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TWO SPA STUDENTS CHOSEN FOR PRESTIGIOUS NYU PROGRAM By Natalie Mollinet | natalie@mycityjournals.com
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Kaybri Wolff recently played Ashleigh in the play “Horse Girls”, a part she said was one of her favorites. (Kaybri Wolff/SPA Student).
college/university/conservatory training is like,” Tudor said. “I’m so excited to do the thing I love most in the theater capital for four whole weeks.” “The toughest part is probably working out time management,” Wolff said about being a theater student at SPA. “Another hard part is the constant criticism. It’s there for you to learn and get better but on a bad day it’s hard when all you want to hear is ‘that was perfect,’ but I’m pretty sure we’ve all been there.” The two students admit that if it wasn’t for their hardworking teachers at SPA, that they wouldn’t have been able
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ut of thousands of applicants, two students from The Salt Lake School for Performing Arts (SPA) were accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts Special Program at New York University. The summer internship is a great honor not only for Kaybri Wolff and Caden Tudor but also for their school located at 2291 S. 2000 East. “I am really excited and hopeful that when I get back I will be so much better than I am now,” said Wolff, a junior Musical Theatre 3 student. “I want to get to know people in New York so I can get my foot in the door, hopefully, with my career in musical theatre.” For admission into the program, the students completed an application that required them to write a 1,500-word creative essay and send in a theater resume, along with three letters of recommendation. This program is offered to performing arts students around the world and Tudor and Wolff are excited to be spending a part of their summer at NYU. “I got into theater when I decided to go to SPA, and there I signed up for acting 1 and theater 1,” said Tudor, also a junior Musical Theater 3 student. “As a freshman, I was incredibly shy but after I walked off stage, all I wanted to do was get back on.” Both students are from Idaho: Tudor is from Boise and Wolff is from Montpelier. Wolff used to compete in equestrian events, cheerleading and basketball. Tudor loves hanging out with his friends and when he’s not training in theater, he’s working on dance to help build his musical theater repertoire to become what theater people call a triple threat. Tudor performed in SPA’s fall 2016 musical “Guys and Dolls” and most recently performed in the school’s production of “Baby with the Bath Water”. Tudor recently won second place in contemporary scenes at Utah’s State Drama Competition with his scene partner Kay Brown. Wolff stage managed “Guys and Dolls” as well as performed as a soloist and as a group member in SPA’s musical theater review “Inspirations” in January. The NYU program is a high school program that is tuitionbased and culminates in six college credits. Students spend four weeks on campus with a highly-structured class schedule. Tudor and Wolff will live at a NYU residence hall during the program and will get training from professionals in the field. “I hope to further my training and learn what taking
to get into this program or learn to become better performers and people. The two also wanted to thank their parents. “I would love more than anything to give a shout out to my mom and dad,” Wolff said. “They have sacrificed everything to support me and provide me with whatever they can to make sure I have opportunities like these.” “I would like to thank my parents, Janet and Rob Tudor, for being so supportive and being there at every single performance with a bouquet of flowers,” Tudor said. “I realized that performing is for me, and I cannot live with doing anything else. There is nothing for me but theater.”
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t’s been 163 years since Sugar House got its name from Margaret Smoot after she suggested it in April of 1854. The name has stuck, of course, and to celebrate the sweet-sounding neighborhood, the Sugar House Chamber puts on Sugar Days. It’s been an annual event for years. “In 1948, they decided to celebrate the community’s birthday and that’s how Sugar Days came about,” Lori Gillespie, a Sugar House chamber board vice chair said. “It was celebrated A look at Sugar House in the 1950s. This is the corner of 2100 South and 1100 East where Barnes & Noble now around the monument on 2100 South in the heart stands. (Used by Permission/Utah State Historical Society). of Sugar House.” Sugar Days used to be a big deal in the 1950s and ‘60s when people would gather in “downtown” Sugar House to ride on a Ferris Wheel, win prizes decided to build a replica of the original Sugar Mill on the plaza. A contest and get to know their neighbors. Local businesses offered specials on some was held to see how many sugar boxes the replica could hold and that items and put on fun window displays for passersby. winner received a shopping spree. “In the past, a lot of merchants would run specials like furniture As the years went on, the excitement wavered and activities started to stores,” Gillespie said. “They would give away five- to 10-pound bags of dwindle. It wasn’t until the 150th anniversary of Sugar House that the Sugar sugar with every purchase in the ‘50s.” House Chamber brought Sugar Days back to life. Since then, Sugar House Other traditions included the selection of a Miss Sugar House, fashion has celebrated its birthday during the weekend around April 23. In 2004, shows, marching bands and floats. One year, the Chamber of Commerce they held a parade at Fairmont Park and filled a time capsule with souvenirs
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from the year. This year, during the weekend of April 21-23, businesses such as TCBY, Sugar House Coffee, Dunkin’ Donuts, Natural Grocers, Café Solstice and Just Organic Juice offered discounts on sweet treats to people who mentioned Sugar Days. Sample Sugar House was another event in which local restaurants offered menu specials, offering either a $15 special or a $30 special. “I think it’s important,” Gillespie said about celebrating Sugar Days. “It bring our community together, people are drawn to Sugar House because it’s comfortable, it’s walkable and it feels friendly. It’s a great way to celebrate what our little community is.” The chamber works hard to make sure Sugar Days isn’t overlooked. Gillespie noted that having Sugar Days in April is a perfect time to celebrate because people are out and about. “I notice it on my block,” said Gillespie, a Sugar House local. “Winter keeps people held up in their homes but as soon as April comes, people are coming out of their homes and that’s kind of the feeling Sugar House has. It’s a community of people who have lived here for generations and those who are new.”
