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UTAH STORIES MAGAZINE

6 Utah Stories Contributors 12 Issue Intro - What Would Brigham Do? 14 Tech Pioneers Evans and Sutherland

18 Will Utah Run Out of Water Utah farmers look at water needs

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VOLUME 11 ISSUE 13

22 Utah Lake Misconceptions

P. 58

Muddy waters

26 Wallace Stegner Lasting legacy at the University of Utah

32 Klos Guitars Tough guitars for travelers

44 Gas Chamber Euthanization Orem’s kill shelter

46 Ticket to Ride Canyon transportation debate

56 Fun Guide

What’s happening in July

58 Shoot-the-Tube Supernatural sliding

SPOTLIGHT 28 Sugar House Granite Mills

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PUBLISHER/EDITOR

COPY EDITORS

Richard Markosian

Richard Markosian

Richard Markosian

David Jensen

Maria Milligan

Amiee Maxwell

PUBLISHER’S ASSISTANT

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Dan Potts

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GRAPHIC DESIGN

WRITERS

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SALES & ACCOUNTS

Anna Lythgoe

Nicole Anderson

Eric S. Peterson

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Fletcher Marchant

Deann Armes

Dan Potts

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BEHIND THE STORIES Deann Armes

Deann Armes, AKA “The Ogdenite Writer”, is a freelance journalist with an eye for unpolished beauty.

This vision landed her in “untamed” Ogden where she relocated to seek offbeat adventures with her kids in 2015. She loves unearthing the unseen in Utah’s lands, history, culture, and people — and bringing it to light through story. When not writing, Deann is out hiking, kayaking, or exploring Ogden’s Historic 25th Street and her old stomping grounds in Salt Lake for the best food, drinks, and stories.

Mike Jones

Mike has been a Utah stories contributor of photography and articles since 2012. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, nature and portrait photography, whisky and craft beer tastings.

Earlier this year he earned his masters degree in library science with a concentration in archiving from Emporia State University.

“My favorite thing about Utah has got to be the history,” Mike says. “There are so many weird and interesting things that have happened here. The outdoor scene is pretty great as well; summer or winter there’s always something to do, and lots of great people to do it with.”

The reason he likes contributing to Utah Stories? “The people I get to meet. I get to play an active role in spreading the news about what makes Utah great, and I get to do it with my camera.”

Christopher Widmer

Chris started delivering Utah Stories magazines around the city in July 2020. He’s proud of being able to write and contribute to the magazine in a variety of ways.

Chris has always enjoyed writing, whether he is working on thoughtful gifts for his friends, poetry, fantasy, technical reports, or just stories that need to be told.

Growing up in Salt Lake City, Chris was always interested in exploring the rich plethora of cultures that speckle our valley. Attending AMES high school and The University of Utah helped to develop and inspire his creative, scientific, and social mind. He has also worked around the city in several different types of businesses, both large and small. Developing long-lasting relationships is an important part of Chris’s life.

“My gratitude to all of the loving people of Salt Lake that have given me a chance to learn, work, and improve my life as well as the lives of those around me is indescribable.”

When he’s not planting trees or delivering supplies around Salt Lake, you’ll see Chris doing all sorts of interesting activities that our city has to offer, or maybe just reading a large book in a small nook.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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t has been common knowledge for years that all major developing countries have possessed the ability to conduct germ warfare. The Wuhan crisis is no exception. A virus was created in the lab and deliberately leaked into the local wet markets for experimentation on the people of Wuhan. This is totally consistent with China’s poor record on civil rights and it’s complete lack of concern for all of the Chinese people.

The virus created in Wuhan is by no means a poor reflection on all Asians especially Asia-Americans. It is simply a reaffirmation of the Communist Chinese

Government’s inhuman disdain for human life. They are the ones to blame.

Now we the American people are required by our government to get the vaccine without being told what are the short/long term side effects. This is inherently a violation of our civil rights.

The one benefactor from the spread of the virus is the environment. Consider how working from home reduces the amount of carbon emissions caused by the automobile.

Joe Bialek

Commenting on: The Unexpected Consequences of Utah’s Tech Boom: Disappearing Farms From the editor To have farms or to build more homes? It is a better use of space to build homes based on Utah’s current land-use policies and economic drivers. But that is only if we assume we can easily import all of our food from elsewhere (and that fossil fuels remain cheap enough to make this feasible). Are we really prepared to make that assumption? Fresh fruits and vegetables are essential to nutrition. Maintaining connectivity to the land, water and soil through farms; witnessing the miracle of growing crops; putting kids to work on local farms; setting up farm stands where people can even participate in helping harvest their own fruit-- I tend to believe these are virtues that prevent mental disorders. What makes us so smart and technologically advanced that we should completely divorce ourselves from our food production?

Legacy farms like old architecture, like historic sites, like wilderness preservation are a big part of our tradition, and they should be preserved.

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I mean, we could build for people instead of cars to preserve our farmland 🏻‍♂...

Naw, how about some good ol McMansions with excessively large lawns, super wide roads, and parking lots so large you can see the curvature of the earth? Just to be safe, we should reject all efforts to make public transit viable and keep rigid zoning laws to protect us from living near, or interacting with those of a marginally lower socioeconomic class.

That’s the solution. How about we widen our freeways like LA and Atlanta, so we can get rid of traffic forever, just like they did?

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Comments from Reddit r/Salt Lake City u/TurningTwo The way it usually works when a farm won’t sell out is the developers bear down on the county commissioners to rezone the property so it becomes impossible to make a profit from the farm. Most family farms can’t hold out against that kind of economic pressure.

u/East-Calligrapher-60 This farm will eventually be kicked to the curb and told there are plenty of $15/hr jobs, go back to school, learn a new trade and stop collecting govt hand outs. This state sells itself to the highest bidder, capitalism above all. It’s unfortunate but, not gonna change.

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What Would Brigham Young Do? W

ith a world-class university named after him, along with a rich and

sometimes controversial history, Brigham Young’s large legacy lives on in Utah.

Brigham Young was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and has aptly been nicknamed “the Mormon Moses.” Young led the Saints from Nauvoo, Illinois where they were being increasingly persecuted for their beliefs, to the “Promised Land” of the Salt Lake Valley. Young had a clear vision for how the Saints could live a better life than the rest of the nation, which was increasingly being dominated by large banks, tycoons, and industrial powers with harsh working conditions.

Young’s vision was similar to the vision Joseph Smith had laid out and successfully built in Nauvoo, Illinois. But

encouraged everyone to spend their

Young’s vision was highly religious and

precious currency with local merchants,

economic in nature.

and to not buy the extravagances from

Young imagined “The Kingdom

wagon trains that arrived from the east

of Deseret” to be a highly self-reliant

proffering items such as coffee, tobacco

economy, whereby everyone filled a very

and liquor.

important and specific role. Missionaries

Young decided that he would make

operating in Europe, seeking converts to

this a mandate, instituting the “Word of

immigrate to the Great Basin, were keenly

Wisdom” as law, prohibiting Saints from

aware of the specific tradesmen that were

imbibing, smoking, or fettering away

required to make Mormon settlements

their money on strong drinks and other

successful. Young had acquired the skills

useless vices.

of carpentry, joinery and mill building.

Young also prohibited the Saints from

He actively sought Europeans who had

engaging in prospecting for silver. As

skills not only in carpentry and millwork,

he strongly believed, the greatest value

but also masonry, architecture, surveying

of land and a person’s time, energy

and blacksmithing.

and labor, was in farming. “Making the

Young was focused on “local industry”.

desert blossom as the rose” wasn’t just a

He spoke in sermons about how much

pipe-dream. They made it happen. The

he appreciated seeing young girls and

Pioneer farms and aqueducts provided

boys wearing homespun clothing. He

water to thousands of small farms. The

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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY

irrigation canals Mormon Pioneers

Community. The question is: “What

constructed were incredibly well built.

would Brigham do?” What would he

Many have stood the test of time. Rural

do knowing that the people he led into

Utah farm towns supported by “Utah’s

the Promised Land are now wanting to

Fruit Highway” such as Willard and

push farmers out in order to get their

Perry have seen few changes in the

development projects underway? What

infrastructure of irrigation in the past one

would Brigham do about those who would

hundred years. But things are changing

like to divert water used for farming,

today. Water is becoming more scarce.

which helps Utah to be more self-reliant,

Many in the LDS Community serve on city councils, and many of our state legislators are land developers. They use

to water the grass of tech millionaire mansions instead?

