More than 80% of Utahns support hosting another Olympics, a new Deseret New/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll finds. Sites for the 2030 and 2034 Winter Games expected to be named within 18 months.
This man was born across from Lew Wallace
By Karen Zach, Around the County Thursday, April 22, 2021 4:00 AM • • • “A laugh, that’s all there is to life!” was the motto of our subject this week and his constant goal from his first job in the theater was to make people laugh. Wow and what an amazing job he did with that!
Born in our fair city, right across from Lew Wallace’s home, he noted: “not that it affects either of us.” He was the oldest child of three born to Julia (Peck) and William Hartman, Ferris Hartman was born probably laughing (on June 12, 1862). That activity is how he became so famous! His brother, William Wade Hartman was born in March of 1866 but passed in October of the next year. The last was sister Aletha who lightened the family in October of 1869. They would later have a half brother, as well. At age 15 months, Aletha (and Ferris, age eight) lost thei
A long overdue âThank Youâ goes out to the man who paid for groceries for a lady at Stokes during the holidays. âI went to Stokes on a Wednesday afternoon to buy a few things for Thanksgiving. There were tons of people there and they were very busy. The cashier finished totaling up my groceries for around $35. When I was reaching into my purse to get out the money, a man, in his 50s or 60s, who wasnât in line, seemed to come out of nowhere, stepped up to the card machine, stuck in his card and said to me âHere, Iâll take care of that for you,â and quickly walked away after the transaction was completed. I just stood there shocked. He wore a mask so I didnât recognize him. I asked the cashier if she knew who it was. She didnât. I wished I had thanked him. So I hope he reads this column so I can say THANK YOU! Because I didnât thank him, itâs helped me be more aware to now pass it forward by looking for people for me to help, too,