Topic: Community
Slightly off season
Fall and winter travel is easier than ever, now that daylight saving time lasts longer than daylight losing time. Even after the great fall-back darkness descends, you can find ple …
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As the climate shifts…
Our city and county officials are gearing up for change. We can plainly to see that already climate changes are impacting our everyday lives in northern Utah. Over the past three …
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#MeToo musings & a feast
The #MeToo phenomenon has sparked a lot of intimate conversations around the country. Women of all ages are sharing stories with their friends—stories they may have never told anyo …
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Briefly Noted: August 2018
First Unitarian Church Sanctuary: Volunteers needed Vicky Chavez, mother of two, came to the U.S. form Honduras four years ago to escape domestic violence and to be with her family …
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Quirky, Quaint and Über-Local
Sugar House’s Wednesday farmers market comes of age at Fairmont Park. The first Sugar House Farmers Market opened eight years ago on Monument Plaza, next to the eyecatching Art Dec …
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Women of Wisdom: Sheriff Rosie Rivera
An innate passion for fairness and justice drives Salt Lake County’s Sheriff Rosie Rivera Earlier this year, CATALYST (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) received a grant from the Utah Women’s …
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LGBTG green
Karren Fultz, sustainability director for the Utah Pride Festival, has a goal of making the Festival a zero waste event by 2020. Fultz volunteered to start a festival green team in …
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Bonanza offers a chance to escape the realities of daily life (and has options for a little bit softer landing when you return)
Perry Layne Decker Whether you’re ready for it or not, summer festival season is upon us and Utah’s fastest growing music festival, Bonanza Campout, is about to commence for its th …
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Breaking Barriers While Breaking Fast
Photo courtesy of Jenny Wilson and The Emerald Project The sun is completing its daily routine outside the window of Cedars of Lebanon, tucked in the middle of downtown Salt Lake. …
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Editor’s Notebook: June 2018
I first met Lynne Olson in 1990 when she came by the office with an idea for a story: Kids Organized to Protect the Environment (the KOPE Kids Club). We followed KOPE for several y …
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Bee Fest
What’s happening at Bee Fest: A Celebration of Pollination! Raise your glass to pollinators, for they bring you your coffee, tea, tequila and cream (dairy cows eat pollinated alfa …
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Youth Action: Collaboration, Innovation and Sustainability
The University of Utah’s Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund. About 150,000 honey bees living in a dozen hives call the University of Utah home. You’ll find them in the rooftop gard …
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2018 Red Butte Garden Outdoor Concert Series Lineup
Summer is knocking at Salt Lake’s doorstep! The long awaited lineup for the 2018 Red Butte Garden Outdoor Concert Series was recently announced. The beautiful, outdoor amphitheater …
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An Earth Day Event Compendium For 2018
The first observance of Earth Day in 1970 is often regarded as the beginning of the mainstream environmental movement, in which citizens and lawmakers took up issues of clean air a …
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On the Cover: March 2018
Muley Point, Bears Ears National Monument,” Ruby Pluhar. Ruby Pluhar’s work explores the human relationship to universal space. She has an interest in landscape, especially in loca …
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that. –Martin Luther King Jr. 💙 Happy birthday MLK, we’ll forever be grateful for your unfaltering example of taking the high road, choosing love, and insisting on envisioning the kind of world we want to create, despite all the odds. Illustration by @petraerikssonstudio #mlk #martinlutherkingjr