The Arts Festival was spread out and even though the temperatures were high, it didn’t stop people from enjoying the art, live music and food. “We love seeing all the vendors and things like that, I like how it’s grown, it’s really cool,” Mindee Olliff, one of the attendees, said. There were also those who saved their places for the grand finale—the firework display. Sugar House Park had a variety of food trucks, entertainment and, of course, live music. “I’ve been to a few in the valley, and this one I think it’s the biggest, I swear this is the longest and best-looking show,” Olliff said. Olliff is one of Dee and Barbara Anderson’s children, and their family has been going to Sugar House Park annually for about 12 years, never missing a show, except the year there wasn’t a show. The family visits the nearby KFC and then sits and has a picnic while waiting for the display of explosions. “My parents had a big yard, and we used to have a tradition of going there every year,” Barbara Anderson said. “They got older and couldn’t do it anymore, and when we used to go to their place we were there all day then we would come here for the fireworks.” The Andersons since have had to come earlier and earlier since the event has grown but enjoy spending the time with their family. The Andersons come from Millcreek to watch the firework display and spend time with family. Barbara said that Sugar House has become their new tradition since they are now the grandparents. They set up camp with chairs, bring a cooler with drinks and spread blankets

on top of the north hill to get the best view. “What I think has been cool about this over the years, it gets wall to wall people but they’re nice people,” Barbara said. Even with the changes over the years, with the event growing as it has with the addition of the festival and the food trucks, the Anderson family likes how it has grown. One of their favorite firework displays was the show after 9/11 when the fireworks were in sync with the patriotic music. “It was a tear jerker,” Olliff said. The Andersons have tried other firework shows but they just aren’t the same as Sugar House, with the hills that make for great viewing. One year they went to Murray Park to appease their daughter and son-in-law but decided that Sugar House was where it was at. “Now they come back here,” Dee Anderson said. “They’ve repented.” l

Update: Fireworks in 2018 may not go forward. Even though the fireworks in Sugar House have been an ongoing tradition, it has seen its ups and downs. There have been a few years where many thought the fireworks wouldn’t happen, unfortunately 2018 looks like it may be one of those years. “Currently no entity has arranged to put on a firework display at Sugar House Park for the Fourth of July in 2018,” Chad Anderson, Sugar House Park vice president said in a statement. The cost and time does become an issue to those who plan it with expenses necessary for the fireworks, labor and event itself. The park is filled with thousands of people and vendors.

People from all over the valley came to watch the Sugar House Park fireworks. (Natalie Mollinet\City Journals)

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Family fights to bring awareness and understanding to a common disease By Natalie Mollinet | natalie@mycityjournals.com

ne of the most common diseases in the world is actually one of the least well known in the world—it’s called migraine disease, and it affects 38 million people worldwide. The Henry family living in and around Sugar House, started a foundation called the Danielle Byron Henry Migraine Foundation to increase public awareness of migraine disease and headache disorder, and the impact on patients, their families and society. “The most difficult part of migraine disease is that it is largely unseen and misunderstood,” said Dan Henry, a doctor who specializes in headache and migraine disorders. “There are more who have migraine disorder than asthma and diabetes combined, and it’s really unknown because people don’t see it every day.” Henry works at the Foothill Family Clinic in Salt Lake City, but changed his family practice once one of his family members who suffered from the disease had a fatal stroke. Since then he and his family have dedicated themselves to spreading knowledge and understanding about the disease, starting with their foundation. The Danielle Byron Henry Migraine Foundation started in March of last year after the Henry family lost a daughter and a sister to migraine disease. Danielle Henry, who the foundation is named after, passed from migraine disease in 1999, a battle she fought from an early age. At the time, little was known about the disease and the most the family could do was give Danielle a shot to help calm the migraines. Danielle attended J.E Cosgriff Memorial Catholic School in Sugar House and then went onto Judge Memorial Catholic High School. “She did miss a lot of school, but despite that she was an honor student, and a varsity athlete,” Elizabeth Weyher, Danielle’s sister, said. “Danielle played varsity tennis, softball and basketball.” Weyher said that Danielle was lucky to be at a good school that understood her needs. Her basketball coach and teacher had a place in her classroom where she could rest if the migraines got too bad, and learned how to help her with the injections she needed. “Having that there for her was great,” Weyher said, “when she’d get her migraines, she sometimes couldn’t see so she couldn’t drive, and there were times where she couldn’t remember her phone number.” Danielle was hospitalized at least twice due to the disease. Her parents exhausted all their resources in Utah and finally went around the country meeting with specialists and trying to find different treatments. “When she got the disease, all my free time went to finding answers for her disease,” Henry said. “When it’s your child, you want to find answers. I wasn’t planning on becoming a headache expert but over the years, I became one.” After her 10-year battle with migraine disease, Danielle had a stroke, which the disease caused, and passed away at the age of 17. Even after her death, her father still pushed to learn more, and educate doctors on the disease so that they could learn to better diagnose patients who came into their clinics. “I think the primary problem is the lack of awareness,” Weyher said. “Everyone knows about diabetes and asthma, and if you say migraine, people think of it as a headache, when in all seriousness it’s a neurological disease. My sister used to say, ‘I wish I had a brain tumor, because then someone would understand.’” Henry said that most doctors don’t know how to diagnose the disease or treat it. During a medical student’s time in school, they will only have two, one-hour lectures on headaches, so it’s not surprising that doctors know so little on the disease and disorder. Through the foundation, the family has been able to start a Headache School at the University of Utah in Research Park. They bring together speakers who know different aspects about headaches and educate not only families who are affected by the disease but medical students and doctors who want to learn more. “After she passed, we decided that I would spend the rest of my career just taking care of headache patients,” Henry said. “I thought if I could help one person and then help the next person and the next person, I could relieve some of the suffering.” The foundation not only started the Headache School at the university, but provides a free support group for adolescents who live with the disease. The group meets the first and third Tuesday of every month from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at the Foothill Family Clinic at 6360 S. 3000 East. The family started this after learning that there weren’t any support groups

