City Weekly February 11, 2021

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Who Ya Gonna Call?

How to make sure your next mental-health crisis doesn’t become a death sentence.

BY JENN Y POPL A R

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WHO YA GONNA CALL? How to make sure your next mentalhealth crisis doesn’t become a death sentence.

By Jenny Poplar

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SOAP BOX “Good Luck, Kera,” Private Eye Jan. 28 column I really enjoyed John Saltas’ article about Kera [Birkeland].

I think a lot of her as well.

Granted, as her husband, I’m a little biased. Still, after reading all of the rude and hateful comments about her on social media, Saltas’ article was very welcomed and appreciated.

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“Don’t Wilt, Mitt,” Private Eye Feb. 4 column Mitt is so normal. It’s refreshing.

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Never ever in a million years did I think I’d see Mitt as a hero. Thank you, Senator

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I suspect he will pursue the largest profit margin, such as most career politicians do.

That said, I’ll extend the benefit of the doubt for now.

Being a member of the Trump-controlled GOP requires selling your soul.

I hope Romney will not do that.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee MLK Day of Service event—Food to School District Food Pantries in Salt Lake County = Healthy Student Minds and Bodies—was a big success, according to food donors, volunteer workers, sponsors and especially food pantries in Salt Lake County school districts.

This event had more than 35 individuals collecting donated food, and at least 10 volunteers to sort, divide and deliver the food. Over 45 medium-size boxes of non-perishable food was divided up according to student enrollment numbers and delivered to the five school districts: Canyon, Granite, Murray City, Salt Lake City and South Jordan.

Many thanks to Teresa Felt; our sponsors Doug Owens, Jani Iwamoto, Millie’s Burgers and Peak Performance Tutoring; and all our incredible volunteers who greatly nourish Salt Lake County students.

It was an honor to be a host and organizer.

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Romney, for common sense, for moderation, for loving America.

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What’s something you’ve hoarded during the quarantine?

Paula Saltas Fresca. There was a can shortage for a while.

The more I couldn’t find it in stores, the more I sought it out every place I shopped. Fresca is very refreshing. And so is Schöfferhofer.

Tom Metos Alcohol—for its medicinal and disinfecting purposes.

Chelsea Neider Wine. If the world was gonna end, I needed enough vino to make it through :) Carolyn Campbell I hoarded chocolate. You can’t let yourself run out of the good stuff.

Kelly Boyce Voyager Token (VGX) from the new cryptocurrency trading app, Voyager. It’s the future, and I wouldn’t mind being rich.

Pete Saltas Fresca. What Mama S. said.

Katharine Biele Well, I am trying to hoard Science Diet cat food. Yes, it’s true. There is hardly any of it at any of the pet stores. When I asked about it, they said it was their suppliers’ fault because they’re from China. When you have a picky cat who turns his nose up at other brands, well, what choice do you have but to hoard?

Mike Ptaschinski Over the quarantine, I hoarded a horned buffalo headdress, a trident, a few capes and some empty fire extinguishers ‘cuz I knew I’d make a fortune off ‘em on eBay come early January.

Eric Granato Gas, fuel, guzzolene. I watched The Road Warrior way too much as a child.

Jerre Wroble Yeast. For the bread I didn’t bake.

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level satisfactory to Trump himself, who is surely watching on TV, reveling that there really are attorneys in the United States who are willing to make fools of themselves for the world to see. Those attorneys are as incapable of performing a miracle as is the noble Westley of telling a lie. Trump doesn’t need a miracle anyway. He has Mike Lee. Mike Lee is among 11 Senators who voted earlier to not even proceed with the trial at all. It is unconstitutional, they say. The more I hear Lee use any variant of the word “constitutional,” the more I’m reminded of one of the most quotable of quotes from The Princess Bride. Remember when the conniving Vizzini keeps using the work “inconceivable” in reference to the unlikelihoods that keep happening before his eyes? Westley’s boat rapidly closing in on Vizzini’s. Inconceivable! The honorable fighter Inigo Montoya scaling the cliff. Inconceivable! At the top of the cliff, Vizzini looking down to the brave Westley climbing upward and exclaiming, “He didn’t fall? Inconceivable!” to which Montoya replies, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” That’s how it is with Mike Lee. I don’t think he knows what the word “constitutional” means.

His version of the Constitution is barely more than random letters and words bound into a neat package, living in his breast pocket, easily extracted like a pack of Lucky Strikes, allowing him to make a bold gesture as to the kind of man he is. Lee likes to hold his pocket Constitution and wave it around. He likes to have us believe that in that space between his very narrow eyes, he alone has divined what the framers had in mind for the future of their new republic. Truth is, though, Lee isn’t a fine tobacco. He’s a puff of smoke.

The Constitution is just a prop for Mike Lee. Same as a golf tee. We all know our former president was fond of billing U.S. citizens for endless rounds of golf. To be fair, I can’t

recall Lee ever playing a round of golf with Trump. To be equally fair, I’ll bet Lee a bottle of cheap tequila (for me) against a $25 Swig gift certificate (for him) that I could beat him in a round of golf tomorrow. I’m that confident despite surgery on three trigger fingers, both shoulders, both knees and a hip. I can’t see him doing anything remotely athletic outside of quick drawing his pocket Constitution in the same manner as when a back-alley pervert makes his great reveal. I’d beat him straight up, no mulligans for me.

So, it surprises me that Mike Lee wants to give Trump a mulligan on his bald-faced attempt to upend the United States of America. In a recent TV interview (stop, Mike, just stop—you’ve embarrassed Utah enough!), Lee said that Trump should have a make-good, that people deserve second shots, second chances. It’s not so much Lee made the statement, which is patently ludicrous, but that I also doubt Lee even knows what a mulligan is. If he did, he’d know one mulligan begets another until a mockery of rules and decorum means they no longer matter. Maybe he heard the word in a locker room because I can’t imagine him actually golfing. Maybe he was just trying to fit in with Trump, same as on the day in Arizona when he compared him to Captain Moroni.

A football squad of 11 Republican Senators voted against the trial going forward. Lee is now forever married to Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, Tim Scott, Roger Marshall, Tommy Tuberville and Bill Hagerty, opportunistic dunderheads all. Have any of them uttered anything but grievances? It’s inconceivable they could do otherwise. They want us to rush ahead, to put Jan. 6 behind us. Can’t do that, Mulligan Mike. Miracle Max says we shouldn’t because, “You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.” You’ve produced a rotten mulligan. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net.

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veryone hates a bad movie analogy, so I’ll just go ahead and play with one anyway. Near the end of the greatest movie of all time, The Princess Bride, the protagonist is found to be “mostly dead” and needing a miracle. If you’ve seen The Princess Bride, you know the scene.

The noble Westley is transported to the trusting skills of Miracle Max who, to his own surprise, conjures a method to return the “mostly dead” Westley back to his old fighting form. Westley is then able to finish his conquest of the evil Prince Humperdinck who has stolen his one true love, Buttercup, the Princess Bride.

Tuesday began the senate impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump. Mike Lee is in the senate chamber somehow not gagging at the defense that the Trump team erratically presented. If this trial were The Princess Bride, Trump would be pronounced not “mostly dead” but all the way dead.

Nothing could save Trump if this were an actual trial.

But it’s not. Unless a Miracle Max event occurs for the prosecution, Trump will not be held accountable for actions and words inciting the insurrection on Jan. 6. In Mike Lee World, it’s not Trump who’s “mostly dead,” it’s the U.S. Constitution, and Lee is there to save it, by God— no matter how many pocket Constitutions or variants of constitutional interpretation he can conjure.

Good thing Lee is there because Trump’s lawyers aren’t.

Twitter trends and most newscasts have declared the Trump legal team to be comprised of morons, one charming and the other angry, but ultimately both morons. Neither can rise to the Miracle Max-level needed to save Trump from impeachment, but they don’t need to. They just need to perform to a

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HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

Miss: Mug Shots Shot Down

Maybe you think the Legislature has your best interests at heart when it ventures into the realm of personal privacy.

Let’s look at it another way. Lawmakers might only be interested in protecting the lawless and keeping watchdog journalists out of their hair. This is a complicated issue, and who knew there’s a whole mug-shot publishing industry out there that tends to serve the tabloid news? The Standard Examiner noted the passage of House Bill 228, sponsored

by Rep. Keven Stratton, R-Orem, which protects those booked but later found innocent who then have to pay ransom to some website to take down their mug shot. Good luck with that in a digital age where trolls and Russians are better at hacking than your teenager. And Stratton is not the only one. This is a national effort with New York looking at legislation, too. The better idea might have been for Stratton to penalize the so-called “publish-for-pay” websites.

But that would be too hard, and the local news media are an easier target.

