LOCAL EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS IN SALT LAKE VALLEY

Here are a few of this weeks entertainment choices for Salt Lake city and surrounding area for the week of  September 12th through 19th:

The Big one this week is of course :

Utah State Fair: Runs from Sept 10-20th  at Utah State Fair park just west of downtown SLC. With a PRCA rodeo running 10th-13th included in the general admissions ticket price, and other great attractions this one is a do not miss. Featuring exihibitions ( including Green Utah, with our studio space neighbors involved from WonderWorks and Restore), 4-H displays and competitions, nightly concerts (not included in the gen admin. price) fair midway carnival, contests galore, and even new food vendors which include giant turkey legs, grilled veggies, and Hawaiian shaved ice as well as standard fair food (think funnel cakes, cotton candy and of course here in Utah, Navajo tacos). For more here http://www.utah-state-fair.com/home/index.php

Downtown Alliance Farmers market: runs through end of October weekly Saturdays from 8.am to 1pm at Pioneer Park 400th south & 300 West downtown Salt Lake City.

get all your fresh fruit and veg here,shop the unique gifts and wares at the artists market on the south side of the park. This weeks evtertainment at this venue includes The Chef Showdown from 10:30 to 1:00pm. This is the kickoff event for Dine-o-round. This market is also running this year on Tuesday evenings through the season.   http://www.downtownslc.org/events/farmers-market and http://www.downtownslc.org/events/complete-downtown-salt-lake-city-event-calendar

Dine-o-round: Runs September 11-27th. Deeply discounted special meals and deals at participating resturaunts in downtown Salt Lake City. Get out and try something new for a change instead of your same ole resturaunt haunts.This is after all the best dining out deal around.http://www.downtownslc.org/events/complete-downtown-salt-lake-city-event-calendar


The Greek Festival: runs September 10-13th. On the grounds and surroundings lots of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in SLC located at 279 South and 300 West in downtown(actual right across the street from the Pioneer Park) Eat Greek foods such as Souvlakia, Dolmathes, Baklava, Spanakopites, Roasted lamb and so much more. Etertainment includes singing and dancing of course. OPA! Festival also includes optional free tours of the beautiful Greek Cathedral. Please be respectful, headcovers for ladies required during tour. This event helps sponsor many charity activities throughout the SLC valley during the year. So all for a good cause. http://www.saltlakegreekfestival.com/index.php

And last but certainly not least:

 OH SWEET SADIE is a wonderful 1 1/2 year old local traveling craft show happening September 18th and 19th this time around at  Daybreaks new SoDa Row in West Jordan, Utah. Here is the invite. We have never went to this show and we will be going to find out what all the Buzz is about.http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=1296963&da=y


Well that is the local buzz of just some of the activites locally that you can enjoy.
  Happy Saturday All!

Free Apples/ Thoughts for September 11th

Did you know that if you hunt around you may be able to find FREE FOOD. Yes that's right! If your willing to put in a little elbow grease, some time, and are not afraid to ask people, you too may be able to find FREE FOOD. Its a little thing that's been around since biblical times called gleaning and its making a come back in some parts of the country. We are a country of so much, that we many times  let food literally rot on the tree or in the field. How sad is that?  If I gave you some ideas would you glean? Well I am going to whether you said yes or no. Here goes: First there is a website that has started in California. At first it was just a local concept with a couple of young ladies in San Fransisco. They decided that they were tired of paying high prices for ALL their groceries when they drove , or cycled by trees all the time where the food was literal rotting and going to waste.Here is that site: http://www.neighborhoodfruit.com/ . You can go and look up trees in your area that are on private land that owners list that you can glean from or on public land that you can glean legally from.(Did you know that in most areas of the country park strips are considered public property and the trees planted there are legal to glean from? I did not either until recently. Of course check the laws in your area first before you do any public land gleaning, but in most places it is perfectly legal) Most listings on this site are currently in California, but the site is expanding and growing monthly and many new states are starting to get listings posted. That is exciting and not just for the gleaners. Did you know that if you have trees or a garden that you have excess produce from, you can list them on this site? Well you can. You could be the first in your state to post and start spreading the joy of sharing and the frugalness of not wasting. A principle that our country was PROUDLY founded on! We gleaned from a public tree on a park strip this week here in Salt Lake City. Want to see what we got:

