Murray City Journal April 2018

April 2018 | Vol. 18 Iss. 04

FREE NEW DAD, NBA PROSPECT AND MURRAY HIGH GRADUATE DAVID COLLETTE

has quite a story to tell his son

By Carl Fauver | carlf@mycityjournals.com

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even years ago, about all prep basketball star David Collette had to worry about was not tripping on his graduation gown, as he accepted his Murray High School diploma and prepared to leave for his LDS Mission in Charlotte, North Carolina.

But times change.

Now, the best basketball player to ever come out of MHS not named Johnsen has a new baby – his first, with wife McElle – along with memories of his first-ever trip to New York City, for an appearance in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) final four, at fabled Madison Square Garden.

And when his son is old enough to understand such things, Collette can tell him a story that starts with “every University of Utah basketball fan knew exactly when you were due to be born.”

The story can end with, “that’s why, son, every cloud has a silver lining.”

Due to irritating things called “deadlines,” this story is being written the day (March 22) after the University of Utah defeated St. Mary’s in Moraga, California (just east of Oakland), 67-58 in overtime, to punch their ticket to the Big Apple. But, unfortunately, this is also the day before McElle was to give birth – after being induced into labor – nearly a week past her due date. It’s also five days before the Utes’ first NIT semifinal game since 1992.

As you read this, those things have happened. Most important, hopefully the new mom and baby are well. Secondarily, perhaps Utah is the NIT champion.

But just reaching the final four makes that silver lining about as bright as can be for a Murray graduate who was disillusioned by a coaching change at Utah State, following his only season in Logan, after returning from the mission field. Collette left Cache

Murray High and University basketball player David Collette battles for rebounding position. (U of U Athletics)

Valley after being voted Mountain West Conference Freshman of the Year in 2015. Then he had to pay his own tuition at the University of Utah for a year, when he lost a season of basketball eligibility (due to NCAA rules) along with the accompanying scholarship money.

That first major basketball cloud, came with a silver lining

named Larry Krystkowiak.

“I was recruited by Utah and Utah State (as a Murray High senior) and finally decided to join (head coach) Stew Morrill’s team, in Logan,” Collette said. “When he recruited me, I understood he would be around for my entire career. So when he left after that first season, it didn’t feel like a good fit anymore.

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Thankfully, (University of Utah head basketball) Coach K remembered me and welcomed me here.”

Once his basketball eligibility was restored, Collette started every game healthy for the Utes, over two seasons. This year, the 6-foot-10, 220-pound center was named to the All Pac-12 second team.

But just when all appeared sunny, Collette’s second big cloud came on Senior Night – the Utes’ final regular season home game vs.

Colorado – March 3.

Utah earned its 19th win of the season, but Collette played only seven minutes – and left on crutches – after severely spraining his ankle.

That might well have been his final memory of the Jon M. Huntsman Center, if not for the next silver lining.

By losing their opening Pac-12 tournament game to Oregon, Utah was denied an invitation to the NCAA basketball tournament – another cloud. But that also left the Utes with their NIT bid, and the opportunity to play two more home games in Salt Lake.

Despite the severe ankle sprain just five days earlier, Collette started that conference tournament game vs. Oregon, scoring 16 points in the loss. Afterward, coach Krystkowiak had very little positive to say, except when it came to Collette’s courage.

“He played great,” the coach told the Las Vegas media throng of Collette. “Did you see his (swollen) ankle? There ain’t too many people who are going to be playing on that. So I give him a helluva lot of credit. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

With his ankle improving, Collette’s next silver lining allowed him to return to Utah, to be near his expecting wife and to change those final memories of the Huntsman Center from the injury, to a pair of NIT victories (69-59 vs. UC Davis and 95-71 against LSU). Collette scored 18 points in the two wins. More importantly, he left the Utes’ home court for good, sans crutches.

“It was nice to get two more wins there and to leave (the Huntsman Center) the right way,” Collette said.

Those victories led to the Utes’ quarterfinal win at St. Mary’s… and also to Collette’s latest cloud. After leading Utah in scoring in the first half against the Gaels, Collette suffered a back injury just before halftime and could not play in the second half or overtime. But he said he’d be ready for the NIT semifinal game (vs. Western Kentucky).

“I just bumped (my back) the wrong way,” Collette said. “It’s been an ongoing problem.

But I’ll be ready (for the next game).”

Regardless of how the Utes placed in the NIT final four, the former Murray Spartan has a lot of basketball still ahead of him.

“I definitely want to play next year, in the NBA or Europe,” Collette said. “I have a few leads that should get me into some NBA combines and workouts. But I most likely see myself going overseas.”

Pac-12 Coach of the Year Krystkowiak has all the confidence in the world it will happen.

“David is a very coachable player,” Krystkowiak said in an email. “He is a very hard worker and competes day-in and day-out. His

Blocking shots and interrupting inside play became a David Collette specialty during his senior season at the U. (U of U Athletics)

awareness around the basket (has) shown great strides over the course of the season. If he keeps his mind to it, David can have a successful basketball career after college, whether that be at the NBA level or overseas. As long as he continues to work hard, he will be a great player.”

It was 20 years ago when another former Murray High School basketball star was in the final four. Britton Johnsen was a freshman on that 1997-98 Utah team that fell to Kentucky in the NCAA championship game. He went on to play a few games in the NBA, before his skills took him to Spain, Greece, France, Turkey and elsewhere.

Now, arguably the best player to come out of the Spartan program since Johnsen – and his older brother, Jeff Johnsen – faces a similar European possibility. His final four tournament (the NIT) is different. But Collette’s desire to carry on the Murray High professional sports legacy is the same.

Exciting times for Jeff and Diane Collette, who followed their son to New York to watch the final game(s) of his collegiate career.

“My parents have come to all my home games and have been so supportive,” Collette said. “It’s been great to share this with them.

And my brothers and sisters have come to games when they could also.”

Collette’s parents still live in the same Murray home he shared with them. He is the youngest of seven (four girls/three boys) and the only one to play college sports. However, one brother was a high school wrestler while the other also played in the Spartan basketball program.

“They’ve been busy raising families,” Collette said of his older siblings. “My new son (is) my parents’ 23rd grandchild.”

Collette calls Krystkowiak “one of the greatest coaches anyone could play for.” But he also adds, there was another big coaching influence, earlier in his life.

“I loved Jason Workman,” David said of the veteran Murray High School head basketball coach. “He’s such a great guy and good coach.

He won a Coach of the Year award my senior year, when we reached the state semifinals. And when colleges started to recruit me, he was a big help.”

Workman said the admiration goes both ways.

“Before becoming head coach, I was an assistant in the program, going back to the years when Jeff and Britton (Johnsen) were here,” Workman said. “My all-time best Murray alumni basketball team would start with David and the Johnsen brothers.”

But Workman added, Collette was much more than a skilled player.

“David was very coachable and worked very hard,” the coach added. “He’s stayed in touch with our program and even attended four or five of our games this year. It’s great to have a homegrown success story. Lots of kids (in the Salt Lake Valley) shift all over to attend different schools for athletics. But David is Murray, through and through.”

At least for now.

“My wife is very supportive and we’re ready to move just about anywhere – at least for a few years – so I can continue my basketball career,” Collette added. “If you are good enough, there’s decent money to be made overseas. But our roots both run deep in Utah, so I’m pretty sure this is where we will return someday.”

Perhaps in time to tell his son the silver lining story of what Dad was doing around the time he was born.

After deadline note: Collette and his wife McElle welcomed their first child into the world. Rowan William Collette, a 8-pound, 13-ounce baby boy, arrived around 1:30 p.m.

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Star of A&E’s ‘Intervention’ Heather Hayes visits Murray to talk opioid abuse

By Shaun Delliskave | s.delliskave@mycityjournals.com Murray to commend their staff and provide them with further ethics training. She also encouraged Utah lawmakers to pass laws regulating patient brokering. She sat down with City Journals to discuss current issues regarding issues facing those with opioid addiction.

You said we should have addiction drills. What does that mean?

It is more of a metaphor. We have fire drills, we have tornado drills, we have terror drills in our schools, but we need to have addiction drills in our schools because addiction is far more likely to kill our children these days.

We know enough about the signs and symptoms of addiction to know how to work with our children, helping our families and communities to have discussions, starting at home, at the dinner table, to know what to look for. We need to know how to help when our kids get in trouble so that they don’t feel like it’s a disgrace to have an addiction issue but to really be able to step forward and ask for help and not have it stigmatized.

Your visit to Utah is to discuss ethics and the challenge that addicts face with getting treatment called “patient brokering.”

What is that?

There are several ways patient-brokering happens. One, patients Heather Hayes, star of A&E’s “Intervention,” warns of opioid patient brokerare brokered by someone who says, “I am going to refer you a client ing. (Photo/Heather Hayes) and I want you to give me money back.” The problem with that is, eather Hayes, a therapist featured on A&E Network’s if they are patient brokering, and there is a Treatment Center A and Emmy award-winning reality show “Intervention,” visited Treatment Center B; Center B may be the better fit but Center A is Murray on Feb. 28 to raise awareness about treatment industry going to give them $8,000 for a client. How can they truly make the ethics and the opioid epidemic in Utah. right decision about that?

She recently visited the Recovery Ways treatment center in There are also call centers that are literally auctioning off

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clients. For example, someone calls the call center that they found on the Internet. The call center will say to the caller, “Part of what we do is that we recommend what is the best fit for your child and we’re going to refer you to this place,” and they get a kickback from that treatment center.

Is this what you mean when you said there is a more insidious problem with our treatment industry’s ethics?

The other thing happening is that the call center people will prey on advocacy groups. Such as advocacy groups on Facebook that are for parents of addicted children. They will contact the parent and say, “I see your son’s story and it has touched my heart so much that we will offer a free scholarship and airline ticket for your son to be sent to our facility in Southern California.”

When they check in, they take their Social Security number and go and buy insurance for them and use the client’s insurance to get reimbursements. They get maybe 17–20 days out of the policy and as soon as the policy runs out, the client is put in a position where they have to make a risky transfer and relapse again.

You are planning to meet with the legislature, what is the legislation you are hoping they will pass?

There’s legislation here in Utah (HB 14 and SB 222 that were sponsored by Representative Eric Hutchings and Senator Gene Davis) which makes Utah one of the states that are leading the nation and helping to regulate some of these unethical practices. Right now, there are no teeth in a lot of places to make it illegal to patient broker.

Florida passed House Bill 807 and is the only state in the nation right now where patient brokering marketing practices are all illegal.

Georgia right now has Senate Bill 352 that was just passed. l

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Murray City Hall garnished with Jordan Brun’s ‘GARISH’

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ou certainly don’t miss the neon Wonder Woman staring at you at Murray City Hall. Not to worry, the glowing superhero is there as part of Jordan Brun’s Resident Artist exhibition.

The Murray artist and Brighton High School art teacher’s works can be seen on display in Murray City Hall’s main hallway.

“The ‘GARISH’ series is my attempt at Pop Art as viewed through my own morbid curiosity,” explained Brun. “I began the series in 2009, with an oversexualized version of a cartoony Barbarella. Since then, the neon colors and layers of spray paint and marker have stayed, but the pieces have become more and more detailed and realistic in texture, value and layering.”

Indeed, neon hasn’t been this plentiful since the 1980s. Brun claims “GARISH” as his most prolific series, with subjects including portraits of celebrities, fictional characters, fantastical creatures, and human oddities. The series includes over 100 pieces and continues to grow. His works stray beyond the 16” x 20” standard canvas size.

“My biggest piece is currently 30” by 40”, and the larger I work, the more I am able to explore the small textures and many values and color shifts within the subject.”

Brun studied art education at Michigan State University under Dr. Charles Steele and received a BFA in art education and an MA in art education at Eastern Michigan University in 2007. He developed his style while teaching at Plymouth Canton Community Schools and working on a number of independent films in the greater Detroit area.

His film work can be seen in “War Flowers” and “Mortal Kombat vs.

