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Sarah Elliott:
If we all did what we were supposed to do, the world would be a better place. But it doesn't always work that way. There are distractions and things happen and you've just gotta be aware, no matter which side you're on.

Matt Alvernaz:
What we're looking at is more than just how can we get the kid to school. It's what is the safest route?

Sarah Elliott:
Nothing's more important than keeping these kids safe.

Anthony Godfrey:
Absolutely.

Anthony Godfrey:
Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. It's the time of year when thousands of students are making their way to school, walking eagerly through neighborhoods along established safe walking routes. On this episode of the Supercast, find out how we work together to better protect young pedestrians and to make sure their travel to and from school is safe.

Anthony Godfrey:
We're here in front of Oquirrh Hills Middle School to talk about safe walking routes. Introduce yourselves and let's talk about being safe getting to school.

Sarah Elliott:
My name is Sarah Elliott. I'm the crossing guard coordinator for the Riverton City Police Department.

Matt Alvernaz:
I'm Matt Alvernaz, the school safety coordinator for Jordan School District.

Anthony Godfrey:
Sarah, tell me how many crossing guards do you have in Riverton City?

Sarah Elliott:
We have about 46 on our payroll right now.

Anthony Godfrey:
And many people misunderstand this, but actually the cities have the responsibility for coordinating the efforts of crossing guards, not the school districts. Tell me about how all of that works and if someone's hearing this and they're interested in applying, how they do that?

Sarah Elliott:
Right, so usually we're coordinated through the police departments of each city. So usually if you just Google it, you can find it pretty easily. But each police department will have their crossing guard jobs listed.

Anthony Godfrey:
Tell us a little bit about the training that goes into becoming a crossing guard.

Sarah Elliott:
So UDOT has some really great training materials that we use, videos and things, and then mostly just on the job training. Shadow a couple of shifts and then get ready to get out there and keep those kids safe.

Anthony Godfrey:
What are the best tips for students who are crossing the street? Let's start with the students to make sure that they're doing that safely, whether there's a crossing guard there or not.

Sarah Elliott:
For sure, being a responsible pedestrian is super important. The kids need to learn to make eye contact with drivers. Looking both ways obviously, but really trying to make eye contact with the driver to make sure that the driver sees them before they step out into the road.

Anthony Godfrey:
Should they point at their eyes with their fingers and point at the eyes of the driver, Robert De Niro style, I'm watching you?

Sarah Elliott:
It would probably help us out a little bit maybe. Yeah, I might put that on my guard's responsibility.

Anthony Godfrey:
But I have heard that over the years, make eye contact with the driver so you know that they see you.

Sarah Elliott:
Exactly, yeah. Then of course if it's a staffed crosswalk, kids need to wait until the crossing guard will vocally tell them to cross and also signal them to cross and they just need to be sure that they're waiting and paying attention.

Anthony Godfrey:
Now let's talk about drivers. What tips do you have for drivers to be sure that they are safe as they approach and ultimately go through a crosswalk?

Sarah Elliott:
Paying attention, that really being aware of your surroundings is important for both sides of this coin. Get off your phones, pay attention to where you are, notice the lights, make sure you're going the speed limit and just don't let other things distract you because nothing's more important than keeping these kids safe.

Anthony Godfrey:
Absolutely. Now, when you see the crossing guard walk out with the stop sign, you stay stopped until they and every child in the crosswalk has made it to the curb.

Sarah Elliott:
Right, right. Don't start going just because the kids are out of the road. The crossing guard needs to be safe too. So you need to wait until they're totally onto the curb and have put their stop sign down and then you can go ahead and proceed through the crosswalk.

Anthony Godfrey:
Any cautionary tales to share, things that you've seen happen that it's really what you kept repeating is just kind of the need to pay attention as a driver, but anything specific in the past that has happened?

Sarah Elliott:
I mean, we unfortunately have had kids get hit and a lot of close calls and it really all just boils down to being aware and paying attention. And like I said, on both sides of the coin, the pedestrians have to pay attention too. Just because you have the right of way doesn't mean you can just go. You still have to pay attention and make the right choice.

Anthony Godfrey:
That is the illusion sometimes. Well, I'm in the crosswalk and you're supposed to stop, so I'm gonna walk. You do have to think, I wonder if they see me? I wonder if they're paying attention?

Sarah Elliott:
If we all did what we were supposed to do, the world would be a better place. But it doesn't always work that way. There are distractions and things happen and you just gotta be aware no matter which side you're on.

Anthony Godfrey:
There are different types of crosswalks I know. There's the Beatles crosswalk on Abbey Road.

Sarah Elliott:
Yeah, yeah.

Anthony Godfrey:
There's the school crosswalk and then there's the normal crosswalk. So talk to us about the difference between, I can recognize the Beatles crosswalk. But the other two, let's talk about the distinction between those two.

Sarah Elliott:
So they go by lots of names, but the zebra striped or school zone crosswalk. If somebody's in that crosswalk and with a crossing guard or without, if you've got a zebra stripe crosswalk, as a driver, you need to wait until that person is completely out of the road before you go. They need to be on the curb on the other side. The ones you see at more major intersections that are just the two parallel lines, those you're gonna wait until that person is off of your side of the road and then you're safe to go ahead and proceed.

Anthony Godfrey:
So they start on your side and they've crossed the median and now they're on the other side of the road, you can drive through.

Sarah Elliott:
If it's the parallel lines.