in the nation for those with migraine disease and headache disorder. According to studies, migraine is the 6th most disabling illness in the world. More than 90% of those suffering from the disease are unable to work or function normally during their migraine. Henry has had patients who have a hard time keeping jobs and a social life because their headaches keep them away from living a normal life. Because so many different things can trigger a migraine such as computers, missed meals, lights and weather, one of his young patients said, “life is what triggers my migraines.” The family is holding a public fundraiser called “Shine Her Light” on June 16 at the Gallivan Center in Salt Lake City. The fundraiser starts at 6 p.m., and will feature Danielle Henry passed away at the age of 17 music by Disgusting from migraine disease. (Henry Family) Brothers Band, and dinner will be provided by Black Sliders, Fiore Pizza, La Rancherita, Saturday’s Waffle and Sweetaly Gelato. All the proceeds will go towards the foundation which goes towards headache disorder and migraine disease research and funds the different programs organized by the family. “Ultimately, before I die, I hope we actually have a comprehensive headache program here in the state of Utah, whether it’s at IHC or the university,” Henry said. “If we can start as a community and develop these programs for support and awareness, then it could be a model around the country.” Learn more about the group session and the disease or donate to the foundation at daniellefoundation.org. l

Update: After learning about migraine disease and how if affects so many people—more than diabetes and asthma combined—the Henry and Weyher families have worked to continue the research and help those who may have the disorder. The “Shine Her Light” fundraiser in June brought approximately 350 people to the Gallivan Center where they raised $86,000 and, in December, they received a $5,000 grant from an anonymous donor. “In September, we began offering scholarships for a Healthy Mind Group, led by Dan Kaufmann, Ph.D, a research assistant professor in the Headache Physiology Laboratory at the University of Utah,” Elizabeth Henry Weyher said. The program addresses challenges for those who live with chronic illnesses or stress-related health problems. It teaches issues by combining information from Eastern and Western medicine. Along with the new program, the first preventative medication designed specifically for migraine prevention (CGRP) is likely to be FDA approved by the second half of 2018. Doctors found an antibody that counteracts one of the molecules released during a migraine. The medicine has been on trial and will hopefully be ready for those who suffer from migraine disease.l

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Hard work helps Highland boys basketball go undefeated in summer tournament By Koster Kennard | koster.k@mycityjournals.com

ighland’s boys basketball team has been going to the summer tournament in Lake Tahoe for 20 years but this year was extra special. This year, they won all five of their games. Head Coach Jim Boyce attributes the team’s success at the camp to their athleticism and experience. “I think we’ve got a pretty athletic team coming back, probably the most athletic team I’ve ever coached and a lot of those guys had a lot of varsity experience last season, and so I’d like to think that we’re going to be pretty decent coming up for this next year,” Boyce said. Another key to the team’s success was hard work. “They played really hard. It’s a really hard working group of kids because we certainly didn’t blow anybody out, but we came from behind a couple times and kids just never quit and played as hard as they could,” Boyce said. “Things happen when you do that.” Though the team went undefeated, beating teams from California and Nevada, their experience wasn’t without adversity. The team went into the camp without star wing Elijah Shelton who is recovery from a June 2 knee surgery. “We had to kind of learn how to work without him,” said senior captain Oscar Maxfield. “For the majority of the game he’ll have the ball in his hands and make plays for other people. He gets rebounds. He guards the other team’s best player. He scores. He does everything. He’s a great player.” After playing three games in the last three days and spending time at the beach, Highland’s energy was all but spent going into their Friday evening contest with Saint Mary’s, a large high school in northern California. Before the end of the first half, the team was down 25-11. For much of the game, Boyce had the team in a full court