Hit: Tiny ‘Opt-Out’ Bubbles

That was a close one! It was also a strange one. Parents at North Ogden’s Maria Montessori Academy were told they could opt out their kids from Black History Month curriculum. Well, not so much. Turns out that Black history is part of the social studies curriculum, but the new principal of the charter school likely reluctantly acquiesced to some parents wanting to spare their children from the country’s problematic racial history. Only three of the 322 students are Black, according to the Standard-Examiner, and maybe they like living in their little bubble. Fox13 noted that Utah law allows parents to opt their children out of portions of curriculum based on religious beliefs or right of conscience. Black history does not qualify. The opt-out offer was wisely rescinded because the law would have had to add racism as a reason to decline instruction.

Miss: Gentrify and Die

Affordable housing. It’s a nice term that no one knows how to define. The Legislature appears to be focused on “accessory dwelling units”—mainly motherin-law apartments, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Easing regulations might ease demand a little but wouldn’t address things like parking issues.

Some 30 percent of renters need affordable housing and that requires bigger thinking. If you look around the Capital City, you’ll see high-rises everywhere.

Some of these developments are pushing out iconic small businesses like the Tavernacle, featured on Fox13 News.

Remember the Sugar Hole? That scar sat vacant for years after throwing out the mom-and-pop businesses that defined the area. The latest dust-up is between state lawmakers and municipalities over who’s in charge. The real question is who do you trust? Where is the systemic plan amid all the understandable anxiety?

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Stop the Violence

If there’s any measure of inequality for women and girls, it is the violence against them.

“Did you know that one in four girls is sexually abused before age 18?” the Utah Women & Leadership Project asks. “That’s an estimated 42 million women in the United States.

Violence against women remains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it.” Since the pandemic began, such violence has only increased, as women and girls are isolated in homes with their abusers. There has been an increase in depression, anxiety and, of course, suicidal thoughts among the victims.

Join Dr. Susan Madsen and panelists at Stopping Violence Against Utah Girls & Women as they present research and data showing that it’s everyone’s business to stop the violence. Virtual, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 12 p.m., free. http://bit.ly/2YP57Ig

ERA Debate

Speaking of inequality, you won’t want to miss The Great Debate: Should Utah Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment? Watch the Eagle Forum’s Gayle Ruzicka make the case against equality while Sen. Kathleen Riebe counters with facts, figures and finally a legislative resolution to have Utah join 38 other states in ratifying the ERA. Virtual, Wednesday Feb. 21, 5:30 p.m., free. http://bit.ly/2Lnf Vdr

Gay Rights in America

With the Utah Legislature in session, you know there will be efforts to weaken any gains in the gay-rights movement. This is a good time to learn about The Gay Rights Movement in America—its history, protests, organizing and court cases. Weber State University professor Richard Price, whose field focuses on censorship of the gay community, will present. Virtual, Thursday, Feb. 11, 5 p.m., free. http://bit.ly/3azmXo1

Birds and Light Pollution

Utah is a popular stopover for migratory birds especially along the Great Salt Lake, but increasing urbanization threatens both the birds and the environment. At Dark Skies for Utah’s Migratory Birds, Dr. Heidi Hoven of Gillmor Sanctuary and Cooper Farr of Tracy Aviary will discuss ways you can help nightflying birds migrate safely. Human population growth affects the globally important migratory flyway, and artificial light is also harmful for other wildlife and humans. You’ll also hear “results from a community science bird-building collision survey and a series of creative outreach events—work that inspired and informed a local Lights Out for Migration movement.” Virtual, Thursday, Feb. 18, 5 p.m., free. http://bit.ly/2MBE68D

A Broken Legal System

Black lives do matter, perhaps most importantly in the U.S. legal system. At America’s Broken Legal System, you will hear how the criminal justice system compels innocent people to plead guilty and often imprisons people of color for relatively minor crimes.

Federal trial Judge Jed S. Rakoff and Hernandez Stroud, counsel in the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, will discuss the shortcomings of the country’s legal system and propose paths to reform. Virtual, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 5 p.m., free. http://bit.ly/3jvEW2Z —KATHARINE BIELE

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Who Ya Gonna Call?

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n Sept. 4, 2020, Utah became another not-so-shining example of American policing gone wrong. Thirteen-year-old Linden Cameron was shot 11 times by a Salt Lake City Police officer after the boy’s mother, Golda Barton, called for help to get her son to a hospital due to his severe separation anxiety brought on by her returning to work.

In an attempt to describe her son’s state of mind, Barton allegedly told police her son might have a gun, but maybe not a real one.

The SLCPD (and other area police) currently maintain an Autism Safety Registry that allows parents and caretakers

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What’s a Parent to Do?

Despite the program’s promise, Chris Burbank, who, for nine years, was chief of the Salt Lake City Police Department and now serves as vice president of law enforcement strategy for the Center for Policing Equity, argues that additional training, while helpful, is not enough to prevent future calamities like Liden Cameron’s shooting. Burbank said the officers who responded to Golda Barton’s 911 call were faced with “an impossible, no-win situation.”

In his view, “They shouldn’t have even been there. There was no reason to go to that house,” Burbank says. “They should have let it be.” Burbank commends the female officer on scene who can be heard on the bodycam footage suggesting not to approach because they were dealing with a psych issue.

A strong proponent of reducing the police footprint, Burbank stresses that a lessened footprint doesn’t mean cutting funding from departments so that crime runs rampant. Rather, he says, it’s using existing law enforcement resources more wisely and efficiently.

Two ways to refocus police resources are to minimize what Burbank calls “silly policing,” such as unnecessary traffic stops that can needlessly escalate into aggressive confrontations.

He also thinks that social workers and other first responders with specialized

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Police reform is a multifaceted issue with many areas of concern, especially as it relates to racial bias by police.

Linden Cameron, however, is white; race was not a factor in his shooting.

His mental health was. A teen who, according to his mother, has Asperger’s syndrome, Cameron’s shooting by police raises questions about how police interact with those in the throes of a mental illness crisis.

In a handout on the SLCPD website, local autism advocate Montell McDowell says that people with autism are seven times more likely to have interactions with law enforcement. Police response to vulnerable populations needs to remain a focal point of police reform.

Thankfully, Utah police and policy makers are beginning to take note.

A Smaller Footprint

With that knowledge, police chased and shot Cameron; he miraculously survived but suffered serious injuries to his bladder, intestine and left arm (which a recent lawsuit filed by Cameron’s family states could result in permanent paralysis). A court filing against the Salt Lake City Police Department notes several bullets remain lodged in Cameron’s body nearly three months after the shooting. Body camera footage of the shooting shows Linden Cameron on the ground bleeding profusely, saying, “Tell my mother I love her.”

Police brutality recently has become, sadly, a hot-button issue. The Washington Post reports police shooting deaths of over 1,000 civilians nationwide at the hands of police in 2020 (The Salt Lake Tribune counted 30 police shootings in Utah in 2020, with 17 fatalities), violence that’s sparked riots and protests, heated discussions at all levels of government and the passage of new laws and regulation to rein in excessive force and over-policing.

of individuals with autism to provide police with vital information, such as: if the individual is verbal or non-verbal, things that trigger a behavioral episode as well as soothing objects, words or actions. This information is then stored in a database that dispatchers can access and communicate to first responders when they answer calls.

The trouble is that in the wake of Linden Cameron’s shooting, the SLCPD disclosed only five families have entered information into the registry (see sidebar for details). Further, the registry needs to be updated annually or the information on file becomes inactive.

It’s potentially a life-saving database that—until very recently—few members of the community even know existed. The department is encouraging those with an autistic family member to enter their information.

In mid-October 2020, the SLCPD announced it would be the first police department in the nation to partner with KultureCity, a national nonprofit, in a sensory inclusive training that helps police better serve neurodivergent Utahns with autism, dementia and stroke.

Officers who are “Certified Sensory Inclusive” can better respond to those overstimulated to the point of excruciating emotional and sometimes physical pain brought on by common sensory occurrences such as lights, crowds and smells.

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training should respond to calls like Golda Barton’s. Burbank says that if police resources are concentrated and redirected to investigate serious crimes such as homicides, society becomes safer, and police become much more effective.

Four years ago, the SLCPD pioneered its Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) that added several licensed clinical social workers to accompany officers on calls that involve mentalhealth incidents that could potentially be de-escalated by a mental-health professional.

SLCPD Sgt. Keith Horrocks wants people to feel safe around the police. “Police officers tend to be a jack of all trades,” he says, “and we’re happy to deal with a bunch of different situations. But it is helpful to have a mental-health professional to give help with containing certain situations.”

