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f Jaime Duenas had a motto, it would be “service with a smile.” The teen, who has been serving as the Boys & Girls Club 2019 Utah Youth of the Year, takes every opportunity he can to give service to the people around him. A member of the Sugar House Boys & Girls Club, he helps organize service projects in the community and works with other kids at the club. “I just love being able to impact other people’s lives, even if it’s something small,” he said. Duenas, who will be a senior at Highland High School next year, is the president of the Sugar House Club’s Keystone Club. The group, which focuses on community service, is currently making breakfast burritos for the local homeless population. “We do 300 a day, which I think is pretty impressive for a bunch of teens,” he said. The group also handles a variety of other projects throughout the year, including a community blood drive. Duenas said he often finds projects by reaching out to the community and seeing where the greatest needs are. “I’m just really passionate about community service,” Duenas said. “I really feel that’s why I got chosen.” He was first chosen as the Salt Lake Youth of the Year, then went on to win the Utah title before ending his run at the regional competition. His speech at the club’s 52nd Annual Great Futures Gala this past May was the last of his official duties as Youth of the Year, but Duenas said he still feels the effects of the position. “Being in this position, I have little kids look up to me and want to be like me,” he said. “They see me as a person of color. They see me as someone they could respect and trust.” It’s the kind of example he feels like he didn’t have as a child. “Not having people in power who looked like me really affected me,” he said. An unsettled home life created challenges of its own. Duenas said that his parents weren’t married, which led to a lot of fighting when he was younger about when he would spend time with each of them. Years later, he still remembers a classmate saying that kids whose parents weren’t married didn’t actually exist. “It really affected me,” he said. “You shouldn’t have to have an existential crisis at 7.” When his little sister was born, Duenas described it as
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Jaime Duenas prepares breakfast burritos with Polly Startup (left) and Nick Altman, other members of the Keystone Club. (Jenniffer Wardell/ City Journals)
Jaime Duenas speaks at the Great Futures Gala in May. (Photo courtesy Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake)
“the best thing that ever happened to me.” Unfortunately, it also made his home life even less stable. “The fighting started up again,” he said. “I started having these thoughts that I was the problem, and maybe it would be better for everyone if I wasn’t around.” Thankfully, a friend recommended the Boys & Girls Club’s after school program. “I found a place I belonged,” Duenas said of his first visit to the club. “Everyone’s so nice and accepting. It’s been like a second home ever since.” It also reignited old dreams of going to college. Duenas said that he’s wanted to go to the University of Utah ever since he was a kid, but as he got older it was tough to believe he could make it happen. “In middle school, I felt (the dream) slipping away,” he
said. “I didn’t think I was smart or capable enough to make it.” At the Boys & Girls Club, however, he saw more opportunities he could use to achieve his dream. He also realized it was a way to help other people achieve their dreams. “If I went to college, I could help people who didn’t have the resources I did,” he said. Though he relishes the chance to be an example for others, Duenas admits that it can also be intimidating. “It’s a little scary at first, because you’re still young and developing,” he said. “There’s a lot of pressure, but it made me feel like I could have a lasting impact on the people around me.” It’s also helped him prepare for life beyond college. “When I get older and have a family of my own, I’ll know how to take that pressure and not crack,” he said. l
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Sugar House Pub Crawl draws in thousands By Jenniffer Wardell | j.wardell@mycityjournals.com
Left to right: Ashton Martin, Karen Heaton, Jasmine Godoy, Karen Romig and Jaide Matson share a table at the Fiddler’s Elbow during the Sugar House Pub Crawl. (Jenniffer Wardell/City Journals)
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Alex and Ashley Page enjoy drinks at the Mellow Mushroom during the 2019 pub crawl. (Jenniffer Wardell/ City Journals)
a lack of prizes. Participants who collected stamps from all nine locations were encouraged to turn in their passports for this year’s prize drawing. The first-place prize was tickets for this year’s Mountain Brewers Beer Fest, held June 1 in Idaho Falls. The second prize was tickets to the Squatters Craft Beers 30th birthday party in September, and the third-place prize was tickets to the Utah Beer Festival in August. Participants did not need to be present to win the drawing and were notified via email. Some participants were dedicated to trying out for the prizes or at least visiting as many stops as possible. South Jordan resident Amber Dunford, who brought a Meetup group she was hosting, said she and her friends always make the most of the event. “The bars around Sugar House are the best in Utah,” she said. “You get to hit them all in one day and suddenly it’s socially acceptable.” A handful of families also participated Marilyn Miller and Andrew Arnold drink and chat with friends at the Mellow Mushroom. (Jenniffer Wardell/ in a modified version of the pub crawl where City Journals) they only visited the participating restaurants. Sessions’ own family attended the event and though they weren’t eligible for prizes it didn’t seem to dampen their enthusiasm. “I didn’t want to stay home, so I’m wearing the baby (in a sling) and we’ve got the toddler,” said Heather Sessions. “It’s still so fun. I would totally advocate families come out and do the non-pub version of the pub crawl.” Even for those without kids, many parDEN TAL My name is Jonathan Campbell. ticipants saw the event mostly as an opportuI’ve been practicing dentistry for nity to enjoy a day on the town. 20 years, near St. Mark’s Hospital. “It’s really just an excuse to ride our There are many choices for dental bikes down, get together with friends and encare in the area. If you need a 1345 E. 3900 S. Suite #116 joy the weather,” said Patrick Buckner, who dentist, or you’ d like a second Salt Lake City, UT 84124 rode over with a group of friends from the opinion, we can help. Avenues. “It’s nice to have a reason to get 801-278-7303 Call today! outside and walk around Sugar House.” www.legacydental.com
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Heart & Soul Music Stroll celebrates musicians and community By Jenniffer Wardell | j.wardell@mycityjournals.com
Audiences gathered to watch almost 50 performers for an evening of food, musical performances and more. More than 3,000 people attended this year’s event, which was free and open to everyone. (Justin Adams/City Journals)
Kendra, left, and Olivia play with a drum and other instruments at this year’s stroll. (Jenniffer Wardell/City Journals)
veryone needs a little music in their lives. Heart & Soul proved that once again with their eighth annual music stroll held June 8 in Sugar House. The nonprofit, which organizes musical performances for people in isolated situations, brought together almost 50 performers for an evening of food, musical performances and more. More than 3,000 people attended this year’s event, which was free and open to everyone. “It’s really just a celebration of our performers and the community,” said Ainsley-Marie McLaughlin, assistant director of Heart & Soul. The event stretched along the streets surrounding Imperial Park, with a main stage at the park and smaller porch stages scattered in the yards of nearby homes. Many genres were represented, including R & B, Celtic music, jazz, folk, blues, country, rock and more. “My favorite thing is the quality of the music,” said Dan Rabe. “If you don’t like one thing, you go down the street and find a completely different style.” Attendees were encouraged to roam the streets during the event, which had been closed to outside traffic. All stages had a rotating list of performers. “I love the neighborhood atmosphere,” said Michelle Bonnet. “You get to walk
ed the event with his daughters. “The kids would probably be playing video games and jumping on the trampoline. Instead, they’re at an event they’ll never forget.” Dinner options were provided by a row of popular local food trucks, which did brisk business. Almost all those playing at the event had previously performed for Heart & Soul, which organizes concerts in places such as senior living centers, veteran’s homes and hospitals. The group sold tickets to a prize drawing during the event, with all proceeds going to raise money for future concerts. “It’s such an incredible service that they do,” said Karen Wildfoerster, who has been a volunteer at these music strolls since the first year. “People love it.” According to McLaughlin, however, the main goal is just to let more people know about what the organization does. “A lot of people don’t know about us,” she said. “This is kind of to let people know what we’re doing.” This year, that news has spread even further than expected. “My daughter was saying she wished our neighborhood did this back in Los Angeles,” said Michelle Knipprath who came from Performers lined front yards as part of the Heart & Soul Music Stroll. (Justin Adams/City Journals) California to visit her sister. “We love it.”