DC Universe.”

In 2011, he moved to Utah and has illustrated a coloring book, had his work appear in both a documentary and a feature-length film,

By Shaun Delliskave | s.delliskave@mycityjournals.com exhibited regularly at local galleries, and taught elementary, middle and high school age students, as well as private lessons.

“I have a great need to have my thoughts escape my mind and become trapped on a page, canvas or wood,” he said.

“I love to see reactions to my work, positive or negative—I feel that if my work has evoked an emotional response in someone, then I have been successful.”

His works are regularly exhibited at the Urban Arts Gallery in Salt Lake City, and he will be curating a show there in January 2019 titled “Those Who Can’t...”, which will showcase the work and philosophy of Utah visual arts educators. He is also a permanent fixture in Fashion Place Mall’s Young Art Lessons, where he is a teacher.

“Teaching gives me the chance to work with over a hundred different students each semester, each with a different way of approaching the challenges I give them. I have learned more from teaching others than I ever could on my own,” Brun said.

“GARISH” is his most prolific and promoted, but he also has another series titled “Bling,” with portraits of women from around the world adorned with an overabundance of ornamental jewelry, done in acrylic paint, marker and gold leaf.

Murray Resident Artist Jordan Brun’s “GARISH” series is on display at City His other works include “Libram Arcanus” which is a prop Hall. (Photo/Jordan Brun) spell book, created using traditional calligraphic techniques and Viking runic alphabets, and utilizing ink, silver leaf and paint pens.

“Oldey Timey” uses late 1800’s photography as a source material, The act of its creation provides me with a therapeutic release, and adding animal heads onto the subjects, creating an anthropomorphic it’s cheaper than therapy, and it is my hope that seeing my work connection done in coffee stain with ink on paper. evokes an emotional response in others which can engage them “Art by itself, hanging on a wall, is a pointless endeavor. visually.” l

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Heavyweight boxing’s biggest fight thrown in Murray…100 years ago!

By Shaun Delliskave | s.delliskave@mycityjournals.com

Boxer Jack Dempsey (left) spars before a fight. (Photo/Library of Congress)

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t was a scandalous night in Murray back on Valentine’s Day in 1917 when the city hosted a national heavyweight boxing fight that was settled in only 25 seconds. The ticket that night featured local heavyweight superstar, with only one loss, Jack Dempsey. His opponent from New Jersey was a fighter with a mixed record of wins named “Fireman” Jim Flynn.

Boxing-crazed Utah during the post-World War I years hosted

numerous matches held in venues from the Grand Theatre to, and most interestingly, Murray City’s Fire Hall. Once the fire engines were hauled out, the Fire Hall was spacious enough to hold quite a crowd and profitable enough for promoters to book it as a sporting arena. The Fire Hall’s current owner, BMW of Murray, just finished refurbishing the century-old building, but stepping inside the building, one can still see the voluminous hall.

It wasn’t unusual to see boxing’s newest sensation, Jack Dempsey, on the streets of Murray. Originally from Manassas, Colo., he had bought his mother, Celia, a home, located where Three Fountains condominium complex currently sits. Celia and Jack were converts to Mormonism, which spurred the move to Murray.

However, Jack was likely not actively practicing his new faith—he reportedly met his first wife, Maxine, in a Salt Lake City bordello.

In the rowdy days of Murray’s saloon-infested State Street, local boxing matches were held with regularity. As it is now, prizefighting was illegal in Utah, so fight promoters found loopholes to circumvent the law. Fights were billed as exhibitions, and law enforcement was lenient when the fight was also a fundraiser.

Murray’s first major “fundraiser exhibition” that attracted national attention pitted erstwhile local boy Dempsey against the fighter Young Hector. On September 28, 1916, Dempsey drove from his mother’s home down 4800 South to the State Street Fire Hall to face Hector. In three rounds, Dempsey had pummeled the challenger enough that his opponent retired from the match, and Dempsey moved one step closer to taking on heavyweight champion Jess Willard.

The fight was so popular that promoters were already planning the next exhibition—all for the benefit of the Murray City Fire

Department—but had trouble finding an opponent for the Manassas Mauler. What better opponent, the fight organizers thought, to bring to the Fire Hall than boxer “Fireman” Jim Flynn.

Flynn had twice fought and lost the heavyweight title to champions Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson. The Murray match even attracted the nation’s sportswriters’ attention. Utah was abuzz in February as the match drew near, with the Salt Lake Telegram even printing where the fighters were training and announcing that a special train would be scheduled to accommodate spectators from Utah County.

Sports columnists were bemoaning Flynn as not much of a challenge. Walter Bratz wrote, “Sounds like a classy card. As a matter of fact, it is nothing else.” Dempsey’s promoter was already trying to schedule a match against champ Jess Willard before the fight even took place.

The night of the fight, a sellout crowd filed into the Murray Fire Hall, and the two fighters made it into the ring. The bell rang, and within 25 seconds, Jack Dempsey lay knocked out cold after two punches. The Ogden Standard Examiner howled, “The whole affair is the worst prizefight in the history of the state.”

Newspapers cried that it was fixed, but it was also noted that Dempsey was still out well after the count. Dempsey claimed that he was not warmed up yet. If he threw it, he paid dearly for it, since he waited until 1920 for a chance to fight Willard for the title.

Promoters quickly settled on a rematch a year later to the day, but in Chicago. Dempsey wasn’t cold this time and KO’d Flynn in the first round. The Murray match would be the only knock-out blemish on the heavyweight champion’s record on his way to becoming one of the highest-paid athletes in the first part of the 20th century. l

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Murray FD at the frontline of devastating California fires

By Shaun Delliskave | s.delliskave@mycityjournals.com In December, the worst fires California has ever seen raged across communities in San Diego and Santa Barbara counties and Captain Matt Boulden, and Firefighters Josh Schultz, Zach Hansen, and James Oyler were called up for a two-week deployment in those counties.

The crew had to gather and check all their structural and wildland firefighting equipment that would be needed for a twoweek deployment with a possible extension of up to a week. In addition to the technical requirements, approval was needed from the governors of the State of California and Utah, plus approval from Murray’s mayor and fire chief.

According to Boulden, “This all had to be accomplished in less than 24 hours with many moving parts and support from many different entities including firefighters from Murray City that did not get deployed but still had to fill shifts for those going. This was a true team effort.”

When they arrived in California, the Thomas Fire in Santa Barbara County was wind driven and had been less than 5 percent contained burning over 90,000 acres or 140 square miles.

When they arrived in California they were assigned to the Lilac Fire in San Diego County city of Bonsall where they cut fire line In California, Murray’s Fire Department set backburn(also known as conand created a defensible space using chainsaws and other tools to trolled) fires to reduce the amount of fuel that’s available to the main fire. (Phomonitor homes along evacuated Camino Del Ray Road properties. to/Matt Boulden) After four days they were reassigned to the Thomas Fire in irefighters are a close-knit group, and when their firefighting Santa Barbara. Once they arrived on the Santa Barbara fire they comrades in California issued a plea for help, Murray’s fire were first assigned to clear defensible space around homes. Then department answered. they were asked to conduct a backburn and clearing operation to

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protect structures.

Due to 24 hour rotations, they would have to leave an assigned area in the mornings and would not be sure if their work would be enough to keep the fire from spreading to structures.

Along some areas, the fire had burned all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Boulden was surprised at how the fire reacted in some areas.

“Whole neighborhoods would burn except for one or two homes in the middle or on the fringe that seemed to be untouched by fire.”

The people of California were very hospitable to the Murray firefighters including offers to buy and/or make them meals. “One family in particular whose daughter was an Olympic athlete was so generous they took time to make us dinner and even offered to make us breakfast in the morning because they felt safer and could sleep at night when we were there,” noted Boulden.

The lethal nature of the fire reminded the firefighters of the dangers associated with their job. Unfortunately, while they were there, the fire took the life of Cal Fire San Diego Unit Fire Apparatus Engineer Cory Iverson who died from thermal injuries and smoke inhalation. He is survived by his pregnant wife, Ashley and their twoyear-old daughter.

By the time the Murray fire team left the fire, it had burned over 270,000 acres and was 65 percent contained.

When asked what the take away from his experience was, Boulden replied, “That our success was only possible due to the joint efforts and support of our families and those of our community, state, and country. The resolve to make things better for our neighbors is always possible when we have a common goal.” l

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Remnants of Murray’s agricultural past quickly disappearing

By Shaun Delliskave | s.delliskave@mycityjournals.com

A resident near the Costello farm is representative of a bygone era. (Shaun Delliskave/City Journals)

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nother slice of Murray’s bygone era of agricultural farms has been slated for residential development. Economic developers are operating in high gear as large swaths of Murray’s open space are slated for development. During the Feb. 20 Murray City Council meeting, approval was given for the Planning Commission’s recommendation to rezone the Costello

farm at 1222 West Bullion from agricultural to low-density residential.

While no development plans have been formally announced for the property, many residents attended the planning meeting with concerns about future use, since it borders the Jordan River Parkway.

The Jan. 4 planning commission meeting brought many out to comment on the disappearing open space. Lori Nickerson, who lives near the Costello farm, commented that “the land keeps developing, and the wildlife diminishing, and I’m saddened the open space is leaving.”

Indeed, many of Murray’s legacy farms are fading as longterm farming families, such as the Costellos, have moved or passed on, leaving their descendants with decisions on how to dispose of the property. As these farms are now islands among residential developments, the ability to run livestock or plow fields seems to generate more neighbor complaints than produce.

Recently, Murray was approached by several citizens about purchasing the former Di Sera farm in east Murray and possibly making it a park. The Di Seras were among a large group of Italian farmers who forsook the smelters and mines of early Murray and set up numerous farms along Vine Street, from Van Winkle Expressway to State Street. These immigrants from Roman Catholic Italy were one reason that St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church was established in Murray.

The remaining large farm plots in Murray, some with orchards left unattended due to the aging farmer population, became accidental nature preserves. Because many farms, like the Costello’s, bordered rivers, creeks, canals, and ditches, they became ideal stomping grounds for migrating birds. Charles Horton, who lives near the

Costello farm, noted at the meeting, “This area can only be used for wetland use and I seek assurance that the new properties won’t consume all the wetland area.”

Today’s land use disagreements are comparatively different from when Murray was first incorporated. Murray was unique then, as it had a huge industrial core with several smelters surrounded by farmland. At times, this made for an uneasy relationship between the two industries, and some Murray crops failed because of the smelter’s emissions. This resulted in a first-of-its-kind environmental lawsuit against the smelters, and the farmers were awarded damages. The tall former landmark smelter stacks of Murray were a direct result of the farmers forcing the rich mining interests to better disperse their smoke.

Farmland may also well be the victor as the last-man-standing, as the last smelter-era building was recently made a redevelopment zone. The Utah Ore Sampling Company mill, a blighted property, was approved by the City Council to be a reinvestment area.

On the other hand, Salt Lake County’s Wheeler Farm is as popular as ever, as residents are attracted to its open rangeland and historic farming structures preserved in a park-like setting. Both Wheeler Farm and Murray Park host popular farmer’s markets in the summer.

For the remaining Murray farmland, their use appears less to support agricultural livelihood and more recreation, such as equestrian pursuits. In their book about Murray titled “Sunset of the Farmer” Ethel Bradford and Beverly Wheeler Mastrium note, “Complete life-changes usually evolve slowly over the centuries, but there was nothing slow about this valley’s change, for within ten years it catapulted far beyond evolution.” l

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Jennifer Covington

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MURRAY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT 5102 S. Commerce Drive 5102 South Commerce Drive • Murray, UT 84107 Murray, Utah 84107 801-264-7400 | Fax 801-264-7456 Phone 801-264-7400 801-264-7456

By Shaun Delliskave | s.delliskave@mycityjournals.com

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Murray Education Foundation Executive Director I have enjoyed being involved as Executor Director for the Murray Education Foundation and will begin my 20th year this fall. We have a dedicated Foundation Board that works well together and exemplifies the purpose of the Murray Education Foundation, which is to “promote and recognize excellence in Murray schools by encouraging contributions, and building partnerships to enhance education.”