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Volunteers purge spurge in Tanner Park By Natalie Mollinet | natalie@mycityjournals.com
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n Earth Day 2017, the Lowell Bennion Center Community Service Center, community members and Jet Blue employees, joined forces and helped rid Tanner Park of myrtle spurge, a noxious weed that is outcompeting native plants and is harmful to humans, pets and surrounding plant life. Some 130 people came to pull weeds. “This is the particular site that Salt Lake City assigned us,” Bryce Williams, the community outreach coordinator for the Lowell Bennion Community Service Center with the University of Utah, said. “Various community councils across the east side of Salt Lake City are at different locations, but the Lowell Bennion Community Service Center was assigned to Tanner Park.” To make the event interesting, the Parks and Public Lands Department in Salt Lake City put together a friendly competition to see which community councils and partners involved could collect the most myrtle spurge. The city compared overall weight of garbage bags collected and the wining team was given the title of “Top Myrtle Spurge Purger 2017.” “I feel like we all as volunteers just try to get as much as we can,” Janet Tran, a student involved with the Bennion Lowell Service Center, said.
Volunteers helping at the Purge Your Spurge event at Tanner Park. (Natalie Mollinet\City Journals).
The event was part of the Lowell Bennion’s Earth Day celebration. Volunteers showed up at Tanner Park around 8:30 a.m. They were given a brief explanation of what to weed by members of the Salt Lake City
Parks and Public Lands and then went to work. “They are all removing that myrtle spurge,” Williams said. “They’re on on their hands and knees just ripping it all out.”
Last year, the East Bench Community Council won the award with 973 pounds of myrtle spurge, and this year they kept the title, pulling out 1,582 pounds. Capitol Hill came in a close second with 1,515 pounds of spurge, two people from the East Central community pulled 537 pounds and the Greater Avenues group yanked out 855 pounds. In total, city volunteers pulled 9,385 pounds of spurge. “I’ve been getting calls all week about people now pulling it out of their own yards and nearby natural areas,” said Sherilyn Hirschi with Salt Lake City’s Parks and Public Lands. “I think we’re all winners.” Myrtle spurge is a problem in Salt Lake County and was labeled as a noxious weed by the Salt Lake County Weed Board. “It’s been extremely positive as far as the Bennion Center goes,” Williams said. “We try to instill life-long civil engagement and just are completely amazed with the people that want to remove invasive species.” “I really enjoy the Saturday service projects,” Tran said. “They’re fun volunteering events and the Bennion Center does everything. It’s a nice low-key volunteer service opportunity for anyone that wants to do service. They feed you and provide the materials.”
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Faces and Places By Natalie Mollinet | natalie@mycityjournals.com
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hat awesome places can you find in Sugar House? And what compliments have these faces in the area received from friends and family? Take a look at the faces and places in Sugar House.
