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Last Updated: Apr 01, 2019 08:58AM • Subscribe via RSS • ATOM

Salt Lake Valley’s epic pranksters 
show us ‘how to April Fools’

Apr 01, 2019 ● By Jennifer J Johnson

April Fools’ Day is celebrated many places around the world. But judging from pranks involving celebrity athletes and web celebs to folks just like us across the Salt Lake Valley? Salt Lake knows how to April Fools.

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New ‘Seed Library’ provides incentive for residents to start and share 

their gardens

Mar 29, 2019 ● By Jennifer J Johnson

Free seeds, anyone? The Salt Lake City Main Library launches its new “Seed Library,” providing new gardeners with free seed and seasoned gardeners with a way to share their bounty and help ensure Salt Lake food security (and gardening fun).

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Sprague Library’s Firehouse Express to open during renovations

Mar 29, 2019 ● By Spencer Belnap

Sprague Library is set to close in April for 15-18 months for major renovations. A temporary space will be open at the old fire station 3 on Simpson Avenue.

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Calvary Baptist Heritage Choir Concert 
presents the color of love


Mar 29, 2019 ● By Jennifer J Johnson

“You call it a ‘concert.’ We call it worship,” Rev. Robert Merrill told the congregation.

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Historic Murray Baptist Church closes

Mar 27, 2019 ● By Shaun Delliskave

The Murray Baptist Church has voted to close its doors after more than a century in Murray.

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Murray teen’s vaccination project goes viral

Mar 27, 2019 ● By Shaun Delliskave

Murray teen Brekke Pattison’s Girl Scout Gold Award project is receiving national attention for the work she had done to promote vaccine awareness.

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Pokémon and police help kids learn strategies to stay safe

Mar 27, 2019 ● By Sarah Morton Taggart

Poké Patrol, a program unique to the Ruth Vine Tyler Library, helps kids and teens learn how to safely navigate outdoors while playing a popular mobile phone game with local police officers.

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Don’t feed the plants at DHT’s ‘Little Shop of Horrors’

Mar 27, 2019 ● By Katherine Weinstein

Draper Historic Theatre presents Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s dark musical comedy “Little Shop of Horrors” in April.

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Hawkins family puts focus back on service

Mar 26, 2019 ● By Josh Wood

Donated toys will be kept in the vehicles of police officers and other first responders in the community to give to children at the scenes of tragic or frightening events.

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