We addressed that subject in the

their positions of influence to expedite

previous issue of Utah Stories Magazine

public expenditures that would pad their

and received a couple dozen comments

pockets (such as the proposed gondola

on Youtube and in our Reddit thread.

up Little Cottonwood Canyon). In Utah,

We believe this is an ongoing discussion

development, not conservation, is king.

that most in high political positions don’t

LIke the days of the Silver Rush in

believe is worth having. Let’s get their

the 1860s, there is a land rush today,

attention. Please leave your comments on

and nearly everyone is looking to cash

our YouTube channel.

in, especially members of the LDS

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Real or unreal? This is one of the latest Evans and Sutherland projects a curved 8K, 20-meter dome immersive experience. According to InPark Magazine: Evans & Sutherland, Spitz, and LiveLike VR join immersive forces as Cosm to build these displays for science, education, theme parks and sports. (yes, this is a screen).

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Tech Pioneers Did you know that the Computer Graphics revolution began in Utah?

By Richard Markosian

T

wo men who stand out as the foremost Tech Pioneers in Utah are without a

a variety of tasks.

Evans and Sutherland envisioned

doubt David Evans and Ivan Sutherland.

the use of computers as simulators by

This dynamic duo used their math,

using graphics technology to replace

physics and electrical engineering skills

real objects, aiding in cheaper costs for

to revolutionize computer graphic

military and other development projects.

imaging technology. They literally built

The genesis of the Evans and Sutherland

the first computer graphics simulation

Computer Corporation (E&S) started in

engines, and they and their students

the barracks on the University of Utah

pioneered the field of CGI (Computer

campus with students recruited from the

Graphics Imagery). Out of their labs came

university. E&S made advances in real-

Adobe, Pixar, Atari, Xerox, and PARC,

time hardware, accelerated 3D computer

a subsidiary of Xerox, which invented

graphics, and printer languages, and

the first GUI (graphical user interface,

continues today as a major supplier

and which Apple copied and built into

of military and commercial graphics

the Macintosh), and a host of graphic

systems.

simulation engines used by the U.S. Military.

How did this happen in the sixties,

The creative and inventive atmosphere Evans and Sutherland fostered as professors and employers stimulated

when Utah was just a small blip on the

some of the most successful minds in

tech pioneer map?

the field of computer science. Many of

In 1965, the University of Utah

Evans and Sutherland’s students went

recruited Evans to establish a state of the

on to further expand the field including

art computer science program. In 1968, he

Alan Kay, inventor of Smalltalk language;

convinced his friend from Berkeley, Ivan

Ewin Catmull, cofounder of Pixar, and

Sutherland, to leave his teaching position

currently President of Walt Disney and

at Harvard and move to Utah, which he

Pixar Animation Studios; John Warnock,

agreed to do under the condition that

the founder of Adobe; and Jim Clark, of

they would eventually launch a computer

Silicon Graphics.

graphics company together.

This power collaboration shaped

In Robert Rivlin’s book, The Algorithmic Image: Graphic Visions

the history of the computer industry

of the Computer Age, he says, “Almost

and built one of the most influential

every influential person in the modern

university computer graphics programs

computer-graphics community either

in the country. Students were encouraged

passed through the University of Utah or

to experiment and discover creative

came into contact with it in some way.”

solutions based on the theory that computers could be used interactively for

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David Evans and Ivan Sutherland at the University of Utah circa 1970

The Teachers

Their Students

Their Companies

John Warnock

David Evans Nolan Bushnell

Ivan Sutherland

James Clark

Alan Kay

Ed Catmull

Infographic of their legacy

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This three-story 8K screen (the only one of its kind) is located in Utah at Research Park.

It’s the showpiece for Cosm, who is building displays similar to this all over the world, including a curved planetarium in Sweeden.

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Pineview Lake

Will Utah Run Out of Water?

By Richard Markosian

P

aul Nielson is a fourth-generation

have any worries over water.” But this

farmer in Perry, Utah who has

year, Tagge says, “I’m worried.”

all my years of farming it has never been

taking all of his orchards off of flood

this bad,” he observes. Nielson serves on

irrigation and switching to drip

the Weber-Box (Weber County/Box Elder

irrigation. The USDA offered farmers a

Water Conservation Board of Directors,

grant to pay for the entire amount. Five

which controls the outflow of water from

years ago he was the only farmer in Perry

Pineview Reservoir. With Pineview being

to make the shift to drip, but today it’s

at its lowest level in years, some drastic

about 75% of farmers. ‘It’s really great to

measures need to take place. The Board

see,” says Tagge.

personally been at it for fifty years. “In

has already sent a notice to the residents

About eight years ago, Tagge began

Drip irrigation uses about 70% less

of Perry, who rely on Pineview water

water than flood irrigation, and allows

for their secondary water, that unless

farmers to save a huge amount of their

residents agree to major conservation

water shares, so everyone is better off. But

efforts, their water might be shut off by

Tagge says that some farmers just don’t

August 1st.

want to make the shift. Right next door

Thayne Tagge also operates a farm in

to Tagge is runoff from the neighboring

Perry that relies on Pineview water. He

orchard, with water spilling over into

bought his first orchard in 1998, and says

Tagge’s parking lot and going down a

that when he purchased the property, the

drain. “It would take about one hour with

former owner laughingly said, “With this

a backhoe to fix that,” he says.

orchard, and this water, you will never

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I followed Tagge around his farm

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Pioneer Aqueduct

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Tagge’s Farm

sites in Perry for a couple of hours and

Because you have the Bear River

he showed me how he operates his

drainage, the Perry Canyon drainage,

watering system. When it’s his turn with

Willard Canyon drainage, Pineview water

his 5/8ths acre foot from his Pineview

and so many irrigation ditches, even

water shares, he spends all day driving

close neighbors could have completely

around examining his massive network of

different water situations. Perry City

watering lines.

residents have both culinary water as well

Above the town of Perry, along the

as Pineview pressurized water. But there

benches is a concrete aqueduct, built in

is no metering on the Pineview water.

the late 1800s. On Mondays the Water

This requires residents to operate on the

Master turns a giant wheel that lowers

honor system. The Perry City Newsletter

a gate, allowing water to flow from the

has a list of requirements for residents

aqueduct down a channel which goes

to save water, including no watering on

down a stay. The water is distributed to

consecutive days, but seeing how Tagge’s

his four farm sites through pipes and a

neighbor is allowing hundreds of gallons

massive filtration system that he controls

of water to run off into a drain, it seems

with an app on his phone.

unlikely that everyone will comply with

“This Pineview water is so clean and so awesome most of the time. The

the mandates.

Nielson added, “This year, farmers

crystal clear water is great this time of

don’t need to worry because we have

year, but,” Tagge says, “as the water level

priority with our water shares. Residents

declines, the water will gain a greater

might have to cut way back, but they

concentration of silt. It makes things a

aren’t going to tell us we can’t water our

little more difficult. But I feel so lucky to

crops…” But Nielson added a dire warning:

have such a great water source here.”

“If next year it is as bad as this year, then

Tagge shows me all the measures he is taking to conserve water. He drives

we all need to worry about our farms.”

Tagge added to that sentiment. “The

around on his four-wheeler and scans all

Governor is telling us to pray for rain.

of his irrigation hoses for leaks. A box

I think we are past that already. What

fitted on the front of his four-wheeler has

we really all need to do is pray for snow

all the parts he needs to fix any problems.

come November through February. A

But he admits the water situation is

huge snowpack is what makes all the

extremely complicated. “It’s a different

difference.”

situation for everyone.”

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Utah Lake Murky and misunderstood

By Dan Potts

U

tah’s public has long considered Utah

the wind blows, the wave action stirs

Lake to be highly polluted. Once

up the very loose bottom, turning the

known as the largest natural lake west of

lake’s water muddy, thereby reinforcing

the Mississippi, it is surprising just how

the public’s common and long-held

unpolluted what later became a water

misconceptions about pollution.

storage reservoir really is.

Surprisingly, the health of Utah Lake’s

Extremely unique in the world, Utah Lake is 22 miles long by 15 miles wide, with an average depth of less than 10 feet.

