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I do solemnly swear that I will support, obey and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Utah, and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity.” During last month’s city council meeting, Millcreek celebrated its third trip around the sun performing the annual Oath of Office ceremony. The newly elected members Mayor Jeff Silvestrini, District 1 Councilwoman Silvia Catten and District 3 Councilwoman Cheri Jackson all recited the oath above. Following the ceremony, Silvestrini started the year’s first meeting thanking many people who have played a role in the recent election. He expressed his gratitude to his wife, Leslie, for the love and support she has provided and her willingness to make room in their lives for his position as mayor. “She’s my confidante, strategist and even sometimes my financial manager.” Following that short acknowledgment, Silvestrini began the State of the City address. “I love this place so much, it’s hard to talk about without getting choked up,” he said. He talked about the beginning stages of Millcreek’s foundation and incorporation, from starting out in a room that was half the size of the current City Council Chambers. Silvestrini smiled at the memory three years prior of purchasing the city’s first copy machine with his wife and the work she provided as an unpaid volunteer as Millcreek’s only city recorder the first six months. “We started from nothing, with no money, but it was a heck of a lot of fun,” said Silvestrini. “The state requires you
Mayor Jeff Silvestrini gives Millcreek’s third annual State of the City Address. (Kirk Bradford/City Journals)
establish a budget immediately after incorporation and I will say that it was a little more than just throwing darts. We had a feasibility study and the numbers from similar or surrounding areas. So piece by piece, things slowly came together.” Detailing their small budget and its progress over three years to its current budget of $25.5 million, Silvestrini said,
“Our budget is balanced. We have a fund balance and we are on a solid foundational footing. To save money, the city left the municipals district and police districts. The Millcreek police force went from six officers to 57 officers without any increased taxes to the citizens.” Silvestrini also discussed the various projects completed Continued page 5
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e are creatures of habit. For most of us, we wake up around the same time every day, work during the same hours during the same five days per week, and do similar activities during our off time. We find contentedness in our habituated lifestyles, knowing what’s coming next. We’ve even developed language and community around some of the common reoccurrences in our ritualized lifestyles; Taco Tuesday, Hump Day, TGIF, and Food-prep Sunday, just to name a few. Habituation isn’t something we all decided is the norm to strive for, randomly: it’s engrained in our beings. Psychology professors commonly teach habituation, a shortterm learning process where a response to a stimulus following repeated exposure to a stimulus decreases with no adverse effect, with the example of the Aplysia punctata. These little siphon sea slugs have gills that they use to navigate the world. When the gill is touched it retracts into the slug’s mantle, kind of like a snail. However, researchers have found that if the gill is touched a handful of times in succession, the response weak-
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Continued from front page and others in the works, like the coming city center. “The city now has a AA+ bond rating — we are just shy of a triple A rating,” he said, emphasizing the city’s growth. The Millcreek Promise program, fuel-efficient vehicles and the move a few months prior to adopt HB 411 are a few examples Silvestrini cited of the city’s progress. Silvestrini often stopped to talk to citizens while he was out exercising or campaigning. Those conversations brought to his awareness a few different “rumors” he wanted to address. The first was about the city center. “The city center project was really to build a new city hall,” he said. The city has seven years left on their lease with the current City Hall landlord. The landlord said the city has the right to be there for another guaranteed four years before the option of terminating the lease is available. “The city center that we were planning, it’s all about economic rejuvenation of our city and addressing housing in our city,” Silvestrini said. “It may become time to discuss having a new city hall but we would have to have a conversation about that with full public engagement.” The second rumor was regarding the city having too much debt. Silvestrini said this isn’t true at all. “The debt we have is
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Utah’s STEM and Charter School Expo lets students showcase science projects By Stephanie DeGraw | s.degraw@mycityjournals.com
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inding a parking spot is one of those daily hassles everyone who drives needs to do. Fortunately, some University of Utah students want to make it a smoother ride. Brandon Howard of South Jordan, a film student at the university, is involved with the development of a new app called Parq, which aims to make driveways and other areas with parking potential rentable to students. Think Airbnb, but instead of a space in the home, residents are renting out the coveted real estate of their empty driveways to students needing a place to park their cars during the day. “I came from a video game background, I design digital assets and skins for video games,” Howard said. “I met Will through a friend and we decided we wanted to work on the project.” William Pepper, the founder of the app and a computer science student, said he got the idea for Parq after struggling to find parking even after buying a parking pass. “I was driving around looking for parking and I realized businesses and homes have many unused parking spots,” he said. “I thought, someone should rent out these spots and there should be an app like that.” The project received funding from the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute (lassonde. utah.edu/) via a $2,500 grant through the Get Seeded program (lassonde.utah.edu/getseeded) in October. “I didn’t really know anything about starting a business or anything like the tech space yet, so I did some research and I found out about the program at Lassonde,” he said. “So I entered that and put a lot of work into setting it up.” Developer Juno Kim and advisor and