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Booth-Parsons House: Built in 1912, the Booth-Parsons House sits at 1884 S. 900 East in Sugar House. The house has been well preserved through the years and has been one of the many beautiful historic homes in the Sugar House area. The home was originally designed for Hiram and Lillian Booth. Hiram was a
local attorney who built the house for entertaining guests near his semi-retirement years. The home is a sandstone bungalow and was designed by Ramon J. Ashton. Booth was elected to serve in the Utah State senate and was appointed United States Attorney by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and served there until 1914 when he resigned. Booth sold the house in 1922 and moved with his family to California. Edwin and Eliza Parsons bought the house and remained longtime residents in the neighborhood. Edwin acquired his own storefront on Downington Avenue and 900 East. Their daughter, Shirley Parsons Novak, said that her parents loved the home and devoted their life to caring for the home. Edwin died in 1965 and his wife in 1966. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. George M. Cannon House: Just along I-80 just off of the 700 East exit sits the George M. Cannon house. The property where the home stands on now used to be the property of Brigham Young, the same property where his large pink farm house used to stand, which is now at This Is the Place Heritage Park. Very few buildings were built in the area prior to 1890, but one notable building built was the George M. Cannon house, located at 720 E. Ashton Ave. The house was completed in 1890 and was designed by John A. Headlund. George M. Cannon, a prominent member of the Intermountain West family, had the house designed for him, his wife and their 10 children. Cannon bought Forest Farm from Brigham Young’s estate and created the Forest Dale subdivision. He
wanted to have an area independent of Salt Lake City and created the town of Forest Dale with its boundaries reaching from 2100 South to 2700 South and 500 East to 1100 East. Cannon served as a delegate to the 1895 Utah State Constitutional Convention and later was elected to the Utah State Senate where he served as the first president. Even with his success in the political world, the town of Forest Dale only lasted for about 10 years because homes were not being built in the area, rather in neighborhoods around it. Cannon’s home was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and is the only property listed separately in the Forest Dale Historic District.
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Salt Lake City Public Library System asks for budget increase By Kelly Cannon | kelly@mycityjournals.com
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or the first time since 2004, the Salt Lake City Public Library System is asking for a budget increase for operational funding of $3.9 million in property tax revenue. Library Director Peter Bromberg explained the library’s request to the Sugar House Community Council during their May 3 meeting. “When I say that we’re asking for money, the library is not my library. The library is your library. And if I’m asking for money, I’m not asking for money for myself but as a steward of this institution in this community,” Bromberg said. “I’m asking for money so that we can be good stewards of that institution.” There are three main drivers for the budget increase. The first one is to continue the operations of both the Glendale and Marmalade branches. “They’re beautiful buildings and they’re heavily used. If you go to Glendale between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., you might see 200 to 300 kids there. It’s a crazy scene,” Bromberg said. “It’s really been amazing and transformative for that community.” Bromberg explained when those branches were built, the Salt Lake City Council told the library they had to run those buildings on the library’s savings. Once the library knew the true cost of operations, they could come back to the council and request funding. Bromberg said they’ve been able to delay the request for two years but it’s not possible to stretch it out for another year. One and a half million dollars of the requested budget increase will be for Glendale and Marmalade branches. The next part of the budget increase proposal is to begin saving money for long-term plans. Bromberg said when he started as director about seven months ago, he asked to see the budgets and the long-term plans.
“I was looking through our budget and I’m not seeing money for the long-term maintenance of our facilities,” Bromberg said. “I got a little queasy.” The library plans on putting away $1.5 million each year for ongoing long-term maintenance of the facilities and the technology infrastructure. Bromberg said the library board will be passing a policy that will restrict the use of those funds. “I don’t want you to take us at our word when we say trust Salt Lake Public Library System Executive Director Peter Bromberg addresses the Sugar House Community Council us, we’re not going to spend to discuss a proposed budget increase for the library system. (Kelly Cannon/City Journals) that money on anything else,” Bromberg said. “We’re going to If the budget increase proposal passes, residents can expect pass a policy that says we’re only spending the money on those their property taxes to increase. The owner of a median-priced long-term, high price tag, life-cycle type things.” home of $247,000, can expect an increase of about $20 per year. A The third part of the budget increase is an investment in the business valued at $1 million, the increase will be $150. library’s facilities in all the communities to ensure the buildings For more information, a “Frequently Asked Questions” web are safe, clean and welcoming. page with a link to the complete budget is available at slcpl.org/ “What I’ve seen is that we’re understaffed and underinvested FY18Budget. To offer feedback or request a presentation by in custodial, underinvested in maintenance and underinvested in Bromberg, email execadmin@slcpl.org or call 801-524-8200. security. That’s not good,” Bromberg said. “When you come to any Public comments will be taken at the city council’s budget of our buildings, we want you to feel safe. We want you to walk hearings in June. Dates and times will be posted at slccouncil.com/ into a building that is clean and welcoming. We need to invest some meeting-agendas when they are available. money in those things. That’s another big piece of the budget.”