Because it is so shallow, every time

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waters and fish is counterintuitive to the public perception.

Oh sure, there have been a few harmful algal blooms (HABs) in areas protected

more than 40 years, I have found the lake’s fish to be great table fare yearround, and have never found any of its food fishes to have poor flavor or texture so common to many of Utah’s other fisheries, especially later in the year.

The Geneva Steel plant on the western shoreline of Utah Lake in Lindon may have polluted the lake and its fish over many decades. That facility was deemed the least polluting steel plant in America, however, the plant may have discarded some electrical transformers that leaked toxic PCBs into the water table that still find their way into the lake and its fish.

Today, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality does not recommend the consumption of common carp and channel catfish by young children and pregnant women. PCBs are largely found in fatty tissues that can be trimmed or cooked away.

Some readers might know about an ongoing Endangered Species recovery program — the June Sucker Recovery Implementation Program ( JSRIP), to save a unique native fish species only found in Utah Lake from extinction. Early in the state’s history, June suckers were from the wind, especially inside the lake’s various marinas, or in the extremely shallow Provo Bay. But surprisingly, it is actually this “muddiness” of the water that has most protected the lake’s water quality and fish. Operating like a shade umbrella, the suspended silt (mud) helps to reduce the penetration of sunlight necessary to produce those kinds of algae that can harm us, our dogs, and all the

PHOTOS BY DAN POTTS

fish in the lake.

I find the most significant evidence of the lake’s longtime health is the fact that none of the ten commonly introduced sport and food fishes in the lake have only rarely been negatively influenced by the off-flavor compounds so commonly produced by HABs. As an avid Utah Lake fisherman for

harvested for food by local Indians and Mormon pioneers.

Later, a dam and pump house were installed at its Jordan River outlet, turning the lake into a reservoir with more radical water level fluctuations. The original delta-oriented tributary streams were highly modified, preventing this rare species from successfully reproducing.

I have represented the public on the JSRIP for the past 20 years, witnessing the artificial culture and stocking of their young in the lake, and more recent efforts to restore some of the delta characteristics of the lake’s two largest tributary streams, Hobble Creek and the Lower Provo River.

Although these investments have cost taxpayers millions of dollars, I agree with experts that those investments

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are likely to benefit the sucker and all

the removal of three quarters of the adult

the sport fishes in the lake. These and

carp over the decades, those remaining

other efforts have finally contributed to

have doubled in size to more successfully

the recent successful downlisting of the

reproduce, essentially replacing those

species to “threatened” status instead of

removed.

“endangered”.

A more controversial effort to save

As a longtime advocate and avid angler of Utah Lake, I recommend not believing

the sucker was the huge, ongoing and

the “fake news” about Utah’s gem, Utah

expensive removal of carp from the lake.

Lake. All ten sport and food fish are

Although the common carp population

great to catch and eat any time, HABs

had grown to entirely overwhelm the

are rare out in the lake’s open waters,

lake, there was never any real evidence

and carp have little to do with ultimate

that the carp had contributed to

survival and well being of the lake’s only

significant declines in the sucker. In fact,

remaining native threatened fish.

the well-adapted June sucker has always

Even with Utah’s extended drought that

outcompeted the carp in the lake’s largely

will undoubtedly result in very low future

open, featureless waters.

Utah Lake water levels, I recommend

This was especially evident as the

that everyone check out all of the great

carp were historically starving to death,

recreational opportunities on the huge,

resulting in stunted growth to a mere 4

largely unpolluted lake right here in our

½ pound average each — the smallest in

own backyard.

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Wallace Stegner His Lasting Legacy at the University of Utah

By Amiee Maxwell

T

his year, Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer

and Stanford universities, Stegner willed

Prize-winning novel “Angle of Repose”

his entire collection of papers, letters,

turns 50 years old, thrusting him once

and other memorabilia to the University

again into the spotlight as one of the

of Utah, which Gregory Thompson,

American West’s greatest writers. His

historian and Associate Dean of Special

nomadic childhood led him to form a

Collections at the University of Utah’s J.

deep bond with Salt Lake City, as he spent

Willard Marriott Library, calls the library’s

much of his adolescence here hawking hot

most important collection. “His papers

dogs at Saltair resort, adventuring in the

are just wonderful,” says Thompson, of

wilderness with his LDS Church Boy Scout

Stegner’s archives, and he enjoys seeing

troop (although he was a Presbyterian

the many people who comb through them

himself), and playing tennis on the

hoping to gain some insight and a deeper

University of Utah team.

understanding of the life of this literary

Despite spending much of his adult life teaching creative writing at Harvard

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giant.

highly recommends listening to the audio version of the essay “Genesis” while driving through the southern Utah landscape.

One of his most notable works is a short essay entitled The Wilderness Letter, which was instrumental in the passing of the Wilderness Act of 1964. “Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in,” lamented Stegner in this passionate and poetic essay.

His plea for the preservation and protection of wilderness helped bolster support for the Wilderness Act, and many credit his essay for its eventual passage — a landmark victory for the conservation movement that has since set over 100 million acres aside as protected wilderness areas.

I personally enjoy his collections of

Stegner was much more than a novelist and writing professor. His nonfiction books and essay collections take a critical look at the cultural and natural heritage of the American West, and his work as an early conservationist has left a powerful and lasting influence on the West. His respect for the natural world was a theme in all of his writings and was central to who he was as a person.

For those having never read Stegner, Thompson recommends starting out with Angle of Repose, or one of his semiautobiographical novels such as Big Rock Candy Mountain or Crossing to Safety.

Those more interested in the history of things will enjoy Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, which Thompson says has never been more relevant. “This book has a lot to say to us as

what southern Utah was like before the main throughways were paved, when the Colorado River still flowed freely through Glen Canyon, and when the dirt road over Fishlake High Top was “so paved with flowers that a man could walk twenty miles and never set his foot down without trampling them.”

Thompson met Stegner several times through his role at the library, and when I asked him what it was like sitting down with Stegner, he said it was one of the experiences that sticks out in his life. “It is something I think about quite often,” Thompson said.

“As the repository of the work of this great author, teacher, and conservationist, we have a responsibility to not only preserve Stegner’s legacy, but to celebrate it and to offer it up to our students, the community, and the environmental thinkers of our time.”

we struggle with water issues today.” He also

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PHOTOS COURTESY OF J. WILLARD MARRIOTT LIBRARY, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Young Wallace Stegner

essays for the glimpses they provide into

SUGAR HOUSE

Granite Mills

By Nicole Anderson

I

n the spring of 1907, the city of Salt

way to the Granite Planing Mill, owned

Lake had only eight miles of paved

and operated by Frederick Sandberg, a

roads, leaving the rest muddy, bogged-

Swedish immigrant who brought with

down, and at times, almost impassable.

him an elite set of carpentry skills and

The automobile was gaining a foothold

snickagleda (the joy of the carpenter), and

in the area, and with such rough road

bric-a-brac (curves and turnings) from

conditions, some brave drivers would take

Scandinavia.

a chance by driving along the railroad

Upon his arrival, Sandberg served as

tracks. This was fine until a train came

an engineer and craftsman, working on

along.

intricate creations and carvings like the

The joining of the Intercontinental

spiral staircases in the Salt Lake Temple.

Railway in 1869 made it possible for

After the temple’s dedication in 1893,

hardwoods like oak and maple from the

Sandberg worked on other structures

east coast, and softer woods like redwood

throughout the state. In fact, all the

from the west coast, to be shipped into

ornate woodwork in the area, from the

Utah from lumber mills across the United

LDS temples and the Stations of the Cross

States for planing. The wood made its

at the Cathedral of the Madeleine, to

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carvings and restored lighting in the First

energy from the water to pull the lumber

Presbyterian Church next door, and many

through the planer. The watermill wasn’t

homes in the avenues of Salt Lake City,

dependable, and when the water wasn’t

have Granite Mill’s stamp on them.

flowing at its highest, it simply broke

In 1907, after 35 years in South Salt Lake, Sandberg moved the Granite

down.

Sandberg purchased a Carlos Steam

Planing Mill to the historic Sugarhouse

engine in Oregon and brought it home.

district where the Frederick Sandberg

He built a line shaft — a power-driven

Memorial Bridge remains near

rotating shaft for power transmission

Wilmington Avenue, and where a stream

— strung with pulleys and lines, thus

once ran through the property.

beginning the process of getting away

Two short years later, in 1909, the building burned to the ground. After the

from hand-planing each individual piece.