Anthony Godfrey:
If it's the parallel lines, but the zebra stripe, you wait curb to curb.

Sarah Elliott:
You wait the whole time.

Anthony Godfrey:
Okay, all right, that's a good distinction. Now I'm gonna notice all the zebra stripe versus the parallel line crosswalks.

Sarah Elliott:
Being aware, it's part of safety.

Anthony Godfrey:
Okay, all right, very good. With Matt Alvernaz, our school safety coordinator for Jordan School District. Matt, what other tips do you have for drivers and pedestrians?

Matt Alvernaz:
You know, one thing that we were talking about beforehand was the parents. Teach your kids, don't just park somewhere and say, “Hey, run across the street over to me” because this is convenient. Teach them to go to the right way, show them the right way. And if you're gonna get out and walk with them, just because you're an adult, doesn't mean you don't have to go to the crosswalk either.

Anthony Godfrey:
We've all thought, I can think of moments when I was with my kids and I'm like, do I show the example of going to the light or do we dart across the street, cuz we can probably make it? And it's about setting the example at other times as well.

Matt Alvernaz:
Right, you wanna emulate what you want them to do when you're not there. So sure, you could make it, you're an adult, you can make it, you're safe, all that stuff, it's actually not because you're teaching them bad habits. You're teaching them, this is okay when I'm with my parents, why not when I'm not with them? And they don't usually make the best judgment. And to be honest with you, a lot of adults don't either, whether they're driving or walking.

Anthony Godfrey:
Right, Sarah, you used the term responsible pedestrian. It made me feel like sometimes I have not been a responsible pedestrian.

Sarah Elliot:
Well, we preach responsible driving. I've got two teenagers that just got their driver's licenses and so we're harping on them all the time. But the responsibility for safety falls on everybody.

Anthony Godfrey:
Stay with us when we come back. We'll walk you through the process of how safe walking routes are established through the entire school this week.

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Sandy Riesgraf:
In Jordan School District, we like to support students in and outside the classroom along with their families. That's where the Jordan Family Education Center comes in, offering support services and a wide variety of classes for students and their families free of charge. You can take a class called Blues Busters for children feeling sad or worried. Just Breathe is a class that helps students reduce stress. Or how about a class that supports parents in helping their children make and keep good friends. There are also support groups and free counseling, all provided by Jordan School District school psychologists and counselors. To find out how you can benefit from free family support services offered by the Jordan Family Education Center, call 801-565-7442 or visit guidance.jordandistrict.org.

Anthony Godfrey:
Let's talk a little bit about the safe walking routes and how those are established. That's a partnership with the city and you're involved in each of those.

Matt Alvernaz:
Yeah, so I review every safe walking route with the schools. Each individual school begins that process and then we go over it with the city and the city has the ultimate say on it. But what we're looking at is more than just how can we get the kid to school. It's what is the safest route? And the safest route is not always the most direct route. We gotta look at all sorts of possibilities. Where are the lights? What kind of intersections are we looking at? Is it roundabout or if we walk another block, do we have a controlled intersection? Where are the crossing guards placed? And again, it may not be the most direct route to get there the quickest and the least amount of distance, but it is the safest route. The other things we consider [are] open trenches, canal ways, things that pose hazards to kids depending on the type of school, especially elementary school, construction sites, things like that. It's a long process, believe it or not. We finish them in spring for the following year. So we work on it all year long and we continue to review it. We continue to work on it. We make adjustments as we need. But it's a process that actually begins with the School Community Council, the parents, the community going to the principal, talking about it and the school staff and then it comes to me. And then we meet with the city and we all rally together and have these meetings that dial it down very specifically. Not just like, hey, just kind of get down this road. We talk intersection by intersection from neighborhood to neighborhood on where these kids are from and it's a process, but it's worth it.

Anthony Godfrey:
I like the way you describe it. It's involving the city, it's involving the School Community Council, which includes teachers as well. But parents are at the center of it and there are a lot of eyes on it to make sure it's as safe as possible. But like you said, it's not the shortest distance, it's the shortest safe distance. And it's the shortest safe route rather, because the theme here is when you're in a hurry and not paying attention is when you risk getting hurt. And sometimes kids, but adults too, like we talked about, want to take the fastest route and want to just dart across the street instead of going to the corner or just drive quickly through that crosswalk instead of stopping and waiting and so we all just need to know that to be safe, it might take us a little extra time. The requirement for busing is that we're required to provide busing for any elementary student that lives more than 1.5 miles from their elementary. And for secondary, it's two miles. But the safe walking route may actually be longer than that in rare instances because the driving route is longer than or shorter than it would be to qualify for busing, but the walking route may be longer than expected. That's a common misunderstanding, I think.

Matt Alvernaz:
The buses can safely navigate the roads where kids can't walk. So that's a big difference there. We want to make sure, since they're within that range and this is guidelines set by the state that we still, even though they may have to go a little bit around about, they get there safely. And that's really the biggest, most important piece of all this is just the safety and not about convenience, which we do include that when we can. We want things to be convenient and easy. We're not out to make things difficult, it's not fun. But safety is really all that matters.

Anthony Godfrey:
It's our first priority. What else would you add, Sarah, about parents and students and drivers just making sure that everyone gets to school safe?

Sarah Elliott:
I mean, just be aware of your surroundings. I sound like a broken record probably, but just be careful. Teach your kids to be careful and wave at your crossing guards, cuz they're out there trying to keep your kids safe. They're doing the best they can.

