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Sugar House Woman on a Couch Surfing Adventure

By Natalie Mollinet | Natalie@mycityjournals.com

Clara at the base of Salktantay in Peru. –Clara Toronto

Clara in Huanuco, Peru. –Clara Toronto

“It was nice to have stepped out of my little Utah-based world and see the potential this planet holds for me and my personal growth.”

Clara and Alaska friends living out of her car. –Clara Toronto

E

ver wanted to have the thrill of buying a one-way ticket to a place where you technically don’t have a bed only to work your way back? One born-and-raised Sugar House woman has taken that chance and set off on her “Clara the exploradora” adventures around world.

Since Clara Toronto was a child, she wanted to live an adventurous lifestyle, playing games in the backyard as Indiana Jones and traveling to imaginary places with her friend, but her life of living out a day planner kept her from stepping out of her comfort zone.

“I was told by my aunt that I have a ‘wanderlust’ gene. I have always wanted to live this adventure life, but wanted to get an education first,” she said.

Clara graduated from the University of Utah in parks and recreational tourism in 2014 and used that degree to spend a year in Alaska as a canopy and Zipline tour guide. Not only did she drive up to Alaska alone, she did it all by using an atlas, something she is very proud of.

After Clara’s Alaskan adventure, she made her way down the coast living out of her car most of the time and meeting strangers who let her sleep on their couch. She traveled with friends down through Alaska until she hit Seattle where she dropped off friends from Alaska.

“Going on without those two was… well lonely,” Clara said in her blog. “After they left I could see out my back window, because the car wasn’t packed to the brim anymore.”

She said couch surfing was a big leap of faith. Couch surfing means finding places to sleep as your traveling when you don’t have a lot of money to spend on hotel rooms.

“In this world of ours, doing anything as a single female is unarguably dangerous. But YOLO right?” she said.

While she was “couch surfing,” Clara found herself in a million-dollar beach home, touched her first anemone and almost adopted a dog.

In Oregon she met a German man who hitchhiked in her car for three days until she hit California, slept in a tough shed while she was in California and, of course, was able to visit Disneyland.

Clara finally made her way back to snowy Utah where she was already planning her next big adventure – Peru.

Just a day after leaving for Peru, Clara got an email from the U.S. government telling her not to travel to Peru because it was a red zone.

“It makes me antsy before I leave anywhere. Going to a country where the U.S. government told you not to go makes it even more stressful,” she said.

Clara went to Peru anyway, and still received emails from the U.S. telling her to stay safe around taxi drivers. Even though she wasn’t couch surfing in Peru, she still relied on the few people she knew to keep her safe. She hiked to Machu Picchu, explored as much Incan history as she could and got to experience the culture firsthand. Clara initially planned to buy a one-way ticket to Peru and travel her way up back to Salt Lake again, but family at Christmas left her buying a ticket back.

Only being in Utah for a week, Clara already had bought a one way ticket to Hawaii where, yet again, she only knew one person, didn’t have a job lined up and is working to make enough money to make her way back to Utah to see her nephew be born and then fly down to New Zealand where she only knows one person.

To this day Clara will send a postcard to every family she has stayed with on her adventure, and says she may end her traveling adventures next year and start “adulting.”

“It was nice to have stepped out of my little Utah-based world and see the potential this planet holds for me and my personal growth. I feel I can finally start giving back to the world what the world has selflessly given to me. My goal isn’t necessarily to just travel and see neat things, but to travel and meet neat people,” she said. l

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45 Surgeries and Going Strong

By Natalie Mollinet | Natalie@mycityjournals.com

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Baby Kirsten with her tracheotomy. –Lisa Morrise

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risten Morrise, a resident of Sugar House, has had 45 surgeries due to a condition called Pierre Robin Sequence.

Because of this more medical problems have occurred, but she is still able to accomplish so much despite her breathing disability. Pierre Robin Sequence is a very rare condition found in one in 8,000 children, in which a newborn child is born with an abnormally small lower jaw, a large tongue and breathing problems.

As a result of this medical condition, Kirsten has had to struggle with depression, being bullied in school and overcoming some learning and physical struggles.

Kirsten now. –Lisa Morrise

“Yeah, you try getting the bone in your face being gradually moved forward. But knowing the end result is supposed to be makes it easier to endure,” she said.

When Kirsten turned 12, she attended Brighton LDS Girls camp, something that would change her life. She went back a second time and then went back as a helper in the kitchen and worked in the craft shack. She loved it because the people there didn’t treat her like she was disabled.

“They treated me like I was a human being. There I had a blank slate, no one knew about my past. They let me do everything that everybody else did,” she said.

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At a young age she had to have a tracheotomy placed on her throat. Not only was this a burden for young Kirsten, but also for her mother Lisa who was taking care of two other children with medical needs.

“Kirsten was very sick and we were basically running an ICU and Timothy [her older brother] was bouncing off the walls, and Michael [another older brother] needed breathing treatments,” Lisa said. “[Kirsten] was in the hospital 16 times her first year.”

