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VETERAN SKIERS PLAN A VARIETY OF APPROACHES TO AN UNCONVENTIONAL SEASON By Drew Crawford | d.crawford@mycityjournals.com
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friends and grabbing a beer, and that whole sort of sense of camaraderie of being at the resort,” he said. “At the same time, I definitely enjoy my days in the backcountry. I love to hike; my wife and I do a lot of hiking; we like the outdoors. Backcountry skiing for me is less about skiing, but it’s more about being outside and finding a little bit of peace and solitude, getting to be out in nature. They’re quite different.” Tzovaras is encouraged to see that so many people want a piece of the action this year, but also recognizes the unique challenges that are posed by others who want their fix out on the slopes. “I think I’m excited that so many people are getting into ski touring. Yesterday, I toured up Alta in the morning because they got snow, and I was excited, and it was an absolute zoo, it was crazy. I got up there a little bit earlier, and by the time I was making my way down the parking lot was completely full as if the resort was open,” Tzovaras said. “I think that there is going to be some challenges with backcountry skiing and everyone getting into it. I know some people are a little nervous with safety and that sort of thing with so many people getting into it,” Tzovaras said, recounting comments made by others on social media Mike Harp skis the backside of Alta. (Linnea Lundgren/City Journals) Continued page 5
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School communications director recognized for dedication and public service By Katy Whittingham | k.whittingham@mycityjournals.com
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Continued from front page groups such as Utah Backcountry Ski. New Yorker Miles Harris, a best friend of Tzovaras, plans on ditching his expensive city apartment and moving to Utah for the season to take advantage of skiing the Wasatch Front with his friend. “The more I thought of it, it seemed like a no-brainer to give up my lease, and to go live in a place that would not only be cheaper, but in which my social life didn’t have to be in some tiny pod in an apartment. I could ski, I could hike, and I’m grateful to be at a place in life where I could manage that,” Harris said. Harris, who is single, is a recent MBA graduate from Columbia and has been renting Airbnbs across the country on a monthly basis since summer, as his work has changed to being fully remote. “I’ll kind of play it by ear. Michael is one of my best friends and ski buddies. He’s an advanced skier and I often take his lead on what we should do. I’m up for anything. I enjoy both [resort skiing and backcountry skiing]. My guess is that we do a little bit more of resort skiing,” Harris said. Harris currently plans on staying in Utah to ski through December to avoid being tied down in New York City with its restrictive distancing measures during the winter months. He has heard about potential pushback from locals who are concerned about people from outside the state taking advantage of the ski season and driving up rent and housing prices.
Ian Melling from Washington State enjoys the slopes at Alta. (Linnea Lundgren/City Journals)
“I don’t really understand that,” Harris said. “I go on Airbnb and there’s tons of availability. I imagine that locals aren’t staying in Airbnbs in their own city, so I’m not sure how that’s affecting their own rental prices, or their own home prices.” Agencies around the state are preparing for skiers to change their activities this year, notably venturing into the backcountry. Lance Barton, an experienced skier of 25 years, is encouraged by the material that the Utah Avalanche Center has released and
wants to see everybody that skis use it. “In Utah we’re really lucky. The Utah Avalanche Center does a daily avalanche report, and they’re pretty on the ball with just getting the general idea of how dangerous it is and stressing the fact that any random person can’t just hike up the mountain and ski it without recognizing that there is risk involved,” Barton said. The Utah Avalanche Center has already started to issue press releases warning inexperienced skiers of the inherent dangers of
backcountry skiing. On Nov. 13 the organization released the following statement: “With the expected drastic increase of people venturing into backcountry avalanche terrain in the 20/21 winter season, we fear rising potential for individual human involvements, deaths, and even larger, catastrophic avalanche accidents. Critical resources like search and rescue teams, first responders, and emergency medical providers are stretched thin. Please consider this and adjust your backcountry aspirations accordingly: make more conservative decisions and avoid very steep slopes and extreme objectives.” Barton feels that the organization is also increasing its avalanche preparedness training to account for skiers change in activity. “I know that they’ve been trying to just increase their awareness in general the last couple of years. This year, I kind of get the feeling that they’re making an extra push about it because they get the general idea that more people will be going into the backcountry,” Barton said. While it remains to be seen whether resorts will stay open all season, skiers are taking it all in stride. “I’m still going to get outside and ski every weekend. If I’m going to basically live in my home five days a week and not leave my bedroom, I need to be outside on the weekends to maintain my mental health and sanity,” Harris said. “Utah’s a great place for that.” l
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Artists get creative, offer original innovative shows at Kingsbury Hall By Drew Crawford | d.crawford@mycityjournals.com