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through a community that’s come together to put on a great show for everyone.” Other attendees agreed. “It’s everything Salt Lake needs to be doing,” said Susan Burdick. “It’s awesome.” According to Lisa Dengg, a member of the Stratford Street Big Band, that enthusiasm is part of what makes the event so enjoyable to perform at. “The audience is very appreciative,” she said. “They’re always very good to the artists.” “It’s so enjoyable because it’s really relaxed,” agreed Kathy Davis, a fellow band mate. “It’s very welcoming, and we always look forward to coming back.” All groups that participated in the event were local, which only increased the sense of community. “My favorite thing is getting together with everybody,” said Rob McKinnie. “I know a lot of the bands that are playing, so I get to say hello.” There were plenty of chances for younger members of the audience to get involved as well. Kindermusik offered free music classes for kids and set up a tent featuring a variety of child-sized musical instruments which children could try. “If we weren’t here, we would be at home,” said Mario Sanchez, who attend-
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Competitive youth sports: Looking at ways to monitor workload
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By Catherine Garrett | c.garrett@mycityjournals.com
he cost of youth sports over the past couple of decades has continually risen from a financial standpoint. During that same time span, a concern of equal importance has risen with the amount of injuries our young athletes are incurring from the intense trainings and competitions they are being exposed to in year-round competitive leagues and multisport and same-season situations. In the June 2019 issue, we discussed the changing landscape of competitive youth sports that have included high-level training and accelerated sports leagues at younger ages. Injuries have also skyrocketed throughout the past decade with the ever-increasing demand on young athletes’ bodies. In this issue, the City Journals will explore how to function within that system by improving communication between athletes, parents, coaches and trainers and understanding and using the evidence provided within the sports science and medical professions to monitor workload and wellness and avoid burnout and unnecessary injuries. These efforts can help young athletes be individually attended to so they can be on their field of play to keep participating in the sports they love by training hard and smart, while staying healthy.
that sport or being unmotivated to train hard • Not Communicating • Not Monitoring The Correct Areas “Athletes are not adequately prepared to sustain the imposed load,” Gazzano states. “They are often injured in the last part of a game, see their performance drop during multi-day events, make technical or tactical errors at the end of a competitive event, or catch the flu at the end of an intensive training camp. Finding and maintaining the delicate balance between training and competition loads, recovery and rest is both an art and a science.” Former BYU football player Jordan Pendleton, who trains athletes of all levels at P1 Performance, said the year-round emphasis on one sport is affecting the workload of young athletes. “These kids are getting more volume of practice than the professionals. Even NFL players have an off-season,” he said. “Evaluating athletes’ workload and then readjusting it to fit their individual needs is so crucial to watching the volume that every athlete’s body is managing. This will enable athletes to build strength, power, explosiveness and speed instead of breaking them down.”
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In “The Relationship Between Training Load and Injury, Illness and Soreness,” Michael K. Drew said, “Quantification and monitoring of training load and athlete’s responses to it is imperative to maximize the likelihood of optimal athletic performance at a specific time and place. The response to a load stimulus applied to an athlete can either be positive (increased physical capacity) or negative (injury, illness and overtraining or underperformance).” Monitoring workload of young athletes involves ongoing education and communication among the athletes themselves, their parents, coaches and trainers. Francois Gazzano, a strength and conditioning and performance coach, said we make common mistakes concerning the workload of our young athletes. Common workload mistakes for young athletes • We Increase It Too Quickly – particularly following an off-season of minimal activity and a return from injury • The Weekly Amount Is Too Much – indicating that the weekly amount needs to be less in hours than an athlete’s age • We Don’t Adjust That Workload Daily – which enhances the need for careful monitoring and having purpose in repetitive trainings • Not Being Aware Of Stressful Periods In Youth’s Lives And Noting Excessive Fatigue – whether it’s exam week or struggles at home • Not Making Training Enjoyable – which has often led to athletes quitting
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Of the millions of youth across the country that participate in competitive sports, 3.5 million children are injured each year, according to Stanford Children’s Health. Many injuries just simply happen and may not be prevented. Those injuries that can be, however, are increasing in volume and severity. Many of these injuries are the cause of higher workloads, poor endurance, lack of offseason and preseason preparation, lack of sufficient recovery time, being overwhelmed and being overused. According to the article, “Overuse injuries and burnout in youth sports: a position statement from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine,” there is a particular need to balance the training loads and recovery in young athletes who have “immature musculoskeletal systems.” Utah-based Sport Ready co-founder Robin Cecil, a physical therapist of 25 years, said, “The current competitive system has taken training of young athletes to a new level, including training them like little adults, with high exposure rates and limited risk management in place. This is leading to young athletes who are dealing with a plethora of accepted, often life-altering injuries. Children are being placed in vulnerable positions. There is no other arena in which this would be deemed as acceptable. We have to remember that there is life after sports and we need to make sure our children are not left broken on our watch.” The NCAA has been monitoring this situation for years and, in 2016, implemented
ing different skill sets and being in different environments. With cross-training situations, movements can become less robotic and full of more energy and motivation which can lengthen athletic journeys.