Because of the lack of oxygen to her brain, Kirsten had seizures which were getting worse and worse, and even with treatments, the seizures didn’t let up. “’Kirsten is sick. Get over it,’ was basically the attitude of a lot of professionals I had to talk to,” Lisa said. “But she kept getting sicker and sicker.”

Kirsten was finally able to get the treatment she needed after having to visit several doctors, but the treatment required a lot of surgeries. She missed many days of school, and her social life wasn’t going very well either. Her friends didn’t know how to treat her because of her surgeries. They saw her as being delicate.

“A lot of people don’t know what to say to me because I’ve been through so much,” Kirsten said. “But I say they’re human. Do I really want them to be fully aware of what I’m experiencing?”

In 2005, Kirsten had screws put in her jaw called jaw distractors. The screws were visible on the outside of Kirsten’s face. When the screws were turned, it forced her jaw forward so the jaw bone behind could grown. Kirsten explained the procedure hurt.

When Kirsten entered high school at Highland High, she was bullied by students who took her scooter, teased her and called her retarded and stupid.

“I have cerebral palsy and I have mood disorders, and I have hypotonia which mean low muscle tone,” Kirsten said.

“Those things have kind of caused the bullying because of my posture and people look at me funny and also not being very athletic influenced the bullying.”

While Kirsten attended high school, she also attended Utah State University.

“I made a plan to get to college and even though I was late, I had a plan I would get all of my high school work done by a certain time, and I would be able to function well enough to go to college,” she said.

Kirsten graduated from high school, and is on her way to earn a bachelor’s degree in social work because she wants to help others and feels like she has the empathy to do so.

She is still coming in and out of the hospital but no longer has a tracheotomy or jaw distractors, but will still have to go in for surgeries.

“The main problem is that my jaw doesn’t grow, and the scar tissue is a byproduct of having a tracheotomy for a long time,” Kirsten said.

“I have pretty much had to come to term with the fact that I will need surgery periodically for the rest of my life. The thing is I get to go to normal college, do normal school and having Pierre Robin is just something extra,” Kirsten said. “I have been realizing I don’t have to be a figure of inspiration and that I can be kind to as many people as possible. How I treat others reflects my character more than diagnosis.” l

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Neighborhood Watch Addresses Package Theft

By Elizabeth Suggs | Elizabeth.s@mycityjournals.com

D

uring the holidays, Sugar House residents were privy to package theft.

Since the S-Line has been constructed, according to Barb Shelley, one of the founders of the Highland High Area Neighborhood Watch group, people who otherwise wouldn’t have found their way into the Sugar House neighborhood have taken advantage of the railway system and stolen anything that “wasn’t nailed down.”

To combat the thievery of packages, as well as many other crimes in the Sugar House neighborhood, Shelley founded the Highland High Area Neighborhood Watch Group with her neighbor a year ago.

“We finally had it up to our frustration limits with all the burglaries and prowls,” Shelley said. “Sugar House has a particular vulnerability due to being close to two freeways.

Thieves can hop off the freeway, rob us and jump back on the freeway before we even know we have been robbed.”

With 190 members on Highland High Area Neighborhood Watch Facebook group, as well as 40 members over email, Shelley does most of the coordinating and posting to keep everyone informed.

As the volunteer group facilitator, Shelley keeps in contact with the District Community Intelligence Unit officer, to give information or ask questions, the SLC Council representatives, and the chair of the Sugar House Community Council. Shelley also coordinates with the media and Sugar House businesses who are facing crime.

Because of her role in the group, Shelley has brought Sugar House’s stolen package problem to the police’s attention

by forwarding the Fox 13 story of stolen packages to District 7 Community Intelligence Officer Tyler Lowe. “[Lowe] replied in email and said that the Salt Lake City Police Department is not going to follow up on the idea at this time, but they might consider the idea in the future.” Shelley said. “He then provided me with a list of suggestions of how to avoid having packages stolen off one’s porch. It was nice of him to share ideas, but none of the ideas are new to this group.”

According to Shelley, suggestions don’t always work and for Gina Zigar, Sugar House resident, she still had her package, a Christmas present for her husband, stolen just days before Christmas.

Zigar knew immediately the package had been stolen after receiving information from the UPS that it was delivered when she was out, and when Zigar returned home there was no package.

“We know most of our neighbor’s and they own their own homes like we do,” Zigar said, “but because of our proximity to bus lines and downtown, I feel like we have people walking through [the neighborhood].”

Within the last seven years, Zigar’s neighborhood has encountered a hit and run on her car parked on the street, a car window broken, another car broken into and a backpack stolen off her porch.

“I guess when I list it like that it doesn’t sound like a good neighborhood.” Zigar said.

Prior to the incident, Zigar had never had a package stolen and she doesn’t expect to get it back.

“Before forming the neighborhood watch group, I heard comments of denial ‘Oh, no, we don’t have crime in our neighborhood. We live on the “good” side of town.’ I rarely hear that anymore,” Shelley said. “Now people realize that Sugar House is seen as a target. We are viewed as a place where ‘the good stuff’ is.”

