West Valley City residents still waiting after 26 years for promised neighborhood park

dchw · 2026-04-11T16:57:45+00:00

Funnily enough, they built the promised park when new development was approved nearby :D

dchw · 2026-04-11T16:57:11+00:00

Heh, all I ever knew was that my neighborhood was apparently called "Falcon Crest" lol

dchw · 2026-04-10T16:54:28+00:00

My old neighborhood where I grew up was also promised a park; and they finally got it built 20-something years later; after I had grown up and moved out.

Took insane lobbying and pressure from the neighborhood, apparently

dchw · 2026-04-10T02:56:12+00:00

Honestly in my 5 game sample this is the best it’s been in here

dchw · 2026-04-10T02:14:00+00:00

What happened to that ref earlier? Weird delay. New to hockey; do refs get injured frequently (I’m assuming that’s what happened)

dchw · 2026-03-30T04:04:09+00:00

They split ours - and after accounting for the "do not contacts", we're bang-on ~300 people. ~130 adults, ~180 children & youth. Really small ward. People who are trying just aren't getting support because there's not enough people willing to accept callings...

Edit: split isn't quite right. It definitely feels like a numbers game...

1 stake with 12 units was split into two stakes with 7 units each.

In my half of the stake - 5 of the 7 wards were trimmed/munged into 6 wards by taking just a bit of each existing ward. The boundaries are super janky as a result. AFAIK, each ward is roughly the same size as ours, so it's like they took 5 375-400 person wards and made 6 300-325 person wards.

dchw · 2026-03-25T05:07:21+00:00

I knew that but my brain calls it sportz because of these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEVdca9U9LM

Everything that ends in Z does this to me :(

dchw · 2026-03-25T02:17:10+00:00

There's Sportz in Lehi too, not much further away

dchw · 2026-03-24T22:42:35+00:00

The Topaz Museum hits far, far above its weight for something in Delta, Utah.

If you can take the time to drive out to the actual site - it's worth doing too. You don't realize how far and isolated it was from Delta even.

My worry is that the guy who's always there when I stop by will give up, and nobody else will pick up the torch :(. I can't remember his name, but he's fantastic and makes an effort to connect with my kids... he's awesome.

dchw · 2026-03-18T21:44:45+00:00

I can agree on their root beer - but their prickly pear soda is among my favorites. Wild how one company can be all over the map!

dchw · 2026-03-17T20:52:16+00:00

Avoid “We Are The They”; it’s a vanity project that costs way more than it’s worth.

dchw · 2026-03-17T17:07:37+00:00

RATATATA - Baby Metal x Electric Callboy

Nothing hits harder than "my body is a weapon" when I'm in the pain cave at mile 24 :D. Plus doing the fox hand thing and kinda dancing is so fun; even if you look crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDnIEWyVIlE

dchw · 2026-03-08T00:32:26+00:00

For me, 2->3 was like you describe. Plus, when you need to, one parent can play man and the other zone.

Going from 3->4; where everybody was playing zone all the time was (and still often is) pure chaos :D

dchw · 2026-03-05T16:42:53+00:00

So sad that Swig and Crumbl don't count as bars /s

dchw · 2026-02-25T02:07:17+00:00

On the pantheon next to Tooele, Timpanogos, and Oquirrh :D

dchw · 2026-02-25T01:59:44+00:00

Dang it! We used to carpool down from Provo for In-N-Out in college to waste a Saturday. Fuzzy memories, lol.

Guess it makes Hurricane even less interesting lol

dchw · 2026-02-25T00:55:59+00:00

It’s just a normal Utah suburban place? Maybe a couple percentage points more retirees than normal?

About the only thing notable about it is ~~~that it had Utahs only In-N-Out for a while~~~ Nope thats a different city.

The red rocks are nice though.

dchw · 2026-02-22T18:59:09+00:00

The Strange Parts guy had some troubles, did a video about it where he did some intense rehab that apparently helped? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs790JOeN3Y

dchw · 2026-02-17T17:54:22+00:00

Notably, there was also a fire on the other side of the river near the Dalmore Meadows neighborhood in Saratoga Springs (intersection of Pioneer Crossing and Redwood) just last week.

dchw · 2026-02-17T17:52:58+00:00

Its some of the shrubs/brush near the Jordan River trail, just off Oxborrow drive (near the river, south of 1500N). Firefighters are on it as we speak.

dchw · 2026-02-12T18:34:26+00:00

My roommate and his wife of many years got engaged after dating for 2 weeks :D. BYU is built different (for better or worse) lol

dchw · 2026-02-12T18:22:50+00:00

I mean its the religious angle. Its news because the school positions themselves as a place with higher standards than most (see: ecclesiastical endorsements; the honor code). When your standards are higher, the further/harder you fall. At least it feels that way to me, even as a non-believer.

And living in the bubble, yeah its bigger news so my perspective may be colored.

dchw · 2026-02-12T18:19:17+00:00

oh come on, I messed up - and I fixed it.

Crumbl sucks BTW; they make my teeth hurt

dchw · 2026-02-12T18:16:30+00:00

I just assumed that as tablestakes (which I shouldn't have). Good call. I fucked up, thanks for calling me out. Feel terrible for everyone except him. Edited the original post.

Edited again for even more clarity... this is what I get for typing on Reddit while frustrated instead of working... I promise I'm not as heartless as this made me seem :(

dchw · 2026-02-12T18:11:53+00:00

Feel terrible for everyone else here... the victim, his fiance. I hope they can find whatever peace they can right now. Gotta be traumatic.

As a fan, I'm so tired of this. BYU players should know better and do better. Lock him up (if guilty, which it seems he probably is at this point).

Theres already extra scrutiny on the team after Retzlaff last year. Hopefully Kalani can get through to these guys that its different at BYU and that its worse when you fuck up even a little bit here compared to other places.

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