RadioACTive 12.06.21

  • December 6, 2021
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Grassroots activists and community builders report on their work, including Stop the Polluting Port, YCC Family Crisis in Ogden, Utah Naloxone and Utah Opioid Task Force. Plus, UMOCA artist-in-residence Nick Pedersen and the museum's Holiday Art Market.

Tonight's show featured the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community! 

Stop the Polluting Port Coalition member Deeda Seed with an update on the Utah Inland Port Authority (UIPA), including a forthcoming petition in anticipation of UIPA's application for federal infrastructure dollars. To hear the latest UIPA board meeting referenced in this conversation, click here. 

Sara Mejeur of the YCC Family Crisis Center in Ogden, which needs community support now more than ever in the face of a two-fold increase in demand for its services. Last year, YCC provided 7,736 Shelter nights as well as received 5,602 crisis hotline phone calls. 

  • Heart of Ogden Campaign, a fundraiser for YCC Family Crisis Center in Ogden. Giant conversation hearts will be installed throughout the greater Ogden area to raise awareness of domestic and sexual violence during the month of February. To sponsor a heart or to learn more about the YCC Family Crisis Center and the Heart of Ogden Campaign, visit: https://yccogden.org/getinvolved/heart-of-ogden/

DIY Creatives Spotlight, featuring Utah Museum of Contemporary Art's artist-in-residence Nick Pedersen and Andrea Tree, who curates art for the museum's gift shop.

  • Dec. 9: Artists in Conversation: Artist Talk by Nick Pedersen, 7:00 p.m. at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, SLC. "Learn more about UMOCA Artist-in-Residence Nick Pedersen's exhibition Slow Apocalypse, currently on display in the museum’s Exit Gallery through January 8, 2022. In Slow Apocalypse, Pedersen uses an intricate combination of photography, digital collage, and printmaking to explore environmental issues of the Anthropocene, an age of human impact on the natural world." To register for a free ticket, click here. 

  • Dec. 11-12: UMOCA and Visit Salt Lake Holiday Art Market, 11a-6p both days. "Shop this weekend at UMOCA’s Holiday Market. 10am-6pm Saturday & Sunday. Santa will read Polar Express at 11:30 followed by free pictures with Santa. First come, first served. Free donut holes, free gift wrapping & so much more. Hope to see you there!! We have partnered with Visit Salt Lake and Salt & Honey Makers Market to bring all your holiday buying dreams come true!"

Utah is expected to receive more than $360 million in opioid settlement money over the next 18 years. And you can have a say in how that's spent. To find out more, RadioACTive spoke with two members of the Utah Opioid Task Force, Dr. Jennifer Plumb of Utah Naloxone and Ciara Gregovich of the Utah Attorney General's Office.

  • BE HEARD: Take the Utah Opioid Settlement Priorities survey and share your thoughts on how more than $350 million in settlement money should be spent. Click here to take the survey.

  • GET TRAINED: December Virtual Naloxone Training with Clean Slate, Dec. 13th @ 12:00 p.m. online. "Basic Naloxone Training for community members to learn how to use a Naloxone Rescue Kit to rescue someone from an opioid overdose (pain pills, heroin, fentanyl) - End Users. Pre-register for the training event, attend the virtual training, and we will send you a free injectable naloxone rescue kit, beanie, and bumper sticker. Naloxone is completely legal for all of us to have in Utah. All information collected is completely confidential."

Views, thoughts, or opinions shared by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff or members of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Tonight's show was produced and hosted by Lara Jones.

 

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