Wellness
Anna Wright cuts the ball back during the Hillcrest High School girls soccer season last fall. Hillcrest coaches utilized sports science during the season to monitor player workloads in an effort to prevent injury and increase performance. (Julie Slama/City Journals)
changes to preseason guidelines for football. They discontinued two-a-day practices and added one more week to its preseason while also limiting the number of practices and specifying contact and non-contact training times. Additionally, the NCAA also defines and limits countable athletic related activities, limiting the hours out of season during the academic year to eight hours per week and four hours per day and 20 hours per week in season. With the No. 1 risk factor for injury being a previous injury, injury prevention should be a primary goal.
Burnout
R.E. Smith, an educational specialist, said there are different stages of burnout due to varying and excessive demands on young athletes and physiological responses from those that feel, among other things, over reached, over trained and underperformed. This “athletic stress” can counteract the very reasons young athletes participate – fun and satisfaction – while also leading to loss of sleep and appetite and withdrawal. Smith suggests an emphasis should be placed on skill development more than competition and winning. “The more fun and satisfaction the child perceives, the less anxiety they experience,” he said. “Worrying about failure and adult expectations and increased parental pressure to participate are associated with increased anxiety.” Burnout typically occurs less in multisport athletes than sport-specialized athletes simply with changes of paces offered by different sports, different fields of play, us-
Monitoring an athlete’s wellness includes identifying their fatigue, stress, sleep, hydration, nutrition and other factors. This wellness shouldn’t be ignored, according to Carolyn Billings, BYU’s Director of Sport Medicine and head athletic trainer. “Athletes today are under a lot of stress,” she said. “We need to prepare our athletes and then make sure they are ready for the demands of the training to avoid vulnerability to injuries and burnout. As we continually evaluate the wellness, workload, injuries, and burnout of our athletes, we are able to more clearly see and understand their ability to perform from both a mental and physical standpoint. “As we continually evaluate the workload, injuries and burnout of our athletes, we are able to more clearly see and understand their wellness from a mental and physical standpoint. “We need to prepare our athletes and then make sure they are ready for the demands of the training to avoid vulnerability to injuries and burnout,” she said.
Monitoring athletes at the high school level
Utilizing sports science evidence to help athletes compete at their best, peak at the right times and keep them healthy has been proven to work at the elite, university and Olympic levels. Using this same evidence for the same purpose is seldom used at the high school or youth club levels. This past year, the Hillcrest High girls soccer coaches implemented sports science-based strategies while monitoring the athlete’s wellness and workload. Training loads were increased appropriately and athletes were monitored. Each athlete logged in each morning and responded to five questions about her current mental and physical health. Following training, each player would assess how hard they felt like they worked. It was no longer a guessing game. The Huskies coaches were alerted to any elevated risk factors, which improved communication and allowed them to individualize training loads, limit injuries and increase performance. “As coaches, our main goal for them was to enjoy what they were doing and be competitive, which included healthy athletes. We often forget that external stressors such as work, friends, school and family factor into an athlete’s recovery and performance,” Hillcrest head coach Kyra Peery said. “Monitoring athletes allows us to train a team and focus on the welfare of each athlete.” Peery noted the program gave her athletes “a voice without having to feel awk-
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ward, guilty or overwhelmed.” “It was a simple way that the girls could advocate for themselves and taught them how to self-evaluate,” she said. “This translated on and off the field as we witnessed our girls approaching hardships, setback and issues head on as a team and individually.” Perry said she also noticed improved trust between her players and her coaches. “They knew we were using their feedback to improve practices, change workouts and cater sessions to their needs,” she said. “We were more efficient in our planning and execution during practice sessions.” The implementation of these strategies for the Huskies squad also had a significant impact on the number of injuries and the time lost for those injuries. The two prior years, Peery said the team had multiple injuries, including four ACL tears, among her varsity players to the extent that many were not available to play by the end of the season. This past year, her team was fully staffed and earned a co-region championship by year’s end along with a UHSAA award for the highest combined GPA among 6A teams. “I can honestly say that these strategies were a key factor in helping the girls reach this achievement,” she said.
Train smart
Developing athletes and winning teams is a worthy and fundamental goal. The “more is better” philosophy is not a proven development strategy. “Remaining injury and illness free is a fundamental component of ideal preparation for sporting performances,” Michael Drew stated. “To train smart, one must choose to train with organizations and coaches who utilize the evidence and are concerned with the welfare of their athletes, not win at all costs.” Billings and BYU women’s soccer coach Jen Rockwood had been concerned for years about the load of their athletes and the lack of recovery time. “We started monitoring heart rate during drills and found that some of the drills that we thought would really work the girls weren’t as hard as we thought and some
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of the easier ones actually got their heart rates up,” she said. “By monitoring our athlete’s workload, wellness and injuries we were able to assess the performance abilities of the Cougars soccer players. For the first time in program history, all players were available to play at the end of the season so it made a huge difference in keeping track of how every individual athlete was really doing.” Also, parents are a child’s most invested advocate. Understanding the landscape is essential at both the club and high school level. Currently, there is a lack of data on the number of injuries occurring at the club level and the number of overuse injuries at the high school level. Sport club associations limit their risk management and defer it to individual clubs. Most clubs do not have much in place as it is not being demanded by parents or associations. Scheduling of club games and tournaments does not always take into account proper workload management causing high-risk environments. Off-season training seems to be rarely scheduled, if at all, as there no longer seems to be an off-season in year-round sports. High school preseason is short with limited regulation of and education on training loads.