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Police report shows small increase in business burglaries By Kelly Cannon | kelly@mycityjournals.com
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ccording to Salt Lake City Police Detective Josh Ashdown’s monthly crime report to the Sugar House Community Council, all crime stats are down except one: business burglaries. Ashdown gave his report to the council during their May 3 meeting. Ashdown explained the community has seen a spike in business burglaries. “A handful of our businesses have been hit by people on 2100 South. It seems to be a pretty well organized person or group. They’re breaking into these places between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. They seem to be pretty well organized. We’re pretty condensed with businesses here so I’m a little concerned about that. We’re looking into it,” Ashdown said. “That’s the only crime that has gone up. We’re still on a downward slide.” The other main part of Ashdown’s report was a reminder to residents to report a crime to the police before posting it on social media. According to Ashdown, it’s been happening a lot and it’s making it hard for police to do their jobs. “It’s like you telling me about the rainbow you saw three days ago but by the time it gets to me or patrol, we can’t find it. It goes to social media first and then by
the time it gets to patrol, it’s hard for us to do something,” Ashdown said. He said if residents see someone illegally camping, they should first call the police so officers can respond effectively and efficiently to remove the illegal camper. “If you see something going on, contact us and then feel free to post it on social media,” Ashdown said. “But make sure if it’s an ‘in-progress’ thing, let us know.” For all emergencies, call 911. For nonemergencies, contact the Salt Lake City Police Department at (801) 799-3000. Ashdown also took time to talk to the council about abandoned homeless camps. Ashdown said the police department has been working on cleaning up what homeless people leave behind when they abandon their camps. “The city has been working to develop a system. They’re working with the health department. They’re coming up with their own system. We’ve recently made headway about getting some done,” Ashdown said. “If you have a camp that’s been left behind or needs to be cleaned up, let me know and we’ll make some headway to getting those cleaned up.”
Salt Lake City Police Detective Josh Ashdown addressed the rise in business burglaries and what the city is doing about abandoned homeless camps during his monthly address to the Sugar House Community Council. (Kelly Cannon/City Journals)
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Comcast, community and students come together to touch up Highland By Natalie Mollinet | natalie@mycityjournals.com
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very year, Comcast celebrates Comcast Day, a day when community members and company employees come together to help improve parks, schools, beaches, senior centers and other community sites in each state. In Utah, nine sites were chosen and, here in Sugar House, Highland High School was selected to get a fresh coat of paint, some cleanup and a new courtyard Zen garden. The turnout at Highland impressed Comcast, and they were excited to help the school for a second year in a row. “It’s exciting to see everyone coming out from the community and Comcast,” said Zake Smounou, the Comcast Lead for Comcast Cares Missionaries from The Church of Jesus Day. “All the great teachers Christ of Latter-day Saints also helped here and the principal in the event and helped put together the coming in on their day off diversity garden. (Natalie Mollinet\City to help out really brings the Journals). day together.” The morning started with students, faculty, community members and Comcast registering to help. All received a Comcast Cares T-shirt and then headed into the Highland auditorium for further instruction from Principal Chris Jenson and Smounou. Last year, the Comcast Cares Day at Highland had around 1,700 people help with the improvements and this year, even with the Salt Lake City Marathon keeping people away, they still managed to get all the projects done including sanitizing classrooms, touching up
the Little Theater, work on Highland’s H rock, repainting the no parking sections in the parking lot and repainting the room where Highland broadcasts their weekly news casts. “It really went well,” said teacher Jenny Hardy. “Our room looks brand new. It’s going to make what we do a lot easier.” Hardy’s room was one of the classrooms that got an improvement. Some of her students and others helped repaint the wall green to help their HTVS morning shows look better. One of the big improvements was the diversity garden in the courtyard. All the plants and the majority of materials were bought by Comcast and together, students, Comcast employees and missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, put down the soil and planted the plants for the Zen garden. “Everyone had a good time and we got a ton done,” Hardy added. “This is always one of my favorite days of the school year. Last year they cleaned out our entire classroom: 50 years’ worth of old outdated equipment and junk disposed of. It feels like a brandnew classroom.” Not only does Highland High benefit from the improvements that Comcast came to help with, but after the projects are done, Comcast takes the list of people who registered to volunteer and times that by $15-18 per person then writes a check for that amount and gives it to the school and district. Last year, Highland received around $21,000 from Comcast, which was used towards the programs at Highland. “We just want to give back, we love the community,” Smounou said. “We’re out here giving the best service we can and then we want to be able to help out after work.” After finishing, everyone was rewarded with pizza and drinks. “I think everyone had a lot of fun,” Hardy said, “and it was awesome to see the final product when they were done. I think they
Volunteers repainted the no parking areas at Highland High School. (Natalie Mollinet/City Journals).
all were proud of it.” the attention, and who knows, visitors might just find the perfect pet and fall in love.”
