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05/26/23 - TIME TO VENTURE OUT!; HURRY & MAKE YOUR MARK; UPD ICE CREAM VAN; ESLC GRADS; etc. View this email in your browser Announcements City offices will be closed on Monday, 5/29. PUBLIC MEETINGS East Mill Creek Community Council Thurs., 6/1/23, 6:30 pm City Hall, 3330 S 1300 E NEWS VentureOut! Festivals Start Next Friday MILLCREEK. The wildly popular VentureOut! Friday Festivals & Twilight Market is set to get underway next Friday, June 2nd, with the first fun event to be held at Canyon Rim Park (2900 E 3100 Bring the family at 6 pm for games, music, dinner at a food truck, public market, and all sorts of fun. Mingle with neighbors and friends and spread out your blanket at dusk to enjoy Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (PG) on the giant inflatable movie screen. ---PAGE BREAK--- Or join virtually HERE We wish everyone a Happy Memorial Day! The Festival series will run each Friday in June. The Friday Twilight Market & Movie Nights will then continue through July 28th. Visit the Venture Out! website for details. NEXT FRIDAY ---PAGE BREAK--- DE DLINE J NE 1 ---PAGE BREAK--- DEADLINE - JUNE 1st. ---PAGE BREAK--- Meet the Millcreek UPD Ice Cream Van MILLCREEK. At the City Council meeting this week, Chief DeBry, Lieutenant Petty-Brown, Sergeant Allen, and Officer Schroeder, members of the Millcreek Precinct of the Unified Police Department (UPD), gave the council a sneak peek at the newest addition to the UPD fleet, an Ice Cream Van. Chief DeBry told the council that the van is a way to get out into the community and have positive interactions with youth. The goal is to build trust and establish a dialogue with kids to talk about not using drugs and alcohol and about making positive choices in life. The UPD Millcreek Precinct purchased the van with alcohol tax funds that the state of Utah distributes to pay for drug and alcohol education and enforcement. Detective Jared Nichols designed and painted the van's artwork. UPD worked with evidence-based programs Positive Action and Parents Empowered to develop the ice cream van program and will be using some of their teaching methods. The UPD asked us to thank Creamies Premium Ice Cream, Yeti Goal Zero, Parents Empowered, and Corporate Image for their help with the creation of the Ice Cream Van. Residents will see the Ice Cream Van at the Venture Out! events, as well as at some of our local elementary schools, or just driving through the neighborhoods ---PAGE BREAK--- and apartments complexes during the summertime handing out yummy Creamies and interacting with kids. We would like to thank the UPD officers who thought of this fantastic idea and followed through to make it a reality. Millcreek Congratulates ESLC Graduates MILLCREEK. Six students who took part in an English class at Millcreek Common overseen by the English Skills Learning Center (ESLC) were presented graduation certificates at this week's City Council work meeting. The Council recognized each student’s hard work in passing their respective English levels with ESLC. After the small graduation ceremony, the graduates and ESLC staff had the chance to enjoy a hot meal from O’Falafel, a local favorite. ---PAGE BREAK--- Congratulations to these graduates on their achievements, and best wishes on their ongoing path to success in the United States. The final week for #BuildingSafetyMonth2023 includes solving challenges together on a global scale. Click here to learn more about ways we can combat water scarcity, improve building resiliency and increase sustainability around the world. #BuildingSafety365 TOMORROW ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- Memorial Day Rocks MILLCREEK. On Saturday, May 27th, from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm, join us at Millcreek Common for a free, all-age activity creating memory rocks. Paint, draw, and customize your rock's eyes and hair in honor of someone you love. ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- New on Thursday Evenings at Millcreek Common! Grab a bite to eat at the weekly food truck vendors and enjoy dinner and entertainment every other Thursday this summer from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. The Busking Bus Theater will rotate performances such as juggling, magic, and music. Performances start Thursday, June 1st, and continue through August 24th. NEXT FRIDAY ---PAGE BREAK--- Getting Visual at the Library MILLCREEK. Join the Millcreek Arts Council and Salt Lake County Millcreek Library for their June Artist Reception on June 2, 2023 from 6-7 PM, at the Millcreek Library, 2266 Evergreen Avenue. The event will highlight the art of Stephanie Harper. Refreshments will be served and music will be provided by Adrian De La Crux. The art will be on display throughout the month of June. Stephanie Harper’s multi-award-winning art combines her passion for organic creation with a unique outlook on the beauty of life everywhere. Harper’s original designs rely on finding the spectacular in everyday objects. She desires to protect the Earth by reusing discarded items. Harper's dedicated creative process involves finding a new vision and purpose for them. She painstakingly —and joyfully—uses these items to create and enhance her original designs with colors, shapes, and sheer brilliance. In this way, Harper quietly promotes awareness of consumerism, as well as making deep, personal statements concerning the things that humans love about life and culture. Among Harper’s most recent awards is a first-place position at the Urban Arts Festival, hosted through Utah Arts Alliance, for her mosaic of a Utah Utes flag at sunset. She also won the mosaic art contest at the Foothills Art Center in Golden, CO. Harper’s art affirms her belief that life is a mosaic of everything we do every day, everything we see, and everything we love. ---PAGE BREAK--- Adrian De La Cruz is a Salt Lake City based multi-instrumentalist. Currently finishing his undergraduate degree at the University of Utah in jazz guitar, he has also extensively toured the country and England with his band Cinders. Influenced by soul, Motown, rock, and jazz, Adrian's solo guitar performance will have something for music lovers of any genre to enjoy ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- Help Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation improve! Take this survey HERE to share your thoughts Big Cottonwood Regional Park spans several areas and users—the Big Cottonwood area with the LHM ballfields, the Holladay Lions area with walking paths and wetlands, the Creekside area with the disc golf course, and the Hillview Basin area with open space. If you use any of these areas (or plan to), your voice is important in shaping the future of the park. ---PAGE BREAK--- Be Heard: Take the New Guiding Our Growth Survey Interested in the impacts of population growth in Utah? Want to make sure your voice is part of the conversation about your community's future? Take the new Guiding Our Growth survey by clicking the button below. Preserving Utah's unique quality of life requires carefully weighing the impacts of potential decisions about housing, open space, water, transportation, and more. This new survey leads participant through zip- code-specific options for dealing with growth challenges. The answers aren't easy, but the best solutions require collaboration and facing the toughest decisions head-on. Utah leaders statewide invite the public to share their opinions about how to guide Utah's growth. The survey will extend through the summer. Results will direct the "big ideas" required in the near future to ensure the best Utah possible for future generations. Take the time to be heard. Take the Survey HERE ---PAGE BREAK--- More Info and Sign Up HERE ---PAGE BREAK--- Meetings with the Mayor Fridays from 2-4pm have been set aside for citizens to meet with Mayor Silvestrini. Call [PHONE REDACTED] to schedule a slot. Mayor Silvestrini and the City Council after taking a look at the new UPD Ice Cream Van. Left to right, Council member Cheri Jackson, Mayor Jeff Silvestrini, UPD Officer Schroder, UPD Chief Steve DeBry, council members Thom Desireant and Silvia Catten, UPD Lt. Petty-Brown, and UPD Sgt. Allen. ---PAGE BREAK--- VISIT us at Click here to subscribe to this weekly newsletter Copyright © 2023 Millcreek, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list Click here to subscribe to this weekly newsletter Forward Share Tweet