BYU’s Alex Barcello at BYU’s basketball practice facility in Provo on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. | Steve Griffin, Deseret News
Arizona transfer Alex Barcello is set to make BYU debut Friday in an exhibition game at the Marriott Center
PROVO — After transferring to BYU from Arizona last August, guard Alex Barcello applied for a waiver from the NCAA to be eligible this season.
As the weeks passed, almost every day, his teammates would ask him about his eligibility status.
Invariably, Barcello would answer, “I don’t know yet but I’m going to keep working with you guys like I’m going to play this year. No matter what, it’s going to work out.’”
Then last Friday, BYU director of compliance Chad Gwilliam showed up before practice and asked Barcello how he would feel about playing this year.
“Shoot, I’d give anything to play this year,” Barcello said.
“Well, get ready,” Gwilliam said. “You’re going to suit up Friday.”
And the players and coaching staff went crazy.
“It was very special for me,” Barcello recalled. “It surprised me, definitely ... You never know with the NCAA. But it was definitely a blessing in disguise. I never stopped working every day.”
Now that Barcello has been declared eligible to play this season by the NCAA, he’ll make his BYU debut Friday (7 p.m., BYUtv) in the Cougars’ lone exhibition game at the Marriott Center.
BYU hosts UT Tyler, a Division II team that fell at Utah, 88-47, Wednesday. The Cougars officially open the season next Tuesday at home against Cal State Fullerton.
The addition of Barcello “changes a lot” for the Cougars, said first-year coach Mark Pope. “He gives us a real physical presence in the backcourt, which is a huge gift. He’s an extraordinary young man. He’s a terrific basketball player and he brings a physicality that we desperately need. He’s a huge addition for us and we’re super grateful.”
Barcello, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound junior from Chandler, Arizona, played for two seasons at the University of Arizona. He appeared in 51 games, averaging 2.9 points. He recorded 48 rebounds, 35 assists and 13 steals. Barcello scored in double figures three times as a sophomore, including a career-best 16 points against Georgia Southern, 12 points at Utah and 14 points against California.
Barcello prepped at Corona del Sol High School, where he helped lead the team to a pair of 6A state championships and scored 2,254 career points. He was rated as the No. 2 recruit in the state of Arizona and was a member of the ESPN Top 100 for the class of 2017.
Forward Kolby Lee is eager to play with Barcello.
“I would describe him as one of the quickest guards I’ve ever played with,” Lee said. “He plays downhill and can stop on a dime. He’s a good shooter and a great passer. I love playing with him because he comes off ball screens quick and he’ll find you when you’re open.”
When Pope was the head coach at Utah Valley University, he watched Barcello play at Corona del Sol. Later, when UVU played Arizona, Pope got a chance to watch Barcello again. Pope reached out to Barcello once he was in the transfer portal last summer.
“He’s a pass-first guy. He’s a bulldog of a physical player,” Pope said of Barcello. “He’s capable of really pressuring the ball. He can get wherever he wants to on the floor. He has another gear where he can get there really fast. He’s a pretty creative passer.”
Barcello is the right player for this team, Pope said.
“He’s an extraordinary fit. He fits us, man, and we fit him. I fit him as a coach, basketball-wise, and he fits me as a player in terms of how he wants to approach this game. This university fits him in terms of what he cares about. He fits us in terms of how we expect him to conduct himself here. It’s a good match.”
Now that his wait is over, Barcello can’t wait to get on the floor and represent BYU.
“It’s just great to play with these guys that work hard every day,” he said. “We’re all about the same mentality — winning. They’re definitely encouraging me to be a better player. It’s fun to be here with these guys.”
As a fourth-grade math teacher, I hear this at least once daily. It’s like a dagger to the heart every single time.
I have been hearing this even more since math instruction has moved away from first instilling the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (to some detriment, I believe) toward “problem-solving” and abstracted versions of the simple equations that older generations practiced.
Long before the mantra of problem-solving became gospel in education, it fed into the concept of what a 21st century “leader” should be able to accomplish. From there, the modern transformational leader (usually of the tech or finance variety) injected the credo into the hiring process, a la the famed set of puzzles put forth to job applicants at Google.
Example: “How would you cut a rectangular cake into two equal pieces when a rectangular piece has already been cut out of it? The cut piece can be of any size and orientation. You are only allowed to make one straight cut.”
This question requires an understanding of both mathematical and geometric equalities, as well as background knowledge of what a rectangular cake looks like. Seems like common sense stuff, but you’d be surprised how many people have trouble solving it.
(Make a diagonal cut through the center of the corner of the missing cake piece, by the way.)
The human resources trend of testing potential employees with puzzles, brain teasers and, in some cases, questions from the SAT test became standard practice at large organizations circa 2015 — about the same time that K-12 public education changed its objective from “educating citizens” to getting students “college and career ready.”
As a result, kindergartners are trained to parse simple word problems and taught to fill out worksheets of simple math equations like “1 + 2 =” (prematurely, as far as I’m concerned).
So, when I get them in fourth grade, they either have excellent math skills or “hate math” — in, almost certainly, the same proportions as when I was a fourth grader. I heard the dreaded chant Monday again, as I assigned the week’s homework to my students.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Math ability is as intrinsically available to everyone as breathing or eating.
Brain-science researchers at Johns Hopkins University recently observed that babies as young as 14 months old seem to recognize that counting is about the dimension of numbers. Young kids don’t generally understand the meanings of words like “two” and “three” until they hit preschool age. Writing in the journal Developmental Science, the researchers concluded that counting “directs infants’ attention to numerical aspects of the world, showing that they recognize counting as numerically relevant years before acquiring the meanings of number words.”
This is not totally groundbreaking work — it builds upon a body of research that has plumbed the depths of how much number sense humans are born with.
For instance, some infants can distinguish between images of 10 and 20 dots.
I’m no baby researcher, or math expert for that matter, but science also knows that nurture has at least as much influence on human development as nature. The missing link between babies’ innate math skills and some elementary school students’ hatred of math (sometimes lasting a lifetime) could be as simple as how much their parents practiced number sense with them.
As the National Association for the Education of Young Children puts it, “From the moment they are born, babies begin to form ideas about math through everyday experiences and, most important, through interactions with trusted adults. Language — how we talk with infants and toddlers about math ideas like more, empty, and full — matters.”
They don’t usually tell you this in birthing classes, do they?
As with virtually all other positive early-childhood habits — making eye contact, pointing out patterns, making comparisons (like big and small) and modeling responses to simple questions — parents with higher educations and incomes just seem to know to do this with their children without being taught.
Do this old math teacher a favor: If you’re anywhere near a baby or child, do some simple, positive, stress-free number talking with them, such as counting the stairs as you walk up or down. And whatever you do, never, ever say you “hate” or aren’t “good at math.”
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump deserves credit for ordering the operation that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It was a high-risk mission that required U.S. forces to fly hundreds of miles into al-Qaida-controlled territory to storm a heavily armed terrorist compound. If things had gone horribly wrong, Trump would have been blamed and borne the consequences. Just ask Jimmy Carter how the Desert One disaster affected his reelection. Trump knew the political risks but gave the order to go anyway.
Would Joe Biden have done the same? Unlikely.
The former vice president advised Barack Obama not to carry out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. As Mark Bowden, author of “The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden,” explained in 2012, “The only major dissenters were Biden and (then-Defense Secretary Robert) Gates, and before the raid was launched, Gates would change his mind.” During a meeting in the Situation Room, Biden later recalled, Obama turned to him and asked, “Joe, what do you think?” Biden answered, “Mr. President, my suggestion is don’t go.” Worse, his reason had nothing to do with national security. According to Bowden, Biden told the president that “if the effort failed, Obama could say goodbye to a second term.” At the moment America had the man responsible for the 9/11 attacks in her sights, Biden was worried about politics, the absolute last thing a commander in chief should be thinking about in such circumstances. In the end, Bowden writes, “every one of the president’s top advisers except Biden was in favor of immediate action.”
Yet, rather than praise Trump for ordering the killing of Baghdadi, Biden blasted the president, declaring the raid succeeded “despite his ineptitude as commander in chief.” The man who opposed the bin Laden operation criticizes the man who approved the Baghdadi operation? That’s rich. And it was the Obama-Biden administration’s withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 that allowed the Islamic State to rise from the ashes of defeat and build a caliphate the size of Britain. Talk about ineptitude.
