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on Larson’s art shows spread across alma mater. Rhundreds of miles in the 1970s. As a “When I talk with those people here, I billboard artist, his pictorials appeared on I-15 say, ‘I am an alum,’ and they get excited that and other highways from Ogden to St. George. someone from here made it,” he said. “I think “It was there that I got a lot of experience the best advice that I have for them is to not get in art by trial and error because there was always discouraged. It is a hard road and with so many a deadline which means you had to work fast, talented artists. The competition is fierce, but and you got a ton of hands-on experience,” you have to have a thick skin and paint every Larson said. “The work I did on billboards was day.” so varied. You’d have to paint loaf of bread one Larson’s been adding brush strokes and day, a portrait the next or a car. That’s where I new pieces to Vistas & Visions of the Colorado really honed in my skills as an artist.” Plateau for 10 years. It’s a project that will never As computers started stealing the jobs be complete, he said. Now Larson’s working on of billboard artists in the mid-90s, Larson two paintings that he will add to the collection— swapped his thick commercial paint brush with one of the Grand Canyon and another of Lake a smaller one, exploring the realm of landscape Powell. art seriously for the first time. Larson had never The Colorado Plateau is a 140,000-square taken a formal fine art class, but his grandmother mile-area of heightened rock mass that spans taught him a thing or two about oil painting from the edge of the Rocky Mountains in Utah, esert Star Playhouse, the theater that’s attempts at getting her to go out with him!) while he was a child growing up in Taylorsville. down to the Grand Canyon in Arizona, over to Dbuilt a reputation for producing laugh And with the increase of supernatural activi- He used his knowledge from billboard painting the Aztec Ruins in New Mexico and back up out loud, family-friendly musical comedies, ty, can the Ghostblasters save the day without and his grandmother’s lessons to begin a new through Mesa Verde to Black Canyon of the continues its 2016 season with a comedic divine intervention? Find out in our hilarious career in the fine arts realm. Gunnison in Colorado. take on the supernatural, “Ghostblasters: We new show! Larson’s success wasn’t immediate, but over Larson camped in the Colorado Plateau Ain’t Afraid of No Jokes!” The show opens Directed by Scott Holman, Ghostblast- time his paintings were showcased in galleries, during his teenage years, but he fell in love with Thursday, August 25th. ers runs from August 25 to November 5, homes and museums across the country, and he its scenery while he was an artist-in-residence Dr. Stanley Bonkers is busy putting to- 2016. gained accolades, including signature member in the Lake Powell area. He’d paint the lake and gether a new exhibit of priceless artifacts at The evening also includes another of status from the National Watercolor Society. His its surroundings during the weekdays, and on the city museum, but his colleague, Dr. Polly Desert Star’s signature musical olios follow- current and evolving project, Vistas & Visions of the weekends he’d venture out to other areas, P. Pratt is busy trying to catch his eye! When ing the show. The Monster Rock ‘n Roll-io the Colorado Plateau, was first showcased in the painting on site and snagging photographs that Dr. Bonkers gets possessed by the evil sor- will feature some new and classic rock music John Wesley Powell Exhibit near Lake Powell he’d tuck away to paint later. cerer Drool, there’s only one group she can favorites with a dash of Halloween fun, and before moving to Salt Lake Community College “That was the start of it, and then the project call on for help, Ghostblasters! Supervised always hilarious Desert Star twist! South City Campus’ George S. & Dolores Dore just evolved,” Larson said “I think the best part by their inventive leader, code name A-1, Desert Star audiences can enjoy gour- Eccles Gallery, where it was on display until about these paintings is getting to travel around the Ghostblasters have added the clairvoy- met pizza, fresh wraps, burgers, scrumptious Aug 4. Larson, a SLCC commercial art alum, that area. I love to explore it.” ant I-15 to their ranks; but will she be ac- desserts, and other finger foods as well as a said it is special to have his art featured at his continued on next page… cepted by her fellows? On the other side of full selection of soft drinks and smoothies town, Ghostblaster 401K is sent to investi- while they watch the show. Food is available gate strange disturbances in journalist Fanny from an á la carte menu and is served right at Berrett’s apartment (aside from all his failed your table. CALENDAR: “Ghostblasters: We Ain’t Afraid of No Jokes!” Plays August 25 - November 5, 2016 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm Saturday at 2:30pm, 6pm and 8:30pm And some Saturday lunch matinées at 11:30am, and Friday late shows at 9:30pm
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Ron Larson’s paintings hang in the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Gallery at Salt Lake Community College’s South City Campus. Larson, now a professional artist, grew up in Taylorsville and attended SLCC. –Tori La Rue