Anthony Godfrey:
Wave at them.

Sarah Elliott:
Wave at them.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yes, all right.

Sarah Elliott:
Have a smile.

Anthony Godfrey:
A thumbs up. A salute. Whatever.

Sarah Elliott:
Sure, whatever you got.

Anthony Godfrey:
Okay, all right. Pull up, roll down the window and hand a donut out the window. I don't know, that might be suspect.

Anthony Godfrey:
Matt will take the donut, all right, if you see him out there. So we've talked about the process for a safe walking route. What if a parent's listening and says, “Hey, I have questions about my safe walking route,” or “I think there's a better way for us to do this.” What, who would they contact first?

Matt Alvernaz:
First, let's begin with the school. Talk to your school administrators and find out who your School Community Council members are and reach out to them. They’re parents in your community, talk to them and figure out if there's an opening on the board. If you want to get in on the Community Council, get out there, get involved. And these meetings, they're not exclusive, so to speak. You can still come out and be a part of these things. But it begins right here locally with the school because they know the most about their neighborhoods, right? They're your neighbors, your family. And having a district from afar try to oversee that when we don't do with the day to day stuff right here, it doesn't make as much sense. So start right here at the school and see what we can get accomplished here at the local level.

Anthony Godfrey:
And we know that ideally everyone would qualify for a bus. We'd be able to bus everyone. It's the safest way to get to school. But given the limitations in the funding that we receive and the specific requirements at the state level, there are a lot of students who do not qualify. And we just want to be sure that whether they're carpooling or they're walking, that everyone gets there safely. We've revamped a few parking lots this year. We revamp a few every year to make sure that they're as safe as can possibly be.

Matt Alvernaz:
Walking is safe and it is a healthy activity. Get outside, take advantage of it. Look at the bright side of it. Yeah, you didn't get on the bus. You get a nice joyful walk.

Anthony Godfrey:
I'm feeling a little targeted right now, Matt.

Anthony Godfrey:
Walking from my car to the office is not enough exercise.

Matt Alvernaz:
Yeah, you got stairs to get to your house.

Anthony Godfrey:
There are stairs involved, that's true. That's true, all right, I'm gonna give myself credit for that. Well, thank you for everything you're both doing to keep our kids safe. Close calls and accidents are very rare, but we have to stay vigilant. We have to make sure we're doing everything we can to make sure kids get to school safely, so thanks for everything you're doing and let's hope for a great year.

Matt Alvernaz:
Thanks.

Sarah Elliot:
Thank you.

Anthony Godfrey:
Thanks for joining us on another episode of the Supercast. Remember, “Education is the most important thing you will do today.” We'll see you out there.

Hope Bevelheimer:
I play para, I talk to you about …. we’re in a sled.

Anthony Godfrey:
No one has beaten you at net in international competition.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Correct. I'm a three-time world gold medalist. Living, breathing, sweating hockey from all year. Amputation wasn't the end for me, it was just the beginning. But it could have been the end for me if I chose to have a PDN.

Anthony Godfrey:
Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. She is a motivational speaker, an amputee, an athlete, a humanitarian, and a goalie for the gold medal-winning USA para ice hockey team. On this episode of the Supercast, we meet West Jordan High School graduate Hope Bevelheimer. We hear Hope's inspirational story of tragic challenges in life, leading her to hard-earned triumphs. And you'll find out what happens when we hit the ice with this elite athlete.

Anthony Godfrey:
We're here at the Accord Ice Center to talk with Hope and Austin about hockey. Introduce yourselves a little bit and let's get into it.

Hope Bevelheimer:
My name is Hope Bevelheimer. I played for the para ice hockey women's team. So I play in a sled and I'm a three-time world gold medalist.

Austin Facer:
I'm Austin Facer. I've never won a gold medal in anything. I do a podcast called SLC Puck and just a local hockey content creator doing all kinds of goofy stuff with hockey here in Utah.

Anthony Godfrey.
Hope, how did you get started in hockey?

Hope Bevelheimer:
It was prior, I'm an amputee, it was prior to my amputation. I was born with club feet so I had more braces. I couldn't walk much. It was a lot of pain and stuff like that. And so my roommate at the time, she was a recreational therapist actually for the Salt Lake County. And so she had an adaptive program that they were starting and piloting back in 1999 and wanted to see if I wanted to participate. So I got in a sled of September 1999.

Anthony Godfrey:
Playing hockey since the 1900s.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Yes. For us, older generation, yes, the 1900s.

Anthony Godfrey:
That's right. And you went to West Jordan High School.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Correct.

Anthony Godfrey:
Talk to me about your time at West Jordan High.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Well, I was a little different student. I had 29 surgeries before I had amputated. So all my high school, junior high and school years were spent in and out of the hospital. And so I had a lot of support from the school teachers and things like that. They would show up at my house on a Monday. I wasn't homeschooled. I called it hospital schooled. They would show up at my school/house on Monday, give me a load of the work, teach me if they needed to teach me, and then come back on Friday, pick up all the work, and then give me tests and all that stuff. And then when I was in school, very supportive. I had to be in a wheelchair sometimes. I know-- I don't know if West Jordan still has it, but there was an elevator. So I had a key to the elevator, like all sorts of things.

Anthony Godfrey:
There is an elevator, yes.

