RadioACTive 02.09.22

  • February 9, 2022
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A bill to create a Day of Remembrance Observing the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II. Poets holding a vigil for and at the Great Salt Lake during the legislative session want you to visit. National Pizza Day with VOA Utah's Youth Resource Center and Mark Miller Subaru, which want you to commit a Random Act of Kindness on Feb. 17th.


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

Volunteers of America, Utah, Homeless Youth Resource Center CEO Kathy Bray and Joseph Dane of Mark Miller Subaru talked about their unique partnership today — National Pizza Day — in support of youth experiencing homelessness in our community. Today they teamed up with Bella Food Truck to feed VOA's homeless youth clients and staff at the Youth Resource Center, and to invite you to join VOA in performing random acts of kindness by volunteering to serve meals or make donations to support the food services at their youth and women resource centers for Random Acts of Kindness Day Feb. 17th.

  • The partnership trio used this opportunity to encourage the public to help those in need during Random Acts of Kindness Day by donating food to Volunteers of America, Utah (VOA) Youth Resource Center or Geraldine E. King Women’s Resource Center now through February 17 to help feed their homeless clients. 

  • Last year, VOA served more than 25,500 meals to homeless youth and 173,500 meals to homeless women at the two Resource Centers. These vital services provided by VOA are funded through the support of individuals in our community who want to help those in need. The public is encouraged to help make a random act of kindness by volunteering their time to serve meals at either of the Resource Centers (individuals and groups welcome) or by making a financial donation to help VOA cover the increasing cost of food.

Writers continue their Vigil for the Great Salt Lake during the Utah Legislature's General Session. RadioACTive checked in with poet and organizer Nan Seymour and Jaimi Butler of the Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College. There's still time to add your voice to a collective praise poem called “irreplaceable” — meant to swell to 1700 lines.

  • Feb. 19: Praise Poetry Reading on Antelope Island, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Event by River Writing with Nan Seymour: "The poem irreplaceable is a prayer for restoration, destined to become at least 1700 lines long to reflect the 1700 square mile size (minimum) of a robustly healthy Great Salt Lake. The poem is growing and already contains a myriad of perspectives and over a hundred voices. The work will be read aloud in its entirety by a community chorus outside the Antelope Island visitor center." To register for this free event, click here. 

Legislative Update, featuring S.B. 58 — Day of Remembrance Observing the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II. Approximately 8,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated at the Topaz War Relocation Center in Delta, Utah, making it one of Utah's largest cities at the time. Tonight's guests included Ruth Sasaki, curator of Topaz Stories, and Max Chang, who was instrumental to the Spike 150 celebration and the stories of Chinese railroad workers in 2019 and helped bring the new Topaz Stories exhibit to the Utah State Capitol.

  • VISIT: Topaz Stories: Remembering the Japanese-American Incarceration-- 3rd-floor gallery, Southwest wing. 

    See 31 stories by survivors of Topaz or their descendants. Collected by volunteers for the Friends of the Topaz Museum, the stories reflect the diverse voices of three generations of men, women, and children who endured three years in the Utah desert, behind barbed wire, and under armed guard, until the end of the War. The exhibit runs through December 31, 2022. 

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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