entrepreneur Chris Le are also a part of the project. Pepper said that the amount of businesses around the University of Utah opens up even more potential for rentable parking spaces, potential Parq has worked hard to tap into. “I went door to door asking houses and business if they were interested in this,” Pepper said. He said they have about 50 homes on board, and a nearby 7-Eleven. They are in talks with more businesses and plan to add more in the next few months. Howard said having this hard work of getting people onboard already started will help the app when it’s time for its official launch. “We did the physical work, we went around, emailed people that were interested in renting out their parking lot, we already had that,” Howard said. “So once the app finishes, hopefully it will be a pretty easy rollout because we already did the grunt work of the door to door.” Howard also says that gamification of the app will help, adding features that incentivize users and ensure a long-lasting app that’s rewarding to use. “Parking is a task everyone needs to do,” Howard said. “By adding gamification, it will add more incentive. Any app that has an economy behind it, it will pretty much survive forever.” Pepper said he hopes to expand Parq, even bringing it to other states that are lacking in such apps. “We’re really excited. We’ve been working hard and trying to make a difference in this parking industry.” l
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UPD Millcreek Precinct Officer of the Year 2019 By Kirk Bradford | k.bradford@mycityjournals.com
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urglary, domestic violence, assaults, robbery and sexual offences are just a few of the categories the Millcreek precinct responds to each month. Chief Steve DeBry said, “With so many situations throughout the year, it was difficult to pick just one officer for this year’s award.” There is one officer in the department serving Millcreek who has helped others in ways that far exceeds just policing duties. Detective Gary Evans has been helping others for nearly two decades. From responding to disasters to helping provide aid during hurricanes Katrina and Rita or the tour served in Iraq, Staff Sergeant Gary Evans has served in many different settings and situations. The police department averaged 2,500 to 3,000 calls each month during 2019, a steady increase from the year before. Over the year, there were many awards for Officer of the Month and unit praise when officers went above and beyond. Each year, the department inventories its division and selects an officer to receive the Officer of the Year award based on not just one event but multiple throughout the year. Evans stood out during 2019. During the award ceremony, Debry read a detailed citation that explained the situations and results that made Evans the deserving officer for the award. Debry praised areas he excelled in, as well as provided examples of his dedication to serve the citizens of Millcreek. The City Journals connected with Evans to go beyond the uniform and badge and get to know who he is when he isn’t serving Millcreek. Evans, age 34, said, “I joined the Army at age 18. I enlisted in the Utah Army National Guard as a forward observer for the field artillery unit.” Field artillery units are responsible for directing artillery and mortar fire onto a target, and may be a forward air controller (FAC) for close air support and spotter for naval gunfire support. They also may go behind enemy lines to provide detailed information about enemy locations and targeting. Evans said during 2007, he was deployed to Louisiana for hurricanes Katrina and Rita to provide assistance to the citizens affected. He helped set up medical and food locations. Following the hurricane relief in 2007, Evans was deployed to Iraq. Evans served for one year overseas. Evans spent a total of 16½ years in the military and currently holds the rank of staff sergeant. Evans worked several jobs before coming into law enforcement but said he tried “all kinds divisions, none of them gave any type of satisfaction. I put myself through the police academy and was hired by the Salt Lake County Jail and worked there for about nine months before I received the call from Unified Police to be a police officer. I love
