SLCo Supports Completion Of Central Utah Project

SLCo Issues Strong
Support for the
Central Utah Project



Mayor Peter Corroon and the Salt Lake County Council are urging the Obama Administration to complete the Central Utah Project.

In a resolution co-authored by Council Members Jani Iwamoto and Michael Jensen and signed by the council and the Mayor, Salt Lake County opposes plans by the U.S. Department of the Interior to eliminate CUP funding from the federal budget.

The CUP has been included in every federal budget since the mid 1970’s. “The CUP is designed to supply water to the growing Wasatch Front,” says Mayor Peter Corroon. “Eliminating funding makes no sense.”

“We absolutely need the water,” says Salt Lake County Councilwoman Jani Iwamoto, a member of the CUP Board. “Interior’s action jeopardizes actual delivery of water to the growing populations in Salt Lake and Utah counties.”

Councilman Michael Jensen added, “I strongly encourage our delegation to continue to fight for the cup, it is essential for the future of Salt Lake County.”

The resolution notes that “Without revenue from the federal government, environmental mitigation, including wetland restoration, wildlife and endangered species protection, would be in jeopardy.”

The resolution notes that members of the Utah congressional delegation dating back to its inception more than 40 years ago supported the project.

The Utah Lake System of the Bonneville Unit is the final portion of the CUP. When completed the CUP will bring Colorado River water to Salt Lake and Utah Counties.


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Snowbird’s Cliff Spa Renovations Under Way

Renovations Under Way at
Snowbird’s Cliff Spa





First major facility improvement since 1987, completion expected December 2010.

The Cliff Spa at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort is currently undergoing a major renovation, the first to the facility since it opened in 1987. Improvements to the Spa, located on the ninth and tenth floors of the Cliff Lodge, are expected to be completed by early December.

“For many of our guests, the experience of relaxing in the mountains is just as important to their vacation as the skiing itself,” said Snowbird President Bob Bonar. “The Spa enhancements will be a tremendous addition to our resort.”

The remodel focuses primarily on the ninth floor facilities, including the lobby, reception area, salon and retail store, main corridor, the men's and women's locker rooms, solarium and steam room, and the treatment hallway. New paint, tile, carpet, treatment room flooring, art, lighting, furniture and entry way design elements are all part of the improvements. In addition, a new room dedicated exclusively to Thai massage will be added, increasing the treatment room count to 21. The facilities on the tenth floor, including the rooftop pool and hot tub, fitness center and yoga studio, will remain open during the renovations.

Chase Associates, a Salt Lake City design firm, is overseeing the renovation with a strong emphasis on green products and environmentally sustainable building techniques. Elements such as stone countertops are manufactured locally, while others like cork flooring, fabrics and shower dividers utilize post-industrial and post-consumer materials.

“For years, our guests have fallen in love with our magical surroundings and incredible staff,” said Cliff Spa Director Marlen Stewart. “With this renovation, we’ll truly have exceptional facilities to match the overall experience at the Cliff Spa.”

Opened in 1987, the Cliff Spa was one of the first winter destination spas in the world and a vision of owner Dick Bass, who strove to operate Snowbird under the mission of “enhancing body, mind and spirit.” Today, the Spa offers more than 30 treatments and salon services ranging from massages and scrubs to hair and nail care as well as a picturesque yoga studio, full fitness center, rooftop pool and hot tub, eucalyptus steam room and a solarium overlooking Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort. For more information on the Cliff Spa, please visit www.cliffspa.com.

Located in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird averages an annual snowfall of 500 inches and offers the longest ski and snowboard season in Utah. Opening day for the 2010/11 season is projected for November 20, weather permitting.


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SLCo Budget Presentation Tuesday

Mayor Peter Corroon
Presents 2011 Budget
Recommendations



Mayor Peter Corroon will present his 2011 Salt Lake County budget recommendations to the Salt Lake County Council Tuesday morning.

Event: 2011 Salt Lake County Budget Presentation
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Place: SLCo Council Chambers
           North Building, 1st Floor
           County Government Center
           2001 South State Street


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Spy Hop Presents Its 8th Annual PitchNic World Premiere

YOUNG SALT LAKE FILMMAKERS

PREMIERE PITCHNIC FILMS

Spy Hop presents its 8th annual PitchNic World Premiere featuring four new films from its most intensive and critically-acclaimed filmmaking program.