Obama’s rejection of Biden’s advice not to go after bin Laden does not absolve Obama of criticism for his broader policy in the fight against terrorism. After the bin Laden operation, many pointed out the irony that Obama’s signature national security accomplishment was made possible by information gained from the CIA interrogation program that he had shut down on his third day in office. As former acting CIA director Mike Morrell has explained, the key piece of intelligence that led the CIA to bin Laden — information on bin Laden’s principal courier, including his nickname Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti — came from detainees in CIA custody.
Similarly, Trump’s bold decision to go forward with the Baghdadi operation does not absolve him of criticism for his Syria policy. The fact is, taking out the Islamic State leader would not have been possible without the U.S. boots on the ground that Trump has announced he is withdrawing, or without the help of the Kurdish allies whom Trump is abandoning. It was the Kurds who cultivated the source inside Baghdadi’s inner circle who gave us actionable intelligence about his location. So, the Kurds not only took 11,000 casualties in the fight to drive the Islamic State from its physical caliphate, but they also gave us the critical lead that led us to Baghdadi’s doorstep. It’s fair to ask whether the same operation would have been possible six months from now thanks to Trump’s drawdown and betrayal of the Kurds.
Our Kurdish allies deserve better. And we still need them. According to a Pentagon inspector general’s report, even before Trump’s most recent withdrawal announcement, the Islamic State was “resurging in Syria.” It has between 14,000 and 18,000 members, as well as about 3,000 foreign fighters under arms in Syria and Iraq. The New York Times reports that before Trump’s decision to greenlight Turkey’s invasion, Kurdish forces were conducting as many as a dozen counterterrorism missions a day, but now those have ceased. The Kurds were also guarding about 10,000 captured Islamic State fighters, including about 2,000 foreign fighters. Now, according to the State Department, more than 100 of those detainees have escaped and “we do not know where they are.”
And while the loss of Baghdadi is a major blow, the Islamic State has survived similar blows before. Thanks to Trump, Baghdadi is dead. But the Islamic State is not. We still need to keep a boot on its neck, and that requires boots on the ground — and allies such as the Kurds.
Follow Marc A. Thiessen on Twitter, @marcthiessen.
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Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, celebrations will be held at various locations Friday and Saturday, | Salt Lake County Library
Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) — the Mexican holiday that honors family and friends who have died — celebrations are happening all throughout Utah. Check them out here
MUSIC/DANCE
“Coco” in concert with Utah Symphony, Nov. 1-2, 7 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, $31.90-$88 (801-355-2787 or artsaltlake.org)
“Thriller,” Nov. 1-2, 7:30 p.m., Tuacahn Amphitheatre, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, Washington County, $24-$46, tickets limited (800-746-9882 or odysseydance.com/shows/thriller)
Balanchine’s “Ballet Russes,” Nov. 2, 2 and 7:30 p.m., Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, $15-$19 (801-355-2787 or artsaltlake.org)
Suzuki Strings Regional Fall Concert, Nov. 2, 5 p.m., Heritage Center, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, $5 (435-586-2286 or suzukistringscedar.blogspot.com)
“Crossroads Ogden,” Nov. 2, 7 p.m., Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, $35-$75 (866-472-4627 or egyptiantheaterogden.com)
Sounds Choir: “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m., Assembly Hall, Temple Square, free (ChurchofJesusChrist.org/events)
WSU Symphony Orchestra Fall Concert, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m., Weber State University, Browning Center, Austad Auditorium, Ogden, $4.50-$7 (weber.edu/artscalendar)
“Luz de las Naciones,” Nov. 2, 8 p.m., Conference Center, main auditorium, Temple Square, free (ChurchofJesusChrist.org/events)
Patrick Sweany, Nov. 2, 9 p.m., The State Room, 638 S. State, $17 (801-596-3560 or thestateroompresents.com)
Louisiana 801, Nov. 4, 7 p.m., Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, free (385-743-0146 or excellenceconcerts.org)
Twenty One Pilots, Nov. 4, 8 p.m., Vivint Arena, 301 W. South Temple, $36-$76+ (801-325-7528 or vivintarena.com)
Anais Chantal, Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m., Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, free (385-743-0146 or excellenceconcerts.org)
Young Thug and Machine Gun Kelly, Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m., Saltair, 12408 W. Saltair Drive, Magna, $45-$50 (801-250-4388 or thesaltair.com)
“Poetic Origins,” Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m., Heritage Center, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, $12 for adults, $6 for students ages 6 and older, no babies allowed (435-592-6051 or facebook.com/OSUCedarCity)
GETTING OUT
Dia de los Muertos Cultural Celebration, Nov. 1, 1-6 p.m., Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum, 444 W. 100 South, free; Nov. 2, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., included with admission, $12.50 for general, $10 for seniors (801-456-5437 or discoverygateway.org)
Dia de los Muertos, Nov. 1, 5-8 p.m., Ruth Vine Tyler Library, 8041 S. Wood Street, Midvale, free (801-943-4636 or slcolibrary.org)
Pumpkin Nights, Nov. 1-2, 5:30-10 p.m., excluding Halloween, Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, $14-$20, $7 for parking (pumpkinnights.com)
All Star Bowling and Entertainment VIP Party, Nov. 1, 7-10 p.m., All Star Bowling and Entertainment, 3601 S. 2700 West, West Valley City, $20, for adults ages 21 and older (bit.ly/pinsales_alz)
Turkey Triathlon and 5K Trot, Nov. 2, 9 a.m., Weber State University, Swenson Gym, Ogden, $25-$55 (801-626-8674 or weber.edu/races/race-series.htm)
Dia de los Muertos Celebration, Nov. 2, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, $5 (umfa.utah.edu/events)
International Games Day, Nov. 2, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Viridian Event Center, 8030 S. 1825 West, West Jordan, free (801-948-7858 or calendar.slcolibrary.org/events)
Day of the Dead, Nov. 2, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, $5 for general, free for children ages 12 and younger (culturalcelebration.org)
Dia de los Muertos storytime, Nov. 2, 11 a.m., The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, free (801-484-9100 or kingsenglish.com)
“Drive Away Hunger” food drive, Nov. 2, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Utah Motorsports Campus, 512 Sheep Lane, Erda, Tooele County, non-perishable food items, clothing, blankets and toys accepted; Parade Lap starts at 1:30 p.m. (435-277-8000 or UtahMotorsportsCampus.com)
Weingarten Realty
Rogue Toys will open Saturday at West Jordan Town Center with a grand opening celebration. Meet Steve Johnson, the co-founder and toy expert on the History Channel’s “Pawn Stars.”