Hope Bevelheimer:
So I was an elevator rider, all those things, but they made accommodations for me. And it was difficult because we didn't have Google. We didn't have all that stuff back when I was going into school. I graduated in '95, so none of this technology we had then. It was just more difficult to try to learn on your own. Because I had support from the teachers, but I was mostly in the hospital most of the time.

Anthony Godfrey:
Tell me about World Cup competition. You're a three-time gold medalist. Just in November, you beat Canada in Norway.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Yes.

Anthony Godfrey:
That's really exciting. Talk to me about that trajectory.

Hope Bevelheimer:
We have, I've played international competition for a decade. USA Hockey took us over in 2019, so we were privately, they were trying to get this going back when I started. But 2019, USA Hockey took us over, and then that's when we started doing bigger international competition. Then COVID took over. And then we got put on hold for a little bit, but I went to Czech Republic, I've been to Norway twice, I've been to all the places in Canada, but I have not lost an international competition. When I've been in net, nobody has won against me.

Anthony Godfrey:
No one has beaten you at net in international competition.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Correct. I have beat all international competitions for a decade.

Anthony Godfrey:
That's amazing.

Hope Bevelheimer:
So that is a feat that I'm very excited about.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah, that is impressive. So you started in 2019, and then everything was put on ice during COVID, or off ice during COVID, and then back on ice after COVID.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Correct.

Anthony Godfrey:
Never defeated. That's incredible.

Hope Bevelheimer:
The last one we just played, we went to Canada to do a border battle. We call it the border battle, it's just us and Canada. We just go head-to-head, play a three-series. It was a close game, it was four to three. So yeah, I let three goals in, but they still didn't beat me.

Anthony Godfrey:
Are Canadians polite even in hockey?

Hope Bevelheimer:
No, they don't like us.

Anthony Godfrey:
They don't think so. And they definitely don't like losing.

Hope Bevelheimer:
No, and then I like chirping in their head, so that makes it worse for them.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah, it's the trash talk. Is there a hockey trash talk?

Hope Bevelheimer:
There is plenty of trash talk.

Austin Facer:
Chirp is the term for trash talk in hockey. It's a big part of the game. A good chirp, yeah.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Because as a goalie, your skill is about 15%, your body is another percent, but it's a lot of mental. You have to be in your game when you're in goal. You have to have your head space on. If you don't, it's going to be a mess. So I like to get into other people's head space, so they have a messy game.

Anthony Godfrey:
Austin, tell me about how you got started in hockey.

Austin Facer:
Yeah, when I was younger, I was really into hockey movies, and The Mighty Ducks was a favorite of mine. I talk about that quite frequently on my podcast. I could probably recite the whole movie line by line. Around that same time, being like eight or nine, the Olympics were here, and there was a bigger conversation about hockey. I remember I just would beg my mom to take me to public skate at the old Bountiful Bubble Rec Center, which no longer exists. But that turned into playing and then playing all throughout high school. Kind of got out of the hockey scene for a little bit, just as an adult, just working in sports and different kinds of jobs. Kraig Williams, who is actually on your team at the Jordan School District, was a boss of mine at the Salt Lake Bees. So did a lot of sports-related jobs there. And then when the hockey club came to town, I just kind of put everything together with my sports background and love of hockey as a kid and built SLC Puck, which is a podcast that I do twice a week now.

Anthony Godfrey:
That's fantastic. And where can people find that?

Austin Facer:
You can find it way too easily. That's kind of the goal. It's on YouTube, Apple, Spotify. I have all the social media handles too at SLC Puck. So I try to put stuff out and bother people on their phones as much as possible.

Anthony Godfrey:
Perfect.

Austin Facer:
Yeah, I'm easy to find.

Anthony Godfrey:
I see that USA on your shirt stands for unity, sacrifice, and attitude. Talk to me about that.

Hope Bevelheimer:
It is that. You have to have a close-knit team. You have to sacrifice many sacrifices. For a decade for playing, I was telling my friends and stuff like that, I haven't had a real vacation because all my vacation hours go to USA Hockey because I have a regular job. So you have to dedicate. It's off-ice training. It's on-ice training. I’m living breathing sweating hockey all year. They're like, "When's your season off?" I'm like, "It's not off." On the off-season, we have to still condition and do all the things.

Anthony Godfrey:
Tell me what has been the greatest positive impact that hockey's had in your life.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Oh, it has saved my life many a time. It just has given me... It's given me hope. It's given me things to look forward to. I never thought I would be starting back in '99. Did I ever think I would be at this level of competition? No, it never crossed my mind. But the ability to just be able to participate in something that's a team effort and a group effort and you're all friends and off-ice, on-ice, all those things, the closer the team is, the better it turns out.

Anthony Godfrey:
How about for you?

Austin Facer:
I think there's just so many great life lessons that can be learned with hockey. Probably just all sports in general, but I think hockey really amplifies these attributes you need to be a successful adult. You can learn as a kid. I think there's a certain assertiveness that you learn in hockey. There's teamwork, problem-solving. Never say never. Never surrender kind of attitude. There was a game last night in the Stanley Cup final where the Edmonton Oilers were trailing by three goals in the first period. They came back and scored four unanswered goals to win four to three. I think there's a lot of mental fortitude that you can take from that and apply to everything.

Anthony Godfrey:
I'm sure Hope has seen that in her life, just the skills that she's learned on the ice. I feel that way too, apply to anything you do.