True to his billboard pictorial roots, Larson’s “He blended the water into the cliff with paints the plateau with a “brushy” look, he said. elegance and grace that are uncanny,” he said. “My stuff looks rough, like a mess if you “I am intrigued by this piece and interested in look up close, but if you step back, it goes into buying it to put in my 3-story bathroom.” focus,” Larson said. SLCC was grateful to showcase such Emma Eastman commented on Larson’s beautiful artwork, said Megan McDowell, art style in his sign-in book. event director for the SLCC Gallery. “The brush strokes were simple and “Mr. Larson is a prolific artist, and we’re unapologetic, and they came together to create always happy to showcase local artists,” she something amazing,” she said. said. “Some of Mr. Larson’s works are in Phone: (801)870-7746 Gordon Jiminez noticed Larson’s SLCC’s collection and have homes in various Email: [email protected] / www.votekarenkwan.com “astonishing” portrayal of bodies of water in his places on campus, so it is a delight to have his Paid for and authorized by the Committee to Elect Karen Kwan oil painting “A New Day.” exhibit here.” l
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welve catholic and protestant teens and Emma Hagan, of Omagh, Northern the Catholics,” Emma said. Tleft their homes in Northern Ireland Ireland, barely spoke to each other when JP Murray, a 15-year-old Northern isn’t and travelled to Utah for a monthlong they first met, but by the second day Ireland resident, said he believes the prej- peace project aimed at unifying their Emma was braiding Maddie’s hair and udice between Catholics and protestants nation. Emma was helping Maddie to put on her will die off as his generation ages. While Northern Ireland’s conflict between shoes, said Ann Charat, Maddie’s god- older people are prone to think of the di- its mainly protestant unionists and main- mother. vide between the group, the teenagers ly catholic nationalists, referred to as The two teens bonded as the group are “more chill” and want to get to know Worth It! “The Troubles,” officially came to an of 24 visited historical sites, rode roller each other, he said. JP’s American room- end through the Belfast Good Friday coasters and slides at Lagoon and Seven mate for the duration of the project was PJ Agreement of 1998, but when the di- Peaks, camped, went rafting, attended a Mannebach from Salt Lake City. vide between the two sectarian groups REAL Salt Lake game, and volunteered The directors must have had a sense continued, Reverend Kerry Waterstone at the Utah Food Bank, Humane Society of humor to pair them together, JP said. founded the Ulster Project, a program and at Kauri Sue Hamilton School for Despite the similarity in their names, the designed to bring future catholic and students with disabilities, among other two 15-year-olds had many different in- protestant leaders together through asso- activities. terests that made their situation ironic, PJ ciation with religious teens in the United “We’ve become best friends,” Mad- said. States. Utah’s been part of the project for die, 14, and Emma, 15, said simultane- “At first, it was just really awkward, 30 years. ously when asked how they’ve changed and I was thinking about what I got my- “You can definitely tell at the start since the first day of the Ulster Project. self into,” PJ said. “Then I started talking of the month they are in the ‘impress “It’s like everyone here became with all the people in our groups, and I phase,’” Adam Dahlberg, director for best friends,” Maddie added. “I’ve really realized that all of these guys were pure Ulster Project Utah, said of the 12 Irish learned to talk with other people and be fun. I used to avoid talking to people in and 12 American teens who are part of the confident in what I say and to accept the group settings, but now I enjoy it, and project. “They are just getting together, so differences in others.” that’s something that I’ll always carry they want to be cool, but by the end of Emma, a Protestant, said she didn’t with me.” the month that has faded and they are able associate with Catholics very often before Aaron Smithson, a counselor from to be themselves which is really hard for she came to Utah’s Ulster Project, but af- Ireland, said it was amazing to see JP and teens to do. It’s fun to see that transition.” ter a month of spending time with catholic PJ’s self-confidence increase through the The Irish teens–six Protestant and and protestant teens from her own country project. six Catholic–roomed with an Ameri- and the United States, she said she’s ready “They used to be some of the quiet- can teen of the same religion and simi- to accept people no matter where they est kids around here, but then they started lar background from June 27 to July 22. come from. being the loudest and most annoying, and Nearly 330,000 injuries occur each year from The 24 participants had their monthlong “At home we have separate schools that was a good thing to see,” Smithson schedule filled with service, outdoor and for protestants and Catholics, and they said. “All of them have really opened up accidents caused by texting while driving. faith-building activities each day. don’t really interact much, but now when and have been able to see past religion 1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United Maddie Bossarte, of Taylorsville, I get home, I’ll try to make an effort with and their cultural differences.” l States is caused by texting and driving.