Over many years, Granite Mill

fire reduced the mill to rubble, Sandberg

completed many intricate woodworking

joked with his friends and family that

projects. In fact, this family of craftsmen

he “didn’t have enough money to get out

has their fingerprints almost everywhere

of town, so he would have to stay and

across the state. Gary Sandberg, son of

rebuild”, and rebuild he did.

Frederick, shared his memories with

Sandberg rebuilt the property which

me during a recent conversation about

remained in Sugarhouse for decades. It

structures throughout the state, such as

stood behind the old ice storage building

the Governor’s Mansion, with its Botticelli

and cooling tower alongside a watermill,

carvings. The Alta Club, the Huntsman

where a pulley system harnessed the

Cancer Institute, the woodwork

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restoration in the Salt Lake City & County

Gary mentioned that one of his first

Building, and the Matheson Courthouse

jobs was unloading logs from railcars in

across the street are just a few of the

the 1960s. “It was an opportunity to earn

family’s many artistic contributions.

some money,” he said. “I crawled into the

When I asked Gary which was his

railcar on my hands and knees — I was

favorite, he couldn’t narrow it down,

scrawny back then — and pushed the

explaining that pride by nature isn’t a

carload of 18 x 24” wide, 3” thick, and 30’

good attribute. But after some convincing,

long planks, rough and full of slivers that

he shared one of his most memorable

were stacked all the way to the top of the

endeavors: Abravanel Hall. “It wasn’t

car for them to be planed.”

necessarily the most difficult to construct,

Gary’s sense of family pride and the

but perhaps the most educational. The

uncommon stability found at Granite Mill

company brought in Dr. Cyril Harris, an

is a special perk of the business. Three

acoustical engineer responsible for the

out of four of his boys have followed in

sound in the most prominent concert

the family’s footsteps. His son, Wayne

halls in the country, including the

Gary Jr., known as Sandy to friends and

Metropolitan Opera and Avery Fisher

co-workers, is now the president of the

Hall,” and our own Abravanel Hall. Gary

company. Matthew is the vice-president

remembers creating the curves of the

and C.F.O., and the second to the

walls and balconies, bending and shaping

youngest, Christopher, is now the C.O.O.

the white oak, and making certain that

The youngest son, Stephen, is taking a

the space behind the wood was of a

different route into real estate law.

certain thickness as if the hall itself was one giant sound chamber.

It’s all about line shafts, steam engines, hard and softwood joined together by

It was the learning and doing that

a railway, premium dovetail joints, and

made Sandberg’s career so interesting.

a 114-year family legacy. As Gary said,

His personality and storytelling quality

“It is an honor to walk into structures

is one that you could enjoy for hours as

all over the valley and all across the

he explains the intricate details of fine

Intermountain West, and knowing that

craftsmanship and premium dovetail

my grandfather, or my father, or my son

grade joints instead of what you often find

was there, touching that very wood, is a

in stores now.

blessing.”

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Klos Guitars The art of making indestructible instruments

By M. Shane Richin

K

los guitars, Utah’s only large-scale guitar manufacturing facility, is

internationally distributed, but reflects the rugged adventure found from the mountains to the deserts of our Utah landscape.

For those who want to marry the adventure to the art within themselves,

that can tag along with the world explorer.

there are really two instruments that

Ian Klosowiak who, along with his brother

stand out as mascots for life out in the

Adam Klosowiak, founded Klos, put it this

world — the guitar and the ukulele. If

way: “We wanted our guitars to be a piece

you pull out a ukulele around a campfire

of gear. Your wood guitar is a piece of art

and start singing Smash Mouth’s All Star,

that you want to protect. We want you to

you’re likely to get a round of off-key

throw our guitar in the trunk with your

social bonding.

other adventure gear and not worry if it

If you’re couch surfing across the nation and you pull out a guitar in the

can handle the trip.”

Ian is soft spoken, but you can tell

apartment of some new friends, someone

he knows the lifestyle his guitars are

will want to show you their rendition of

meant for firsthand. His experience

Wonderwall or Stairway to Heaven. These

with adventure has clearly been drawn

sorts of memories are branded into our

upon when designing the patented

minds, and stories are banked for later

features of the guitar, but it also spawned

withdrawal in our sunset years.

another local Utah business from the two

If a traveler has an instrument, it is

brothers: www.skillboardusa.com. Skill

likely to be a guitar or ukulele, but it’s

Board is a core strengthening balance

also likely to be in rough shape as a

board for extreme sport training.

consequence of the traveling lifestyle.

In the promotional videos for their

Even if you can afford to travel first class

guitars and ukuleles, the brothers drop

on an airplane, the baggage handlers

cinder blocks on their instruments

probably don’t hold the same reverence

and drive over them with a car. What

for your instrument that you do.

makes them so durable is carbon fiber

The folks at Klos aren’t just making another guitar. They are making a guitar

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construction. Ian noticed that the mountain biking world had embraced

carbon fiber years ago, but the only

the soundboard (the top of the guitar

guitars utilizing the strong, lightweight

body) could be thin and didn’t need to

material were $3,000 plus. That wouldn’t

be supported with the X bracing used in

do. They needed to be more affordable.

wooden guitars, freeing up the material

Klos guitars range in price from a little

to resonate better.

over $600 to around $1500.

Ian went to BYU for mechanical engineering, and he built his first carbon

his brother Adam came to visit on a

fiber guitar there. This set fate into

ski trip, they decided to enter a similar

motion. When he took it with him to

competition at Princeton University

travel around Europe, he got a lot of

where Adam was studying electrical

compliments on his workmanship. For a

engineering. They won $20,000 which

student looking forward to the next phase

they used as seed money to start Klos

of his life, where he would soon need to

guitars. They opened up shop in Provo,

carve his own space out of the business

Utah, and Ian and Adam now have twenty

landscape, this experience and feedback

employees building guitars for them.

were inspiring.

PHOTO BY BRADEN LATIMER

Back at BYU, Ian entered into a business competition in which he did well. When

Could he sell a recipe that was one part

They choose their staff by finding musicians who know what they want in

guitar hobby, one part adventure traveler,

their own guitars, and then educate them

and two parts engineer? He knew he could

in the industrial arts required to fabricate

make a professional level instrument

tools of creativity that they would want

that was very light, which helps when

to play themselves. Ian tells me this

traveling, and he didn’t have to sacrifice

approach has “produced great results”,

sound quality for weight and strength. A

and players all over the world would agree

big reason there isn’t a compromise is that

with him.

the strength of the material itself meant

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MOAB

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John W. Williams — Moab’s Wild West Doctor PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE MOAB MUSEUM (SOUTHEASTERN UTAH SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES)

By Rachel Fixsen

I

n 1896, Moab was a small town of 400 or

one day, and one of their buddies had a

500 people, mostly ranchers, farmers,

bullet in him.” John L. Williams recounted

and miners, with no doctor. Grand County

the story as he had heard it repeated

Commissioners at the time created a new

throughout his life. Doc Williams spent

position of County Health Officer for a

the day removing the bullet and treating

salary of $150 a year, which was accepted

the wounded man. Afterward the gang left

by a man named John W. Williams, later

town, and the doctor went home where he

known locally as “Doc” Williams.

noticed that his favorite mare was missing.

Williams served the community for

“He knew those guys had stolen her

more than 20 years, continuing to give

because he knew how they were, and he

medical care to his friends even after

knew they were holed up in Robbers’ Roost

his retirement in 1919. One of his first

on the other side of the Green River,” said

patients in the area, a sick infant, went on

John L. Williams. Doc Williams, according

to become an English teacher to Williams’

to family lore, wasted no time, but saddled

own children. But his legacy is much

up another of his horses and started the

broader than medicine alone. Williams was

arduous ride over rugged canyon country

a cowboy, a boatsman, a rancher, a farmer,

toward the outlaws’ hideout.

a community activist, and a promoter of

The route from Moab to Robbers’ Roost

Arches National Park as a beautiful natural

area now follows paved roads nearly all

tourist attraction.

the way, circling the cliffs and canyons of

Stories about Williams are preserved

Canyonlands National Park, with bridge

in a personal history written by his son,

crossings over the Green and Colorado

Mitch Williams, and archived by the Moab

rivers. Doc Williams, however, rode

Museum, as well as in the living memories

horseback through the canyon country,

of his grandson, John L. Williams,

down Mineral Bottom, and forded the

who resides in Moab and owns Navtec

Green River.