Budgetary constraints remain a factor when it comes to utilizing SLCPD’s social workers, who are on the clock only from 7 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday-Friday. Needless to say, mentalhealth crises that require the intervention of a trained professional don’t always happen during business hours. Linden Cameron, for example, was shot on a Friday night, several hours after the SLCPD social workers had gone home for the weekend.

The Reform Quorum Horrocks said that the SLCPD is painfully aware of the shortfall in mental-health support for the community and hopes to acquire enough funding to support a team of licensed clinical social workers to work with officers 24/7. “Every officer receives crisis intervention training at the academy, but that certainly doesn’t make them a clinical social worker,” he says. “We can’t really put a value on the support our social workers offer.”

Regarding police reform, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and the Salt Lake City Council both hope to fund an expansion of mental-health care by hiring more providers to partner with police. Demilitarization of police, a review of chokeholds and restraints, a stronger civilian review board and a blanket expansion of mental health-care services are all part of recent police-reform discussions.

“When I served on the Salt Lake City Council,” Mendenhall said, “I was proud to support the launch of the SLCPD’s co-responder program, where social workers accompany police officers on calls. Our program is a model for other departments across the country, as they look to build out teams like this in their own cities, and I would absolutely support the expansion of this team.”

But, Mendenhall hastens to add, is not always safe for social workers to approach certain individuals without police. “I won’t sacrifice the safety of any of our employees,” she stresses, noting the current dispatch system does not properly serve individuals with mental illness and hidden disabilities. By having police partner with mental health-care providers, SLCPD can get people the treatment or response they need when they are in crisis, she says.

The Salt Lake City Council is currently experimenting with the city’s first ever zerobased budgeting exercise for the police department, meaning the budget will be rebuilt from the ground up, based upon a financial audit conducted by an outside agency.

This will allow members of the council and community members to scrutinize historical spending patterns and decide what needs to change. Reconstructing the budget is a time-intensive process that may take up to a year to complete, and community feedback on the police budget is welcomed.

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Feeling Judged Doesn’t Help

One social worker with 13 years’ experience working with various populations says that working with police in mental-health crisis situations is a mixed bag. She has requested anonymity for this article, so we’ll call her Audrey.

Some of the officers she has worked with are empathetic, respectful and trained to interact with those having a mental-health crisis having taken Crisis Intervention Training or completed a higher level of education. All the same, she has witnessed heated clashes between police and mentally ill individuals.

One case that comes to mind was when a bipolar woman at an inpatient treatment facility required supervision while her medications were being adjusted. The patient defied her case manager’s instructions and left the facility instead of attending a group therapy session. After the case manager requested assistance from the police, an officer responded but had an abrasive manner the bipolar woman found offensive. She slapped the officer and then was handled roughly while being handcuffed.

The bipolar woman became catatonic after the altercation with the police officer and required a higher level of care. She sustained an injury to her arm and was charged with a misdemeanor for assaulting a police officer. The financial, legal and emotional stress of the incident compounded her already severe bipolar issues. The misdemeanor charge was ultimately dropped, but Audrey believes that the entire ugly scenario could have been avoided if the case manager and officer had employed proper de-escalation techniques.

A local musician who we’ll call Jimmy had a psychotic break while staying at his parents’ house for the weekend. Jimmy experienced a 48-hour period of which he has no recollection at all. “My mom found me outside during the dead of winter, burning a blanket in my underwear because I thought the blanket was possessed by evil spirits,” Jimmy said. “It made perfect sense at the time.”

Jimmy said his mom knew that he needed help and desperately wanted to call an ambulance but was afraid police would show up and harm or even kill her son.

Audrey feels that Jimmy’s mom may have been right to be wary of police intervention. “In my experience, most clients that I have served have expressed or exhibited fear of the police,” she said. Many of her clients have had some negative experiences with law enforcement.

“Sometimes a person being restrained may not understand what is happening to them, and that is scary,” she said. Furthermore, if the first responder is not trained in de-escalation, it could increase the likelihood of force being needed and used to subdue the patient.

“This is often what the person remembers, and it degrades their trust in the police,” Audrey says. “Sometimes, a person is judged by the police negatively, and this may affect how the police react. The feeling of judgment does not just wash away. It is part of the stigma for many with severe and persistent mental illness.”

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UNI to the Rescue

Autism registries: Each Utah law enforcement agency maintains its own Records Management System.

Until a central database is complete, register your loved one in each agency Salt Lake City Police Department: 801-799-3111, click on Autism Safety Registry at slcpd.com/resources/online-report Unified Police Department: updsl.org/ page_services_autismRoster.php Central Dispatch 801-840-4000 (Bluffdale, Draper, Midvale, Murray, Sandy, South Jordan, South Salt Lake, Cottonwood Heights, West Jordan, West Valley)

"We are facing a mental health crisis in this country— with a void of resources for those in crisis" —Salt Lake Cit y Police Chief Mike Brown

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One lesser-known and lesser-utilized resource that Utah residents can call upon to offer support to an individual experiencing a behavioral or mental health crisis is the University Neuropsychiatric Institute’s Mobile Crisis Outreach Team (MCOT).

MCOT offers licensed clinical social workers and peer specialists who have firsthand experience with a mental-health crisis. MCOT teams are available to help individuals in crisis at no cost 24/7. Arriving in plain clothes and unmarked cars to protect the privacy of the people they serve, MCOT teams put individuals in crisis wary of law enforcement and other authority figures at ease. The average response time is 19-21 minutes.

But note: MCOT cannot be reached by dialing 911 and instead has its own crisis hotline—locally 801-587-3000 and statewide 800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. You can also text START to 741-741. In fact, UNI features a few different mental health hotlines: UNI’s “warm line” offers non-emergency emotional support from a peer specialist. SAFEUT crisis chat and tip line is dedicated to lessening violence in schools by catering to struggling youth, and those who work with them.

The services of MCOT will be included in the FCC’s new three-digit 988 suicide prevention number, slated to go into effect in 2022. For any vulnerable individual at high risk of COVID-19 complications, MCOT offers virtual consultations. All inperson consults are conducted with masks and other personal protection equipment.

MCOT can perform a wellness check for individuals experiencing a panic attack or a psychotic break—or simply lend an ear to those feeling overwhelmed by the unique and cascading stresses of a pandemic year like we’ve just experienced (i.e., job losses, financial challenges, COVID-19, shifting family dynamics or other changes in routine.) “A crisis means something different to every person. You don’t have to be in a life-or-death situation to use MCOT’s services,” says David Eldredge, UNI’s director of Community Crisis Services.

While MCOT Crisis Service business director Rachel Lucynski says that the vast majority of MCOT calls do not require police assistance, the SLCPD does call upon MCOT professionals to accompany first responders on calls that clearly involve a mental-health crisis. MCOT social workers and peer specialists undergo extensive crisis de-escalation training and are sensitive to the needs of individuals of all ages, races, genders and sensory needs.

“If the pandemic has a silver lining, it is that it is helping to take the stigma out of seeking mental-health treatment,” Lucynski says. “We’re so used to seeing everyone’s highlight reels on social media. Twenty-twenty is a year when so many people are struggling with job loss, financial strain, family stresses. We’re all realizing that it’s OK to struggle and seek help.”

With no advertising budget, MCOT relies on community organizations and word of mouth to educate the public about their services. Eldredge says that one of MCOT’s primary goals is to resolve mental-health episodes in a safe and comfortable setting so that individuals experiencing a crisis potentially can be spared the financial and emotional expense of rolling into an emergency room or spending time in an in-patient facility.

As a mental-health response team, MCOT is perhaps the closest thing that Salt Lake City has to compare with the community-based public-safety response team in Eugene, Oregon, known as CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping out on the Streets). Founded in 1989, CAHOOTS is dispatched via Eugene’s 911 system and features two-person teams staffed by a medic and social worker who respond to calls involving homelessness, substance abuse, suicide attempts and mentalhealth episodes. Clad in hoodies, CAHOOTS’ teams arrive in a white van with a dove painted on the side. The CAHOOTS budget is $2.1 million compared to Eugene’s annual police budget of $90 million.

A Crisis With a Silver Lining

Chris Burbank wisely states that no police reform measure can solve every issue.

But incidents like the shooting of 13-year-old Linden Cameron—who may never walk normally again and may have permanent bladder and intestinal issues— demonstrate there is an urgent need to improve how police interact with vulnerable populations, and if they should be interacting with them at all.

In the recently filed lawsuit by Linden Cameron’s family against the SLCPD, Cameron’s family claims police should have known that as an autistic boy, Cameron was in the throes of a mental-health episode. They claim his mother, Golda Barton, let them know about his state of mind when on the phone with dispatch.

She also described Cameron’s fear of the police and that there was a good chance that he could get scared and run.