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the job — every day is something new. I enjoy being a detective and taking a case with little to no information and solving the case with an arrest and returned property. I especially love doing the follow-up on cases I am the initial officer for. As a detective I get to find out who did it and where the items are by following the clues; it is enjoyable and rewarding.” Evans explained the core motivation that drove him to become a police officer: “I have always stood up for others. Even in my youth I would be in the principal’s office for getting into fights or defending others who couldn’t do it themselves.” “I have worked my whole career in Millcreek and love the area and the people,” Evans said. He also elaborated on some situations that are difficult in the small town. Evans said occasionally, some citizens seem to be entitled, which he understands and is patient with, but “it can definitely be frustrating at times.” Becoming a detective wasn’t and easy path for him. Evans said he tested for several years to become a detective with Millcreek and didn’t make it. However, he explained, “I continued to work on what was needed and made it on the third attempt.” When Evans is decompressing he is an avid fisherman and loves camping and the outdoors. When presenting the 2019 Officer of the Year award, Debry said, “Detective Gary Evans is currently assigned to our street crimes unit; he has excelled in his current assignment during the past year. Evans consistently provided excellent customer service and support and demonstrates investigative prowess and follows through on assigned cases. Victims from many of his cases routinely compliment him on his communication and effort provided throughout investigations in several instances this year. Many of the assigned cases Evans received came with seemingly little to no leads, yet they were solved through Evans’ meticulous investigations.” Debry talked about many instances Evans excelled. In one example, Evans was assigned to follow up on a stolen vehicle case. The victim’s vehicle was stolen, which contained Native American antiques and several firearms. The property loss was estimated at over $15,000, with many of the items irreplaceable. Evans was assigned the case on the last day of his work week with only a few hours left in his shift. Evans discovered an arrest was made by an outside agency and that the suspect was arrested, but none of the above mentioned property was in the car. Evans promptly responded to the Salt Lake County Jail and interviewed the suspect. During the interview, Evans established rapport and explained the significance of the stolen items. The suspect denied having any
knowledge of the stolen property. However, he identified others he believed were responsible for stealing the vehicle and indicated they could be in possession of the stolen property. Evans identified the new suspects as well as the storage unit. Evans continued his investigation and authored a search warrant for the storage location. With the assistance of other detectives, a warrant was served and the storage facility searched. Nearly all of the stolen property was recovered, documented and returned to the victim. Of the firearms that were stolen, one was recovered and two more are currently being tracked down that are out of state. One other example Debry mentioned involved a case where Evans was attempting to track down a suspect. While holding surveillance, Evans identified a male subject who walked out of the residence under surveillance holding a glock gun case. The subject was said to have paused and looked side to side before walking away from the home. The suspicious action caught Evans’ attention. After following the suspect and developing probable cause for a pedestrian stop, Evans questioned the subject, who indicated there was a gun in the box and one on his person. The subject was safely arrested. After
being transported to the Millcreek precinct and interviewed, post Miranda, the subject admitted to stealing one of the handguns from a vehicle in Salt Lake City the other handgun was stolen from a vehicle in Holladay. The subject also possessed additional stolen property from vehicle burglaries occurring in Salt Lake City and Herriman. The City Journals asked Evans if he could tell the community a few things about being a police or detective they might not know. Evans said, “You’re hated by some but expected to be there even if they hate you, to help them with their problem. And police officers aren’t made in a factory — we have feelings and we see death constantly, yet we are expected to continue working our shift and pretend nothing has happened and go to the next call and drop all emotions that occurred on the previous call.” The final portion of Evans’ award citation read, “He is a valued member of the Unified Police Department and specifically the Millcreek precinct. His dedication to his assignments, resolve and hard work is noticed daily. As a direct result, numerous cases have been solved and quality of life improved for the citizens he serves. It is for these stated reasons Gary Evans is Officer of the Year for 2019.” l
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Cottonwood Canyons get more visitors than Zion or Yellowstone: And this local nonprofit works to protect them By Joshua Wood | joshw@mycityjournals.com
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he Cottonwood Canyons supply the Salt Lake Valley with over 60 percent of its drinking water. A group of five people lead an effort to protect them. The Cottonwood Canyons Foundation works to improve the environments of Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons as well as Millcreek Canyon. The organization has spent the past 20 years improving trails, removing invasive weeks and educating the public about the importance of protecting the vital natural environments right in the Salt Lake Valley’s backyard. “We consider ourselves workers,” said Cottonwood Canyons Foundation (CCF) Executive Director Serena Anderson. “We’re nonpolitical. We show up after policy decisions have been made and take care of the land.” With just five full-time staff members, the local nonprofit helps supplement the United States Forest Service’s work in the area. Anderson and her team split their time between teaching kids and other members of the public about the canyons’ delicate environment and working in the canyons to improve them. In addition to providing the majority of the valley’s drinking water, the Cottonwood Canyons also serve as a major recreation area. In fact, 5 million people use the canyons each year, according to Anderson. “That’s more than Yellowstone or Zion,” she said. “It’s our job to teach people to be responsible recreators.”
