Letter: Utahns gotta rise up and do more than buy cookies to correct America’s course
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune "This community has stepped up and completely blown me away," said Adalberto Diaz Labrada, chef and owner of FIllings & Emulsions bakery, tossing more than $14,000 collected on Friday. The owners of two Salt Lake City bakeries, Fillings & Emulsions and Gourmandise sold every cookie, macaroon and muffin they had on hand during a bake sale on Friday, June 22 2018, to help migrant parents caught crossing the border and their children who were sent to shelters.
By Elise Lazar | The Public Forum
| June 26, 2018, 1:00 p.m.
| Updated: June 25, 2018, 6:48 p.m.
The front-page article "Buy a cookie, help a child” certainly shows the concern over Trump’s half-baked, heinous, zero-tolerance policy.
So the public, by purchasing cookies, is helping with the legal costs to reunite families — the same public that, through our tax dollars, has paid for this immoral separation and incarceration of families.
May I suggest that the bakers, as well as the rest of us who are appalled by the POTUS and spineless Congress, use the yeast of our anger and rise to register voters to correct this hideous blight on an already diminished, unrecognizable America.
Elise Lazar, Salt Lake City