“I don’t know if I would say that this will stop package theft unless many people begin to do this and it becomes a common thing,” Detective Richard Chipping said. “Package theft is a crime of opportunity. The best thing you can do is make sure to send the package to a secure location or be there to receive the items.”

To contact Shelley or the neighborhood watch group, look up Highland High Area Neighborhood Watch on Facebook or contact Shelley through email: barbshelleyprcommunications@gmail.com. l

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GOVERNMENT

Sugar House Journal

The New App to Connect with Neighbors

By Elizabeth Suggs | Elizabeth.s@mycityjournals.com

I Some other features Nextdoor has to offer: – Babysitter recommendations – Help on odd jobs, i.e. painting, building, etc.

– Get rid of old or unused stuff – Remembering or getting to know people in the neighborhood

f ever you have ever wished to get the word out about a “lost dog” on anything other than paper, or if you have wished to warn others in your neighborhood, especially those you don’t know, about a thief on the loose, then the Nextdoor App might be for you.

Launched in October 2011, the Nextdoor app is a social network for you and your neighbors to connect safely and privately. With about 14,000 different neighborhoods connected across the United States, Nextdoor is adding an additional 60 to 80 neighborhoods each day, according to co-founder and marketing VP Sarah Leary.

“There was a lost dog posted by a neighbor,” Mary Amanda Fairchild, Sugar House resident, said. “I saw the post. Called her.

Picked up the dog and took it to the vet. The dog was then chipped and taken home to a very, very happy dad within an hour.”

Fairchild ran the neighborhood watch, but according to her, Nextdoor makes the neighborhood watch much easier and faster to reach to neighbors “when something needs attention.”

She has also helped pinpoint a “bad guy” online. “[He] was in the alleyway.” Fairchild said. “After posting about it online, we all went out and scared him off.”

While the app helps pinpoint “wrong-doers” or just helps others keep in contact with one another, it does pose a potential risk for those out there looking for personal information. One reviewer, Larry Hearn, complained the app was asking for too much personal information, some of which included social security number and credit card access information.

However, when others downloaded the app, neither a social

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security number nor a credit card were asked. What is concerning to some is address information, as well as any other information, a user willingly puts up on the Nextdoor app.

Nextdoor is a way of bringing the community back to when everyone knew where everyone lived, and while the idea of personal information online, especially your exact address, is scary, because of Nextdoor’s privacy controls, the app doesn’t allow any other neighborhood or site to look at that particular neighborhood’s information or messages.

When downloaded, the app does have access to your phone device and files, photo and media on the device, as well as the ability to modify different segments of the files.

On the one hand, that, along with the display of your address, may be too much for some users, other users like Fairchild care more about what the app has done and who it’s brought together rather than what dangers it might pose.

And on the other hand, to be willing enough to put up certain aspects of your life for the neighborhood can bring about a closer community, like it has for Kathy Gregersen, another Nextdoor app user.

“Not only has our neighborhood used Nextdoor to watch for lost/found pets and to set up a watch when delivery trucks are in the neighborhood, but we have organized activities. A fun walk/run Thanksgiving morning, and we went Christmas caroling on Saturday,” Gregersen said on Nextdoor’s Facebook page.

Search for Nextdoor.com or go to an app store to download the free app. l

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Spotlight on Westminster Dance and Natalie Desch

W

estminster College has a brand new dance program, which means there are some incredible new students and faculty members we’d like you to meet!

Westminster Dance brought in its first cohort of undergraduates in Fall 2015, and already, the students are wowing the campus and the community with their passion and talent. This year’s dancers are senior Trayven Call and first-year students Courtney Jo Cheney, Mikenzie Parker, Kate Losser and Bailey Sill. All of them come to Westminster with truly impressive accomplishments and dance experience.

The cohorts are small, and intentionally so, allowing the dancers to develop a strong and close-knit community that perfectly parallels the close and supportive academic community at Westminster as a whole.

The program is directed by professor Nina Vought, whom many Sugar House residents will recognize as one of the directors of last fall’s popular Salt Lake Fringe Festival, and many other incredible faculty members including Bethany Hansen, who is the head of the dance department and dance conservatory director at the Salt Lake School of the Performing Arts, Molly Heller, and Meghan Durham Wall.

Also on the dance program faculty is nationally renowned dancer, choreographer and teacher, Natalie Desch, who came to Westminster after graduating from Juilliard, dancing with the José Limón Dance Company in New York City, and earning an MFA in dance from the University of Washington in Seattle.

“New York is one of those incredibly stimulating yet competitive places for artists, and I felt so lucky to have been a working professional in the dance field for so long. But over the years, I was becoming more and more passionate about dance education and realized I wanted to devote my time and energy to hone the skills needed to share those values,” Desch said on moving

to Utah to join Westminster’s new dance program.

At Westminster, she is excited to be part of a program that will enable “active learning toward a lifetime of discovery” and will teach students the “creative engagement and critical analysis” that will allow them to become more innovative, thoughtful and authentic in all of their pursuits.