press defense to slow down Saint Mary’s. “Coaches called a timeout to calm us down and just put on our press which is kind of our signature thing,” Maxfield said. “We’re really athletic so our press is really hard to beat so we just got a bunch of steals in a row.” The momentum turned in the Ram’s favor in the second half after junior point guard Liki Makaui got a steal and passed the ball to senior forward Trayton Keyes who was fouled hard going up for a layup. “He went up to dunk it and he got clobbered,” Maxfield said. “It was a flagrant foul and the kid got kicked out of the gym and everyone went nuts.” Maxfield said that this play angered his team and helped motivate them to win. “We just fed off of that. That was the turnaround. We knew, at that point, that we’re not losing,” he said. The team stormed back narrowly edging their opponent. Sam Palmer, Max Okland, Oscar Maxfield and Treyton Tiner gather for a photo at “That’s the thing with this group,” Boyce said. “It doesn’t Round Hill Pines Beach. (Sam Maxfield/ Highland Basketball) matter if you get down or whatnot. They always seem to have a knack for coming back and being successful.” In addition to playing basketball, the team played games at The camp included 25 to 30 teams but there was no the beach like volleyball and spikeball and went bowling. bracketed tournament. Each team played five games. “It’s a great team bonding thing,” Boyce said. “It’s fun to see “They didn’t name a champion,” Boyce said. “We did well but I don’t know if we could say we won the tournament. I’m not players kind of out of that basketball, school type situation where sure if any of the other teams went undefeated or not but I like how you can kind of get to know them a little better.” During the camp many boys made new friends. it worked out. It was a really successful thing for us.” “That carries over into the season cause there’s going to be Maxfield said the team had success because they are effective in transition and have so many players the coach can trust when times where we’re not going to win every game or it’s not going to be all successes for us next year, and I think these are the things fatigue, injury or foul trouble show up. Coach Boyce brought down 17 boys from his junior varsity that help us kind of bond together so we can get through some of the challenges that we’re going to face next year,” said Boyce. l (JV) and varsity programs. His JV team only lost one game.

Honoring the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. By Shantay Earl, Communications Coordinator Westminster College invites members of the community to join us in celebrating and honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. MLK is still widely regarded as America’s leading advocate for civil rights and the end of racial segregation. The series of events hosted at Westminster is an opportunity for building community and hearing diverse perspectives. This year’s keynote speaker for the MLK celebration will be poet, scholar and activist, Nikki Giovanni. Giovanni is a well-known African-American poet who was born in Knoxville, Tenn., but was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has won the Langston Hughes Medal and the NAACP Image Award. Giovanni graduated with honors in history from Fisk University and is now on the faculty at Virginia Tech, where she is a University Distinguished Professor. This year’s keynote is presented by Westminster College, Salt Lake Community College and the Bastian Foundation. The MLK celebration arrives on the heels of the approval of Westminster’s first-adopted diversity statement, which articulates the college’s commitment to social justice, equity and respect. Westminster has made inclusive excellence a goal, whereby, it will strive to consistently interweave diversity and inclusion into its curricula and co-curricular activities, programs, policies, practices and external engagement. Westminster prepares students to lead lives of learning, accomplishment and service, and to help them think critically in a diverse and interdependent world.

King was noted to identify points of connection and unity among others and the importance of working together to “make oppression of any people by others an impossibility.” Engaging in the topics of diversity, equity and inclusion, and celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. gives the community on and around campus a feeling of togetherness and hope for a more inclusive living and learning environment. “Through our slate of MLK programs, we have aimed to increase campus and community participation and collaboration this year,” said Marco Barker, associate vice president and chief diversity officer at Westminster College. “Our diversity statement calls for more dialogue and inclusion of diverse voices and the state of affairs in our nation and abroad demands these moments of learning, engaging and standing for unity, justice and inclusion.” All of Westminster’s MLK events are planned by the college’s faculty, staff and students. The following events are free and open to the public: Westminster’s MLK rally and march Jan. 15, 2018. Converse Hall, Westminster College at 8:30 a.m. MLK keynote speaker, lecture with Nikki Giovanni Jan. 18, 2018. Grand Theatre, Salt Lake Community College at 7 p.m. 1575 S State St, Salt Lake City, UT 84115 *There will be a book signing following the event World Affairs Lecture by Nicole Tung, award-winning photojournalist Jan. 23, 2018. Jewett Center for the Performing Arts, Westminster College at 7 p.m. To find out more about MLK, visit westminstercollege.edu/MLK. For more information about Westminster College’s Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion visit westminstercollege.edu/diversity.

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ebekah Wightman is an Estate Planning, Probate, and Guardianship attorney at Corbett & Gwilliam, PLLC in South Jordan. Though an Oregon native, Rebekah has made her home in Utah for the last 11 years and currently resides in Herriman with her husband and two sons. When Rebekah was 14 years old, her maternal grandfather died leaving a complex estate to sort out; the next several years were spent collecting, inventorying, managing, selling, and distributing his estate. She witnessed firsthand the toll that a poorly organized estate takes on the family left sorting things out. This experience stuck with Rebekah and led her to practice in the areas of estate planning, guardianship, and probate. Of all that Rebekah’s job entails, she most enjoys educating the community through lunch ‘n learns, seminars, and answering oneon-one questions. As a mother of young children, she is especially passionate about helping young families understand that estate planning is not just for the elderly or the wealthy, and that it provides solutions to many of our most persistent worries. A recent client related, “No one likes to think about the “what will happen when I pass on” scenarios. It’s not a pleasant thought process, but everyone needs to have a plan. Rebekah helped me weigh all the pros and cons of setting up a trust and explained everything very well and so that it made sense to me. She even makes sure that you have all the extras for your children to make sure they are taken care of if you can’t be there. She made it easy, quick and painless.”. Rebekah holds a J.D. from the University of Utah, S.J.