nique Asking Kids What They Want Think Small Design For Development Emphasize Prevention Sport Ready, an organization that works with orthopedic surgeons, athletic trainers and other medical and sports science professionals, promotes a #TrainSmart campaign with key messages of injury prevention, monitoring the health, wellness and injury rates of athletes, and improved communication through the use of evidence-based tools and services. “Playing as many sports as possible will always be my recommendation for young athletes, but if you’re fixated on one sport, I would make sure you seek out the proper training and care to make sure you are moving correctly and recovering properly,” Pendleton said. “Monitoring your own volume and having data on your own body is so critical to grow and improve correctly.” From a compilation of sources of medical professionals and studies on youth competitive sports come these suggestions to individualize with each young athlete based upon the sport and each athlete’s age, growth rate, readiness and injury hisOther Solutions While it’s a fine balance between not tory: training enough and overtraining in trying to • Set limits on participation time and reach top performance in youth competitive sport-specific repetitive movements to sports, it is crucial to find tools and organiavoid overtraining zations to help each individual athlete, their • Carefully monitor training workload parents, trainers and coaches manage their during adolescent growth spurts (due workload and have open communication to an increase in injury rates during this within their programs. time) The Aspen Institute has studied the • Schedule rest periods and optimize recompetitive sports issue for years and procovery vides eight recommendations to the solution • Ensure vitamin intake for fixing the system that has been created. • Use appropriate equipment, particularThese include: ly shoes • Revitalizing In-Town Leagues • Have realistic goals and expectations • Reintroducing Free Play of young athletes, understanding sport • Encouraging Sports Sampling readiness based on motor skills • Training Coaches, Particularly In Safe• Adapt daily loads ty and Injury Prevention Measures, • Notice issues quickly and respond apBasic First Aid and Motivational Tech• • • •
propriately • Advocate appropriately for your child • Ensure that preseason conditioning is gradual following limited activity levels • Have proper warmup and cooldown procedures and practices in place • Encourage sports associations and clubs to work together • Request the risk management strategy from associations and clubs
Conclusion
The current landscape of competitive sports has created high-level opportunities for athletes to hone natural abilities and learn and develop within the sports they enjoy. Participation in athletics brings a variety of benefits to our youth from mental and physical standpoints – with everything from health, fitness, regular exercise, weight control, strength, socializing with peers, improving self esteem, developing leadership qualities, improved sport performance and goal setting. In order to function within this system, education and communication processes should be continually used to monitor these athletes’ workload, injury and burnout and overall wellness to continue to play for as long as they are able and still have fulfilling lives after athletic careers are over.
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Mick Riley: Utah’s Mr. Golf By Shaun Delliskave | s.delliskave@mycityjournals.com What is the only golf course in Utah named after an actual professional golfer? If you said Jeremy Ranch or Nibley Park, try again. That distinction belongs to Mick Riley Golf Course, named after the man known as the “Dean of Utah Golfers.”
While the Murray course is always busy, most people have forgotten or don’t even know about Riley. Also, contrary to many high school golf team rumors, Mr. Riley is not buried by the clubhouse (he is buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery, although he probably wouldn’t have complained had he been buried at a golf course). Born in 1897 in Burke, Idaho, Joseph Michael (Mick) Riley found his way to Utah. There weren’t many options for linksters when Riley was taking up the sport in the 1910s. At the time, Forest Dale had a hitching post for golfer’s horses. Riley learned golf by caddying at the Salt Lake Country Club, being mentored by notable golfers such as George Von Elm, several years his junior. Von Elm, who grew up in Utah and California, and with Riley as his caddie, took on one of the preeminent golfers of the day, Bobby Jones (who would later found the Masters Golf Tournament). Von Elm became the first golfer from west of the Mississippi River to win a major tournament, and he not only instilled in Riley a passion for golf but exposed him to some of the best golf courses in America. Like a duck to water, Riley’s experience, plus winning an occasional tournament, helped to secure his position as the first head professional at Nibley Park Golf Course. According to sportswriter Bill Johnston, there were only 122 active golfers in Salt Lake City at the time. For the uninitiated, a professional at a golf course is someone who makes their living from teaching the game, running golf clubs and classes, and dealing in golf equipment. An adroit golf pro, Riley earned the
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praises of the Salt Lake Telegram at the end of Nibley Park’s first season in 1922. “The work of Professional Riley at the course is worthy of special commendation. It was Riley’s job to develop interest and get the golfers out. He did.” Not only did he get the golfers to come out, he developed a course championship, several tournaments, and high school matches. He developed greens and challenging hazards; he also developed aspiring golfers and advocated the sport to women. It was this latter undertaking that led Mick to meet his wife, Estella at one of his classes. Utah’s most enthusiastic golf cheerleader would do anything to bring people to experience the game. Even winter was no match for Riley, who opened one of the first indoor golf ranges in downtown Salt Lake in 1930. The Telegram reported that by 1947, 80 percent of all Utah golfers were, at one time, a pupil of Riley’s. His green design skills were in high demand, as he helped plan courses in Magna, Tooele, Richfield, Moab, Indian Springs, and American Falls, Idaho, as well as Salt Lake’s Bonneville Golf Course. He also revamped the Nibley Park and Forest Dale courses. However, his passion project was Meadowbrook on 3900 South, which he designed and managed until his death. His progressive thinking led to the establishment of a day care center at Meadowbrook, so that young mothers could take up the game. After forming the Utah Golf Association, Riley was elected as vice president of the National PGA and served for three years. He also served on several national PGA committees. He was president of the Rocky Mountain Section of the PGA and Golf Professional of the Year in 1955 for the Rocky Mountain Section. During the 1960s, he was asked to design the Little Valley Golf Course off of Vine Street in Murray. However, his death in
1964 prevented him from ever teeing off at the course. That honor was given to Estella, his wife, and their children at the newly christened Mick Riley Golf Course in 1967. Riley was also posthumously honored as a member of the Utah Golf Hall of Fame. Perhaps the Salt Lake Telegram summed up Riley best, “The story of Mickey Riley is the story of golf in Utah, for without him many of the municipal courses that have made golf available to the ‘working man’ might not be.”
Mick Riley, right, and George Van Elm reunite in the 1950s to recall past glories. (Photo courtesy Marriott Library)
Mick Riley strongly advocated for women to pick up the game of golf. (Photo courtesy Marriott Library)
Mick Riley Golf Course in Murray was dedicated to the man who championed it in Utah. (Shaun Delliskave/ City Journals
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Glenmoor Gets Its Groove Back With PGA Junior-League Programming By Jennifer J. Johnson | j.johnson@mycityjournals.com
Vintage advertising for Glenmoor, ironically, touted its “forever” nature—a position that was challenged, but the golf course endures today. (Glenmoor Golf Course)
Local YouTube youth celeb Warren Fisher profiled Glenmoor’s golf U-turn as part of his “Warren Report” program posted mid-June. (Glenmoor Golf Course)
The words pack an extra punch, when delivered from pint-sized reporter Warren Fisher, proclaiming his YouTube broadcast to be a “world-famous” report.