We have been able to institute many programs, including our annual MEF Golf Tournament. It is held in the fall each year, with proceeds to going back into the teacher’s classroom in the form of teacher grants; 2018 will mark the 20th tournament. In addition, our annual Pinnacle Award Gala, now in its 15th year, is held each year in March when we recognize five teachers, one classified employee and one volunteer (every 5th year, one administrator is chosen). Awardees each receive a Pinnacle Award Jeanne Habel statuette, a $500 check, a gift basket with value in the range of $1500-2000, along with a delicious dinner cooked and served by students from MHS, and entertainment from secondary school students.

We could not put together either of these events without our committees of wonderful volunteers comprised of community members, retired school district staff, and the sponsorship involvement of our outstanding community and business donors.

Other MEF involvement includes establishing an endowment for technology through a fundraising effort from the “Buy A Brick” wall at Murray High School; sponsorship of the “Invest in a Kid” program, support of the Kennecott Nature Center, and administration of the Laura Baker Professional Learning Grant – a grant that teachers can apply for on a yearly basis to subsidize a professional learning experience.

Murray is a great community and we have an amazing school district in which an education foundation can flourish. We could not achieve the things that we have in the last two decades without the support of both community members and the school district. Thank you sincerely to all who support the Murray Education Foundation. I truly believe we could not do it without this “village” supporting us all!

2017-18 Pinnacle Award Winners Congratulations to this year’s outstanding Pinnacle Winners!

Pictured left to right are: Ellie Ferrero, Liberty Elementary 5th grade teacher; Cheree Larson, HJH volunteer; Shalice Benedum, Liberty Elementary 6th grade teacher; Issachar Beh, MHS English-ESL teacher; Sarah Buck Chatterton, Spartan Station Manager classified employee; Rochelle McGowan, RJH math teacher; and Amanda Halverson, HJH English teacher.

2018 MCSD Calendar Highlights May 28 (Mon.) Memorial Day holiday June 1, 2018 (Fri.) Last Day of School June 1, 1:00 PM MHS Graduation, SLCC Aug. 17 (Fri.) 1st day of school 7th grader Aug. 20 (Mon.) 1st day of school 1-6 & 8-12 grades Sept. 3 (Mon) Labor Day holiday Oct. 18-19, 2018 Fall Recess The entire 2017-18 school year calendar is available on the District website, along with other event listings. The Murray Board of Education reserves the right to alter or amend this calendar as may be necessitated by unforeseen events.

19th Annual MEF Golf Tournament: 1st Place Key Bank Team of (left to right) Ryan Martin, Tyler Blout, Jake Chang, and Tyler Cichos.

Thank you to Larry H. Miller Charities!

A $12,500 donation was presented by Kasey Webster, GM of Larry H. Miller Toyota of Murray, and Scott Harding, GM of Larry H. Miller Honda of Murray to Jeanne Habel and MCSD Superintendent Jennifer Covington. This generous contribution was used to help provide Christmas to 372 Murray students.

Website: www.murrayschools.org | Facebook: Murray School District UT The Your Murray Schools section is a Murray City School District publication, under the direction of D. Wright, MCSD communications & public information.

Mayor Blair Camp hopes to start downtown Murray’s redevelopment this year. (Shaun Delliskave/City Journals)

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ayor Blair Camp presented his first State of the City address at the Feb. 20 Murray City Council Meeting. Camp said, “Let me begin by saying the state of Murray City is strong and sound, but not without challenges.”

The Mayor paid tribute to former Mayors Ted Eyre and Lynn Pett, who both passed away in 2017. He also saluted former Chief Building Official Gilbert Gonzales, who died last August after battling cancer.

The City Council received a copy of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) prepared by the Finance Department staff. Camp credited the Finance Department’s work for a recent upgrade in the city’s bond credit rating from AA- to AA, which will save the city money on future bond payments.

In spotlighting the Parks and Recreation Department, Camp remarked that swim lessons were the city’s biggest youth program, with approximately 3,600 participants. The recreation staff offered 62 recreation programs in 2017. Daily admissions to the outdoor swimming pool totaled nearly 39,000 patrons. The new pickleball courts were opened for use in October, and the city is close to a resolution with the contractor’s bonding company to finish the lighting.

Camp noted a recent visit to the Heritage Center: “Just last week, Councilmember Dale Cox and I had the experience of leading the YMCA song with the lunchtime crowd. I’m grateful that there was no video, at least not that I’m aware of!”

He also highlighted the issuance of 445 new commercial business licenses and 144 new homebased business licenses in 2017. The total number of licensed businesses in Murray City in 2017 was 3,951, an increase of 227 from 2016. The Building Division issued 2,010 building permits in 2017, an increase of 282 over 2016.

“I am enthusiastic about developments that are happening in Murray. The expansion of Fashion Place Mall, with a number of new stores and restaurants, continues to draw shoppers from around the region.”

A popular service provided by the city is passport processing. In 2017 the City Recorder’s Office processed 4,363 new passport applications, up from 2,506 the previous year, and 460 renewals up from 63 in 2016.

“Every year there is a push from some lawmakers to limit or take away local control from cities. As a city, we must fundamentally oppose such attempts at changes to the state laws that weaken the ability of local government to make local decisions, particularly zoning and land use issues. We must also oppose the continued attempts at redistribution of sales tax dollars.”

The city will be adding bicycle lanes to 700 West, from 5400 South to Winchester Street, this coming year. The city will add sidewalks and bike lanes on east Vine Street over the next two years.

“I want to state this evening that I support a more walkable and rideable community,” Camp announced. He intends to bring the Green Bike program to Murray City, particularly around transit stops, Fashion Place Mall and Intermountain Medical Center.

The mayor also plans to roll out a Murray City Adopt-A-Street program to enable organizations, businesses and individuals to volunteer to help maintain and beautify the streets of Murray. There are also certain gateways to Murray that will be aesthetically improved.

“I am optimistic about the future of Murray City, and I hope you are too. I look forward to many changes and improvements in the coming years as we all work together.” l

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Mayor’s Message

MAYOR’S OFFICE D. Blair Camp Mayor

April is the month that is known for April Fools pranks and April showers. With the arrival of spring, most of us are emerging from our self-imposed winter “hibernation” to do outdoor activities, recreation, and yard work. Residents of all ages are enjoying walking, running and biking along the streets and trails within our city. With this increase in outdoor activity comes a caution and reminder to drive carefully and watch out for pedestrians!

In recent months we have had several children hit by vehicles in crosswalks near schools. Luckily none suffered life-threatening injuries, although at least two suffered serious injuries, including broken bones. All of these accidents were the result of inattentive driving, and the drivers were cited. Many distractions exist while driving, but according to the National Safety Council cell phones are a top distraction because so many drivers use them for long periods of time each day. I urge everyone who operates a vehicle to avoid distraction and to watch for pedestrians, runners, and bicyclists. Too many lives have been disrupted, destroyed, or lost due to preventable accidents.

April has been designated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and National Safety Council as “Distracted Driving Awareness Month.” Throughout the month, you can visit www.nhtsa.gov or www.nsc. org to learn more about what you can do to prevent automobile crashes.

in the areas served by Wasatch Front Recycling, green waste cans are available on a subscription basis for $9.50 mayor@murray.utah.gov per month (after a one-time $60.00 801-264-2600 startup fee) billed quarterly.

5025 S. State Street For residents served by Ace Disposal and billed through Murray City, Murray, Utah 84107 we encourage you to dispose of your green waste in your regular trash can, and here’s why. The Trans-Jordan Landfill, which receives the waste from Murray, has indicated that they receive more than enough green waste to meet the demand for compost and woodchips, and green waste deposited into the landfill actually helps to break down the other trash deposited there. In addition, Murray City benefits from the capture of the methane gas created by the decomposing green waste as it is used to produce electricity in a small generating plant located at Trans-Jordan, which is part of Murray City Power’s “green” portfolio. If you would like to add a can during the warm weather months, additional green waste cans are available for $8.25 per month billed on your monthly utility statement.

I’ve heard that springtime is the perfect time to “turn over a new leaf!”

I wish you all a bright and cheery April!

On another springtime topic, I often get asked why Murray City doesn’t provide cans for green waste. The answer is: we do, but maybe not in the traditional sense you are thinking about. For the residents who live

NOTE: The Mayor’s message for March was inadvertently excluded from the March edition of the Murray Journal. You can read it at http://murray.utah. gov/417/Latest-From-the-Mayor

Murray Public Works Department Spring 2018 Road Projects Murray City will be completing several roadway projects through the next several months. Crews will begin slurry sealing of roadways in May on the east side of the city. Notices will be distributed to residents before work begins. In addition to the roadway maintenance, Auburn Drive and Riverpoint Circle will be reconstructed, and 5300 South from State Street to Vine Street will be resurfaced. The City will also be reconfiguring traffic lanes on 700 West from 5400 South to 6400 South to incorporate bike lanes. Widening on Vine Street near 300 West will occur in conjunction with the new development between Commerce and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. Thank you for your patience as these projects progress.

New Improvements Planned for Vine Street Murray City is in the design stage for improvements planned on Vine Street from 900 East to 1300 East. The project design process will continue through summer and is anticipated to be under construction spring 2019. The goal for this improvement project is to provide a safe and efficient roadway that accommodates multiple modes of travel including passenger cars, pedestrians, and bicyclists, and to provide a safe walk-

If you have questions, please contact the Murray Public Works Department at 801-270-2440

ing route for children attending Woodstock Elementary School.

The Vine Street Improvement project is part of the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program, a federally funded local government project that will focus on creating a uniform corridor on this collector street. This will include providing sidewalks, bike lanes, roadway shoulders and a center turn lane. The center turn lane will improve safety by eliminating stopped or slow turning vehicles from through lanes, thus reducing the incidence of rear-end and left-turn crashes. Bike lanes will provide a safe space outside of the vehicle lanes for bicyclist travel and shoulders will allow parking outside of the travel lanes. Murray City is working to minimize the impacts to private property along the entire project area as sections will be required to allow for curb and gutter and sidewalk to be installed to meet design and safety standards.

Ahead of the street improvement work, there will be waterline and gas line work conducted along Vine Street during the summer of 2018. The City will work with the contractors to minimize impacts to traffic flow and driveway access, but delays should be expected.

For more information on the Vine Street Improvement Project contact the public information team at murrayvinest@utah.gov or call 801-946-6750.

Message from the Council Will you be ready when the next earthquake, flood, drought, or pandemic strikes?

The Murray City Council recently reviewed responsibilities when the community experiences a major disaster of this kind. What became perfectly clear is that advance self- preparedness is key! Today .... make sure that you have a 72 hour kit ready at a moment’s notice.

An extensive water supply on hand is a necessity. If you have elderly family members or pets in home, special supplies may be required.

In the event of a large scale emergency, the services of the city will quickly be overrun. For example, the Murray City Fire Department operates three ambulances. Without a disaster, these ambulances are very busy on a daily basis. If an earthquake hit the Salt Lake Valley, there could be thousands of people who need help simultaneously in the Murray area alone. It would be futile to think that all those in need would be able to get the 911 response they require in a timely manner.

The first responsibility of First Responders will be to drive pre-set routes and conduct damage assessments. Fire crews and police will report hazards and damage as they move through the city. Several target locations will be checked first, such as, hospitals and schools.

The goal is to report in status within two hours. Following that resources and manpower may be assigned to specific emergency situations. This is the reason why it is so important for people and businesses to be prepared and learn what they can do to help themselves and neighbors in case of emergency.

A new program called “Safe Neighborhoods” has been developed throughout the state. As part of this program, elementary schools become shelters for those who need housing, minor medical care, food and other support. Everyone has an elementary school

within walking distance, so this should become your destination.

If you need to locate family members, cell phone and landline phone service will be overloaded locally. You should designate an out-of-state contact person who all family can check in with. Usually in these circumstances long distance service is more reliable than local, although text messages may work well.