Rogue Toys Grand Opening, Nov. 2, noon, West Jordan Town Center, 6904 S. Redwood Road, West Jordan, free (801-503-9826 or facebook.com/roguetoyssaltlake)
Day of the Dead Celebration, Nov. 2, 2-6 p.m., Southern Utah Museum of Art, 351 W. University Blvd., Cedar City, free (435-586-5432 or suu.edu/pva/suma)
“It’s Magic!” open house, Nov. 2, 3-5 p.m., Weber County Library Ogden Valley Branch, 131 S. 7400 East, Huntsville, free (801-337-2660 or weberpl.org)
“Is that a Fact?” roundtable, Nov. 2, 3:30 p.m., Pioneer Theatre Company, 300 S. 1400 East, free (801-581-6961 or pioneertheatre.org)
Dia de los Muertos, Nov. 2, 5-8 p.m., Hunter Library, 4740 W. 4100 South, West Valley City, free (801-943-4636 or slcolibrary.org)
“Galactic Grown-Ups: Lunar VR Experience,” Nov. 4, 7 p.m., Whitmore Library, 2197 Fort Union Blvd., Cottonwood Heights, free (801-943-4636 or slcolibrary.org)
College and Career Fair, Nov. 5, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Jean Massieu School of the Deaf, 1655 E. 3300 South, free for students with vision impairments in middle school through post-high school, registration encouraged (facebook.com/UtahSchoolsfortheDeafandtheBlind)
“Saluting Our Heroes” luncheon with keynote speaker James Bradley, Nov. 6, noon-1:30 p.m., Grand America Hotel, 555 S. Main, $100 donation requested (discovernac.org)
“Women’s Health & Well-Being: Strengthen Capacity to Influence & Flourish,” Nov. 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Utah Valley University, Ragan Theatre, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, free, register online (801-863-6176 or uvu.edu/uwlp)
“Evening at the Museum: Laie Hawaii Temple Centennial,” Nov. 6, 7 p.m., Church History Museum auditorium, Temple Square, free (templesquare.com/events)
“Galactic Grown-Ups: Art and Cosmic Connection,” Nov. 6, 7 p.m., Bingham Creek Library, 4834 W. 9000 South, West Jordan, free (801-943-4636 or slcolibrary.org)
“SLC Club Tour: KUED, Utah’s Storyteller,” Nov. 7, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Eccles Broadcast Center, 101 S. Wasatch Dr., University of Utah, free (ulink.utah.edu)
“Galactic Grown-Ups: Lunar VR Experience,” Nov. 7, 7 p.m., South Jordan Library, 10673 Redwood Road, South Jordan, free (801-944-7634 or slcolibrary.org)
“The Robot Zoo,” through Jan. 5, 2020, dates and times vary, Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City, $6 (swanerecocenter.org)
THEATER
OPENING PRODUCTIONS
“The Lifespan of a Fact,” Nov. 1-16, dates and times vary, Pioneer Theatre Company, 300 S. 1400 East, $31-$52, contains strong language; free roundtable, Nov. 2, 3:30 p.m. (801-581-6961 or pioneertheatre.org)
CONTINUING PRODUCTIONS
“Sweeney Todd,” Nov. 1-2, 7:30 p.m., Heritage Theatre, 2505 S. Highway 89, Perry, Box Elder County, $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and children under 13 (435-723-8392 or heritagetheatreutah.com)
“Wait Until Dark,” Nov. 1-2, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 2, 3 p.m., Pleasant Grove Library, 30 E. Center, Pleasant Grove, $15 for adults, $14 for students and seniors (801-850-2306 or pgplayers.com)
“Adams Family Reunion,” through Nov. 9, dates and times vary, Desert Star, 4861 S. State, Murray, $26.95 for adults, $15.95 for children ages 11 and younger (801-266-2600 or desertstar.biz)
“Phantom,” through Nov. 9, Hale Centre Theatre, Centre Stage, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, $48-$52 for adults, $22-$26 for youths ages 5-17, children under age 5 not permitted (801-984-9000 or hct.org)
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” through Nov. 9, dates and times vary, Noorda Regional Theatre, 800 W. University Parkway, UVU, Orem, $35-$45 for general, $13 for seniors and military, $8 for students (801-863-4636 or uvu.edu/thenoorda)
“The Addams Family,” through Nov. 16, dates and times vary, Hale Centre Theatre, Jewel Box, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, $36-$48 for adults, $18-$24 for youths ages 5-17 (801-984-9000 or hct.org)
“Mamma Mia!” through Nov. 16, dates and times vary, Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Washington Terrace, $15-$17 for adults, $14-$16 for military, students and seniors, $10-$12 for children ages 12 and younger (801-393-0070 or terraceplayhouse.com)
“Wait Until Dark,” through Nov. 16, dates and times vary, Brigham’s Playhouse, 25 N. 300 West, Washington, Washington County, $23 for adults, $21 for seniors, $17 for children ages 5-17 and students with ID, children under age 5 not admitted (435-251-8000 or brighamsplayhouse.com)
“Form of a Girl Unknown,” through Nov. 17, dates and times vary, Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, $29-$46 (801-363-7522 or saltlakeactingcompany.org)
“Alice in Wonderland,” through Nov. 23, dates and times vary, Utah Children’s Theatre, 3605 S. State, $22, for ages 4 and older (801-532-6000 or uctheatre.org)
“Thoroughly Modern Millie,” through Nov. 23, dates and times vary, Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, $25-$27 for adults, $19-$21 for children ages 4-11 (801-226-8600 or haletheater.org)
NEW MOVIES IN THEATERS THIS WEEK
ARCTIC DOGS — Swifty the Arctic Fox works in the mailroom of the Arctic Blast Delivery Service but dreams of one day becoming a Top Dog (the Arctic’s star husky courier). 92 minutes; PG (mild action and rude humor); in general release.
FIRST LOVE — A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. 108 minutes; not rated; Tower.
HARRIET — The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman’s escape from slavery and transformation into one of America’s greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history. 125 minutes; PG-13 (thematic content throughout, violent material and language including racial epithets); in general release; to be reviewed by Josh Terry.
JOJO RABBIT — A young boy in Hitler’s army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. 108 minutes; PG-13 (mature thematic content, some disturbing images, violence, and language); in general release; see review by Josh Terry.
MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN — Set against the backdrop of 1950s New York, Motherless Brooklyn follows Lionel Essrog, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette’s syndrome, as he ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna. 144 minutes; R (language throughout, including some sexual references, brief drug use and violence); in general release.
PARASITE — All unemployed, Ki-taek’s family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident. 132 minutes; R (language, some violence and sexual content); Korean with English subtitles; in general release.
TERMINATOR: DARK FATE — Sarah Connor and a hybrid cyborg human must protect a young girl from a newly modified liquid Terminator from the future. 128 minutes; R (violence throughout, language and brief nudity); in general release; to be reviewed by Josh Terry.
SPECIAL MOVIE SCREENINGS
“The Abyss,” Nov. 1, 6:30 p.m., Orem Library, 58 N. State, Orem, free (801-229-7050 or oremlibrary.org)
Canelo vs. Kovalev, Nov. 2, 7 p.m., select Cinemark Theatres, $20 (cinemark.com); and select Megaplex Theatres, $16.09 (megaplextheatres.com)
Disney•Pixar
Utah Symphony will celebrate Dia de los Muertos with Films in Concert presentations of “Coco” in concert on Friday and Saturday. Bingham Creek Library and Riverton Library will also offer free screenings those days.
“Coco,” Nov. 1, 3 p.m., Bingham Creek Library, 4834 W. 9000 South, West Jordan; and Nov. 2, noon, Riverton Library, 12877 S. 1830 West, Riverton, free (801-943-4636 or calendar.slcolibrary.org/events)
“The Contest,” Nov. 2, 12:55 p.m., select Cinemark Theatres, $12.50 (cinemark.com); and The District Megaplex, 3761 S. Parkway Plaza Drive, South Jordan, $9.65-$11.80 (megaplextheatres.com)
“The Little Mermaid,” Nov. 4, 6:30 p.m., Orem Library, 58 N. State, Orem, free (801-229-7050 or oremlibrary.org)
“Lynyrd Skynyrd,” Nov. 7, 7 p.m., Cinemark Century 16, 3300 S. State, $15 (801-486-9652 or cinemark.com); and select Megaplex Theatres, $9.65-$11.80 (megaplextheatres.com)
“Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase,” Nov. 2, 4 p.m., Park City Library, 1255 Park Ave., Park City, free (435-615-5600 or parkcitylibrary.org)
“Night and Day,” Nov. 5, 10 a.m., SCERA Center for the Arts, 745 S. State, Orem, $2, for adults ages 18 and older (801-225-2787 or scera.org)
“The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” Nov. 2, 8 p.m., Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South, $35-$100; 6:30 p.m., VIP event; 8 p.m., conversation with Barry Bostwick, followed by screening (801-321-0310 or saltlakefilmsociety.org)
“SK Gaming: The Journey,” Nov. 5, 7 p.m., Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, free, post-film discussion (801-746-7000 or utahfilmcenter.org)
“Slayer: The Repentless Killogy,” Nov. 6, 7 p.m., select Cinemark Theatres, $15 (cinemark.com); and select Megaplex Theatres, $16.09 (megaplextheatres.com)
“Street Angel,” Nov. 7-8, 7:30 p.m., Organ Loft, 3331 S. Edison St., $5-$6 (801-485-9265 or edisonstreetevents.com)
“Toy Story 4,” Nov. 4, 6:30 p.m., Murray Library, 166 E. 5300 South, free (801-264-2580 or murraylibrary.org)
“Up in the Sky,” Nov. 2, 11 a.m., Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, free, post-film Skype discussion with director (801-746-7000 or utahfilmcenter.org)
BOOK SIGNINGS AND EVENTS
Benchmark Books, 3269 S. Main, Will Bagley, editor of “The Whites Want Every Thing: Indian-Mormon Relations, 1847-1877,” Nov. 6, 5:30 p.m. (801-486-3111 or benchmarkbooks.com)
Church History Museum auditorium, Temple Square, Clinton D. Christensen, author of “Stories of the Temple in Laie, Hawaii,” Nov. 6, 7 p.m. (templesquare.com/events)
Grand County Public Library, 257 E. Center, Ayja Bounous, author of “Shaped by Snow: Defending the Future of Winter,” Nov. 5, 6 p.m. (grandcountyutah.net/286/Library)
Hill Aerospace Museum, 7961 Wardleigh Road, Roy, Dick Butler, author of “P-38 Odyssey,” Nov. 2, 1 p.m. (801-825-5817 or aerospaceutah.org)
The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Dick Butler, author of “P-38 Odyssey,” Nov. 1, 7 p.m.; Tali Nay, author of “Newbie,” Nov. 2, 2 p.m.; Anastasia Bolinder, author of “Skyjump: Book 1,” Nov. 6, 7 p.m.; and Kelly Coon, author of “Gravemaidens,” and Lillian Clark, author of “Immoral Code,” Nov. 7, 7 p.m. (801-484-9100 or kingsenglish.com)
Millcreek Community Center, 2266 Evergreen Ave., author Canda Mortensen, “Earn That Kiss” talk, Nov. 6, 7 p.m. (801-664-0433)
Noah’s, 322 W. 11000 South, South Jordan, Sara B. Larson, author of “Sisters of Shadow and Light,” Nov. 5, 7 p.m. (801-484-9100 or kingsenglish.com)
Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 E. 400 South, Robin Becker, author of “The Black Bear Inside Me,” and poet Natasha Saje, Nov. 6, 7 p.m.; and Thi Bui, author of “The Best We Could Do,” Nov. 7, 7 p.m. (801-484-9100 or kingsenglish.com)
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, Armando Solorzano, author of “We Remember, We Celebrate, We Believe / Recuerdo, Celebración, y Esperanza: Latinos in Utah,” Nov. 2, 12:30 p.m., free (umfa.utah.edu/events)
FOOD CLASSES AND EVENTS
Downtown Alliance
The 17th annual Downtown Dine O’Round, featuring select downtown Salt Lake City restaurants, runs through Sunday, Nov. 3.