golf course that, in a knee-knocker of a wait-period, seemed destined to result in a yip — a complete loss of the 50-plus yearold course that in the early days was considered a “hidden gem” and is now a South The “news?” South Jordan’s once-be- Valley staple. According to Dehlin, PGA National leaguered Glenmoor Golf Course is alive even sent a camera crew to South Jordan and well and the secret to its viability? several months ago, but the world-famous Think small, now. The secret to its newfound viability is Fisher Report has apparently scooped the PGA, as Dehlin reported that the PGA vid its junior-league golf program. “Glenmoor has one of the largest is not live yet. “The National PGA has been very inteams in the entire country!” the young Fisher exclaimed with an emphasis on “en- terested in the program Darci (golf pro Darci Olsen) and the people out there have tire.” done,” he told the South Jordan Journal. The Glenmoor gameplan Thanks to Olsen, Utah’s only female Sponsored by the Utah Golf Associahead PGA golf pro in the state, Glenmoor tion (UGA), young Fisher is spot-on with his runs three Junior PGA leagues, with more analysis. than 150 youth involved. According to Executive Director of the Utah Professional Golfers’ Association Golfing alone? While many individuals prize golf be(PGA) Devin Dehlin, PGA National is studying Glenmoor’s success with its junior ing a sport they can play alone even in a program, looking to learn and then share foursome kludged with strangers just to best practices with golf courses across the score a tee time, that kind of thinking does country seeking to be more family friendly not fly well with golf courses needing to be profitable—or at least keep the lights on. and more profitable in so doing. As a result, the PGA has studied the It’s a nice reversal of fortune for the success of Little League Baseball, and re-
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“Save Glenmoor!” was a phrase oft-uttered/heard in South Jordan for the years the beloved, historic golf course was doing its tentative victory lap. (Glenmoor Golf Course)
alized that, to help make golf as American as apple pie, perhaps borrowing from Little Leagues’ playbook was a good strategy. Hence the birth of the PGA Junior League—a program that SoJo’s Glenmoor jumped on. “Golf has the old-retired-guy-with-alot-of-money persona,” said Glenmoor golf pro Olsen. “All ages, all types, something for everyone and family-friendly” is how she described Glenmoor’s current suite of customers.
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For those not familiar with the story of Glenmoor, here is the CliffsNotes version of the rise/fall/rise again of the SoJo links site. - 1968 – Course opened half-strength, a nine-hole staple of the Westland Hills Country Club
• 1970s – Westland changes owners and becomes the Valair Country Club • 1977 – Cecil Bohn assumes principal ownership, after Grant Affleck lost the course • 2015 – Bohn passes away; remaining owners’ irreconcilable differences lead to court dissolution of the property, to be sold to highest
bidder • 2015 – The golf course property was zoned A-1, entitling subdivisions of one-acre, single-family lots • 2017 - SoJo golf patriots lobby for an alternative solution • 2017 – Upon learning of the owner’s intention to develop the land, the South Jordan City Council, in a 4-1 vote, votes to delay a building permit or a change in zoning thwarting the developer’s stated intention • A private buyer sticks the landing and purchases Glenmoor (the audience in SoJo City Council Chambers cheered, upon hearing the news)
PGA Junior Golf fits Glenmoor to a tee
And that takes us to right now — high golf season, a late-starting, green-grass summer, on the heels of the wettest spring on record. And just as spring signals rebirth and summer joy, Glenmoor is in its newfound salad days, with its junior golf program to thank. Taking a page from Bubba Watson’s 2012 Masters’ clinch, Olsen tears up, telling the South Jordan Journal just how “awesome” the kids in her program are and how things at Glenmoor have “turned out better than I could have hoped.” This is a woman who loves — no lives — golf, and apparently, has a community behind her that feels the same way. As part of the Warren Report YouTube video, SoJo City Councilman Don Shelton recounts that his inviting SoJo Mayor Dawn Ramsey and his other colleagues to watch one of the junior league tournaments at Glenmoor influenced the Council’s decision to ultimately rezone the land to keep it from being developable. “It was very impressive to them, to see all of the young people that were out on the golf course, hitting golf balls and recreating in the outdoors, instead of being inside, playing video games,” Shelton asserted on-air. “Mayor Ramsey, thank you for saving our golf course,” young Warren tells Mayor Dawn Ramsey, who also appears in the video. Catch the full Glenmoor Golf Course glory on UGA’s Warren Report This link takes you right to Warren Fisher’s segment on Glenmoor: https://tinyurl.com/GlenmoorByCityJournals Otherwise? Look for “Utah Golf Reround 2019 S5 E1” on YouTube and either watch the whole show, or fast-forward to 8:40.
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The family that golfs together… keeps on golfing together? On the left, what the Utah Golfing Association once dubbed “the ultimate golf power couple” Joey and Darci (Dehlin) Olsen. Utah PGA Executive Director Devin Dehlin in the center, and daughter and son Carly Dehlin and Connor Dehlin. (Devin Dehlin.)
Confessions Of A Golf Family: PGA And Glenmoor Golf Pros Share How They Got Game—For a Lifetime By Jennifer J. Johnson | j.johnson@mycityjournals.com Many remember the year 1976 as the wanderlust,” working as a golf pro at nu- Utah,” he said. “She kept the hyphen!” exmerous clubs before settling in at his long- uded the proud golf dad. year of the American Bicentennial. term gig as executive director of the Utah Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA). Sister Darci followed a somewhat similar route, in terms of playing golf for her alma mater Weber State, and vacillating between turning pro and committing to a career leveraging her triple-threat combination of sales-communications-merchandising. Darci Olsen is the only female PGA Golf before groceries head golf pro in Utah. To this day she lives He and his father enjoyed such a proximate to Glenmoor. spectacular day, that the following after“[Glenmoor is] a huge part of our hisnoon, his father brought his mother out to tory — it’s why we live where we live,” the site. Olsen said. “It’s especially special to me, A “low-ball” offer was put in on one because it is where I learned.” of the last two houses remaining in the Parade of Homes inventory. Remarkably, Carrying on the golfing torch Golf families. the offer was accepted, and the next thing Those two words say a lot to those Devin knew, he and his family were moving who understand the joy of the swish of a from Taylorsville to South Jordan. Southwest valley was so underdevel- perfect swing and getting that little white oped at the time and the Glenmoor Golf ball to land in that little hole that somehow, Course location so remote that Devin re- at times, seems smaller than the ball. Besides loving golf, the late Sweets calls the family’s having to commute all the way to Redwood Road and 9000 South to Dehlin and wife Jeanne, loved names that begin with the letter D. go the grocery store. Devin-Dana-Dustin-Darci went the en“Glenmoor Golf Course is pretty near and dear to my family,” Devin said. (Even if viable boy-girl-boy-girl lineup of children who shared their father’s golf lust. All of the grocery store was not.) His youngest sister, Darci (Olsen), said the children played junior golf. All played Glenmoor was a five-minute walk from college golf. Now two of the four siblings their home. She recalls her brother’s being are golf professionals and have golf as an gifted with golf clubs one Christmas, and omnipresent aspect of their lives. And the golf generations continue with his and her father’s suiting up and playing the Dehlins. the very next day. Devin said his daughter, Carly, did not ‘It’s where we live’ engage with golf until she was a senior in As a teen, brother Devin started workhigh school. But then, she “got really good, ing in the Glenmoor Pro Shop. Then he really fast.” played golf at the University of Utah. When she decided to marry (another When it came time to earn a living, golf golfer), her father counseled her to “keep was a given. Dehlin exhibited “county golf her last name — it does carry clout in But Devin Dehlin remembers it as the year his family discovered Glenmoor Golf Course, a move that would change the lives of his family for generations to come. He and his dad, Pat “Sweets” Dehlin, spent a joyous part of a day playing nine holes on a quaint course, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, except a Parade of Homes community.