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s cases of COVID-19 in Salt Lake City continue to surge, Kingsbury Hall is hosting innovative virtual performances by veteran artists who are eager to try out new ways of showcasing their work. “It hasn’t so much been about what’s the research behind it, what should we do, it’s been about each individual project relationship with an artist and saying, ‘What can we do if we can’t be together?’” Executive Director of Kingsbury Hall Brooke Ellen Horejsi said, describing the venue’s novel approach to putting on their shows. “For us a lot of the shift happened because of the relationship with the artists that we planned to work with this year,” Horejsi said. Current and upcoming performances highlight the desire of artists to perform and protect public health at the same time. With the increase of COVID-19 cases, Dancing Earth, an indigenous contemporary dance theatre group made up of young indigenous activist-artists based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico and San Francisco, California, canceled plans to present live at Kingsbury Hall and opted for an episodic release of their work that can be streamed online. “Even if we could have audiences for our November show, they were all really like, ‘We don’t feel safe traveling. If we come to Utah to do a show, we contract something and then we take it back to our families and our communities and get our elders sick,’” Horejsi said, explaining Dancing Earth’s decision to showcase their performance. “They took the resources that we were paying them to present the live show and translated that into keeping their company members employed and recreating
Dancing Earth. (Photo courtesy of Kingsbury Hall)
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the whole thing for an episodic digital format which was a gargantuan task,” Horejsi said. The first episode of Dancing Earth’s performance was released in mid-November, with the next few episodes being released by the time of the publication of this article. The format of the show gives the audience the chance to experience the artwork gradually or all at once. Other shows that will be hosted by Kingsbury Hall this season have come to fruition organically. Taylor Mack, the 2020 winner of the International Ibsen Award who has previously performed at Kingsbury Hall, reached out to arrange another performance. Mack’s adult show, “Holiday Sauce Pandemic,” will focus on the isolation and loneliness that many people experience during the holiday season. Kingsbury Hall usually plans their performances 18 months in advance, and Horejsi recognizes that it will be a tall order to deliver on that this season. As a result, the venue is exploring an approach to the next season of performances with potentially surprising twists in store, including outdoor shows. “If we’re still in a situation where it isn’t safe to be gathering in large groups particularly indoors, one of the good options is to do outdoor projects where people can be distant, so we are considering activating next summer,” Horejsi said. While it remains to be seen what shows will be hosted during the summer, it is almost guaranteed that these shows will also be driven by the innovation of the presenting artists. “One of the things that is really great about working with artists and supporting artists is that they’re natural problem solvers, and so they are always noodling a
Taylor Mac. (Photo courtesy of Kingsbury Hall)
problem,” Horejsi said. “Mathematicians do it too, and physicists do it too, but artists do it with an eye to ‘how do I solve a problem in a way that people want to watch the solution, or watch the process of solving it?’ which is different than a scientist in a lab.” The local community hungers to watch performances at Kingsbury Hall, according to Ryan Ireland, assistant box office manager. “They’re still holding, so that’s good. It’s just all a different ballgame. Utah is known for buying tickets late anyways, so people buy day of show,” Ireland said, citing how sales have been steady even as operations and methods of communication to patrons have changed. While continued interests in the shows is encouraging, Horejsi wants attendees to know that the continued success of local
arts is highly dependent on their support and contribution. “If you can’t figure out how to survive this pandemic as an artist or a person that works in an art organization in Salt Lake City, then you’re never going to keep working and keep contributing to the larger content that’s out there,” Horejsi said. “That stuff won’t be there two years from now, there won’t be new things for people to see, if you don’t support what’s happening right now and the artists and the art organizations that are trying to survive this pandemic.” For information on upcoming shows at Kingsbury Hall, including “The Journey,” a virtually interactive performance by illusionist Scott Silven, visit www. utahpresents.org/category/events/ or artstickets.utah.edu/category/kingsbury-hall/ l
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On the eighth night of Hanukkah, all the candles and the helper candle are lit. Here, several families combined their Hanukkiahs. (Photo courtesy of Larry Green) Larry and Laura Green of Sandy enjoy a meal during a Jewish holiday in 2018. (Quiling Wang/Deseret News with permission)
How one Jewish family is adapting its Haunkkah this year By Heather Lawrence | h.lawrence@mycityjournals.com
