Spring 2018 - Volunteer Issue

The historic Chapman Branch building, constructed by Ashton Improvement Company between 1917 and 1918, was one of twenty-seven libraries built in Utah with financial help from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. The intentionally high stairs supposedly represented “ascending knowledge,” but nowadays there is also a practical ramp and elevator on the south side.|The Chapman Branch Library is celebrating a hundred years of service to West Side residents with two “Chapman Chats” a month during 2018|The City Library decorated the historic Chapman Branch Library with a half-dozen colorful banners celebrating one hundred years on the West Side of Salt Lake City during 2018.|The comfortable interior of the Chapman Branch Library retains most of its look and feel after one hundred years of continuous use, despite details installed over the years to keep pace with changing times and some necessary repair and restoration after snow damage in the 1990’s.|Western historian and lecturer Nan Weber presented the first ‘Chapman Chat’ of 2018 with a multi-media lecture about the life of remarkable Annie Chapman, who came to Utah from Rhode Island and spent the rest of her adult life developing public libraries in Salt Lake City, at the Ladies Literary Club on South Temple and other locations, like the City and County Building on State Street and 400 South.||||

Chapman Branch Library celebrates 100 years

In 2017, two Paint Your Heart Out volunteers receive training and professional assistance throughout the process of painting the exterior of a home.|Corinne Piazza poses with a group of volunteers from the Young Realtors. Photos courtesy of NeighborWorks Salt Lake||||

Nonprofit gives fresh coat of paint to homes in need

KRCL Program Director and Afternoon Drive Host Ebay Jamil Hamilton, works his magic in the studio during Spring Radiothon. He started as a volunteer at the age of 14.||Midday Show Host Eugenie Hero Jaffe and Lara Jones, Community Content Manager and RadioActive Host, reach out to listeners alongside volunteers during Spring Radiothon at the KRCL 90.9 FM studios.|Billy Palmer, Glendale resident and Assistant Producer of RadioActive, raises money for the radio station during Spring Radiothon. Photo by David Ricketts||||

A community radio station on the west side

Neighborhood House staff hope to begin truly breaking ground soon on a new building that will replace the two aging daycare facilities at 1050 West 500 South.|Dioceline Maldonado, lead teacher of her 3 and 4-year-old daycare class at Neighborhood House, feels that she is “adding a grain of change when it comes to the value of education within the family environment of these kids.”||||

Poplar Grove nonprofit has long tradition of helping families become successful

Christian Miramontes (left) and Joseph Norton (right) erect a sound wall of sub-standard material on I-80 and the Jordan River in February. The location is I-80 at the Jordan River (about 1200 West.) Photo by Michael Clára||||

Getting locals involved in community organizing

The Latter-Day Saints Humanitarian Center at 1665 Bennett Road (2030 West) offers aid to people worldwide and employment skills to local immigrants and New Americans who work in the warehouse.|A huge stack of clothes is ready for processing at the Latter-Day Saints Humanitarian Center located at 1665 Bennett Road (2030 West). The center offers aid to people worldwide and employment skills to immigrants and New Americans who work in the warehouse.|The iconic,178-foot bread silo of Welfare Square rises above the west side of Salt Lake City, on the edge of Poplar Grove and what is now called the Granary District. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints established its welfare program in 1936, eighty years ago.||||

Humanitarian efforts of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints help needy families here and abroad

A group of Dominion Energy employees help install a split rail fence last year along the Jordan River Parkway trail between 200 South and 500 South in a section adopted by the company. Photo courtesy of Darren Shepherd, Dominion Energy||||

Dominion Energy employees serve community with Jordan River projects

Trash piles, like this one on 10th West between 200 and 300 South in 2017, seemed to appear and expand in the summer months while the city’s annual curbside cleanup was going on. The new Call 2 Haul program should alleviate this problem. Photo by Lance H||||

City introduces new neighborhood cleanup plan

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Glendale Community Council welcomes all

Volunteerism is a part of Rocky Mountain Power’s culture

University group and west-side community councils partner up

West View Media Board of Directors (from left to right) Davey Davis, Dorothy Owen, Charlotte Fife-Jepperson (Executive Director), Jason Stevenson, and Troy Mumm pose for a photo at West View Media’s office. Photo by David Ricketts||||

From the Editor

Why I Volunteer

Open letter to Gov. Herbert regarding a special session on the Inland Port reform, signed by all six west-side community council chairs

A river unites us