Expeditions, a local tour company.

John L. Williams has a favorite story

“There were no roads out there in those days, just a few cow trails here and there,”

about his grandfather — one that highlights

said John L. Williams. “You definitely had

the horsemanship and adventurous spirit

to know where you were going, and he did,

that defined him as much as his medical

because he rode all over this country.” Doc

skill.

Williams was used to taking rough routes

“The Robbers’ Roost gang, Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, they came into Moab

on horseback to reach his patients, who sometimes farmed, ranched, or mined

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in remote places. He carried his medical

direct memories of the local legend give a

supplies in leather saddlebags specially

different view of the rough-riding, river-

designed for the purpose.

running, outlaw-facing community pillar.

When Doc Williams reached Robbers’

“I used to go to the post office with him

Roost, the bandits were circled around a

every day because it was hard for him to

campfire. The doctor went straight to the

read the letters on the post office box,”

horse corral, retrieved his mare, and rode

John L. Williams recalled. At the time, post

back home again. No one said a word.

offices boxes were secured with a coded

Doc Williams kept a cattle ranch that was

lock, and owners had to enter the lettered

best reached by boat, and raised feed for

code to retrieve the mail. “I’d open the post

his livestock. He was active in local politics.

office box for him. I thought that was pretty

He ran a drugstore, and later a general

big stuff,” said John L. Williams.

store, and was a key agent in persuading

Doc Williams passed away shortly after

President Hoover to establish Arches

his 103rd birthday in 1953. A few years

as a national monument, as well as in

earlier, in an article acknowledging his

promoting the area to tourists interested in

100th birthday, a local paper asked Doc

experiencing the natural wonders of Moab.

Williams what it was that contributed to

According to his grandson, he regularly

his longevity. He said he wasn’t sure, but

spent days hiking in the Arches area

advised that, “The main thing is to live to

throughout his 80s.

make friends and to grant their requests

John L. Williams was only nine years old when his grandfather died, and so his

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if you can — especially if they ask you to have a drink.”

OGDEN

Granny Smith: Ogden’s Pioneer Super Doctor Ogden doctor delivered more than 1500 babies

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I

n 1873, Brigham Young issued a call that

amputate a finger or other small jobs of

would give Utah a unique place in the

surgery.” When her husband John was

history of women in medicine: “The time

mauled by a bear and came home clutching

has come,” he said, “for women to come

a chunk of his thigh, Grandma Smith

forth as doctors in these valleys of the

sewed him together with thread from her

mountains.”

sewing kit. Granddaughter Agnes Hislop

Many Utah women answered this call,

Snooks said, “The weather was never too

leaving their homes to study medicine

cold or the snow too deep for Grandma to

on the East Coast. For others, however,

go to help anyone in sickness or trouble.”

Young’s declaration may have seemed a

Despite her larger than life persona, the

bit slow. After all, by 1873, Mary Heathman

common thread in all of the memories

Smith had been practicing medicine in

of Mary Heathman Smith is her happy

Huntsville for almost 10 years.

disposition. Her son William said of her,

Mary trained in a maternity hospital

“She was always cheerful. She would bring

and with local doctors in England before

a smile and sunshine into the sick room.”

joining

And according to granddaughter Della,

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and moving to Utah. Her skills were invaluable in the secluded Ogden

“Mary Heathman Smith was loved by all who knew her.”

On her deathbed,

Valley where she settled with her husband

Mary had three

and nine living children. For thirty years,

requests of future

she served as the valley’s doctor, midwife,

Church president

nurse, and sometimes surgeon.

David O. McKay

Mary’s son, William G. Smith said, “She

(whom she’d

brought about 1500 children into this

delivered). First,

valley. She was called Grandma Smith by

she wanted the

everybody that knew her. She did all kinds

church bells to

of nursing for the sick men, women, and

ring her out, per

children.”

English tradition.

Granddaughter Della Smith Greenwell

Second, according

described Mary’s midwifery this way.

to William, “She

“She would go to the home every day

wanted a bouquet

for ten days on a maternity case to bathe

of ripe wheat placed

the mother and baby. The fee was $3.00

on her casket, symbolizing that wheat had

and many, many times she wasn’t paid,

lived its time, but by planting it in the

or would take a fee in eggs, chickens, or

ground, it would rise again.” Third, she

maybe a ham.”

asked to be buried in the same grave as her

Grandma Smith approached the level of legendary folk hero in the stories told

husband. All three requests were granted.

In 1937, the Daughters of the Valley

by Ogden Valley residents, many of whom

organization erected a monument in

she had ushered into the world. She once

Huntsville dedicated to Mary Heathman

encountered a bear as she walked up

Smith and her legacy. The brass plate

Ogden Canyon, escaping unscathed after

reads in part, “For 30 years, in storm

engaging in some pleasant conversation

and sunshine, during the bleakest

with the beast.

winter and darkest night, with little or

Granddaughter Della said her

no remuneration, she attended to the

grandmother was “known to use

people of Ogden Valley with a faithfulness

grandfather’s straight blade razor to

unexcelled.”

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OGDEN

Riverbend Bridges Tacos & Beer!

By Deann Armes

T

move into the space next door.

and beer. Although Ogden has some great

Southern California-style tacos in Ogden,

taco carts and breweries, options are a

where owners Lane Montoya and Brian

little more sparse outside the non-historic

Zinsmann hail from, in 2018 at Farmers

district.

Market Ogden after Montoya couldn’t find

here are two things a city should never be lacking and that’s good tacos

Ogden’s new Riverbend development

Wimpy and Fritz started slinging

a taco on Historic 25th Street. Starving, he

project, currently in construction along

walked up and down the farmers market

Ogden River between 18th and 20th

unable to find anything he really wanted.

streets west of Washington Boulevard,

Soon after, he and Brian, longtime

recently became home to Northern Utah’s

friends who met years ago working for

newest brewery, Ogden River Brewing

Gastronomy Inc.’s restaurants — Cafe

(ORB), which opened in October last year.

Pierpont, Market Street Grill, Oyster

Now, Wimpy and Fritz are anticipating a

Bar — in Salt Lake, were talking about

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starting a taco booth at the farmers

their Al Pastor, Carne Asada, Smoked

market over beers in the backyard.

Carnitas, vegan Jacked Up tacos, signature

Since that first taco was sold at the

margaritas, palomas, special brews (in

farmers market, Wimpy and Fritz took

collaboration with ORB) and more every

off. Almost overnight, they were selling

day on the southside of Ogden River.

out at community events and from the taco truck traversing town.

They were filling a void, not only for quick, street-style tacos on 25th Street

“You can have taco Tuesday all you want,” Montoya said. “We have tacos every day.”

Beer every day is also the new reality

during the market, but Montoya and

for residents in the new Riverbend

Zinsmann were behind the grill all over

development. New townhouses are under

the city, at every Farmers Market Ogden,

construction directly west from ORB,

Ogden Twilight Concerts, Harvest Moon

and Wimpy and Fritz along with Dirty

Celebrations, alleged bar rooftop dance

Bird and Sweet Talk coming later this

parties ... anywhere the people were,

year. ORB is within walking distance for

making friends of strangers and serving

people, a great benefit of the location.

up fresh new flavors in their authentic California surf-skateboard style.

When the community responds so enthusiastically to something you’re

Now people can have a beer without having to worry about getting home, said ORB owner/brewmaster Pat Winslow.

Winslow, a retired train conductor

doing, you lean into it. People loved their

of 42 years, was sought out by Wrigley

tacos. “That’s why we went the way we

who loved the idea of a brewery in the

did,” said Zinsmann.

Riverbend development, and the two

Before the Riverbend development, Zinsmann and Montoya had been

became partners. Winslow had planned to utilize an old warehouse that sits on

offered locations for a fixed restaurant space, but they say nothing “felt right.”

Then developer Bryan Wrigley of Lotus Development, who had recently become a good friend, approached them about the location on the river next to Ogden River Brewing, and they knew immediately it was perfect.

It was a prime spot with affordable rent and a brand new building, along with Wrigley’s community-minded vision that matches their own. “It was like affordable housing on the river. He cares,” Zinsmann said.