Yet, even with specialized training, police first responders may not have the skills and sensitivity to protect the most vulnerable among us. Do we ask them to do too much? And do organizations like MCOT deserve a larger mission and budget? During this period of tremendous upheaval, when so many police practices and budgets are under increased scrutiny—these questions must be asked.

“We are facing a mental health crisis in this country—with a void of resources for those in crisis,” Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown said in a statement following Cameron’s shooting. “Make no mistake. This is a crisis.” Had Linden Cameron’s shooting not made national headlines, had there not been a lawsuit demanding change, mental-health training might not have become a lynchpin of police reform. Perhaps the next neurodivergent individual undergoing a mental health crisis will be met by an unarmed social worker skilled in de-escalation rather than an officer who’s trained to shoot to kill when threatened. CW

During a Crisis • Stay calm—you are an advocate!

• Before contacting police, try MCOT through UNI first at 801-587-3000 (Mobile Crisis Outreach Team—Salt Lake County only).

• Request a CIT officer (specially trained to deal with disabled individuals) • Make an Emergency Checklist available to responders.

• If officer wants to interview individual, always have caregiver present. Use camera phone to document.

Courtesy of SLCPD

Bills to watch in the 2021 Legislature Democratic Salt Lake City Rep. Angela Romero’s HB 162 requires a peace officer’s annual training to include training on mental health and other crisis intervention responses, arrest control and de-escalation training. It also provides that each law enforcement agency or department set standards for training to be approved by the director or designee; and it requires annual reporting of training hours.

SB53, sponsored by Sen. Daniel Thatcher, R-West Valley City, would allow EMTs and firefighters to be trained to respond to mental health calls. This would allow agencies statewide to form trained EMT teams that specialize in mental health emergencies.

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We’re all missing our favorite in-person events over the past year, and there’s certainly no way to replicate the experience of wandering through a space where you can nibble a wide range of tasty chocolate treats. But the Cache Valley Chocolate Festival is still moving forward with its annual fundraiser for Planned Parenthood Association of Utah—in fittingly enough for an organization dedicated to keeping people safe, the event is proceeding as a virtual version.

The virtual Chocolate Festival itself takes place Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m., including presentations by festival judges and dessert-makers, visions of past years’ showstopper treats, information about the work of Planned Parenthood that is supported by the fund-raiser, and musical performances by artists including Highline Drifters and Kendall Becker. Tickets are required to “attend” the online event, at a variety of donation levels beginning at $10.

Donations at $25 and above will receive special premiums including a chocolate goody bag, hand-dipped Bluebird Chocolates, a cheese platter and more so they can simulate the full festival experience.

An online auction allows for even more opportunities to sample delicious goodies, with bidding opening up on Wednesday, Feb. 10; separate online registration from the event ticket purchase is required to participate as an auction bidder. And for local bidders, items can be delivered to winners in time for the Valentine’s Day weekend.

Visit thechocolatefest.com for information about both auction registration and event ticket purchasing. You can support a great cause and support your sweet tooth at the same time. (SR)

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This feels like a particularly cruel year to celebrate couplehood, considering how many people have been isolated and unable to make personal connections over the past 11 months.

Yet for those who have been pandemic bubble-ing in tandem, you also might be particularly inclined to celebrate that your enforced time together hasn’t made you drive one another crazy yet. Ah, romance!

Depending on your comfort level with going out into the world, a wide range of possibilities present themselves for getting Valentine-y this weekend. The Paint Mixer (1327 E. 2100 South, Suite 102, thepaintmixer.com) offers a paint-and-sip “Lovers in Paris” date night on Saturday, Feb. 13, 7-9 p.m., with art materials and step-by-step instructions included in the $35 per person admission, with wine purchase available for additional cost (21+ only, masks required and space limited for social distancing). Saturday, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. also marks an outing of the Heber Valley Railroad’s (450 S. 600 West, Heber City, hebervalleyrr.com) Valentines Special, including a rose, sparkling cider, artisan cheese and chocolates, plus performance by the Midway String Quartet (remaining seating availability extremely limited at press time).

If you’d like fewer people around you as you get cozy and romantic, visit Ogden Nature Center (966 W. 12th St., Ogden, ogdennaturecenter.org) on Saturday, Feb. 13, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. for a “Nature is for Lovers” self-guided outdoor trail walk. Admission ($2 members/$6 non-members) includes G-rated nature facts about animal couples, and photo opportunities. Find the event that’s just right for you, and make the most of your day of romance. (SR)

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Utah Symphony: Mozart & Mendelssohn Classical music, for many if not most laypeople, doesn’t always exist on a historical continuum. We might know a Beethoven or Mozart piece, but don’t always think about the eras in which they were created, who was influencing whom, or which works were created by composers looking backward towards the previous greats in their art. For the current virtual presentation—available now through March 3—Utah Symphony presents two string quartets that both take us on journeys through their respective composers’ interests in what came before.

Felix Mendelssohn in general loved exploring connections between musical generations, and his String Quartet No. 3 in D major also includes a final movement that recalls his own Italian symphony. Wolfgang Mozart’s String Quartet in D minor, meanwhile, evokes Mozart’s interest in paying homage to the string quartets of Joseph Haydn. It’s also unique in the sense of being part of a series of six quartets that were not created as part of a commission, but simply because Mozart was inspired by the ideas—and it’s particularly fascinating to see what an artist is working from nothing but their own creative passions.

The 30-minute digital performances of Utah Symphony—featuring artists Yuki MacQueen (violin), Alex Martin (violin), Joel Gibbs (viola) and John Eckstein (cello)—are available on a pay-what-you-can basis, with a minimum of $10. Visit utahsmphony.org to purchase tickets and view the upcoming schedule. (SR) TDK

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Ririe-Woodbury’s Home Run embraces creating not just filmed dance, but dance films.

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A scene from Daniel Charon’s Winter’s Light might not be back in front of live audiences again, at least in a theater space, until the fall, or even a full year from now. But even when that eventually happens, he envisions that new ways of creating, like filmed works and virtual performances, will remain part of what dance companies do.

“We’re realizing the value of investing in filming the work we do, because we can reach more audiences that way,” Charon says. “In terms of access, we can expose many more people to the work. … There’s always this concern that, if you film it, nobody’s going to come into the theater. But on Broadway, there was that concern when the movie version of Chicago came out, that nobody would come see the show. And instead, it just sparked greater interest.” CW

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his “set,” Charon made use of the gallery space at Ogden’s new The Monarch facility, and was able to shoot thinking of a room rather than a stage. “We completely emptied it out, and could have a 360-degree perspective,” he says. “So ‘front’ didn’t matter. It was nice to go into a space where front didn’t matter.”

The use of this particular space and its architecture became part of the overarching theme of the Home Run program, which involves different ideas of “home” as both physical space and concept, including pieces where solo dancers performed in their own homes. Charon acknowledges that during a time when people have been more confined to their homes, that idea might have changed significantly. “I think the idea of ‘home’ for me, in my life, has always connoted a place of comfort, welcoming, safety,” he says. “It’s kind of this heavy place now, this inescapable place now, because the world is dangerous.”

Now that the world has changed, it’s becoming clearer that some of the ways life has changed could be permanent. While Charon says there are tentative plans to explore an outdoor performance in the spring, it’s possible that Ririe-Woodbury dancers

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f 2020 was a trying transitional time for the performing arts, 2021 is the time of understanding what everyone learned when forced by necessity to innovate. Last fall, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company artistic director Daniel Charon observed that while creating a new work at a time when it wasn’t clear whether it would be for a live audience or a virtual presentation, he had to be thinking about it in both ways simultaneously. Now, with the understanding that virtual presentation was definitely the platform for Ririe-Woodbury’s Home Run production, Charon says he was able to embrace it fully.

“I think the beauty of this show—and not just my work, but all the work in the program—is that they’re all dance films. Last time, we were essentially in the theater, and did a good job of filming the work so it didn’t just look like archival work. This time, we set all the artists free: Let’s make dance for the camera. Let’s make dance films.”

The result is something Charon refers to as “almost like a film festival in some ways,” with choreographers—including Charon himself, guest artist Molly Heller

and RWDC company members—creating works particularly for a filmed presentation. Also included on the program are an excerpt from the classic 1970 piece Wash with choreography by company co-founder Joan Woodbury, and an installation-style piece by dancers Megan McCarthy and Dominica Greene that will be performed live between each filmed work.

For Charon, the inspiration for how he would create his own piece, Winter’s Light, began with the process for filming his fall 2020 piece Remote Convergence. While collaborating with Wonderstone Films on the filming, Charon would create storyboards to articulate his vision. “Scott [Hathaway of Wonderstone Films] said, ‘You’re really good at this,’” Charon says. “‘You communicate really well in this format. You should really do something like this for yourself.’”