Downtown Dine O’Round, Nov. 1-3, times vary, select downtown Salt Lake City restaurants, $10-$20 for lunch, $20-$40 for dinner (dineoround.com)
The Local Artisan Collective, 2371 Kiesel Ave., Ogden, copper bracelet class, Nov. 1, 6-8 p.m., $25; Give Thanks Plate with easel, Nov. 2, 4:30-6 p.m., $18; Fall Pumpkin Trio, Nov. 2, 7-9 p.m., $25 (801-399-2787 or localartisancollective.com)
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, Dia de los Muertos Celebration, Nov. 2, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., $5; “Come Quickly for We are Waiting for You: The Day of the Dead in Zapotlan” talk with Armando Solorzano, Nov. 2, 11:30 a.m., free; and “Open Studio: Calligraphy Self-Portraits,” Nov. 6, 6 p.m., free (umfa.utah.edu/events)
“Art in Nature: Birds of a Feather Paint Together,” Nov. 7, 6:30 p.m., Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 12th St., Ogden, $15 (801-621-7595 or ogdennaturecenter.org)
ART GALLERIES
OPENING EXHIBITIONS
Loge Gallery at Pioneer Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, art by Steve Smock, on display Nov. 1-16 (801-581-6961)
Ogden’s First Friday Art Stroll, participating locations in downtown Ogden, Nov. 1, 6 p.m. (localartisancollective.com)
Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, art by the Glass Art Guild of Utah, artist reception Nov. 2, 2 p.m.; on display Nov. 2-Dec. 17 (801-585-0556)
Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, Day of the Dead Art and Altar exhibit, celebration Nov. 2, 11 a.m.; on display through Nov. 7 (801-965-5100)
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, “Never an Hour for Thought,” by Kelsey Harrison, “Knew/New,” by Rachel Henriksen, and “A Farewell to Images,” by Justin Watson, opening reception Nov. 1, 7 p.m.; on display Nov. 1-Jan. 18, 2020 (801-328-4201)
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS IN SALT LAKE COUNTY
Anthony’s Fine Art and Antiques, 401 E. 200 South, “Certain Women: A Latter-day Saint Women’s Art Show,” through Nov. 9 (801-328-2231)
Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, art by Caryn Feeney, through Nov. 9 (801-363-4088)
Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, Liberty Park, 600 E. 900 South, “Traditional Textiles: Ties that Bind,” by various artists, through January 2020 (801-533-5760)
David Ericson Fine Art, 418 S. 200 West, art by Jeff Pugh, through Nov. 15 (801-533-8245)
Draw Inc. Gallery, 752 6th Ave., “Art and Literacy,” by Lisa Draper, through Nov. 15 (801-893-2404)
Finch Lane and Park Galleries at the Art Barn, 1340 E. 100 South, art by Susan Makov, Clara Koons and Megan Arne, through Nov. 15 (801-596-5000)
Horne Fine Art, 142 E. 800 South, open studio with Karen Horne, through Nov. 9 (801-533-4200)
Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, “Colors of the Wild,” by Jennifer Seeley, through Nov. 6 (801-965-5100)
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, “Glazed Atrium,” by Ryan Lauderdale, through Nov. 2; “Abstraction is Just a Word, But I Use It,” by various artists, through Jan. 4, 2020; and art by Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez, through Jan. 11, 2020 (801-328-4201)
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, “Power Couples: The Pendant Format in Art,” curated by Leslie Anderson, through Dec. 8; “Ummah,” by various artists, through Dec. 15; “De/Marcation: A Survey of Contemporary Photography in Utah,” by various artists, through Jan. 12, 2020; and art by Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alma Thomas and Diego Rivera, on display through Oct. 4, 2020 (801-581-7332 or umfa.utah.edu/temporary)
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS OUTSIDE SALT LAKE COUNTY
Art Around the Corner Foundation, various locations in St. George, outdoor sculpture exhibit, by various artists; on display through early 2020 (artaroundthecorner.org)
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, BYU, Provo, “Rend the Heavens: Intersections of the Human and Divine,” through January 2021; and “Becoming America,” through summer 2021 (801-422-8287)
Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, “The Imperfections That Render Us Visible,” by Jim Jacobs, through Nov. 3 (435-649-8882)
Southern Utah Museum of Art, 351 W. University Blvd., Cedar City, “Day of the Dead: Monarch Migration,” by SUU students, through Nov. 9; “A World Transformed: The Transcontinental Railroad and Utah” and “Compendium” exhibits, through Dec. 28; and “In Leviathan: Elegy for Ice,” by Pete Froslie, through April 24, 2020 (435-586-7700)
Springville Museum of Art, 126 E. 400 South, Springville, “SELF: explorations of identity,” on display through May 16, 2020; and “Round Up: Icons of the American West,” by various artists, through June 19, 2021 (801-489-2727)
Weber State University, Kimball Visual Arts Center Shaw Gallery, Ogden, “Perspectives in Printmaking: An Evolving Dynamic,” through Nov. 9 (weber.edu/artscalendar)
Woodbury Art Museum, University Place, 575 E. University Parkway, Orem, Faculty Art Show, through Dec. 14 (801-863-4200)
FAMILY ACTIVITIES
Dia de los Muertos Cultural Celebration, Nov. 1, 1-6 p.m., Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum, 444 W. 100 South, free; Nov. 2, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., included with admission, $12.50 for general, $10 for seniors (801-456-5437 or discoverygateway.org)
“Junie B. Jones: The Musical,” Nov. 1, 7 p.m., SCERA Center for the Arts, 745 S. State, Orem, $4-$6 (801-225-2787 or scera.org)
Dia de los Muertos Celebration, Nov. 2, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, $5 (umfa.utah.edu/events)
International Games Day, Nov. 2, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Viridian Event Center, 8030 S. 1825 West, West Jordan, free (801-948-7858 or calendar.slcolibrary.org/events)
Day of the Dead, Nov. 2, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, $5 for general, free for children ages 12 and younger (culturalcelebration.org)
Rogue Toys Grand Opening, Nov. 2, noon, West Jordan Town Center, 6904 S. Redwood Road, West Jordan, free (801-503-9826 or facebook.com/roguetoyssaltlake)
Day of the Dead Celebration, Nov. 2, 2-6 p.m., Southern Utah Museum of Art, 351 W. University Blvd., Cedar City, free (435-586-5432 or suu.edu/pva/suma)
“It’s Magic!” Open House, Nov. 2, 3-5 p.m., Weber County Library Ogden Valley Branch, 131 S. 7400 East, Huntsville, free (801-337-2660 or weberpl.org)
Hale Center Theater Orem
Disney’s “Winnie the Pooh Kids” will run through Nov. 8 at Hale Center Theater Orem.