Desch brings incredible artistic talent to the program, but she brings extensive professional know-how as well. To some, dance may seem like a risky choice for a major or profession, but Desch’s diverse and successful career is a reminder that “dance degrees provide opportunities not simply for performing, but also for choreographic work, education, positions in administration and management, work in the medical field, grant writing, stagecraft, costuming, and technical work to name a few possibilities. It is, above all, a collaborative art form that provides so many tangible and intangible lifetime benefits,” she said.

For members of the Sugar House community, there are many great ways to be involved with the Westminster dance program. The program website can be found at http://www.westminstercollege. edu/dance/ and you can like them on Facebook at https://www. facebook.com/westminstercollegedanceprogram.

If you are interested in joining or learning more about the program, email nvought@westminstercollege.edu to observe a class and meet the dancers in person.

And, of course, you won’t want to miss their stunning performances, which will always be posted on the website.

“We are so excited to share the creativity, beauty, discipline and community we find so important,” Desch said.

Westminster is thrilled to have this incredible new program, and we hope you will join us in welcoming these gifted artists to the Sugar House community. l

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GOVERNMENT DRUG ACTIVITY Report suspected drug activity to the drug hotline.

Drug Hotline: (801) 799-DRUG (3784) DUMPSTERS Violations—Salt Lake Valley Health Department: (385) 468-3835 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES Office of Sustainability & the Environment (801) 535-6470 www.slcgov.com/slcgreen FENCES Must be kept upright and in good condition; cannot be over 4 feet in front yard, 6 feet in back; a permit is required to construct a fence (see ―“Development”).

Civil Enforcement: (801) 535-7225

Salt Lake City Good Neighbor Guide Updated: 2015-6-19 This guide is available online at www.slcdocs.com/comcoun/pdfs/goodneighbor.pdf

FIREWORKS Most restrictions are set by the State; the City may set additional restrictions. www.slcfire.com http:// publicsafety.utah.gov/firemarshal Questions—State Fire Marshall: (801) 284-6350 Violations—Police Department: (801) 799-3000 GARAGE/YARD SALES Households limited to 2 sales, no more than 3 days in length, per calendar year; signs must be removed within 3 days of sale. Civil Enforcement: (801) 535-7225 GARBAGE CANS Out by 7am; may be out night before pickup; must be off the street by midnight on day of pickup. Household garbage cans (green bin)—City Sanitation Customer Service: (801) 535-6999

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GRAFFITI Must be cleaned immediately; call to report for cleanup; adopt a spot by covering graffiti with paint supplied by the City. Off the Wall: (801) 972-7885 HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE Do not throw paint, batteries, oil, cleaning supplies, chemicals, CFL and fluorescent tube light bulbs, tires or electronics in trash or include them with your annual cleanup. Take hazardous waste and electronics to the hazardous waste office at the landfill or annual hazardous waste collections sites sponsored by: Salt Lake Valley Health Department: (385) 4683835 Landfill Household Hazardous Waste: (801) 541-4078 HOUSING ISSUES No more than 3 unrelated adults (2 beyond one family) living together in a single housing unit; must have heat and water. House numbers are required, must be 3 inches tall and in a contrasting color.

Civil Enforcement: (801) 535-7225 ILLEGAL DUMPING The landfill (6030 West 1300 South) is available for excess materials (Monday-Saturday, 8am-4pm). It is illegal to dump waste on public property. Violations— Salt Lake Valley Health Department: (385) 468-3835 JUNK & OUTDOOR STORAGE Yards are not to be used as storage areas for unlicensed vehicles, building materials, appliances or junk. Civil Enforcement: (801) 535-7225 LIGHTING Private property—Lights are not to shine or glare onto

neighbor’s property. Civil Enforcement: (801) 5357225 Public property—Public Utilities Division Program Manager (801) 483-6738 LITTER Must keep in garbage cans; not permitted to blow into street or neighbors’ yards; do not sweep into street. Environmental Health: (801) 313-6641. Civil Enforcement: (801) 535- 7225 NOISE Is restricted by the county health regulation on noise.

Daytime (7am-10pm) - Can be average of 10 decibels above neighborhood level not to spike above 100 decibels. Nighttime (10pm-7am) - Can be average of 5 decibels above neighborhood level not to spike above 70 decibels. No construction unless permitted; no fireworks except holidays; no garbage collection, loading, street sweepers within 300 feet of residential.

Exemptions – Emergency services, HVAC systems, portable mechanical equipment during day, municipal approved events with special permission, public assemblies/crowds, and snow removal. Motorcycles – Must have muffler meeting mfr. specs. Noise complaints – Health Department: (385) 4683835; After hours/weekends: (801) 580-6681 Loud Music – from residential properties is a disturbance of the peace – Contact SLC Police Dispatch: (801) 799-3000 OUTDOOR BURNING Do not burn trash. For patio fireplaces or culinary purposes, fire must be less than 3 feet wide and 2 feet tall, 25 ft from structures or combustible material, constantly attended, with extinguishing equipment ready. Special burns such as pit roasting need to be

What is the Role of a Funeral Home?