So for Winter’s Light, instead of using an outside company to do the filming as he did in the fall, Charon wanted to be his own cinematographer, taking advantage of his own background in integrated media.

“I invested in a gimbel cam, and created a work that I could film myself,” he says.

“I choreographed myself into the work.

The beauty of being a former professional dancer myself was, I felt I could weave my way through with a lot of freedom and flexibility, investigating my own choreography through the point of view of my camera.”

Charon says that as he was beginning the process of conceiving Winter’s Light, one of the first things he planned was shooting in one single extended take. The result is a 16-minute single-shot work that he describes as inspired by cinematic examples like Birdman and 1917, as well as the “walk-and-talk” segments in episodes of The West Wing.

There was an additional freedom created by conceiving Winter’s Light as a dance film rather than as a recording of a live performance, Charon notes—the ability to think without the confines of a proscenium. As

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y three-year-old daughter is going through a serious cheese phase.

String cheese might be her favorite, but any time I break out shredded cheddar, parmesan or mozzarella, I soon feel a small tug at my shirt followed by a vision of her cupped hands eagerly awaiting a sample. It reminded me of my own childhood, which was filled with grilled cheese, mac and cheese, string cheese and far too many jokes about cutting the cheese.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who has come to this realization about themselves, but cheese might have been the first food that I loved before I understood that I love food. As such, I’d like to dedicate this Valentine’s Day to the local eats that have kept my love of cheese alive and well.

Since mac and cheese is at the forefront of my childhood memories, let’s start there.

Sauce Boss (877 E. 12300 South, 385-4342433, saucebosssouthernkitchen.com) and Vertical Diner (234 W. 900 South, 801-4848378, verticaldiner.com) represent the two sides of this coin. At Sauce Boss, mac and cheese has transcended to Golden Splendor ($3.25), a sinfully gooey and velvety mélange of shell pasta and a cheese sauce that

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My valentine to Utah’s cheesiest treats.

posure to paneer—those delectable cubes of cheese popular in Indian cuisine—it’s become one of my favorite cheesy eats.

Lately, I’ve been digging the saag paneer from Saffron Valley (1098 W. South Jordan Parkway, Ste. 102, 801-438-4823). You can get this tasty dish at any Saffron Valley location, but this is my preferred haunt since it’s not far from where I live. Paneer is good in any curry variation, but something about the hearty, spinach-based saag really makes the paneer flavor stand out. I love a cheese that can hold its own as the star of a dish, and paneer’s springy texture and mild flavor is perfect as the canvas for all that flavorful curry.

To conclude this piece on the right note, I think it’s appropriate to explore cheese fries. This is a side dish that appeals to both the kid and the adult in me—they’re humble but arrogant, simple but sophisticated, and delicious no matter who you are. They are the unsung hero of the diner/ burger joint circuit, and they always make a meal shine just a little brighter when they’re around. My current favorites can be found at JCW’s (multiple locations, jcws.com) and Leatherby’s (multiple locations, leatherbys.com). Both restaurants offer something similar—golden brown fries topped with several layers of shredded cheddar cheese that slide under the broiler until everything gets fused together in a melty pile of cheesy spuds.

I’m sure there are some cheesy dishes that I’ve neglected to mention—I could definitely go on about Philly cheesesteak sandwiches from Moochie’s (multiple locations, moochiesmeatballs.com) and Fat Boy Phillies (5823 S. State Street, 801-2610313, facebook.com/FatBoysUtah)—but I’m glad to be near so many local restaurants that love cheese just as much as I do. CW

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is not of this world. The pasta is never overdone, lending the perfect amount of al dente texture to all that cheesy magnificence. I try to branch out and get other side dishes when I visit this Southern favorite, but the Golden Splendor always calls me back.

Not only does Vertical Diner’s mac and cheese ($4-$7) exemplify the warm, melty radiance that I’ve come to expect, but they do it without any cheese at all! Yes, the miracle of nutritional yeast mixed with some other plant-based trickery creates the luscious layer of “cheese” in their mac and cheese, and it still manages to hit all the right notes. Plus, if you’re feeling crazy, you can order the Ian Mackaye burger ($10), which comes with a scoop of their signature mac and cheese on top of a veggie burger patty.

I would be remiss if I didn’t add funeral potatoes to a list of cheesy foods that I adore.

A few years back, I took a trip around town to see which rendition of funeral potatoes did right by this Utah classic, and the winners still hold up. Garage on Beck (1199 Beck Street, 801-521-3904, garageonbeck.com) makes my favorite version with their fried Mormon funeral potatoes ($8)—golf-ball sized rounds of cheesy potatoes deep fried in a cornflake crust. I’m a sucker for the unconventional repurposing of a classic, and this dish is always money well spent.

For a more traditional take on funeral potatoes, I’m a fan of the way Wasatch Brewery treats the dish. Though it’s only available on their brunch menu, they serve up king-sized scoops of buttery mashed potatoes topped with a generous helping of cheddar cheese and topped with crispy cornflakes. It’s got the classic look of something you’d find at a ward potluck, but it tastes like a slice of gastropub flavor.

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TF Brewing- Tangelo Berliner weisse: My mom used to buy us tangelos when we were kids, and many of my pals asked, “What’s a tangelo”? My friends weren’t exactly MENSA material. Apparently a handful of my contemporaries have no idea either, and are still ignorant of the gift of tangelos. This tangerine and grapefruit hybrid fruit beer pours fizzy and has a foamy white head that manages to maintain some froth. The body resembles grapefruit juice: a cloudy mix of hues within a peach-colored liquid. Aroma is tart and yeast-heavy, while the yeast imparts floral notes and touches of grapefruit that may emanate from the yeast or from elsewhere.

Whoa! That’s a lot of tangelo in the flavor, like biting into a grapefruit and getting all the rind flavor, zestiness, tartness, acidity, pulp and chalky flavor with a hint of sweetness. It’s like a grapefruit with a tiny amount of sugar sprinkled over it. Feel and taste really become one here. This beer 5.0 percent ale feels like the aftermath of a bite into a grapefruit (right through the peel), complete with zesty, floral bitterness and tart acidity. The finish is semi-dry despite all the previous juiciness.

Overall: This beer really captures the tangelo flavor and feel; it’s pretty impressive how close this is to a citrus juice cocktail. This is like a radler, but the ale’s tart base keeps it closer to beer territory, and it is vegan-friendly.

These are brilliant citrus-forward beers that could give a shit about your ability to taste the base beer. Normally, I prefer the base beer be present in any beer where adjuncts are used, but not in this case. These just light up the palate and make a citruslover’s tongue squeal like tween at a boyband concert. As always, cheers! CW

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’m a huge sucker for citrus. I’ve never met an orange, lemon, pomelo, lime, grapefruit, mandarin, citrange, blood orange or kumquat I didn’t like. So you can imagine my glee when not one but two citrus-infused ales hit my palate this week.

Let’s just say, they were sub-lime.

Shades - Kviek Lemon Meringue Pie: Shades has made it their mission to make unconventional beers, and the results seem to be overwhelmingly positive. Their piethemed beers are a hit, and Shades’ Kveik yeast seems to be one of the driving factors in this. This ale pours a very hazy lemonyblond color, with a small finger of head that fades slowly. The nose brings big lemon meringue pie, nice tart lemon, lemon zest and pie filling, with light lactose, plenty of vanilla, a touch of blonde graham cracker dough and cream soda-like notes.

Just as the aroma hinted, there’s a taste of nice tart lemon—juicy fresh lemonade and zest, nice creamy meringue, big creamy marshmallow and raw vanilla. It’s very much like that toasted layer of meringue and vanilla whipped cream. The finish has a little lactic thing happening, with builtin tart lemon essence with a little cracker and blonde creaminess. The mouthfeel has a medium body that is fluffy with light/medium carbonation and 6.5 percent alcohol.

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The DuVin Pintor Wine and Art Gallery (367 Trolley Square, Ste. D209, 801-935-4641, duvinpintor.com) is hosting a Valentine’s date night on the evening of Feb. 13 at 5:30 p.m. It’s a swanky place to hang out with your main squeeze as you celebrate your undying love for each other, plus it comes with tacos. Yes, the team at back-in-business Barrio SLC (282 E. 900 South, barrioslc.com) will be handling the menu for the evening, which includes pozole, Mexican street corn, surf-and-turf tacos and an agave avocado dessert roll.

Attendees will enjoy live music from KAZ Woods and the Jazz Vespers Quartet while they dine, and receive a complementary salsa dancing lesson after dinner.

