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2014 Utah Rural Summit on Monday's Access Utah

Access Utah Host Tom Williams attended the 27th annual Utah Rural Summit, held August 7th and 8th in Cedar City, Utah and spoke with conference keynote speakers Chuck Schroeder, Executive Director of the Rural Futures Institute, Jeff Yost, Pres­ident of the Nebraska Community Foundation.

  

 
The Utah Rural Summit is recognized as the state's foremost forum for addressing issues that affect rural Utah. Centered around the theme, "Big Dreams in a Small Town," this year's gathering will feature speakers and sessions highlighting new ideas and best practices from other states -- and from within Utah -- that can be applied in Utah's rural communities and counties.
The Utah Rural Summit is hosted by the Utah Center for Ru­ral Life at Southern Utah University. Attendees include government and business leaders from across the state, and in addition to the keynote presentations, attendees are traditionally addressed by the Governor and other prominent national and regional speakers.
 

 

Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.