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Lynn K. Pershing
Nov 22, 20241 min read
2024 KEEP Auction
Click here to access the auction: https://givebutter.com/c/BDUb3j/auction
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Lynn K. Pershing
Sep 25, 20242 min read
Kim Jensen Childs
1960-2024 It is with great sadness and heavy hearts we share the passing of Kim Jensen Childs (1960-2024). Kim was our organization's...
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Isaac Roach
Jun 3, 20241 min read
Masonry Lecture
Learn about these masonry types in our next educational lecture, Tuesday, JUNE 4, 2024, 6:45-8:00 pm, Anderson Foothill Library Hosted by...
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Isaac Roach
Apr 24, 20241 min read
Thursday, May 2nd - State Tax credit Program
Amber Anderson, Manager, Utah State Historic Preservation Office. She assists property owners in crafting appropriate rehabilitation...
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Lynn K. Pershing
May 7, 20231 min read
Local TV station Fox 13 features piece on balancing development with historic preservation
Historic Salt Lake City buildings at risk of being demolished for redevelopment May 5, 2023 By Spencer Joseph
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dmgib7
Mar 31, 20232 min read
Signage for Yalecrest, 2023
K.E.E.P. Yalecrest is proud to announce the culmination of a several years signage project with the installation of two types of signs...
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Lynn K. Pershing
Feb 15, 20233 min read
Attention Yalecrest Property Owners
A message from K.E.E.P. Yalecrest President Lynn K. Pershing, PhD K.E.E.P. Yalecrest encourages residents to send and make statements at...
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Lynn K. Pershing
May 4, 20224 min read
Proposed Affordable Housing Overlay Detrimental to Yalecrest
By Lynn K. Pershing, Ph.D., President of K.E.E.P. Yalecrest I understand the need for affordable housing. I do NOT believe the current...
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Lynn K. Pershing
Feb 21, 20222 min read
Lights! Camera! Action!
By Lynn K. Pershing, President You’ve seen the icons associated with film-making before, the clapperboard, film reels, director chairs,...
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Lynn K. Pershing
Jan 27, 20221 min read
K.E.E.P. Yalecrest celebrates Carl Leith receiving the Lucybeth Rampton Lifetime Achievement Award
Carl Leith, former senior planner in Salt Lake’s Planning Department, received the Lucybeth Rampton Lifetime Achievement Award from...
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Lynn K. Pershing
Jan 27, 20221 min read
The Salt Lake Tribune: "Salt Lake City is destroying its own livable neighborhoods"
View an editorial from 2019, still relevant today. Lynn Pershing wrote this in April 2019. Read here.
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Lynn K. Pershing
Sep 10, 20211 min read
Gaskell Romney, prominent Yalecrest builder
The Romney name is well known in Utah. Learn about our U.S. Senator Mitt Romney's grandfather as a developer of the Yalecrest...
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Lynn K. Pershing
Jul 31, 20211 min read
Concerns About New UofU Student Housing
University of Utah West Village Student Housing Project The U is planning to build two 5-story and one 3-story housing structure on the...
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Lynn K. Pershing
Jun 9, 20211 min read
State of Streetlight Maintenance in Yalecrest
Watch and listen to an overview of the state of streetlights in the Yalecrest neighborhood, discussed at the Yalecrest Neighborhood...
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Lynn K. Pershing
Jun 9, 20211 min read
Notable Yalecrest resident Minnie Viele Miller, "Captain of Commerce"
Yalecrest resident Minnie Viele Miller was one of the land donors behind the Lee Charles Miller Bird Refuge and Nature Park at 1706 E....
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Lynn K. Pershing
Apr 8, 20211 min read
History of the Emigration Canyon Railroad
Did you know there was a railroad up Sunnywide Avenue and Emigration Canyon? It's short existence ran 1907-1917. Learn more about it by...
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virginiahylton
Mar 9, 20211 min read
Yalecrest History and Early Development
The fascinating history of the origin of the Yalecrest neighborhood and the first four homes built here was presented by Virginia Hylton...
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Janet Hemming
Feb 18, 20211 min read
Ugly 5G poles appearing in Yalecrest and near historic homes
Ugly 5G poles are appearing in Yalecrest and all over Salt Lake and the state, because of a deal between the State Legislature and...
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Janet Hemming
Jan 27, 20212 min read
Eastside May Get Affordable Housing Zones
Several new zoning initiatives, which could have far-reaching impact on Salt Lake's single-family neighborhoods on the Eastside, will be...
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Janet Hemming
Jan 27, 20211 min read
Property Crime Surges 75% in 2020 in District 6
Property crimes in District 6 increased 75% in 2020 according to information provided to KEEP Yalecrest by Salt Lake City Police...
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