Quinney School of Law, and a B.A. in International Relations from Brigham Young University. During her schooling, she interned for Representative Becky Lockhart and researched for the WomanStats Project. Rebekah sits on the board for the Southwest Valley Chamber of Commerce, co-chairs the Serving our Seniors Initiative through the Young Lawyers Division of the Utah State Bar, and has volunteered with several Utah-based organizations including Family Promise, Project Read, and the Boys and Girls Club. Most recently, she has worked with the Herriman High School Future Business Leaders of America Club. She was even named Utah FBLA Business Person of the Year for 2017. Marin Murdock, the president of the Herriman High School FBLA commented, “Rebekah’s selfless determination to help everyone she meets has made a lasting impact, and the Herriman FBLA Chapter is grateful for all of her hard work to strengthen our chapter and community. I personally have learned numerous lifelong lessons from Rebekah as she has been a personal mentor to me. She is a great example of who I want to be as a future business woman and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to be able to work with her over the last two years.” When Rebekah isn’t lawyering, she enjoys eating shaved ice, playing tennis, reading, leg wrestling, watching British Dramas, singing LOUDLY, playing with her kids, laughing, and generally enjoying life. Rebekah can be reached at Rebekah@cglawgroup.com, 801285- 6302 or by visiting cglawgroup.com. l

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War against hunger continues, with homegrown reinforcements

he sign says, “Veggies for the food bank, please no dog waste.” It’s posted in front of Lynda Brown’s house to keep her garden free of contamination. The food isn’t for her family, it’s for those one in five children or one in seven adults suffering from hunger the studies talk about. “It’s a great way to make a big difference in people’s lives,” Brown said. Brown is one of dozens of homeowners growing gardens where their fresh surplus produce is taken to collection sites and then transported to a nearby distribution site be it food banks, pantries or churches. It’s all part of Backyard GardenShare, Pat Thomas’ brainchild and evolving program to feed the hungry healthy food. “It changes your whole life, your potential, your possibility if you have not only sufficient food but nutritious food that we know fuels our minds and our bodies and gives us the minerals and the nutrients that we need,” Thomas said. Salt Lake City Councilwoman Lisa Adams, a huge proponent of the program, lives around the corner from Thomas having known her since 1977. She said the program’s a “wonderful way” to match someone’s abundance with another’s scarcity. “There are so many people in our valley who rarely get fresh food, it is such a prized possession,” said Adams, who contributed multiple pounds of apricots last year. “If you’ve got extra, share it.” What started seven years ago in Thomas’s house has grown substantially. Last year marked the program’s startup across the valley when the program was under the Green Urban Lunch Box umbrella. By the end of the harvest season in 2016, BGS had collected just over 7,000 pounds of fresh produce from two dozen collection sites that range from Syracuse to Sugar House to Holladay to Tooele. There’s a person in Boise, Idaho who plans to start the program. BGS has now spun off into its own nonprofit. Its journey was chronicled in a documentary last fall. The 11-minute film not only won first place at the Peery Changemakers Film Festival at BYU, BGS won “Best Solution to a Social Problem.” Thomas has found partners with the Utah Food Bank, Catholic Community Services and Salt Lake School District that will supply the food pantries at East and Highland High Schools. All of this while also doing constant fundraising to cover costs for lawn signs (demarcates collection sites), coolers and fliers. “It’s pretty thrilling it does take every minute of my free time, but right now that’s what I want to give,” Thomas said. People have also started growing specific produce for people of different cultures like pepper plants which are used for Caribbean-style meals. “It’s just amazing that you have an idea that you feel like has just been out there anyway…