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alt Lake County Library Services noticed Susan Burke, director of Juvenile Justice A youth reads a book at a Utah a gap in services to youth in care and Services, said the club enhances the youths’ Division of Juvenile Justice S custody, so they partnered with Utah’s learning and said it’s her belief that education Services Center. The division partnered with Salt Lake County Department of Juvenile Justice Services to can be a course-corrector for these teens. Library Services to create a book begin a book club within short- and long-term She believes the youths’ love for books will club for youth in short- and long- centers. continue after they leave the center, and she term detention centers. “Our job is to serve the entire public, said she hopes they’ll remember the library as –Utah Division of Juvenile and we’re not serving entire public if we’re a place of entertainment. Justice Services not serving the people who can’t come to Each youth at the center is strongly us,” said Carrie Rogers-Whitehead, senior encouraged to attend the book club meetings, librarian over teen services. “These teens which happen twice a month. Librarians cart are in a holding, transitional state in their hundreds of books into the centers—from lives, so to help them get powerful skills like history books to cook books to mystery reading—you don’t get many opportunities novels and science fiction books. “Hellraiser,” like that.” “Fallen,” “The Hulk” and “The Guardian The program was honored with Herd Series” are a few of the most popular an achievement award at the National reads within the program. Association of Counties’ Conference on July Recently, the Utah Department of 22 in Long Beach, California, for bringing Education granted funding for the Library and literacy to a specific subset of residents. Department of Juvenile Justice Services to “It’s an honor to have received such purchase graphic novels for the program. The an award because there are stereotypes that graphic novels have allowed teens with lower follow this group of youth, and to have them reading levels to be more actively involved in recognized as an important group to serve is the club. Many of the youth learned English amazing,” Rogers-Whitehead said. as a second language, and pictures give Rogers-Whitehead said she hopes the context clues to their readers and help the recognition at a National conference will ESL learners to learn new English phrases, encourage other libraries to serve people Burke said. who can’t come to them. The award-winning The youth have responded well to the program may be the first of its kind in the program, so Burke said the department nation, according to Rogers-Whitehead’s decided to expand reading programs at research. its centers. Soon, the University of Utah The librarians facilitated traditional reading clinic, a resource designed to offer book clubs at Salt Lake Observation and assessment and intervention to struggling 801-566-5466 Assessment, Decker Lake Youth Center and readers, will begin a partnership with the Wasatch Youth Center in 2013, but Rogers- Juvenile Justice Services. Whitehead said she realized librarians needed “We get from the youth that they are [email protected] to accommodate for varying reading levels. excited about reading,” Burke said. “It gives Now teens are invited to read books of their them a place to have a shared discussion choice within their own reading level instead about reading and apply it to their past www.HarperforSenate.com of being assigned the same book as their experience, and it opens a whole new world peers, and the club discussions are based on of imagination and opportunity to gain broad topics that many books relate to. knowledge about themselves.” l Accountable Responsive Dedicated
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or the month of September, our thoughts are turning to school starting for a new year. The Historic Preservation Comm. would like to bring to your attention how F“Dear Old Golden School Days” came into play. School always started after labor day and closed before Memorial Day. There were three prominent elementary schools in our community. First was the “Old Rock School House, located on the corner of 1175 West and 4800 South.