“Everything that is in this restaurant is mine and Brian’s,” Montoya said. From the kitchen details to the 500 square foot patio, the new Wimpy and Fritz space was created alongside the architects who welcomed input from the business owners.

This summer, hopefully by August, Wimpy and Fritz will be dishing up

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the property where Becker Brewing

door, due sometime this summer, where

Malting Company once stood as Utah’s

cold cans of Winslow’s array of beers can

longest continuously operating brewing

be purchased — staples like Hazy IPA,

company. It was perfect for his brewery

Scottish ales, Aviator (wheat beer), Pale

vision, for which he secured the old

Ale, Coffee Milk Stout, and with special

Becker Brewing label.

brews on rotation like Lemon-Basil Gose,

But when building permits and code requirements ultimately deemed it

German and New Zealand pilsners. An American light lager is upcoming.

impossible, the nearby empty field south

Winslow is highly anticipating the

of the river on Park Avenue in the nearby

launch of his reproduced version of the

Riverbend development was a great

Becker’s Best and Becker’s Mellow lines.

second option.

Based on conversations with railroad

Since opening in October last year,

workers who drank the historic beer, old

Winslow has seen his long-held dream

journals and documents in the archives

unfold after years of perfecting the art

at University of Utah, and knowing

of craft brew at his home. The “best beer

Becker Brewing did its own malting using

in Ogden,” as people often refer to it,

regional grains, he is working to recreate

was made possible with a Kickstarter

the old brew sans a recipe.

campaign that raised well over its fundraising goal.

People wanted more good beer in

He’d like to put a water wheel in the river to generate electricity but the idea hasn’t garnered city support. Until then,

Ogden, and they wanted Winslow to do

it is hoped that better stewardship and

it. Now he’s running around ORB daily,

enjoyment of Ogden River, and more

talking to people, asking for feedback on

diversity to the craft beer and food

the beer and food, and giving away hugs.

community of Ogden, will be a lasting

And he doesn’t mind the long hours. “I

outcome.

love people,” he said. “It’s not a job if you like it.”

The ORB Beer Store is being built next

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Lane Montoya plans to make sure of it.

“We’re always going to try to do for the community,” he said. “It’s just how it is.”

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Gas Chamber Euthanasia

By Cathy McKitrick

O

REM — Animal rights activists are

At NUVAS, their gas chamber is their sole

making their voices heard in the

method to kill shelter animals.

to get elected officials to halt the use of gas

by the South Utah Valley Animal Shelter

chambers to euthanize shelter animals.

(SUVAS) in Spanish Fork, which uses both

second largest city in Utah County, hoping

“I’ve had about 40 emails, and we’ve had

The southern half of the county is served

EBI and its gas chamber to put animals

multiple people show up at city council in

down. SUVAS serves Utah County’s largest

our personal appearance section ... it’s been

city (Provo), along with Elk Ridge, Genola,

a very large outcry against what’s going on,”

Goshen, Mapleton, Salem, Santaquin,

Orem Mayor Richard Brunst said.

Spanish Fork, Springville and Woodland

The nonprofit Utah Animal Rights

Hills.

Coalition (UARC), which is spearheading

Tug Gettling has directed NUVAS since

the effort, posted on its website that as of

2005, and maintains that the gas chamber

May 2021, all Utah animal shelters had

is less stressful and painful for animals than

abandoned the old gas chamber method

EBI. He also believes that it’s “safer and less

in favor of euthanization by injection (EBI)

traumatic to the staff members having to

— except for two that serve all of Utah

perform this unpleasant task.”

County.

And UARC Executive Director Jeremy Beckham said that only four shelters in the

But animal advocates nationwide disagree.

“Death in a gas chamber can be painful

nation still use gas chambers to euthanize

and excruciating,” Kitty Block, president of

cats and dogs.

the Humane Society of the United States,

The North Utah Valley Animal Shelter

said in her February 2020 blog. “The

(NUVAS) in Lindon serves Orem and 10

animals are placed in the small, dark box,

other cities that include Alpine, American

and they may remain conscious for several

Fork, Cedar Hills, Eagle Mountain,

minutes, terrified and trying desperately to

Highland, Lehi, Lindon, Orem, Pleasant

find a way out.”

Grove, Saratoga Springs and Vineyard.

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And shelters sometimes put several

animals in the chamber — against

the majority of cities nationwide have

guidelines that recommend one at a time

changed.”

— which can intensify their stress and panic, Block added.

According to UARC, it can take up to 30

Both NUVAS and SUVAS are special service districts which Utah County established around 2005. So Brunst

minutes for some animals to die in a gas

believes it will take more than just Orem to

chamber — but a rare few actually survive

move the dial.

the process.

From January through May of this year,

At this point, Brunst said he recommends that concerned residents

Gettling said that NUVAS euthanized 86

and advocates “form a coalition with

animals in its gas chamber. He described

representatives from each city and then get

it as “absolutely the hardest part of shelter

together a proposal or resolution that each

work.”

city could pass, then take to the NUVAS

By email, Gettling confirmed that NUVAS employees utilize a temperament test to determine which animals live or die.

“We absolutely utilize a behavior analysis/temperament test to determine if our animals are safe to put into the

Special Service District.”

But Brunst didn’t rule out eventually taking that task on himself: “If that doesn’t happen, then later on I’ll get involved and lead it.”

Beckham said UARC recently gathered

community,” Gettling said, noting the test

66,000 signatures on a petition in just

is derived from several methods including

three weeks, adding that their advocacy

the SAFER tool for evaluating potential

efforts extend well beyond Orem.

rehoming of shelter dogs and cats.

But copies of some of those tests

“We’ve reached out to the city councils and mayors of literally every town in Utah

— which UARC obtained through

County about this,” Beckham said. “Orem

government records requests and posted

is getting a little more attention because of

on its website — raise questions about their

their outsized role at that shelter.”

validity (https://uarc.io/north-utah-valley-

For several years, various Utah legislators

animal-shelter-where-dogs-cats-suffer-

sponsored bills to ban the use of gas

before-they-die/).

chambers to kill shelter animals. The most

One cat, recommended for euthanasia

recent was Sen. David Hinkins’ SB237

in February, failed only one of 11 portions

this year, which unanimously cleared the

of the test — the “kennel approach.” In that

Senate during the session’s final week, then

case, the cat was rated as “too submissive.”

stalled in the House where it failed to come

Paperwork for another failed cat included this note: ”Didn’t show any

up for a vote.

Beckham was involved in those early

aggression, but was cautious and stayed

legislative efforts when Utah had as

in the corner of the kennel. Don’t feel

many as eight shelters that still used gas

comfortable passing.”

chambers.

As of June 15, the NUVAS website

“It made more sense to go for a

featured 3 dogs, 5 cats and 3 rodents

statewide ban then. But now that we’re

available for adoption.

down to just two, I feel we can focus on

For Orem’s Mayor Brunst, he’s heard

local change,” Beckham said. “And being

enough to determine he’s against the use of

a municipal election year as well, I’m

gas chambers.

hoping some of these council and mayoral

“It doesn’t sound very humane to me,”

candidates may incorporate this issue into

Brunst said. “Doing it by injection seems

their own platforms. That might be how we

much more humane and it sounds like

see change.”

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Ticket to Ride “Political pressure” comes to bear on Little Cottonwood Canyon transportation plans

PHOTO BY DUNG HOANG

By Eric S. Peterson and Jennifer Greenlee

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I

n December 2020, Central Wasatch

well positioned in the canyons, having

Commission executive director, and

also developed property at the mouth of

former Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph

Big Cottonwood Canyon, shortly after

Becker, was fixated on one of several

Niederhauser passed legislation to pave

transportation alternatives that were

the way for toll roads in the canyons.

discussed regarding how to get skiers, hikers and bikers up Little Cottonwood

“It’s a jigsaw”

Canyon while keeping cars out.

