Page 2 The West View West Siders Cultivate Leadership Skills The West View is a community-based newspaper, providing a voice and informational resource for residents and businesses on the west side of Salt Lake City. We welcome community involvement and appreciate story and photo contributions. We reserve the right to edit all submissions for style and space, and will not publish anything that is defamatory or slanderous in nature. Please email submissions to the editor and include your full name, city or community, and telephone number. You may also deliver your submissions to us on a compact, floppy or zip disc. 8,000 copies are distributed quarterly to homes and businesses in the 84104 and 84116 zip codes which covers the entire west side of SLC, as well as other public places throughout SLC. Also available on the web.at www.thewestview.org. Subscriptions are $5 per year. Please contact us if you would like to be added to our mailing list or to submit: editor @ thewestview.org The West View 1094 Garn Way SLC, UT 84104 Ph# 801-355-9572 STAFF Students of the premiere Westside Leadership Institute brainstom ways to manage inevitable conflict in group situations. Pictured from left to right are: Kyle LaMalfa, Billy Palmer, Ruby Chacon (students), Sarah Munro and Jacob Brace (assistants). Photo by Daniel Pacheco By Kyle LaMalfa Twenty aspiring community activists graduated from the first-ever class of the Westside Leadership Institute (WLI). After spending eight weeks learning basic leadership skills, the May 15 graduation marked the end of classes and a new beginning for graduates as ‘neighborhood leaders. ~The group’s members represented a diversity of cultural backgrounds and life experience, yet all attendees live inside the geographic boundaries of the West Side. The students had similar reasons for enrolling in the Institute. Pamela Hart took tively addressing the issues of [our] neighborhood at large.” A commitment to improve their community in some way motivated each of the students. Glasses. - were. held. at Neighborhood Housing Services’ Home Ownership and groups, through their own community involvement, noticed large numbers of people who wanted to initiate change on the West Side. They also observed a need for basic leadership skills and a need to create a network of Community Building Center in Sarah Jacob try. Irene Fisher and Maria Brace made the dream of WLI a reality. In late 2003, the concept of the WLI arose from a partnership between Salt Lake Neighborhood Services, Salt Lake City Weed & Seed. and University / Neighborhood Partners. These while Billy Palmer wanted “to get better at being organized and effec- the Garciaz, Daniel Pacheco, themselves, and a difference,” Thus, Munro, Activists class, “wanting to do my part make individuals. Leadership Institute was born. A grant from the Pew Partnership for Civic Change supplied the Leadership Institute with learning materials for students as part of a program to support community and business organizations all over the coun- the FairPark neighborhood. “We had such an incredible group of people. There was so much energy in each class,” said student Tiffany Sandberg. the: these More Than Just Housing Internet. Publisher / Editor Assistant Editors : Layout / Design Advertising Subscriptions Distribution Business Support Legal Support Technical Support Consultant / Advisor Charlotte Fife-Jepperson Marilyn Copeland, Kyle LaMalfa, Catherine Sweet Chad Jepperson Charlotte Fife-Jepperson, Chad Jepperson, Rocio Moses Kate Rubalcava Chad Jepperson, Edie Trimmer, Kate Rubalcava, Fred and Ila Rose Fife, Dale Neilson, University / Neighborhood Partners Anita Rueda Mary A. Gordon Chad Jepperson James A. Fisher CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Lance Duvall Kate Rubalcava Ralph ErskineJim Fisher Vicki Wason Daniel Pacheco Jilene Whitby CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Professors from different disciplines at the University of Utah volunteered to teach the Classes. Class topics ranged from organizing meetings and managing conflict to building see Leaders on page 5 Charlotte Fife-Jepperson Christopher Hansen Terra Riley Kate Rubalcava Leon Johnson Chuck Schamel Kyle LaMalfa Dale Neilson Jerry Pacheco Melissa Sillitoe Vicky Wason Jilene Whitby Robert Philbrick Get the Scoop. Receive THE WEST VIEW In your mailbox! TECHNOLOGY @ WORK Support your community newspaper by subscribing for only $5 a year. The money helps cover our printing and mailing costs. Your subscription and any additional donation shows your support for THE WEST VIEW’S mission. If you are not a subscriber, you will no longer receive complimentary copies in the mail. DSL | Colocation Web Hosting | ete Serato | Netwo ott www.aros.net | Cee Please send or deliver your subscription fee of $5, along with your mailing information, to THE WEST View, Attn: Kate, 945 West Pioneer Circle, SLC, UT 84104