Utah Works

The stories in Utah Works this year collectively reveal a common thread in the profile of how Utah Works. We review a sampling, expressed in the workers' own voices.

Michael Palumbo is a professional viola player and a retired Weber State professor. His musical career was interrupted briefly when he was drafted during the Vietnam war.

A typical day for spine surgeon Brian Vernon begins at 6:30 a.m. and ends at 6:30 p.m.

Steve Brown is a poet and an English teacher, currently working at White River Academy for boys.

At age 81 and still farming, Delyle Carling looks back.

As the head of Millard County's 4-H horse program, Jenna Aldrich delves into the special relationship of horse and man.

Currently working two full-time jobs, Dillan Robison contrasts restoring cedar rooftops and factory work.

After a long career in the military, Don Thomson became a judge. He is now retired and living in Fillmore.

Kami Dearden opens her home to grateful travelers as part of her work at Dearden Motors in Fillmore.

Working Midnight Sunday to Midnight Saturday is a regular summer work week for Lonnie Hafen, a young farmer in Fillmore.

Inspired by President Kennedy, Caril Jennings sets to work, eventually landing her dream job at Weber State.

After retiring from the Forest Service, Dave Baumgartner recalls fighting the big fire of Lowman, Idaho.

Jesse Garcia served four terms on the Ogden City Council, after a long career focused on his community. He shares the stories from his childhood about working on Weber County farms with his migrant family.

From a cattle ranch in Delta to a hospital in Cache Valley, Carolyn Jones shares her sense of fulfillment in work.

Larry Lisonbee could always count on one job to pay his bills. He has been shoeing horses around Cache Valley for more than 20 years.

Right after high school, Kathy Shafer began work as a telephone operator, a job that no longer exists today. Shafer worked in Moab, UT, before the telephone company replaced operators with machines.

For 15 years, Glen Wall worked as a trucker, hauling crude oil out of the Uintah Basin.

In the summer of 1982 Scott Bushman worked as the trail boss with the Young Adult Conservation Corps, digging and dynamiting the hiking trail to the Wellsville cone.

Gloria Weller logs onto her computer at 8:00 am and runs a Los Angeles law office from her home in Layton. She doesn't log off until 5:00 pm. Gloria is 86 years old.

Joe McQueen, a legendary Ogden Jazz musician tells us about his other passion -- cars.