The teacher’s name was Emma Jane Webster who lived in the white house just south of the school on 4800 South. Both she and her sister Georgiana were local school teachers.
It served the students well until the “new” Plymouth School was built to open in 1906. In later years, Plymouth also served as a Jr. High and included a library. It was located on the corner of 4800 South and Redwood Road.
The students in Bennion attended the “Old School House” whose name changed many times. It was located on the site of 6200 South and Redwood Road, in the year 1905. The name of the school was changed three times in a four year period. 1905 64th District School 1906 South Taylorsville School 1908 Madison School - The Madison school site was sold to Bennion Ward, in 1921.
The following people served as principals of the school: W.R. Wilson 1905-1907 Eliabeth Bennion 1907-1909 Zeretta Frame 1909-1910 Clarissa Saunders 1910-1911 Emma Jane Webster 1911-1912 Alt Stookey 1912-1913 W.R. Wilson 1913-1915 TalorsvilleJournal.com CITY OF TAYLORSVILLE September 2016 | Page 13
City of Taylorsville EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FAIR
Taylorsville Senior Center Health Fair and 1-Mile Walk for Fall Prevention
Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016 9AM - Walk 10AM to 1PM - Health Fair Taylorsville Senior Center 4743 South Plymouth View Drive For additional information, please call (385) 468-3370 Page 14 | September 2016 CITY OF TAYLORSVILLE Taylorsville CityJournal Night Out Against Crime
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Slides Page 16 | September 2016 EDUCATION Taylorsville CityJournal Taylorsville Class of 1986: Where Are They Now? By Tori La Rue | [email protected]
t’s been 30 years since the Taylorsville Class himself. He started Isbell’s company bought out and merged passed away. He wrote an obituary for her in Iof 1986 roamed the halls of Taylorsville High working construction, with several other companies during the years which he asked for donations for the American School, but a reunion on Aug. 26 and 27 brought not knowing what of his ownership, but as successful as Isbell’s Cancer Society in lieu of flowers. the veteran Warriors back to their alma mater. profession he’d be business has grown, he said his proudest moments “When I arrived at her funeral there were Because a lot can happen in 30 years, the interested in long have been seeing his two daughters grow up. no flowers, and it was stark and barren,” Olsen Taylorsville Journal rounded up stories from term. The entrepreneur keeps in contact with his said. “You think someone—at least one of all of some of the ’86 graduates, to share their post- He meant to friends from high school. His best friend, Todd those people—wouldn’t follow directions. I was high school experiences with the community that attend college, but Wilberger, also a class ‘86 alum, works with him, beginning to feel like I made a mistake when in saw them through their teenage years. by age 20 he was and the two spend time running together. Karen walks this giant floral arrangement, and it says, married with a couple Andrews, one of the reunion planners, and Isbell ‘Sorry for your loss, Taylorsville Class of 1986’ Jeff Isbell – The Entrepreneur of kids and found grew up houses apart, and they still stay in touch. “That’s one of those things that stays with Jeff Isbell would have been himself working Jeff with his oldest daughter, Although he said he’d never go back to high you forever,” he said.” voted “Most Likely to Not as a delivery driver whom he helped through a school even if someone paid him over a million Olsen, a former junior class officer and Succeed and Wind Up in for a local printing battle with cancer. –Jim Olsen dollars, Isbell’s cherishes the friendships he made student body officer, took it upon himself to plan Prison,” had that been a company. Isbell had from Taylorsville Class of 1986. the school’s 30th reunion in an effort to give back yearbook award, he said, but worked his way into management, and within 10 to the classmates who brought some life into one times change. Thirty years into years he purchased the company in what he calls Jim Olsen – of his hardest days. He and three other classmates the future, he’s the owner of a “hostile takeover.” The Planner planned the bulk of the Aug. 26–27 event. Sun Print Solutions, a Utah- The previous owners lived out of state, and Jim Olsen’s mother was Olsen moved away from Taylorsville to based company that employs more than 125 Isbell was the boss and face of the company to diagnosed with brain South Carolina for graduate school, but he stayed people—several of them Isbell’s classmates from the employees and customers, he said. The other cancer during his first there after meeting a woman who later turned Taylorsville High. employees were shocked to find out that Isbell year at Taylorsville out to be his wife. While his children call South “High School was a hard time that was