For 52 years, he’s kept Aggie fans, and Cache Valley, informed and entertained
Lee Benson writes: "Whether anyone could ever do it again, considering the advent of social media, podcasts, Amazon, Spotify, Apple Music, SiriusXM, AI and all the other innovations that have transpired since back in the day when radio was king, is debatable. Who knows what broadcasting jobs are going to look like in the future?
"But Al Lewis isn’t worried about any of that; he’s just grateful, and still a bit astonished, that for the past 52 years he’s been able to wake up every day happy and enthused about what he did for a living."
“'I got to do exactly what I always wanted to do,' he says.
"Ever since August of 1972, when he started his freshman year at Utah State University, Al has been employed by KVNU, the longtime Logan radio station that has been in operation since 1936. Fifty-two years. One job. How many people can say that?"
Mariya Manzhos writes: "More than 200 people recently filled a church in central Amsterdam, but they weren’t there to attend a religious service. They flocked to the spacious 400-year-old Protestant church to seek a reprieve from the digital world.
"Sitting on colorful pillows on the church’s stone floor, under golden chandeliers and a vaulted ceiling, the participants read and sketched. Some gathered in small groups to color on large swaths of paper while chatting. Others simply walked around.
"The video of this 'digital detox hangout,' as organizers called it, went viral — perhaps a sign of how unusual the mere act of coming together to hang out has become. The scene almost resembled a co-working space, except without laptops and phones. It was a space for co-existing, you could say."
.png?width=1200&upscale=true&name=Utah%20Today%20Banner%20(v2).png)
.png?width=750&upscale=true&name=Round%20out%20your%20day%20(v5).png)