By Spencer Larkin

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ery few people know what to expect from their funeral home until the day they have to make some difficult decisions and deal with seemingly mundane details during a time of duress. These distraction postpone a healthy grieving process, one that begins the moment arrangements for the service begin. Choosing the right funeral home can make all the difference.

First: the logistics. Behind the scenes, the funeral home arranges for the removal of the body, obtains all the required legal documents, prepares the loved one for viewing, helps plan the service, arranges for the final disposition, provides facilities for the visitation and funeral service and the transportation to the final resting place. An experienced funeral home is essential in getting all these details right---in the sense that they make the funeral appropriate to the family’s wishes and not just offer cookie-cutter solutions.

Experience goes a long way. An idea that sounds good at the time, may not turn out the way you plan. Having a funeral director with a lot of experience you can trust to guide you

is essential. Especially if you are doing a cremation with a service, mixed religion services, coordinating mixed families, or having the service outside the funeral home at say a farm, or ski resort, in the National Forest, at a private estate or repatriated in a different country. A savvy funeral home will be sensitive to the story you are trying to create and make sure all the necessary laws are met and all feelings are respected.

There are other considerations, too; like special services for children, vets, public servants and religious leaders. A good funeral home will have experience in all these areas and have helpful suggestions.

Lastly, you have to like and trust them. Emotions will be a little raw during this time. Hugs will come often and honest feelings shared easily. It’s important to have a friend and confidant in the funeral director; one you should feel confident hugging when the day is over, the service was perfect and friends have all gone home. Believe me when I tell you, funeral directors are moved by the tributes and shared feelings of every funeral they manage. It’s OK to give them a thanks and an embrace. They probably need it too.

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MyS ugar H ouseJournal.Com cleared by the Fire Department. Fire Prevention Bureau: (801) 799-4150; Emergencies: 911 PARKING Public Property—No parking on street for more than 48 hours without moving; cannot park within 5 feet of driveway, 20 feet of crosswalk, 30 feet of stop sign, over sidewalk, on parking strip; only 1 car per licensed driver per household on street. Parking and Enforcement: (801) 535-6628 Private property—No parking on lawn; vehicles must be on a hard surface and be registered. Permit required for installation of new concrete (see ―“Development”). Civil Enforcement: (801) 535-7225 PARK STRIPS Property owner/tenant responsible; no weeds; must be 33 percent vegetation; vegetation that is not over 18 inches high and non- continuous specimen plants may be as tall as 36 inches high, 10 feet away from the ends of the strip and do not form a continuous hedge; tree planting/trimming must be cleared by Urban Forester. Civil Enforcement: (801) 535-7225. Trees - Urban Forester: (801) 972-7818 Conservation: (801) 483-6860 PESTS (RATS, MICE, RACOONS, SKUNKS) Pests are attracted by water and food (pet food, fruit, garbage); bait/traps can be used for rats and mice; be cautious with use of poison; traps may be used for wild animals. Salt Lake Valley Health Department: (385) 468-3835 PETS Dogs—No quantity limit. Must be licensed (fine for failure) with rabies vaccine. Cannot run loose, must

be on leash. Owners must clean up feces weekly.

Barking dogs are a nuisance. Cats— No quantity limit.

Must be licensed (fine for failure) with rabies vaccine.

Residents may trap wild/nuisance cats. Animal Services: 385-GOT-PETS (385-468-7387).

PHARMACEUTICAL WASTE (OLD MEDICATIONS) Do not flush down toilets or drains. Drop-off locations at the SLC Police Stations at 1040 West 700 South or 315 East 200 South. More information at: www. slcgreen.com PLANNING & ZONING Email questions to the Planning Division at Zoning@slcgov.com.

RECYCLING Residential recycling (blue bin) and yard waste (brown bin) services are provided as part of the city’s garbage service. Glass recycling is available for an extra fee or use a free drop-off site. Go to www.slcgreen.com for details on recycling options. For availability of city services to business and multi-family units, call (801) 535- 6438. High rise, business, and multi-family recycling is available through most waste haulers.

Residential Service—Sanitation Division: (801) 535-6999. Business and multi-family units— Sustainability Office: (801) 535-6438 SHOPPING CARTS Report abandoned shopping. Carts usually picked up within 1 week. Shopping Cart Hotline: (801) 446-7984

SIDEWALKS Repair—Property owner responsible; assistance available through City; report cracks, root damage, raised sections. Obstructions—Cannot block sidewalks with vehicles, storage, bushes, or trees.

Streets and obstructions: (801) 535-6934 SIGNS Signs may not be placed on public property (parking strips, utility poles, etc.) without permission from City.

Signs on private property are controlled by ordinance.

Information—Buzz Center: (801) 535-7700 Violations—Civil Enforcement: (801) 535-7225 SNOW REMOVAL Residents and businesses are responsible for removal of snow from entire sidewalk; enforcement begins 24 hours after snowfall; cannot shovel snow into street.