Hope Bevelheimer:
I know with hockey, what I love about hockey is every second counts. Every second, it could be .4 of a second and somebody can score. It's such a great game. That's the thing about football, the last two minutes, if they're up like whatever, the game's pretty much over. Two minutes and they could be up three, it still doesn't matter. We've got two minutes to make this happen.

Anthony Godfrey:
It happens fast.

Hope Bevelheimer:
It happens fast.

Austin Facer:
It can happen.

Hope Bevelheimer:
The team comes together. If you just don't have that positive attitude, everybody will just . . .

Anthony Godfrey:
When you think about it, the penalty is that you don't get your whole team. The penalty is that when you say every minute counts, it's that you lose minutes with a teammate.

Hope Bevelheimer:
It makes a more interesting game, I think, when there's penalty minutes. I have played many times three on my side and they've got the power play and I've had to play hard. You just got to be on your skill in your game and just have a good game. Every game's different, too. It not, I'm going to go walk out here and play and it's going to be exactly like the last game. Nope, it's never the same game. You can score in the corner, you could get a penalty. I've not played two games that have been the same.

Anthony Godfrey:
Stay with us when we come back. We're on the ice going for a goal.

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Sandy Riesgraf:
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Hope Bevelheimer:
Just telling him the irony is I think I started here.

Anthony Godfrey:
Oh really? Did you?

Hope Bevelheimer:
At the Accord in 1999.

Anthony Godfrey:
'99?

Hope Bevelheimer:
Yeah, because I played at the Accord in County Rec, but the County Rec didn't open until late '99.

Anthony Godfrey:
And I read that County Rec is how you got started in hockey.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Yeah, it was the recreation program, adaptive sports.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah. Yeah, fantastic. Tell me about your equipment here before we head out on the ice.

Hope Bevelheimer:
So I play para ice hockey and what that is is we're in a sled and we have to have sticks. Regular, we call the regular players, the forwards or the defense have two sticks that have these picks on the bottom. So they propel with those picks.

Anthony Godfrey:
Oh, so they use …?

Hope Bevelheimer:
They use those picks and they kind of skate with both of them.

Anthony Godfrey:
So it's two sets of three spikes that are on the end of the handle of the stick.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Correct.

Anthony Godfrey:
So you use this to propel yourself?

Hope Bevelheimer:
Correct.

Anthony Godfrey:
Okay.

Hope Bevelheimer:
But because I'm a goalie, I can't hold another stick. So we stick spikes on it. So when I propel on the ice, I push with this.

Anthony Godfrey:
So and this is your, this is the glove.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Yeah, just normal glove. Standard glove. We just take a shoe.

Anthony Godfrey:
It doesn't look standard. It looks like it comes from a horror movie or something.

Hope Bevelheimer:
It does. It can be a horror movie.

Anthony Godfrey:
You know?

Hope Bevelheimer:
Yeah, so.

Anthony Godfrey:
Wow, because it's just very complex. It's got all these spikes on it.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Yes.

Anthony Godfrey:
And wow, can I try it on?

Hope Bevelheimer:
Yeah, go ahead.

Anthony Godfrey:
I'm left-handed. So normally that would be.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Yeah, you would yell back. And this is just a standard one. There's nothing special about the back. Yeah, throw that one on.

Anthony Godfrey:
It's actually kind of heavy.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Yeah, they're heavy a little bit.

Anthony Godfrey:
Even just holding it. Okay.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Now try to close your hand in it.

Anthony Godfrey:
I'm not even going to try. Yeah. That's wow. Okay.

Hope Bevelheimer:
So yeah, we play a little different than we call them standups. So standup hockey plays a little different than we do.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah.

Hope Bevelheimer:
But yeah, you propel yourself with two picks and then the goalies have spikes. And the regular players have blades like standup players do on the bottom of their sleds. The bottom of my sled has plastic blades.

Anthony Godfrey:
So why does the bottom of your sled have plastic blades?

Hope Bevelheimer:
So I can go slide side, front, and backwards all over the place.

Anthony Godfrey:
Okay.

Hope Bevelheimer:
So I can propel in circles. I can do all sorts of things.

Anthony Godfrey:
Huh.

Hope Bevelheimer:
So if I had standard blades like the regular, like the rest of the players do, I would only be able to go forwards and backwards. Because they're in a sled, they can't pick up their foot to step over.

Anthony Godfrey:
So goalies have different equipment head to toe.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Correct. Yep.

Anthony Godfrey:
Different mask, different.

Hope Bevelheimer:
No, masks the same.

Anthony Godfrey:
Oh, the mask is the same.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Exactly the same.

Anthony Godfrey:
Okay.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Chest protectors are the same.

Anthony Godfrey:
Okay.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Gloves are the … glove and blocker are the same. The only thing is that we have to have is add spikes, the spikes on the glove. Yeah, we have to add spikes. So everything else is the same. You ready for this? I told him not to be nice. He doesn't have to be nice.

Anthony Godfrey:
Austin's going to go full out here. Let's see what he's got. Let's see what he's got. You have spikes and he doesn't. So, you know …

Hope Bevelheimer:
He's fine. I'll just hit him in the shin guards.

Anthony Godfrey:
Hit him in the shin guards. All right. Well, at least you warned him.

Hope Bevelheimer:
I did. It won't be that violent.

Anthony Godfrey:
We're watching these shots on goal from Austin right now. And I'm going to ask Hope about this, but it looks like the sled doesn't block any of the shots in and of itself. But she's blocking every shot as it comes in. There it goes. He did get one past her just then. You can see the spikes on the back of her glove really are an important part of her being able to move. We just came off the ice. Impressive work. Austin, you just tried out the sled. How did that go?

