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Show Page 2 The West View ing involvement through prayer, liturgy, and bereavement faith building groups. Also, St. Patrick’s maintains a long list of social groups, like Girl Scouts, youth activities, community service, and even a golf group. Though many residents may not have been inside St. Patrick’s, most everyone on the West Side knows about their Street Fair. Hosted the first Friday and Saturday in August, the church puts on a celebration for the whole family. Father Bittmenn admits that, “community activities around here are really a lot of fun.” Attending church is becoming more popular. Right now, the Salt Lake Catholic church is experiencing high growth in people coming from Mexico. In 10-15 years, St. Patrick’s will be full and they will build another facility. “I don’t know why it happens but every time we build a new church, it just fills with people,” said Rev. Bittmenn. 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. As an insert in the Salt Lake West Journal, The West View has a circulation of around 24,500 copies delivered monthly to every household and business on the West Side. It is also available on newsstands in local recreation centers, senior centers, shopping centers, libraries, and on the web at www.thewestview.org. Please contact us if you live outside the distribution area and would like to be added to our mailing list or to submit: To find the’ current’ schedule of services offered at St. Patrick’s church, go to www. utahcatholicdiocese.org Father Bittmenn stands proudly in front of St Patrick’s Church where he is Parish Priest. Photo by Charlotte Fife-Jepperson Nominate a Meaningful Place for Community Landmark Map Students from the University of Utah’s College of Architecture and Planning are interested in discovering meaningful community landmarks on the West Side and are requesting your input. Architecture students are gathering information to create a community landmark map, which will be on display, readily accessible, at the West Side Community History Center, located in the University/Neighborhood Partners office in Jordan Park. To nominate a landmark: 1) Identify a place that you think is important or special to your neighborhood, or 2) Identify a building, a field, a rock, or a place that no longer exists, like a church that’s been torn down, for example. 3) Describe why this place should be a landmark. What happened there? What did it look like? Did a special person live or visit this place? Is there a special story that is connected to this place? 4) Turn your nomination in by email to bradley @arch.utah.edu or call Martha at 278-5693 or send it to University Neighborhood Partners at 1060 South 900 West, SLC UT, 84104. PEACE editor @ thewestview.org The West View 1094 Garn Way SLC, UT 84104 Ph# 801-355-9572 STAFF Publisher / Editor Layout / Design Advertising Subscriptions Distribution Charlotte Fife-Jepperson Chad Jepperson Salt Lake West Journal Staff Dale Young, Brandon Rawlings, Boyd Petersen Kate Rubalcava Salt Lake West Journal Consultant / Advisor James A. Fisher CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Charlotte Fife-Jepperson Ryan Engar CONTRIBUTING WRITERS continued from page | through a fund set up in honor of community activist Gayen Wharton, who passed away last year. Salt Lake City Parks and Recreation offered the plot of land and were instrumental in assisting with the logistics of the tree planting. After the trees were in the ground, everyone joined hands in a circle around the trees to offer prayers and thoughts about peace and what it meant to them to participate in the tree planting. Nearly all the faiths represented there had some reference to trees in their religious doctrine. It became apparent that trees are a universal symbol of life, good health, and hope. First Unitarian Church’s Reverend Tom Goldsmith spoke about the stark contrast between people “coming together to plant trees in the name of peace on that little piece of land in Jordan Park,” while at the very same time in other parts of the world people were engaging in the dark business of “planting land mines and seeds of hatred and destruction,” As an organizer and a practicing Buddhist, Lovejoy said, “It was grace that brought all of this together.” Perhaps when people of different backgrounds come together in this manner to listen and learn about each other, we are one step closer toward achieving mutual respect respect for the earth that we all share. and Ryan Engar Charlotte Fife-Jepperson Kyle LaMalfa Billy Palmer Kate Rubalcava Melissa Sillitoe Edie Trimmer THE WEST ViEw November Issue Submission 2004 Deadline: Wednesday, October 26 We welcome your stories, photos, and opinions. Please notify us if you know of something in the community that deserves coverage. Email us at editor@thewestview.org or call (801)355-9572 More Than Just Internet. TECHNOLOGY eS Mer ore Vaughn Lovejoy, better Known as “The Mad Tree Planter”, lives in a nearby co-housing community and loves living near the Jordan River, the International Peace Gardens, and the outdoor environmental classroom, called the Bend-in-the-River Urban Tree House. He has devot- ed his life to doing what he does best, to the best of his ability - tree planting, with a spiritual emphasis. Photo by Charlotte Fife-Jepperson @ WORK ee Web Hosting | Network Consulting www.aros.net | cr RoW |