Many of you may be reading this blog hoping for the dirt on my buddies Mike McKay and Todd Gross, my co-anchors of Good Morning Utah.  Their blogs seem to be a bit of tennis match so far ... both looking to dish the dirt on each other and, unfortunately, me.  Don't worry ... we'll fit some of that in.  Being the only female, I need to defend myself.  And of course, they KNOW I have more dirt on either of them than they'd care to acknowledge.  (Yes, guys, that's a warning.)

But I'm hoping you'll check out this blog for a couple of other reasons.   In the ABC4 newsroom, we receive hundreds of emails a day from people in our community who want coverage of a specific event.  A good number of them we get to and we are then able to inform you, our viewers.  But the typical newscast is only a half hour long, so we can't fit everything into our time on a daily basis.  That's why I'd like to share some of those worthy community events with you here.  Feel free to share any you want to publicize.

I'll have to narrow it down a bit, focusing on two things near and dear to my heart.  First of all, I'd like to highlight music and theatre events happening in Utah.  I am a musician myself ... and I'm married to someone who makes it his full-time career ... and love to get to as many performances as I can, as long as they don't interfere with my dismally early bedtime.  I'll review some of the ones I see, and try to tell you ahead of time when something great or unique is coming up.  I hope you'll check back often to see what's happening near you.

The other is conservation.  We're all worried about this right now because gas prices keep going sky high, but I'm also talking about water conservation (pretty important to us Utahns) and other ways to save yourself some money and the planet some stress.  We are getting word of so many local initiatives here at ABC4, and while we are able to tell you about some of them, we often don't have as much time as we'd like to delve into it.   So ... if I hear of a way to save you some money on gas or help with your power or heating bill, I'll let you know about it.

Maybe we'll get to some other things, too -- we'll see what comes into the inbox.  Meanwhile, I hope you'll tune into Good Morning Utah Monday through Friday. By the way, we'll be starting at 5:00 a.m. starting June 4th, a whole half hour earlier.  Now you get two solid hours of fun and information to wake you up in the morning.  This also means I have to keep the guys in line for 30 more minutes (you know, the clown on the left of me ... joker to the right.)  Wish me luck!

Till next time...