didn’t own the company, so they backed him up High. Although he Carolina home, Olsen brings them to Taylorsville emotionally tough,” he said. “It was horrible. I when he forced the previous owners to sell him didn’t tell anyone about each year to get a taste of what it was like for their was scared to death and 17, but life is pretty good the business, he said. her illness, he said he dad to grow up in the Salt Lake City suburb. The right now. I’ve made it this long, and I’ll probably “I’ve been here so long now,” Isbell said. relied heavily on the support and friendship of Olsens eat Leatherby’s ice cream, watch movies make it another 20 or 30 years.” “Financially, it’s been great for me, and I like the the other teens at Taylorsville High School to get at the Redwood Drive-In Theatre and visit After graduation, Isbell knew it was time people. I get to choose the directions that we go, through the trial that was plaguing his family. extended family members on their summer trips. to leave his parents’ house and begin to fend for and I also like that.” Several years after graduation, his mother
Crosspoint Church in Taylorsville hosted a BBQ luncheon for City Officials, Firefighters and Police Officers to express appreciation for their service. Thank you to Crosspoint Church for lunch and your contributions to our community. TalorsvilleJournal.com EDUCATION September 2016 | Page 17
disadvantaged children and seniors, she decided centers. They’ve made and delivered 67 cakes so also a dental hygienist. to start a Northern Utah chapter in 2014. far in 2016. In addition to the private practice, Lucas, a The first cake Hedin delivered was to a Hedin tries to customize the cakes to the lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserves, is the 72-year-old woman who was staying at the same needs and interests of the recipients. She made Chief of Dental Services in the 302 Airlift Wing aging services center in which her parents used to a football-shaped fondant cake for a foster child at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado. He’d reside. It was the first birthday cake the woman who loved football and a cake with fondant always wanted to join the Air Force Reserves, but had received in her adult life, and she was thrilled, animals for a blind child, so he could feel the it wasn’t until five years ago that his wife gave according to Hedin. animals on the cake. For legal and other reasons, him the OK, he said. He spends one weekend a “It’s nice to make people feel better with Hedin doesn’t always get to hand-deliver the month on base. something as simple as a cake,” Hedin said. cakes, but she will often receive cards from her When he’s not working on other people’s “It lets them know that someone out in the recipients. teeth or spending time with his family, Lucas can community cares.” “We did one [cake] for a little guy in a be found skiing and boating—hobbies he’s had One of Jim Olsen’s favorite dance pictures from high Her chapter of Birthday Cakes 4 Free homeless shelter in Ogden, and he sent a picture since high school, because after 30 years, some school –Jim Olsen delivered five more cakes during 2014, and in he had drawn for us,” Hedin said. “It was a two- things haven’t changed. 2015 the service organization took off as more sided picture, and in the little kid’s drawing, Nancy Mix Hedin – people heard about the initiative. About 35 it shows him sad before he got the cake, and it Tom Brooks - The Cake Artist volunteers joined her chapter, making 152 cakes shows how happy he was after he got the cake. The Assimilator Nancy (Mix) Hedin in 2015 for seniors, children with disabilities, It was the sweetest thing. There’s a lot of people Tom Brooks was involved in described herself as a children in foster care and women in crisis in tough situations, so it’s nice to know you have Taylorsville High School’s “wallflower” in high school made their day a little better.” French and German clubs who “wasn’t involved in 1986, but his time might have too much.” Now she works Sean Lucas – been better spent in Japanese full time for a health care The Dentist club, had that been an option. company while raising three Sean Lucas and Brooks’ interest in Japanese culture, children and overseeing the local chapter of a Dena Lopez met in a language, food and people grew after high school service organization. weight-training class graduation. He met and married his wife and “I think it is natural to get more motivation at Taylorsville High secured a job at Department of State at the U.S. when you get older because you see more need School. Fast Forward Embassy in Japan. The couple has made Japan that you wouldn’t see in high school as a student,” 30 years, and they’re their home for almost a quarter-century. she said. married with three Within 30 years, Brooks had traded Hedin dabbled in cake making for years, Nancy Hedin and her children deliver a birthday cake kids, living blocks from conversations