Model from Salt Lake organizes event for ocean awareness
                     
                                                                   By 
Elise Bassett                                             
                                                                         Deseret News
                                                                                             
                      Published: Monday, June 7, 2010 6:04 p.m. MDT          
 		 			 				
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 		          SALT LAKE CITY — International model Ali Stephens is throwing a party for World Ocean Day — in land-locked Utah.
 Stephens, a Salt Lake City native, and her mother, Julie, are organizing Ride the Wave, an event celebrating conservation of oceans. The mix of art, culture, fashion and music gets under way at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Fairmont Skate Park, 2200 S. 900 East.
 "It's a celebration of World Ocean Day, trying to bring consciousness to the fact that, without our oceans, we can't breathe," Julie Stephens said. "We need them to save life — not only in the oceans but on land."
 For the event, Ali Stephens and her friends and family have painted a temporary mural depicting the oceans under the direction of local artist Elaine S. Harding, Ali Stephens' aunt. The mural will be unveiled during the event, which is being sponsored by international nonprofit organization Oceana.
 "I was inspired to do this design by a piece of fabric that my brother brought me from Japan," Harding said. "I wanted to do something that was very much about motion and the movement of waves."
 Swirls of green and blue representing the waves of the oceans are split by swirls of orange brown and black — the pollution that is poisoning the world's oceans.