Austin Facer:
It was hard. I mean, like the upper arm strength that you must have to push yourself around and the balance is like pretty, pretty outrageous. But yeah, it's so so impressed by what you can do. It's I mean, learning how to skate is hard enough itself. But learning to skate in a sled is like another level.

Hope Bevelheimer:
And for your mind to be blown, goalies have six-inch blades. Regular players have an inch.

Austin Facer:
No kidding.

Hope Bevelheimer:
So you're on an edge.

Austin Facer:
I can't imagine.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Yes.

Austin Facer:
Wow. That's crazy.

Hope Bevelheimer:
So mine are further apart so I don't tip so much. I can control the tip. They're like way smaller than I am.

Anthony Godfrey:
Now you're strapped into the sled, like you said, so you don't fall out of the sled. But I saw you take some of those dives and you just popped right back up. It would be 15 minutes for me to get back up on that.

Hope Bevelheimer:
That's usually a new player. You'll see them because they don't know how to control the sled. It will just slide underneath you. The idea is just to ….. that's the core pop. You just push yourself up and swivel your hips out.

Anthony Godfrey:
So the blades are in place and constructed so you can slide when you want to. But then you can control that you're not going to slide when you don't want to.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Correct.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah, that will never happen for me.

Austin Facer:
OK, so it's pretty impressive.

Anthony Godfrey:
Tell me one more bit of slang from what's another hockey term that we probably wouldn't know.

Austin Facer:
So many good ones. Usually call like the sweat like the jerseys like a sweater or like the real lingo is like a tarp.

Anthony Godfrey:
A tarp.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Yeah, you got your sweater, your tarp.

Austin Facer:
Yep. But the helmet is a bucket.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah. OK.

Austin Facer:
The way you stick handle, I guess like in basketball, maybe you'd call it like a crossover, but you call it like a dangle in hockey. There's a whole language.

Hope Bevelheimer:
And then in a goalie world, I call them all ringers or dingers when I get hit in the head so hard, it sounds like bells are going off in my head. Ringer dinger.

Austin Facer:
The post or the pipes.

Anthony Godfrey:
The pipes.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Yeah. None shall pass in the way of the pipes as long as I'm in there.

Anthony Godfrey:
None shall pass. You just kind of put your stick down like Gandalf. You shall not pass.

Hope Bevelheimer:
None shall pass in the way of the pipes as long as I'm in there.

Anthony Godfrey:
Now, Hope, you do public speaking as well. Tell us about that aspect of your career.

Hope Bevelheimer:
I do that just because I have gone through a lot of adversity in my life. There's the feet. There's all sorts of things that have happened in my life. But I often feel that individuals get a little down on themselves and life can be hard and life can be troublesome. I just want to inspire and give people hope that they will be able to at least go on. I mean, amputation wasn't the end for me. It was just the beginning. But it could have been the end for me if I chose to have a BDM.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah.

Hope Bevelheimer:
I just like to want to give word out to the community and people that there is hope and there is resilience in this world. And it's not all, you all have a life. We've all had problems in our lives and things have happened. And it can get hard. But as long as you have a great attitude and positive attitude about it, it works great for you.

Anthony Godfrey:
Well, thank you both for taking the time to talk with me today, even just taking the time to gear up. I know it takes a while to get ready to be on the ice. So thanks for taking your morning with us. And it's inspiring and exciting to talk with both of you.

Hope Bevelheimer:
Well, this is a great opportunity. I just think it's great that we all be able to get out here, get on some ice. You know, I love the ice. You love the ice. Like, it's just a new home. This has been an awesome opportunity and I appreciate the Supercast. I appreciate Austin. So this has been great.

Austin Facer:
Let's do it again. Absolutely.

Anthony Godfrey:
Thanks for joining us on another episode of the Supercast. Remember, “Education is the most important thing you will do today.” We'll see you out there. Bye-bye.

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Ms. Crane:
It brings it to life for the students. And it doesn't matter what they see here, they go away with an appreciation of what the pioneers went through.

Anthony Godfrey:
So you're just steering from behind right now. These are some big ruts you're dealing with.

Student:
Is this what they have to do, the whole thousand miles?

Anthony Godfrey:
Well, on the bad patches, I suspect it was.

Anthony Godfrey:
Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. As thousands of Utahns enjoy parades, rodeos, fireworks, and other festivities to celebrate Pioneer Day, it's time to pack up and take a field trip for a hands-on lesson in history for some Jordan School District Elementary School students. On this episode of the Supercast, we follow teachers and their students to This Is The Place Heritage Park, where the lives and times of Utah's early settlers come alive. It is a live history lesson you won't want to miss.

Anthony Godfrey:
We're talking with Ms. Crane at This Is The Place Heritage Park. You have a bunch of students here today, tell us about that.

Ms. Crane:
They're so excited we've been talking about pioneers and finally they get to finally experience the stuff that we've been talking about. The hand carts and school, they're going to be able to go to a pioneer school and see what it was like.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah. Oh wow.

Ms. Crane:
And we get to ride the train, which is exciting for them, and go to the saddle shop, so just different things that the pioneers experienced. These guys get to see and do, and some of them will never make it up here, so this is a fun field trip for them to experience that.

