Pamela McCall

Jan 6, 2025 | kuer.org | Pamela McCall

Dec 10, 2024 | kuer.org | Pamela McCall

When St. Francis of Assisi first staged a live nativity in 1223, he likely did not envision a tradition that would endure. Eight centuries later, it is alive and well the world over, including the banks of Salt Lake City’s Red Butte Creek. Even in times when “peace on earth” seems to be lacking, for one night, the tradition felt alive at the Nativity in the Glen.

Oct 25, 2024 | kuer.org | Pamela McCall

It’s a crisp autumn morning and the sounds of hikers and mountain bikers filled the air of the parking lot at Brighton Ski Resort. Each unloaded day packs crammed with essentials. The Women’s Wine Hiking Society of Utah packed something a little extra for their day in Big Cottonwood Canyon.

Oct 9, 2024 | kuer.org | Pamela McCall

It’s the kind of news that would strike a sour note with anyone – the possibility of losing your home. In this case, musicians from the Utah Symphony faced an uncertain future with Abravanel Hall. The speed at which Salt Lake City got its hands on a new NHL team and plans started to roll for a new downtown sports and entertainment district seemed to leave the building behind. But no longer. Salt Lake County owns Abravanel Hall, and on Oct.

Sep 26, 2024 | kuer.org | Pamela McCall |Elaine Clark

Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen was very young when his family fled Vietnam in 1975. So being a refugee, to him, is “completely tied up with my memory and my identity.”His family, along with 22,000 other Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees, ended up at Fort Indiantown Gap in Pennsylvania. In order to leave the camp, they each had to have an American sponsor. “There wasn't an American family or church willing to sponsor all four of us,” Nguyen explained.