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Wasatch Theatre Co.: The Laramie Project

Nearly 25 years removed from the murder of gay teen Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyo., it’s clear that threats to LGBTQ+ people aren’t simply something in our historical rearview mirror. In planning The Laramie Project as Wasatch Theatre Company’s 25th-anniversary season opener, director Jim Martin acknowledges that it’s related to that ongoing danger, and the need to remember these horrors of the past: “Some of the cast members were not even born when Matthew Shepard was murdered. We as a diverse community must keep the issues that surfaced in 1998 at the forefront as our nation undergoes its own reckoning with rising hate crimes. … This play is a very important production at this particular time in history.”

The Laramie Project was born out of the efforts by Tectonic Theater Project, under director Moisés Kaufman, to visit Laramie in 1998 and collect interviews of locals in the wake of Shephard’s murder, to discover the perceptions in that community regarding what happened, and why. Wasatch Theatre Company provides a spin by casting demographically diverse actors who don’t necessarily represent the demographics of 1990s Wyoming, in addition to giving the production a local flavor through the use of music by Utah musician Ben Brinton, and a backdrop including photographs by Logan-based photographer Lucas Bybee.

Wasatch Theatre Company’s production of The Laramie Project runs Oct. 6 – 15 at the Mid-

Valley Performing Arts Center (2525 Taylorsville Blvd.) in Taylorsville, with performances Thursday – Saturday. Tickets are $25; masks are recommended but not required. Visit arttix. org for tickets, specific showtimes and additional event information. (Scott Renshaw)

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Joy Harjo @ Kingsbury Hall

Since 1985, when the role of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress was officially created, 24 individuals have served in that capacity, including luminaries like Robert Penn Warren, Howard Nemerov and W. S. Merwin. Only three such individuals, however have ever served three one-year terms as Poet Laureate, and only one has been a Native American: Joy Harjo, whose term concluded this year.

A member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, Harjo was pursuing a career in medicine when she first enrolled at the University of New Mexico. But her experience as a teenager at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and the influence of her artist great-aunt Lois Harjo Ball, led her to switch her major first to art, and then creative writing. She returned to teach at the Institute of American Indian Arts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and published her first volume of poetry, The Last Song, in 1975. Many honors and awards preceded her 2019 nomination as Poet Laureate, in work exploring colonization and imperialism through the lens of her cultural background. Her new book Catching the Light, from the Yale University Press “Why I Write” series, features reflections on creating poetry as “an expression of purpose, spirit, community and memory.”

Joy Harjo visits Kingsbury Hall (1395 E. Presidents Circle) on Thursday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. in conversation with former Utah Poet Laureate Katharine Coles. Tickets are free, but required via online reservation; face masks are requested for all attendees, but not required. Visit kingsburyhall.org for tickets and additional event information. (SR)

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Jay Pharoah

Jay Pharaoh is a clever guy. A six-season veteran of Saturday Night Live, he’s earned an enviable reputation as an actor, a stand-up comedian and an amazing mimic whose deadon impressions of Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Eddie Murphy, Will Smith, Chris Rock, Jay Z, Denzel Washington and Kanye West have proved strikingly true-to-life. His vocal abilities extend to voice acting as well, courtesy of his guest appearances on the popular animated series Family Guy, Bojack Horseman, Legends of Chamberlain Heights, Robot Chicken and the upcoming Supermansion.

His character Principal Daniel Frye, based on Pharoah’s actual high school principal, provided his initial claim to fame, but he also offers a serious acting side as well, courtesy of his roles in 16 films in the past 10 years alone. With a second stand-up comedy special in the works and a steady string of club and college appearances, he’s a busy man. However, an unfortunate incident involving an encounter with the L.A.P.D. proved to be less than funny when he was detained at gunpoint in the midst of the George Floyd protests and restrained by a cop who kneeled on his neck in the same manner that resulted in Floyd’s murder by Derek Chauvin. A victim of mistaken identity, he eventually received an apology. Happily, there’s no mistaking Pharoah’s talent or tenacity.

