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Show C-2 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 21-24, 2014 The Park Record JUST CALL JOEL (for all your real estate needs) JOEL FINE 435.901.2171 joel@FineProperty.com • JustCall-Joel.com Get all the latest Park Record updates. PHOTO COURTESY OF KRISTIE BUEHNER Back row, L-R, Kristin O'Connell, Muriel Murphy and Kristie Buehner of Devoted to Children smile with some orphans their organization boards at a children's home in Jacmel, Haiti. The nonprofit organization will host a hoedown fundraiser at the Hi Ute Ranch on June 28. Continued From C-1 There is one (1) Board of Adjustment (BOA) position available. Full BOA terms are for five years. Board members are required to be residents of Park City. The Board meets at 5:00 p.m. on the 3rd Tuesday of the month as needed. Special meetings may be called on the 1st Tuesday of the Month. On average the BOA meets 4-8 times a year. This is a Board created pursuant to the Utah Code to hear and decide on Appeals for zoning decisions and Variances to the terms of the Land Management Code. Applications are available at the Park City Planning Department at 445 Marsac Avenue and online at www.parkcity.org. The application deadline is Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 5:00 PM. Call Makena for more information at (435) 615-5061. Hi Ute will host fundraiser fered by an earthquake. "There are about one million displaced children who have been orphaned, abandoned or enslaved, and she had that moment where she knew she wanted to do something, but didn't know what," Buehner said. "So, she took a leap and came home and contacted me and a couple of other women and we organized Devoted to Children." The organization's projects are: • D2C Family Home • Yoga • Community Stability "We have created a home of healing for the most vulnerable kids in Haiti, again orphaned or abandoned," according to Buehner. "Right now the children living in the home are between the ages of 3 and 13. They will be in our care until they are adults." That means they won't be adopted out into a foreign culture, she explained. "Haiti has made it almost impossible to adopt any children from the country," Buehner explained. "So we decided not to establish an orphanage, but a children's home and give them stability, education and life skills that will help better themselves so they can break the poverty cycle." The yoga sessions help the children deal with traumatic stress. "By understanding the principle healing and relaxing philosophy of yoga, its benefits can help reduce the effects the stress in these kids," Buehner said. "We have already seen that happening and we will continue to spread that throughout the community of Jacmel, where the home is located." Community stability is one of the most important goals of the organization. "We felt if we have these kids in this beautiful family home, but are surrounded by an environment that is chaotic and awful, it will be hard for them to make it in life," Buehner said. "So we looked out into the community to see how we could help." One way is to secure food. "Haiti imports approximately 85 percent of its food from other countries," Buehner said. "They aren't growing much, so one of the community projects we completed last March was the aquaponics. "Now we have this beautiful project on our property in Haiti and they are growing vegetables and we are raising fish," she said. "It will expand from there." Buehner said installing aquaponics would help the kids help themselves. "One of the problems in Haiti is that many people have just donated items, food and charity over a long period of time, and unfortunately, that has created a nation that can't help itself," she said. "We didn't want to come in like other organizations and just give these people something. "We want to help these people to learn how to do things on their own," Buehner said. "We want them to become educated and develop life skills that they can give back to their community and their world. Failure is not an option. We've created this family of kids and we can't let them down." Devoted to Children will host the second Hi Ute Hoedown for Haiti at the Hi Ute Ranch, 2379 Kilby Rd., on Saturday, June 28, from 6:30 p.m. until 11:30 p.m. Tickets are $60 and are available by visiting hiutehoedown.eventbrite.com. DOG GET TO THE PARK RECORD BEFORE YOU? It's time to explore your online news options! PARKRECORD.COM |