By Travis Barton | travis@mycityjournals.com businesses or worksites, “not just for their com- does food drives. We could be doing that all harand see the community rise to it,” Thomas said. vest season long…that’s something I’d love to Thomas’ understanding of hunger has munity around them but for their employees.” At the University of Utah’s School of Nurs- see.” evolved since her time in Guatemala, where Brown said the more people who hear about she lived for a time during the 80s. She said she ing there’s a nurse who collects produce from her didn’t have the life experience to comprehend coworkers and then takes it home where there’s a the program, the bigger the difference it will make. distribution site five minutes from home. the implications hunger has on a person. “You’re growing food and you’re giving it Jolley’s Pharmacy at 1300 E. and 1700 But she does now. “At this point in my life…I see that it South serves as a collection spot. The pharmacy to people who really need it. It’s just a win,” she changes a person to have healthy food, it brings has a delivery driver who, while making drop- said. “I think people wait for some big thing they can do to make a difference and this way is really them opportunities, it brings them health. It gives offs, stops by a distribution site. Thomas said it streamlines the process since so simple and so easy.” them education, it allows them to stay in their For more information on the program visit jobs, to not miss so much work or schooling,” “people are already going to work.” backyardgardenshare.org or email pat@back“That’s a new thing I want to tap into. We Thomas said. yardgardenshare.org. l do that with non-perishables when the food bank She added she’s seen loved ones suffering from serious illness who improved significantly simply from eating more nutritiously. “That’s pretty powerful. When you see it firsthand you say, ‘Gosh, we’ve got this (food), it’s wasting, why aren’t we giving it to people?” Brown said she loves the program saying it just seems a natural thing to do. “(Pat’s) just done a great job of organizing and getting everything going so that it’s simple and easy for people,” she said. Growing and Developing There’s still plenty of room for BGS to grow, Thomas said. Having people like Brown, Adams or a Syracuse collector who amassed 800 pounds from their neighborhood take ownership with the program gives it more traction, Thomas said. Cliff Hurst, a professor at Westminster College, used BGS as a semester project to figure out how to sustain revenue and sustainability. Thomas is giving all her free time to the cause, but that individual ownership will cultivate the program. In 2016, Backyard GardenShare collected over 7,000 pounds of produce. (Pat Thomas/Backyard GardenShare) “It could go faster if I wasn’t the only battery,” she said. “I’m just a AAA battery, I need a bunch of nine volts out there.” Update: Volunteers and participants don’t have to be Growing impact of the Backyard Gardenshare “We’ve partnered with a nonprofit called gardeners to participate. Thomas has had people program Wasteless Solutions to bring an app to the offer their skills like designers helping create her website or lawn signs or a man who created program,” Thomas said. “Dana Wiliamson spreadsheets for collection hosts to organize and By Spencer W. Belnap with Wasteless Solutions is a partner who is record their inventory. s.belnap@mycityjournals.com bringing a free app called Foodrescue.us to “The impact is greater if more people bring SLC. This app will make it easier for everyone, something to the table and say I can do this,” Salt Lake City’s Backyard GardenShare especially distribution sites, to see where and Thomas said. program sprouted in a big way in 2017, and what is needed on any given day.” She said it can be helping her fundraise or founder and director Pat Thomas couldn’t be The Foodrescue.us app is already available write grants. more excited. in other cities, and should only make Backyard “As we kind of get to that point where “It went fantastic this year,” Thomas said, GardenShare more seamless and user-friendly. people are adding their thread to the cloth then “far exceeding our goals.” In addition to the app, the program what’s to stop it from being picked up and being Thomas highlighted some of the blooming hopes to see even more growth and success in put into other communities like Boise,” Thomas figures. “We went from 18 collectors of 2018. “We want to figure out how to give to said. produce to around 40 this year, including three communities that don’t know about Backyard Having people drop off the food at pantries businesses. Ten distribution sites in 2016, and GardenShare yet,” Thomas said. “We’ll really could also deepen the roots of a person’s comnow 38.” She mentioned another staggering look into some areas where we could have a mitment. number—27,000 pounds of food went to huge impact with schools and families and “That’s the hook for people, drop it off and people in the community who need it instead build a program around them.” seeing the faces light up,” Thomas said. of going to waste. “It took off so big this year,” Thomas said. Adams said people will “practically weep, The program is growing so rapidly that Even in early December, she was still receiving they’re so happy to see fresh fruit, fresh vegetaThomas is bringing in new technology to help donations of bananas, Cuties, and other produce bles” due to an inability to purchase or grow the aid her and her growing army of growers, people don’t want to see wasted. l produce themselves. distributors and organizers. 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Parents work to build bridges with students and refugees By Natalie Mollinet | natalie@mycityjournals.com

Lisa McConkie and two of her kids help out with reading in Elaine Toronto’s ESL class. (Elaine Toronto/ESL Teacher).

oving into a new country can be an experience filled with both anxiety and curiosity. At Highland High, parents have started to reach out along with their students to the refugees at Highland High in the ESL classes, whether it’s through reading, tutoring or just playing games to build connections between students.

“We’re a group of four moms who got together and knew there was possibly a need,” Mindi Rich, a mother of two Highland students said. “We really wanted to involve our kids and connect them more with people and kids that they wouldn’t normally connect with.” Rich said she decided to give the school a call to see what they could do and luckily for her

and the other mothers, they met Elaine Toronto, the ESL teacher at Highland who found the right place for them. “I was thrilled to hear that moms in this community wanted to come in and support these kids,” Toronto said. “My students come with such a wide range of abilities, and from countries where the quality of education ranges from excellent to barely an educational structure.” Toronto has about 30 kids in her ESL class coming from Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Venezuela and Thailand. Some of their parents were refugees from Burma or Myanmar and some of the kids were born in refugee camps. The mothers have been meeting with the refugee students almost every school day, and have been tutoring them. They are trying to find ways to get their students involved since most times both the refugee students and Highland students are in class. They have started a lunchtime group called “The Exchange Club,” to share stories, food and culture. “Our eyes have really been open to how much need there is for connecting and not just learning,” Rich said. “The kids are eager to become good students and become integrated into the system and get employment. They really want to learn.” For many of the refugee students it’s hard to get involved in school programs because their GPA’s don’t meet the requirements, and because of this they have a hard time meeting other students. While the mothers are there, they help them learn to read and tutor them in many basics so they can learn English and build their GPA.

