Jamie Zayach:  

Life I grew up in Hooksett. I left NH in 1973, living briefly in Hartford and then moved outside of Boston to the little seacoast town of Winthrop, MA. I was lucky enough to live RIGHT on the ocean for 4 years while there. In 1977 I came to Salt Lake City, Utah for a 3 week ski vacation and to visit my brother, Tim, and my sister, Tracey, who were living here at the time, and I've lived here ever since. SLC is one of the most beautiful places on earth. There are TONS of folks from New England living here, and I probably know more New Englanders here in Utah than I did when I lived in New England. I have a couple who reside next door to me who are from Derry and Londonderry. Salt Lake is a mecca for skiers, so that's why so many are out here, and, quite frankly, is the main reason that I have continued to live here.... it's the best skiing in the country, if not the world. I live 10 minutes from the ski area where my husband works, so it's very convenient and a very beautiful place to live and a great place to raise a family. We have a lot of avalanches out here and the winter months bring an annual snowfall of over 600 inches to our mountains. I live on the side of the Rocky Mountains, and overlook the entire Salt Lake valley. It's an incredibly beautiful place. I went to school at the University of Utah and graduated, cum laude, with a B.S. from the College of Health with my degree in Therapeutic Recreation. I worked for the State of Utah's Dept of Human Services, as a social worker, with adults with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities for about 20 years. One of my clients was Kim Peek aka "the Rainman", an autistic savant that Dustin Hoffman used as a "study person" to develop his role as Raymond Babbit in the movie. I left my job in 1999 and took about 4 years of...Expand for more