they call him wendover will. he waves at you from miles. the big neon cowboy. wendover will is what he s called. and his job has been to tampa travelers off of interstate 80 near the utah-nevada border. pull them off the road to this tiny casino commerce. and most evenly a little lighter on the wallet. knowing precious little about the stories wendover like to tell. about the research who come here to break speed records in the nearby flats. about the local airbase, from which the enola gay took off or hiroshima. but there s also the story they whispered to each other, up and down the little strip. the one that shocked them all. the puzzles then still. about the terrible night when three families lost their teenage children. about the dark mysteries respond under the pointy chin
of wendover will. it was a thursday afternoon. a windy, late winter day in the high desert. here at the local high school, star runner micaela costanzo cleaned up after truck practice. mickey as everybody called her, intended to walk home. not far, about a mile. her usual ride, her sister christina, was out of town. before we had left, me and or my husband would always pick up micaela from school. so, we were like, are you sure you re going to have a way home? this is something you do every day? this is something i do every day. it was the first time i left her. with mickey 16. a junior. clockwork reliable. said her mother cecilia. it s micaela not your typical teenager.
Group walks 100 miles to Wendover for suicide prevention
Life s Worth Living Foundation
Photos from a 100-mile suicide prevention walk from Tooele, Utah to West Wendover, Nevada on Friday and Saturday, April 23-24, 2021.
and last updated 2021-04-26 20:54:26-04
WEST WENDOVER, Nev. â More than 100 people spent Friday and Saturday walking from Tooele, Utah to West Wendover, Nevada â all in the name of suicide prevention.
The Life s Worth Living Foundation organized the event â the fifth annual Walk to Wendover, 100 miles long.
The group consisted of 125 walkers who have had their lives touched by suicide, the foundation said.
They met early Friday morning at Tooele City Hall, where they got a pep talk from a guest speaker: Silver medalist and three-time Olympian bobsledder Bill Scuffenhauer.