Students of Spy Hop Productions’ most advanced filmmaking workshop will showcase their films, Rock Is In The Air, Streeters, The Silhouettes, and Rx, at a public premiere Thursday, November 11, 2010 from 7:30–9:30PM at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available online at www.arttix.org, all ArtTix Office locations, or by calling (801) 355-ARTS.

Each year, students premiere four short films as the culminating event of an intensive year-long filmmaking workshop at Spy Hop Productions. Local youth filmmakers Zachary Allred (Viewmont HS), Breanne Anderson, Jordan Brockman (AMES HS), Colton Bybee (Brighton HS), Candida Duran (AMES HS), Samantha Highsmith (Judge Memorial), Adriana Martinez (Cottonwood HS), Mars Oliva (Bonneville HS), Loren Ruiz (SLCC), Sarah Schuster-Johnson, Cassandra Taylor (Highland HS), Alexandria “Ally” VanRoosendaal, and Russell Williams (Lone Peak HS) have worked tirelessly to bring their collective film ideas to the big screen.

The 2010 PitchNic Films
To view trailers. please vist SpyHop or YouTube

“ROCK IS IN THE AIR” (Fiction)
Air Band — noun, english 1.) A collection of musicians pretending to play instruments to pre-recorded music. In this side-splitting mockumentary, John, a middle-aged air guitarist, gets fed up with his friends when they decide that their air band should play real instruments instead. How far will John go to achieve fame and fortune while leaving his friends behind? John must decide which is more important: fame or friendship. Jordan Brockman (Director), Russell Williams (Producer), Zachary Allred (Cinematographer)

“STREETERS” (Non-fiction)
On any given night in the greater Salt Lake City area, there are over 1,000 homeless youth. Most recorded cases of youth homelessness are due to abuse, mental illness, aging out of foster care, and sexual orientation. Until recently, it was deemed illegal to host a youth shelter in Utah, and currently no youth shelter is underway. Because of this, each day these young people are faced with obstacles such as finding shelter and food. Some of these youth are attempting to get off the streets, while others have become accustomed to street culture and that way of life. These youth are constantly in motion, moving from place to place in hopes of finding some form of stability. Samantha Highsmith (Director), Cassandra Taylor (Dir. of Photography), Adriana Martinez (Producer)

“THE SILHOUETTES” (Non-fiction)
Explore the passion and challenges of local performance poets in Salt Lake City, and delve deeper into their lives to discover the mental difficulties suffered by them and their close family members—depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Poetry serves as a therapeutic form of escape for these artists, who have learned to process their emotions and bare their hearts and souls on stage. Sarah Schuster-Johnson (Director/Producer), Loren Ruiz (Cinematographer/Producer), Candida Duran (Cinematographer)

“Rx” (Fiction)
Ryan, a hypochondriac, spends his days between juggling doctor appointments and deciphering his latest illness. A chance encounter with Avery, a free spirit, sparks them on a journey of self-discovery that they will never forget. Alexandria “Ally” VanRoosendaal (Director), Breanne Anderson (Writer/Editor), Colton Bybee (Producer), Mars Oliva (Cinematographer)

About the PitchNic Film Program

PitchNic was conceived in 2002 as an exciting, hands-on way to unite talented, passionate young filmmakers with supporters of youth filmmaking. This intense year-long workshop allows experienced student filmmakers to learn the ins and outs of creating a professional-caliber documentary or narrative film. With the guidance of professional mentors—and with access to professional production values—these filmmakers truly learn and experience every aspect of the production process.

About Spy Hop Productions

Spy Hop Productions is a not-for-profit youth media arts and education center whose purpose is to empower youth to express their voice and with it create positive change in their lives, their community, and the world. Our mission is to encourage free expression, self-discovery, critical and inventive thinking, and skilled participation via the big screen, the airwaves, and the web.

The White House recently recognized Spy Hop Productions as one of the top arts and humanities‐based organizations in the country. Spy Hop has been given the distinguished honor of being a finalist for the 2010 National Arts and Humanities Youth Award given by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.


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Tax Credit for Small Businesses? Apply Here.

Tax Credit for
Small Businesses?
Apply Here





Insurance coverage for employees can be a problematic expense for small businesses. More than one-third of Americans work for small businesses which employ less than 100 people, and few of these companies provide comprehensive insurance, or any health insurance, simply because the cost can be prohibitively expensive. To help lessen that burden, the government is offering a tax credit to companies that have fewer than 25 employees with wages that average less than $50,000 annually.

