volunteers: Summer Starts Tommorrow ? - 06/20/11 01:23 PM

Summer Starts Tommorrow ? It's official. Utah has just had its coldest, wettest Spring on record.
How do we deal with it? We let Summer start on time tomorrow.
Longest days and shortest nights. If we could move further north, say beyond the Arctic circle, we could have 24 hours of sunlight each day for quite a while, or to the Southern Hemisphere to enjoy the onset of Winter. (A tongue-in-cheek nose waggle to my Australian friends)
With a cool Spring and lots of snow, Utah is still waiting for its major snow melt and resultant flooding.
Salt Lake County … (3 comments)

volunteers: A Simple Note in the Mail - 05/24/11 12:42 PM

A Simple Note in the MailAmong the many solicitations that appear daily in my mail box, rarely is there anything that coincides with my current thinking.An unpretentious note today from the American Red Cross, simply branded  seemed to stand out as thoughtful, timely and practical.It was enough for me to search the sites mentioned to familiarize myself with the activities of the American Red Cross (around the world, across the country, down the street)
Items informed me that the Utah Red Cross was involved today in assisting with possible flood evacuations in Logan UT  and with organising volunteers  to deploy … (3 comments)