City council members will serve as liaiJim Brass son with residents in their districts and help District 3 to survey problem sites and assist residents with finding solutions to problems resulting from the disaster. We will visit the elementary school shelters and impacted areas to identify issues and special needs helping to connect people to the resources they require.

The city council may be called on to conduct special meetings in order to determine funding, legislation, policies, and resolutions to help manage the emergency and restore the city to “business as usual”.

The statewide 2018 Shakeout earthquake exercise will be held on April 19, 2018 at 10:15 a.m. If you would like to get involved start by registering on the 2018 Shakeout website www.shakeout.org/ utah. You can sign-up as individuals, families, schools, businesses or other groups. Here you will find articles and suggestions on how to become better prepared.

So sign up today! Be a part of changing the culture of “waiting for help” to “being prepared”. Remember on April 19th to “Drop! Cover! and Hold On!” –Jim Brass District 3 Council Member

Murray Public Works Department WATER RATE CHANGES Transition to tiered rates

Murray City has been on a Seasonal Rate Structure for many years. There is one rate for winter usage and another rate for summer usage. This seasonal rate system has been fairly successful in meeting the State of Utah’s water reduction goal to reduce our per capita usage by 25% by the year 2025.

In 2016, the Utah State Legislature passed Senate Bill 28 (SB28) entitled, “Water System Conservation Pricing.” This required all water service providers to establish a tiered rate structure for purchasing water in an effort to promote water conservation. Murray City felt it would be important to update our existing water master plan before moving forward to develop a new rate structure. Our goals were to have a rate structure that would meet the requirements of SB28 and be fair and equitable. Doing this would provide for a healthy, financially sustainable utility into the future.

On March 6, the Murray Municipal Council adopted the new rate structure on the proposed rate increases as shown in this notice.

New tier structure

Murray City bills for water consumption in units of “one hundred cubic feet” (HCF) or 748 gallons. This will not change in the new tiered rate structure. Each meter will have a base fee and an increasing rate for each block of water used.

If you are in a single family home, you will have a 3/4” - 1” meter. Multi-family and commercial properties may have anywhere between a 3/4” - 1” to an 8” meter, depending on the amount of water needed for the property.

The new structure includes a multi-year increase to help with the ever increasing costs to operate and maintain our water system. The initial water rate increase will take place on your first utility billing in April 2018. The following four increases will take place on the first utility billing in March of 2019 through 2022.

As we reviewed the water usage patterns throughout the City both for residential and non-residential users, there

MURRAY CITY COUNCIL Council District 1 Dave Nicponski 801-913-3283 dnicponski@murray.utah.gov Council District 2 Dale M. Cox 801-971-5568 dale.cox@murray.utah.gov Council District 3 Jim Brass 801-598-7290 jim.brass@murray.utah.gov Council District 4 Diane Turner 801-635-6382 diane.turner@murray.utah.gov Council District 5 Brett A. Hales 801-882-7171 brett.hales@murray.utah.gov Council Administrator Jan Lopez 801-264-2622 jlopez@murray.utah.gov

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Murray Public Works Department at 801-270-2440 were obvious patterns of over-usage which will result in some seeing more of an increase in their bills with the new structure. Yet, there are those customers who have already been doing a good job with their water conservation efforts and will see less of an increase.

We would suggest that you look at your water usage history, especially in the summer months. By doing this, you will have a greater understanding of how this block rate structure works and you will be ready to make the needed adjustments in your watering patterns as we approach the summer months.

EXAMPLE: 3/4”-1” meter with 30 units of water used: $10.00 (base fee) 10.00 Tier 1 8 (units) x $0.95 7.60 Tier 2 17 (units) x $1.15 19.55 Tier 3 5 (units) x $1.40 7.00 Total water bill $44.15

april 2018 Murray Arts Beat After-school Musicals

We still have a couple of after-school musicals to go! Schedules are as follows: Liberty – “Back to the Bandstand” Shows: April 30, 6 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

Grant – “Annie Kids” Shows: April 5-6, 7 p.m.

Resident on Display

The central display case at City Hall features original artwork from a different Murray artist each month! Our featured artists will be Janet Gwilliam in April and Marjorie Anderson in May.

Murray Winter Series

April 12-13 – MHS Dance Company in Concert, MHS, 7 p.m. $5, 3 and under free April 14 – Murray Concert Band, HJH, 7 p.m. Free April 21 – Murray City Storytelling Festival, MHS, 11 a.m. Free

2018 Arts in the Park Series

Watch for more information on our summer series, Arts in the Park! Season passes will be available at the Murray Parks Office starting in April. Passes are available for $49 for adults, $45 for seniors (age 62+), and $29 for children (12 and under).

Storytelling Festivals

The Murray City storytelling festival will be April 21, 2018, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at Murray High School. Finalists from the city competition will be invited to participate in the 3rd annual county event, Story Crossroads, on May 23.

Murray Arts in the Park auditions!

This summer’s shows will be “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (June), “Into the Woods” (July), and “Secret Garden” (August). Auditions are still upcoming for “Into the Woods” and “Secret Garden.”

Auditions for “Into the Woods “will be held April 23, 6 p.m., at the Murray High Little Theatre. The following roles are still available: The Witch (come prepared to sing the “Greens” rap all the way to “and we’ll call it square,” and 16 bars from “The Last Midnight”)

For additional information, please contact Lori Edmunds at 801-264-2620 Some actors may be cast in two roles. The first rehearsal will be May 1, with limited rehearsals focusing on music throughout May. Regular rehearsals will begin June 4. Performances will be July 26 – Aug 1 at the Murray Park Amphitheater. Directed

by Will Saxton. Questions may be emailed to him at wsaxton@ murrayschools.org or 801-433-7548.

Auditions for “Secret Garden” will be held May 15 and 17, 7-9 p.m. at the Old Fire Station at 73 W 6100 S, with callbacks May 19 by invitation only. All roles are open. Rehearsals will begin May 26. Auditioners should prepare 16-32 bars of a classical musical theater piece. Looking for auditioners age 16 and up, as well as boys who can appear 6-10, and girls who can appear 8-12. Directed by Brighton Sloan, with music direction by Alec Powell.

Secondary Art Show

Our annual Secondary Art Show, for Murray junior high and high school students, is scheduled for early May. Students, check with your teachers for due dates and submission guidelines!

Jack’s Mother (come prepared to sing 16 bars starting with “Jack Jack Jack, head in a sack…”)

Rapunzel (come prepared to sing Rapunzel’s Aria) Cinderella’s Mother (come prepared to sing her part from “Cinderella at the Grave”).

For the following, please prepare 16 bars of a musical theatre piece in the style of the show: The Giant, Granny, Cinderella’s Stepmom, Cinderella’s Father, and Sleeping Beauty. Please provide your own minus track or bring an accompanist; a piano will be available.

Murray Library Spring is in the air at the Murray Library! Here are some of our upcoming events and programs that we would love to have you attend.

On the fourth Saturday of every month come and read a story to Jack the Golden Chow as part of the “READ with a Dog” early literacy program through Intermountain Therapy Animals. From their website:

“The Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.) program improves children’s reading and communication skills by employing a powerful method: reading to an animal. But not just any animal. R.E.A.D. companions are registered therapy animals who volunteer with their owner/handlers as a team, going to schools, libraries and many other settings as reading companions for children.” Call 801-264-2587 ahead of time to schedule a session! Space is limited.

Are you or someone you know homebound and physically unable to make trips to the library? If you are incapable of transporting yourself but still want to check out books, audiobooks, and music, please sign up for our Homebound Outreach Services. The entire application process can be done over the phone; just let us know what your favorite genres are, what authors you have enjoyed reading, what your interests are, what type of content to avoid, and any other details you feel we should know. To apply, please call Marilyn at the Murray Library 801-264-2580 ext. 2576.

On Saturday, April 14, we will be having a Fairy Tale Festival.

This event is a fun-for-all-ages family program. Come and enjoy pictures, crafts, games, a special story time, and an appearance from a knight in shining armor and a fairy tale princess!

All of these events are free and open to the public and do not require tickets or registration.

Monday - Thursday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Friday & Saturday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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Heritage Center UPCOMING EVENTS: The Heritage Walking Club

Get fit and have fun with the Heritage Walking Club! The benefits of walking include improved cardio fitness, lower blood pressure and slowing the aging process. We will kick off the club with a group walk on Friday, April 20 at 9 a.m. in the Grant Park pavilion. We have invited local running/walking expert Rebecca Gibbs to talk to our group about proper clothing, footwear, warmup and technique to get you started. We will also supply walking routes and tips. Cost of the program is $7, and all participants will receive a t-shirt and pedometer to track your progress.

Register now and start walking for fitness.

Musicals Galore at Tuachan –Sponsored by the Heritage Center June 4 - 7, 2018 DATE: Departs from the Heritage Center on Monday, June 4 at 10 a.m. and returns on Thursday, June 7 at 4 p.m.

REGISTRATION: Reserve a spot starting on Wednesday, March 28. A $50 deposit will hold your spot until May 1 when final payment is due. Payment may be made over the phone with a credit card.

TRIP PACKAGE INCLUDES: Transportation on a chartered bus (driver tips not included) Three nights at the Casa Blanca Hotel in Mesquite Box lunch provided on route (Cove Fort) Three breakfasts and one buffet dinner at Casa Blanca (meal card) Side trip to Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Two pre-show dinners at Tuachan, tickets for “Cinderella” & “Matilda the Musical” COST: $375 per person (double occupancy) • $450 single CANCELLATION POLICY: Full payment is due May 1. After that time, refunds will be given if the seat can be sold or a partial refund may be given if the hotel and Tuachan agree to any refund.

2018 GOLF LEAGUE

The Heritage Center’s Golf League will begin this year with a general meeting of all interested players on Monday, April 9 at 10:30 a.m. at the Heritage Center. During this meeting the schedule will be reviewed and local rules for the season outlined. Golf tournaments are for those 55+ who have attained a basic level of golf skill which will allow them to compete in 18 holes of play at a pace comparable to the 100+ players who will participate in each tournament.

Fees for each tournament include green fees, electric cart, and prizes. A onetime initial sign-up fee of $7 is to be paid in addition to the registration fee for the first tournament played. All tournament fees must be paid at least 10 days before the tournament.

2018 SEASON SCHEDULE April 30 9:00am Lakeside May 14 8:30am Valley View* May 21 8:30am The Ridge June 4

8:00am Murray

June 18 8:00am Mountain Dell June 25 8:00am Wasatch July 16

7:30am Glenmoor

July 30

8:00am Round Valley*

Aug.13

7:30am Davis Park

Aug. 27 7:30am Riverbend Sept. 17 8:00am Talons Cove Sept. 24 8:30am Meadowbrook Oct. 8

5:00pm Year End Banquet

*Scramble

#10 East 6150 South (one block west of State Street) For information on these and other great Heritage Center programs call 801-264-2635

Come Join Murray City Arbor Day & Earth Day Celebration Friday, May 4 Opening Ceremonies at noon Educational Sessions from 1-3 p.m.

Murray Park Amphitheater 495 East 5300 South • Murray, Utah For more information about Murray’s tree program or this year’s celebration call Murray City Power at 801-264-2730 or visit online at www.murray.utah.gov

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City Hall has familiar face taking on new Chief Administrative Officer role

By Shaun Delliskave | s.delliskave@mycityjournals.com

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ith the changes going on at Murray City Hall this year, a familiar face is taking on a new role as Chief Administrative Officer. Mayor Blair Camp tapped Director of Public Works Doug Hill to fill the new position.

With Hill’s reassignment, Camp appointed Danny Astill to become director of Public Works and Kim Sorenson to be Parks and Recreation Director. Camp joked at the January 16 city council meeting, “How many people does it take to replace Doug Hill?”

