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Show SCENE The Park Record. Editor: Scott Iwasaki arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ext:15713 Christmas Eve In-Car Services at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church DR. BOB BAND RECEIVES EMERGENCY GRANT, B-2 www.parkrecord.com SHOT SKI KITS PROVIDE GRANT FUNDS, B-3 B-1 WED/THURS/FRI, DECEMBER 23-25, 2020 Park City nonprofit and Utah Strong Recovery Project share holiday joy Christmas Eve in-car services will be held at 5 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 4595 Silver Springs Dr. Each service, which is limited to 30 cars, will last about a half-hour and attendees will remain in their car, without the motor running. Worship leaders, including Bishop Nicholas of Myra, will be located on a stage in the middle of the parking lot, and the service will be broadcast to car radios. Reservations on a first-come, first-served basis are scheduled at stlukesparkcity.org. In addition, St. Luke’s will collect shampoo, conditioner, body wash, razors, shaving cream, toothbrushes and toothpaste, new socks, new underwear and feminine hygiene products, suggested by the Road Home Ministry for Homeless Children and Adults in Salt Lake City. For information, visit stlukesparkcity.org. Park City Library Virtual Offerings The Park City Library is closed to patrons due to COVID-19, but it does offer virtual programming. The online programs include its virtual Baby & Me at 3 p.m. every Monday; a Story Time at 11 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Music and Movement at 11 a.m. on Wednesdays. Access information to these programs can be found by visiting parkcitylibrary.org or visiting the Park City Library Facebook page. Summit County Library Virtual Offerings The Summit County Library Kimball Junction Branch offers an array of virtual programming on Facebook that includes “Hooray for Books Monday Morning Book Report” at 10:30 a.m. every Monday; “Comfy, Cozy Story Time” at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesdays; and “Fridays Teen Lit Squad” book reviews and chats at 10:30 a.m. on Fridays. Youth Services Librarian Kirsten Nilsson also presents “Kirsten’s Kitchen Adventures,” an online cooking class that starts at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday. For information, visit thesummitcountylibrary. org. Park City Museum Announces Free Days Park City Museum, 528 Main St., is open every day from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The museum will waive all entrance fees Dec. 26, 27 and 31, thanks to a grant from the State of Utah Utah Arts and Heritage, Division of Arts and Museums. Patrons can enjoy the museum’s world-class permanent and traveling exhibits, including “Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives.” For information, call 435-649-7457 or visit. parkcityhistory.org. COURTESY OF BRIANA C. SISOFO A Utah Strong Recovery Project volunteer greets residents of the William E. Christoffersen Salt Lake Veterans Home while she uses a paint pen to decorate their windows with a Christmas tree. Volunteers from Utah Strong and Park City’s Giving a Bleep decorated windows at the veteran’s home on Sunday. They also decorated windows at Beehive Homes and Elk Meadows assisted living facilities in Summit County, as well as the Inn Between in Salt Lake City. Volunteers decorated windows at several assisted-living homes SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Giving a Bleep, a Park City-based nonprofit that raises money for other nonprofits, has brought yuletide joy to residents at the William E. Christoffersen Salt Lake Veterans Home with its Give Your Hearts, Not Your Wallet Christmas Day program for the past eight years. This year Executive Director Annette Velarde assumed the project, which includes playing games, talking and listening to music with veterans who don’t get visitors or can’t leave the facility during the holidays, would be put on ice due to the coronavirus pandemic. But that wasn’t the case, thanks to Utah Strong Recovery Project, a Utah Department of Human Services program that provides psychological help to those who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Utah Strong recruited Bleep volunteers to decorate residents’ windows from the outside of the veterans home on Sunday. The veterans home wasn’t the only place the group visited over the For information about Giving a Bleep, visit facebook.com/ GivingABleep. For information about Utah Strong Recover Project, visit bit.ly/2M1y8NT weekend, said Briana C. Sisofo, crisis counselor and gerontologist at the Utah Strong Recovery Project. When you give your time, show up and look into someone’s eyes, even if it’s through a window, the experience becomes more personal than just writing a check for charity,” Annette Velarde, Giving a Bleep executive director The other locations volunteers adorned were the Beehive Homes and Elk Meadows assisted living facilities in Summit County and the Inn Between transitional living facility in Salt Lake City, she said. “We spent between one and a half to COURTESY OF BRIANA C. SISOFO Briana C. Sisofo, crisis counselor and gerontologist at the Utah Strong Recovery Project, gives a thumbs up during a window-decorating project this weekend. Utah Strong Recovery Project recruited Park City’s Giving a Bleep volunteers to help decorate windows at assisted-living facilities in Summit County and Salt Lake City. Volunteers also brought hand-made two hours at each place, and decorated a lot of windows,” Sisofo said. “We decorations to accessorize the windows, used paint markers that will stay on the she said. “They cut out paper snowflakes and windows until they are washed off, and we had to write backwards so the resi- snowmen and other festive items,” dents could read what we wrote from the inside.” Please see Volunteers, B-4 FOR A assemble LOOKING WORKSPACE? Park City’s Premier Co-Working Space Private Offices Workstations Business Lounge Conference Rooms Monthly, Weekly and Daily Rates available For information contact Angela at 435-200-1312 info@assembleparkcity.com www.assembleparkcity.com Located in Newpark at Kimball Junction Assemble is a locally owned and operated business. |