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Community group’s urban gardens week events begin Sunday

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:21:08 MDT

Community group’s urban gardens week events begin Sunday

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Updated Jun 14, 2013 10:21PM MDT

The first Urban Garden and Farm Week, hosted by Wasatch Community Gardens, begins Sunday in Salt Lake City and runs through June 22. The centerpiece will be a self-guided tour that aims to demonstrate the virtues of sustainability, urban homesteading and organic gardening. The tour is set from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, June 22. The public also is invited that day to an early bird brunch fundraiser at Squatter’s Pub, 147 W. Broadway, from 9 to 11 a.m. Information and pre-registration for th...

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Utah Arts Festival preview: A sweet way to cool off, organically

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:27:04 MDT

Utah Arts Festival preview: A sweet way to cool off, organically

By Sean P. Means The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 14, 2013 10:27PM MDT

Amber DeBirk has worked a booth at the Utah Arts Festival before, selling her fused-glass artwork. This year, the Salt Lake City artist is setting up shop at a different part of the event: The food row. DeBirk is proprietor of Wasatch Pops, which sells ice pops and shaved ice from a trailer at the weekly Millcreek Community Market and other events. She started the business because her oldest daughter, Indy, now 7, had severe food allergies and couldn’t enjoy the summer treats other kids ate. It...

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Salute BSA’s courage

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:01:04 MDT

Salute BSA’s courage

Updated Jun 14, 2013 01:01AM MDT

A Presbyterian pastor in Fruit Heights has recently been in the news for resigning from the board of the Trapper Trails Council of the Boy Scouts of America, citing his disagreement with the Scout policy change to no longer ban gay Scouts. Wasatch Presbyterian Church is home to Boy Scout Troop 38, and we are so proud of the BSA’s National Council for voting to change a rule we have long found to be, frankly, unChristian. While the pastor in question has every right to join or resign from any b...

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Golf: Holes-in-one

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:01:24 MDT

Golf: Holes-in-one

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 12, 2013 12:01AM MDT

Wasatch Mountain • Jack Jones. No. 13 (Lake Course), 158 yards, 7-iron. With Steve Wall, Ron Jones. Wasatch Mountain • Rob Follett. No. 17 (Mountain Course). With Ron Lee, Ernie McNiel, Bill Miano. Stone Bridge • Hoi Lutui. No. 8 (Sagebrush), 149 yards, 9-iron. With Billy Tupou, Vill Tupou, Sione Mo’Uala. Oakridge • Miles Miller. No. 5, 147 yards, 5 wood. With Chuck Norton, Frank DeLost, Don Bosch. Country Club • Scott Bonham. No. 6, 177 yards, 6-iron. With Brad Bonham, Brandon Bonham, Dave Tull...

Famed Wasatch peak officially renamed Pfeifferhorn

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:54:12 MDT

Famed Wasatch peak officially renamed Pfeifferhorn

By Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 6, 2013 10:54PM MDT

In 1939, after Charles “Chick” Pfeiffer was found dead in his Salt Lake City shoe shop, his friends climbed the Little Matterhorn to remember the mountaineer who died with his ski clothes on. It was then that the Wasatch Mountains’ iconic 11,362-foot summit became known as the Pfeifferhorn. It has been called thus ever since by pretty much everyone, expect the official keeper of geographic names. Little Matterhorn “had become irrelevant, but these things die a slow death,” said Alexis Kelner, t...