Yes we gleaned a whole bushel of apples off of one tree and could not even get them all. This is just a small portion of them. They are some of the nicest tasting green apples we have ever eaten. Not too tart, not too sweet, just right......I will show you later what we did with some of the apples. So I challenge you to check out the website and either go find something to glean or spead the love and find a tree or garden to list that people can glean from...Gleaning is a worthy and righteous concept dating back to biblical times. And on this day in our American History could we all do more to help our neighbors and truly use ALL the blessing G_d has put to our use. If we utilized all the waste in our great country I truly believe none would go without that are willing to put forth an effort. It would free up resources to help those few among us that cannot help themselves. Think what you can do today to help a neighor or even a stranger and reach out......America is only as strong as its weakest members.

We love, love, love commments so leave us with your ideas of what you can do to honor September 11th and help strengthen America and Americans. G-d Bless and Be "GOOD NEIGHBORS".

OH HAPPY DAY!!!

WELL,

After much huffing and puffing and three years of the city acting like total goof heads. WE FINALLY ARE RUNNING THE BUSINESS COMPLETELY LEGALLY ACCORDING TO THE CITY!!!!!!!!! What pray tell took three and one half years? WELL THE lovely (heads up their backends) Salt Lake City Business permit office has literally been giving us the run around this WHOLE time trying to tell us we HAD no choice but to clandestinely call ourselves artists and ONLY sell through a broker or second party(wholesale only) or require us to have a ONE MILLION DOLLAR bond and PROVEABLE ONE MILLION DOLLARS in assets and equipment or they WOULD under NO CIRCUMSTANCES whatsoever allow us to be licensed to build any sort of furniture (even one of a kind)! We fought, we argued, we ranted and raved to no avail.....So we clandestinely call our selves artists, set up a business license through the state and city out of the house for arts and crafts, and continued doing what we have been doing, KNOWING full well we had been bullied, lied to, manipulated and drug through the mud so to speak......A few weeks ago the city comes in and starts coming down on all the artists in the building, the same ones they all gave the same song and dance to over the last 4 years. Telling us all we are NOT legal and that they are going to shut us down.....The unmitigated GALL of these people is just unreal! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US HAD BEEN GIVEN THE SAME SONG AND DANCE OVER THE YEARS>>>>> Well guess what we found out. THE city cannot get the grant money for the extension of Gateway and the planning and federal funding(federal grant money in the form of block grants, federal main street improvement block grants, and general bonds) in place for the planned entertainment district(running from Gateway to 900 South from The freeway to Main Street) unless they can prove to the federal goverment that their numbers of ARTISTS and SMALL BUSINESS owners meets the goverment grant laid out formulas.....AND they are lacking BIG TIME!!!!! So all this CRAP and I am calling it CRAP (we call a spade a spade around here) that we have been hearing over the course of the last year and one half from all the city P.R. people and the feeds the media have been regurgitating to the public is nothing more that a BIG FAT COME ON(oh you know the ones...This city is SO artist friendly, we really really embrace the arts here and Salt Lake City really loves their artists. And the enviroment for artists here is SO VIBRANT AND WONDERFUL!!!!!< WHAT A LOAD OF HOCUS POCUS!!!!!) so they can get grant and federal dollars(What games people play for big bucks , just makes me sick!)..........So now the westside artists are being EMBRACED and WELCOMED into the world of legimate REAL business men and woman(SO we can later end up being kicked in the you know what, when they get their precious grant money, change the zoning to commercial,entertainment only and as usually we will go back to kicking artists in the "BLEEP" once we have our goverment cha-ching(pay day for the already rich in Salt Lake City).....I can lay bets and be rich beyond my wildest dreams that within 2 years of getting the grant money the City will see to it we are all back to clandestine status or run out of town on a rail!!!!! WATCH AND SEE IF I AM NOT RIGHT!!!! POLITICS, POLITICIAN and CITY PLANNERS CAN SOMETIMES BE GOOD, BUT MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THE STINK STARTS AT THE ARM PIT OF THE GOVERMENTS POCKETS>>>>>And the SMELL JUST GROWS FROM THERE!!!!!! ISN'T LIFE JUST A PEACH, WHEN YOU ARE JUST SMART ENOUGH TO REALLY KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON........sometimes I really do wish I was an idiot, life would just be so much nicer, prettier and easier!!!!!!