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arry Green is on the Board of Directors at Congregation Kol Ami Synagogue in Salt Lake City. As a board, they argue back and forth about the best way to do things, but they agree on one thing—they want their members to stay safe while having meaningful Hanukkah celebrations. “There’s an old joke that if you ask two Jews a question, you’ll get three opinions. We’re a people who are commanded to seek out truth, and we do that by asking a lot of questions and arguing. “But taking safety precautions is critical as the guardians of our congregation and community. We take that job seriously,” Green said. Those precautions will limit Hanukkah celebrations to family members in their homes. This year, the eight-day (night) celebration of Hanukkah is Dec. 10-18. Green and his wife Laura have lived here for 20 years. Originally from New York, business and travel brought them out west. “My introduction to Salt Lake City was a huge snowstorm the first time I tried to get up Little Cottonwood Canyon to go skiing,” Green said. Now, Little Cottonwood Canyon is right outside their front door. Green has researched Utah’s Jewish history. “There has been a Jewish presence here since right after 1847. The name Kol Ami means ‘all my people’ in Hebrew. The synagogue combined two Salt Lake City congregations, a reform and a conservative, into one,” Green said. Kol Ami recognized the need for virtual meetings “immediately” when churches shut
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down in March. “We went to streaming Saturday morning services, and it worked fairly well. We can now attend in our pajamas,” Green said with a laugh. The Greens have a daughter and grandchildren who live in California, and family “scattered all over the globe.” But without family in Utah, fellowship at Kol Ami is a big part of their lives. “[Our congregation] is a hugging and kissing lot, so come the end of the [worship] service we would meet outside the hall. We break bread and have blessings over the wine. Then we converse,” Green said. For the Greens, a typical year’s Hanukkah includes gathering in their home each of the eight nights at sundown. They invite five or six other families to their home. They light the candle, chant a hymn, and say a blessing. “There’s a blessing for everything! Let your imagination run wild, anything you can think of—in Judaism there’s a blessing for it,”
Larry and Laura Green celebrate Jewish traditions in their Sandy home. (Qiling Wang/Deseret News with permission)
Green said. They also give gifts. “Some are big gifts, some are just tokens. The important thing is the giving,” Green said. Also called the Festival of Lights, Hanukkah commemorates a miracle in Jewish history. During the temple rededication, the purified oil that was needed to light lamps in the temple had been spoiled by attackers. There was only one cruse of it left. The lamps at the temple were lit while new olive oil was prepared. The preparation took eight days, and miraculously, the oil lasted until more was properly prepared. “It’s thinking about where eternal light comes from,” Green said. “You light one candle per night and a helper candle. And we don’t light a menorah—I don’t even own a menorah. We light a Hanukkiah (han-OOkee-uh). I own five or six Hanukkiahs and the more fanciful the better. It’s a joyful celebration. We also eat a lot of fried foods to remem-
ber the oil.” None of those aspects will change with this year’s gathering restrictions. “It’s a family holiday that you celebrate in your home. There are hymns and blessings that are specific to Hanukkah. That will all stay the same. We’ll practice our traditions. We just won’t invite friends over.” Green speaks freely about his Jewish faith and thinks it’s good when people want to learn more. He and other board members decided to invest in safety measures for the synagogue. When they return to in-person services, they will happily welcome visitors. “I think what has to be said in today’s climate is that we are a people of peace,” Green said. “We value peace and tranquility above everything else. We wish everyone a happy holiday season regardless of what their faith is and who they worship. God willing, we’ll see everyone next year in better conditions.” l
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Center offers Safe Place for youth and families to re-establish peace By Bill Hardesty | b.hardesty@mycityjournals.com
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he Inoa family (a fictionalized family) are having problems with their 15-year-old son, Hector. Hector is cutting class. He stays out beyond curfew. He often talks back and mistreats his younger brother. Yesterday, grades were posted and the fight and the screaming and the slamming doors started around 5 p.m. Around 9 p.m., the police arrived to help the family. After assessing the situation, the officer decided the best action for the family is space and time. With the parents following the officer in their own car, Hector wasn’t taken to the Juvenile Detention Center. He didn’t meet the qualification per state law. The officer was aware of a better alternative. Hector was taken to the Juvenile Receiving Center (JRC) in South Salt Lake (177 W. Price Ave.). The Juvenile Receiving Center is part of the Salt Lake County Youth Services. They serve children ages 8-17 and their families at no cost. The JRC is taxpayer supported along with grants. The JRC is open 24/7, seven days a week. There is another location at 8781 S. Redwood Road in West Jordan, but they are only open Monday through Friday 8 a.m.-8 p.m. “We try to stabilize the family so services will be more effective,” J.D. Green, Crisis Service Program manager, said. Besides helping families, the JRC helps homeless youth and runaways find resources. Rarely are youth dragged into the JRC. “They are willing to come,” Green said. “They are tired of the fighting.” The JRC can provide a time out to let people calm