Catch Pharaoh this week at Wiseguys Comedy’s Gateway location (194 S. 400 West on Friday, Oct. 7 and Saturday, Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. each night. Tickets are $30; visit wiseguyscomedy.com for tickets and additional event information. (Lee Zimmerman)

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Utah Opera: The Flying Dutchman

In the world of opera, Richard Wagner is perhaps most famous for his epic “Ring Cycle,” and most infamous for being favored by Adolph Hitler. Yet the composer’s work encompasses a broader scope than might be familiar to most laypeople, including the “romantic operas” of his middle career. And among those is the grand romantic fantasy of 1843’s The Flying Dutchman.

The narrative, inspired by a satirical 1833 novel by Heinrich Heine, tells the story of a ghostly mariner cursed to sail forever as the result of blasphemy against God. He tells the merchant seaman Daland of his fate, and of the chance he has every seven years to come ashore and seek a true love, which would break the curse. When Daland learns of the gold the Dutchman possesses, he offers his own daughter, Senta, as a possible match— and Senta, already aware of the Dutchman legend, believes she could be the one to save him. But Senta’s history with a former love might mean that the Dutchman will not be so easily saved. Veteran baritone Michael Chilodi takes on the role of the Dutchman for Utah Opera, with Metropolitan Opera regular Wendy

Bryn Harmer as Senta. Utah Opera’s production of The Flying Dutchman comes to the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre (50 W. 200 South) for five performances, in German with English supertitles: Oct. 8 & 14, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 10 & 12, 7 p.m.; and Oct. 16, 2 p.m. Tickets range from $15 - $110; visit utahopera.org to purchase tickets and for additional event information. (SR)

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HALLOWEEN Spook Up

A random roundup of Halloween season fun

BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

Whether it’s the candy, the costumes or the scares, Utahns love their Halloween, getting into a spooky loween season that appeal to both adults and kids. Gardner Village (1100 W. 7800 South, West Jordan, gardnervillage.com) spirit earlier and earlier each year. However you like to celebrate, there’s almost certainly an event or entertainment that’s right for you. Here’s just a handful of ways you can put Halloween on your A&E calendar.

Theater: As we noted in our feature a couple of weeks ago, Odyssey Dance’s Thriller is all-but-sold out for its farewell run—but there are other ways to enjoy chills and chuckles in a theater seat. The Off Broadway Theater (12366 S. 900 East, Draper, theobt.org) presents some of your favorite monsters singing a revue of classic hits in Forever Dead, running through Oct. 29. The merry band at Desert Star Playhouse (4861 S. State, Murray, desertstar. biz) tells the story of a neighborhood trying to figure out why everything has gone to the bats in Dracula: He Loved in Vein, through Nov. 5. Salty Dinner Theater (various Wasatch Front locations, saltydinnertheater.com) invites you to solve a real-life mystery involving a legendary writer of the macabre with The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, running through Nov. 1.

The annual tradition of Deep Love: A Ghostly Rock Opera brings its story of love from beyond the grave to the Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center (2525 Taylorsville Blvd., Taylorsville), Oct. 22-23 The Hive Collaborative (290 W. 600 South, Provo, thehivecollaborative.com) serves up a Spectral Soirée, a Roaring ’20s-themed murder-mystery theater experience that adds haunted house elements. And if you want to carry the Halloween spirit into November, Plan-B Theatre Company introduces local playwright Morag Shepherd’s My Brother Was a Vampire, which turns the lore of the blood-sucking undead into a dark, dysfunctional-family comedy. Family-Friendly: It wouldn’t be Utah without a wide range of options for the Halpresents its WitchFest 2022 through Oct. 31, with activities including photo opportunities, a witchy scavenger hunt, “Witches Night Out” shopping and dining experiences, the Ricochet Canyon Amusement Park with themed attractions and more. Millcreek Gardens (3500 S. 900 East, millcreekgardens.com) presents its Festival Transylvania Oct. 13 – 29, including a walkthrough story experience without the gore and shocks of the big haunted houses. Loveland Living Planet Aquarium (12033 S. Lone Peak Parkway, Draper, thelivingplanet.com) turns weekend evenings into “Halloween on the High Seas,” including a vintage seaside carnival, “scare zone,” dance party and the new pumpkin smasher, plus a cosplay contest on Oct. 28 and trick-or-treating Oct. 27 – 31. Thanksgiving Point’s Ashton Gardens (3900 N. Garden Dr., Lehi, thanksgivingpoint.org) hosts its Scarecrow Festival Oct. 10 – 15, with colorful scarecrow creations throughout the 50-acre gardens. Utah’s Hogle Zoo (2600 Sunnyside Ave., hoglezoo.org) opens up at night for its “Boo Lights” experience of Halloween-themed lighting displays. All that, and too many corn mazes and local fall parties to count. Film: Many of your favorite scary movies are going to be available on big screens near you. The Salt Lake Film Society’s Tower Theatre is still undergoing renovations, but the annual “Tower of Terror” programming moves to the Broadway (111 E. 300 South, slfs.org) throughout October, with classics like Halloween, Suspiria, The Exorcist, The Shining, The Thing and more. Salt Lake County Library’s Viridian Events Center (8030 S. 1825 West, West Jordan, slcolibrary.org) brings more classics for free screenings on Mondays and Thursdays in October at 7 p.m., including It, Carrie and The Sixth Sense. At Abravanel Hall (123 W. South Temple, utahsymphony.org), the Utah Symphony’s “Films in Concert” series presents Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Oct. 27 - 29