at lockers and pulling out of the so when she heard about Birthday Cakes 4 Free, to a 72-year-old woman. Hedin oversees the Northern where they grew up. Taylorville High School parking lot in his 1969 a California-based organization that provides Utah Chapter of service organization Birthday Cakes “I guess you could say we haven’t made it Ford Mustang for “a wonderful Japanese wife for Free. –Nancy Hedin free birthday cakes to financially and socially very far in life,” Lucas joked. who can cover most ’80s heavy metal bands But despite Lucas’ physical proximity to his and a son in college whose good looks make me high school roots, he’s leaps and bounds ahead of question if I am his father,” he said. his high school self in other aspects. Lucas said “I have seen and experienced things both in his priorities “certainly weren’t education” in his my personal and professional life that I could have e S (next to Leatherby’s) teenage years, but after graduation, he went on to never imagined back in high school,” Brooks get a bachelor’s in biology from the University said. “My confidence and view of the world have of Utah with a minor in chemistry before moving definitely changed me, and my family, career, east to get his doctor of dental surgery from and adopted country have definitely changed my Virginia Commonwealth University Medical life.” College of Virginia. The 30-year reunion was the first time Lucas later opened a private practice Brooks had seen his friends from high school in Cottonwood Heights, and his wife made since their graduation, besides his friend Jim Taylorsville their home once again. Olsen who’d visited him in Japan. “A lot of “My thoughts of my graduating class and the my friends still Taylorsville community are the same as they were live in the area, back in 1986, frozen in carbonite like Han Solo,” and it is close to Brooks said. “Good, happy thoughts of mostly everything. It’s nice, friendly, people living in what I remember seven minutes or now consider to be a small community where from where I people would help others.” l work and 15 A recent photo of Sean and Dena minutes to Lucas. The couple met in a weight anything in Salt training class at Taylorsville High Lake,” Lucas School. –Sean Lucas said. “I like the community, and my family is still around here. We have great mountains and skiing. It’s a great place.” Lucas’ two oldest children, Tabitha and Preston, graduated from Taylorsville High School, too. Tabitha, 24, will finish Salt Lake A recent picture of Tom Brooks. Tom currently lives with Your Purchase - Community College’s dental hygiene program his family in Japan. –Tom Brooks Cannot be combined with any other o er. Dine in only. next year, and then she’ll be able to work in her Not Valid Saturday & Sunday. Expires September 30. dad’s practice with her parents, as her mom is Page 18 | September 2016 ON THE COVER Taylorsville CityJournal Football Preview: ‘Endless Possibilities’ for Taylorsville Warriors By Tori La Rue | [email protected]
aylorsville High School hasn’t made it to the last round of “Kids learn things here about working hard and dedicating Tthe playoffs since 1999 when they lost the championship to themselves to a cause, and these are skills that transfer over to Skyline High School, but this may be their year, according to head other aspects of life,” he said. “Not every kid is going to go to the coaches Pala Vaituu and Rod Wells. NFL and be a superstar. Not everyone is going to be a Division 1 “We have lots of young kids, so in the beginning, I didn’t football player, but if they can be good men in the community— think they were ready, but (offensive coordinator) Wayne (Manu good husbands and fathers, I think we have done really well.” Tuinei) has done a good job being here during the whole season Vaituu and Wells’ coaching staff has been in place four working with the offensive line and (Defensive coordinator Tyler) years. Since that time, THS administrators said they’ve noticed a Haslam’s done a good job working with the defensive line, and so difference in the conduct of football players. now, man, it’s just like we cannot wait to play,” Vaituu said. “So “They’ve stopped bullying kids, and they’ve stopped barring injury, I personally think we are going to have a really hazing,” Vaituu said. “I think it’s really good for the school to see good season” the transition of these kids.” In the early-to-mid-2000s it wasn’t uncommon for Quarterback Dane Leituala, left tackle Ewan Manu-Tuinei, Taylorsville football to claim one victory game each season, but linebacker Dylan Apelu, cornerback Tama Wilson, defensive end in the past four years, the Warriors recorded more wins than in the Josh Sterzer, wide receiver Jace Simons, tight end Chase Hess prior 10 years combined. The football history that’s “haunted” the and defensive end T.J. Hess have changed what it means to be a school for years, is beginning to change, according to Wells. football player at