“They are very friendly towards them and polite,” Toronto said about how the students act with the teachers. “I now have mothers that are coming in for their second, third and fourth times and that’s getting better because my kids realize that there is a staying power with these moms.” Toronto said that a mother can work with a small group of students and help them with their pronunciation, listening, reading comprehension and writing. Having the one on one is helping them progress in their education but the greatest joy is seeing the mothers fall in love with the kids who are so appreciative of them. “What I’m most excited about is that these women are also planning activities to try to integrate my students with the regular Highland students,” Toronto said. “This is so important to cross that barrier of culture and overcome the implied fear of not being able to communicate with somebody who may not speak your language—on both sides.” “I think it’s groundbreaking what these women have been doing,” Toronto said. “I know my kids feel a lot more like they belong at Highland High and they are appreciated.” For information on helping refugee students, there’s a signup sheet at http://signup.com/go/ khkvjo or contact Mindi Rich at melindarich94@ gmail.com. Highland High also collects items that refugee students may need, including clothing, shoes, blankets, gift cards to Walmart for eyeglasses, toiletries and school supplies. Contact Christie Divver at Christie.divver@slcschools. org. l

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Heavy rains damage Sprague Library By Natalie Mollinet | natalie@mycityjournals.com

n late July, the Salt Lake Valley received heavy rain in a matter of minutes. Streets were closed and school buildings, including Highland High and East High, had interior flood damage. The National Weather Service reported that the Sugar House area received 2.12 inches the morning of July 26. The Sprague Library wasn’t spared either with extensive basement flooding. “The city library’s Sprague Branch is seen as Sugar House’s neighborhood living room,” Peter Bromberg, the executive director of the Salt Lake City Public Library said. “The losses in this flood aren’t just books and computers, which can and will be replaced, but also the temporary loss of a key gathering place for the people of Salt Lake City.” Children’s books, stuffed animals and papers were heavily damaged from the water. When crews arrived, they discovered 5.5 feet of standing water in the basement and nearly everything had been damaged. “In some localized areas, with that much sudden rain, our system was simply overwhelmed,” Laura Breifer, the director of the Department of Public Utilities said about the citywide flooding. “Our team is fully dedicated to addressing the damage from this storm and will be on the scene for as long as necessary to provide clean up and support in the city.” “The rain and debris overwhelmed storm drains, and water rushed into the stairwell up from the Sprague Branch’s meeting room,” Andrew Shaw, Salt Lake Library spokesman said. “The water broke windows in the area and came into the building that way.” The library is expected to be closed for several months while the basement is cleaned. The nearest library to Sugar House is the Anderson-Foothill Branch at 1135 S. 2100 East. The staff at the Sprague Library will also be spread around the Salt Lake Library system so they can continue to do their jobs.

According to Shaw, many members of the community have asked how they can help the library. Many have offered their time, money, talents and labor to help repair the building. “We are so grateful for the overwhelming show of support for the Sprague Branch,” Shaw said. “It’s clearly a beloved and integral part of the Sugar House community.” For those who want to help through monetary donations, Shaw suggests supporting the Friends of The City Library, a partner organization that is helping address the unexpected costs. You can donate on their website at slcpl.org/friends. He also added that they are asking for photos, memories and stories of the Sprague Branch on social media with using the hashtag #MySprague. “Although the loss of books, computers and other materials is a difficult one to bear, I think the biggest lost is the temporary closure of a beloved community gathering place,” Shaw said. “The Sprague Branch has served Sugar House since 1928, and for generations, people have used the Sprague Branch as a place to come together as a neighborhood, to celebrate the community’s successes and to talk through the community’s issues.” l

Crews and library workers discovered 5.5 feet of water that morning in the library’s basement. (Andrew Shaw/Salt Lake Public Library spokesperson)

Update: Wonderful news, the library—if you didn’t already know—was partially opened to the public in October. The main level of the building opened with “express services,” that includes hold pick-ups, a small collection of materials, a handful of public access computers with shortened time limits and free public WiFi Internet access. “I am happy the Sprague Library is open again,” Councilwoman Lisa Adams said in her weekly email. “Thanks to those who worked tirelessly to get this Sugar House gem available to the public so quickly. As a community, we look forward to all services being available in the coming months.” The lower restrooms, however, haven’t been available to the public and weekly storytimes won’t be available until the basement is fixed. The library was hopeful

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to be repaired by the end of December and hopefully by 2018, Sugar House will have its historic library back. “The elevator repair is a big focus right now,” Andrew Shaw, the spokesman for the Salt Lake City Public Library said. “Without an elevator, we can’t open any parts of the lower level to the public, including restrooms and the Children’s Library.” The library is currently accepting proposals from architects to help understand what costs are to be expected with renovations in the lower level. Based on those costs, the Library Board will assess whether they have the funds necessary to move forward or see if they need to consider other funding. “If all goes well, we hope to open the elevator, Children’s Library and public restrooms in February,” Shaw said. l