Miscellania: Get a taste for the way local artists interpret themes of the uncanny at Urban Arts Gallery’s (116 S. Rio Grande St., urbanartsgallery.org) A Dream Within a Dream, a group exhibition on the theme of the thin boundary between the known and unknown worlds, featuring Desarae Lee, Vincent Mattina, Grant Fuhst, Mary Elizabeth Jenkin, Faris Alawi and more. Get a taste of the pagan origins of Halloween at the Hibernian Society of Utah’s Sawain celebration at The Gateway (18 N. Rio Grande) on Oct. 8, free to the public.

Haunted Houses: Oh yeah, there’s also the intense scary-season experience of Utah’s many amazing professional haunted houses, filled with chills, thrills and things that go bump in the night. Nightmare on 13th (320 W. 1300 South, nightmareon13th.com), Fear Factory (666 W. 800 South, fearfactoryslc.com), Castle of Chaos (7980 S. State, Midvale, castleofchaos.com) and Asylum 49 (140 E. 200 South, Tooele, asylum49.com) are among the higher-profile showcases of ghouls and shocks, often with varying levels of “contact” experience based on guest preference, and it seems like there are new offerings every year. We all like to experience Halloween in different ways; you’re bound to find some way that hits the right scary sweet spot for you. CW

Halloween Haunts

Utah chronicles of the uncanny

BY WES LONG | COMMENTS@CITYWEEKLY.NET

My spirit will not haunt the mound Above my breast, But travel, memory-possessed, To where my tremulous being found Life largest, best.

—THOMAS HARDY, SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE (1914)

This October marks the 160th anniversary of the establishment of Camp—later Fort—Douglas here in Salt Lake City. The Civil War-era post has filled many roles over its history, from a military garrison to university housing.

While citizens and visitors recognize Fort Douglas for a variety of reasons, one of its more intriguing claims to fame is its reputation as a hot spot for paranormal activity.

“I came here with an open mind,” recalled Beau Burgess, the director and curator of the Fort Douglas Military Museum (32 Potter St., SLC, 801-581-1251). “I’ve worked at other historical sites that are said to be haunted, so I wasn’t a stranger to this kind of [atmosphere].”

Having heard stories of ghost sightings from colleagues upon his arrival a decade ago, Burgess has since garnered many experiences that fall outside of the easily explainable. Often the first person in the building or the last to leave, he has reported hearing the mysterious tread of boots upon the floor and the slamming of doors long after the museum has emptied.

Burgess recounted witnessing a paranormal investigation in the museum, during which an audio recording was made. Hoping to catch voices from the static with the use of a word-generating device—which practitioners believe may be useful for spirits to communicate—investigators recorded what seemed to be a voice speaking in German.

The recording subsequently took on greater resonance when it was discovered that not only did Fort Douglas serve as a prisoner-of-war camp for German soldiers during both world wars, but that the specific building in which the recording was made had once been a hospital for those POWs.