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I spotted the arrival of this fast-casual Indian restaurant over the weekend, and I’m intrigued. I’ve seen similar iterations of Indian restaurants come and go, but something about the way they’ve got their menu set up makes me think Makam’s Kitchen (894 E. 3900 South, Ste. B, 801-905-1921, makamskitchen.com) might have the right formula. The main courses are different bowls with your choice of curry and protein, but Makam’s also offers some interesting side dishes in by way of Indian street food. Vada pav, an awesome snack that’s basically a fried potato sandwich, and the crushed samosa chaat, topped with a bevy of traditional condiments, sound like they could push this place over the top.

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“I released a record while I waited for my heart, because what am I supposed to do, sit around and weep?” he says of that time.

Now, the well-established Cardall is coming out with a new album unlike any before. “My heart has been healed, so I want to use music to heal other hearts,” he says of his old music, and his new.

With changes in his own faith perspective by way of leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on top of still getting asked constantly about how one can live with congenital heart disorder, he decided to release his life’s story via an album and a novel.

A Broken Miracle, released Feb. 5, is the result. “I’ve primarily shared my story in emails for 25 years, and it finally dawned on me to have this story written,” he explains, in reference to the many email exchanges he’s had with concerned parents of children with congenital heart disease over the years.

After a chance encounter with a fan of Cardall’s, the young fantasy writer J.D. Netto of Miami, Cardall suddenly had a voice he trusted with his story. “The thing I liked about him was that growing up in Utah, I come from a very conservative, LDS background—and a lot of my audience is not that. They’re Muslims in other countries, Hindus, a lot of Jewish people,” Cardall says, while acknowledging that “the majority are Christian.” But as his faith changed, so did the facets of his story. “I wanted somebody to tell the story that had no preconceived concept of life in Utah as a musician,” Cardall says of picking Netto.

And when it comes to the companion album, Cardall says, “There are songs that are specific to each period of my personal life, and yet they resonate for anybody having a spiritual awakening. We

come to a point in our lives where we have to sadly … disappoint our parents, cut the cord. It’s a hard thing to do, particularly when you grow up in such a beautiful place.”

Meeting musicians like Ty Herndon, the first openly gay country music star, and through him Tyler Glenn at LoveLoud Festival, helped Cardall see how “beautiful and happy” people could be outside of the “Truman Show” he’d grown up in. “When Tyler’s album Excommunication came out, I saw it as a brilliant piece of art. I saw it as a man who is hurting and he’s hurting because of a system that doesn’t accept this person at his full measure of creation,” Cardall says.

Bearing the influence of people like Glenn and Herndon in mind, Cardall saw a vision for a new sort of heaven, one he could build with his music. “Because this album is probably the most personal, it’s also the most vulnerable. There are some Christian songs on the album because it is my story; I am a Christian, but I’m not a ‘you need to be a Christian too’ type of person,” he says. “As I’ve transitioned away from Mormonism to non-denominational Christianity, the biggest challenge I’m faced with is that every organization creates these borders—‘Don’t come over here if you’re doing this.’ [But] I believe that everybody belongs at the table and if somebody’s missing from the table then we’re in hell. Because hell is void of relationships.”

Thus, A Broken Miracle finds Cardall tapping the talents of various artists. From the pop of Tyler Glenn and David Archuleta, to the country of Herndon and the duo of Thompson Square, to the confident voice of Rachael Yamagata, and the youthful glow of Akelee and Jordan Bratton, the resulting album is a table built by Cardall’s piano and skillful compositions, with seats filled by the voices of fellow artists and friends. “That’s what’s beautiful about this record—they don’t need me, but I need them because I’ve learned a lot, working with these artists, the diversity of them,” Cardall explains.

“I think we all try to create a world we feel safe in. And I don’t want to see a world that’s divided. Mainly because I have fought like hell to survive, to live, being born with half a heart, having to be in the hospital constantly—the trauma, the pressure to be a good person by the religious standards,” he explains. “You try to create a moment as an artist where you see all the colors, everything together—you’re in this painting and everybody is there, everyone is accepted and loved.”

Crafted out of personal pain and shifts of faith, Cardall’s newest work paints that warm picture, while also showing that one can be a living, walking miracle and still shift, change, even break—and that’s a good thing. Stream A Broken Miracle wherever you stream, and find the book at paulcardall.com CW

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Browse these and the many other films on offer over at slamdance.com. The festival starts Friday, Feb. 12, and runs through Feb. 25. All-access tickets are a whopping $10, so don’t miss it.

Valentine’s Day at DuVin Pintor

What goes together more classically than wine and nodding at art in a dim room? There may be an answer out there, but it doesn’t serve the purposes here, or of DuVin Pintor.

The Texas-based company recently opened their SLC venture, another one of their winefanatic and art-gallery fusion spaces. They’re meant for both fostering access to diverse collections of fine art, and offering opportunities to engage in and learn more about wine. After a soft opening in October 2020, the space is now opening its rooms to more than just visual art, by hosting weekly music nights, too. Every Wednesday night is now home to music to accompany all the art and wine, brought to attendees by enigmatic artist Motto. The vibe will shift from week to week and from genre to genre, depending on the mood of the evening. These nights start at 8 p.m. and cost $25 for access to wine, food and beer; table reservations are highly recommended since, as all businesses are right now, DuVin Pintor is heeding COVID risk by offering a limited amount of space each night. In addition to this new development for SLC’s latest nightspot, they’ve got good Valentine’s Day options for folks too—which calls to mind the fact that Valentine’s Day and wine might be an even better pairing than wine and nodding at art. On Saturday, Feb. 13—Valentine’s Day eve—they’ve got an evening of eats and jazz to join their libations, provided by Barrio SLC for the former and Kimberly “Kaz” Woods and The Jazz Vespers Quartet for the latter. That 5:30 p.m. early show yields at 9:30 p.m. to La Conga Social for rounds of salsa and bachata dancing. So whether you want the Wednesday beats or the Friday dancing, visit DuVin Pintor on Instagram at @duvinpintorslc or at duvinpintorglobal.com and get your RSVP on.

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As if things couldn’t get more heart-wrenching in this world, the future of music just got a lot duller with the loss of one of the most prolific modern producers last month.

On Jan. 30, Scottish producer and pop star in her own right SOPHIE died in an accidental fall while climbing up to see the moon in Athens, Greece. If you’re familiar with her music, you know how poetic that reads, but it’s a poetry hard to focus on in light of the tragedy of it. Making a name for herself by producing boundary-pushing electronic music for pop stars of the highest sets and the underground alike, SOPHIE started releasing music under her own name just a few years ago. That independent effort culminated in 2015’s PRODUCT and 2018’s widely celebrated OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES, on which the 2017 single “It’s Okay To Cry” resides. That’s my song of the week, and while it’s obviously appropriate for the loss of truly one of the most innovative and indisputably unmatched music makers out there, it’s also a remarkable song because it departs from most of SOPHIE’s other famed work—from her albums or for others, like the hyperpop work she all but established for artists like Charli XCX and PC Music. While OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES is a riot of industrial sound, SOPHIE’s synthesizers clanging over one another with both precision and abandon, “It’s Okay To Cry” is soft, heaven-sent. A twinkling piano line leads up to ethereal, drawn-out synths that trade her usual staggering drops for tender slowness, and gentle whispers that “it’s okay to cry,” a sentiment that carries the song to heights that feel both spiritual and deeply intimate. An artist who resonated with fans for both her musical savvy and also for her being one of the most successful trans artists of her generation, her loss will be felt forever—but as she’s already established, it’s okay to cry. Stream the song wherever you stream.

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For an artist who released an album in the spring of 2020, chaotic as that time was, local Tony Holiday has still been pretty damn busy spreading the good word of that album, Sunday Service. A triumphant rock ‘n’ roll blues effort for a veteran of the genre, Sunday Service has certainly made its way out into the world with aplomb—Holiday managed to score a #9 spot on the Billboard blues charts with it, scored a #1 most-played international release on the Australian Blues & Roots Airplay Chart and cracked the top 15 of the Living Blues charts, too. On top of that, he’s spent some time wandering, spending time in Mississippi this summer, and more recently, producing an album in Nashville for the similarly-aligned local J-Rad Cooley. Soon, he’ll be on the move between Memphis and Arizona for a small tour of sorts (a foreign concept these days), and he of course will be including an SLC stop in there, on Feb. 17. Though the artist has stayed busy with online streams like his Porch Sessions series and with outdoor shows, this is one rare opportunity to catch Holiday at a local venue in support of Soul Service.

Locals in the blues scene are sure to snatch up the limited tickets, fast. Holiday will also be joined by a few other staples of the Americana community by way of Michelle Moonshine and Andrew Wiscombe, performing as their duo project Turtledovin’, so there’s all the more reason to head over to soundwellslc.com to grab yourself a pair of tickets. Tickets sell in pairs or groups of up to six. This 21+ show has doors at 7:30 p.m., masks are to be worn at all times except for when actively eating or drinking, and the venue will have a capacity limit and socially-distanced seating for each group. Tickets are $15. In the meantime, stream Soul Service wherever you stream, and follow Holiday on Instagram at @tonyholidaymusic for more updates on his busy, bluesy life.