This isn’t the first time that a mayor of Murray has brought a leader from the Parks and Recreation Department to work in a similar role. When Mayor Lynn Pett was elected, he brought in Park Commissioner Jack DeMann, and the two of them collaborated to create the Jordan River Parkway, cleanup the old ASARCO smelter site and develop the Murray Parkway Golf Course.

If Camp is modeling his mayoral ambitions like Pett’s, then he and Hill have a rolling start with Murray City Center District beginning to take shape. Several other areas are also eyed for development, such as the Ore Sampling Mill area.

The Murray Journal spoke with Hill about his new appointment and what he plans to do in Murray this year.

Q: What is the role of Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and how is that different from deputy mayor?

A: Many cities, including Murray City, have used the title of Chief Administrative Officer, Deputy Mayor, and Chief of Staff interchangeably. Mayor Camp and I thought the title of Chief Administrative Officer fit this role best. My responsibilities include assisting the mayor with the day-to-day operations of the city.

Q: What is the hardest thing about transitioning to the CAO? A: During my 25-plus years with Murray City, I have overseen the Public Works, Parks and Recreation, Community Development, and Economic Development Departments. This change will allow me to work closer with other departments and operations of the city, including Public Safety, Power, and Administrative Services.

Q: What has been the biggest thing you have been involved with as Public Works director? What was the result?

A: Several significant public projects I was involved with include the planning, construction and management of the Jordan River Parkway, the Park Center, Willow Pond Park, Cottonwood Street overpass, and the canal trail.

Q: What new initiatives or programs are you seeking to do while CAO? A: I see my role as helping the mayor and city council accomplish their goals. At the same time, I hope to promote transparency, efficiency, public involvement and friendly city services.

Q: Who has been a big influence or mentor in your life and why?

A: I am fortunate to have worked with several great mayors including Lynn Pett, Dan Snarr, Ted Eyre and Blair Camp. Lynn Pett hired me right out of college and was a mentor to me during our association. Although all of Murray’s mayors have different viewpoints and styles, I am impressed with their willingness to serve the community and do what they think best for Murray and its citizens and businesses.

Q: What special hobbies or pastimes do you like to be involved

Begin each day with a little spring in your step.

Chewy would love to find a new home where he can relax and be loved. He wants to be in a home where he can smell the flowers, see the birds and get head scratches. Chewy is a neutered male and is approximately 8 years old. If you think Chewy could be your new cuddle bug, come on over to the Murray City Animal Shelter during normal business hours to meet this handsome boy.

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Murray Chief Administrative Officer Doug Hill has over 25 years working in Murray Public Works. (Photo courtesy of Murray City)

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n the 1850s, the first artesian well in Murray was dug by Gottlieb Berger. That simple little well would eventually become the start of a vast network of pipelines that presently handles billions of gallons of water yearly. Danny Astill, the man overseeing Murray’s waterworks for the last two decades, is taking on a new role, having been appointed director of Public Works

by Mayor Blair Camp.

Astill, who had been serving as water superintendent, began working in the field of water and wastewater in 1979.

“I needed a job and had an opportunity to work for a local improvement district. As I worked there, I came to see and understand the value of the services we were providing for the community and decided that this is what I needed to concentrate on going forward in my life,” said Astill.

In 1994, Astill was invited to interview with Murray City for the position of water superintendent, and he began working for the city in April of that year. His responsibilities included managing both the Water and Wastewater divisions in the city. At that time, Murray City had 18 culinary water wells and seven springs, with about 185 miles of transmission and distribution water lines transporting an average of about 2.85 billion gallons of water annually. The Wastewater Division had about 125 miles of sewer lines and four sewer lift stations that conveyed about 1.45 billion gallons of water to the Central Valley treatment facility each year.

Taking over for Doug Hill, who has been appointed the role of the city’s chief administrative officer, Astill is strictly business. “I have been inspired by several mayors and numerous council members and city department directors of how much can be accomplished through an attitude of cooperation.

“I have been involved in many big projects that sometimes would take quite a while to construct and may have cost millions of dollars, but sometimes we all forget about everyday things that we often take for granted; we just expect things,” reflected Astill.

“There are so many things that Murray City Public Works Department does, and they are done so well that we become complacent,” Astill said.

“When we get up in the morning and expect that water will be there when we turn on our taps; when we flush the toilet we know that it will not back up in our basements and will go somewhere to be treated; when we open our garage and head to work, we know that the snow has been cleared and roadways are passable and safe; and we can expect our garbage to be picked up.”

Astill keeps it all in perspective, however. “Of course, providing the many services is not without its challenges, with ever-changing regulations, changing weather patterns, escalating costs, and retaining a well-trained staff always provides a level of concern, yet I am very optimistic that we can continue to provide exceptional services and accomplish great things in the future.”

He notes that in the last 23 years he has been involved in countless public works projects, including numerous water, sewer, and storm-water line replacement projects, road rebuilding, waterwell drilling and rehabilitation and culinary water reservoir construction.

Former Director Doug Hill endorsed Astill saying, “As Murray City’s former water superintendent for almost 25 years, Danny brings significant knowledge of public works to the city.

The citizens will continue to benefit from excellent water quality, transportation improvements, street maintenance, waste collection and other public works services.” l

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McMillan students explore STEM questions

By Julie Slama | Julie@mycityjournals.com

McMillan STEM fair winners were announced before the students had a chance to explore STEM activities.

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hich flower absorbs the most amount of water? Do kids or adults have a quicker reaction time? How tall do I sound?

These and other questions, McMillan Elementary student-scientists explored as part of their STEM fair, which was on display during the interactive STEM night activities.

“We invited all the students from kindergarten to sixth-grade to participate,” said McMillan STEM coordinator Kristen McRae, who said that 130 students took the opportunity to display 118 projects. “Quite a few of our younger students want to do it because it’s fun and presented their projects to judges.”

Those students, she said, received feedback from area judges so when they reach the upper grades, they can compete for spots to advance to the University of Utah Science and Engineering Regional Fair.

Third-grader Lily Matsumori was one of those students. She questioned what the effect of color had on the taste of food and drinks.

“I wanted to know if when our eyes see the color of the food, if it effects what we think and sends signals to the brain how the food will taste,” she said. “I thought it would.”

To test her hypothesis, Lily used red and green food coloring to change the color of apple juice. Twenty people tasted both colored drinks and while all agreed the drink was a juice, the majority of testers thought the two drinks were different, with the red-colored apple juice more sweet and the green-colored, more tart.

“I proved my hypothesis that the color does affect the taste of food and the testers were tricked into thinking the juices were different. I know some companies that make and sell food add coloring to their products to make them more appealing, but I’d like to further my experiment with other colors like purple and black to see what kinds of messages our eyes will send to our brains about those,” she said.

Through the experiment, Lily said she prepared talking points and learned how to speak to

judges to convey her message. After showing her dad, Dustin, her STEM board, she wanted to check out the activities, including an opportunity to learn how to estimate the number of jellybeans in a jar.

Lily and other STEM night participants could rotate through 14 stations from learning about the Dromida desert truck and how motion-capture technology is used to make video games to blasting off a paper rocket they designed or creating fog with simple household products.

STEM night started at McMillan after sixth-grade teacher Rebecca Elder won the 2013 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and formed the idea of an interactive night after getting ideas from meeting others across the country as well as at the National Science Foundation.

“The idea is to have fun, hands-on activities that engage students and get them excited and wanting to learn more,” she said. “We want them to gain an appreciation for STEM, especially girls, so they learn that science is attainable and see that they have a love for it.”

As a side bonus, fourth-grade teacher Jessica DeMann said that many families offer demonstrations that tie into their careers.

“It’s fun to get parents involved in the activities as well as have families come try them out. We hope that they will carry over into their homes and they’ll try more there,” she said.

Along with parents who work in the community, several teachers researched projects online or got ideas from the STEM Action Center that students could try at the STEM night.

Fourth-grader McKenna Heath, who was with her dad, Bryan, said she was excited to see all the STEM boards, awards and the presentations in the rooms.

“I like science,” she said. “I like to see different things and figure out how they work.”

Fifteen fourth- through sixth-grade students were honored with STEM awards, with the fifthand sixth-grade award of excellence students advancing to the regional elementary fair slated for March 21.

The winners include fourth-graders award of excellence recipients Baron Collette, Molly Bytheway and Asher Godfrey and award of merit winners Erika Berge and Gavin Wignall. The fifth-grade award of excellence winners are Grace McRae, Reba Sutherland and Ava Hansen and the award of merit recipients are Trinity Christensen and Porter Liebert. The sixth-grade award of excellence winners are Maxwell Staley, Auriah Evans and Alex Huggard and the award of merit recipients are Micah McBride and Alyssa Harlin.

“The students get so excited when this comes around each year. It has a positive feel when they realize, ‘Oh, I can do this,’” McRae said. “Some students excel at athletics, others at academics, Reflections, spelling and writing; this gives others a chance to shine in STEM. And for all of the students, they realize it’s fun to explore, question and learn the answers to ‘why?’ and ‘how?’” l

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Murray High student-artists honored at Capitol

By Julie Slama | Julie@mycityjournals.com All-State High School Art Show, a juried art show that reviews original artwork developed from personal experience, imagination or direct observation or adapted concepts developed from other sources using multiple elements or photos with personal interpretation to create a new perception.

Her entry was a 36-inch by 40-inch oil painting of her 11-yearold sister, Anna, riding the tram at Snowbird.

“She’s looking out the window and you can see her face reflected in the window, but also the green of the canyon she’s looking at while riding the tram,” Elise said. “I was videoing and liked the way it looked so I took a screen shot of her to paint.”

Elise was presented with the fourth congressional district honorable mention award, which includes a cash prize, by a representative of Congresswoman Mia Love’s office. Her piece also was selected to be in a traveling show around Utah after the Springville show was set to close March 23.

“I worked on it for about two months,” she said, estimating it was about 90 minutes every other day. “My sister is really excited, but she still hasn’t seen it so we’ll have to take her to see it in the museum. It’s really exciting to have my artwork validated and be shown in a gallery. It’s a real confidence boost.”

Murray High senior Elise Finlinson’s award-winning “Reflections of Youth” This was the second time Elise’s artwork has been featured in is on display at the 46th annual Utah All-State High School Art Show. (Elise the Springville art show. Last year, she had an oil painting, “Jack in Finlinson/Murray High) Threes,” displayed. wo Murray High students recently were honored for their Elise said that before entering it into the show, both times she artwork of family members at the state Capitol. and other students gave them to their art teachers to review. Then, State legislators and others applauded seniors Elise Finlinson they selected the ones to advance to the show for judges there to and Jeb Price in February as both received outstanding art awards select ones for the show. along with other area high school artists.

“I’ve taken art classes since I was 14 and my focus is to develop Elise submitted “Reflections of Youth” in the 46th annual Utah skills so I can make a career out of it. I think art is an expression of

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self. I like to look at something regular, mundane and see something beautiful and draw people’s eyes toward it. Art gives me a release, an expression, a purpose. If I’m not creating, I’m not being productive,” she said.

Her classmate, Jeb Price, received sixth-place award and $500 in the annual Utah Senate Visual Arts Competition. His artwork currently is being shown in the capitol.

Sponsored by Utah Senate President Wayne Niederhauser and administered by the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, this year’s winners reflected the theme, “The People of Utah.”

Jeb’s artwork was a stipple of his grandfather, LaMarr Hutchison, who worked 19 years as a bailiff for the Utah court system and had served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. “I wrote a description about him, what he did and how he impacted so many people,” Jeb said about his late grandfather. “He had a tough sense of humor, but was really kind inside.”

Jeb, who spent about three weeks creating the dotted artwork, said he will give the piece to his grandmother once it returns home from both the Capitol and from being displayed at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center.

“It took a lot more time because it had to be precise with adding values and depths, creating shadows, a darker outline,” he said.

Although Jeb hopes to pursue a career in construction management, he will continue to “doodle” and may look into architecture.

He said more than 300 high school students competed for the award.

“Finding out that I was accepted and won an award was sweet.