year. Volunteers help take care of the forest while gaining knowledge of the environment they can share with others. One of CCF’s regular volunteers is Bob Dunn, an old friend of Anderson’s. “I met Serena when she was 8 years old at the Boys and Girls Club,” Dunn said. “She was a leader then too.” After moving back to the Salt Lake Valley from California five years ago, Anderson was drawn to the canyons. “I absolutely fell in love with the mountains,” she said. “I had a chance to come back, and I heard about this organization and I was thrilled about it.” Anderson brought her experience as a nonprofit leader and became the executive director of the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation in 2016. She asked her old friend Dunn to get involved. She now counts him as one of its regular volunteers. “I was just blown away,” Dunn said. “They have five staff members that work in the Cottonwood Canyons. They work on trails, education, invasive weeds. The weeds smother other plants and cause erosion. People don’t realize how important that work is.” The CCF weed team works with the Forest Service to track and map levels of invasive weeds in the tri-canyon area. Teams of volunteers led by CCF staff head up the canyons to remove the invasive plants before they can do more damage. In addition to crowding out native plants and making the soil more vulnerable to erosion, invasive Backed by an army of volunteers weeds also increase fire danger and threaten The efforts of the small staff of CCF are the vital drinking water provided by the cansupported by hundreds of volunteers. The or- yons. ganization relies on over 300 regular volun- Protecting the forest The work done by CCF provides a critteers who provide much of the labor needed for the largescale work of improving the can- ical stopgap for an underfunded and overexyons. On top of that, as many as 1,500 other tended Forest Service. The Forest Service expeople volunteer for one-time projects each pends a lot of its resources fighting fires. Its
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budget allocation is determined by acreage rather than usage, so a small but busy area like the Cottonwood Canyons gets less funding than larger forests that might have fewer visitors. On top of that, the agency’s budget for the area is now just 60% of what it was 20 years ago, according to Anderson. While the
need for services have increased with more visitors and a growing nearby population, funding to address it has plummeted. “In my mind this is critical and people need to know about it,” Dunn said. “They all have college degrees. Their work is state of the art, and it’s way over my head what
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The group’s education programs include bringing school children up the canyons to explore and learn. Whether exploring trails and learning at the Silver Lake visitor center in the warmer months or snowshoeing Little Cottonwood Canyon, youth programs teach Salt Lake Valley kids about the importance of the canyons. To help more kids participate in programs, bus scholarships and donated snow clothes are available to kids in Title I schools. The CCF team gets creative with their educational efforts. During ski season, staff and volunteers will ride up the ski lifts with lone skiers and talk with them about the canyons. They then host educational events in the resort areas. “We’re considered an urban forest,” An-
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derson said. “It’s kind of our backyard, and people need to know what it means to be in a watershed.” What’s next for the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation? Growing the organization’s capacity to meet increasing need for its services is a top priority. “We are working very hard to get a second trails crew and another weed crew,” Anderson said. “We are touching 30–40% of the need in the canyons. We’re trying to get to the backlog of need in the canyons.” The Cottonwood Canyons Foundation offers a busy schedule of activities throughout the year. Volunteers can help with trail maintenance or invasive weed suppression, or they can attend educational and celebratory events like their Wasatch wildflower tours in July. More information can be found on their website, www.cottonwoodcanyons. org. The organization’s staff and volunteers make sure their events combine education with action. They recently received an award for removing graffiti in Little Cottonwood Canyon and worked with local law enforcement to address the issue. For Anderson and her team, stewardship and education go hand-in-hand. “I love working the registration table at events and checking people in,” Anderson said. “Then I ask them what they learned on the way out. I say, ‘so are you going to pick the flowers in the canyons?’ and they say, ‘oh no.’ Then they list the reasons why they shouldn’t.” l
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County’s emergency management team teaches tactical emergency care to Unified Police Department By Kirk Bradford | K.Bradford@MyCityJournals.com
