Pamela Atkinson, advocate for low-income groups in Utah, said many of the 75 pantries served by the Food Bank have resorted to handing out two-day supplies of food for families instead of the normal five-day supply.

"Many families and individuals are unable to get sufficient food for their children and themselves and have resorted to dipping into their rent money, which leads to further problems," Atkinson said.

Over the past three months, the Food Bank has collected 4.4 million pounds of food, but, because of the increased demand, has distributed 5.6 million pounds to the various pantries around the state, "forcing it to dip into its inventory," she said.

"Donations are always low at this time of the year," she said. "The annual Thanksgiving food drive doesn't start until November, so people really aren't thinking about it right now."

She said those interested in donating food can call the Utah Food Bank in Salt Lake City and donate there directly or get directions to the food pantry nearest them.

Tourist attraction? Most communities that build speed bumps in residential areas to slow traffic place "Speed Bump" signs just before the barrier to warn motorists of what they are about to encounter.

But in Midvale, the signs might defeat the purpose of promoting safety by causing too much of a distraction for motorists.

There are three speed bumps on 7720 South, starting at about 146 East, going east. The signs glaring at the drivers on that street say: "Speed Hump."

Achieving immortality: Readers of The Salt Lake Tribune might have noticed in a recent Sunday Comics that the nationally syndicated cartoon, Flo & Friends, gave a shout-out to a local eatery, the Blue Iguana Restaurant, by adorning the strip's main character, Flo, in a Blue Iguana T-shirt.

Blue Iguana owner Daniel Darger was so surprised by the plug, he found the creator, Jenny Campbell, of Campbell Cartooning in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and e-mailed her with his thanks and wonderment about her awareness of the restaurant, and an offer of having her very own Blue Iguana T-shirt.

Campbell wrote back that whenever a newspaper signs up for her cartoon strip, she searches Google for the town it is in to find interesting places in the community that she can plug by putting their names on Flo's vast wardrobe of T-shirts.

She's a "lizard freak," she told Darger, so when she found the Blue Iguana, it was a natural.

Snail mail: Hans Roelofs of Cedar City received a return letter from the U.S. Postal Service on Thursday that was stamped 10/12/08 as non-deliverable. He sent the letter May 12 to a Salt Lake City address.