October 2016 | Vol. 3 Iss. 10 FREE Salt Lake City Stars Run Camp for Community Kids By Billy Swartzfager | [email protected] PAGE 22 Taylorsville Junior Jazz players pose for a photo at a basketball camp facilitated by the Salt Lake City Stars (Billy Swartzfager) Solo Artist Shoots for the Stars PAGE 5 Taylorsville Students Interviewed PAGE 9 40 Before 40 PAGE 19 DESERET NEWS Permit #44 Permit Riverton, UT Riverton, Local Postal Customer Postal Local P A I D I A P HOME SHOW ECRWSS U.S. Postage U.S. OCTOBER 7-9 USE PROMO CODE: Presort Std Presort SOUTH TOWNE EXPO CENTER JOURNAL Scan Here: Interactive online edition with more photos. Deseret NewsHomeShow.com PAGE 2 | OctOBER 2016 LOCAL LIFE TAYLORSVILLE CITYJOURNAL ‘Earthquake Lady’ Trains Residents on Preparedness By Tori La Rue | [email protected] eople ask Maralin Hoff if she has a real The TCJ is a monthly publication distri- name. To many people, she’s simply the buted directly to residents via the USPS P as well as locations throughout Taylors- “Earthquake Lady.” ville. Hoff secured a job at the Utah Department For information about distribution of Public Safety 21 years ago. As the outreach please email circulation@mycityjournals. specialist, she reworked the state’s personal and com or call our offices. Rack locations are family earthquake and emergency preparedness also available on our website. plans and began presenting her custom 3-D For subscriptions please contact: [email protected] posters and emergency kits in venues across the The views and opinions expressed in state. The students at Red Hills Middle School in display advertisements do not necessarily Richfield tagged her with the name “Earthquake reflect or represent the views and opin- Lady,” and it stuck. It’s even on her business ions held by Loyal Perch Media or the cards. City Journals. This publication may not Hoff presented at Taylorsville’s Emergency be reproduced in whole or in part without Preparedness Fair on Sept. 8, sharing her passion the express written consent of the owner. and knowledge about personal and family emergency preparedness kits and plans. She was The Taylorsville Team the “main event” at the fair, according to Ben Gustafson, Taylorsville emergency manager. “The purpose of the event is really to get Maralin Hoff, Utah Department of Public Safety outreach specialist, demonstrates emergency preparedness CREATIVE DIRECTOR: strategies at the Taylorsville Senior Center on Sept. 8. (Tori La Rue/City Journals) Bryan Scott as much information out as we can,” Gustafson [email protected] said. “By us having the residents ready for an emergency, they are ready to take care of kits, including a vehicle emergency kit, a bedside of paper towels, air freshener and a liter of kitty EDITOR: themselves, and the professional responders emergency backpack for kids and an emergency litter in the kit. People can add the litter to their Tori La Rue aren’t put in a situation where they have to help porta-potty kit. potty to reduce unwanted odor, she said. [email protected] somebody because they are already OK by the “It just kills me to see people not ready Hoff encouraged spectators to buy or prepared when they were caught off guard,” preparedness kits for their grown children for ADVERTISING: time they get there.” 801-254-5974 The city hosted the fair in the Taylorsville Hoff said. “When you prepare like this, you have Christmas. Janet McDougal, a Taylorsville Senior Center, and about 50 residents came. more knowledge of what to do.” resident, took Hoff up on that challenge a few DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING: Unified Police Department, Unified Fire Hoff’s vehicle emergency kit included years ago and gave her children the porta-potty Ryan Casper Authority, disaster response group Team flashlights, road flares, an ice scraper, hand kit for Christmas. [email protected] warmers, a fire extinguisher and more. Her child “They actually love it because they said it 801-671-2034 Rubicon, Community Emergency Response Teams and Utah Amateur Radio Club hosted bedside kit, meant to be a portable package for was something they wouldn’t have thought to SALES ASSOCIATES: booths at the event before Hoff’s keynote the child to bring in case of emergency, included buy themselves,” McDougal said. Melissa Worthen presentation. a flashlight, crayons, a coloring book, bandages, McDougal said she’s seen Hoff present [email protected] Hoff brought