down. They also can provide an overnight stay or, in some cases, provide 72-hour care. There is nothing punitive at the center. No isolation rooms. It is not a lock-down facility. There is no medical staff on site. “We want to reestablish peace for the family,” Green said. Services available The JRC staff provides a variety of services driven by the needs of the family. “The family are the experts. They know what is wrong and what they need,” Green said. Along with providing immediate crisis services, the JRC staff provides short-term counseling sessions, referral services, family mediation/intervention and a Safe Place. Under normal circumstances, much of the counseling is done in the home, but with COVID-19 restrictions, most sessions are done online. They also offer group therapy sessions and classes. Therapy can last a year or longer. Safe Place Salt Lake County Youth services support the Safe Place program. Many public places and businesses display a yellow diamond on their door with the words Safe Place. It is an indication for youth in crisis to come in and find help and resources. It also indicates that employees and staff have received training to help them. Green told a story about a 10-year-old boy who stayed at a library for a long time. After being called by the library staff, members of the JRC came and found out he was
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Citizen Review Board starts to take form By Bill Hardesty | b.hardesty@mycityjournals.com
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or the past couple of months, the South Salt Lake City Council continues to work on creating a Citizen Review Board (CRB). They have made progress on the selection process, the scope and the board's budget impacts. Besides these three issues, Council Member at-large Natalie Pinkney continues to ensure the board is independent of police or administration control. “I’m excited about the ongoing conversations we are having about the creation of an oversight agency for our police department. It’s important that government ensures legitimacy with agencies that are supposed to be a check and balance system,” Pinkney said. “We can only do that when we make the oversight completely separate and clear of biases. The way we structure it and fund it ultimately shows our commitment to civil rights. The budget is where we show what we value and what we are willing to invest when it comes to racial justice, accountability and transparency.” Selection process In an Oct. 14 City Council meeting, several residents voiced concern about having Mayor Cherie Wood be part of the selection process. Their concerns centered on her family ties to law enforcement. Later, Hannah Vickery, the city attorney, explained that the mayor must appoint the board according to state law. In the subsequent meeting on Oct. 28, Wood outlined the selection process. “My objective for tonight is to share with residents and the City Council a clear and transparent five-step process for selecting members for this board,” Wood said. “Along with the valued advice and consent of the City Council, I will up-
hold the law by appointing a fair, unbiased and qualified Citizen Review Board. The members of the board will apply and be interviewed by a Selection Committee. At the close of their work, the Selection Committee will send their recommended members to me. I can then present these recommendations to the Council.” The five steps are: 1. Promote the Process: City will use various ways to announce the process. These ways include city utility bills, OTM monthly newsletter and social media. 2. Call for CRB applications: The application will be available on the city’s website or by calling the mayor’s office. 3. Hold a virtual information session: All applicants will receive an invitation. City staff will present information on the role and responsibility of the CRB along with Q&As. 4. Appoint a selection committee: “An independent selection committee will include subject experts on areas of racial justice, equity, civics, community involvement and public safety.” 5. Appoint CRB members: Wood will review the selection committee recommendations. She will submit the names to the City Council for advice and consent as she does for Planning Commission members. “I am not on the selection committee,” Wood said. Since an ordinance establishing the CRB has not yet passed, no timetable for the applications or the selection committee is published. Scope The scope of the CRB is still in flux. However, a draft ordinance debated on Sept. 30 at the City Council meeting
South Salt Lake Councilmember at-large Natalie Pinkney continues to work on making the Citizen Review Board an independent and transparent board. (Bill Hardesty/City Journals)
provides insight into what the Council is considering. The draft ordinance indicates the board will review “All uses of force by the City of South Salt Lake Police Department; and all vehicular pursuits.”
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The draft ordinance defines “Use of Force” as “the application of an arrest control tactic, display or discharge of a firearm, display or use of a Taser, use of a chemical agent, use or deployment of a canine to effect an arrest, or intentional damage to property of another in an apparent show of force to effect an arrest, but not including compliant use of handcuffs.” An article on the “Use of Force” was published in the November edition of the City Journal. Councilmember Shane Siwik, District 5, often spoke about adding no-knock warrants to the scope. Other members were warming up to the idea. However, a presentation by Chief Jack Carruth at the Oct. 28 work meeting showed how difficult that would be. In his Warrants and Seizures presentation, Carruth said that no-knock warrants in SSL are executed by the Unified Police Department’s SWAT team. SSLPD provides five members to the UPD SWAT team. Year to date, the UPD SWAT has served 63 warrants throughout the county, including SSL. To review no-knock warrants, the CRB would have to review UPD records. The SSL CRB will not have the authority to do so. They are only used if there is a risk of life or possible destruction of evidence. Pinkney asked if the city could ban noknock warrants with an ordinance. Carruth replied that a city ordinance would not work since a warrant is issued by a judge and executed under their order.
