Kate wants to adopt
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008So, I left my job at the IRC. The demands on my time, family life, and sanity were too much for the pay I was receiving. Although I will truly miss working with refugees, this Monday was the first in months I’ve enjoyed. Yesterday I had an interview with Friends of Great Salt Lake, an environmental organization trying to preserve the […]
Carnival of Cities: Around the World We Go
Monday, November 19th, 2007This is the first time Kate and I have hosted a blog carnival on our site and we are very excited for the opportunity. My favorite part of the process was weeding out the unrelated, the advertising, or the completely insane (nothing like a lesson about breast cancer or a computer component add-icle to really […]
Shop outside the box Salt Lake City!
Monday, November 19th, 2007“How low? How low? How low can your wages go?” was a chant heard at Saturday’s anti- Big Box parade in downtown Salt Lake City.
Many local business owners and patrons got together and had a FUN time for a cause. What a wonderfully creative way to send a message to the community and remind them […]
SLC Refugee Relocation
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Until last week, when I got a job with the International Rescue Committee as a refugee case manager, I had not idea Salt Lake City was a major refugee relocation center. Each year around 400 refugees are relocated to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah to start new lives as future American citizens. Many […]
KateandNeil.com Finds a New Home
Monday, September 10th, 2007After a week of searching for an apartment we have finally found a perfect place to live: cheap, clean, well lit, downtown, and close to the library. We are moving in this afternoon and are very excited to live in the “Big City” SLC. Because we have been living in Provo with Kate’s parents, looking for an […]