enthusiasm to the subject of socks and gloves, among other things. on multiple occasions but continues to follow 801-897-5231 preparedness as she waved her hands around and “Always make sure you have an extra set of Hoff’s seminars from year to year because she displayed visuals of preparedness items in her batteries in the kits,” Hoff said. “Make sure you presents new preparedness ideas that McDougal Steve Hession switch out the batteries and other supplies every wants to try out. [email protected] hourlong presentation. She encouraged families to create an emergency communication plan so often to make sure they don’t expire.” “You never know what will happen,” CIRCULATION COORDINATOR complete with emergency contacts, an outside Hoff’s emergency porta-potty kit is made McDougal said. “I want to be ready.” Brad Casper of home meeting place and a neighborhood out of a 5-gallon bucket with a special seat Hoff said she considers it her “mission” [email protected] meeting place. lid called a “Luggable Loo” that can act as to teach residents like McDougal about safety She said every household should have an an emergency toilet. She stores wipes, Lysol, and preparedness. Her preparedness tips can be Editorial & Ad Design: plastic bags, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, a roll found online at bereadyutah.gov. l Melody Bunker emergency plan and several kinds of emergency Tina Falk Ty Gorton Taylorsville City Designed, Published & Thank You Journal to our Community Sponsors for 9500 South 500 West Distributed Suite 205 by supporting City Journals Sandy, UT 84070 Phone: 801 254 5974 MISSION STATEMENT Our mission is to inform and entertain our community while promoting a strong local economy via relevant content presented across a synergetic network of print and digital media. free l community l papers TAYLORSVILLEJOURNAL.COM OctOBER 2016 | PAGE 3 Let’s make our kids the priority again. Attend our Workshop: October 15th 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Attend a workshop led by experienced attorney, Patricia L. LaTulippe, and leave with fi nal Patricia L. LaTulippe divorce documents and complete www.erinpreston.org instructions for fi ling with the court. 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PAGE 4 | OctOBER 2016 LOCAL LIFE TAYLORSVILLE CITYJOURNAL SLCC Teacher Transitions to Modern Calligraphy By Tori La Rue | [email protected] played out in Howell’s life, she said. Her chances of becoming Howell has also started glass engraving. She etches names a graphic designer after graduating from BYU in the mid-’80s and messages into vases, jars and perfume bottles using a dentist seemed bleak as computer programs started taking over the drill. Dillard’s and other stores hire her to inscribe personalized jobs she was trained to do, so Howell put her phone number in messages on perfume and cologne bottles around Christmastime. the phone book and started doing calligraphy work, including It’s a way to give a gift that’s personalized, she said. wedding invitations, certificates and poems. Calligraphy may evolve, but its rebirth has given Howell She continued her work as a calligrapher from home for 15 hope that there will always be a place for the lettering art in the years until her fifth child came around. Howell said she wasn’t world of art and design. sure she could keep up with her calligraphy work and the day-to- “We place more value on the hand stuff and the work, love day work of being a mother. and time put into it versus something that has been manufactured,” “I doubled my prices, thinking that would make it half of the she said. “I think people like the hand-look of stuff. It is maybe not work, and I’d still make the same amount of money, but I doubled perfect, but it’s still beautiful.” my business,” Howell said. “I finally had to pull it out of the For more information about Howell’s calligraphy, email lori. phone book and just do word of mouth because it was too crazy [email protected]. l busy.” Two more children joined the Howell family, and Howell began spending her time almost exclusively as a mother. Around Lori Howell holds a piece of artwork she created using calligraphy of the the year 2000, Calligraphy took the backseat, which was just as Gettysburg Address to form the image of Abraham Lincoln’s Face. (Tori La well because the demand for calligraphy began to decline. Rue/City Journals) “Calligraphy tanked,” Howell said.