Carruth mentioned the SSLPD had a 21 member SWAT team, but it put a strain on resources. A few years ago, SSLPD joined a partnership with UPD to share resources. Even though SSLPD officers have body cameras when working as a member of UPD SWAT, they don’t wear them since UPD doesn’t use body cameras. Later in a regular council meeting, Siwik said he was OK with not including no-knock warrants and property seizure in the CRB scope. Budget impacts City staff took their first stab at how much a CRB would cost and presented their findings at a Nov. 4 council meeting. While there are still some gaps in the estimate, Ray deWolfe, Council Member at-large, estimated the startup cost to be on the plus side of $500,000 with an annual cost of around $300,000. Carruth led the presentation. Because of the need to support the CRB, he asked for a new lieutenant position and a crime analyst. He made a case for the new lieutenant position by explaining that currently, two sergeants and their officers (Community Policing and Homeless Resource Center) report directly to the deputy chief. With the need for CRB support, placing all three functions under a lieutenant improves the span of control. In the crime analyst case, this position will support the CRB and the current crime analyst. The additional startup cost comes from
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CRB members would not come out of the
Bureau of Criminal Identification (BCI) compliant. Regarding stipend for CRB members, most of the council voiced they should receive the same compensation as Planning Commission members. Currently, commissioners are paid a $35 stipend for each meeting. Carruth clarified that the funds to pay
SSLPD budget, adding to the board's independence. Next action The council moved any further actions to a future meeting. They directed city staff to create a firmer cost estimate for startup and annual costs. As of this writing, any CRB discussion is not on any council agenda. l
South Salt Lake City continues to work on creating a Citizen Review Board to oversee the SSLPD. (Bill Hardesty/City Journals)
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Sean Oviatt (left) and Dennis Sisneros are learning high-end culinary skills as interns at Flourish Bakery. (Sarah Morton Taggart/City Journals)
Flourish Bakery finds new home after long search By Sarah Morton Taggart | s.taggart@mycityjournals.com
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unique nonprofit that helps individuals recover from addiction or incarceration has finally found a home. Flourish Bakery, a social enterprise of Flourish Ventures, had operated out of Salt Lake Community College for two years. In October 2019, SLCC determined that they needed the space for other programs and Flourish suddenly needed to find a new kitchen. The organization spent 10 months looking for a new location, touring multiple buildings throughout the valley. They found the perfect space at 752 W. Center Street in Midvale. The commercial kitchen, formerly occupied by JK’s Indulgence Catering, has plenty of space, countertops, a walk-in refrigerator and commercial mixers. “This location couldn’t be better,” said Rev. Aimee Altizer, executive director of Flourish Bakery and Flourish Ventures. “If I dared to dream and have everything we needed in one perfect location, that would be this location. We’re discovering Midvale. The old Main Street has beautiful bones, so much history. To be part of the revitalization is very exciting to us.” Flourish itself is all about revitalizing lives. “The interns learn culinary and also life skills,” Altizer said. “They learn their personality types and learning styles. There’s empowerment in that process. People that get in trouble in school have different learning styles. They need hands-on experience or to be shown how to physically do things. You often find those individuals in culinary settings and addiction. Flourish helps interns understand their personality type and apply that knowledge to what they’re doing. They’re not just making pie. It’s about understanding oneself in the
process of making pie.” “Aimee recognized that recovery was a revolving door, if they were lucky,” said Rev. Sandra Jones, chair of Flourish’s board of directors. “What seemed to be missing was this bridge, this community of people also in recovery taking this journey. The opportunity to learn a skill that’s needed while earning money, being supported and also held accountable.” Interns get help creating bank accounts and improving credit scores through a partnership with Fair Credit, another nonprofit organization. Interns are paid $12 an hour for 32 to 40 hours per week, which enables them to pay for their living expenses and manage their own lives. Flourish also hopes to become a part of Midvale’s community. “One of the concepts we talked about (while forming the nonprofit) was community,” Jones said. “Not just Flourish, but also the greater community. Have the community meet the interns and dispel myths about people in recovery.” Interns come from a variety of backgrounds. “One of the first graduates was in construction,” Jones said. “It was winter, and she didn’t want to be in the cold. She got very good at decorating cakes.” Completing an internship at Flourish requires a full year of staying sober while working in the bakery, then completing a three-month externship. So far, two interns have completed the entire program and two are working toward completion. Dennis Sisneros has been with Flourish for 14 months due to the interruptions of the COVID-19 outbreak and losing access to a kitchen. He was excited