“With a train, it’s possible we could get

The CWC has worked in tandem with

to the point where we don’t really have

UDOT on the canyon transportation

cars,” Becker said excitedly.

question. The goal is being able to reduce

Commission staff has made an

congestion up the canyon by putting

initial recommendation for the cog rail

1,000 people on transit per hour. The

proposal, and the Utah Department of

CWC discussed its option in a meeting

Transportation included the rail route

in March of this year. The proposals

in an Environmental Impact Study it

included two enhanced bus route options,

is currently developing. While there is

one of which would include widening

a lot of enthusiasm, there’s also some

roads up the canyon. The first bus option

skepticism. This proposal was only

comes with a $334 million price tag,

inserted into the study process late last

while the widened road options would

fall, after the CWC had already been

reach $481 million. While these were the

studying other alternatives. The proposal

cheapest options, they did not account for

has raised concerns from the U.S. Forest

the fact that the buses would need to be

Service that it might clash with federal

replaced in 12 years.

regulations against transportation

Two aerial gondolas were proposed, one

projects that impact public parks and

from the canyon park-and-ride costing

recreation areas.

$546 million, and another from the La

In a January 21 email obtained by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project,

Caille property costing $576 million.

Only one cog rail route was proposed.

Forest Service staff discuss the fact that

With La Caille as the base station, this

UDOT originally ruled out a rail route up

proposal would cost $1.5 billion.

the canyon but then changed their minds.

“UDOT had originally screened-out the

CWC Deputy Director Blake Perez explains that while the CWC has been

cog rail, but due to industry and political

studying the alternatives since 2020,

pressure (not FS), UDOT decided to carry

UDOT will have the final say. The CWC

the cog rail evaluation through,” the

looks at a larger picture of access issues

email reads.

across the Wasatch Front.

While cog rail is an exciting prospect,

“It’s a jigsaw puzzle, and what UDOT

it may also be a lucrative one for C.W.

is looking at is one piece of that puzzle,”

Management, a development company

Perez says.

owned by influential former Utah State

He says the CWC staff were able to

Senate President Wayne Niederhauser

adapt quickly in November of 2020 and

and former Sandy City Councilman Chris

study cog rail after UDOT made the late

McCandless. The company owns the La

addition of the La Caille rail and gondola

Caille estate that is the base station for a

routes part of the Environmental Impact

proposed gondola up the canyon, and the

Study or EIS.

base for the only proposed rail route.

This same company has been very

The CWC staff endorsed the rail option by finding it scored the highest

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Rendering of proposed gondolas

on a comprehensive matrix of factors

looking at a cog rail at the same origin

including environmental, safety,

point as Gondola B?’”

reliability and others. Perez notes the full

Public comments, however, also

commission has not yet made an official

showed amazement about the nature of

recommendation but is likely to this

the UDOT proposal. One Cottonwood

summer.

Heights resident, for example,

Invariably with such a project, not all pieces of the puzzle are going to fit.

complained that UDOT overlooked the fact that the new La Caille proposals

David Carter, with the Salt Lake

would impact a 26-acre open space parcel

Climber Alliance, worries about the

recently acquired by Cottonwood Heights

impact the late proposed options will

City and Utah Open Lands.

have on climbing and bouldering in the

While UDOT had sent a notice saying

canyon, especially in historic areas that

they would study how to mitigate

have undergone significant work to be

impact on the open space, they also

restored and maintained by the non-

acknowledged they were unaware of the

profit.

city’s open-space purchase when they

“We were a little surprised by the additional alternatives,” Carter says

proposed the La Caille alternatives.

The resident noted that the confused

of the La Caille routes. “It seems they

decisions by the agency would cause

were released without as much notice

people to speculate about why canyon

and without the public comment and

improvements were being made in the

engagement processes.”

first place.

UDOT Little Cottonwood Canyon

“Many will conclude that the only

Project Manager Josh Van Jura is

reason now for massive improvements on

adamant, however, that the late additions

SR-210 is to make sure that Snowbird Ski

were not due to political pressure

Resort and McCandless and Niederhauser

and were actually the result of public

become rich at public expense,” the

comment.

resident wrote.

“It was not added back in because of

The Forest Service would not provide

political pressure,” Van Jura says. “As part

comment for this article. But email

of the public comment period, we did

discussions show the federal agency’s

get a comment that said, ‘why aren’t you

confusion about UDOT’s decision-

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making.

In a January 20 email, Uinta-Wasatch-

partner and developer Chris McCandless has been very frank in meetings with the

Cache National Forest District Ranger

CWC about the precious opportunity

Bekee Hotze asked another staffer: “I

he could offer by utilizing his La Caille

thought the cog and gondola were going

property as a transportation base.

through Tanner Park, but the write-up

In a December 1, 2020 meeting with

says no,” she wrote of the new UDOT

the CWC, McCandless discussed the

alternatives. “However, for the cog, the

project and their personal stake in it.

alignment goes right through Grit Mill,

“We’re big fans of Little Cottonwood

which was just completed and cost over

Canyon,” McCandless said. “We spend

half a million dollars.”

a lot of time there and we’d love to see a

UDOT’s draft EIS has been in development since 2018, and now, after

solution before we can’t ski anymore.”

He also noted that they have a parking

adding the two new routes, it’s expected

structure with an 1,800 stall capacity

the draft will be issued this summer,

available and ready to be put to use.

at which time the public will have

However, he also warned that his

more opportunities to offer feedback.

company’s financial stake meant that he

Update: UDOT has now released two

would need to sell the property for it to

preferred routes for Little Cottonwood

be used as a transportation base. He noted

Canyon. One is Enhanced Bus Service

that the company would be able to hold

and the other is Gondola Alternative

onto it only for a few years, and if they

B with the base station at La Caille.

didn’t have a buyer, they would develop

More info can be found at UDOT’s site

homes at the location instead.

littleconttonwoodeis@udot.utah.gov.

Buy it or Lose it

That would mean passing on the rail opportunity, especially as UDOT has only advanced the La Caille rail alternative.

“If we put a bunch of houses on it,”

C.W. Management would not respond to repeated requests for comment, but

McCandless said. “That opportunity is gone.”

Rendering of proposed gondolas

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FOOD

Caffe Molise

Perfect Patio Dining 10 Perfect Patios for Outdoor Dining

W

ith the exception of a few picnic

if there is any upside to a worldwide

tables scattered here and there

pandemic, it might be that it forced many

outside of shrimp and chicken shacks, I

restaurants to either expand, improve,

don’t really remember outdoor dining

or add outdoor seating options that were

being “a thing” when I was young. Today,

previously limited or nonexistent. With

however, al fresco seating can be found

many more toasty summer days ahead,

in restaurants ranging from fast food

here are 10 of my favorite outdoor dining

franchise eateries to Michelin 3-Star

spots.

fine dining restaurants, and everywhere in between. That is a good thing. And,

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By Ted Scheffler

know it while seated at a quiet table on the gorgeous enclosed patio. There, you might kick off an al fresco meal with antipasti del giorno, followed by involtini di pollo — boneless chicken breast stuffed with prosciutto, sun-dried tomatoes, Asiago and herbs, then rolled and served with a luscious white wine-butter sauce.

And don’t forget, the lasagne at Caffe Molise is legendary. And, this sunny slice of Italy in downtown SLC also sports one of the city’s best wine lists.

The Garage on Beck One of SLC’s most inviting patios — and one of the biggest — is at The Garage on Beck. Enjoy live music at The Garage ranging from national treasures like Bill Kirchen, to local ones such as Michelle Moonshine, while noshing on comfort foods like chipotle mac n’ cheese; the fiery Nashville hot chicken sandwich; burgers galore; meatloaf; and Mama’s pot pie. Or, since The Garage on Beck is a roadhouse-style bar, you can enjoy your favorite adult beverage on the patio even

One-0-Eight Bistro

if you’re not hungry.

Located in the beautiful Yalecrest space

Grappa

that was previously home to Sea Salt, One-0-Eight Bistro sports one of the largest and loveliest patios in town.

During Sunday brunch every other week, guests can enjoy live jazz on the patio, in addition to mimosa specials and menu temptations such as local burrata with basil-arugula pesto and balsamic tomatoes; a terrific sandwich called Le Ardenne with brie, apple, arugula pesto and tapenade; smoked salmon hash; biscuits & gravy; avocado toast; a killer Cuban sandwich, and much more, including some of the friendliest servers

One of my favorite Park City outdoor dining venues is Grappa, situated in a multi-level historic house at the top of Main Street in Old Town. The views from the dining decks are spectacular, with tables surrounded by a dazzling array of fresh plants and flowers. And the Italian cuisine at Grappa is just as spectacular.

