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Show A-10 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, August 18-21, 2018 Continued from A-1 Riders rev up 5K-9 Registration Now Open! ............................. Run, walk, or jog with your canine to benefit homeless pets on Saturday, September 8th at 9 a.m. Sponsored by Park City Hospital’s LiVe Well Center invites you to get a new leash on life! 5K-9 deTAILS: • Race starts promptly at 9 a.m. • $40 registration fee or $50 on the day of the event. 100% of all entry fees will be donated to Paws for Life Utah • Maximum of two dogs per runner, all dogs must be leashed and current on vaccinations • More rules and registration: parkcityhospital.org/5k9 PAWSitive health benefits of pets: Like the LiVe Well Center, dogs can help you live a healthier life. The health benefits of having a pet include: Increased physical and social activity Elevated mood Lower stress levels Companionship And much more No pooch? No problem! Dogless runners are welcome and Paws For Life Utah will provide adoptable “loaner” dogs for anyone who wants a running buddy. Arrive early if you’d like to exercise a homeless pet. Packet pickup available 9/7 from 4~7 p.m. and 9/8 from 7~8:30 a.m. in the Blair Education Center on the ground floor of Park City Hospital. pflu.org 900 Round Valley Drive, Suite 110, Park City | 435.333.3535 | www.LiveWellCenter.org/PC for Suicide Prevention’s “Out of the Darkness” walks. In this case, though, the event is on wheels. The fire station will play host to a barbecue lunch open to anyone who wishes to attend, which will feature speakers from Connect and from the Taylor Hagen foundation. In addition, the names and faces of loved ones who have died from suicide will adorn a memorial, and posters will be held up by participants as the riders enter the station. Wiest said that anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide can submit names and photos for display at the event, and that interested parties should email a name and photograph to erika@thmemorialfoundation.org by 5 p.m. Monday for inclusion. For its beneficiaries, the ride is a deeply personal one. Cristie North lost her son, Taylor Hagen, to suicide last January. He was 23. Less than a week later, North, a Holladay resident who works in mortgage finance, founded the Taylor Hagen Memorial Foundation to raise awareness of mental health issues and youth suicide in Utah, and it has become a family operation. Todd Hagen, Taylor’s father, and his wife Connie Hagen, serve on the nonprofit’s board, and Taylor’s COURTESY OF TAYLOR HAGEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION The size of the Utah Vision Rally is set to double over last year’s event, pictured here. More than 100 vehicles will ride from Orem to Kimball Junction to raise awareness of youth suicide on Saturday, Aug. 25. surviving siblings carry out various jobs behind the scenes for the organization that bears his name. “This has given us so much purpose,” North said. “Everybody is pretty involved.” The foundation aims to advance its cause in a number of ways, including fundraisers like the Utah Vision Rally and partnering with Connect earlier this year to bring ESPN journalist Kate Fagan to Park City for a series of talks. The organization also awards scholarships to two Utah hockey players each year, in recognition of Taylor’s favorite sport. In 2017, Zane St. Martin, a Park City High School student, received one of them. The Utah Vision Rally has doubled participation over the last year, North said. To her, its growth indicates both that the foundation is on the right track and belongs in Utah, which has one of the highest youth suicide rates in the country, and that the problem has become an “epidemic.” “It makes me sit back and reflect,” she said. “There are so many people out there that you don’t know what they’re dealing with, you don’t know what’s going on outside of what they may show you on a day-to-day basis.” A Summit County Health Department study found that 25 percent of Summit County students reported having mental health issues in 2017. Wiest said that, while the number is clearly troubling, it reflects a breaking down of the stigma associated with talking about mental health in the first place because similar surveys in the past may have shown an under-reportage of problems. For more information on how to participate and the route the ride will take, visit https://www.utahvisionrally. com/. |