Help clear crosswalks. Sidewalk violations—Civil Enforcement: (801) 535-7225. Snow removal on streets—Streets & Sanitation Customer Service: (801) 535-6999 STANDING WATER/AUTO FLUIDS No auto fluids (oil and antifreeze) on ground or street. Standing water causes odor, bacteria growth, and breeds mosquitoes. Salt Lake Valley Health Department: (385) 468-3835 TRAFFIC SIGNS & SIGNALS Requests for new signs/signals—Transportation Division: (801) 535-6630. Missing or damaged signs—Sign Shop: (801) 535-6992 TREES Privately-owned—Trees that encroach or fall on a

February 2016 | Page 9 neighbor’s property are a civil matter between property owners. City trees—Adjacent property owners are responsible for watering city trees in the park strip. Cannot plant, trim or remove city trees without permission. A planting program is available to request a tree. Call about broken limbs or dying trees. Urban Forester: (801) 972-7818 VENDING Mobile food vendors are not allowed in residential areas. Cart and truck vendors must have a business license and food handlers permit and comply with city ordinance. Ice cream vendors need business license to be posted on the vehicle in 3-inch letters. On public property—Property Management: (801) 535-7133.

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EDUCATION

Sugar House Journal

Highland Park Elementary to Host Arts Night

By Elizabeth Suggs | Elizabeth.s@mycityjournals.com

Admission to HIghland Park Elementary’s arts night is $5. --Sonal Kerr

H

ighland High Park Elementary will have their ninth annual arts night on March 11 from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

The arts night will take place at the school and Sonal Kerr, coordinator of the event, thinks hosting the event will help drive both revenue and interest for the school’s art program.

“The donations are crucial. Without them, we simply couldn’t have our arts programs,” Kerr said.

In the last six years, the arts programs have made between $25,000 to $35,000. Last year, the arts night made $31,000, which is about $50 per student to have music, art and dance for the

full school year, according to Kerr.

Compared to other schools in the district, Highland Park Elementary has been both the largest and most successful in their art fundraisers, according to the Salt Lake District.

What keeps it most successful, according to Kerr, is how much the Highland Park Elementary’s Arts Night has to offer: dinner, bake sale, silent auction, children’s activities and market, theme baskets, classroom art projects for auction and activities with teachers.

“Other arts nights have some of the same things, but I’ve never seen one with all of them.” she said.

The annual fundraiser helps to raise money for arts education. --Sonal Kerr

It also helps that Highland Park is one of the few schools in the nation to offer visual arts, music and dance for all students, as well as the option of taking band or strings for fifth and sixth graders.

“We hope to never drop or cut any of our programs,” she said. “We discuss it regularly just in case we have no choice. So far we’ve been able to maintain our programs each year.

It’s definitely nerve racking from year to year to see if we can make it.”

But she is hopeful, saying that art specialists in the school have been trained in each specific art program they’ve been hired into, and that

makes learning for the students that much more enjoyable and easy to understand. With three children who attend the school, she enjoys watching each one excel in different ways and with different learning opportunities.

“Core subjects are being reinforced through the arts as well as knowledge and appreciation for music, dance, visual art and drama.” Kerr said. “Every child has a different learning style; art gives us a way of reaching students that may struggle with traditional instruction.”

Admission for the event is $5. Additional tickets for the various activities are available for purchase before the event and at the door. l

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February 2016 | Page 11

Student athletes warm up at the javelin throw.

Rick Schmidt takes some air —John Woeste photo credit

By Tyson Peterson | Tyson@mycityjournals.com

Highland Rams Aim to Win

By Tyson Peterson | Tyson@mycityjournals.com

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Records Set at Track Invitational

t was a close game as the Highland Rams took on Murray High School on Jan. 2. Losing by just three points with a score of 60-57, the Highland boys basketball team stood at 5-6 in the preseason.

The Rams boys basketball team had wins against Park City, Wasatch, West High School, Skyline and Judge Memorial, with their biggest win being against Judge Memorial with a score of 90-67.

“As a captain, I just expect my team to go out and play as hard as we can. Our goal is to leave it out on the floor every game. Murray is a good team. We knew it was going to be a challenge,” team captain Rick Schmidt explained after the game.

“Brevin Elsholz, our point guard, did a nice job of facilitating the offense for us. Jayden Brown hit a big 3 for us late in the game. It helped that I was feeling it throughout the game,” Schmidt said.

One key player that the Rams were missing was Ryan Lambson, a senior point guard.

Lambson averages 1.3 assists per game, 2.5 rebounds per game, and 7.4 points per game.

Lambson also plays football.

“We’re hoping to get Ryan back next Friday. If we can keep this consistent effort up, we will be in good shape. Getting Ryan back will help us even further,” head coach James Boyce said.

“We beat Bountiful in our first region game Tuesday and played great. Bountiful was riding a 49 game home region win streak dating back to 2014. They have owned the region for the last two years and were back to back state champions. It was a very difficult place to play. We won 70-61 and played great. We had five guys in double figures with Rick leading the way with 18 points and 13 rebounds. We also went 29/34 from the free throw line with Elijah Shelton, Will Trice and Brevin Elsolz, Jayden Paulani, and Eian Brightwell hitting some really clutch free throws down the stretch,” Boyce said.