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to start working at the new Midvale location, once one change had been made: uncovering a large window that had been blocked off. “I wanted the light,” Sisneros said. “There are very few windows in prison.” Sisneros grew up in West Valley and began using drugs at age 13. He sold drugs for more than a decade and spent six years in prison. “I had nothing to fall back on,” Sisneros said. “All I had was using and selling drugs. I was living the criminal lifestyle my whole life. Today, I’m learning a new trade and being 100% accountable for my actions.” Sisneros has had a lot of firsts since starting at Flourish—his first apartment, first time opening a bank account, first time voting and paying taxes. “I asked (Aimee) why did you start this?” Sisneros said. “It was simple for her to answer. ‘I’m sick of seeing people die.’ And that’s where I was headed, if I didn’t change my life. A life of institutions or death. I got sick of prison this last time, said I’d do anything to change.” Sisneros says that he was sober in prison because he had to be. Now he is emotionally sober as well as physically sober because he learned to deal with his demons. “I will be the third graduate from Flourish,” he said. “I say that with such conviction because I’m in a good place in my head.” Flourish provides something that Sisneros never had before: stability. “Here you always have someone in your corner,” Sisneros said. “Aimee is a minister so we have God in our lives. We say a prayer when done with reflection session. How many of you have a minister that sees you every day of your life?” When he’s done with his externship, Sisneros wants
to return to Flourish as a baker. “Don’t you want to be an instructor?” wondered Sean Oviatt, an intern who has been with Flourish for two months. Oviatt took a different path to Flourish. He was a college-educated business owner when he saw his life go downhill quickly after becoming addicted to meth. “I lost my family. I lost friends,” Oviatt said. “I only spent 13 days in jail. I’m grateful for the legal system, never thought I’d say that. If not for getting caught and the judge saying I needed substance abuse help, I wouldn’t be here.” Oviatt heard about Flourish from the employment counselor at his halfway house. At 52, he struggled to find employment and jumped at the opportunity to join a program where he wouldn’t be starting over at the bottom. “I had 10 years of food experience, though they didn’t ask about that,” Oviatt said. “The application asks for three important life events and what I learned from them. That’s the whole application. That lets you know what this is about. (Flourish) takes the disenfranchised, the hopeless. Gives them an opening of light. This is not a job. This is a program to reenter life.” Soon after moving to the new space, Flourish began taking applications for more interns and instructors. In addition to catering and food truck sales, the bakery opened a storefront adjacent to the kitchen in November. “Interns learn a full spectrum of pastry and culinary skills and the items in the store will match their training module,” Altizer said. “Custards, pies, fruit tarts, cookies, bread, and new things we have yet to create. People can make purchases and meet the team.” It may have taken nearly a year for Flourish to find
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Simulate your own baseball season with a tabletop game By Greg James | g.james@mycityjournals.com
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uring game six of this year’s World Series Kevin Cash, the Tampa Bay Rays manager, stepped onto the field with one out in the sixth inning to remove Blake Snell, the Rays starting pitcher. The game unraveled from that point and the Dodgers won the championship. Cash’s managerial move sparked a firestorm of second-guessing. Tabletop games allow you to make the decision to leave the pitcher in or take him out. Strat-o-Matic is an industry leader in these types of games. Strat-o-Matic is based in Glen Head, N.Y., and produces sports simulation games. Tabletop baseball, American football, basketball, and hockey simulations along with personal computer adaptations of each are its primary product but baseball is it’s most popular. “I first ran into the game at a friend’s house when I lived in New Jersey,” Salt Lake resident Mike Bowes said. “I bought my first full Strat set in 1981. I am currently replaying the 1980 season, but I enjoy the old nostalgia players and teams like Mike Schmidt or the Garvey Dodgers teams.” Strat baseball began in 1961 when developer Hal Richman sold the game from his basement. In the game, each athlete is represented by a player card with results tables based on dice rolls. Face to face and computer-based
leagues have formed all around the country. Adam Richman, the current company president calls the pandemic a ‘horrendous time for our country,’ but the resurgence of the game has caused a 75 percent increase in sales in 2020 (according to Baseball America). “I produce content every day for my youtube channel (Sports Time Machine). I like to play the game solo, but playing against someone is always fun,” Bowes said. The game’s playing cards are based on statistical information gathered from each season. The Major League teams then produce for game players. Using dice rolls and statistics the game results should become accurate to actual games played. Game players can adjust lineups and matchups. “I am a math teacher in high school,” Massacustes resident Steve Mitchell said. “We ran a league after school and kept the stats on the chalkboard for all of the games.” Bowes currently plays in three leagues. “I like to play the game all by myself,” Bowes said. “It flows really well and I can play in under an hour.” The new season cards are generally released around the beginning of spring training. Many game players trek to New York to commemorate the beginning of a strat season. Player ratings are analyzed and discussed.
