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WED - Today is the September 11 National Day of Service (also known as 9/11 Day, or Patriot’s Day).
Whats Up Provo
September 11, 2024
What’s Up Provo! ⛰️
Today is the September 11 National Day of Service (also known as 9/11 Day, or Patriot’s Day).
We hope that whether you're volunteering, attending a memorial event, or finding your own way to contribute, that you get a moment to remember the events of that day and reflect on the important things in life.
Today top events:
🧑🚒 BYU 9/11 Tower Climb
🥒 Sunset Farmers Market
🇺🇸 9/11 Day of Service activities
Ono’s Malasadas
Ono’s BBQ Burger & Ono’s Kaluha Burger
OUR STORY
While on their annual vacation to the Hawaiian Islands, Sophia Bussio and her family discovered Malasadas, a Portuguese fried sweet dough, a food staple in Hawaii. Sophia and her family saw the opportunity to bring the malasada magic to Provo. Excited to embrace the opportunity, the Bussios dove headfirst into the world of fried dough, later naming their new company “Ono’s Malasadas.”
OUR NAME
The name, a fusion of Hawaiian and Portuguese, encapsulates what a malasada truly is. “Ono” in Hawaiian means “delicious,” while in Portuguese, “Malasadas” translates to “bad dough” — a contradiction that perfectly describes the treat.
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🚒 🇺🇸 BYU 9/11 Tower Climb
LaVell Edwards Stadium @ 7 p.m.
No tickets required. Stadium gates will be open at 6pm. (Also, they asked that no spectators come to this event.) Attendees will climb 2,071 steps (representative of the 110 floors in World Trade Center Towers), to pay tribute to the firefighters, police officers, and other first responders who sacrificed their lives 23 years ago.
More info | Waiver | Minor Waiver
🍅 Sunset Farmers Market
300 East Center Street, Orem @ 5pm
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🔥 Fireside Chat with Melissa Gilbert
Thanksgiving Point Show Barn, doors open at 5:30pm, Program starts at 6:30pm
Thanksgiving Point — “Delve into Melissa’s extraordinary life journey, reminisce about the timeless magic of the Little House on the Prairie series as it celebrates its 50th anniversary, and hear from Melissa as she shares what’s new with Modern Prairie”
Tickets / More info
Tomorrow - Sep 12th
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🍕 Artisan Pizza Making Class
Indigo365 @ 6:30-9pm
What makes the perfect, chewy sourdough crust, sauce and topping combos? We don’t know, but Indigo365 does. Learn the art of pizza from the pizza pros!
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🟩 🍍 Let's Make a Quilt + Buffet Dinner
Thanksgiving Point, doors open at 5:30pm, Program starts at 6:30pm
Thanksgiving Point — “Join your favorite designers Amanda Niederhauser and Bev McCullough for a delicious, luau-themed buffet dinner and some high-energy, quilty fun! This game show-style evening will inspire you to get on your feet and make new friends. If you’re lucky, you might even go home with a prize! Luau-themed attire is encouraged!”
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🍞 Sharon Eubank + Barron Segar (President & CEO of World Food Program USA)
BYU Varsity Theater @ 5pm - 6:30pm
An interview with Sharon Eubanks, Director of Humanitarian Services, Welfare, and Self-Reliance Services for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Barron Segar, President & CEO of World Food Program USA. After Sharon and Barron speak about food security and food programs, free food (read: refreshments) will be provided!