Don’t Just Float In It – Get to Know Great Salt Lake by Kendall Tate, Westminster College alumna
It is weird, smelly and sometimes makes you itchy. However, Great Salt Lake has an extreme ecosystem we can appreciate through exploration and education. Westminster College’s Great Salt Lake Institute has a mission to connect people to the lake. The Institute invites our neighbors in Sugar House to get to know us and that big stinky lake we love. For the past eight years, we have been developing our program on Westminster College’s campus. During this time, we have built strong community partnerships, created internal capacity for Great Salt Lake projects and worked with many campus classes and organizations. Great Salt Lake Institute also works with K–12 teachers in local schools to bring the lake into classrooms through curriculum building and classroom activities. We are continually partnering with community organizations and state agencies on outreach events to educate the public about the past, present and future of Great Salt Lake. This summer, we will work with several community partners, faculty and students in various projects and research to make Great Salt Lake accessible to all. Several interdisci-
plinary groups of faculty and students will collaborate to incorporate the arts into our traditional STEM research. Additionally, research and art projects encompass all parts of Great Salt Lake, including continuing research on mercury levels in Great Salt Lake and research about water and science education. For an interpretative fusion of the intersection of science and art, we have projects involving dance, ceramics and wide-ranging art theories. Another project Great Salt Lake Institute is spearheading with several community partners is The PELI-project (Project in Education and Longitudinal Investigation of American White Pelicans). This study aids in the understanding of migratory habits and behaviors of the American White Pelican, which have inhabited a remote island in the middle of Great Salt Lake. The study is possible through the installation of a camera on the remote island that feeds a live web stream anyone can view. Named the PELIcam, the camera takes photos every five minutes — allowing for the analysis of pelican habits and behaviors. Individuals can connect to the pelican and Great Salt Lake through a citizen-science project involving both the analysis of these pictures and the logging of pelican sightings. Want to know more or get involved? You can volunteer at our outreach events, visit the PELIcam website, get involved with our citizen-science efforts and — most importantly — go to the lake. Visit www.greatsaltlakeinstitute.org for more information.
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100 Things To Do In Salt Lake City Before You Die By Natalie Mollinet | natalie@mycityjournals.com
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f someone asked you what they need to experience in Sugar House before they die you might suggest visiting Sugar House Park or dining at the unique neighborhood restaurants. What if someone asked what they needed to experience in Salt Lake City before they die? You might suggest seeing Temple Square, hiking the foothills, having a drink at Brewvies or enjoying the Utah Symphony. One man, Jeremy Pugh, has taken on the job of compiling such ideas with his book, “100 Thing To Do In Salt Lake City Before You Die”. “I was the editor of Salt Lake Magazine for nearly a decade, and I continue to write about Utah and Salt Lake in my freelance career, so in a sense, I’d written this book many times,” Pugh said. Pugh was born in Bountiful but visited Salt Lake City as much as he could. He attended the University of Utah but graduated from Utah State University. With his love for the city and his experience working for Salt Lake Magazine, it wasn’t hard for him to think of things to do around the valley. “I really think The State Room is really an amazing special little place in Salt Lake City,” Pugh said, talking about the music venue at 638 South State Street. “We have this great music club that attracts nationally renowned musicians that come and play there.” Another main attraction Pugh wrote about was The Great Salt Lake. When tourists ask him about it he immediately encourages them to check it out and take a hike through Antelope Island. But what places did Pugh think were worthwhile in Sugar House with the unique city within a city and small business atmosphere? “Sugar House remains a wonderful second downtown if you will,” Pugh said. “My favorite part of Sugar House is the row of small shops and local businesses along Highland Drive, just south of 2100 east. I love the little crystals and hippie store Awakening Heart and the Sugar House Pub is one of Salt Lake’s best watering holes.” Pugh also said that he brings a lot of friends
and clients down to Sugar House Coffee because it is a central gathering place in the city and it feels relaxing. Back during the NBA playoffs, when the Jazz were up against the Golden State Warriors, some of the players on the Warriors had hoped that the Clippers would take the Jazz in the first round because they thought Salt Lake had no nightlife. T-shirts were made about it and companies made videos to show just how “boring” Salt Lake’s nightlife really is. For Pugh though, he agreed that the Warriors were being ridiculous about their comments. “I’ve had many a hangover that can attest to that,” Pugh laughed. “Our downtown is easy to navigate, walkable and honestly, such a low-stress environment. There used to be a saying ‘it’s sleepier than a Saturday night in Salt Lake City,’ but that’s not the case anymore. We have had a lot of changes since the Olympics, and we have a lot of really good creative energy in Salt Lake that’s coming out in food, art and cocktail culture.” Pugh thinks Salt Lake is special in two other ways: the surrounding mountains and the history. “There’s no other city in the world that has this access,” Pugh said. “We’re unique in that where our city is located we have some of the best ski terrains and hiking access, it’s a huge thing! We are beneficiaries of 100-plus years of unique history. We had a group of people that fled persecution and came here and built their own city. Some people like to complain about some of the things here because of that but they take for granted the fact that those people helped make, organize and built the city with passion.” Pugh’s book is available at King’s English Bookshop in Sugar House, Amazon or you can order it directly from him and he’ll sign and ship a copy to you. He’s excited to share his book and hopes that those who read it can take advantage of the unique elements of Salt Lake City. “I think it’s a little bit of a love letter to my city,” Pugh said, “a way of saying thank you.”