“Winnie the Pooh Kids,” through Nov. 8, dates and times vary, Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, $10 for adults, $8 for children ages 3-11 (801-226-8600 or haletheater.org)
“Alice in Wonderland,” through Nov. 23, dates and times vary, Utah Children’s Theatre, 3605 S. State, $22, for ages 4 and older (801-532-6000 or uctheatre.org)
LIBRARIES
Draper Library, 1136 E. Pioneer Road, Draper, “Turkey Has a Terrible Temper” puppet show, Nov. 1, 11:15 a.m. (801-943-4636)
South Jordan Library, 10673 Redwood Road, South Jordan, “Homeschool STEM: Ancient Egypt,” Nov. 1, 1 p.m. (801-944-7634)
Bingham Creek Library, 4834 W. 9000 South, West Jordan, a free screening of “Coco,” Nov. 1, 3 p.m. (801-943-4636)
West Jordan Library, 8030 S. 1825 West, West Jordan, “Dia de los Muertos,” Nov. 1, 4 p.m. (801-943-4636)
Tyler Library, 8041 S. Wood St., Midvale, Dia de los Muertos, Nov. 1, 5 p.m. (801-943-4636)
Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, Rose Park Dia De Los Muertos Festival, Nov. 1, 6 p.m. (801-594-8632)
Columbus Library, 2530 S. 500 East, International Games Day, Nov. 2, 10 a.m. (801-944-7606)
Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, free screening of “Up in the Sky,” Nov. 2, 11 a.m.; and read to a dog, Nov. 2, 1 p.m. (801-524-8200)
Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, read to a dog, Nov. 2, 1 p.m. (801-594-8611)
Riverton Library, 12877 S. 1830 West, Riverton, free screening of “Coco,” Nov. 2, noon and 3 p.m. (801-943-4636)
Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, Plan B Theatre’s “Flora Meets a Bee,” Nov. 2, 3 p.m. (801-594-8623)
Millcreek Library, 2266 E. Evergreen Ave., East Millcreek, read to a dog, Nov, 2, 3 p.m. (801-943-4636)
Park City Library, 1255 Park Ave., Park City, free screening of “Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase” Nov. 2, 4 p.m. (435-615-5600)
Hunter Library, 4740 W. 4100 South, West Valley City, Dia de los Muertos, Nov. 2, 5 p.m. (801-943-4636)
COMMUNITY BRIEFS
Partners in Preservation recently announced that The Clubhouse on South Temple (formerly the Ladies Literary Club) was awarded $150,000 as part of the national 2019 Partners in Preservation campaign. The building, located at 850 E. South Temple, is listed on the National Register as a Utah Historic Site. According to a news release, the Clubhouse won a share of $2 million in preservation funding from American Express. The money will be used to restore the sinking front porch and stairs with the addition of an ADA wheelchair ramp. The winners were determined by a public voting campaign, and members of the public were also able to cast their vote. The 20 competing historic sites garnered more than 1.1 million votes cast between Sept. 24-Oct. 29. This year’s campaign placed emphasis on historic buildings and sites that celebrate the contribution of women in communities, according to the news release. “The House that the Women Built” was constructed from 1911-1913 with the goal for the Ladies’ Literary Club to get women together and “to establish, maintain and carry on a society for the promotion and general diffusion of matters of science, art, literature and other branches of the higher education of women,” according to The Clubhouse website. For more information, visit clubhouseslc.com.
The McCarthey Family Foundation Lecture Series recently announced the winners of its essay submissions. Utah students in grades six through university were invited to submit an original essay concerning freedom of the press. The winners of the 2019 Essay Competition are as follows: Omar Alsolaiman, Rowland Hall, winner in grades 6-8; Jonah Carlson, Davis High School, winner in grades 9-12; and Brianna Skaggs, University of Utah, winner in university/college. Finalists in grades 6-8 included Aiden Gandhi, Rowland Hall, Clara Keller, Timberline Middle School, and Giovanni Nuvan, Madeleine Choir School. Finalists in grades 9-12 included Caylee Caldwell, Highland High School, Hannah Ludington, Carbon High School and Kajal Ganesh, Rowland Hall. University/College essay finalists were Whitney Bigelow, Brigham Young University, and Kiki Karahalios and Tatum Lovin, University of Utah. The winning essayists will be introduced at the 14th annual McCarthey Family Foundation Lecture: “In Praise of Independent Journalism” on Saturday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. at Rowland Hall, 720 Guardsman Way in Salt Lake City. Pulitzer-prize winning presidential historian Jon Meacham will speak at the free event that is open to the public. Visit rowlandhall.org/mccartheylectureseries for more information.
Steinway & Sons recently announced that local piano teacher, Josh Wright, has been inducted into the Steinway & Sons Teacher Hall of Fame. According to a news release, the designation recognizes the work of North America’s piano educators. There were 43 teachers from the United States and Canada who were inducted into the Hall of Fame this fall at the historic Steinway factory in New York City. Wright has created online video courses to help students of all ages and abilities. For more information about Wright, visit joshwrightpiano.com.
MusicGarage.org recently announced the organization is expanding its reach as a new nonprofit music school called Salt Lake Academy of Music (SLAM). According to a news release, an expanded faculty in rock, jazz, classical, blues, Americana, hip-hop, electronic music and recording technology programs is now complete. SLAM’s mission is to provide music education through individual and group instruction, regardless of socioeconomics. The organization will operate out of Sugar House. For more information about Salt Lake Academy of Music, visit slam-slc.org.
Utah Valley University’s Woodbury Art Museum recently announced a call for artists for its “Hidden Voices: Aesthetics of Change” exhibit. Entries will be accepted online at uvu.edu/museum from Nov. 5-19. According to a news release, the exhibit explores the power of art to creatively explore contemporary social issues that confront the cultural beliefs and established power structures of society that challenge ideas of equity, justice and sustainability. “Hidden Voices: Aesthetics of Change” will run Jan. 14-March 17. For more information, visit uvu.edu/museum or email rgibson@uvu.edu.
Craft Lake City is seeking volunteers for the first Craft Lake City Holiday Market in Ogden. The inaugural event will take place Dec. 7, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. at The Monarch, 455 25th St., Ogden. According to a news release, volunteers are needed to assist in areas of artisan load in and load out, gate volunteers and more. For additional details or to sign up, visit craftlakecity.com/holiday-market.
Note: This list is not all-inclusive, and events and prices are subject to change. To submit an event listing, emailfeatures@deseretnews.com.
The morning sun melts icicles on a building near 300 W. South Temple in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. | Steve Griffin, Deseret News
The morning sun melts icicles on a building near 300 W. South Temple in Salt Lake City on Thursday. After several days of record and near-record cold, meteorologists at KSL predict a return to more seasonable, late fall temperatures along the Wasatch Front, with sunny skies and highs near 50 on Saturday and approaching 60 midweek.
Steve Griffin, Deseret News
The morning sun melts icicles on a building near 300 W. South Temple in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019.
SALT LAKE CITY — A pair of documented gang members who have previously served time in prison face new charges.
Anousak Kaykeo, 41, of West Jordan, and Bounchanh Phanthachith, 41, of Magna, were each charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with two counts of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony; two counts of possession of a dangerous weapon, a second-degree felony; and two counts of aggravated assault, a third-degree felony.
Prosecutors have requested both be held in the Salt Lake County Jail on $250,000 bail.
On Oct. 20, two men wearing masks entered Quick Pick, 4655 S. 4800 West, and told the store clerk to get on the ground, according to charging documents. One man was carrying a gun, the other a baton, the charges state. The men hit the clerk on the head with the gun, took the gun the clerk was carrying, and then took $1,100 cash from the register, the charges state.
Three other people were in the store at the time. The robbers pointed a gun at one man’s head and took $100 from him, according to the charges, then ordered everyone to the ground at gunpoint.
Based on witness descriptions of the robbers and their getaway car, Phanthachith was identified by police as a possible suspect.
On Sunday, police spotted the suspected getaway car and pulled it over. Kaykeo and Phanthachith were inside. Police also found two handguns and clothing that matched the type used by the gunmen in the robbery, the affidavit states.
In 2005, Keykeo made headlines for robbing a couple at gunpoint — including making one get on his knees and pointing a gun at his head — before leading police on an hourlong low-speed chase. Police had spiked Kaykeo’s tires as he was fleeing, but he continued to drive on the vehicle’s rims.
Kaykeo was convicted of robbery, a first-degree felony, and sentenced to five years to life in the Utah State Prison.
In 2003, Phanthachith was convicted of robbery and sentenced to one to 15 years in prison. He was also convicted in federal court in 2005 of unlawful transportation of firearms and sentenced to two years in federal prison.