Anthony Godfrey:
Well, I have to admit, I've never been to this park myself, so I'm glad that you got me here as well.

Ms. Crane:
Yay.

Anthony Godfrey:
And this makes the learning that you've been doing in class very real. You've been doing this for a number of years. Tell me about the impact that this field trip has on students.

Ms. Crane:
It brings it to life for the students. And it doesn't matter what they see here. They go away with an appreciation of what the pioneers went through and a knowledge of stuff that we've been talking about, hands-on experience. So it brings you up to the kids.

Anthony Godfrey:
Well, today this is the place because it's beautiful. It's the end of May. We're going to be playing this in July, or posting it in July, but the foothills are bright green. It looks beautiful up here. This is a great way to spend an afternoon in May with your fourth graders. So I see that they're already lined up on some of the hand carts over there, some students are. Tell me about some of the experiences they have while they're here.

Ms. Crane:
They'll get to pull the hand carts, push. At one point they'll be pushing and then they'll switch and they'll be pulling the hand cart. So they see how hard it was going, because they make it really rocky and hilly out there for them. So they experience that. When they go to the school, they will learn that they used to have to line up boys' line and the girls' line. And they had to curtsy and bow to the teacher.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah, okay.

Ms. Crane:
So then they-

Anthony Godfrey:
Did you put curtsying and bowing to the teacher into your regular rotation?

Ms. Crane:
I tried that. They just laugh at me. And then they learn the Deseret alphabet of what the pioneer children were learning.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yes, the Deseret alphabet.

Ms. Crane:
Way back then. And then today we go to the saddle shop. I haven't been to the saddle shop for a while. And so they'll learn how they used to do the saddles, what kind of materials that they need, where they get their materials. So that's kind of interesting.

Anthony Godfrey:
I grew up in Indiana, not Utah, so I did not get to go to any of these places. I also didn't have a Utah history class, so it's good to gain a little extra knowledge here today about Utah history. How many years have you been bringing students up here, and has it changed over time?

Ms. Crane:
I've been doing this about 30 years.

Anthony Godfrey:
Wow.

Ms. Crane:
And it's changed a lot. It's very different than it used to be. They've brought in more buildings. They've refined the experience a little better. So the kids get to ride on the train, which is a new thing.

Anthony Godfrey:
Do the kids get pretty excited like they have to? They know it's coming. They're in third grade, and they know next year we get to go to This Is The Place Heritage Park.

Ms. Crane:
They're excited. One year, a couple of years ago, the water main broke the day that we were coming up, and it just devastated the fourth graders, cuz we didn't get to come. Cuz they had big problems up here that day, and I was really sad.

Anthony Godfrey:
That's too bad.

Ms. Crane:
Cuz we've been waiting for the whole year.

Anthony Godfrey:
They've been looking forward to it, okay.

Ms. Crane:
Yes, it has changed a lot. They've really made it more enjoyable. It was always enjoyable, but they just honed in and made it so much fun.

Anthony Godfrey:
Well, it's really engaging even just walking in here. There was a lot to see, a lot that I hated to pass up as I caught up with you guys.

Ms. Crane:
One of the nice things about bringing them here is a lot of times the kids will bring their parents back in the summer to see some of the stuff that they weren't able to see before. So they'll get to come up here and experience with their families.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah.

Ms. Crane:
That's part of them coming up here and experiencing that.

Anthony Godfrey:
I love that involvement.

Ms. Crane:
And the fun thing about doing Utah history with the kids in fourth grade is they have more of an appreciation when they hit seventh grade.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah.

Ms. Crane:
And really dig into it more than I get a chance to do that now.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah.

Ms. Crane:
So.

Anthony Godfrey:
Is Utah history one of your favorite things to teach?

Ms. Crane:
Yes, I love teaching Utah history. I just don't have enough time to get everything in that I want to get in.

Anthony Godfrey:
What are some of your favorite things to teach?

Ms. Crane:
The mountain men.

Anthony Godfrey:
I saw there's an event in June with the mountain men up here.

Ms. Crane:
Yeah.

Anthony Godfrey:
Tell us more about that.

Ms. Crane:
One of our teachers just went to an event last weekend, Memorial weekend in Ogden. I'd never heard about it, but they have this big rendezvous in Ogden. And she went up to the rendezvous and was able to get some stuff to share with the kids.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah.

Ms. Crane:
So that was kind of exciting. I loved when the pioneers came across from Nauvoo and the trek that they took. I like to put them in wagons. And then they draw cards every day to see what kind of conditions they're experiencing that day. They might have lost all their water. They might have had an animal die. It was great weather they get to go 15 miles ahead. So they're trying to reach Salt Lake.

Anthony Godfrey:
So that random factor gets thrown into the mix.

Ms. Crane:
Yes. So that's kind of a fun thing to do with them is have them experience that.

Anthony Godfrey:
Very cool. That's great. Well, there's nothing like being right here in the setting that can really provide that hands-on experience. There's a lot of participation and a lot of attention being paid here. They're into it.

Ms. Crane:
Yeah, some of them have never been here and this is exciting for them.

Anthony Godfrey:
There's the train in the background. There they go.

Ms. Crane:
One of our groups.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah. So, speaking of other groups, you were on the podcast earlier because one of your former students is teaching. But there are others in the District that you taught who are now teachers.

Ms. Crane:
Yes, I taught Emily Crane. She's at Elk Meadows. And Kristen Clegg. I don't know exactly what school she's at right now, but they're former students of mine.