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Three school districts in valley increase teacher pay, benefits By Mandy Ditto | m.ditto@mycityjournals.com
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Those attending the Association Representative meeting for Granite School District in April wave the newly presented salary schedule that had to later be approved by the district board. (Granite Education Association, Cindy Formeller)
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hree school districts— Granite, Canyons and Jordan—have increased teachers’ pay for the upcoming school year, in an effort to retain and hire enough teachers for growing classrooms in the valley.
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Granite School District Even if every graduate with a teaching degree from Utah colleges and universities chose to stay and teach in Utah, there still wouldn’t be enough to fill classrooms across the state, said Ben Horsley, communications director for Granite School District. “The reality is that we’ve been in a teacher shortage crisis for quite some time. Granite District has been fortunate that we’ve been able to almost 100 percent staff the last two years,” Horsley said. “Our board feels strongly that every kid deserves a great, instructional leader, a full-time teacher that is there and committed to that class for the full year.” However, as the district
looked into hiring for the coming year, they found they had about half the applications they would typically receive, and would be short around 100 needed hires to fill positions across the district, he said. The board looked at their options, and seeing that Jordan and Canyons districts were looking to raise their pay as well, decided to make changes. The increases include the starting salary going up to $41,000 annually, which includes a 3 percent Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) across the board for all teachers and administrators. The board also added an 8.67 percent market adjustment to salary schedule across the board, making it the 11.67 percent increase for all in the district, Horsley said. He said the district does anticipate some sort of tax increase through the local levy to offset the costs. The board is looking at any other cuts they can make to pursue other funds, and will use the 4 percent increase in the Weighted Pupil Unit (WPU) from the
legislature to help with increase, as well as increase in levy. The legislature funds education through the WPU, which is money from the general PACs fund from the state, and that money is given to state districts to pay teachers, fund programs and other needs. Whatever increase the WPU goes up to each year— currently 4 percent—is what teachers can typically expect to negotiate as a raise amount each year. As for the increase in the local levy, “it would be anywhere from $75 to $100 on a $250,000 home within Granite School District (boundaries),” Horsley said. It isn’t just about increasing pay because it’s fair, said Susen Zobel, Granite Education Association president and a seventh-grade history teacher at Bonneville Junior High. It’s about keeping teachers in the districts they work in, while continuing to hire. “What Granite did was honor the existing salary schedule and send it all the way across, so every single
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led by the best and the brightest educators that we can attract and retain, especially in this era of a national teacher shortage,” Haney said. Along with these pay increases to create a competitive pay schedule, the Canyons District has been working to make sure that other benefits are clear to potential educators since the district creation in 2009, he said. Since voters approved a $250 million bond to renovate and build new schools, the district has almost completed all 13 projects identified in 2010. A new middle school and elementary school will open this upcoming fall, Haney said. Achievement coaches and technology specialists are also at every school in the district to improve the teaching experience, he said. As for how the increases will be paid for by the district, taxes aren’t expected to go up as an increase in the local levy. “The law governing countywide equalization sunsets at the end of 2017. Under the parameters of this law, and because of increasing assessed valuations, Canyons District expects the certified tax rate to remain virtually unchanged in order to collect the funds necessary to operate the district at the same level of service while also providing a salary increase for teachers,” Haney said. Potential teachers from the valley and elsewhere were instantly interested in applying for Canyons District positions when they heard about the increases in the starting salary, he said. “The students will benefit from this. The vision of the Canyons School District is to make sure that every student graduates college and career ready, and the way to do that is to have amazing teachers in every classroom, in every grade level,” he said. “This new salary schedule will help us attract the best and the brightest to our classrooms.” Jordan School District Jordan School District
is no different from others in Utah looking to constantly fill teacher positions, and with their newly approved salary schedule they are hoping to continue to attract quality employees. Negotiations for a new salary schedule in the district began with a committee of five teachers from the Jordan Education Association, two administrators and three board members that met every other week through February. The new salary schedule has been officially approved by the Jordan Education Association and the district board, said Janice Voorhies, president of the Jordan School District Board of Education. The beginning salary has been raised to $40,000 a year, and every teacher on the scale has been moved up through the schedule from that, Voorhies said, effective for the upcoming fall. “We are working on a phase two for our experienced teachers with the Jordan Education Association, and our goal is to increase compensation for them through a menu of things they may already be doing or would like to opt into, like mentoring or teacher leadership or curriculum development,” she said, “and we’ll pay them more for that.” Another change the board approved was to take away a cap in the salary schedule, so that experienced teachers can now continue to get increased compensation after 15 years of teaching. The district will also be paying for increases in benefits costs for teachers in the coming school year. To pay for the increases, the district has adjusted their budget and are “applying a portion of our unassigned resources to increasing teacher pay for the next several years,” Voorhies said. “Additionally, we appreciate the legislature’s generous WPU allotment this past session and we intend to use those taxpayer dollars very carefully in order to continue to support reasonable compensation for all employees.”