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t the conclusion of their final course offered to the public, Salt Lake County Emergency Management (SLCEM) trainers invited the City Journals to attend Tactical Emergency Care, a course taught to members of the Unified Police Department (UPD). The course is designed to teach first responders life-saving medical care normally taught to medical responders. This training was much more graphic in the language and film when compared to the public courses. In one video, the footage shows officers returning fire at a robbery suspect who is hit multiple times. Officers secure the suspect and weapon, assess the quickly spurting bullet wounds in the leg and chest as life-threatening, and apply a chest seal and double tourniquet to save the man’s life. This all happens in under 30 seconds. “The mindset of individuals who serve in our law enforcement or first responder units have developed thick skins. It makes sense from the things we see and face day to day,” Emergency Management Trainer Kathy Allen said. “This type of training will be different from the others we’ve covered because we teach people who are already used to seeing violence, trauma or death. It allows us to talk about different aspects of emergency care much more in depth. If it seems emotionless, it’s not. It is just the nature of doing this kind of work well. Taking the emotion out of situations to make the best decisions.” Allen began the training by discussing the psychological aspects commonly found between active attack events and mass shootings. Attackers learn from the mistakes made by other attackers. They may pretend to be
part of the wounded, try to fit into the groups of victims and avoid detection in various ways. The rescue task force (RTF) team has an especially difficult job. They are responsible for neutralizing the shooter in any way necessary, but are also instructed to not stop to provide aid until the shooter has been stopped. Stopping loss of life is critical before providing care. The training also covered the mental health of first responders, something not often taught in public courses. Allen was emotional as she spoke about the lack of mental health care for the traumatic things first responders experience. She gave numerous examples of local responders who had committed suicide within the past month. Out of respect for them and their families, those names are not included. According to statistical data from the Ruderman Family Foundation, during 2017 the number of suicides by firefighters, EMTs and law enforcement officers was 243. The total number who died in the line of duty was 222. “This is a major problem among first responders,” Allen said. “We need to be checking on each other, even further than that. We need to be willing to talk about the things that we see and how it affects us.“ She said we need to get rid of the “suck it up or you are weak” mentality that is normal amongst responders, and to take advantage of the many ways available to seek help. Emergency Trainer Curtis Watkins covered the next portion of the training. Watkins covered the use of the chest seals, tourniquets and life-saving tactics they have found useful
and others that are not. Watkins had everyone in attendance experience what it feels like to wear a tourniquet on your arm for 10 minutes. It gives you an idea of how painful they are but also the panic as the pain increases. “You may have to handcuff your partner to his belt. There may be a time your partner has been wounded and out of either shock, pain, or a combination of both they will try and loosen the tourniquet a little or just tear it off. Be prepared to handcuff that uninjured hand to their belt to prevent it.” Watkins discussed what he considered old-school teachings of tourniquets causing long-term damage after a short time. “When in doubt, apply a tourniquet.” Watkins showed graphic footage of a soldier’s foot destroyed after stepping on a landmine, yet he survived due to a correctly applied tourniquet. He also showed a photo of a man who had been hit by shrapnel. Although he had received massive bodily trauma, he survived due to the multiple tourniquets on many limbs until he received medical care. To illustrate the speed at which a body can bleed out, Watkins showed a video of a man being executed in a third-world country. He was shot three times and as he fell in a dirt road, the speed at which he bled out was roughly one minute. Watkins taught the application of chest seals in the torso, an area a tourniquet cannot be applied and also the tools and techniques used to pack a wound. Utah has received a large grant that allows Allen and Watkins to train any group that wants to learn how to respond in a disaster situation. “It can be a family, a business, a church, ward, whatever the group. We can arrange and train them without cost because it’s covered by the grant.” Jordan School District has already had all of their teachers and staff complete the trainings, and Watkins said they are in the process of setting up training for Herriman teaching staff. The speed of coordinating emergency care on a large scale like at a school is most effective when relationships among everyone involved have already been established and everyone knows who to contact when emergencies happen. “Jordan School District believes it is important to have interactive relationships with our first responders,” said Lance Everill, emergency operations manager with Jordan School District. “We rely on all of our police, fire and emergency responder agencies to give us their professional input, support, training and advice in advance of an actual crisis situation. Our school district now has a fantastic relationship with Salt Lake County Emergency Management, in addition to our local police and fire departSalt Lake County Emergency Management Trainer Curtis Watkins (right) teaches the correct application and ments.”
