Lake Bonneville Coral Reef Project
Salt Lake City’s Water Week is scheduled through May 8, 2011, and features several activities to draw attention to water, its growing scarcity and its importance in our lives. Learning to crochet a brine shrimp will happen on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 from 3:00pm to 8:00pm at the Salt Lake City Downtown Library.
Jaimi Butler believes that “the Great Salt Lake is very misunderstood. People think it’s dead, and it smells, and we should use it for our dumping grounds.” She says that when people realize that 10 million migrating birds rely on the Great Salt Lake and that it is a unique feature in our own backyard, they will come to love it and want to protect it.
The Lake Bonneville Coral Reef Project began when Jaimi came across the Institute for Figuring’s web site. Partnering with Brolly Arts and a group of crocheters including Bobbi Lewin, the project’s goal is to educate students about the Great Salt Lake. The Great Salt Lake Institute provides the educational content, and by learning to crochet, students solidify the information they learned.
The crocheters meet at the Tea Grotto the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7:00pm and the second and fourth Tuesdays at 2:00pm. Bring a hook and some yarn, and they will be happy to teach you how to crochet.
“I was never able to crochet before,” said Jaimi, but by the end of Monday evening, “I was able to crochet a brine fly larva.”
October 14, 2011 is the current target date for the debut of the crocheted coral reef at Westminster College.
This article was originally published at examiner.com.
Jaimi Butler believes that “the Great Salt Lake is very misunderstood. People think it’s dead, and it smells, and we should use it for our dumping grounds.” She says that when people realize that 10 million migrating birds rely on the Great Salt Lake and that it is a unique feature in our own backyard, they will come to love it and want to protect it.
The Lake Bonneville Coral Reef Project began when Jaimi came across the Institute for Figuring’s web site. Partnering with Brolly Arts and a group of crocheters including Bobbi Lewin, the project’s goal is to educate students about the Great Salt Lake. The Great Salt Lake Institute provides the educational content, and by learning to crochet, students solidify the information they learned.
The crocheters meet at the Tea Grotto the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7:00pm and the second and fourth Tuesdays at 2:00pm. Bring a hook and some yarn, and they will be happy to teach you how to crochet.
“I was never able to crochet before,” said Jaimi, but by the end of Monday evening, “I was able to crochet a brine fly larva.”
October 14, 2011 is the current target date for the debut of the crocheted coral reef at Westminster College.
This article was originally published at examiner.com.