“It took the preseason for us to figure out who we are as a team, and where our strengths lie. It was rough having one of our leading scorers, Ryan Lambson, go down with a knee injury.

Expect more wins in the regular season.” Scmidt said.

“Rick is important moving forward, but if we can have balanced scoring and a great defensive and rebounding effort like we did, we will have a shot in every region game we play,” Boyce said.

The Rams have many goals they want to accomplish this season.

“Personally, I want to help give our team a chance at success – night in and night out.

Whether that takes snatching more rebounds, scoring or finding teammates for buckets. As a team, we aim to win the region, and find success in the state tournament.” Schmidt said. l

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fter having a month long winter break from track, athletes from Westminster College attended a track invitatioaln at BYU on Jan 8 and 9.

Chandler Clark of Westminster College set a new indoor discus record of 44.26 meters. Wesley Spargo set 60-meter record at 7.17 seconds and 300 meter at 35.87 seconds.

Joe Cremer set the 500-meter record at 1:06.29. Will Carrington, Dylan Chatters and Mitch Simsall all moved into the top eight in times in their respective events.

Payton Schiff ran the second fastest time in the mile at 5:22.93 and fourth in the 800 meter at 2:30.44.

Sydney Davis threw the fourth farthest distance in shot at 9.26 meters and was fifth fastest in the 300-meter at 47.95 seconds.

“All in all, not a bad meet for coming off a month long winter break,” head coach Dan Quinn explained about the event.

“I threw a little yesterday, and today I’m doing sprints, and I usually do the decathlon.”

Sydney Davis, a freshman at Westminster College, said.

“Today’s about the baby steps, working on technique of course, and timing,” Davis said.

Athletes from Westminster College participated in shot put, the 60 meter, 300 meter, the 500 meter, 800 meter and the mile.

For the teammates, this was a chance to train for another meet in Pocatello held at the end of January.

“Today I’m just doing the 800 meter. I’m just coming off a surgery, so really I’m just trying to get back out there again.” Naena Bland, sophomore at Westminster College, said.

“Today I’m doing the 500 meter. I’m just trying to figure out where my baseline is at, so I have something to work off of,” Alyssa Turner, also a sophomore at Westminster College, said.

The invitational was about getting everyone back into the rhythm of running, after coming off of a month long winter break, Quinn said.

Among other colleges that were in attendance were Utah Valley University and BYU. Aside from distance running, events included the shot put, javelin throw, the high jump and hurdles.

“I’m running the mile and the 800. This is only my second indoor meet ever, so I just want to see where I’m at,” Mara Kushner, freshman out of Houston, said.

“Naena is putting in her 800 meter today, just to get her back out there and comfortable with running again. I think Wesley Spargo from Australia is going to do really well today. He’s running in a 300-meter race, and is running really well. So he’ll come out strong on that one. We also have Joe Cremer, who I’m having run in the 500 meter. That will be a strong race as well. Cremer is usually our 800-meter guy, and he’s running really well also,” Quinn said.

The Westminster Griffins entered six new records in the record book after BYU’s invitational. Wesley Spargo’s 7.17 record in the 60 meter, and 35.87 record in the 300 meter; Dylan Chatters’ 7.53 record in the 60 meter, and 38.62 record in the 300 meter; Will Carrington’s 37.50 record in the 300 meter, and Joe Cremer’s 1:06.29 record in the 500 meter. l

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here is no doubt that we are in the middle of a healthcare crisis. Some call it a “healthcare demise”. Obamacare, so far, is here to stay. As long as it is here, people are forced to buy health insurance whose premiums are uncontrollable and whose policies make the insured pay more out-of-pocket expenses.

Some families have filed for bankruptcy due to medical bills, others have loved ones who have passed on because they denied medical care and medications due to the higher healthcare costs. It can seem alarming, and cause many people wonder what they can do about it.

The key to navigating through healthcare safely is to become as healthy as possible, minimizing any chances of accessing expensive medical care. The best, and most

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This model allows health insurance to be set aside and be used as “true insurance”--to cover unexpected major medical needs--while allowing a person to visit the doctor as often as needed without concern for cost. This increases the person’s well-being and overall healthiness. While this scenario is ideal, it can be difficult to find quality medical professionals who allow you to pre-pay for expenses. That is where Medallus Medical is here to help.

Medallus Medical has 9 clinics across the Wasatch Front that provide urgent care, primary care, and work medicine, with three

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In deciding what we would track and what metrics we’d use as a way to measure our progress, we surveyed many residents to find out what they would most like to see. The survey results ranked public safety, addressing homelessness, air quality, job opportunities and support for education as top priorities.

Residents also said they’d like to know about the availability of parks and trails, the current state of repair of roads and buildings, and what

the county is doing to operate efficiently and save money.

We also asked ourselves what are the quality of life conditions we would like to see for children, adults and families who live in the county. Our discussion produced four broad categories:

air and clean water; they participate in and have access to recreation, arts and culture; and have transportation choices that are safe, efficient and meet their needs for commuting, school and recreation.

Expanded Opportunities – county residents have access to good-paying jobs in the private sector; children arrive at kindergarten ready to learn; youth graduate from high school; and businesses have the resources they need to expand into and compete in global markets.