I didn’t see it coming,” Jeb said. “I was on the senate floor and shook hands with the legislators. That’s pretty cool.” l

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Horizon students meet Utah leaders at Capitol

By Julie Slama | Julie@mycityjournals.com

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After Horizon students meet Gov. Gary Herbert, they pose by his cardboard cut-out in the state capitol. (Merissa Graves/Horizon Elementary)

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ixth-grader Curtis Sandstrom jumped at the chance to attend Parent-Teacher-Student Association Day at the capitol when it was offered to him.

“I want to join the military and fight for our country so I want to learn about the country’s laws and rules so I know how to protect us,” Curtis said, adding that his uncle served as an Air Force lieutenant colonel and his grandfather was a master sergeant in the Army.

Through a day of planned activities—from observing the representatives and senators in action to exploring statues on the grounds—Curtis realized from Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox speaking to 318 participants on Feb. 7 that he can be involved in the government now, that he doesn’t have to wait until he’s older.

“Lieutenant Governor Cox talked about how often questions are taken to the government and what is being done to address some of the concerns now, like cyberbullying,” Curtis said. “He said that being in government isn’t always easy, but it’s up to the next generation to get involved to help shape our nation’s future. He said that if there are problems I’m concerned about, I could write my representative.”

Curtis said he’s thinking of writing his representative, asking, “What can we do to make life better for the president and ourselves?”

“I have an idea. If he (the president) could go out in random cities to see what is going on, then he’d have a general idea of what is happening. Right now, it’s like the game telephone where the message starts right, but it ends up being all wrong. If he went out for himself, it won’t get screwed up and people would respect him for that,” he said.

Cox said that he wanted students to realize how important the 45-day legislative session is to students.

“It impacts their lives, and I hope they get involved,” he said.

“I want them to meet their legislators and talk to them about big issues and share their ideas. Few people actually talk to legislators, especially students, and this is their opportunity to make an impact on their world and future.”

Curtis, who said touring the Capitol also worked toward the Boy Scout Duty to Your Country merit badge, also participated in a mock debate about whether cell phones should be allowed to be used at school.

“I said, ‘yes,’ so students could call 911 in case the teacher phone is unavailable,” he said.

Utah PTA Student Involvement Commissioner Betty Shaw said that through the debate, conducted by state auditor John Dougall and Rep. Ryan Wilcox, students were learning both sides of the issue.

“We want students to gain a better perspective and be able to see both sides to every issue; they may learn something from the other side instead of just seeing their side,” Shaw said. “We want to get the kids to understand what goes on (at the Capitol), how laws are enacted or changed and how it affects them. We want them to start having conversations about current issues so they can get involved.”

Shaw, who said she had no idea about her state’s government while growing up, said she hoped students got “a flavor of what is going on and see part of their history.”

“They’re our future so they need to see the process and how it works. It would be great to see them get involved in issues they have concerns about, if not at the capitol then locally with their school board or local district agencies and city councils,” she said.

Curtis wasn’t the only student who has recently visited the capitol.

Rep. Bruce Cutler, who represents District 44, which includes Murray, invited about 100 Horizon fifth-graders to tour the Capitol.

While expecting a routine tour, some fifth-graders got a surprise—a firsthand meeting with the state governor, Gary Herbert.

“We were touring the governor’s office when he walked out on the way to a conference,” fifth-grade teacher Merissa Graves said.

“He gave the kids some high fives, a couple handshakes and talked to the kids as he walked by. Our tour guide said that it’s rare to see him, so we were really lucky.”

Graves said that she was taken aback by actually meeting the governor, that she didn’t have time to get her camera ready. Instead, they posed next to the cardboard cut-out of him and Lt. Gov. Cox to remember the encounter.

“It’s something we will all remember, so when we come to our government unit, the experience will stand out,” she said. “We didn’t see his press conference, but we did see all the cameras set up for it in the Gold Room.”

Their tour also included watching representatives and senators on the floor discussing current bills, having a mock trial in the Supreme Court and learning the process of a bill passing into a law.

The students also learned about the discussion involving exchanging the statue of Philo T. Farnsworth in the Capitol in Washington, D.C. with one of Mary Hughes Cannon, which at press deadline, was currently on the governor’s desk for consideration.

“The day made it come alive for the students and they realize there’s people up there representing them and their concerns,” Graves said. l

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Hillcrest Junior High’s English teacher Amanda Halverson is surprised when she learns she will receive Murray Education Foundation’s Pinnacle award as an outstanding educator. (D Wright/Murray School District)

Murray Education Foundation will honor five teachers, a classified employee and a volunteer at its 15th annual Pinnacle Awards.

In addition, Liberty Elementary Principal Jill Burnside recently was recognized as the Utah Instructional Leader of the Year and two teachers were honored with the Laura Baker Professional Learning Grant.

The seven Pinnacle award-winners were slated to receive a statuette, $500 and a gift basket of items from area community and business leaders at the invited-guest gala on March 15 at Murray High.

The Pinnacle award-winning teachers include Issachar Beh, a Murray High English and Englishas-a-second language teacher who has taught at the district for 16 years; Shalice Benedum, Liberty Elementary’s sixth-grade teacher who has taught in the district for 12 years; Ellie Ferrero, Liberty Elementary’s fifth-grade teacher who has taught in the district for 25 years; Amanda Halverson, Hillcrest Junior High’s English teacher for five years; and Rochelle McGowan, Riverview Junior High’s math teacher for 10 years.

The Pinnacle classified employee winner is Sarah Buck, who has been the Spartan Station manager at Murray High for eight years and the outstanding volunteer is Hillcrest Junior High’s Cheree Larson.

Benedum was caught off guard when a group from the school district’s office and the Murray Education Foundation came to congratulate her.

“I really don’t know who nominated me,” she said. “It was a total surprise; they showed up in my classroom and my family was there. I feel honored to be recognized. I love my job and my kiddos.”

Her principal, Jill Burnside, said that Benedum and Ferrero are examples of the quality teachers at Liberty.

“We have amazing, hard-working teachers at Liberty,” she said, adding they celebrated as a staff and faculty with a cake. “We are a small, older school, but we have the best community with topnotch teachers.”

Burnside, herself, recently received an award—the Elementary Instructional Leader of the Year by the Utah Association of Elementary School Principals—in February.

“It’s pretty humbling when there are so many elementary principals who are great in the field and I’m just in my third year and am already being

recognized,” she said.

Burnside, who was a teacher for five years and a reading specialist for 10 years before working at the district office prior to becoming a principal, said her nomination pointed out how her school has moved from a “B” grade to an “A” with the statewide report card as well as increased statewide SAGE scores during the two years she has been principal.

“I have dedicated teachers and together, we look at our students and the interventions we are using to determine a more effective way. We’re working smarter with the data we have so we can target everything we do. We’ve becoming a collaborative, cohesive staff and together we have one purpose—for our kids to move forward together,” she said.

Murray District’s Director of Teaching and Learning Melissa Hamilton, who nominated Burnside, said she reaches to the community to support the student recognition program as well as to support families in need. Burnside also took a team of teachers to trainings, and in turn, allowed them to take the lead in developing and refining the collaboration efforts at the school.

Even with the focus on school-wide achievement goals, the nomination said Liberty maintains a friendly atmosphere.

“The school is a warm, welcome, inviting space where teachers are positive and feel empowered, students are celebrated for their progress toward their personal goals and parents are invested in the school’s outcomes,” it stated.

Two secondary teachers, Murray High School English teacher Jennie LaFortune and Riverview Junior High computer science teacher Patti McConnell, recently were selected as Laura Baker Professional Learning Grant winners.

The Laura Baker Grant is awarded yearly to two teachers seeking to make professional learning a priority in their careers. After reviewing applications, the Murray District Teaching and Learning team chooses those that specifically focus on strengthening instructional strategies and have a positive impact on student learning.

LaFortune was slated to participate in the South By Southwest (SXSW) Educators Conference March 5-8 in Austin, Texas, and McConnell was to attend the Google Workshop at Computer-Using Educators Conference March 1417 in Palm Springs, Calif. l

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Students join nationwide protest, many focus on kindness

By Julie Slama, Justin Adams, Lori Gillespie and Travis Barton

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cross the country students made their voices heard on March 14, one month after the school shooting at a Parkland, Florida high school. They honored the 17 victims with tearful moments of silence, they protested gun laws and pledged kindness to their peers. Salt Lake County was no different as schools around the valley participated with walkouts and “walk ups.”

Murray “I’m scared at school and I hear that from my friends as well,” said Academy of Math, Engineering and Science junior Grace Wason.

“I don’t think fear should be in a place of learning.”

About 150 students, most wearing black in mourning, lined 1300 East near the Murray school. They held signs showing each victim and chanted, “Books not bullets; no more silence. We are change.”

During the walkout, Grace recited names of each victim, then added: “These are only 17 of the 75-plus students we are mourning today. We do this in solidarity not only with lost victims, but also their mourning friends and families. This has gone too far.”

Grace participated in a routine school lockdown earlier in the week. “It was daunting,” she said. “I was working on the posters and saw them on my desk as I hid in the corner and thought, this is the exact thing those Florida students went through only they had someone with a gun come in their door.”

Students, many who planned to take part in the “March for Our Lives” rally at the Capitol March 24, also signed up to vote as leaders organized voting registration as well as planned to hold a letter-writing campaign to Congress.

Murray Board of Education Vice President Kami Anderson said Murray School District allowed students from Murray High, Hillcrest Junior High and Riverview Junior High the opportunity to walkout.

“As a school district, we wanted to facilitate the conversation between students and parents about what the walkout means and why or why not participate and provide a safe place for them,” she said.

“We need to allow students to make the choices for themselves.”

Murray High student body president Kate Spackman said student government ushered the student-organized walkout to the school plaza, which had about 250 students participate.

“Some students stood up and spoke out; we paid our respects to the victims,” Kate said. “I felt the kids who walked out for the right reasons supported the victims and it was awesome. For the kids who walked out to miss school, I hope they realize what this is all about and the importance of it.”

Kate and other student government leaders organized “17 days of kindness of positivity.” Suggestions include to make a new friend, smile at 17 people, post a picture on social media “NeverAgain” in support and write to Gov. Gary Herbert and the legislature.

“We wanted to do something that will make a difference immediately in kids’ lives,” she said.

Cottonwood Heights Brighton student government also will hold a kindness campaign to create a more welcoming environment, said Principal Tom Sherwood after about 500 students participated in the student-led walkout.

“I believe if students want to make a statement about changes to protest future lives, they have a right,” he said. “Students for generations have used civil disobedience in the community or country to stand up for what they believe is not right — and they still do.”

Students, who gathered in the football stand, were silent for 17 minutes as the names of victims were held up and read out loud.

Student leaders also urged students to use their voice — “we can’t let kids our age die in vain,” to vote and to write to their representatives.

Afterward, two juniors — Evelyn Compagno and Lilly Olpin — lingered.

“I’m so glad we raised awareness for such a horrible thing,” said Evelyn, adding that she had friends who survived the Las Vegas shooting. “Those kids were murdered for no reason.”

The future of the country is being impacted as well, Lilly said.

“You never know the potential those children had. They could

have been someone great, like the next Isaac Newton,” she said.

Community members and Jim and Bonnie Despain came with their signs supporting the students.

Jim Despain, who once hunted rabbits, said that he has wanted better gun control for years. Bonnie is a retired Ridgecrest Elementary schoolteacher and remembers faculty discussing the best course of action after the Columbine and Sandy Hook shootings.

“It’s taking the kids across the nation to say enough and get the movement going on this,” she said.

Utah State Rep. Marie Poulson, who taught English in the south end of the valley, agreed and supported students who participated.

“I’m so proud of the courage, how they came out and spoke up,” she said. “It’s taking our young people’s activism to come out to remind us to look at it and make changes. Kids should have the right to feel safe at school.”

Poulson said she recalled how the Columbine shooting terrorized both students and teachers and puzzled them about what they could do to make schools safer. Since then, she said phones and panic buttons have been installed in classrooms.

