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Elementary Valentine

Don’t mind me, I’m sobbing: Students at South Kearns Elementary created 443 Valentine’s Day cards for The Ridge Senior Living Community. Every month, the students learn lessons from a social worker, and February’s theme was kindness. The handmade cards will be delivered to residents next week. [FOX 13]

Glendale Pool

The site of Raging Waters in Glendale will soon again be an outdoor pool as part of the new Glendale Regional Park. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall announced at her State of the City address on Tuesday that the park’s first phase will be complete in the coming year and phase two will start the pool construction. This is the city’s first new regional park in 65 years. [Salt Lake Tribune]

No-Tipping Policy

Three Pines Coffee in downtown Salt Lake City has eliminated tipping and raised wages to $18/hr (from $8/hr). To counterbalance the higher wages, the coffee shop owners increased the price of menu items slightly, by about a dollar. [KUTV]

• Related: The new rules of tipping. [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]

Will We Actually See a Train to Boise/Vegas?

The governor keeps quickly signing laws made by the Utah Legislature just up the road. City Cast Salt Lake podcast host Ali Vallarta and executive producer Emily Means are sharing the bills they’re hung up on this week. Plus, some hot goss about plans for a train to Boise and Vegas. [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]

Trainwreck Train Plan, Armed Teachers, and Pineapple Express Incoming

Starter homes, sticking it to the feds, snowplow headlights; time for a breakdown of the bills host Ali Vallarta and executive producer Emily Means are watching this week. Plus, remember the passenger rail proposal to Boise? We’ve got some gossip on what happened to it as well as our picks of the week.