Sugar House Park

Went off to college and had his schizophrenic, um, break while at college, and his was that he thought he was Jesus.

And so he would often be found, um, in Sugar House Park, you know, in the-

Yeah

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I don't know how to ask this because it may, I don't know what the implications are of asking, and we talked about this last episode with the Sugar House Park-

Yeah

... you know, visits, but i- is there a gay Mormon underground in Utah, and what is, what is worth saying about that?

Utah's probably one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, and I've never been in nature like that.

So I think I'd definitely go on a hike or do my loop at Sugar House Park, which I loved.

Um, definitely I mentioned I would go to Java Joe's drive-through religiously.

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it is harder to get to these places.

Um, you know, uh, if, obviously if you live by Liberty Park or Sugar House Park, those are awesome amenities, but if you live on the west side where so much of Utah's or Salt Lake's residential housing is, um, it's, it's really tough.

Yeah.

I mean, these are the kinds of things that have political consequences.

How opposition from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could impact Idaho's Prop 1 abortion vote.

And could the Sugar House Park Pond be sacrificed for the Great Salt Lake? It's on the table.

Joining me today are Salt Lake Tribune water and land use reporter Leah Larson.

Leah, thank you.

Yeah, it takes you back, I guess, probably.

definitely i remember doing

those reads the pledge drive very good well we'll keep your reporter hat on here you're with the tribune doing great work here uh here is the headline the sugar house park pond could be sacrificed for the great salt lake uh it's on the table um so tell us first of all about this this pond um i guess this is sugar house park does it have any other ponds or this is this is the pond

This is the centerpiece pond at Sugar House Park.