Christopher Lucas

Graduated from U of Utah in 1976 with a BS in political science and international relations. The worked abroad in Africa for a short time, returned to Utah and wound up working for Salt Lake City Water assigned out in the county on all the water system components. Artesian Wells, reservoirs, Storage tanks, pumping stations, pipelines, Aqueducts , fixing regulators in the middle of the night or repairing a water meter not uncommon. Grifton has a water system, and I at least know the basics. In 1980 a branch manager for a large New York Exchange Brokerage firm called my bluff and hired me. For the next 9 years I built a large client base averaging $10 Million annually in transactions, hundreds of accounts including people, families, Businesses both small and very large, cities and occasion counties, bank trust depts. I worked with many different types of needs both short term and long term. I also got to help some put the together municipal bonds for civic improvement, including redevelopment authorities, which I believe could help here in Grifton. In late 1989, I felt it was time to do something else. I had had a near death experience a few years before and I knew it was time to go back to my roots, that I started off in Art school for a reason, so I gave back my VP title, big office and secretary, and stated my own graphics and holographics business for commercial art applications and for the next 9 nines built a very diverse client base and did all sorts of firsts in that world. The list still amazes me, and when that endeavor had run its course and it was time to move on, I got to add inclusion into the Who’s who in Media and Communications 1988-89. I also during those years formed the Good Will Band to play for people shut in and do something good for them. The band would last 26 years. My workspace was in a seedy part of Salk Lake City, which is where artists go, and over time Community Development Block Grants were used to acquire and rehap buildings,land, parks and public spaces, and we got gentrified with galleries, restaurants and loft condo/apt. buildings and all the artists wound up priced out and mostly went to other less costly old industrial areas of town, which also over the next 10 or 20 years would have the whole experience repeat over and over.

For these new path ideas to work, the whole community needs to have its say and input. I want all to feel free to express opinions and give ideas how to make our village better for all.

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