The Salt Lake Tribune
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Maybe he was recycling her
Jeff Salt, director of the environmental group the Great Salt Lakekeeper, is in jail, charged with beating up his former girlfriend.

Scott Edwards, legal director of the umbrella organization of Great Salt Lakekeeper, told the Deseret News his organization regards Salt's situation as a personal matter:

Our member programs do have standards they have to meet — but those standards go to environmental advocacy. Typically, something like this would not affect his standing in our organization. It sounds like it is a personal issue for Jeff Salt, and he will have to work it out.

Apparently as long as Salt recycles, drives a hybrid and refrains from using a gas-powered chain saws on his girlfriends, he's OK with Waterkeeper Alliance.

UPDATE....
Patty Henetz of the Tribune called Walterkeeper Alliance, asking if the incident might affect local fund raising and got this quote from Marc Yaggi:
Mr. Edwards had not been apprised of the seriousness of the allegations. We do take this issue seriously.
The organizations board will meet next week to address the incident, he said.

2 Comments:

At July 10, 2008 3:38 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jeff always appeared to be a overly intense person, and I thought it was simply zealousness for his cause. Now I realize he was just a little overly intense period.
Too bad a good cause will take a hit, no pun intended.

 
At July 11, 2008 3:23 AM , Anonymous Boofus said...

Man... I've known Jeff my whole life and even though I loved to buy incense from him at Cosmic Aeroplane as a kid (I was like 7, I didn't know what a head shop was...) the past few years it's become pretty apparent that he's crazy. Shame though, I thought she was mellowing him out, I guess I was way off on that one

 

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