Strat-o-Matic produces simulation games for baseball, basketball, football, and hockey. (Greg James/City Journals)
Some real-life major leaguers have lobbied the company to improve their card ratings. Former Phillies player Doug Glanville sent pages of documentation to the company one year to try to influence his card to no avail. Bob Costas, Keith Hernandez, and Curt Schilling have proclaimed their love for the games. After homering in a playoff game Len-
ny Dykstra said the last time he had done such a thing was in his Strat-o-Matic game. The game allows you to manage the teams you love in the way you want to. Set the lineups, pitching rotations, and bench the players you despise. The best part is your managerial moves will not be scrutinized by the entire world like Kevin Cash’s were in the World Series. l
Local student works toward dream of becoming a doctor By Heather Lawrence | h.lawrence@mycityjournals.com
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ottonwood High senior Will Sintyl has big dreams. When his mom had health problems, Sintyl and his twin sister Kiki came to live with family in Utah. He’s worked hard to get on the honor roll, and the twins have flourished in Cottonwood’s ESL program. His hard work was recognized when Sintyl was recommended for a coveted place at the Congress of Future Medical Leaders at Harvard this past spring. “The Congress was a three-day event, and there were only a few other students from Utah there. To be accepted, you have to be recommended by a teacher. So, it was a surprise to me. I’ve always loved serving people and wanted to be a doctor,” Sintyl said. At the congress, high school students attend workshops and hear “grandmaster” speakers. Speakers include winners of the Nobel Prize and recipients of the National Medal of Science. Students are given advice on what to expect in a program by deans from top medical schools. “After all the workshops and seminars, I felt that I really want to be a cardiologist. And I thought, ‘I can do this,’” Sintyl said. Cottonwood counselor Lorraine Behling is a site coordinator for the Utah State University STARS GEAR UP! program. She used the program to help Sintyl receive funding that covered the cost of the congress. “This was life-changing for me, and my family has been so supportive. Even though the event had to be virtual this year, I loved learning about Harvard. I want to attend there,” Sintyl said. Nancy Veit is a close friend of the Sintyl family and a
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Cottonwood senior Will Sintyl holds his certificate from the prestigious Congress of Future Medical Leaders, which he attended this year. (Photo courtesy Will Sintyl)
nurse practitioner. She believes Sintyl not only has the intelligence to become a physician, but he has something more— ambition and drive. “He’s so bright and so quick. Intelligence is one thing, but what will always make the difference is your focus and ability to work. He has that persistence and drive for perfection. If he gets a 90% on a test, he retakes it if he can. They are both smart and courageous kids,” Veit said. Veit marvels at the progress the twins have made, and laughs about their communication efforts when they first moved to the Millcreek area. “They are both wonderful students, but they came to this country not speaking English. Their native language is
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ied, from the shock of changes in spring to the “new normal” by autumn. Some express frustration, others optimism. A 12 year old wrote:“We’ve had to wear masks now. And we have had a ton of deaths. I didn’t leave my house to do anything except go on a walk or bike ride with my family. It was weird being home so much.” A 14 year old wrote: “I have many negative impacts from the pandemic, but I think that the biggest impacts on me are isolation from friends and extended family members, as well as cancellation of sports, clubs, and school. I could go on and on but I think that it is safe to say that the pandemic is one of the worst and best things I have experienced.” Common themes in submissions so far have been students missing teachers, friends and family and missing out on end-of-theyear school activities and family traditions. One child shared: “Before the pandemic I would play baseball every Friday, Saturday or Sunday. And if I got lucky, all three days in a row...I still play baseball, but only with my parents. We go to empty parks and stay at least six feet away from people and it’s still fun...My family and I would go to a Dodgers game once a year, it's kinda like a tradition but this will be the first year in a long time we won’t be able to go.” A 12 year old wrote: “During quarantine my grandparents would do drive-by visits. We also did some door drop-off surprises for my cousins. We did lots of Facetime and texting. Once we were free to get out of our houses, we did a lot of activities together. I missed seeing my grandparents and cousins.” Students have also shared how they’re discovering things about themselves they
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wouldn’t have known—like learning better online or strengthening family relationships. “I have been learning how to cook more complex meals...and I’ve been getting more into art recently,” said one child. A teenager wrote: “I have recently started learning how to play the ukulele again. I have also learned some new tricks on the trampoline. I think that I have gotten better with house chores.” Another wrote: “I’ve been a better person then I could’ve been. I’ve learned to get along with my little brothers. I’ve also had lots of time to spend with my big brother and we talked a lot. I enjoyed being with my family.” Barr said this project gets kids excited about history. “A lot of time, in order to get history to matter for people, you have to make it personal and so this is a great opportunity to do that,” Barr said. Joy Anderson, who teaches U.S. history at Oquirrh Hills Middle School, agrees.