In January 2018, SLCEM became involved in conversations with the school district regarding their response to an active attack or critical/traumatic event. Having the grant funding in place, it was affordable for the school to have SLCEM train their personnel on tactical emergency casualty care. “They even advised us on the best trauma care supplies to purchase. Using this information our district purchased 3,200 trauma kits, placing one in every classroom, and over 260 larger kits, placing them in mass gathering areas,” said Everill The City Journals asked about the realities of an attack at a school or mass shooting. Everill said, “I believe that as the world and critical events continue to evolve, it is incumbent on everyone to evolve with it. The better we can prepare educators, students and citizens to respond during a crisis, the more likely they will be to survive and overcome the incident. Businesses and families can benefit from similar training, since the majority of active attacks are occurring in places of commerce. I feel that families should have age-appropriate, honest conversations with children. They can also reinforce the training that schools are providing, since we all primarily learn how to respond to emergencies as kids in school. It is important to not only talk about what to do during an emergency, but also about reporting suspicious and concerning behavior in advance of an emergency, such as comments, social media posts, acting out, etc. I think that the only way we are going to get ahead of this attack epidemic is to focus on prevention by reporting and being situationally aware of our surroundings. I personally am spreading the message of not getting lost in your cell phone while out in public. Instead, save it for a known, safe place.” The SLCEM trainers can be reached by calling Kathy Allen at 801-628-9091 or by email at callen@unifiedfire.org, or contacting Curtis Watkins at 801-913-0568 or cwatkins@unifiedfire.org. Watkins stressed the importance of the trainings by showing the City Journals the shooting data from 2019. “There have been 366 active shooters this year (2019), and that is just shootings. Think of all the other possible emergencies like car accidents. You would want to be able to save someone if they were injured and it would be hard to deal with knowing you might have been able to save someone close to you but you didn’t know how.” Everill encouraged others to sign up for the trainings. “We’re all in this together. Every person has a role to play in this community issue about compassion, communication, prevention, preparation and response.” l
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‘I have two homes now,’ French teacher at Morningside Elementary becomes U.S. citizen By Heather Lawrence | heather.lawrence@mycityjournals.com
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he U.S. naturalization ceremony held on Dec. 18, 2019 was special for Morningside Elementary School. Fifth graders participated in the ceremony by performing an original monologue. Then they saw their French teacher, Laura De Backer, become a naturalized citizen. “I decided to become a U.S. citizen because my daughter is a citizen, and also because I wanted to be more involved in the community. [I wanted to] be able to vote and be heard as a member of the community,” De Backer said. The ceremony was held at the Jeanne Wagner Theatre in Salt Lake City. De Backer was one of 128 people who participated in the citizenship ceremony. Morningside students were also on the program. “A group of our students performed at the naturalization ceremony where she received her citizenship. When the students were walking on stage, prior to their performance, the emcee asked [De Backer] to stand and be recognized as [their] teacher,” said Anne Reese, Morningside principal. The students “performed a monologue they had written about notable immigrants, inventors, thinkers [and] activists and their achievements,” Reese said. De Backer is a native of France. She teaches in the French dual-immersion program at Morningside. “[De Backer’s] students work hard each day mastering their skills in French. Students thrive in the positive classroom climate she has created,” Reese said. “She is a fantastic teacher here at Morningside, and we are proud of her professional accomplishments… as well as her personal accomplishment of achieving U.S. citizenship,” Reese said.
Fifth grade students from Morningside Elementary perform at a naturalization ceremony where one of their teachers became a U.S. citizen. (Anne Reese/Morningside Elementary)
The decision to become a U.S. citizen was one De Backer approached thoughtfully and over many years. “I moved to the U.S. in 2010, so it will be 10 years in April. I decided to become a citizen about five years ago when my daughter was born. It took me some time to start the process because it is costly, and requires some time to gather the required information. So I pushed [it] back a few years and finally applied last year,” De Backer said. The United States District Court for the District of Utah oversees the citizenship ceremonies, which happen monthly. Among other requirements, petitioners must pass a U.S. citizenship test and have lived in the country for a certain amount of time.
De Backer said being a citizen gives her more freedom in how long she is able to travel back to France. “I moved in the U.S. when I was 30, so I have a strong attachment to France. If something were to happen with my family [there] I can go [back] for a longer period of time without fearing of losing my status here,” De Backer said. De Backer now has dual citizenship in the U.S. and France. “Having dual citizenship gives me the opportunity to keep that tie to my country of birth, while also having my home here. It also doesn’t hurt to have a U.S. passport and a European passport for travelling,” De Backer said. “I have two homes now, here and France.” l
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Churchill Jr. installs ‘gates of Mordor’ to keep west parking lot secure By Heather Lawrence | heather.lawrence@mycityjournals.com
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hurchill Jr. High’s west parking lot has a magnificent view of the Salt Lake Valley. However, not everyone who comes to the lot comes for the view and respects the property. Last summer, Granite School District (GSD) installed a mechanized gate in hopes of deterring vandalism and other delinquent behavior. The gate effectively closes the parking lot for the night. “The gate prevents access to the west parking lot after hours. This was a district-level project after multiple and ongoing (several years) of complaints from neighbors,” said Ben Horsley, communications director for GSD. Horsley said “delinquent individuals on property after hours” vandalized school property and violated noise ordinances. Bidding for the gate job opened last spring. The project was given to Royalty Services Group from Syracuse. The job was completed for the new school year. “We joked they were like the Gates of Mordor,” said Churchill Principal Trent Hendricks, referencing the land from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” books. The gate stays up during the day, and parents and staff come and go just like before. “The community loves the parking lot for the view, and we want it to be open to