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Utah golf families: ‘THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!
There are quite a few golf dads around. And golf moms. Devin estimates Utah has “about five to 10” prominent golf families. Back in 1989, the “Los Angeles Times” ran a story with a San Diego dateline and a headline style vaguely reminiscent of prominence given to “WAR!” in newspaper headlines chronicling the outbreak of World War I. Only this time, the exclamation point was reverent appreciation for a prominent Utah golf family. “THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!: Utah’s Summerhays Families Put 11 Golfers in Tournament,” the headline read. “They are the Summerhays entourage, 11 golfers from two related families plus a supporting cast of five,” writer Jim Lindgren gushed. The Summerhays family, from the Farmington area, today continues to be prominent in golfing headlines with Preston Summerhays, Lynn Summerhays’s grandson, holding a Utah State Amateur title and being “one of the best juniors in the country.” The Branca family is another storied Utah golf clan. The Salt Lake Country Club provided a lasting monument to the late H.T. “Tee” Branca, naming a bridge patterned after Augusta National’s famous 12th hole after the late PGA golf pro. Branca lived until age 92, In 2015, when Ron Branca, Tee’s son, retired as head pro from the Salt Lake Country Club, Joe Watts of the Utah Golf Association (UGA) mourned “the end of the Branca era.” The father and son, combined, headed golf for the club more than 75 years. Ron Branca now works with
PGA Pro Golfers Devin Dehlin and sister Darci (Dehlin) Olsen are bright stars in the Utah golf scene. (Devin Dehlin)
Darci Olsen at Glenmoor. His brother, Don, is also a PGA professional, according to Devin Dehlin. Glenmoor’s happily golf-obsessed Darci Olsen, who used to go by the name Darci Dehlin-Olsen, has now dropped the hyphenated part of her name, a loss of a powerful asset, according to brother Devin Dehlin. You can take the hyphen out of the name, but not the golf out of the girl, who UGA writer Beaux Yenchik reports, as a pony-tailed bouncy blonde youth, drew a picture of herself playing golf for a career day at her elementary school.
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Spectacular views of Stonebridge Golf Club make a day on the green even more spectacular. Stand for Kind’s 128 supportive golfers raised $50,000 for the anti-bullying charity. (Stonebridge Golf Club)
Golf Etiquette Makes For Perfect Green Carpet for Anti-Bullying Fund-Raising Event at Stonebridge By Jennifer J. Johnson | j.johnson@mycityjournals.com The Professional Golfers’ Association Kind “actually goes out into the schools (PGA) asserts that golf teaches young and tells kids in schools about tools available to them (to help stop the problem),” people “life’s most valuable skills.” While the PGA does not specifically call out “no bullying,” that concept is a given in the sportsmanlike-play of the 15th-century game still. Such sport made perfect sense as a fund raiser for an anti-bullying education group, “Stand for Kind,” to leverage the sport for one of its annual fundraising activities.
Making a positive difference in the persistent problem of bullying
Stand for Kind, founded by well-connected businessman and recreational golfer Stan Parrish, is a group of business, community and education leaders who have come together to make a positive difference in the persistent problem of bullying. Instead of just preaching about the ills and dangers of bullying — what Parrish dubs “calling attention to it” — Stand for
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Parrish said. “We reinforce positive behavior.” Realizing that its initial name—“The Anti-Bullying Coalition” was having the unintentional effect of emphasizing the very concept of bullying, so in an anti-Voldemort-like move, the organization changed its name and its web URL to the new, empowering name which is also a directive for youth — “Stand for Kind.” It’s a message that’s “much better to come, student to student, versus counselor to student,” Parrish said. “A student can see another student sitting by themselves, we encourage them to go sit with them, to let them know they are wanted.” With this as its model, the nonprofit instructs K-12 students — nearly 300,000 across the state — about how to combat bullying through kindness.
The second-annual Stand for Kind charity golf tournament awarded generous sponsor prizes, for “longest drive,” “straightest drive,” “closest to the hole,” and the “hole-in-one” completion. The Larry H. Miller dealership put up a Toyota SUV for the hole-in-one, but did not have to pay it out. (Stand for Kind)
Making bullying whiff through overwhelming, omnipresent acts of kindness – and 18 holes!
More than 30,000 incidents and nearly 20,000 incidents of cyber-bullying are, slowly, but surely getting drowned out by what Stand for Kind reports as more than 900,000 identified, “random acts of kindness,” said Pam Hayes, director of the Stand for Kind organization. Stand for Kind is having immediate, traceable impact. “We were able to prevent 55 suicides,” reported Hayes. Her message to those participating in the May 31 golf tournament, the second annual such event, is: “We will do even more.” “A lot of people like to play golf and a lot of people like to do good and contribute… so why not combine the two?” Parrish said. Parrish knows a lot of people. In his previous life, the storied businessman has led both the Salt Lake Area,
and then, later, the Sandy chambers of commerce. “This is just one event, but it’s a very good event,” he told the City Journals. “People appreciate that and support it.” Parrish is right. The 128 golfers comprising 32 foursomes raised $50,000 for Stand for Kind. All who enjoyed what the Stand for Kind public relations team deemed “a sunny West Valley City morning” were winners in terms of a great day for golf. Individual winners were determined in categories including “longest drive,” “straightest drive,” “closest to the hole,” and the “hole-in-one” completion. The Larry H. Miller Dealerships even put up a Toyota SUV to anyone landing a hole-in-one. Sadly, would-be SUV drivers will have to up their drives to land the ace. There’s always next year, kind golfers.
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Desert Star’s latest parody takes on the Disney phenomenon High School Musical, with a Utah cultural twist. This zany parody opens June 13th and it’s a hilarious musical melodrama for the whole family you don’t want to miss!
