Fundraising

SUNSET — While most kids use their summer vacation as a break from hard work, Jack Stevenson has spent his in the hot sun, feverishly selling shaved ice for the Clinton Police Department.

The 7-year-old Sunset resident has spent every Thursday this summer on the sidewalk in front of his home, selling snow cones in an effort to raise money for the police department’s K-9 unit.

Jack calls his quest “Sno Cones 4 Safety” and began the operation after reading about a young Florida girl who raised enough money to supply bulletproof vests for all of the police dogs in her state.

BOUNTIFUL — Ice skating is an expensive sport. Figure skaters spend thousands of dollars a year on ice time, coaches, ice skates, costumes and travel for competitions.

To help with those expenses for skaters in the Utah Figure Skating Club, based in Bountiful, the South Davis Recreation Center hosted a fundraising ice show last weekend with performances from all of the club’s skaters.

ROY — More and more fundraisers are being held at the Roy Aquatics Center.

OGDEN — With a large contingent of Matthew David Stewart’s supporters looking on, a judge scheduled the first public airing of the evidence against Stewart in a fatal shootout with police.

Second District Judge Noel Hyde set Stewart’s preliminary hearing for July 18-20 on charges from the Jan. 4 gunfight that left one officer dead and five wounded.

When Utah told Matthew David Stewart’s parents to stop raising money for their son’s legal defense, my first thought was: Has it gotten this nasty?

The shooting of six cops, and the death of one, was bad enough. But in 34 years, I have never seen my community so torn. People think the cops can do no wrong, or got what was coming to them. People think Stewart is evil, or misunderstood.

OGDEN — The father of Matthew David Stewart abruptly stopped renewed fundraising efforts on a website Monday night for his son’s legal defense against capital murder charges following warnings of possible fines from the state.

SYRACUSE — The 3-foot-tall, extra-soft, stuffed monkey sat on Isabel Hadley’s lap.

The fourth-grader had dropped by her Cook Elementary classroom Wednesday to say hello to her classmates and to see firsthand what the animal — officially named Monkey — was up to.