them. We also have it open when there are evening activities and concerts,” Hendricks said. “But not everyone who comes follows the rules. They’ll do donuts in the parking lot or on the grass when it snows, or leave garbage here. So the decision was made to put in a gate and keep cars out after hours,” Hendricks said. As far as access, Horsley said it’s up to the district to decide. “Anyone we wish [can get access with their badges]. It’s as simple as adding someone to a computer list of access rights.” A teacher at Churchill who did not wish to be named said she remembered one time when there was an issue with the gate. “One morning I had to be at school early, and the gate wasn’t opening. My badge didn’t open it — none of the teachers’ badges do. My principal was there, but his badge didn’t open it, either. Maybe they’ve changed it since then.” There is not a gate on the east parking lot, and it is still accessible all hours. Horsley said the feedback from Churchill’s neighbors has all been “positive and more inclined that it was ‘about time.’” “One lady who was walking by stopped one of our police electronics gentlemen who was there making adjustments… [She] com-
A mechanized gate now controls traffic in the west parking lot at Churchill Jr. High. GSD cited delinquent behavior as the reason for the gate. (Heather Lawrence/City Journals)
mented (as a neighbor) that she was ecstatic that the district had finally done something to secure the property,” Horsley said. If people notice malfunctions, vandalism or other issues, they can call the school’s
front office if it’s during school hours, 385646-5144. Call Granite Police Dispatch after hours, 801-481-7122. “They can get an oncall person to the site,” Horsley said. l
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Seniors (from left to right) Bella Roden, Emma Clark, Claire Whisenant, McCall Skinner and Caitlin Bilanzich are part of an eight-person senior class. When people hear they have eight seniors, Skinner says people tell them “it’s weird and unheard of.” (Travis Barton/City Journals)
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hen these eight Skyline seniors were freshmen, they ended their season storming the Salt Lake Community College basketball court to celebrate a state championship. Even though only a few of them saw playing time that year, those few months gave them extra meaning. “It really made us feel like we were a part of something bigger than just playing at the high school level,” remembered senior Caitlin Bilanzich. “That was so fun,” added senior Abbie Loosli. “We really looked up to the older girls, they played well together and worked hard so that was something we always wanted to achieve.” Fast forward three years. Not only are all of those freshmen still on the team, but they have a legacy to uphold. “We say, ‘don’t cheat the bloodlines.’ There are girls before us that have won state and it’s our privilege to play,” Bilanzich said. “We don’t want to give that up, we want to take (state) every year too.” Skyline girls basketball has a history littered with success. Since 2006, the Eagles have been in five state championships, winning three of them (most recently in 2017, these seniors’ freshman year). Senior captain Claire Whisenant remembered feeling “intimidated and nervous” coming in as a freshman, but the older girls took them in “and treated them like family.” “It’s really important to remember how meaningful it was for them to actually care about us,” she said. “We’ve
tried to pass that onto our younger girls, treat them as part of the program and not as some little freshmen that we’re above.” Remembering the program’s former leaders still plays a role for senior Kate Vorwaller who, along with senior Amit Lustgarten, saw some playing time as freshmen. “I still think about them a lot as we lead,” Vorwaller said. “I definitely remember their examples and can think of a number of girls that really shaped me and inspired me at that young age.” This senior class now strives to uphold those leadership standards, said senior McCall Skinner. “There are certain things you have to do to keep the team accountable to make your season successful,” Skinner said. “As seniors I think we’ve done a really good job of enforcing it, but not in an overpowering way to still make it fun.” Coming into the program, these girls were fully aware of the lofty standards. “(Skyline basketball) had a reputation of a lot of hard work that will lead to success,” Whisenant said. “The expectation was always to be great after putting in a lot of hours together.” Over four years, and multiple years playing together on youth teams, these girls have spent countless hours together developing a chemistry they describe as similar to a family or sisterhood. “(The chemistry) definitely wasn’t easy, definitely didn’t come naturally,”
Bilanzich said. “McCall (Skinner) and I are best friends now, but we hated each other as freshmen.” Having eight seniors on a soccer or softball team is normal considering how many play on the field at one time. But in basketball, where only five play at a time, it’s an anomaly. “It feels really special,” Bilanzich said. All eight have been in the program since they were freshmen, something that looking back, they didn’t expect. But now couldn’t imagine it any other way. “I think all of these girls need to be on the team at this time,” Loosli said. “If any one of us was missing it would feel like it wouldn’t be complete because we’ve all been here for so long.” Added Vorwaller, “I can’t imagine playing basketball without (them). It’ll be really weird to move on playing basketball without them because they’ve been a face I’m so used to seeing on the court. It means a lot to us to be together.” Being together for so long can make for an interesting personality to the group, let alone as individuals. “We have a really fun personality,” said senior Bella Roden, while Vorwaller said, “Everybody is funny in their own way.” But there was definite consensus on who the quiet one was: sharpshooting senior Emma Clark. “I am the quiet one and serious and stoic, you can never read me. That’s me,” Clark said.