It is estimated that 84% of small businesses are eligible for this tax credit, and business owners can find out potential tax credits by visiting the IRS website or the Small Business Majority website.

Utah’s very own Besty Burton, the owner of The King’s English Bookstore, and Chair of the Board of Directors for Local First Utah, has received national attention for her advocacy of this issue. Her primary concern is the education of small business owners regarding critical issues that will help them stay in business. Burton’s story is covered both in the Huffington Post and the New York Times.


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Utah Symphony Presents Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet

Utah Symphony Presents

Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet

The Utah Symphony and Music Director Thierry Fischer Present Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet featuring the Utah Symphony Chorus.

New Music Director Thierry Fischer will lead the Utah Symphony and the Utah Symphony Chorus in Berlioz’s symphonic version of Shakespeare’s tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet. The evening will feature mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford, tenor Jason Slayden and bass Eric Owens. The performances will be held at Abravanel Hall on Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6 at 8:00 p.m.

A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Tamara Mumford made her debut there in Luisa Miller, and has since appeared in their productions of Rigoletto, Parsifal, Idomeneo, Cavalleria Rusticana, the complete Ring Cycle, the new children’s English version of The Magic Flute, debuts at the Opera Company of Philadelphia in The Rape of Lucretia, Glimmerglass Opera in Dido and Aeneas, and the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and the BBC Proms in L'incoronazione di Poppea, L’Italiana in Algeri at the Palm Beach Opera, The Rape of Lucretia, conducted by Lorin Maazel and produced by his Chateauville Foundation; Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano in Italy; and La Cenerentola at Utah Festival Opera. A native of Sandy, Utah, Ms. Mumford holds a Bachelors of Music from Utah State University.

A native Texan, tenor Jason Slayden is a graduate of Texas State University and is completing a Masters degree in vocal performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. There he has won the John Alexander Memorial Scholarship and was awarded the Emily Dieterle Scholarship. This summer, Jason completed his second year as an Apprentice Artist with the Santa Fe Opera where he sang First Priest and covered Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, covered the Mayor in Albert Herring and was a featured soloist in their sacred concert series. Last year at Santa Fe he was awarded the Donald Gramm Memorial Award for Singers, and he sang the role of the First Clubman and covered Hammond in the world premier of The Letter. He was also an apprentice with Des Moines Metro Opera in 2008 where he covered Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore. Other recent appearances include Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia with CCM Opera Theater, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with the Kentucky Opera and Owensboro Symphony, tenor soloist for Mozart’s Requiem with the Santa Fe Symphony, tenor soloist for Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with Concert:Nova of Cincinnati, and Peter Quint in Britten’s Turn of the Screw with Texas State University Opera Theater.

Eric Owens opens the 2010-11 season of the Metropolitan Opera as Alberich in Das Rheingold in a new production by Robert Lepage, conducted by James Levine. He essays the title role in Peter Sellars’s new production of Handel’s Hercules, conducted by Harry Bicket at Lyric Opera of Chicago; returns to San Francisco Opera as Ramfis in Aïda, conducted by Giuseppe Finzi; and joins Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony as Lodovico in concert performances of Verdi’s Otello both in Chicago and at Carnegie Hall. His concert calendar includes Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Donald Runnicles and the Atlanta Symphony; Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Jaap van Zweden and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic; Mozart’s Requiem with the Handel & Haydn Society under Harry Christophers; Brahms’s Ein Deutshces Requiem at Carnegie Hall with James Bagwell and the Collegiate Chorale; and Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette with the Utah Symphony, conducted by Thierry Fischer.

Tickets for the evening’s performances start at $15 and can be purchased by calling (801) 355-ARTS (2787), in person at the Abravanel Hall box office, or by visiting www.usuo.org. Subscribers and those desiring group or student discounts should call (801) 533-NOTE (6683). Ticket prices will increase $5 day of performance.


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Wasatch Front Consortium Awarded $5 Million Grant

HUD Awards $5 Million Grant

To Wasatch Front Consortium

Salt Lake County and an unprecedented consortium of Wasatch Front agencies have been awarded a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The official announcement was made in Salt Lake City.

The Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant will be used to develop strategies and tools to implement long-term sustainable growth – to help build more livable, walkable, environmentally-sustainable communities along the Wasatch Front.

The grant will fund the creation of an affordable housing plan, the study of six transit-oriented development sites, and the creation of sustainability blueprints that can be used locally, regionally and nationally.

Consortium members include: Salt Lake County, Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC), Envision Utah, Mountainland Association of Governments (MAG), UDOT, UTA, Salt Lake City, University of Utah Metropolitan Research Center & Bureau of Economic and Business Research, and the American Planning Association’s Utah Chapter.

The consortium will also use the grant funds to encourage the adoption of the Wasatch Front Principles and 2040 Vision, implement UDOT's U-Plan as a tool for communication, conduct public participation workshops, and find practical solutions to address future growth in the region.

Over the past decade, public, private, academic and community leaders in Utah have developed quality growth strategies for the Salt Lake metropolitan region. In 2010, they developed and adopted a regional vision, the Wasatch Choice for 2040, which is a blueprint for the future of the Wasatch Front region.

The three-year grant will promote coordination and partnerships between the regional planning agencies (WFRC & MAG) with County governments, local communities and cities, and agencies who provide transportation, transit, housing, and job creation services.

The grant is part of the federal Sustainable Communities Initiative to improve regional planning efforts to integrate housing, land use, economic development, transportation and infrastructure. The Initiative’s goal is to incorporate livability and sustainability into land use plans and zoning.


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Corroon Proclaims October Italian Heritage Month

Italian Heritage
Month
in SL County



Mayor Corroon Proclaims October Italian Heritage Month in SL County.

Mayor Peter Corroon has signed a proclamation making October, 2010 Italian Heritage Month in Salt Lake County.
 
The proclamation was signed at the weekly meeting of the Salt Lake County Council. It noted that Italians left their homeland in search of a better life and were some of the first European explorers to arrive on the North American continent.

“The Italian-American community has made valuable contributions to our country though business and industry, politics, education, the sciences and the arts,” said the Mayor while signing the official document.

                  -------------------------

P R O C L A M A T I O N

Whereas, Italians left their homeland in search of a better life and were some of the first European explorers and settlers to arrive in our great nation; and

Whereas, Italians celebrate generations of racially and culturally mixed people and vibrant cultures including elements originating from the 20 regions of Italy; and

Whereas, the Italian-American community has made valuable contributions to our country through business and industry, politics, education, the sciences and the arts; and

Whereas, from early days of mining and railroads to now with Mario Renato Capecchi, a 2007 Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, Italian-Americans are a part of Utah’s rich history; and

Whereas, Italian-Americans share deep family values, maintain their cultural and social ties and their rich traditions and values from the past

Now, Therefore, I, Peter M. Corroon, as Mayor of Salt Lake County do hereby proclaim October 1 – October 31, 2010 to be
              ITALIAN HERITAGE MONTH

I join with all Americans in celebrating the many achievements of Italian Americans and recognizing their contributions to our nation.

Signed this 12th day of October, 2010
Peter M. Corroon
Salt Lake County Mayor


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Sustainable Communities Code Revision Project by Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City

Sustainable Communities Code Revision Project

Salt Lake City Leads the Nation with Green Ordinance Review.

Salt Lake City is undertaking a groundbreaking project to adopt the most comprehensive sustainability ordinance revision in the country. The project will make changes to the City's zoning and subdivision ordinances which will guide and shape the development patterns necessary for Salt Lake City to become a national leader in sustainable practices. We are bringing forward a series of code amendments to become more efficient and environmentally responsible in our practices and procedures throughout the City.

These changes will include provisions such as creating incentives for mixed-use development patterns that mitigate the need to drive to work, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions; facilitating alternative energy production and conservation by removing barriers to alternative solar and wind energy; promoting alternative means of transportation like bicycling and walking; protecting trees that absorb greenhouse gases; and reducing storm water runoff and pollutants.

The 10 key areas addressed by the Sustainable Communities Code Revision Project are:
 1. Climate Change and Air Quality
 2. Water Quality and Conservation
 3. Facilitate Alternative Energy production & Energy Conservation
 4. Mobility and Transportation
 5. Urban Forestry
 6. Housing Accessibility and Diversity
 7. Community Health and Safety
 8. Food Production and Nutrition
 9. Recycling and Waste Reduction
10. Open Space, Parks, and Trails


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