September on the bench arrives the same way every year: cool mornings, warm afternoons, a jacket in the car until October. Monday is Labor Day, which makes this the last long weekend before the calendar gets serious about school nights. Most of this week happens outdoors before noon, which is the only sensible time to be outdoors right now. Three of this week's picks happen at Wheeler Farm. The lineup is two markets, a farm, and a bird of prey with a bad reputation. | Wheeler Sunday Market, 9am on the west lawnWheeler Sunday Market sets up on the west lawn at Wheeler Farm Sunday at 9am, tied with Tuesday's storytime for the earliest start this week. Nine in the morning is the last hour of a September day that behaves like September. Go early and hungry. This is the one pick this week that works for a stroller, a dog, and someone who moved to Millcreek in June. Bring cash and a bag you can carry one-handed. If you go: the farm keeps running while the market happens, so budget extra time for the child who spots the animals and stops walking. Tuesday's storytime starts at the same hour, if Sunday morning does not work for you. |
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FRIDAY 1330 East Chambers Avenue Sound Bites takes the block at 1330 East Chambers Avenue on Friday at 6pm, the latest start on this week's list. Millcreek's calendar posts a time and a place and nothing else, so treat free as unconfirmed and check the listing before you build an evening around it. |
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SATURDAY Tracy Aviary at Liberty Park International Vulture Awareness Day runs all day Saturday at Tracy Aviary in Liberty Park: keeper talks, cafe specials, and merchandise built entirely around vultures. It overlaps the 11am solar party at Wheeler Farm, so you are choosing between them. Nothing on the listing says free, so check the gate price. |
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| Wheeler Historic Farm Clark Planetarium brings a solar party to Wheeler Historic Farm on Saturday at 11am, built for all ages. Registration runs through Eventbrite, where the price, free or otherwise, shows at checkout. Midday on an open lawn in September calls for a hat and water. |
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SUNDAY 1330 East Chambers Avenue The Glass Artisan Market opens Sunday at 11am at 1330 East Chambers Avenue, the same address as Friday's Sound Bites. Wheeler's Sunday market starts two hours earlier, if you want both. Browsing is free as far as anyone has said. The glass will not be. |
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TUESDAY | Storytime at the Farm, Tuesday | 9 AM |
Wheeler Farm - North Lawn or Education Center Storytime at the Farm goes Tuesday at 9am. The listing hedges between Wheeler Farm's north lawn and the education center, so dress for outside. September mornings on that lawn start cool, so bring a layer. No price is posted, so free is not promised. |
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WEDNESDAY Natural History Museum of Utah University of Utah chemists perform experiments at the Natural History Museum of Utah on Wednesday at 5pm, and the museum's own word for them is extraordinary. Ticket details, free or paid, live on the event page. |
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SPONSORED Fueled by nobody yet. This slot is open, it is labeled, and nobody has paid for it. When someone does, the tag stays on it and the copy still gets written here, in this voice, about a place I would send a neighbor to. If you run something in Sugar House, Millcreek, or Holladay and want the first one, you can sponsor this slot and I will write it myself. Real recommendations only, and I will always say plainly which ones are paid. Nothing paid ran this week. |
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Two picks this week put you outside in the middle of the day: the solar party Saturday at 11am and the glass market Sunday at 11am. Water, hat, shade where you can find it. Sunday's conflict is the softer of the two: the market opens at 9am and the glass opens at 11am. Saturday is tighter: the aviary runs all day against an 11am start. Nothing on this week's list is up a canyon, which is its own kind of conditions report. I will have a real one when the weather turns, probably in late October. | Running of the Balls returns to Main Street in Park City on Monday for Miners Day. It is a holiday, it is a hill, and TownLift wrote it up before we did. |
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This is Set #1, and the list is only as good as what city calendars publish. They do not publish everything. If your block has a market, a run club, or an opening, send it over. I read everything, and I answer what I can use. Most clicked last week: nothing, because there was no last week. The counter starts now. That is Set #1. I have been to the Sunday market twice this year, and both times I left with tomatoes I did not need. Reply and tell me: what should Set #2 have more of? Forward this issue to someone who moved to Millcreek in June and has not been up a canyon. I will be on the west lawn by nine. See you at the rack. THE BENCH PRESS · SET #1 This issue was fueled by nobody yet, and it said so where it happened. Sponsorships are always labeled. Gains: forward this to one neighbor who would actually use it. That is the whole program right now, and it works. Submit an event · Advertise with us · Every past issue · This week's calendar Questions, corrections, compliments: hello@thebenchpress.club PO Box 520946, Salt Lake City, UT 84152 |
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