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On the heels of her 2020 debut EP Arteries, Sophie Blair is back as promised by her new label Wonderwild Records (a new label on the local scene that City Weekly profiled a few weeks ago). This month, it’s with a single off of her upcoming EP Flatline—which is tentatively scheduled for a June 25 release. In the vein of singles like “Don’t Be Like That!” off of Arteries, her latest single “Are You Thinking About Me??” has all the same flushed energy—of a big crush, of breathless hope and endless spirals of fixated affection. It’s almost like an answer to her other romance-fueled singles, but Blair feels like she’s more in control here; instead of imploring her crush to behave differently, she’s all in her feelings and flirting when she asks if they’re just as enthralled as she is. Her breathless delivery sounds more confident, and when she sings lines like “you make my heart half-break, I’m blue in the face,” it sounds almost like a love song to her own music. The song is otherwise filled out by electrified strings and groovy, colorful slap bass that bring a new dimension to Blair’s quickly evolving brand of youthful pop. Fans of the artist have time to acquaint themselves with the track—which released on Feb. 5—before Blair visits Kilby Court on Feb. 20 with opener Sean Mena. It will mark not just a rare pandemic performance for Blair—who hasn’t had much opportunity to play her new music live since it all released—but in fact her first performance in a whole year.

Meanwhile, Sean Mena will join her for a solo set that’s rare for him, too, but because usually he’s playing with his band, the locals Kipper Snack. This all-ages show is $15 and starts at 6 p.m., and as always these days, requires attendees and performers to wear masks while at the venue, as well as that everyone maintain social distancing. These capacity-capped shows sell out fast at the small venue, so consider this your advance notice! Visit kilbycourt.com for tickets and more info.

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ere’s a challenge for someone who watches way too many movies: How do you balance the realization that certain kinds of stories have been excluded from our culture for most of history, with the realization that we’re seeing those so regularly now that they could feel redundant? Because that could easily feel like what’s happening with period-piece stories of forbidden lesbian romances, especially in the wake of 2015’s Carol. Just in the past few years, we’ve seen The Favourite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Colette and Ammonite. What can The World to Come bring to the table that offers a fresh perspective beyond how unhappy sexual conformity makes its characters?

As it happens, a distinct sense of place can change the dynamic entirely. The World to Come winds up being as much about the specifics of its own world as it is the people who are confined by it, and grounds its sense of tragedy in gender roles that define a woman’s value in the narrowest possible terms.

Adapting a short story by Jim Shepard, it opens in January 1856 in upstate Schoharie County, New York, with diary entries from Abigail (Katherine Waterston). Still mourning the recent death of her young daughter, Abigail lives alone with her hus-

band Dyer (Casey Affleck) on their isolated farm, attempting to scratch out a subsistence as winter settles in. Arriving to rent a nearby farm are Tallie (Vanessa Kirby) and her husband Finney (Christopher Abbott), a similarly childless couple, and Tallie’s presence provides Abigail with a personal connection she can find nowhere else.

That connection ultimately turns into a love affair, and director Mona Fastvold slow-plays the growing intimacy between Abigail and Tallie to brilliant effect. Waterston and Kirby offer distinct interpretations on women of this time, as Tallie’s more open contempt for her husband’s domineering ways collides with Abigail’s passive acceptance of her lot in life. Affleck and Abbott provide similar contrasts, but the success or failure of a story like this revolves around the performances at its heart, and both Waterston and Kirby make the unexpected appearance of genuine love in their life a heartbreaking reality.

It’s almost a given that there’s no love in their respective marriages, but The World to Come captures why that’s the case beyond the specifics of these two relationships.

Fastvold and the screenwriters dig into the notion of a wife’s simple “use value” in this time—specifically, as a bearer of children and a helper with the necessary chores to keep food on the table and the farm functional. With both of these women in different ways a “failure” in the former role—Tallie has been unable to get pregnant, and Abigail reluctant to try again after the death of her daughter—they find themselves of diminished worth to their husbands, and they know it.

Opening the story during a harsh winter, with storms killing the chickens and making a horse ride home a danger, emphasizes the fact that making it from year to year in this time and place is no guarantee, turning the marital relationship into something purely economic and transactional. When your role to your husband is primarily as a producer of labor—and indeed a producer of other laborers—someone who asks nothing of you but your presence and your affection feels revolutionary.

The World to Come delves into thoughts about religion as well, but not in the expected ways. No one endures a fire-and-

Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby in The World to Come

brimstone sermon about perversions that forces them to cower in shame, nor is there an overt expression of Christianity as one of the reasons Tallie and Abigail can’t be together. There’s more a mournful sense of how little comfort it offers Abigail, who drifts away from faith in her grief. While the title of The World to Come echoes a line from the Nicene Creed about the dream of heavenly salvation, it takes on another context as we watch from 150 years’ distance.

The world to come is this one, where these two people could be joined in love, and where too many more tragic stories of lost opportunity remain to be told. CW

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Author Anton Chekhov made a radical proposal: “Perhaps the feelings we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows people who they should be.” In accordance with astrological potentials, my beloved Aries darling, I invite you to act as if Chekhov’s proposal were absolutely true for at least the next two weeks. Be animated by a generous lust for life. Assume that your intelligence will reach a peak as you express excited kindness and affectionate compassion. Be a fount of fond feelings and cheerful empathy and nourishing ardor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau told the following story about Taurus composer Erik Satie (1866–1925). When Satie died, his old friends, many of whom were highly accomplished people, came to visit his apartment. There they discovered that all the letters they had sent him over the years were unopened. Satie had never read them! How sad that he missed out on all that lively exchange.

I beg you not to do anything that even remotely resembles such a lack of receptivity during the coming weeks, Taurus. In fact, please do just the opposite: Make yourself as open as possible to engagement and influence. I understand that the pandemic somewhat limits your social interactions. Just do the best you can.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Leo poet Warsan Shire suggests, “Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself—what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Re-create and repeat.”

This would be an excellent exercise for you to carry out during this Valentine season. You’re in a phase when you’re likely to enhance your lovability and attract extra support simply by intensifying and refining the affectionate compassion you feel and express toward yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Transform yourself with the sweetest challenge you can dream up. Give yourself a blessing that will compel you to get smarter and wilder. Dazzle yourself as you dare to graduate from your history. Rile yourself up with a push to become your better self, your best self, your amazingly fulfilled and masterful self.

Ask yourself to leap over the threshold of ordinary magic and into the realm of spooky good magic. And if all that works out well, Sagittarius, direct similar energy toward someone you care about. In other words, transform them with the sweetest challenge you can dream up. Dare them to graduate from their history. And so on.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I invite you to compose a message to a person you’d like to be closer to and whom you’re sure would like to be closer to you. Be inspired by what poet Clementine von Radics wrote to the man she was dating, telling him why she thought they could start living together. Here’s her note: “Because you texted me a haiku about the moon when you were drunk. Because you cried at the end of the movie Die Hard on Christmas eve. Because when I’m sick you bring me fruit, kiss me on the mouth and hold me even though I’m gross. Because you bring me flowers for no reason but on Valentine’s Day you gave me a bouquet of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Because every time I show you a poem I love, you’ve read it already.”

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) I’ve adopted some lines from poet Walt Whitman for you to use in composing a love note. Send it to a person you know and love, or to a person you want to know and love, or a person you will know and love in the future. Here it is: “We are oaks growing in the openings side by side. We are two fishes swimming together. We are two predatory hawks, soaring above and looking down. We are two clouds driving overhead. We are seas mingling, two cheerful waves rolling over each other. We are snow, rain, cold, darkness. We circle and circle till arriving home VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) I wish the pandemic would give us a short break so we could again, voiding all but freedom and our own joy.” celebrate the Valentine season with maximum sensual revelry and extravagant displays of joyful tenderness. I wish we could rip PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) off our masks and forget about social-distancing and hug and “To heal is to touch with love that which was previously touched kiss everyone who wants to be hugged and kissed. But that’s not by fear,” wrote author Stephen Levine. I propose you make this going to happen. If we hope to be free to indulge in a Lush Love theme a keynote for your best relationships in the coming days. and Lust Festival by Valentine Season in 2022, we’ve got to be What can you do to alleviate the anxiety and agitation of the cautious and controlled now. And we are all counting on you Virgos people you care for? How might they do the same for you? If you to show us how to be as wildly, lyrically romantic as possible while play along with the cosmic rhythms, you will have extraordinary still observing the necessary limitations. That’s your special task. power to chase away fear with love.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) For a while, poet Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) was the sexual partner of Cancerian novelist George Sand (1804–1876), also known as Aurore Dupin. He said that after intense love-making sessions, he would fall asleep and wake up to find her sitting at her desk, engrossed in working on her next book. Maybe the erotic exchange inspired her creativity? In accordance with current astrological potentials, I recommend Sand’s approach to you. Vigorous pleasure will coordinate well with hard work. As will deep release with strong focus. As will tender intimacy with clear thinking. (PS: I know your options for pleasure and intimacy may be somewhat limited because of the pandemic. Call on your ingenuity and resourcefulness to work the best magic possible.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) I’m turning over this horoscope to psychologist John Welwood.