SALT LAKE CITY — A heated soccer game between two rival Salt Lake high schools that ended in a brawl in the parking lot, according to police, now has a player looking at a possible sentence of five years to life in prison if convicted.
On April 30, a soccer match at East High School, 840 S. 1300 East, between the varsity teams of East and West High School became heated, according to Salt Lake City police. So much so, that the referee ended the game 10 minutes early due to red cards and other ongoing problems, police said.
After the game, an East High player was walking to his car with the team manager, when according to police, a West High player got out of his car and attacked the East players. Others then joined in.
Arturo Martin-Pimentel, 18, of Taylorsville, and at least five other people assaulted the team manager, who “lost consciousness during the assault and required emergency medical treatment for his injuries,” according to charging documents.
Because the attack was carried out with two or more people, those charged are subject to enhanced penalties, according to court records.
Martin-Pimentel was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with aggravated assault, a first-degree felony. A $150,000 warrant was issued for his arrest.
Charging documents do not say the ages of the others who allegedly participated in the fight.
This story will be updated as additional information becomes available.
PROVO — A Sandy man is facing criminal charges after police say he drove to Utah County to pick up a teen girl, brought her back to his house, gave her drugs, and then engaged in sexual activity with her.
When the 15-year-old victim was found, she was wearing the suspect’s boxer shorts, according to charging documents.
Brandon MacKinnon Zimpfer, 34, was charged Thursday in 4th District Court with sexual exploitation of a minor and drug distribution, both second-degree felonies; unlawful sexual activity with a minor and drug distribution, both third-degree felonies; enticing a minor, a class A misdemeanor; and DUI, a class B misdemeanor.
On Oct. 26, Zimpfer was texting a 15-year-old girl in Utah County and the conversation turned sexual, according to charging documents. The two then made plans for the girl to be picked up by Zimpfer and go to his house, the charges state.
The girl snuck out of her house and was discovered as missing by her family members the next morning, according to court documents. As family members were looking for her, they found the messages between her and Zimpfer.
The girl later called home from a neighbor’s house.
“When contacted, the victim appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance. The victim indicated that the defendant had given her amphetamine and Clonazepam, which she had ingested, before dropping her off at the friend’s residence,” the charges state.
After dropping off the girl, Zimpfer was involved in a single-vehicle accident, the charges state.
“In his vehicle were located several types of pills, including Clonazepam and Amphetamine/dextroamphetamine, and several condoms,” according to the charges.
When Zimpfer was told how old his victim was, he said, “Oh (expletive), I’m in a lot of trouble,” before asking for a lawyer, the charges state.
There is still much we can do in breaking the stigma of embarrassment, failure or shame that so often accompanies a pregnancy loss
Infertility was the topic of the first news package I ever worked on as a journalism student. The experience and what I learned from three months of talking to more than two dozen couples, individuals and professionals has made it a subject close to my heart.
Now, being at the stage of life where many of my peers are starting families, I’ve had several friends experience that loss. And infant loss has always been in the background of my life, having lost a brother when he was only a day old. October is Infant and Pregnancy Loss Awareness Month, and the indescribable pain that comes with that loss is still taboo for many.
Infertility, infant loss and miscarriage aren’t uncommon, but still aren’t widely discussed. Some have dubbed it the “loneliest grief of all.” Many experience it, but that doesn’t lessen the pain. It must always be approached with sensitivity and a desire to understand.
About 10% to 20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, 1 in 100 in stillbirth and roughly 10% of women in the United States will have difficulty becoming or staying pregnant. For the majority of pregnancies that end in those early weeks, there is no definite medical reason. Chances are that someone in your life will be affected.
Over the years, I’ve learned a few things about talking to someone who is experiencing this pain. I’ve interviewed several wonderful women about what has — and has not — helped them during or after a miscarriage. While I myself am not an expert, these suggestions come from those who have experienced infant and pregnancy loss, and from therapists and fertility professionals.
Acknowledge loss, express empathy
Whether it’s at five weeks or 20 weeks, miscarriage comes with deep, intense feelings of loss. The physical pain may be temporary, but the emotional impact lasts much longer. Grief has no timeline. Each experience is individual, and acknowledging that a loss has taken place is important.
A heartfelt “I’m sorry for your loss” can mean a lot more than unsolicited advice or well-meant cliche phrases like “It’s all in God’s plan” or “You can always try again.” Don’t minimize the pain or compare it to others. Keeping it loving, simple and genuine is a better way of conveying empathy rather than trying to control or fix the situation.
Respect privacy
Whether in public or in private, privacy is important. Never reveal or announce someone else’s miscarriage unless they ask you. Not everyone wants to publicly disclose their loss. Don’t start asking questions or prying for details. Helping is more important than satisfying your own curiosity.
Let someone know you’re available if they do want to talk, but don’t start peppering them with questions. If they want to talk, they will. Being supportive means being there to listen and being trustworthy with that very intimate information.
Find ways to help
For many I’ve talked to, simply lending a listening ear can make all the difference. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room to do more concrete service. Making meals, taking someone to the doctor, cleaning the home or doing some yard work are all options that show support and alleviate some stress.
It’s easy to feel helpless when someone you care about suffers such an intimate, private pain like a miscarriage. But letting that person feel isolated and to suffer alone is far worse. Showing love through compassion and supportive actions makes more of a difference than some might think.
A wide range of emotions can be associated with infant or pregnancy loss — from sorrow and heartbreak to disappointment and sometimes a confusing sort of relief — it’s an experience that nobody should go through alone, and one that shouldn’t be so misunderstood considering how common it is.
While it is never appropriate to coerce individuals to share their stories of infant or pregnancy loss, there is still much we can do in breaking the stigma of embarrassment, failure or shame that so often accompanies them.
Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) defends Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2) under the basket as the Jazz open the 2019-20 season with a 100-95 win at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — For Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, the journey to basketball stardom has been one of adjustment made by a man with specific goals in mind on a journey spanning thousands of miles and years of dedication. Since leaving his native France to chase his NBA dreams over six years ago, he has gone from a determined young man finding his way to a man of maturity that knows exactly the direction he is heading.
When Gobert first arrived to Utah after signing with the Jazz in the summer of 2013 after being acquired from the Denver Nuggets in a draft-day trade, being on foreign soil some 5,200 miles from home was not a major issue. He said being away from home had become familiar ever since he began his basketball odyssey as a teenager.
“It was so much easier for me,” he said. “I think it’s mental. When you know what you want, you know where you want to go.
“I’ve been away from my family even when I was in France. So I was used to that,” he continued. “It was the same when I was five hours away or across the ocean, it didn’t feel that different to me.
“I was used to, since a very young age, being focused on my goals and be away from my family so it wasn’t very hard for me to be far from my country (since I) already felt comfortable.”
Interestingly, Gobert didn’t necessarily rely on others to navigate his new surroundings, but rather accepted assistance only when needed, relying instead on his natural ability to adjust to new situations.
“I really didn’t even need to ask anybody for help,” Gobert explained. “I’m good in my head. When you know where you want to go, you’re mentally tough. You know, I was very happy wherever I was.”
Now, starting his seventh season in the NBA, Gobert has gone from a young man adjusting to a new country in a new job to a person who is very comfortable in his own skin and his role as a leader with the Jazz.
“It comes with experience. The more you see, the more you know, the more you feel like you can help others and the more you feel like you can help the team win. So you talk more and you’re a little more present,” he said.
Gobert said he thinks of himself as more of a leader, but a person who can also follow when the situation warrants.
“When you really want to win, you naturally lead others because of the experience I have in the few years I’ve been in league and especially with this team and this program,” he said. “We have a lot of new guys so I definitely felt like it’s my role to try to, not just lead with attitude but whatever information I can give (the team) to have them get something quicker.”
Jazz coach Quin Snyder said he believes Gobert is driven to become a better player and a better teammate.
“I think Rudy really, really wants to be good in a lot of different areas,” he said. “He’s continued to learn about himself and where he can be really effective and still continuing to grow as a player. He’s got a tremendous amount of pride.”
Snyder said Gobert used summer competition like the FIBA World Basketball Championships to improve as a player and a team leader.
“Those things have helped him grow as a player being in different environments and understanding how he can help a team,” Snyder said. “One of the biggest things for him right now is how he’s interacting and connecting both offensively and defensively with some of our new newer guys.”
Donovan Mitchell said Gobert is a true competitor who helps the team in so many ways.