“It is always beneficial to have a perspective that students can truly relate to,” Anderson said. "If they see something from someone their own age, they always pay more attention to it than an adult's perspective.” Anderson, who also assigned her students to submit entries for the collection, said her students will someday be answering these questions for their children or grandchildren for their history class. She said it is almost impossible to find primary sources from a young person's perspective for her class content so a collection of this kind will be helpful for future teachers. So, in 100 years, students will be able to study this entry written by a 13 year old in the early months of the pandemic: “We have to be by each other all the time. My older sister and I try to hide in our rooms as much as we can. I also try to go outside and swing alone. I play a lot of video games or watch TV….People don’t visit each other anymore in my neighborhood. It has affected our state
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because we can’t go to school or church so a lot of people just stay home all day.” Some entries provided advice to future generations facing a pandemic: “It changes your life. You realize all the blessings you have and are thankful for your health. I believe it’s a great thing that happened to slow us down in life.” “I would want future generations to know that something like this truly changes your life! To experience something like this, well, it is really tough. It’s not easy. But, I do think maybe this will shape my future in a good way. So, never give up!”
“Sure we have to wear a mask but it does not mask who we are or how we act. Some people exaggerate corona just a little bit, just a little...If people like me look on the bright side and see things from a different point of view, we realize that we are ok. We still get to do fun things and we can still learn things like normal.” Barr said they will collect submissions as long as the pandemic continues. The submissions will be digitized and stored as part of a special collections archive which will be available for public research or, possibly, a public special exhibit in the future. l
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tah is known for its wintertime wonders, and skiers and snowboarders are anxious to hit the slopes for the first time since resorts closed early in March as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown. Ski and snowboard enthusiasts, however, can expect some changes this season. Many modifications are in place, and resorts have implemented a reservation system and have started enforcing social distancing guidelines. As a result of the changes, some skiers are taking an unconventional approach to the season, planning for a mix of reservation days and backcountry skiing. “It’s kind of what I expect I’ll be doing this season is a mix of both. My strategy is that I’m going to frontload my reservation days because I don’t know how long ski resorts are going to stay open. I’m not saving any days for March, but we’re going to see,” Michael Tzovaras, a veteran skier who moved to Utah last year, explained. Tzovaras, who has an enthusiasm and infectious attitude for the sport, is not too fazed by the actions of others and the chance that they will get in his way on the slopes. He plans to maintain his own distance during his runs and doesn’t plan on hanging out in resort lodges or riding in the gondolas. “I love skiing at resorts on Saturdays and hanging with
friends and grabbing a beer, and that whole sort of sense of camaraderie of being at the resort,” he said. “At the same time, I definitely enjoy my days in the backcountry. I love to hike; my wife and I do a lot of hiking; we like the outdoors. Backcountry skiing for me is less about skiing, but it’s more about being outside and finding a little bit of peace and solitude, getting to be out in nature. They’re quite different.” Tzovaras is encouraged to see that so many people want a piece of the action this year, but also recognizes the unique challenges that are posed by others who want their fix out on the slopes. “I think I’m excited that so many people are getting into ski touring. Yesterday, I toured up Alta in the morning because they got snow, and I was excited, and it was an absolute zoo, it was crazy. I got up there a little bit earlier, and by the time I was making my way down the parking lot was completely full as if the resort was open,” Tzovaras said. “I think that there is going to be some challenges with backcountry skiing and everyone getting into it. I know some people are a little nervous with safety and that sort of thing with so many people getting into it,” Tzovaras said, recounting comments made by others on social media Mike Harp skis the backside of Alta. (Linnea Lundgren/City Journals) Continued page 5
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