“And we’re still discussing it now, but I’m hoping these students caught the attention of other officials and have embarrassed them to do more,” Poulson said. “We don’t want schools to become an armed camp, but we want our students to be safe. We’ve called a school safety commission and if they can find a way to make a difference, we’ll call a special session (at the legislature) and I hope they do.”

Sugar House Students from Highland High School and the Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts congregated on the Highland football field where they linked arms and sang the Highland school song. Highland principal Chris Jenson estimated they had 1,200 students walk out.

“The kids that did walk out, it was really nice to see them make a peaceful statement,” Jenson said.

Ermiya Fanaeian organized the student protest—which also included voter registration booths—at Highland having grown tired of the mass shootings that have transpired over the last decade.

“I am sick and tired of American schools being the new American battleground,” she said, adding the protest serves as a “call to action” for Congress and state legislators to limit access to weapons that put student safety at risk.

“It is important that we express our dissent, it is important that we stay pugnacious to the change that we want to expedite.”

Kearns Kearns Jr. High focused its energies on what principal Scott Bell hoped would be a “positive direction” rather than getting into the political aspect.

The school’s “walk up” concentrated its attention on supporting school kindness and safety, standing united against school violence and honoring the 17 Parkland shooting victims.

“My hope was there would be a uniting activity for us as a school and I think it exceeded my hopes. It really turned out just awesome,” Bell said.

Before exiting the school, a student-made video was played with students requesting those watching to stand against school violence and pledge to do 17 acts of kindness. On the lawn outside, students and faculty held a moment of silence for two minutes, 14 seconds (the date of the tragedy 2/14).

Once students returned to class they were given a KJH Cares card with 14 suggested acts of kindness and three blank lines for them to come up their own ideas.

“We’re giving a challenge to our students over the next month to do 17 acts of kindness for others and to use the #KJHCares to share their acts of kindness on social media,” Bell said.

Bell was impressed with his students saying they struck the right tone of respect and solemnity.

“One thing I didn’t count on was the level of emotion it had for some students,” he said. “We had some of our students and staff be a little emotional about it. There was a real connection with what we

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About 250 Murray High students participate in the nationwide walkout.

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were doing.”

Holladay At Churchill Jr. High, Principal Josh LeRoy estimated that 80 percent of the student body joined the nationwide walkout.

The administration took a hands-off approach to the demonstration, letting student leaders organize it themselves. They did notify the PTSA so that parents were aware of the walkout, many of whom attended to show solidarity for their children.

The students formed a large circle and had a moment of silence to honor the victims of recent school shootings. Afterward, some of the student organizers spoke through a megaphone about the need for more gun control and more kindness between students, noting that many of those who carry out school shootings were previously victims of bullying.

One of those students, Lydia Timms, said that the opinion and activism of students across the country shouldn’t be discounted just because of their age. “Just because we’re young doesn’t mean that we can’t be patriotic,” she said.

Following the demonstration, the majority of students promptly walked back into the building to return to class.

LeRoy said he was impressed with the behavior of the students throughout the demonstration. “For most of these students, this was their first experience in civic engagement so we wanted to make sure that it went well,” he said.

Eric Holley, one of the parents who attended, said that he thought it was a valuable experience for his daughter. “Something like this works for these kids on their level,” he said.

Midvale and South Jordan While several Canyons School District schools had student walkouts, Midvale Middle students not only participated March 14, but also on Feb. 23 when 400 students participated in a spontaneous demonstration, said spokesman Jeff Haney, who added as long as students returned to class after the walkout, they were not marked tardy or absent.

Jordan School District spokeswoman Sandra Riesgraf said that students who walked out were asked to check out, but they were marked truant, according to district policy.

“It doesn’t stay on their record,” she said, adding that they could make it up with an hour of homework time. “Some didn’t check out because they thought it best expressed their civil disobedience. We just want to know where our students are, for their safety.”

At Bingham High, where students also are participating in acts of kindness, Riesgraf said that about 75 students lead a peaceful and respectful walkout by the street.

“We fully support students exercising their free speech and peaceful discussion,” she said. l

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AISU closer to having own athletic facility following school’s fundraising gala

By Carl Fauver | carlf@mycityjournals.com

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here’s never a good time to become homeless. But Christmas time may be the worst, whether you’re a man, woman, child…or basketball team. Make that two basketball teams.

“Since we don’t have full size indoor athletic facilities here (at American International School of Utah, or AISU) we’ve had to play our ‘home games’ at Sports World Event Center (750 S. 4400 West),” said the school’s new athletic director and boys basketball coach Mike Ashton. “That’s a long way from our campus (4998 S. 360 West), but at least we had a place. Then over our holiday break, the event center closed. The teams were homeless, with almost no warning.”

After limping through the end of their boys and girls basketball seasons, the AISU athletic department decided to do what many of the homeless do. They asked for donations.

“Last year we raised nearly $20,000 at our first-ever fundraising gala,” said AISU Elementary Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) President Jamie Adamson. “This year we decided our second annual gala should benefit the athletic department.”

Specifically, the AISU Dragons want a regulation-size athletic facility with hardwood courts, spectator bleachers, locker rooms, showers and all the other things virtually every high school athletic department in Utah takes for granted.

“Ultimately our goal is to move from our charter school athletic leagues (operated by the Utah Schools Sports Association, or USSA) to the ‘regular’ high school leagues,” Ashton added.

Those would be the sports regions operated by the much more familiar Utah High School Activities Association (UHSAA). But to swim in that pond, AISU must have its own, regulation indoor athletic facility, with all the bells and whistles the UHSAA deems necessary.

With that goal in mind, student athletes, AISU performance groups, administrators and parents gathered for the school’s “All that Jazz” annual gala. With tickets at $50 per couple and $35 for individuals – along with a number of auction items – the event

generated nearly $10,000. Tickets to the Hale Centre Theatre and a Gastronomy gift card fetched the biggest single bid, at $190.

“That’s quite a bit less than what we raised last year for the playground equipment,” Adamson added. “But we had a corporate sponsor that matched us dollar-for-dollar last year. We couldn’t find that kind of sponsor this year so what we did raise is a good start toward an athletic facility.”

At least one celebrity athlete was on hand—Real Salt Lake MLS soccer team’s two-time defensive player of the year Justen Glad attended the gala, providing an autographed jersey for auction. Glad has been associated with RSL since 2012 and, in a roundabout way, that turned him into an American International School of Utah graduate.

“I attended AISU my senior year (2014-15), after moving up here from Arizona,” Glad said. “I had been a part of the RSL Arizona Academy. Both my parents accepted jobs at AISU and the school was a good fit with my (soccer) schedule because it offered flexible hours and online classes.”

Glad attended AISU before the Dragons actually had a soccer team. Still, in honor of his RSL success, the school retired his jersey—No. 15—as part of the gala celebration.

“The gala was my first time back to the school since graduating,” Glad added. “I saw a couple of the teachers I knew and some administrators. It was a cool event and I think it’s awesome they want to build this (athletic facility). Every kid should have a place to participate in high school sports.”

Another group of celebrities at the gala were members of AISU’s two-time state champion ballroom dance team, along with the school’s jazz band and the world-renowned Salt Lake-based Kenshin Taiko Drummers.

“The gala was a big success,” Ashton said. A former collegiate athlete himself (a pole vaulter at Utah Valley University), Ashton agrees with Glad that providing the proper athletic facilities for AISU athletes is critical.

RSL soccer star Justen Glad autographs his jersey before it’s auctioned to benefit AISU athletics. (Jamie Adamson)

“We don’t have firm cost estimates yet for the athletic facility,” Ashton added. “But we do hope to break ground on it before the end of this year.”

However, until the new basketball rims have nets – and the new showerheads have water – AISU’s indoor sports teams will remain “homeless” for at least another winter or two.

“We’re already looking for places to play our ‘home’ volleyball and basketball games,” Ashton concluded. “But it will also be nice when the kids and coaches can see the new facility being built.” l

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Murray hockey places second, but several players advance to national finals with their comp team

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he Murray High School club hockey team advanced to their state championship game again this winter, for the third straight year. But just as they did in 2016, the Viewmont Vikings defeated the Spartans for the title.

In between those two second place finishes, a year ago, Murray put Viewmont out in the semifinals, and claimed their first state hockey title in 17 years, with a win over Park City.

But Viewmont got revenge this season, three times over.

“We only lost three games this year, all to Viewmont,” said third-year Spartans head coach Tim Hale. “We finished the season 18-3, losing to (the Vikings) once in the regular season, and twice in the playoffs.”

The final score of the championship game was 5-2. But Hale said it was a little closer than that.

“We scored with about eight minutes left to make it 3-2,” the coach said. “But then they scored a little later…and their final goal was an empty-netter, after we pulled our goalie.”

The loss means the Murray hockey club will not return to the national finals, where they went a year ago. And the majority of the team will never pull on a Murray Spartan jersey again.

“Nine of our 16 players are seniors,” Hale added. “Next year is going to be a real challenge. The league may even drop us down to a lower division because we will be so young.”

However, the majority of those seniors still went out as state champions. Just days after losing the high school championship, five of the nine Murray 12th-graders swept two games from Park City to claim their competition team championship. On that team, the top Murray and Viewmont hockey players are teammates, rather than rivals.

It seems the Utah hockey world can be a small place at times.

“Our comp team is called the Golden Eagles, after the (Salt Lake) professional team we had before they moved and the Grizzlies came in,” said one of those Murray seniors, Hale’s son, Dillon. “Five of us seniors from the high school team are on the comp team, along with one junior.”

And on the Golden Eagles team, five of the Murray players’ teammates were on the Viewmont team that beat them for the high school title.

With those players – and a couple of others – teaming up, the Eagles swept a pair of games from the Park City comp team, to earn a trip to their national finals – in Green Bay, Wis. – April 5 to 9.

A year ago, both the Murray High School team and the comp team qualified for nationals.

That forced several players to get from the Salt Lake valley to Cleveland, Ohio… and a week later, to Dallas, Texas.

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“We had one player’s family drive the whole thing,” Hale said. “They were gone from Utah two weeks and drove about 5,000 miles.”

His son Dillon is pleased with where they are going, because he’s been invited to tryout in June for the Green Bay Gamblers, a Tier I junior ice hockey team. That level of play is considered a stepping stone to a college hockey scholarship or possibly even the National Hockey League.

“Hopefully, some people from the (Green Bay Gamblers) team will be able to see some of our national tournament games,” Dillon said.

Certainly some of Dillon’s fellow graduating Murray High seniors might also be eligible to try out for a junior ice hockey team. But goalie Mike Richins and offensive player Stew McKenna will instead be leaving for their LDS missions not long after high school.

“It’s bittersweet to see the high school season end,” Richins said. “I’m sad it’s over, because my teammates are family. But I’ll always have the memories of four great seasons.”

“We played pretty well overall, and really bonded as a team,” McKenna added. “We didn’t quite accomplish our goal (of winning a second straight high school state hockey title).

But we came close, it was fun.”

After serving his LDS mission McKenna hopes to play hockey for the University of Utah.

His father, Jim McKenna, is the head coach of the Golden Eagles comp team, while serving as an assistant to Tim Hale for the Murray High School team.

“Then it’s the opposite for me,” Hale said.

“I’m his assistant with the Golden Eagles.”

In addition to Dillon Hale, McKenna and Richins, the other three Murray High players who also play for the Golden Eagles are Mike’s twin brother Nate Richins, Nathan Fetzer and Daxton Nielson.

A junior, Nielson is the only one of those six who will return to what will be a depleted Murray High School club hockey team next winter. l

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Cottonwood High senior makes the U.S. Women’s National Wheelchair Basketball Team

By Carl Fauver | carlf@mycityjournals.com

tional team. The U.S. team that will compete for the 2018 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship, in Hamburg, Germany, consists of 12 women.

Still awaiting her high school diploma, 18-year-old Ali is the second youngest member of the team, coached by National Wheelchair Basketball Association Hall of Famer Trooper Johnson.