Taylorsville High School, Vaituu said. The coaches attribute their success to the coaching staff’s “Those kids right there, they are the ones that lead this team,” belief system and the players conduct on and off the field. Vaituu said. “If these kids were bad kids, then the rest of them “The change hasn’t necessarily been tangible, but we really The Taylorsville Warriors gear up for the 2016 season with a scrimmage would be just following after them, but most of our kids are started to win when we decided to put God first,” said Haslam. game at their high school. –Aryana Apelu following these guys, and they are great examples of just being “We really believe God put us here together to help build quality great all-around—classroom, field, socially. I mean we have been young men.” While the coaches share similar core values, they never blessed with good kids, and they are the ones that are actually The eight-member coaching staff works in unison, governed push that on their players, Vaituu said. Instead, they continually moving this program forward—them and the kids who came by the values and principles they agree on, according to Tuinei. encourage each of their players to live true to himself by honoring before them.” The joint head coaches consider the rest of the coaching staff his own heritage and religion. In this way, the THS football Recent players have improved Taylorsville’s program by their team, so they regularly seek their input instead of dictating program focuses on preparing young men for more than the bringing college recruiters to the school, something that rarely everything that should happen within the THS football program, upcoming season, Manu Tuinei said. happened previously, Wells said. Rated as one of the top high Tuinei added. continued on next page… VOTEVOTEJIMJIM DUNNIGAN DUNNIGAN Jim works Jimfor Taylorsvilleworks for Taylorsville & Kearns families & Kearns by: families by: • Preserving government • Preserving transparency government and transparency fighting corruption and fighting corruption • Protecting vulnerable • Protecting Utahns vulnerable Utahns • Increasing school • Increasing funding school funding • Defending family • Defending values family values • Advocating for • Advocatingsmall businesses for small and businesses the free market and the free market ALL WITHOUTALL RAISINGWITHOUT TAXES RAISING TAXES
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A boy begins the running portion of the Taylorsville Triumph Youth and Family Triathlon. –Tori La Rue TalorsvilleJournal.com September 2016 | Page 21
Council invests in Equestrian Park’s future
fter many months of meetings and ongoing communication various events at the park, the level of use, and most importantly Abetween horse owners, county staff, and community shed light on the many maintenance needs of the park. members, the future of the Salt Lake County Equestrian Park is Thanks to their hard work in collaborating with our county now set. We recently voted as the Salt Lake County council to parks department, we now have a clear vision for the future of keep the park in it’s current form but also to invest in a litany of the park. This group also recommended some fee increases to deferred maintenance needs in the park. users of the park. This park has been a long-standing fixture of our South Some of the deferred maintenance repairs include things Jordan community, and the county as a whole. Unfortunately, like: new restrooms for park users, entry gates with controlled many maintenance needs of the park had not been adequately access points that will give us more precise data on park use, funded and addressed over the years. In addition, as a county upgrading or renovating some of the barns for the horses, and we lacked good information about the actual use of the park upgrading footing (dirt) where applicable. among members of the community. In essence - the county was These are just some of the many deferred maintenance not investing in the park properly, and was not understanding the needs that will be addressed through this investment. In addition, full value of the park sufficiently. the fee structure adjustment will help enhance the park’s revenue I first posed questions about this park in the fall 2015 stream to better fund its operations. budget process, and then again in a blog post in January 2016. The controlled access points will give us precise data on Horses in their stalls at the Salt Lake County Equestrian Center. The aged My position was clear - if we as a county are going to have an the number of users of the park, as well as let us better collect stalls are part of along list of possible renovations that new funding could equestrian park, we need to be willing to invest in it, as well as appropriate usage fees. bring to the facility. - Kimberly Roach measure the actual use and value to the community. We are also creating an ongoing Equestrian Park User For the past six months, a dedicated group of equestrian Advisory and Oversight Committee, which will be an official impact they will have on the equestrian park. This is an example park advocates (known as the Equestrian Park Coalition) mechanism through which users can provide valuable feedback of good civic engagement at its best. Members of the public worked diligently to provide good information to me as well as to county staff as well as the park’s management. effectively and respectfully educated the council, and we’ve other council members. They shared new information about the I’m excited about these improvements and the positive incorporated their feedback into the plan moving forward. l