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Highland soccer team sticks together despite winless season By Koster Kennard | koster.k@mycityjournals.com
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ourteen seniors graduated from Highland’s varsity soccer team last year leaving behind a young, inexperienced team replete with freshmen and sophomores. As if that wasn’t enough, the team also lost their head coach. Julio Gutierrez, a JV coach at the time, was hired as head coach of the young team. As you would expect, the Highland Ram’s endured a tough season. So tough, in fact, that they were unable to win a game. “We started with a lot of young players, a lot of freshmen and sophomores so it was definitely a tough season,” Gutierrez said. The varsity team was made up of four seniors, five juniors, four sophomores and four freshmen. Despite losing all their games the team got along well. “The team chemistry was good but they didn’t know how to play with each other yet,” Gutierrez said. “That was one of the toughest parts trying to have seniors play with freshmen. They both really tried both seniors and freshmen did everything they could. It is difficult to play at a higher level with and against seniors.” Having so many young players on the team allowed the young players to grow in a way they never could have if older players were in their spots. “I guess the advantage is that not many teams get to have four or five kids playing varsity as ninth graders,” Gutierrez said. “Having 10th and ninth graders playing varsity is definitely going to help us in the future.” Freshman captain Jack Thomas said the young and inexperienced team enabled them to form a new team. “I feel like this season was good for us because we kind of had a fresh team,” Thomas said. “A new team. It kind of helped us mesh well The Highland soccer team poses for a photo at Highland High School. (Lon Miles/ Highland soccer) and learn each other’s playing style like how we fit together as a team.” Thomas said that he thinks that players getting experience this year will be good in the future and that he is excited about the talent that will join the team next season. “Some of my favorite moments were when I knew I was getting better and you can tell the team is finally learning how each other works and how everyone is going to fit together,” Thomas said. Julio Gutierrez Jr. said that the underclassmen getting experience now will help them play at higher level in the future. “The good parts about (starting as a freshmen) were that I got the experience of playing against older and tougher kids and help set the stage for what it will be like in the future when I play against the same type of people,” Thomas said. Gutierrez said there are a couple young players who he is particularly excited about. “I have a sophomore, his name is Fagan Gonzalez (midfielder and forward). He definitely plays at a higher level, and then I have a freshman, his name is Jack Thomas,” Gutierrez said. “They’re very hard workers. Their smart boys and very coachable too.” Gutierrez said his younger players were respectful of both their teammates and their opponents and that helped the team as a whole. “Probably the part that was the best was you couldn’t really see a difference between the seniors and the freshmen,” Gutierrez said. “The seniors did a really good job at making those sophomores and freshmen feel comfortable and part of the team right away, which is not an easy thing in most teams. You usually have this senior group that is kind of in charge of the team and they did take charge of the team but they really included the freshmen in everything we did.”
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Eleven Highland track athletes qualify for state meet By Koster Kennard | koster.k@mycityjournals.com
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espite being in a difficult region, Highland High’s track and field teams qualified five boys and six girls for state at their region tournament. Probably seven of those 11 athletes who qualified have a chance at placing in their events, said head track coach Gary Rowles. There’s Jake Boren, a senior sprinter who won the 100-meter dash while placing second in the 200-meter dash. “Jake is one of the fastest sprinters in the state,” Rowles said. “He was definitely our stellar male athlete for the day.” Jake ran 22.4 seconds in the 200 and 11.06 seconds in the 100. “I’ve run track for four years now and (state is) always your end goal and it’s always nice when you’re able to qualify for it,” Boren said. “I’m looking forward to it, and it should be good.” Boren has some big goals for state. “I’d like to get sub 11 for the 100 and hopefully place and then for the 200, anything under what my PR is would be great,” said Boren. Boren also anchored the team that won the 4 x 100-meter relay. The other three members of the team were Jackson Jake Boren stands on the podium after winning 100-meter dash (Swede Robinson/Highland High) Dro, Cole Horton and James Pembroke who started for the Rams football team as a quarterback for the last two years. James placed third in the long jump at region. was able to get qualified this year for state so that was a real nice thing,” One athlete who stood out to Rowles from the 4 x 100-meter relay Robinson said. “He’s really kind of came on and started to buy into the team was senior Cole Horton. process a bit and is starting to identify with being a thrower.” “Cole’s a senior and he’s been one of these kids whose been out every This is Robinson’s first year coaching with Highland and the first year year and just worked hard and this is the first year he’s run the relay and he the team has had a