“We selected the youngest (women’s wheelchair national) team we ever have this year,” Johnson said. “Ali showed us incredible potential and she is very coachable. She learns quickly and helps to make everyone else on the team better. There are still a few tryouts ahead for her (if she is to make the 2020 Paralympic team). But we are looking at her incredible growth potential, and I think she has a long playing career ahead.”

Johnson became the national wheelchair team’s head coach last year, after assisting the team in its 2016 gold medal finish in the Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games. He’s also the only U.S. player to compete on 15 men’s national teams, including four Ali Ibanez (in blue) mixes it up during one of her recent wheelchair basketball Paralympic teams. games. (Scot Goodman) “I feel I was a little lucky to make the team, my first time trying out,” Ali added. “But I plan to work hard to help them and With the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics now behind us in PyeongChang, South Korea, international sports interest— to hold on to my spot.”

Ali’s mother explained that her daughter was born with a confor many Americans—is now shifting 640 miles east of there, to dition called arthrogryposis, a congenital disease.

Tokyo, home of the 2020 Olympic Summer Games.

“Normally the disease affects all of a person’s limbs,” TifAfter all, how many of us give international competition much thought between the every-other-year, winter-summer fanie Ibanez said. “But with Ali it only affected her lower limbs, which allows her to play sports.”

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Tiffanie tells the story of when Ali was just a baby, and unable Cottonwood High School senior Ali Ibanez certainly will be. to walk, she left the infant alone in a room for just a minute.

“I was thrilled to be selected for the U.S. Women’s Nation“When I returned, Ali had climbed up on a desk with a big al Wheelchair Basketball Team this year,” Ali said. “But my real goal is to make the 2020 Paralympic team…and I’m a long way smile on her face, and I knew nothing was going to stop her in life.

She just adapts to challenges and moves on.” from that.”

Ali was 13 when she first learned there was such a thing as a Well, not as far away as a few other people—like the other 28 wheelchair basketball team in the Salt Lake Valley. girls and women who were originally invited to tryout for the na-

“My older sister was babysitting for a family that lived across the street from Woodstock Elementary School (6015 South 1300 East),” Ali said. “She called me from there to say, ‘You’ve got to hurry over here to see this.’ What she had seen was a wheelchair basketball team arriving and unloading for practice.”

That team, the Utah Rush wheelchair basketball team, is coached by Marilyn Blakley.

“Ali came right over to talk to us,” Blakley said. “And it wasn’t long before she was on our team. The U.S. Women’s National Wheelchair Basketball Team is the most prestigious team any of our Rush players have been on. I’m already looking into whether I can afford to get over to see her play in (the World Championship tournament in) Germany.”

Ali actually plays on two Utah Rush teams, while also completing individual workout assignments for the national team.

When she’s not doing all that, Ali maintains a 4.0 GPA at Cottonwood High.

Johnson said the women will gather at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs for weeklong training camps in April and May followed by a pair of “friendly” tournaments before the August 16-25 World Championships in Europe.

By then, Ali will also have decided whether she’s going to play wheelchair basketball at the University of Texas-Arlington or the University of Illinois, two of only five schools nationwide that field teams— and fund scholarships—for women’s wheelchair basketball.

“Earning a college degree while playing and making the 2020 Paralympic team are my top two goals right now,” Ali said. “I sure hope they don’t regret picking me (for the 2018 national team). I plan to work hard to make sure they don’t.”

Her mother and coaches Blakley and Johnson all expressed confidence that no one is going to regret giving the girl who pulled herself up on a table as a toddler an opportunity to succeed as a young adult. l

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Thousands of Murrayites receive court summons for water rights

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By Shaun Delliskave | s.delliskave@mycityjournals.com

id you get a summons from the State Engineer to go to court? If you were like many Murrayites, you recently received an official court summons regarding water rights but there’s no need for alarm.

Assistant State Engineer (Adjudication) Blake W. Bingham explained that this is actually a process that has been going on for some time. “This has been happening in some fashion since 1944.”

The Utah Lake/Jordan River (ULJR) water rights adjudication was initiated during a severe drought back in 1936 when Salt Lake City filed a lawsuit against thousands of water users along the Jordan River. “I believe that the ULJR Adjudication is the oldest ongoing civil action in the State of Utah,” said Bingham.

The District Court determined that the water rights issues couldn’t be resolved without including all other water users within the entire drainage. Consequently, in 1944 the court ordered the Office of the State Engineer (the forerunner of the Division of Water Rights) to commence a general water rights adjudication for the entire Utah Lake/Jordan River drainage.

The ULJR drainage extends from the headwaters of the Provo River in the Uintas down to where the Jordan River empties into the Great Salt Lake and includes Utah Lake, the Spanish Fork River, and various mountain streams along the Wasatch Front in Salt Lake and Utah Counties.

Consequently, the State Engineer has had to split the ULJR adjudication into manageable divisions and subdivisions.

“We’re focusing our current efforts on the east side of Salt Lake Valley, which has prompted a little more visibility due to the complex issues and higher population density,” noted Bingham.

Utah Code requires a summons to be issued to ensure due process and equitable consideration under the law.

“Unfortunately, a summons can be a very intimidating thing to receive

The State of Utah is clearing up water rights like this artesian spring near the Jordan River.

(Photo/James Delliskave)

(especially from the State of Utah). We’ve made a concerted effort to soften the delivery of the summons by including an info sheet and cover letter to help people understand where on the spectrum of concern they should fall,” Bingham explained.

The adjudication process is the way that old, grandfathered rights are brought on the permanent record, and it is the only mechanism to force the federal government to quantify any claims to “federal reserved water rights” that it has. The process also helps better define how water rights are used supplementary and removes old, abandoned rights from the record.

The state has gone through this process in both other areas of the ULJR adjudication and other parts of the state. According to Bingham, “The results have generally been positive and have brought further clarity to the water rights record. For example, in some areas of the Salt Lake Valley, it was discovered that roughly 85 percent of the

water rights we had on record had long since been abandoned.”

If someone does have a water rights claim, the state encourages people to attend the respective initial public meeting or view it online (https://waterrights.utah. gov/watchlive). Following the public meeting, the Division of Water Rights will send a notice that it’s time to file a claim.

“Understandably, people who have a valid claim are likely unfamiliar with how to fill out the claim form that we send. So, we encourage people to contact us (phone, email, or personal visit) so we can help them file their claim. Once their claim is filed, we’ll schedule a time to review the claim in the field with the water user so we can make an honest evaluation of it.

Once verified, we make a recommendation to the Court in the form of a ‘Proposed Determination.’ Water users who disagree with our recommendation can file an objection with the Court.” l

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The Value of Choices I recently watched a Netflix Original show called “Ozark,” starring Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Julia Garner and Peter Mullan. The show opens over a lake, late into an evening sunset. Over the next three minutes, a dimly-lit montage of the main character doing some menial tasks makes the audience question the morality of the character. Bateman’s voice is tracked over this scene.

“Money: that which separates the haves, from the have-nots. It’s everything if you don’t have it, right? Half of all American adults have more credit card debt than savings. Twenty-five percent have no savings at all. And only 15 percent of the population is on track to fund even one year of retirement.

You see, I think most people just have a fundamentally flawed view of money. Is it simply an agreed upon unit of exchange for goods and services? Or is it intangible – security, happiness, or peace of mind? Let me propose a third option; money as a measuring device. You see the hard reality is how much money we accumulate in life is a function of….patience, frugality, and sacrifice. When you boil it down, what do those three things have in common? Those are choices. Money is not peace of mind. Money’s not happiness. Money is, at its essence, that measure of a man’s choices.”

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If you aim to change mentality, instead of physicality, as part of your new beginnings, I challenge you to begin questioning the perception of money.

Most of us view money as an agreed upon unit of exchange for goods and services.

You’re reading this newspaper segment with the word “coupon” in the title, hoping to find ways of protecting those units already possessed. Without such coupons, or mentality of frugality, those units diminish.

In viewing money as units of exchange, statistics like the ones mentioned above are frightening.

Half of all American adults need to earn units to replenish the units they’ve already exchanged, instead of inheriting them. Fifteen percent of the population has not obtained enough units to exchange for a oneyear lifestyle free from work and responsibility.

However, if we perceive money as a measure of an individual’s choices, those statistics are less anxiety-ridden. Half of all American adults made choices to live outside of their means. Fifteen percent of the population chose to live a different lifestyle.

As I’ve been challenging my perception of

money, I’ve observed less stress about the number of units in my bank account and wallet. I’ve realized that the choices I make are my own. Some of my choices may not be acceptable, or even viable, for others within my community or country. I may not understand or support others’ choices as well. That’s why we make different choices, the ones that make sense to our individual selves. Our own currencies enrich our lives in different and meaningful ways.

Choices are indefinite. We are provided the opportunity of choice with every moment we are alive.

Our behaviors may be influenced; but we are the ultimate decision maker in what we wear, what we say, what we do, where we sleep, where we live, how we respond, who we fear, who we love, and who we are.

Our money reflects those choices.

And if we were to perceive money as a measure of human choice, I’d be pretty wealthy.

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Out in Left Field

Life

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Baseball has been America’s favorite pastime for more than 150 years, followed closely by gun control debates, reality TV and overeating.

There’s just something about sitting in a ballpark surrounded by drunk fans that screams ‘Merica!

The hubbie and I spent a weekend in Phoenix for spring training where teams get together for pre-season games and fans hope for a glimpse of a mega baseball star like Mike Trout or one of the racing sausage mascots from Milwaukee.

As San Francisco Giants fans, we sat in a sea of orange and black, surrounded by men who obviously missed their calling as ESPN baseball announcers. Their color commentary got slurrier and slushier with each beer they drank. It made me wish real ESPN announcers would drink on the job.

Whenever we walk into a ballpark, my husband turns into a 14-yearold boy. The crack of the bat, the smell of a leather glove and the roar of the crowd makes him absolutely giddy.

Hubbie: We’re at a ball game!

Me: I know.

Hubbie: Maybe I’ll catch a foul ball!

Me: Maybe.

Hubbie: Do you think they’ll run out of

players and call me up to play?

Me: Me: You’ve been in the sun too long.

But it’s not just my husband, nearly every man there is reliving childhood dreams of baseball stardom, talking about games they watched with their dads or reminiscing about baseball legends they revered as teens.

I love baseball, but not in the way my husband does. A lot of my experience revolves around food (as most things do). At ball games, I eat food I’d never eat in real life.

My 74-ounce Coke and foot-long Bratwurst was an appetizer for my shredded pork nachos, drenched in a fluorescent orange “cheese” stored in plastic buckets in the basement of the stadium. I ate French fries so salty, I actually pooped jerky.

Baseball is about tradition: team loyalty, peanuts, Cracker Jack, not caring if you ever get back, and yelling at the umps after every bad call. The drunker the crowd, the more hilarious the insults. “Can I pet your Seeing-Eye dog after the game, Blue?” “That’s why umpires shouldn’t date players!”

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Then there’s the stats. Baseball statisticians use more abbreviations than texting teens. You have your standard 1B, HR, BB, SB, K, L and ERA. But occasionally, a stat will appear on the scoreboard that leaves everyone confused. “What the hell’s a UZR?” slurs a drunk ESPN announcer. We all scratch our heads until someone Googles it. (Ultimate Zone Rating, if you were wondering.)

Each game holds the opportunity to witness an unassisted triple play, a grand slam, a no-hitter, a perfect game or a squirrel being chased off the field by an octogenarian ball boy. Ballparks

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are national treasures, each one unique and representative of their community.

But my main reason for loving the game is this: baseball is a game of patience. There’s no time limit to a ballgame. It could last 3 hours or 5 hours; 9 innings or 13 innings. As our lives get busier, a ballgame is a reminder to sit in the sunshine, to talk to the person next to you and to order a hot dog without guilt as you root for your favorite team.

All you have to do is sit, eat and cheer someone on. Shouldn’t that be America’s favorite pastime?

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