Newly sworn-in Sandy Mayor Monica Zoltanski’s love for riding and horses has helped her build connections across the city. Those community ties helped propel her to office in a city that had never before elected a female mayor.
When Monica Zoltanski helped derail a trail-paving plan at Dimple Dell Regional Park, that was only the beginning.| Jan. 30, 2022, 3:10 p.m.This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journalism.
To save money, she started shrinking the font so she could squeeze more and more copies of her call to action on each page. Eventually, she said, it got ridiculous. But her friend Lisa Caddy said Zoltanski still will lead as the person who persuaded a community to rally around park preservation all those years ago.
It wasn’t until she moved to Sandy, though, that she fully discovered her passion for riding and became a horse owner — first of a buckskin named Mr. Biscuit, though she has since added others to her stable.“Is that considered a polite question?” she jokes. She grew up in the flatlands of Ohio as the ninth of 10 children and moved to Utah as a law school graduate, after a ski trip to the Beehive State left her awestruck by its mountains and natural beauty.
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