More info / FREE Tickets
🎸 Live Music
@ The Velour
TODAY- Open Mic
Thursday - Local Kin, The Last Wild Buffalo, Dusty Hulet
Friday - Caleb Darger (album release show at 8 PM), The Company, Amanda On The Moon
@ The Boardwalk
Friday - Rainbowcurlie, Church of Julia, Anime Camp
@ The Rise
Saturday - SUNDAY@SIX, Ike Houston, The Third Wheel
@ Java Junkie
Friday - Open Mic
Saturday - Venus Death Trap and Grandpa Tom
❤️ Wellness Wednesday Service Opportunities
👓️ National Day of Service Glasses Sorting and Food Drive
4300 N Canyon Road - Wednesday @ 7pm - 9pm & Saturday @ 9am - 1pm
Join hundreds of volunteers and the CharityVision International team for a multi-day service project. Volunteers will be sorting and organizing glasses as well as making eye drapes and patches for eye surgery patients. Everyone is welcome!
More info
🛋️ Community Action Services and Food Bank September Day of Caring
815 South Freedom Boulevard, Provo @ 2pm - 4pm
Volunteers are needed to help prepare their building to receive donated renovations. Need to move furniture short distances, recommended that volunteers bring work gloves.
More info
🧒 Provo Youth Mentoring
Mentoring occurs once a week for 40 minutes during school days from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Day and time is flexible.
Provo City School District's Youth Mentor Program is seeking adults who would like a make a positive difference in a child's life. Our mentors go to their assigned child's school once a week for 40 minutes to mentor them. While there, mentors help their assigned student with their school work, create goals with them, do fun activities, and become an extra caring adult in their lives.
More info
🧴 Hygiene Items needed for the Homeless
299 East 900 South, Provo - Ongoing
The Food and Care Coalition is always in need of hygiene and other items to help support individuals in the community. They provide hygiene bags to their clients once a month and need items to put in these bags. (E.g shampoo, soap, razors, etc.)
More info
🖍️ Make & Donate School Kits for Refugee Children
Drop off locations all over Utah - Ongoing
Lifting Hands International ships school kits year round to locations around the world. Lifting Hands also provides school kits for refugee children who are relocated to Utah.
More info
🧠 Walk to End Alzheimer's Utah County Volunteers Needed
4801 North University Avenue, Provo, Sep 14th @ 6:30am - 12:30pm
This is an annual event put on by Alzheimer's Association-Utah at the Shops at the Riverwoods. This year they are looking for some volunteers to help with set up, event support, and tear down.
There are two shifts available:
6:30a-9:30a (helping with setup and event support) and
9:30a-12:30p (helping with event support and tear down)
More info
⛪️ Tidy Up Our Church - Provo Community Congregational United Church of Christ
Every Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to noon
Volunteers are needed to help with cleaning and maintenance at the Provo Community Congregational United Church of Christ, located at 175 North University Avenue, Provo. Please contact Bret Pope at [email protected] by Friday of each week if you plan to volunteer.
More info
👁️ Service Spotlight: CharityVision International
1 in 8 people worldwide suffer needlessly from a visual impairment because they lack access to eye care, and CharityVision, (founded in 1987 and headquartered on Canyon Road in Provo), is doing something about that.
CharityVision website
Watch Asa’s Journey
Some quick stats about CharityVision’s impact around the world: In 2023 CharityVision reported the following: 223 Partners/Clinics Worldwide; 137,501 Total Surgeries; 160,059 Glasses Donated; 1,478,376 Patients Screened.
What makes CharityVision Unique: Through their partners, CharityVision has developed a surgical supply kit for cataracts that brings the cost of cataract surgery overseas down from around $300 per eye to $25 per eye.
Also, they believe in a teach a man to fish model. 🎣
Continuing with the analogy, they believe that the local doctors already know how to fish in their own pond better than we do. CharityVision’s job is making sure they have the right equipment, funding, and supplies to support the humanitarian work these local doctors are already eager to do.
How you can help: CharityVision takes glasses donations, they have tons of donated glasses that need to be sorted and organized, and, of course, they would love a donation!
Ongoing Service Opportunities
Be a Monthly/One-time Donor
Words To Remember
“If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.”
Thanks for reading!
Stay safe today Provo!
-Nicole, Josh, & Carlie
Wednesday, September 11th, 2024