coach dedicated to practice with the throwers daily. just did a great job at regions in the relay and was big part of the reason we were able to win it,” said Rowles. Boren’s sister, Meg, also qualified for state in the 100 and the 200 placing fourth at the region meet in both events. She also qualified for state at the BYU Invitational by running a state qualifying time. Senior sprinter Maddy Agbor placed second in both the 100 and 200. Dylan Kime won second place in the boys’ 110-meter hurdles while narrowly missing state qualification by placing fifth in the 300-meter hurdles. “He’s our only state medalist returning,” Rowles said. “He got fourth in the hurdles last year at state.” Andrea Steele qualified in the high jump by jumping five feet and one inch. “Andrea Steele has placed in state before,” Rowles said. “She placed in the high jump two years ago. This will be her third year at the state meet. So, she has a chance in the high jump.” Lili Oafi-Noah placed second in the javelin and the shot put. She threw 119 feet in the shot put and broke the Highland girls’ shot put record by 13 Noah and Sini Fifita pose together after they each qualified for state. (Swede Robinson/ Highland High) feet. She’s a junior. “Lili’s kind of taken us by surprise. She’s really done quite well with the javelin,” said throwing coach Swede Robinson. “She qualified in javelin Rowles said that the team didn’t just show up and perform in region. and shotput. Lili was a couple inches away from winning a region title They worked hard throughout the season including enduring several meets being a new thrower this year and she’s got one of the top javelin throws in with bad weather. Another key to the team’s success was getting more the state so we’re super excited about her.” kids to participate in track. The team has had between 150 and 160 kids Misini (Sini) Fifita placed third in the shot put. participate in track during the last two years. “She’s kind of a kid we got from basketball,” Robinson said. “(She’s) a “We have more kids out than any other sport in the school. We have strong girl. She came ready to start showing up and working hard with us.” 10 percent of our high school come out for track and field,” Rowles said. Both Fifita and Oafi-Noah are new to throwing this season. “We want to keep that going. It’s a positive environment and we cheer on KJ Pacofe took fourth at region. the kid that gets last that just ran a personal best as much as we cheer the “He’s a kid who’s played football and just kind of came out. (He’s) kid on that’s the regional champ. The whole team does that, not just the a strong kid and we’ve got him to start practicing throwing a bit and he coaches.
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Farmer’s Market hopes to draw visitors with theme nights By Kelly Cannon | kelly@mycityjournals.com
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he Sugar House Farmer’s Market is scheduled to open for a new season starting June 7. The market will be open from 5 to 7 p.m. every Wednesday until October in Fairmont Park, 1040 E. Sugarmont Drive. Representatives from the farmer’s market gave a report to the Sugar House Community Council on May 3, describing what they can expect at this season’s market. According to Natalie McHale, the Sugar House Farmer’s Market manager, the biggest change this year are the weekly themes. “The first week (of the month) is family night. The second week is kind of a pet social, which we thought would be kind of fun with the new dog park going in. The third week, we’re doing a wellness night so just kind of health and wellness,” McHale said. “The fourth week will be night out at the market. That’s kind of a renting a movie theater, farm to table dinners, things like that.” McHale said the goal with having the weekly themes is to have something for everyone at the market, especially since theirs is an evening market and people plan on going to the market but then get home from work and don’t end up coming. “If they have things they can count on, they can get really attached to that one week a month at least,” McHale said. The farmer’s market is also seeking sponsorship opportunities, with one of their goals being to provide more education with the public and more educational opportunities with the community. “We would love to bring in local nonprofits to have a table at
the market, kind of promote their business through education, tell people what they’re doing, providing hands-on activities because that will be a draw to the market,” McHale said. “It will bring more vendors.” The farmer’s market is also looking for any in-kind donations from local businesses, such as gift cards. The market plans on holding raffles every week on social media for anyone who visits the market. The farmer’s market rates for a table will be $20 a week for nonprofits and $50 for any local businesses. “That being said, if anyone offers anything that is really engaging like a fitness class or some awesome giveaways, we’re willing to negotiate those prices,” McHale said. However, the biggest need for the market is sponsorships. McHale said they are very flexible with four different levels this year. “We’re in negotiations with a few people right now at our top level, which is $5,000. And then it goes down from there to $2,500 and $1,000 and $500. Every level offers something different for those who visit the market and want to promote themselves at the market,” McHale said. “I don’t know if the council would be interested in that. We love working with you guys.” For more information about the Sugar House Farmer’s Market, visit http://www.sugarhousefarmersmarket.org/
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