“Some parts of history,” Burgess said, “we’ll never know.”

In his role at the free museum—which is open Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m.—he has encountered thrill-seekers, skeptics and believers alike. And they, in turn, have come to him with their own share of strange, chilling, even miraculous, accounts.

Museum visitors have described a sensation like forgiveness from an unknown party, Burgess said, or have found themselves remembering their forgotten dead with a sense of spiritual urgency.

He stressed that he does not go looking for ghostly encounters but rather allows such events to materialize in their own time, which he said is “part of the fun.”

“If it happens,” Burgess said, “it happens naturally.”

In this season of pumpkins and ghouls, when many go seeking the sublime through avenues of revulsion and fright, there are many tales that can be told from sites around the Salt Lake Valley. Some of these tales are creepy, others mysterious and some—with enough of the mist cleared away—reveal dimensions of great beauty.

Proceed if you dare, and happy Halloween!

A Specter in City Creek? Many Salt Lakers have heard tales of ghosts haunting the upper floors of the Salt Lake City & County Building or of the “Purple Lady” at the Rio Grande Depot. But fewer are likely aware of the spooky goings-on near City Creek that first came to public notice at the turn of the 20th century.

In August of 1900, The Salt Lake Tribune ran a curious piece on a mysterious woman who reportedly stalked the area of Canyon Road and Third Avenue. Routinely appearing between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m., a tall dark-haired woman in white with lucent, ebony eyes could be seen gliding in and out of the trees along the path, occasionally leaping from a bridge into the creek bed below.

The uncredited writer of the Tribune’s piece maintained a snarky tone of detachment in describing the sightings of this woman, floating the idea that she was likely a sleepwalker. But pedestrians would apparently try to speak to her, to no avail.

The Tribune’s arch humor notwithstanding, even the news reporter didn’t know what to make of this wandering wraith, concluding with a tantalizing bit of reportage: “the apparition moves about without making the least sound and when spoken to never replies, but rapidly disappears.”

The Tribune followed up in December of that year, believing they had discovered the identity of the ghost in the form of a local woman thought to be mentally ill. Their tentative tone and the paucity of further mentions of the specter’s “nocturnal ramblings” ultimately leaves the saga lost to time.

The Cursed Cottage Some properties just seem to attract tragedy no matter how many times they exchange ownership. The scythe of the dread reaper comes for all, but in the case of one old cottage in the Avenues, it seems to have found an express route.

Such misfortunes as accident, illness, destitution and suicide vexed the home’s various owners, as described in two reports by The Tribune from 1904 and 1905. “The house has proved a hoodoo to any and all occupants for years,” Tribune writers declared.

Formerly standing on the northwest corner of Third Avenue and J Street—where a handsome private residence stands today—and on property that reportedly once belonged to Brigham Young, the house was sold to local jeweler Oolaf Eliasson (1836-1920) in 1857. His wife Ingar Andersson (1838-1893) died there during the family’s occupancy and their son Oscar (1869-1899)—who found acclaim as the illusionist/magician “Dante the Great”— would meet a tragic end from an accidental shooting in Australia.

A married couple by the name of Mickle took over the place after the Eliassons left, before the husband died in a railroad accident and the wife was taken by a gas explosion. One subsequent owner was deserted in poverty and took their own life while another succumbed to the effects of consumption.

By the time of the Tribune’s coverage, another owner by the name of Frank C. Gattung (1861-1904) had fallen from a ladder and was to pass away from his injuries.

“Perhaps there have been unknown things enacted even as unfortunate as [the events recorded above],” the Tribune mused, “Who knows?”

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Since its days as the Orpheum, Utah’s Capitol Theatre is said to house supernatural entities. Hawarden House in West Valley City

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The Fort Douglas Museum, on the University of Utah campus.

The (allegedly haunted) McCune Mansion, at 200 N. Main St.

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Ghostly Theatrics Considered a jewel in Salt Lake City’s theatrical crown, the Capitol Theatre (50 W. 200 South, SLC, 801355-2787, saltlakecountyarts.org) has hosted stage and film entertainment since its opening in 1913. But its reputation for eldritch encounters enjoys a similarly lustrous reputation among those in the know. Staff and security for the building have been particularly vocal over the years about the odd happenings within.