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The Crunch, Crunch, Crunch Under My Feet
h, It’s here, fall. Here come the treasured foods of warmth, tradition for every season. Come ride the Pumpkin Train, but be Guardsman Pass Akids back in school, Halloween and that wonderful sound of sure to stay and celebrate the Annual Scarecrow Festival or brave This is a beautiful and quiet drive offers breathtaking views. crunching leaves under your feet when you head outside. There is through the spine-tingling Sleepy Hollow Haunted Wagon Ride. The winding road takes you from Deer Valley over to Park City nothing like the splendor of our amazing canyons with their fiery More adventurous visitors may choose to soar from above and and Midway. colors this time of year – anywhere else. take in the views on one of two different courses with Zipline Utah. 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Survival of the Fittest
’ve always associated Yellowstone Park with abject terror. Dad would yell “Bear!” and we’d all collapse across the Then there was Old Faithful. Dad had built up our ex- IA childhood vacation to this national park guaranteed me a station wagon seats (we didn’t wear seat belts) until the dan- pectations to the point that anything less than a geyser that lifetime of nightmares. ger had passed. (It usually took an hour or so.) spewed glitter, fairies and candy would be a disappointment. It was the first time we’d taken a family vacation out of He said if we wandered away, it would take just a few We were underwhelmed. Utah and we were ecstatic. Not only would we stay in a mo- days until we died of starvation—unless the bears got us first. But the souvenir shop redeemed our entire vacation. We tel, but we’d see moose, bears and cowboys in their natural He warned us to stay away from every animal, describing in were each given $5 to spend, which was a wealth of frivol- habitat. detail the series of rabies shots we’d need if a chipmunk bit ity. I chose a doll in a green calico dress with beautiful red We prepared for a car ride that would take an entire day, us. hair—because nothing says “Yellowstone National Park” like so I packed several Nancy Drew mysteries, and some Judy We were cautioned to avoid high ledges (we’d fall to an Irish lassie. Blume and Madeleine L’Engle novels just in case. Because our deaths), moose (we’d be trampled), buffalo (again with As we left the park (with my sister quietly weeping my parents couldn’t hand us an iPad and tell us to watch mov- the trampled) and the requisite stranger warning (we’d be because she’d changed her mind about which souvenir she ies for six hours, we brought our Travel Bingo cards with the kidnapped). By the time we reached Yellowstone, dad had wanted), we were thrilled to be returning home in one piece. transparent red squares that you slid over pictures of silos, thoroughly instilled us with horror. But then my dad said, “We should visit Timpanogos Cave. motor homes and rest areas. When we arrived at the motel, we frantically ran to our Have I told you about the bats?” l For more car fun, there was the license plate game, the room, afraid there were bears, moose or chipmunks waiting alphabet game, sing-alongs, ghost stories and slug bug. Even to drag us off into the woods. then, we got bored. Dad decided he’d prepare us for the Yel- That night, as we climbed into bed, Dad tucked us in lowstone Park adventure that lay ahead of us. and said, “Technically we’re sleeping on a huge volcano that That’s when the trouble started. could erupt at any time and blow up the entire state of Wyo- He told us how beautiful the park was. Then he ex- ming. See you in the morning. Probably.” plained if we fell into a geyser, the heat would boil the flesh The next day, he was perplexed when we didn’t want to off our bones and bleach those bones bright white, and those get within 125 feet of a geyser, when we didn’t want to be bones would never be found. He told us when (not if) we en- photographed near a bison or when we refused to gaze into a countered bears, we had to play dead or the bears would eat boiling hot spot. My sister started crying, “I don’t want to fall TAYLORSVILLEus. We even practiced drills in the car. in and have bleached bones.”
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