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This show, written by Ed Farnsworth, based on the original melodrama by Ben Millet and directed by Scott Holman, follows the story of an eclectic group of LDS Sunday School Students as they attempt to put on a traditional “roadshow.” The colorful characters include social media obsessed Penny, her “too-cool-for-Sunday-school” boyfriend Phineas, a Napoleon Dynamite look alike, and a mustached Marvel fan-girl. When Penny doesn’t land the role of her dreams, she gets madder than an Instagram model with zero ‘hearts’. Fuel is only added to the fire when Phineas defies his adolescent apathy to sing with passion and snag the male lead. Jealous Penny makes plans to sabotage the roadshow musical by threatening to destroy Phineas’ reputation. Can Phineas and the rest of the cast overcome the odds to put together the greatest show Utah county has ever seen? Comedy, romance, and adventure are all on the docket for this delightful send up of the Disney franchise, as well as topical humor torn from today’s headlines. “Sunday School Musical: The Greatest Roadshow” runs June 13th through August 24th, 2019. The evening also includes one of Desert Star’s side-splitting musical olios, following the show. The “On the Road Again Olio” features hit songs and musical steps from the ultimate road trip playlist, mixed with more of Desert Star’s signature comedy. Food is available from an á la carte menu and is served right at your table. There is also a full service bar. The menu includes gourmet pizza, fresh wraps, appetizers, and scrumptious desserts.
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he Highland Rams picked the right time to play some of its best lacrosse of the season. The boys team reached the Class C state semifinals this past spring, coming up one game short of a chance to play for a title. Highland fell to eventual runner-up Waterford in a close 10-8 contest. Considering the team posted a 3-13 regular record, the Rams may not have appeared like a championship-contending team in Class C. Highland won its season opener over West Jordan on March 12 by the score of 16-6 but then proceeded to drop 10 games in a row. There were some close calls during the rough stretch, but the Rams were also on the wrong end of some blowouts. They finally got back on the winning track with a 12-6 win over Riverton on April 24. Senior Gage Varanakis tallied four goals and three assists in the victory, while junior Eric Greene added three goals of his own. Freshman Briggs Bal-
lard contributed two goals and two assists. The Rams closed out the regular season with three losses in four games. The sole win was a close 9-8 triumph over Jordan on April 26. Ballard, Greene and Varanakis each scored twice. However, with a mark of 10 games below .500, Highland wasn’t exactly on fire once it got to state. That started to change. On May 8, Highland hosted West Jordan in the first-round of the playoffs. In similar fashion to its season-opening victory over the Jaguars, the Rams poured it on, winning 209. Greene and Ballard had sensational games, as both players lit up the scoreboard with six goals. Cameron Piper had two goals and two assists. In the quarterfinals, Highland hosted Wasatch and prevailed in a tense 10-9 contest. Six Rams found the back of the net, led by Greene, who had three goals. Varanakis, Piper and Briggs each had two, and the latter
Senior Highland boys lacrosse player Zac Tobler (in black) makes his way through the defense. (Photo courtesy of Jen Tobler)
The Highland Rams advanced to the semifinals of the Class C state tournament. (Photo courtesy of Jen Tobler)
had two assists as well. The first two-game winning streak of the season put Highland in the semifinals on May 16, one game away from a chance to play for the championship. Waterford had gotten the better of the Rams on April 25 by the score of 13-6. Things were closer this time around, but Highland didn’t have quite enough in the tank. There is optimism in the program for next season, though. Not only does Highland begin play in the newly sanctioned lacrosse league, but it also has some talent and experience on the roster. Greene and Briggs both come back, and they were second and third, respectively, in goals scored with 24 and 22. Briggs also paced the team with 16 assists. Highland will miss Varanakis, who had a team-high 33 goals. Goalie Lincoln Robison will be back as a junior in 2020. He took a high number of shots on goal (406) but had a respectable 54.6 percent save percentage.
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Igniting a love for classical architecture in the next generation By Heather Lawrence | heather.lawrence@mycityjournals.com
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tudents at Carden Memorial School got the opportunity to learn about classical art and architecture from local professionals this spring by participating in a program called New Heights. The program was sponsored by the Utah chapter of the Institute for Classical Art and Architecture (ICAA). Students’ final projects were showcased at an event at Carden on May 24, and students were invited to join the Utah chapter of the ICAA at their annual fundraising gala on June 7. “The goal was to get into schools to educate students on classical art and architecture. ICAA contacted us and asked if we would like to participate. We had 20 students take the courses which ran for one hour each week for 10 weeks,” said Michelle Goodwin, director of Carden Memorial School in the Sugar House area. “The students took it very seriously. The courses were taught by local professionals who were working in the fields of art and architecture. Students had to apply, and it almost worked like an intro to architecture course,” Goodwin said. One of the professionals involved was Students from Carden Memorial School attended the annual ICAA gala on June 7. L to R: Steve Goodwin of Paul Monson, president of the Utah chapter FFKR with Carden students Ashley Mitchell, Mia Aykin, Ava Eresuma, Michelle Goodwin (administrator), of the ICAA. Monson, who is an architect Halle Backman, Kyle and Julia Moffat. (Michelle Goodwin/Carden Memorial School) for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was trained at Notre Dame in one of the few classical architecture programs in the country. “The style of modernism is fine, but we’ve lost the beauty and tradition of designing classical buildings. They’re still viable, buildable, worth pursuing. Whether it’s preserving a building or making a new one, these elements are timeless,” Monson said. Monson said the program is all about hands-on experiences for young students. “In addition to the New Heights program, we raise money through grants and fundraisers to pay for supplies. We offer scholarships to send students to Paris to study for a week. We tour a historic building with classical elements like the Capitol or Governor’s Mansion,” Monson said. Carden Memorial is a non-denominational Christian private school that focuses on providing a classical education, so their curriculum went hand-in-hand with the New Heights program. But Monson is eager to make it available to more students. “We’d like to develop curriculum and lesson plans that could be made available online, so an art teacher at another school could just download lesson plans and teach them in their class. We’re trying to find a public school where we can pilot it. We’d really like to bring it to underserved areas,” said Mon-
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Chefs on Parade offers a delicious look at new homes By Jenniffer Wardell | j.wardell@mycityjournals.com
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Chefs cook in a brand new kitchen during the 2018 Chefs on Parade event. (Courtesy of the Salt Lake Home Builders Association)