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Highland alum finishes cross country career at U By Koster Kennard | koster.k@mycityjournals.com

ate Stringfellow spent four seasons running cross country and track for the University of Utah. In December, she completed her final season as a Ute. Stringfellow said she loved her time running for Utah but running wasn’t always something she loved; when Stringfellow was a freshman at Highland High School she wanted to play volleyball. “I actually started out in high school playing volleyball and I didn’t want to run at all,” said Stringfellow, who graduated in December after finishing four years of running on Utah’s cross country and track teams. “My older sister and older brother ran in high school and I kind of wanted to do something different so I played volleyball, and I was really terrible at it so, I ended up running track my freshman year after volleyball because the volleyball coach was also the track coach and he convinced to do it to stay in shape.” After a successful track season that surprised her and everyone else, Stringfellow decided she would quit volleyball and focus on track and cross country. Stringfellow attributes much of her success as a distance runner to her high school coach, Sarah Ingebretson Earl. “She did a really good job of teaching me how to race well so that I could perform at the state meet and at the meets where college coaches were,” Stringfellow said. “She really helped me. I improved every single year by a ton when I was running at Highland and her training was just spot on for what I needed to improve.” By the time Stringfellow was a senior, she finished fourth in the state cross country meet and was being recruited by several college coaches, including those at Weber State, BYU and the University of Utah. She chose Utah, because it was close to home. The University of Utah offered Stringfellow an academic and an athletic scholarship. After two and a half years running at the University of Utah, Stringfellow served an LDS mission in Rancho Cucamongo, California. for a year and a half before she returned to Salt Lake to spend the rest of her college eligibility. “I think the team got a lot more competitive,” Stringfellow said. “I kind of had to come back and prove my spot on the team. Before I left I think a lot of people kind of questioned why I was going right in the height of my college running career. So, I came back and trained hard and really had to prove my place on the team but I actually ended up running faster after (my mission).” For the next year and a half Stringfellow stepped into a new role as the oldest on the team. “(Going on a mission) gave me a good perspective and a greater appreciation for running because I had taken a year and a half away and kind of focused on a completely different part of my life,” Stringfellow said. “It was good to come back and kind of regain my love for running after having a long break from it.”

Kate Stringfellow runs during one of Utah’s cross country meets. The University of Utah placed 27th in the nation in cross country for 2016—the highest ranking of any team in Utah or in the PAC 12. (Kate Stringfellow/ Courtesy Photo)

Being at the University over the span of six years, Stringfellow saw the cross country and track programs blossom. “In those six years the team at the U has progressed so much,” Stringfellow said. “We went from placing tenth at regionals to being a national qualifying team in the last two years and beating out BYU and beating out Weber who are known nationally for being really good.” Though Stringfellow enjoyed her time running for the University of Utah she said there were a couple challenges for her. “I think you make a lot of sacrifices as a college athlete,” Stringfellow said. “You spend a lot of your time that you would spend socializing, working or doing a lot of outside things traveling almost every weekend in the season. You end up training all summer long and all year and I think mentally there are always struggles. I went through seasons that were rougher than others and had setbacks and injuries, but overall it was a totally worthwhile experience.” Kyle Kepler, head cross country coach at the University of Utah, said Stringfellow took and absorbed instruction well. “(I) definitely never had to worry that what I was saying was getting through or that I even had to say it twice,” said Kepler. “(She was) very coachable. (She) really tried to be efficient with her time and with my time and as a coach those are two things that certainly make your life a lot easier and make a kid a lot more successful.” “With a lot of hard work and a lot of focus anyone can do anything,” said Stringfellow. “You know I wasn’t like a superstar when I started out running, but I ended up having a really great experience that I wouldn’t trade for anything just from working hard in high school and sticking to something that I didn’t originally like doing.” l

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Rams swimming caps off year as region champs By Travis Barton | travis@mycityjournals.com

hile the Highland High School swim team may not have matched the heights of a year ago with state runner-up finishes for the boys and girls teams, finishing in the top 10 isn’t bad for a “rebuilding year.” The girls team finished seventh in the 4A state championships at Brigham Young University on Feb. 11 while the boys finished in 10th place. On top of that, the girls team won the Region 5 title and the boys finished second. “There was a lot of good performances at region so I was pretty happy with that,” said head coach Mark Gray a few days before the state meet. Losing many seniors from the team a year ago, the young Rams had a focus on improvement this year reaching personal goals. Some swimmers entered their first events this year with some even qualifying for state. “Everyone’s worked really hard, we have a lot of people who started this year and really improved which is awesome, lot of freshmen who made state this year, that’s pretty incredible especially for the boys cause that doesn’t always happen. It’s been a good season,” said senior captain India Phillips. Phillips capped off her swimming career at Highland with two third-place finishes in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle. It’s the youth of the team that could promise good omens for the future. “It’s a young group of kids. I think there’s a lot of progress with the kids. You don’t want to look too far into the future but if they keep progressing we should do well down the road,” Gray said and later added, “Kids are making state. Next year