His words are the medicine you need at this juncture in the evolution of intimacy. Study the following quote and interpret it in ways that help illuminate your relationship with togetherness: “A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other’s individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level. This kind of mutual recognition provides the catalyst for a potent alchemy. It is a sacred alliance whose purpose is to help both partners discover and realize their deepest potentials.”

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) On behalf of the cosmic omens, I demand that the important people in your life be reliable and generous toward you in the coming weeks. You can tell them I said so. Tell them that you are doing pretty well, but that in order to transform pretty well into very well, you need them to boost their support and encouragement.

Read them the following words from author Alan Cohen: “Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Author Raymond Carver wrote, “It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we’re talking about when we talk about love.” That seems like a harsh oversimplification to me. Personally, I think it’s fun and interesting to pretend we know what we’re talking about when we talk about love. And I think that will be especially true for you in the coming weeks. In my astrological opinion, you should be discussing love extensively and boldly and imaginatively. You should redefine what love means to you. You should re-evaluate how you express it and reconfigure the way it works in your life.

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50. One of a hitched pair 51. Kaley of “The Big Bang Theory” 52. “Great blue” bird 53. Start to suction?

56. Urges 58. Main squeeze, in modern lingo 59. Lyricist Gershwin 60. Laughing matter?

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

here’s good news for the second month of 2021, and just like nasty ol’ 2020, there’s bad.

Good: Congress extended a ban on foreclosures of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages until the end of February 2021 (this is the fifth time since the pandemic started last year). If Biden gets his way, there will be another extension momentarily.

Bad: That extension doesn’t mean you’re going to get out of the debt. Attorneys for big banks are expecting a nice income stream for them in filing notices and even lawsuits against those who are behind in mortgages.

Good: Many lenders holding mortgages will offer a forbearance to those who are behind in their mortgage payment if they can prove they are facing a current hardship, such as a job loss due to COVID-19.

Bad: If you apply for mortgage relief with your lender, it may take an insane amount of time for them to approve your situation and, by then, the foreclosure extension deadline may have run out permanently.

Bad: The local real estate market along the Wasatch Front is biblical, as if God/Goddess/The Spaghetti Monster have thrown their wrath at buyers to punish them for even thinking of looking for a new place to live!

Prices are nuts and are only going up—my expectations are at least an increase of 10% in sales prices this year if not 1-2% a month in some areas.

Good: Interest rates on mortgages should stay below 3% this year, and financial markets have responded positively to the appointment of the very first female U.S. Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen. (Give a listen to Dessa’s song, “Who’s Yellen Now?” on YouTube—fabulous!)

Good: The building boom along the tricity area of Ogden, Salt Lake and Provo areas has created a massive need for skilled laborers in every area of construction: electrical, plumbing, welding, framing, sheetrocking, concrete pouring and finishing, painting, etc.

High demand has increased wages for everyone in these fields. Note: More than eight high-rises are going in just in downtown Salt Lake City, including the massive Hyatt Regency attached to the convention center on West Temple (with 700 rooms and meeting spaces).

Bad: Builders can’t hire enough skilled labor or keep many of those workers as competition for them is fierce.

People will get approached in a parking lot by another builder offering $5 more per hour and they just simply never show up to work again. Cannibalization of the work force is rampant among builders and developers now.

Thinking of building a new home with a local developer? The time frame used to be six months from signing the contract to getting the keys to your new home.

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n A woman in Cajeme, Mexico, identified only as Leonora R., faces charges of domestic violence after repeatedly stabbing her husband when she found photos of him having sex with a younger, thinner woman on his phone, according to police. Local media reported the husband was eventually able to disarm his wife and clarify that it was her in the photos, which were taken when they were dating. The New York Daily News reported on Jan. 26 that police responding to neighbors’ calls for help arrived and arrested her.

News You Can Use Japanese entrepreneur Shota Ishida, 30, has zeroed in on a way to relieve the anxiety felt by a narrow niche of people: the roughly 1% of the population, he says, who worry about body odor. “It’s something they can’t bring up with friends or family,” he told CBS News, so they turn to his company, Odorate, for a scientific analysis to determine whether they are emitting offensive odors.

Customers create a smell sample by wearing a plain white T-shirt enhanced with odor-absorbing activated charcoal for 24 hours, then mail it to Ishida’s lab north of Tokyo. For about $150, Ishida will subject the sample to GC-MS analysis (a technology used to identify unknown chemicals) and produce a report, which can include such descriptions as “old-age smell” or “onions starting to rot.” He says about half of his customers are given the all-clear, with no obvious offensive odors. “Getting the facts is a huge relief for (clients),” he said.

Weird Science In a first for paleontologists, the perfectly preserved anus of a dinosaur has been found in China. Psittacosaurus, a Cretaceousperiod relative of the Triceratops, was about the size of a dog, and researcher Jakob Vinther of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom described the discovery as “unique” to Live Science. “It’s like a Swiss Army knife of excretory openings,” used for pooping, peeing, breeding and egg laying. It was not clear to the researchers whether the dinosaur was male or female.

Antisocial Skills Trevor Savok, 20, is suspected of stealing underwear and

AirPods on Jan. 17 from a group of young women staying at a Las Vegas area hotel, and leaving behind a note illustrated with a hand-drawn heart in one of their bags reading, “Text me if you want your panties back,” according to court documents.

The women contacted Savok, who said he would return the underwear if they sent pictures of their private parts, KTNV-TV reported. Police arrested Savok, who worked at the hotel, and are asking the public’s help in finding more possible victims.

Least Competent Criminal As paramedics in Houston responded to a call on Jan. 21, Renaldo Leonard, 36, jumped into their Houston Fire Department ambulance and drove, emergency lights flashing, about 4 miles to a Jack in the Box, where he got in the drive-thru lane, according to police. The Smoking Gun reported the ambulance was tracked to the restaurant, and Leonard was arrested and charged with felony theft of the vehicle, which is valued at more than $150,000.

Creepy Monica Green noticed a few things out of order upon returning to her home in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, on Jan. 18: The back door was open, the air conditioner was running and a meal of chicken nuggets was half-cooked in her kitchen.

Green called police, who discovered an attic opening was partially removed. Instead of finding someone up there, they determined someone had been living there, perhaps for some time, News. com.au reported. “I felt shocked, terrified, scared,” said Green, a mother of three. “Being alone in the home scares me.” Green said she had noticed food missing and her security camera disabled in the days before the discovery but thought they were just coincidences or her imagination. Police have not caught the intruder.

Oops The Monroe Township (Michigan) Fire Department launched a rescue mission on Jan. 26 after receiving a call about a goose or duck possibly injured and in distress on the frozen River Raisin.

Firefighters suited up and headed out on the ice, WXYZ-TV reported, but realized upon closer inspection that the bird was just a hunting decoy. “It ended up being a good training session, actually,” said Chief Mark Cherney. “In the end, we can sleep well at night. A bird is not suffering.”

Recent Alarming Headlines Police in Rome, New York, responding to an animal cruelty complaint on Jan. 13, arrived at a home to find a man cooking a canine on an outdoor grill, police said. The unnamed man cooperated with police, saying the animal was a coyote—which would be legal in New York, as hunting and trapping the canines is allowed with a license, WNBC-TV reported. Animal control officers took the carcass to Cornell University for testing to determine its species.

The Continuing Crisis Authorities who pulled over a pickup truck in Elsberry, Missouri, soon discovered the vehicle had been stolen, KMOV-TV reported on Jan. 25. They headed to the owner’s home and found skeletal remains in another vehicle in the garage and a ransacked house.

Lincoln County Sheriff Rick Harrell said the body may have been there since last summer and “a group of criminal opportunists ... had just ransacked the residence and taken many items. We’ve recovered stolen vehicles, stolen firearms and tens of thousands of dollars in other related items.” The scavengers would have had to walk right past the body as they removed items, he added.

Prosecutors are working to bring charges against 25 suspects, and there may be more. Investigators have not yet identified the remains or determined exactly when the person died.

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