Dave Murphy—formerly a deputy with the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office—had been skeptical about reports of hauntings at the theater until he started doing security for the building in the 2010s. During his time there, he reported seeing mysterious figures pass him in the dark and doors slamming by themselves.

“I’d heard stories,” Murphy told The Salt Lake Tribune in 2012, “but until it happens to you, there is that disbelief. As soon as it happens to you, there’s a complete shift of attitude.”

In 1999, the Deseret News recounted the story of another security guard who would pass the time on his shifts by launching paper airplanes from a theater balcony. Then one night, “as he sat in the guard booth alone, he was hit on the back of the head with a paper airplane out of nowhere,” the News reported.

In such an environment, one would be justifiably unnerved. But not all who report these sorts of encounters remain repelled by them. Blair Fuller—another Capitol Theatre employee interviewed by the Tribune about his brushes with the paranormal— reckoned that whatever ghostly figures dwell in the historic building may not be as sinister as one might initially suspect.

“In my experience,” Fuller related, “it’s almost like a teenager trying to get some attention. And once you acknowledge that, it stops. But it took me an hourand-a-half to get to that point.”

Gundi Jones, current (living) occupant of Hawarden House

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Jeromy Jones believes he has seen the ghost of Ira Bennion on three occasions.

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Happy Hauntings Others have approached supernatural phenomena with an even greater degree of equanimity. Gundi Jones and her family have occupied Hawarden House (4396 S. 3200 West, West Valley City) since 1992, and they feel far more protected than menaced by the ghosts that are believed to inhabit the historic abode.

Originally a 10-acre farm belonging to the extensive family of agricultural entrepreneur Ira Bennion (18641929), the house was built in 1906 and was the site of many weddings as well as funerals.

“A lot of life happened here,” observed Jones.

As far as she’s concerned, the Bennions are still coming and going as they please. “Why wouldn’t the people who put so much into this home and their community still be interested in it?” Jones asked.

Jones’ son Jeromy grew up in Hawarden House, and he affirmed that he has so far seen Ira Bennion three times throughout his life. Shortly after the Jones family moved into the house, he recounted, he was in his bed and saw Bennion watching him from outside his door.

Another sighting was during the holidays, when Jeromy observed Ira sitting in their living room as he was getting ready to leave for school. Later, as an adult, Jeromy reported that he last saw Ira sitting upon his bed.

Like his mother, Jeromy Jones is not bothered by the occasional houseguests. “It’s life,” he shrugged.

Sightings of unknown people and wayward shadows have continued through the years, as have the doors that open and faucets that turn themselves on and off. But Gundi Jones accepts the occurrences as happy interactions.

“There are so many things that we don’t know,” she said, “I don’t care what people think about what we feel or what we experience or see. They have a right to that opinion.”

But as for her? “I believe in peaceful coexistence,” she concluded. Life Largest, Best Fiona Robinson-Hill is an historian at the Fort Douglas Military Museum, and she is no stranger to mysterious experiences herself. Often guiding special cemetery tours, the museum’s next such event will be on Oct. 29 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Robinson-Hill has taken part in many investigations and is of the mind that while the paranormal is, by its nature, outside of our customary definitions of “normal,” we need not remain afraid of them. People ought to pay attention to when they do or do not feel safe, she stressed, but there is also much that starts out to be unfamiliar and grows into a richer and more profound experience.

“It’s not just happening in your house,” Robinson-Hill specified, “It’s happening all around. It’s happening in the City & County Building; it’s happening at the McCune Mansion. It’s not just you, it’s all of us. You don’t need to be scared of it. The more you learn about it, the more you experience it, the more comfortable you can be with [it].”

Edgar Allan Poe wrote in The Premature Burial that “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”

The accounts outlined in the vignettes above—as well as many others like them—elude complete and satisfactory explanation. Are the dead closer at hand than we think? Do some places attract misfortune while others do not? Do buildings and places draw ghosts to them?

