By the time Vice President Kamala Harris concluded her remarks Friday, a significant chunk of the attendees inside Glendale’s Desert Diamond Arena had been there for over five hours. Some waited for hours outside before the doors opened, combatting the 107 degree Fahrenheit heat with Gatorade and popsicles, as lines snaked around the arena. Then, after Harris concluded her remarks, some chose to linger on the arena floor, dancing.
“I was not this excited about Biden,” Simonne Campos told Deseret News reporter Samuel Benson, bobbing to the music blasting overhead. “He had a great career. But this” — she lifted her hand and signaled around — “this is crazy.”
Read more of our on-the-ground reporting of Harris’ rally in Arizona.
400,000 people could lose water if an earthquake hits Utah. This pipeline project will prevent that
Imagine an earthquake taking out an aqueduct because it crosses several areas of the Wasatch Fault.
The result would be the cessation of the delivery of treated culinary and secondary water for 400,000 Davis County area residents.
“It would take months, not days, not weeks — it would take months to put it back together because that size of pipe is not available,” said Scott Paxman, general manager of the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District. “It would just take a lot of work and if it were to rupture, there would be residences that would lose a lot of property as well as life.”
Hence the need for an $82 million project to construct a pipeline along a 2.2-mile stretch of U.S. 89 in the Layton area. The alignment of the pipeline will cross the thoroughfare and run parallel to the west side of the highway. It also includes two new pump houses to support resiliency.
After three or so months of nonstop recruiting, interviewing for coaching positions on his staff, practicing when June began, persuading players to remain at BYU, finding a new home in Lindon and getting his family moved there from Arizona, new Cougars basketball coach Kevin Young had finally carved out a little time for a family getaway.
Then he got COVID-19.
“So my family time got cut short by about four or five days, which was unfortunate,” he said.
The 42-year-old coach who was hired to replace Kentucky-bound Mark Pope on April 16 said it still feels like his life has been “a whirlwind” since he was introduced in the Marriott Center as the 20th head basketball coach in BYU history.
Sitting in his still sparsely decorated office at the south end of the second floor of the Marriott Center Annex, Young spoke to the Deseret News Thursday about a wide range of topics related to his brief time in Provo.
Read more from Young about the art of the pitch, settling in and what has surprised him the most.
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