Calamari fritti and snow crab ravioli are two excellent summertime starters, to be followed perhaps by the awesome osso bucco, roasted branzino, scallops risotto, or maybe lobster fregola sarda.

around.

Arlo

Caffe Molise

At Milo Carrier’s Arlo restaurant,

Although Caffe Molise is located on busy South West Temple, you wouldn’t

Marmalade neighborhood views are abundant from the patio as you enjoy fresh bread made daily with outstanding

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Pig & A Jelly Jar

French-style butter or cheese and crackers

evenings. I recommend the fire-roasted

with triple cream brie to start your dinner

lamb T-bone bites to start, or maybe

with. Appealing entrees include ravioli

an English pea and feta spring salad.

with roasted spring greens, Gruyere,

Whether dining on the patio or indoors,

lemon and spring peas, halibut with

you won’t want to pass up Chef/Owner

olive oil-crushed potatoes, asparagus,

Matt Harris’ spectacular fried chicken

and summer squash pesto, and pork with

with pimento mac n’ cheese, collard

heirloom braised beans, spinach, and a

greens, and spicy pickles. The shrimp &

sherry-cider sauce. As with the cuisine,

grits are also marvelous.

the service at Arlo is top-notch too.

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hustle and bustle of the city with one

City restaurant offers guests a gorgeous

of the most endearing courtyard patios

patio for outdoor dining as well as free

— and one of the oldest in town. Folks

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who are gluten free will appreciate the

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gluten free menu at Oasis, and dishes

with a koi fish pond and 100-year old tea

like the famous paprika-crusted chicken,

houses that were imported from Vietnam.

eggplant parmesan risotto, and udon

It’s really awe-inspiring, as is the food

peanut stir-fry are all well-worn crowd

at Sapa, which ranges from sushi rolls,

pleasers.

sashimi and such, to pho and noodle

Stoneground Italian Kitchen Another downtown patio escape is to be found in the rear of Stoneground

dishes, plus an outstanding selection of craft cocktails and other beverages to enjoy in the garden.

Italian Kitchen. There, you will enjoy

Pig & A Jelly Jar

award-winning Italian-inspired cuisine

If you’re looking for a pooch-friendly

from uber-talented Chef Justin Shifflett,

patio combined with killer Southern-

including house-made, from-scratch

style comfort food, Pig & A Jelly Jar is the

pizzas and pastas, as well as popular menu

perfect place. Rib-sticking dishes like

items like the polenta tots with truffle oil;

chicken & waffles, catfish & chips, BBQ

sweet garlic PEI mussels; scallop ceviche;

pork sandwich, Nashville hot chicken,

broccolini agrodolce; and much more,

fries & gravy and the like are the main

including a bustling bar. This is truly one

draw here, along with cold brews, wine

of the most inviting patios in the city.

and bubbly concoctions and beignets

Sapa Sushi Bar & Asian Grill

for dessert. Stay tuned for info on weekend Pig Parties and Pig Kitchen in

Sapa Sushi Bar & Asian Grill features an

Holladay, which will include outdoor eats,

eye-popping outdoor garden complete

entertainment and more.

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CELEBRATIONS & ACTIVITIES July 9-10: Pops Concert

The Choral Arts Society of Utah will join the Utah National Guard 23rd Army Band and soloist Lauren Gruwell for concerts featuring hits from the 50s & 60s, movie soundtracks, patriotic favorites, and much more. This event is free but tickets are required. Visit daysof47.com for more information.

July 15: Pioneers of Progress

Honoring modern-day Utahns who perpetuate a legacy of industry and integrity with Pioneers of Progress awards. Reception at 6:30pm and dinner and awards at 7pm at the Grand America, 555 S Main Street, SLC.

July 17: First Encampment Hike

This walk follows the footsteps of the 1847 Pioneers that traces along Emigration Creek through Salt Lake City neighborhoods. The hike begins at 7am at Donner Park (2770 East and 990 South, east of Hogle Zoo) and ends at First Encampment Park (1700 South and 500 East), near the site where the pioneers camped in the Salt Lake Valley on July 22, 1847. The hike is five miles long.

July 19-20: Float Preview Party

Get a sneak peek at the floats slated for the Days of 47 Parade at the Mountain America Expo Center, 9575 S State, Sandy.

July 20-24 Cowboy Games and Rodeo

The annual rodeo will be held at the Utah State Fair Park, 155 S 1000 W, Salt Lake City, starting at 7:30pm.

July 23

The Deseret News Marathon starts at 5:30am at Big Mountain, above Emigration Canyon.

You can register at deseretnews.com/marathon.

July 23: Sunrise Service

The Sons of the Utah Pioneers will present a sunrise service honoring Utah’s Pioneers at 7:00am at the Assembly Hall on Temple Square.

July 23: Days of ‘47 Parade

The annual parade will start at 9am and travel from South Temple and State Street, and then run East to 200 East, then South to 900 South, then East again to 600 East, ending at Liberty Park.

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Outdoor Activities Utah Lake Visit Utah Lake and go fishing. As our Utah Stories’ writer, Dan Potts, said, “You can find all ten sport and food fish.” Try your luck!

Pineview Reservoir Pineview Reservoir boasts some of the best sandy beaches in the state. Visit and make a sand castle, or try your hand (and balance) at sports line paddling.

Concerts Moab Free Concert Series July 30 from 7pm to 9pm at Swanny City Park.

Excellence Concert Series At the Gallivan Center, Salt Lake City. Every Wednesday evening in July starting at 7:30pm.

Wasatch Mountain Music Festival Wallsburg, July 9-11.

July 24: Temple to Temple 5K, Provo.

July 30: Alien Midnight Run, Farmington.

Bark in the Park July 17, from 11am to 4pm at Sunset Park in Sunset, featuring a dog contest and a car show.

Pints for Pets July 13 at Ogden River Brewing Company, Ogden. An adoption and fund raising event.

Races July 21: Wasatch Trail Run at Alta.

Pet Events Yappy Hour Fairmont Park July 13 from 6pm to 9pm. An evening full of dogs, food, cold beverages, live music, activities, and more.

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Shoot -theTube A Naturally Unnatural Waterslide!

By Christopher Widmer

S

alt Lake City is full of attractive hobbies during the summer. You

can do almost anything in the natural recreational playground that is the Salt Lake Valley and its canyons. Not to mention, we have a lot of unnatural playgrounds such as Lagoon, Seven Peaks, and all of the parks the city provides.

But if you’re looking for something that is man-made, natural, and a bit supernatural, look no further than Shoot-the-Tube — a highway watershed hideaway. Shoot-the-Tube is a Parley’s Canyon drainage pipeline running from the eastside of I-215 down to the creek that lines Tanner Park. It has been turned into an epic and echoing waterslide by creative Salt Lake samaritans.

The top of the waterslide is accessed through a trail that breaks off from a bike Canyon. The bike path is accessed just west of the trailhead to Grandeur Peak (another fantastic hike that Salt Lake has to offer). This path eventually leads westward and joins with the Tanner Creek Trail.

If you look just below the bike path bridge crossing I-215 on the east side, you will see a hole in a chain link fence.

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PHOTOS BY BRADEN LATIMER

path running over I-215 near Parley’s

Following this trail down, you will pass

there. Once you’re back in the upper pool,

Suicide Rock, a massive natural spire

find some friends and damming materials

covered in graffiti. Continue west to

to dam the pool from the tube. Typically,

eventually arrive at the serene upper pool

there are metal construction signs tied

of Shoot-the-Tube, which is also a colorful

to a rope that are used to dam the pool.

work of graffiti.

When you break the dam, a large flush of

Shoot-the-Tube, you’ll see how you can hop in the tube with a float-mat or inner-

water will “shoot” you down the tube and into the creek below.

The water levels are satisfactory for

tube and ride the steady flow. It’s a very

riding the slide from late spring through

dark ride with a tiny ray of light at the end

most of the summer, and sometimes the

that can be turned into a concert thanks

area might even have a crowd! This is an

to the tube’s acoustics. It empties into the

unsanctioned, exhilarating and creative

bottom of Tanner Park, which is accessed

spot to splash during a hot Utah summer.

by hiking down Tanner Creek.

If you’re feeling adventurous, you can walk back up the tube, making sure to stick to the sides and yell while you are coming up to let people know you are

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PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER WIDMER

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