we should be a bit better and the year after that even better. Our ninth-grade boys are making it in and that’s great. It’s a good thing to see.” Sophomore Holden Knight is one of the younger swimmers with a bright future. Knight took second in the 100yard butterfly with a personal best 53.55 time and he finished sixth in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:59.50. But for Gray, to focus is always the swimmer’s development, to “see the kids succeed and get their goal.” “I worry about their self-improvement rather than this place or that place,” Gray said. He noted one swimmer who had a goal to swim the 100yard freestyle under a minute and achieved that goal on his last swim. “That’s a good thing, he’s happy so he’ll be leaving the sport happy,” Gray said. He added it was great to work with kids with good attitudes like senior captain Connor Peterson. “Connor is always a happy-go-lucky guy. That’s one thing I’ll miss, cause he’s a senior this year, he’s one of those kids you say something and he goes ‘alright’ and then go off and do it,” Gray said. Those team bonds were formed between swimmers as well thanks to a team movie night or dinners after swim meets. “The team’s gotten a lot closer especially in the final month. People were hugging and crying at the end (of region) and that was kinda cool to see, to have an actual team that is friendly and friends,” Phillips said. l

SPOTLIGHT

Highland High girls swim team raises the region trophy after taking first place. (Cindy Nordstrom/Highland swim team)

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J.E. Cosgriff Memorial Catholic School was founded in 1957 thanks to a benevolent gift from the Cosgriff-Sturdevant families in memory of James E. Cosgriff. Mr. Cosgriff was a local banker and well known for his enthusiastic support of Catholic education in Utah. The first school session began with kindergarten through sixth grade under the direction of the Daughters of Charity. The Daughters of Charity continued to serve the school until 1992, with Sr. Loyola Louapre as the last religious principal. Since then, Cosgriff has been operated entirely by lay principals and faculty, under the administration of diocesan priests. The Mission of J.E. Cosgriff Memorial Catholic School is “to guide our students to become respectful, responsible, and productive citizens through quality academic instruction that is grounded in Catholic teachings and tradition.” J.E. Cosgriff School is a fully accredited parochial school in Salt Lake City for students ranging from 2-year old preschoolers through 8th graders. We follow Utah Core Standards. Some highlights about J.E. Cosgriff include: • Science fair competitions for 7th and 8th grade • Small group instruction on reading, reading comprehension and writing • Support of various local and national charitable organizations as part of our vision of giving back to the community

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Mock trial for middle school grades Spanish and Latin classes Violin, music, choir and band opportunities Recreational athletics including volleyball, basketball and track club Annual Cosgriff Community 1K and 5K Tiger Trot Race each May for families Annual J.E. Cosgriff Fine Arts Celebration held in May which includes live performances and an art walk through toddler through 8th grade masterpieces Parents and friends social activities including annual Bad in Plaid Golf Tournament, Trivia Night, and Mardi Gras Gala

Please visit us at a Parent Information Tour on Sunday, January 7, 2018 at 12:00 pm, or Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 7:00 pm For more information or additional tour dates, please go to: www.cosgriff.org or call Maggie Kearns, Admissions at 801-486-3197. J.E. Cosgriff Memorial Catholic School 2335 Redondo Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah (801) 486-3197

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How to beat the January Blues

JOANI TAYLOR

Christmas is over, money is tight and our waistbands are even tighter. We can’t help but feel a little let down. After eating too much, spending too much and maybe a few too many parties for many people January means buckling up the spending and the prospect of hitting the gym. I can’t help but feel a little bleak however, this year I’m determined to have the best January yet without breaking the bank. Here are some things I’ve got planned for the month that build up the cheer and won’t demolish the budget. Check out the Wildlife - Hogle Zoo is free the last Wednesday of the month from November through February (January 31 and February 28 2018). Plus, Tracy Aviary offers $1 admission the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month through March. Go to a Hockey Game – The Grizzlies play at the Maverick Center in WVC through April. If you’ve never been to a hockey games, they are fast paced and exciting! You can

get discounted tickets for $6.50 a person at UtahCoupons.com. Get Outside - There is nothing quite like a brisk walk in our beautiful surroundings to blow away the cobwebs and beat the winter city air. Visit one of our National Parks. They are much less busy than during the summer months and just as beautiful. For more information about Utah’s National Parks in winter go to www.visitutah.com/ places-to-go/most-visited-parks/national-parks-in-winter Volunteer – When the holiday’s end the giving shouldn’t. In fact the need is higher for volunteers in January then any other time of year. There are plenty of opportunities all around us like the food bank, animal shelters, elementary schools or just take a minute to shovel someone’s driveway after a storm. Plan a Vacation - Part of the joy of Christmas is all the planning, preparation, and excitement leading up to it. Now is a great time to start to plan a summer family vacation. A vacation to look forward to can

Go to a Hockey Game- The Grizzlies play at the Maverik Center through April.

help you overcome some of the post-Christmas blues and starting to plan early makes it easier to save for it too. Cook! Pretty much everyone seems to be on a health kick in January, so you may as well make it fun. Put on a bright colored apron

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