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Connecting Neighbors: Darren Parry

March 21, 2021/2 Comments/in Connecting Neighbors/by Nelda Ault

Darren Parry is the past Chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. Darren serves on the Board of Directors for the American West Heritage Center, the Utah State Museum Board, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Huntsman Cancer Institute. In 2017 he received the Esto Perpetua Award from the State of Idaho for preserving and promoting history in Idaho. He is the first in Utah to win this award.

Darren attend the University of Utah and Weber State University and received his Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education, with an emphasis in History. He also teaches classes on Native American History at Utah State University. His passion in life is his family, which includes his tribal family.

Darren has worked tirelessly to share the story of the Bear River Massacre as passed down through his ancestors. His great-great-great-grandfather Sagwitch Timbimboo was the chief of the tribe at the time and escaped as the horrific events unfolded.

Darren is currently working to raise funds for the Boa Ogoi Cultural Interpretive Center, which is scheduled to break ground in Spring 2021. This facility will provide an important conduit for the Shoshone perspective as to the events that happened during the Bear River Massacre. Another project dear to Darren’s heart is a recent book he published called The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History.

To contact Darren Parry for a speaking engagement, email [email protected].

Connecting Neighbors: Jimmy Moore

March 20, 2021/0 Comments/in Connecting Neighbors/by Nelda Ault

Jimmy Moore was born in Leakesville, Mississippi, a small industrial town along the Chickasawhay River with a population of approximately 1,500.

I am the tenth of twelve children born to J. Lin and Dora Moore. There were nine boys and three girls, and we were all blessed with great athletic genes from my father. Neither my mother nor father finished high school, but what they lacked in traditional education, they more than made up for with love and the belief that hard work and dedication would provide a better life for their children (Jimmy Moore, Basketball and Some of Life’s Technical Fouls, 2019).

He came to Utah State University with the promise that basketball could provide him the benefits of a more prosperous life. He excelled at USU, and enjoyed a professional career in the NBA and internationally. He returned to USU dedicated to the proposition that his experience could benefit other student athletes.

In this interview, he shares some of his thoughts and recommendations based on his experiences in Logan, then and now. Interviewed by his son, Jalen, himself a basketball star in high school and college, and also drafted by an NBA team, Jimmy responds to questions about his experiences and thoughts about how a community might endeavor to include persons from diverse cultures and backgrounds.

From the interviewer, Jalen Moore:

I grew up in North Logan and attended grade schools in the community. I went to Sky View High School where I played football, ran track, and played basketball. After my sophomore year I decided to just focus solely on basketball. My senior year we won the state championship in 4A. I was also named 4A MVP in the state of Utah, and made a half-court shot that ended up as number two on ESPN SportsCenter that night.

I graduated from Sky View and attended Utah State University for college basketball. I played as a true freshman and played all four years there. I ended up having a great career, finishing as the top ten scorer of all time and in the top fifteen in several other categories.

After basketball at Utah State I signed a two-way contract to play in the NBA with the Milwaukee Bucks. It didn’t end up working out for me due to some anxiety issues so I returned home. Upon my return I knew I wanted to still do basketball-related things, so I started a basketball training company with my brother Grayson named Next Level Basketball. That’s what I am still currently doing right now, and really enjoying it!

To contact Jimmy Moore for a speaking engagement, email Carol at [email protected].

Jalen and Jimmy Moore

New Series: Connecting Neighbors

March 17, 2021/2 Comments/in Connecting Neighbors/by Nelda Ault

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Connecting Neighbors

Interviews Conducted by the Logan Tabernacle Concert and Lecture Series Committee of Cache Community Connections

A community’s citizens become neighbors to one another when they become aware of their mutual experiences, challenges, successes, and perspectives. Communities with low neighborhood attachment and high levels of disorganization, where many residents do not know or associate with one another and are not committed to continuing relationships, have higher rates of adult and juvenile crime and drug trafficking. Conversely, “communities that care” protect and support their citizens by developing and encouraging relationships that bridge social, cultural and economic divisions.

In 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King offered these insights:

“The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers” (“Strength to Love,” 1963).

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

We believe that before a community’s residents can truly become neighbors, they need to know a little something about one another. Then, we can act in the true spirit of common knowledge and respect, acknowledging similarities and differences in experience and perspective, and honoring both.

“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him” (C.S. Lewis, 1943).

Over the coming months, watch this page and our Facebook page for interviews and information about our Cache Valley neighbors.

Would you like to be involved in this interview project? Contact Richard West at [email protected].

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