“That’s the biggest thing we all see. He wants to go out there and win and compete,” Mitchell said. “That’s one thing we all respect. He’s the anchor. He’s what we build our defense around.”
“He’s the Defensive Player of the Year, so he sees a lot of things and he’s communicating with us and the best thing about him is that not only does he instruct but he receives criticism as well,” Mitchell added. “That’s the biggest thing when a leader can listen and receive and then also adapt to that thing — It’s pretty special.”
Off the court, Mitchell said Gobert also has a different side that’s easy to relate to.
“He’s funny. He is a ‘class clown.’ That’s like the opposite of what you see on the floor and I think and that’s what makes it special because we all know he’s like a kid and I think that just makes it a lot more fun for us,” Mitchell said.
Meanwhile, Gobert wants to continue to improve his game on the court and maintain a positive influence in the locker room in the years to come as he moves ahead in his career as well as outside of basketball.
“Whatever you do in life, there’s always a learning process. I was very happy to have the opportunity to come here. It’s been great, great journey,” he said. “I’m trying to keep learning every day, from every experience, whether it’s on the court or off the court.”
SALT LAKE CITY — As the end of Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s first and only term draws closer to an end, a new poll shows a slight majority of Salt Lake City voters don’t approve of her job performance.
The UtahPolicy.com and Y2Analytics poll released Thursday shows 53% of likely Salt Lake City voters either “strongly” or “somewhat” disapprove of Biskupski’s job as mayor over the last four years. That includes 32% that said they “somewhat” disapproved while 21% said they “strongly disapprove.”
On the other hand, 47% said they “strongly” or “somewhat” approve of Biskupski’s performance. That includes 41% that said they “somewhat” approve and 6% said they “strongly” approve.
The poll comes months after Biskupski bowed out of the Salt Lake City mayoral race citing a “complex” and private family situation. Now, Sen. Luz Escamilla and Salt Lake City Councilwoman Erin Mendenhall are competing for her seat. Voters will choose who will be the next mayor of Utah’s capital after polls close on Tuesday.
The new poll was of 745 likely Salt Lake City voters conducted between Oct. 16 and Oct. 22. Its margin of error is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
Biskupski declined to comment on the poll through her spokesman, Matthew Rojas, on Thursday.
Campaign finance reports show Biskupski spent thousands on consulting and research ahead of this year’s election before she announced her withdrawal in March.
The poll comes as Biskupski spends her last two months as Salt Lake City mayor.
Her time in office began with national headlines after she won election in 2015, becoming Salt Lake City’s first openly gay mayor. She ran on a platform of change and as a champion for social justice.
When she announced she wouldn’t be seeking reelection, Biskupski told reporters she hopes she’s remembered for creating “big shifts so there was more equity for opportunity,” pointing to the still ongoing changes to the city and county’s homeless system and efforts to expand the city’s stock of affordable housing.
But Biskupski has also been embroiled in several controversies — at times clashing with Salt Lake City Council members and other county and state leaders.
Those included the controversial siting of the homeless resource centers at the end of her first year in office; standoffs with state leaders, including former House Speaker Greg Hughes, over shutting down Rio Grande Street to clean up the area around the downtown homeless shelter; and an ongoing battle with Gov. Gary Herbert and other state leaders over the creation of the controversial Utah Inland Port Authority.
It’s a fight that has also divided the mayor and the City Council, particularly splitting a rift between her and Mendenhall, who was chairwoman of the council at the time. Biskupski has since endorsed Escamilla.
But there were also times when the City Council partnered on heavy lifts. The council, for the most part, has adopted Biskupski’s proposed budgets. The council also supported the mayor’s proposal to enact a sales tax hike to pay for streets, transit, public safety and affordable housing.
Mayra Gonzalez poses for a picture at Utah Valley University before the start of convocation on the UVU campus in Orem, Utah on Thursday, May 3, 2018. | Jay Drowns, UVU
SALT LAKE CITY — Invariably, when presidents of Utah’s dual-mission universities meet with the business community, the conversation turns to workforce needs.
“I can’t go out in our community without having employers talk to me to say that same thing, workforce, workforce, workforce. What can you do to help us?,” said Weber State University President Brad Mortensen.
This is especially true at Hill Air Force Base.
“I have had more than one general put his finger in my chest saying ‘We need more engineering, computer science graduates and we need them now,’ ” Mortensen said, speaking Wednesday at a Forum on Education and Workforce hosted by the Salt Lake Chamber.
He joined Utah Valley University President Astrid Tuminez and Dixie State University President Richard “Biff” Williams for the panel discussion.
Williams said preparing students for the workforce must be a deliberate process: working with industry partners to understand their specific needs and creating certificate and degree programs that provide students a clear path to employment.
As industry officials visit the St. George area exploring whether to relocate to the fast-growing area from out of state, “the first question is, ‘Here’s the workforce we need. This is the level of education we need. Can you deliver?’ ” Williams said.
“Especially in Washington County, we’re going to need a nimbleness to meet their demands,” he said.
Utah County is likewise feeling that pinch as Silicon Slopes continues to develop and the area’s population continues to grow. With Utah’s nation-leading low unemployment rate, dual-mission universities — with their open admission policies — open doors of opportunity to people who in the past have been told “they’re not college material, they’re not even worthy of post-secondary education,” said Tuminez.
Tuminez, who earned graduate degrees at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said UVU’s diverse students are “the most exciting group of people I have ever worked with.” Most UVU students work, 43% qualify for federal grants and 36% are first-generation college students.
While all are admitted, students undergo “intrusive counseling” to ensure they receive university resources that will help them succeed, she said.
Workforce development is a fundamental mission at UVU, she said, pointing to the university’s partnerships with technology partners locally and globally.
UVU has partnered with Silicon Slopes to offer a technology management emphasis master’s in business administration at the nonprofit organization’s headquarters in Lehi.
Equally important, however, is educating every student for life, she said.
“The ‘why’ is to work with every student so she, he or they can live a dignified, productive and meaningful life,” Tuminez said.
Increasingly, students question if they need college degrees. Tuminez said state institutions are competing against employers who will train workers to code for free but take a portion of their pay once they have jobs.
“We need to be very aware disruption is happening,” she said.
It’s “a myth” that people don’t need college educations, she said.
Many college students will work in jobs that haven’t even been conceived, so it is crucial that they learn to be good communicators, writers and problem solvers, Mortensen said.
Besides, college graduates will earn, on average, $1 million more over their lifetimes.
For students to go to dual-mission institutions, they can earn certificates and enter the workforce and come back to earn degrees as their career goals change and the economy evolves. Meanwhile, they have banked stackable academic credentials.
In that respect, dual-mission universities are “on- and off-ramps to the workforce,” Mortensen said.
Borrowing a phrase that computer gamers use, “if you level up, you don’t ever have to go back,” he added.
Bre Lasley talks to reporters in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. Lasley is suing a Utah company over what she says is faulty 911 software that nearly cost her her life after an ex-convict broke into her home and stabbed her repeatedly in 2015. | Eric Betts, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — When an ex-convict climbed through her window in Salt Lake City and stabbed her repeatedly four years ago, Breann Lasley says the emergency response system that should have rushed to send help to her ended up nearly costing her life.
She is now suing a Utah company over what she says is a faulty 911 protocol that would have resulted in her death if a nearby police officer had not happened to hear her sister’s cries and intervened.
“They failed us that night,” Lasley said. “If she didn’t leave to get more help, then we really would be dead, because help wasn’t coming.”
Lasley and her sister, Kayli, called 911 four times after Robert Richard Berger broke in through Lasley’s window on Sept. 23, 2015, yelling out their address and saying, “Help us, he’s going to kill us,” according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Salt Lake City’s 3rd District Court.
“Priority Dispatch Corp. created a technological monster, promoted it as being regulated and approved by a bogus regulatory body, and left Bre to fight off an armed assailant alone without police assistance,” the lawsuit claims.
“If not for the intervention of the ‘angel’ officer, Bre would be dead.”
Berger had been released from the Utah State Prison eight days prior to the attacks and had walked away from a halfway house.
At 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighing 210 pounds, he kicked, choked, and stabbed Lasley several times as her sister ran from the house screaming. Salt Lake police officer Ben Hone, who was three blocks away, rushed toward the noises.
Minutes later, Hone entered the home and shot and killed Berger. Hone’s actions were called heroic and the shooting was also determined to be legally justified. The shot he fired to kill Berger — who was holding Lasley in a tight grip — was a “difficult shot” that had no room for error, according to officials.