Healthy People – county residents are safe, have a place to call home and are healthy.

Some of the indicators we will track include the crime rate; the number of homeless individuals and children in the county; the number of children who lack health insurance; and the percentage of teens who are physically active.

Responsive Government – county residents deserve a government that operates efficiently and effectively, including a 9-1-1 emergency response system that gets life-saving personnel

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After the arrival of our firstborn things started getting rocky. My sweet and lovable hubby suddenly turned into a matted green, irritable grouch. Instead of helping him and trying to understand, all I could do was nag. Life became a chore. Money was tight. We barely talked to each other. We were sliding down a slippery slope.

It was during this time that a turning point happened.

We found ourselves on a real date. I can’t recall how it happened, but nonetheless, the hubs and I had dropped off the little one at Mom’s, packed a picnic lunch and headed to the park for what turned out to be the one of best dates of our relationship.

Having the alone time allowed me to open up to listening without distraction to what was really bugging him, his stresses at work and financial concerns. We problem solved, had open conversation and worked together to fix it.

In the time it took to prepare a $10 picnic lunch for two, throw down a blanket and open our hearts to listen to one another we had solved many built up frustrations.

This made me a believer in “the date night.” A date night is a time you and your partner set aside to spend quality time focusing on the other. It’s a time to refresh and

reboot your relationship and allows you to reevaluate what’s working for your family and more importantly, what isn’t.

Date nights should not be a couple’s luxury, but instead a couple’s necessity and should be part of a regular schedule, just like paying the bills.

It’s easy to put off dating after marriage. With expenses and the never-ending needs of the kids, finding just $25 a week can be hard. Here are some ideas to make your date night money stretch a little further: #1 - Make it appetizers or dessert: Instead of going out for a complete meal, make it appetizers instead. This is a fantastic way to check out a new restaurant without breaking the bank. I’ve found that I often enjoy these small bites more than the regular meal. If a full meal is in your plan, look for restaurants with early bird specials between 5 and 6 p.m. #2 - Split the babysitter costs: Sitters typically only charge a little more for additional kids so, plan to share your sitter with a friend that has kids and double date. Or, take turns babysitting each other’s kids. #3- Get familiar with the Daily Deals websites: We’ve all heard of Groupon and Living Social by now. A new one you may not be familiar with is C4Udeals.com. These daily deal websites can be great sources for discounts for eating out. They also offer creative ideas for dates, like ghost

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A regular date night is an important investment in your marriage and will lead to a stronger lifelong partnership. For more fantastic date ideas, check out a Utah based website called the TheDatingDivas.com and APriortizedMarriage. com. Both have fabulous ideas for date nights and ideas to help you keep the communication in your relationship strong. l

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here’s a divide in our country, and it’s not about whether the Founding Fathers believed every citizen should own an AK-47.

It’s between people who eat only organic foods and people who treat their meals as a deathdefying extreme sport.

Let’s address these two groups in a completely stereotypical manner.

First, the Organictonians never let processed foods pass their lips. Refined sugar is the equivalent of sprinkling arsenic in their coffee. A meal usually consists of a piece of kale with three garbanzo beans and a forkful of sustainable tuna. They obnoxiously tell you the backstory of every snack they put in their bodies.

Example: “The leaves in this green tea are only found in the Himalayas and are naturally crushed under the hoofs of grass-fed mountain goats.” Shut up, already.

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These people have eliminated greasy grease, sugary sugar and fatty fats from their diets. They are usually praying mantis-thin with a penchant for anger because they’re pretty hungry. (Oreos are stealthily stashed under couch cushions for late-night sugar binges.)

On the opposite (and larger) end of the spectrum, we have the Couldn’t-Care-Less connoisseur who consumes 3/$1 hot dogs from the corner gas station, drinks bacon-flavored Mountain Dew and gorges on deep-fried, chocolate-covered butter cubes.

Throwing grease on the fire are restaurants

that carbo-load their menus with foods that would make a pig nauseous. Take a look at these (real) menu items.

The Thickburger is a cheeseburger topped with a hot dog and potato chips. Then there’s the Hot Dog pizza that has 28 hot dog pieces baked into the crust. It’s served with mustard and a bottle of ipecac.

Better yet, Baconator French fries are drenched in cheese sauce and smoked bacon, and heaped with grated cheddar. The fries come with a vial of epinephrine to restart your heart. Doctors recommend you never order these fries unless it’s your last meal on death row.

Even “healthy” burgers are out of control.

How ‘bout an organic beef patty topped with onion marmalade (ew!), green apple slices,

pureed chicken livers (double ew!) Swiss cheese and arugula. Well, if there’s arugula on it, we’re good.

The phenomenon that makes our bodies puff up like a marshmallow in the microwave is referred to by nutritional scholars as “lardbutt syndrome,” caused by eating thousands of calories per day.

There has to be some middle ground between snacking on three crunchy wasabi peas and downing a hot fudge baklava shake.

Isn’t it time we stopped the food shaming and made some reasonable choices?

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