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Welcome Autumn!
 

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UPD officer Jake Elsasser hands off the radar gun
 

Officer Jake Elsasser, our community liaison with Unified Police Department’s Canyon Patrol unit since 2018, has decided to make a career change. Jake is now training to drive the giant haul trucks that carry ore out of the Bingham Canyon Mine for Rio Tinto’s Kennecott Utah Copper. We’re deeply grateful for everything Jake had done to help keep Emigration Canyon peaceful and secure, and we wish him all the best in his new career. Officer Dawn Larsen is replacing Jake as our lead officer and community liaison. We welcome her to the community and look forward to working with her.

Help prepare your community for emergencies 
Sign up for CERT today!
 

We’re restarting the Community Emergency Response Team in Emigration Metro Township, and we need volunteers from each and every canyon neighborhood. A CERT is a group of neighbors who organize and train together to provide basic emergency services for their community. A CERT supports professional first responders in the event of earthquake, fire, flood, and man-made disaster. It provides damage assessment, communications, light search and rescue, and basic first aid. When large events overwhelm professional emergency services, CERTs are how communities self-rescue until help arrives in force. 

Joining a CERT is one of the very best ways to help your family and community prepare for emergency situations. Together with Salt Lake County Emergency Management we’re organizing training classes for both new team members and member-trainers, to begin as soon as possible. To find out how you can participate, contact Tyler Tippetts at tyler@tippetts.cc

 

Help keep Emigration Canyon Firewise
Report your fire safety hours and spending! 
 

Once again, it’s time to recertify Emigration Township as a Firewise community for another year. We’ve maintained this certification since 2002 because it provides important benefits such as lower fire insurance rates for our homes and state support for firefighting costs in the event of a large fire. To qualify, we need to show community participation in wildfire preparedness. The minimum requirement is one hour of labor per household (valued at $27.20 per hour) or an equivalent financial investment. 

We collect various information to support this application, but the most important is household participation in fire safety activities such as defensive space maintenance. If you participated in our annual brush chipping event, please share with us the hours your family spent trimming, hauling, and stacking—or the amount you spent to have a contractor do that work. 

If you’ve already reported your time or spending, thank-you very much. But if not—or if you’ve since made additional investments—please consider sharing that information now. Your family’s time spent trimming and hauling brush is an eligible expense, obviously. Spending on arborist services counts. Remodeling expense to upgrade your home exterior with more fire-resistant materials is also eligible.  

We don’t need itemized accounts or receipts, just a conservative estimate of total hours and spending with maybe a one-line description if it seems necessary. Email your information to firewise84108@gmail.com by November 1 and we’ll have just enough time to make the recertification deadline. 

Thank-you for all you do to help make our community fire-safe. 

The fate of the nation…and of your community council
 

If the stakes in this November’s national midterm elections don’t already seem existential, consider the fact that here in Emigration Canyon we’ll also be electing new members to our community council. 

The community council serves varied roles in the township: managing programs such as Firewise and CERT, producing communications like this newsletter, providing a venue for community discussion, and supporting local governance with volunteer labor. It offers an opportunity to serve the community while observing and learning about municipal governance within Salt Lake County’s Municipal Service District framework. It’s also a great way to meet canyon neighbors from beyond your own neighborhood.

Three of your neighbors will appear on our fall ballot: Karen Mowrer from Emigration Oaks, Kurt Wagner from Killyons Canyon, and Lesley Bagley from Pinecrest. We have additional seats to fill and will be continue our recruiting efforts beyond this election. If you’d like to know more about serving on the community council, please contact Bill Tobey at bill_tobey@yahoo.com

This community council election will be a hybrid mail / online process that is separate from the general election conducted by the Slat Lake County Clerk. Informational mailers will be sent to all registered voters with links to a secure online balloting process. Watch for your mailer, cast your ballot, and consider joining the Emigration Canyon Community Council yourself.