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Wags and Kisses Picnic To Benefit Therapy Animals

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You gotta love an event filled with happy dogs and owners, silent auction items for petlovers and a massive dog trick contest with prizes for everyone. At least if you like dogs.

Last year, Calling All Dogs helped to sponsor the Wags and Kisses Picnic to benefit Therapy Animals of Utah and the event is back with more hi-jinks. Put June 6, 2015, 5 – 8 p.m. in your calendar.

Smiths Field Park, 150 East 13400 South, Draper, Utah, will be overrun with pooches to celebrate TAU’s own volunteers and pet partners.

The $20 ticket gets you grub by Moon Dog BBQ (if you aren’t a fan of pulled pork, then bring your own picnic!), live music by Whiskey Bravo, pet portraits by Elaina ReNae Photography, dog games with Calling All Dogs, kids activities, stories of animal-assisted therapy experiences, door prizes, and a well-stocked silent auction.

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The party is open to adults, children, and well-behaved, leashed dogs and is used to raise money for the volunteers who visit more than 30,564 individuals, providing thousands of hours of cuddles in Utah facilities.

TAU is part of the internationally recognized Pet Partners and are always looking for people and their pets to team up and volunteer to provide comfort, love, hope, and healing.

 

Get your tickets before May 28 so they know how much food to bring! Kids under 10 are free.

 

Get your tickets HERE: http://bit.ly/TAUPicnic2015

 

Bandits Branches Out To The Cottonwoods

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Whether you’re a ‘ribman’ or just into large heaping plates of smoked meats, Bandits on Park City’s Main Street will satisfy any hearty appetite. And now there are two!

Debuting this winter was Bandits American Grill in Cottonwood Heights at 3176 East 6200 South. But let’s call the Bandits near Big Cottonwood Canyon Park City’s more sophisticated sister. Instead of crammed into an historic building, this Bandits has plenty of elbow room; enough for a separate bar area divided by a double-sided fireplace. The restaurant is still family friendly with heaping plates of pork baby backs, wood-fired tri-tip sirloin, and spicy jerk chicken breasts.

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They all come double sized with your choice of two sides- like the hulking baked potato, coleslaw or corn on the cob. You’ll be entering a hungry-man’s hall of fame if you can finish what’s on your plate.

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If you’re not much of a barbecue eater there are tasty salads like the quinoa harvest with kale, pecans, apples, cranberries, goat cheese, citrus vinaigrette or the tri-tip steak salad. They also have burgers, veggie sandwiches and seafood.

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Bandits American Grill is also a stellar spot for drinks and dessert like cheesecake and mud pie. But just so you know, if you’re dropping in for hot apps only, you might be sad over the selections and portion sizes.

The menu is a bit pricey for barbecue so just think of it as a restaurant from Park City and you’ll begin to see value. If you do want less expensive, traditional pub food, there’s always my favorite post-climbing/skiing spot- The Porcupine Pub – but it’s nice to see there are other options in the neighborhood.

 

Utahns Touched By Nepal Quake

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A candlelight vigil will shine in Salt Lake City’s Washington Square this Friday to honor those killed and injured in Saturday’s devastating Nepal quake. The death toll from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake is still not firm but so far more than 4400 are thought dead with several thousand more injured or missing. Many Utah families, however, are breathing a sigh of relief after word that loved ones survived the devastation that leveled much of Nepal and Katmandu.

The quake trigged a massive avalanche that ripped through Everest basecamp. The bodies of 11 of the 18 victims have been recovered by Monday. Among those killed were California filmmaker Tom Taplin, who was filming a documentary on Everest, emergency room physician assistant Marisa Eve Girawong, serving as a base camp doctor for Seattle-based Madison Mountaineering, and Google executive Daniel Fredinburg, who was part of a project to create a Google street map of the trek to Everest Base Camp. The death toll could have been much higher but luckily about 80 percent of the climbers were out at Camp 1 or 2.

At least 80 stranded climbers had been evacuated with hundreds of others waiting. Rescuers are still locating the bodies of those who did not survive the roar of snow and ice at 18000 feet. “It lifted rocks and boulders ahead of it, slamming into hundreds of tents in the center of the camp and spilling over onto the Khumbu glacier on the other side,” wrote African climber Sean Wisedale on his blog. “Everywhere around us it was unstable. Avalanches continued to fall.”

Of the 11 bodies recovered so far, seven were Nepalese. Utah’s famed Apa Sherpa was in Nepal when the quake hit but the world record holder for summits on Mount Everest is safe, according to his son Pemba Sherpa. At the moment, airports remain closed, hospitals are brimming with patients, and there’s concern for sanitary conditions, water and food shortages, and more quakes.

The Nepalese Association of Utah is collecting funds for the American Red Cross to help the victims of the earthquake and have offered to help Utahns connect with their friends and family in Nepal. The vigil is at 7 p.m. on Friday at 451 South State Street, Washington Square in Salt Lake City.

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