Group walks 100 miles to Wendover for suicide prevention
Life s Worth Living Foundation
Photos from a 100-mile suicide prevention walk from Tooele, Utah to West Wendover, Nevada on Friday and Saturday, April 23-24, 2021.
and last updated 2021-04-26 20:54:26-04
WEST WENDOVER, Nev. â More than 100 people spent Friday and Saturday walking from Tooele, Utah to West Wendover, Nevada â all in the name of suicide prevention.
The Life s Worth Living Foundation organized the event â the fifth annual Walk to Wendover, 100 miles long.
The group consisted of 125 walkers who have had their lives touched by suicide, the foundation said.
They met early Friday morning at Tooele City Hall, where they got a pep talk from a guest speaker: Silver medalist and three-time Olympian bobsledder Bill Scuffenhauer.
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John Gossett grew up in a small farmhouse on Shiloh Church Road bordering the Camp Croft World War II training site, where his dad was an engineer and mom was a post command driver.
At 83, the retired Army colonel still recalls vividly as a child watching from his bedroom window where many of the estimated 250,000 soldiers who trained there during World War II used live artillery fire. That hill there and all the way back to Pauline was maneuver areas, where troops moved and ran tactics, he said, pointing past the fence line that contains his cattle. Course, we haven t had any worry about it. Soon as the war was over, we went right back (to) farming.