Lasley’s attorneys now argue that police were never dispatched to her home because the rigid software system required dispatchers to ask a scripted series of questions and obtain the answers before sending police to the scene.
“Dispatchers should be able to act on intuition and when they hear an address, help needs to be sent immediately,” Lasley said. “No one’s life should have to depend on prompted scripts or predetermined questions.”
In the 911 calls from Breann and Kayli Lasley, obtained by the Deseret News in 2015 through a public records request, each be heard screaming their home address without having a direct conversation with the dispatcher.
The lawsuit alleges Priority Dispatch, based in Salt Lake City, sold its software around the world and touted itself as the only system approved by the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch. Yet the software program’s inventor founded the ‘bogus’ regulatory group, the lawsuit says. It names both entities as defendants.
Lasley’s attorneys contend the company and the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch sought to represent the software as cutting-edge technology and offered it at no cost, but with a potential fee of $1 million if it failed to train dispatchers to strictly comply with scripted prompts and questions.
Scott Freitag, the president of the international academies from 2003 to 2016, also was director of Salt Lake City’s 911 communications office from 2015 to 2018, the suit says. Freitag, now the mayor of Layton, was fired from his Salt Lake post in 2018 after he was arrested for driving drunk in a city vehicle in the middle of the day.
The company did not respond to requests for an interview. A spokesman for Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski said the office doesn’t comment on pending lawsuits but the city stopped using the software for police calls last month, though it still is used for medical calls.
Freitag told the Deseret News Wednesday he was unaware of the legal complaint and said the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch has no regulatory authority. He said he believes police were in fact sent to the home that day.
“My memory tells me that police were dispatched to that call. I don’t remember the details of what occurred with that call, other than a police officer arrived and shot the suspect,” he said. “If she called and was screaming on the phone, that would have been a high priority call, regardless of what questions were asked after that.”
The suit alleges Lasley was left awaiting medical attention for a time even after her attacker had been killed.
She is seeking more than $300,000 in damages to compensate in part for her physical and emotional pain, medical costs, plus diminished job earnings and quality of life. Lasley said she hopes her legal fight will help change the system so others are spared experiences like her own.
“I’m still here. I’m standing,” she said. “It’s a little empowering, but it’s terrifying, too.”
Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum poses for photos during media day at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — Dante Exum was assigned to the Salt Lake City Stars on Wednesday and participated in parts of the G League team’s practice, the Utah Jazz announced.
He was recalled by the Jazz following practice, as the rehab assignment was part of his “return to play” protocol.
Exum suffered a partially torn patellar tendon in his right knee in March, just three games after missing 25 games because of a severely sprained left ankle. The fifth-year guard played in 42 games last year before being lost for the season to the right knee injury, averaging 6.9 points, 2.6 assists and 1.6 rebounds in 15.8 minutes per contest.
Jeri Openshaw, Utah State Library communications manager, sorts through old books to make room for new books at the Odyssey House Adolescent Residential Center in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Staff from the state library division are using a federal grant to redo the library at the center to add age-specific books for the teens in treatment. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
Odyssey House’s library receives update for its ‘antiquated’ library
SALT LAKE CITY — The library of the Odyssey House in Salt Lake City is undergoing a major update to offer books that better reflect some of the issues its teen patients are facing.
Since 1978, the Odyssey House has been home to teen residential programs that help high-school age youth struggling with substance abuse and mental health disorders. But for years, its library has been filled with old and outdated books that have not captured the attention of youth in the treatment center.
Chaundra Johnson, library development manager for the Utah State Library, said the new collection represents books that youth “can connect to and see themselves in.”
Through federal grant funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Utah State Library Division donated 500 books and 100 DVDs to the center’s library. Staff from the treatment center and the Utah State Library Division came together Wednesday to place and sort new titles.
The new selection of books by diverse authors was intentional, Johnson said, as she pointed at a book called “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson. Based on the author’s experience, the storyline is about a freshmen in high school who is raped by an upperclassman and the trauma she’s faced in the aftermath.
At the time the book was published, Johnson said, it was controversial, but has since been praised for its ability to relate to younger people with similar experiences.
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Jaden Herbert, a day patient who previously lived at the Odyssey House Residential Adolescent Center for five months, talks about the role books played in his treatment at the Odyssey House in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Staff from the state library are using a federal grant to redo the library at the center to add age-specific books for the teens in treatment.
Salt Lake City resident Jaden Herbert, 18, whose been in recovery at the treatment center for the last six months for substance abuse, said he was “stoked” about the new selection of books.
“It’s honestly such a great opportunity for us to get all these new books,” he said. “Our library was a little bit outdated. A lot of people weren’t as interested in it anymore. But a lot of the kids here really love to read. And so I know that a lot of people here are super excited about it.”
Previously, a dusty paperback copy of “The War of the Worlds” by H. G. Wells, originally published more than 100 years ago, could be found in the library with a missing cover. Other paperbacks printed in the 1980s and 1990s contained loose, yellow-hued pages that were falling apart.
The majority of the previous collection contained books written by men compared to the new collection that features work by more female authors, authors of color and LGBTQ literature.
New hardcover books featured on the library’s shelves included “Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World” by Rachel Ignotofsky, as well as the young adult novel, “Miles Morales: Spider-Man,” which is a reimagination of the classic comic book character centered around an Afro-Latino teenager.
Not all classics were lost as a new hardcover copy of George Orwell’s “1984” was prominently featured among the collection.
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Rachel Cook, Utah State Library grants coordinator, puts category stickers on new books at the Odyssey House Adolescent Residential Center in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Staff from the state library division are using a federal grant to redo the library at the center to add age-specific books for the teens in treatment.
Courtney Brinkerhoff, youth mentor staff supervisor for the center, also noticed that most of the books in the old library were so out of date that the teenagers had no interest in reading them.
“Now, there’s a lot more interesting titles, a lot more age-appropriate books — just books that they’re way more interested in,” Brinkerhoff said.
Brinkerhoff noted the updated library would allow adolescents a momentary escape from harsh realities and a way for them to cope with challenges they are facing.
“When they were using substances, they were disconnecting from reality or disconnecting from people around them. So reading is a way for them to connect and to share with one another what they learned and what they read,” she said.
Olivia Wilkinson, a cataloging librarian for the Utah State Library Division, said young adult books are beginning to focus on the the real lives of teenagers more than ever before.
“They focus on things like teens with drug problems or abuse in homes or mental health issues or incarceration — things that we wish didn’t happen to them but are very real,” she said. “And so they can find reflections of themselves in their lives and their experiences. Or if not them, then of their friends, because everybody knows somebody that’s going through something and young adult literature seems to reflect that a lot better now.”
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Olivia Wilkinson, Utah State Library cataloguer, boxes up old books to make room for new ones at the Odyssey House Adolescent Residential Center in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Staff from the state library are using a federal grant to redo the library at the center to add age-specific books for the teens in treatment.
The decision to update the treatment center’s library came after a group from the Utah State Library took a tour of the location.
“It was not that appealing. The books were old,” Johnson said. “We wanted them to have a nice new library with nice, new up-to-date books and some classics as well.”
Johnson said it was important for youth that are dealing with issues and trying to move on to the next phase of their lives to see libraries as “lifelong learning institutions.”
Brinkerhoff said teenagers were able to recommend a list of books or genres they wanted to see in their new library.
Johnson said multiple teens requested self-help books as well as horror, science fiction and fantasy books. She said the science fiction-fantasy genre is popular among youth because its characters are more relatable to readers who might feel like an outsider.
Most of the books donated were hardcover books. Unlike paperbacks that could be easily “demolished,” hardcover books could withstand wear and tear for a longer time, Johnson noted.
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Brendan Bailey, the son of former NBA player Thurl Bailey, is entering his sophomore at Marquette. He served a mission in Washington D.C. from 2016-2018. | Maggie Bean, Marquette Basketball 
Mayra Gonzalez poses for a picture at Utah Valley University before the start of convocation on the UVU campus in Orem, Utah on Thursday, May 3, 2018. | Jay Drowns, UVU
Bre Lasley talks to reporters in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. Lasley is suing a Utah company over what she says is faulty 911 software that nearly cost her her life after an ex-convict broke into her home and stabbed her repeatedly in 2015. | Eric Betts, Deseret News
Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum poses for photos during media day at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
Jeri Openshaw, Utah State Library communications manager, sorts through old books to make room for new books at the Odyssey House Adolescent Residential Center in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Staff from the state library division are using a federal grant to redo the library at the center to add age-specific books for the teens in treatment. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
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