We can’t say “yes” or “no” with absolute certainty, but in this yearly autumnal spell of ghosts and graveyards, it may be possible to advance from a state of amused or terrified spectacle at such notions to one of peace and hope.

For Robinson-Hill, the mystery is not something to be embarrassed about, but rather embraced and explored.

“You don’t have to necessarily believe,” she stated, “but keep an open mind.” CW

Fiery Feast

The heat is on at the 10th annual Utah Firefighters Chili Cook-Off.

BY AIMEE L. COOK comments@cityweekly.net

It’s that time of year again when the weather cools down and food heats up. And right on time, Utah firefighters are bringing the heat at their 10th annual chili cook-off on Oct. 8.

The annual fundraising event is sponsored by Utah Disaster Kleenup (UDK) and sees teams of firefighters from departments across the state slinging their best chili for a great cause.

This year, 19 teams compete for the “best chili” title, with proceeds from the event going to the U.’s Burn Center programs and its burn camp—Camp Nah Nah Mah— which supports the continued healing of burn-injury survivors. Each year, the event attracts hundreds of people and has raised thousands of dollars for the camp.

Rob Marriott, organizer of the cook-off, is a firefighter of 15 years with the Unified Fire Authority as well as a burn camp counselor for the past decade. Marriott considers the insight he has gained from volunteering as invaluable to doing his job and a way to close the loop after treating victims on-site.

“I see what these camps provide to the survivors, and that’s why Team Sultry Poultry puts in the energy each year,” Marriott said. “It takes us about three months to pull everything together for the event.”

Marriott said last year’s event raised $30,000. His team’s winning recipe is a chicken cashew chili that has been cooked by firefighters for about 20 years. “We made a total of 34 gallons of chili,” he said.

As reigning champions of the cook-off for the past two years, Team Sultry Poultry will serve their award-winning chicken cashew, quinoa and bison sausage chili in their mock-up of a miniaturized firehouse booth.

Teams get their creative juices flowing when coming up with booth ideas and chili concoctions, serving their concoctions out of everything from mini fire trucks to oversize fire hydrants.

Winning teams are named in four awards categories and bragging rights from the event carry weight. The traveling trophies are as coveted as an Olympic medal when you cook in a firehouse.

Friendly competition lends itself to the awards for People’s Choice, Best Booth, Judges’ Choice—typically celebrity judges from local media—and Most Money Raised. Team Sultry Poultry made a clean sweep last year. Can they do it again?

Burn Camp launched in 1992 as a way to aid emotional healing through engagement with the outdoors and through community building, according to Kristen C. Quinn, psychosocial program coordinator for the Burn Center.

She said the camp’s programs intentionally address the trauma of burn injuries, with the aim of helping people move from a victim to a survivor.

“Participants in the Burn Camp programs also learn social skills to manage stares, questions and teasing,” Quinn said. “They problem-solve strategies to address bullying. And, they learn to trust that their physical bodies can do things they stopped believing they could do.”

The programs are free for burn survivors, Quinn said, thanks to partnerships and fundraising through events like the chili cook-off.

“Our burn nurses host a 5K [run] in the spring. And our community partners in the lineman community host a golf tournament for us,” Quinn said. “We are blessed by other community partners who make generous donations as well. I have found that the relationships formed and enriched through these fundraisers and through getting donors engaged with the programs have been valuable on so many levels.”

The family-friendly chili event also features a raffle with prizes, a bounce house, helicopters, fire trucks, police cars, ambulances and a DJ.

New this year, a beer garden will feature a variety of Moab Brewery’s offerings and their delicious root beer to wash down those bowls of chili.

All beverage sales go to the burn camp programs as well. Donations without a purchase are also accepted.

Camp Nah Nah Mah supports the continued healing of burn-injury survivors. Team Sultry Poultry celebrates their win at a past year’s Utah Firefighters Chili Cook-off

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When: Saturday, Oct. 8, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Where: RSL Stadium, America First Field, 9256 S. State, Sandy Prices: $2 cup, $5 bowl To purchase tickets and for more information visit utahfirefighterchilicookoff.com

Chili cook-off proceeds support the University of Utah Burn Center.