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Vorwaller said Clark is “fierce, really composed,” but if Clark gets mad or slams the court, “you know it’s a big deal,” interjected Whisenant. Whether it was winning the state championship or winning a tight freshman game against Judge Memorial in the final minutes, the seniors’ careers are filled with special moments. “Not one game or win or loss stands out to me,” Loosli said. “But just being with these girls everyday.”
After a sophomore season that ended in a heartbreaking semifinal loss and an injury-riddled season a year ago saw them miss the playoffs, this season has the chance to reestablish Skyline basketball as a championship contender. “Last year was a building year so we know what we want this year and we’re ready to do everything we can to achieve it,” Lustgarten said. But to do so will require game to game consistency, communication and good ball movement.
Seniors (from left to right) Claire Whisenant, Amit Lustgarten and Kate Vorwaller are part of an eight-person senior class. These three lead the backcourt for the Eagles as they strive to return to the summit of 5A basketball. (Travis Barton/City Journals)
“If we make our teammates look good, they’ll make us look good,” Lustgarten said. That chemistry though, could be the team’s greatest strength. “We have a really special bond outside of basketball,” Whisenant said. “So, just trying to make that carry over, that we still have trust and faith in each other on the court. So when things start to go the other way when momentum is shifting, instead of pulling apart, we come together.” The girls were 11-4 (7-1 in region) and
ranked No. 5 in the RPI (ratings performance index that seeds the playoffs) as of Jan. 27. They had a few goals in mind to end the season. “The ultimate goal is obviously state,” Skinner said. “But it’s also that our friendship and chemistry stay together so it can carry onto future teams, so they can look at our team and say it looked fun. Set the next years up for success.” l
Senior Claire Whisenant smiles after knocking down a three thanks to the help of her fellow seniors Amit Lustgarten and Kate Vorwaller (24). (Travis Barton/City Journals)
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MAYOR REFLECTS IN FIRST STATE OF THE CITY SINCE RE-ELECTION By Kirk Bradford | k.bradford@mycityjournals.com
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I do solemnly swear that I will support, obey and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Utah, and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity.” During last month’s city council meeting, Millcreek celebrated its third trip around the sun performing the annual Oath of Office ceremony. The newly elected members Mayor Jeff Silvestrini, District 1 Councilwoman Silvia Catten and District 3 Councilwoman Cheri Jackson all recited the oath above. Following the ceremony, Silvestrini started the year’s first meeting thanking many people who have played a role in the recent election. He expressed his gratitude to his wife, Leslie, for the love and support she has provided and her willingness to make room in their lives for his position as mayor. “She’s my confidante, strategist and even sometimes my financial manager.” Following that short acknowledgment, Silvestrini began the State of the City address. “I love this place so much, it’s hard to talk about without getting choked up,” he said. He talked about the beginning stages of Millcreek’s foundation and incorporation, from starting out in a room that was half the size of the current City Council Chambers. Silvestrini smiled at the memory three years prior of purchasing the city’s first copy machine with his wife and the work she provided as an unpaid volunteer as Millcreek’s only city recorder the first six months. “We started from nothing, with no money, but it was a heck of a lot of fun,” said Silvestrini. “The state requires you
Mayor Jeff Silvestrini gives Millcreek’s third annual State of the City Address. (Kirk Bradford/City Journals)
establish a budget immediately after incorporation and I will say that it was a little more than just throwing darts. We had a feasibility study and the numbers from similar or surrounding areas. So piece by piece, things slowly came together.” Detailing their small budget and its progress over three years to its current budget of $25.5 million, Silvestrini said,
“Our budget is balanced. We have a fund balance and we are on a solid foundational footing. To save money, the city left the municipals district and police districts. The Millcreek police force went from six officers to 57 officers without any increased taxes to the citizens.” Silvestrini also discussed the various projects completed Continued page 5
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