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efore the parade, there’s a party. As a preview to the annual Salt Lake Parade of Homes, the Salt Lake Home Builders Association is holding their annual Chefs on Parade event July 31 from 5-9 p.m. This ticketed event opens up five Parade homes to the public before the event, with professional chefs staffing the kitchens. Guests get the opportunity to linger in each home, sampling the food and interacting with the builders. “It’s unique,” said Alicia Ackerman, coordinator for the Salt Lake Parade of Homes. “There’s nothing like it around here.” Now in its third year, the event only releases the addresses of the participating homes to those who buy tickets. Builders host the participants in each home, coordinating with the chef and often providing entertainment such as musicians. “They try to make it an experience, so the people who come want to stay and enjoy it,” said Leslie Shell, parade chairman. “It’s a more relaxed environment. People don’t feel rushed through the home.” Though the list of chefs for this year’s event haven’t been released, participants can expect an array of appetizers from each one. “There isn’t enough in a single home to get full on,” said Jaren Davis, president of the Salt Lake Home Builders Association. “But if you’ve eaten at every home, you get quite satisfied.” At the end, participants vote on both the Best Chef and Best Experience award. According to Shell, those awards are a big draw to bring chefs back to the event each year. The Park City Culinary Institute, which won the audience award the first year, has been involved with the Parade every year since. “We like to get new chefs, but at the same time it’s fun to get returning favorites,” she said. “People who won Best Chef want to have that title again.” The awards have also been known to draw builders back to the event as well. “Builders get pretty competitive about
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(the Best Experience Award),” Shell said. “They want it just as much as the chefs want theirs.” For builders, however, the event has plenty of challenges. “There’s a lot of time and effort that goes into it on their end,” Ackerman said. “They’re already really busy and stressed out trying to get the home done for the Parade of Homes, and this is an earlier deadline.” Chefs on Parade is a relatively recent addition to the Salt Lake Parade of Homes, which started in 1946. According to Davis, organizers got the idea from a similar event held in the Tri-Cities area. “We’re typically the front runner for ideas,” he said. “Our parade of homes was the first in the country. So it’s kind of weird for us to steal an idea.” Over the years, however, they’ve worked to refine it. The event originally included eight homes, but organizers found that offering more actually diluted the experience for participants. “People couldn’t see every home, because they spent so much time in each of the homes,” Davis said. “You kind of learn as you go.” There are only 400 tickets available for Chefs on Parade, and they’re only sold to people who also buy tickets for the Parade of Homes. The event sold out last year, and Ackerman said she expects it will happen again. “It’s growing in popularity,” she said. “People tell their friends, but it’s so well done and exciting that they also want to repeat their experience.” Though they’ve talked about stretching the event to cover two nights, she doesn’t think it will ever become as public as the Parade of Homes. “I like that it’s an exclusive event,” Ackerman said. “It’s a fun date night opportunity.”
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Temporary sound exhibition “Ecotones” examines changing nature of Sugar House By Spencer W. Belnap | s.belnap@mycityjournals.com
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n the evening of Friday, June 14, downtown Sugar House was as vibrant as its been all year. There was the typical restaurant and bar crowd, but the area around 2100 South and Highland Drive was that much more bustling. It was the summer rendition of the Sugar House Art Walk, and people came out in droves to enjoy the warm weather and stroll from one gallery or exhibition to the next. One exhibition was a temporary sound tour winding from Hidden Hollow (behind the pet store) and ending at the Sego Lily Dam in Sugar House Park. The exhibition called “Ecotones” examined the fluctuating nature of past and present Sugar House through sound. Meggie Troili is a Westminster graduate who researched the neighborhood throughout her time in school. As she would walk along various trails and sections of the area, she noticed all these natural spaces that could serve as amphitheaters and places for art. One of them was Hidden Hollow and its accessible nooks and spots along the path up to the park and new Sego Lily Dam. She and some fellow Westminster artists came up with “Ecotones” as a sound exhibition offered to the public for one night only. “Ecotones is the space between two biological systems,” Troili explained. “When they start to overlap, that space where that happens is called the ecotone. It could be just a few inches between some sort of ecological system on land and in water where they start to overlap. It could be smaller, it could be miles wide. So, I thought about this concept and how it’s a great metaphor for what Sugar House is experiencing right now.” The constantly growing and changing neighborhood is bringing new people and new urban landscapes. These are welding with the natural spaces around, which have always been valued by the community. Troili wanted to reflect that welding; something that has occurred time and time again in the
history of Sugar House. “Ecotones” moved through some of that history with five different sound exhibits. The first one was along the path in Hidden Hollow, near a bench beside the creek. It was an “auditory activation station” where guests were to “reactivate” their sense of hearing by closing their eyes for 30 seconds
and asking: “What do you hear?” “What do you think you hear?” and “Where is it coming from?” After activating their ears, people were led by arrow signs further down the path. In a cleared circular setting, the second exhibit alluded to the Native American history of Sugar House and the tribe that lived there.
Artists Sarah May and Jasmine Despain created “Land Acknowledgement of Eastern Shoshone” using three drums and a hidden speaker to remind guests about the original people in the area. The next exhibit was by one of the sugar beet statues further up the path. There, two local historians presented a live oral history of Sugar House and Hidden Hollow. Lynn Olson and Sheri Sohm had historical photos and artifacts displayed and offered a wealth of knowledge to anyone who stopped and listened. The two women are key figures in a group called Hope Kids that ultimately saved Hidden Hollow, the original Sugar House Park, from being destroyed decades ago. From there, people strolled east and along the Echo Canyon replica that leads into the tunnel underneath 1300 East and into the park. Troili created this exhibit called “Echos of the Brass.” She had tucked small speakers in some of the red rocks of the canyon replica and had them playing various brass sounds and music as people walked beside them. Finally, the main exhibit of “Ecotones” Lynn Olson (right) and Sheri Sohm (left) present an oral history as one of the exhibits within “Ecotones.” was a performance at the Sego Lily Dam. The north petal of the dam serves as a natu(Spencer W. Belnap/City Journals) ral amphitheater of sorts. Westminster grads Connor Lockie and Indigo Rain Cook wrote and performed “Ecotones-a musical interpretation.” Folks who had been walking through the sound exhibits as well as park joggers, bikers and families stopped to listen. “That was amazing,” Cook said after their performance. “A lot of our music is about the melding of environment and sound, so that was really magical.” Troili hopes to offer more engaging and unique exhibitions like this in the future. “Yes, Sugar House is changing,” she said. “And it can be a little jarring and upsetting, but Sugar House has changed many times. If we can do more things like this that bring people together and explore that, we can kind of take some control.”
Indigo Cook performs at the Sego Lily Dam in Sugar House Park as part of “Ecotones.” (Photo by Bryton Sampson)
Listeners gathered at the Sego Lily Dam in Sugar House Park to hear the final exhibit of “Ecotones,” a performance by Connor Lockie and Indigo Cook. (Spencer W. Belnap/City Journals)
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