Anthony Godfrey:
Yeah.

Ms. Crane:
I actually taught with Emily at Elk Meadows.

Anthony Godfrey:
Is Emily a relation?

Ms. Crane:
Nope, no relation.

Anthony Godfrey:
No relation?

Ms. Crane:
No relation to me. Except a year of teaching. I had Emily when I taught a third fourth split at Riverton Elementary. And I taught Kristen Riverton Elementary also. So it's nice to see some of my former students come on to be. They're amazing teachers.

Anthony Godfrey:
I bet they are. They had a good start. You start learning by watching your own teachers.

Ms. Crane:
They're amazing.

Anthony Godfrey:
Good. Well, that's awesome. Well, thank you for providing this experience for students. It's really fun for them to be up here and it's really fun for me to be up here. So, thank you.

Ms. Crane:
Yeah, we got you out of the office.

Anthony Godfrey:
You got me out of the office. That's right. That's one of the beautiful things about the Supercast. I do get to step out of the office.

Anthony Godfrey:
Stay with us when we come back more with the students visiting This Is The Place Heritage Park.

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Anthony Godfrey:
We're following the handcarts along the course that was set up. I think to concentrate some of the more difficult parts of the trail, they had to go up and down hills that were very close to each other. So, they were racing down the hill and then struggling to get up on the other end. And then there are boards, railroad ties it looks like, but across the trail in an alternating pattern to try to make it tough and they succeeded. This was, this is difficult, but there's enthusiasm because it's very short. It's difficult, but it's short and water bottles are at the ready. So, I think everyone's gonna be all right. How's it feeling guys?

Student 1:
Hurts.

Student 2:
Not for me because mainly if you just let . . . We're only doing one thing and that one thing is just stopping We don't have to worry. Let the people in front do it.

Anthony Godfrey:
Okay. So you're just steering from behind right now.

Student 2:
Just helping steer and brake.

Anthony Godfrey:
These are some big ruts you're dealing with.

Student 1:
Is this what they have to do, the whole thousand miles?

Anthony Godfrey:
Well on the bad patches I suspect it was.

Student 2:
Water bottle.

Student 1:
There you go.

Anthony Godfrey:
Water down, water down.

Student 1:
That was fun. Let's do it again.

Anthony Godfrey:
You enjoyed that, huh?

Student 2:
I enjoyed it because mainly because when I was— Yeah, we're slow. When we needed to slow, I didn't have to worry because my feet— I just go like this.

Student 1:
Yeah.

Student 2:
Four times I've actually almost went under.

Anthony Godfrey:
All right, you gotta back it into a parking spot now.

Student 2:
Okay.

Anthony Godfrey:
We're talking with two of the fourth graders from Rosamond who are visiting today. Tell us a little bit about your experience so far.

Student 1:
We did a hand car pulling and it was fun. We had to go through rocks and push and pull.

Student 2:
I liked it because it was full of adrenaline because when we went down that, when we went down the bump, we went all the way through and it was so fast. Me and Briggs had to stop as soon as possible because if we didn't, we would have just went, "Meow," right down the hill.

Anthony Godfrey:
What did you like most like learning about Utah history in Ms. Crane's class?

Student:
She let us work on a back page on the newspaper. So it was just fun because it was a word search and it was just fun because it just was activity and it taught us a lot.

Student:
I love learning about the different people that survived in Utah and what they did to survive and it's just fun learning every week.

Anthony Godfrey:
I really feel like I'm in the time period right now because we've got four pioneers singing along with a guitar out there in the distance. We're going to go into the leather shop here. Let's take a look.

Presenter in Leather Shop:
Monkey. Monkey, right. So you notice how I didn't say no to any of those animals, right? Because any animal that has skin can be turned into lettuce. So the first thing is, do you think I just walk up to a cow and I say, "Hey, give me all your leather." No? No? Okay. So that brings me to the first job. In getting leather, the first job would be a hunter, a trapper, a farmer, or maybe you came upon a dead animal, right? And then you need somebody to get the skin off and that person is called a felmonger. A felmonger is a compound word. Fel means it's an old time word for skin and monger is an old time word for seller.

Anthony Godfrey:
So what interested you in there with the leather work they described?

Student 2:
There was a lot of different animals and the color of the skin didn't always look like what the animal would look like and that interested me.

Student 1:
There was lots of different varieties and it was hard to guess them because it's hard to tell which animal came from, which fur came from which. A moose looks like it came from something else, definitely not a moose.

Anthony Godfrey:
We're kind of distant from the things that we use and how they're created. I don't always know where my food comes from or where the things I use every day come from so it's interesting to see what that was like. I have loved being here with you today and I've learned a lot. Tell us one thing that you love about Utah history.

Student 1:
I love learning how where we live used to be and how they, pioneers had to live and how it's changed over a thousand years.

Student 2:
I like learning about all the ways they lived and all the music and food and how they prepared stuff and how they traveled to just learn about anything.

Anthony Godfrey:
Well, it's been a great day with you. Thank you very much for taking time to talk with me and have a great remainder of the school year and tell everyone happy 24th of July.

Student 2:
Thank you.

Students:
Happy 24th of July.

Anthony Godfrey:
All right, thanks guys. Have a great day.

Anthony Godfrey:
Thanks for joining us on another episode of the Supercast. Remember, “Education is the most important thing you will do today.” We'll see you out there.