Jarod Beardon gives a speech honoring people who died in 2025 while experiencing homelessness during a vigil at Pioneer Park in Salt Lake City on Dec. 18, 2025. (Katie McKellar/Utah News Dispatch)
Heidi Barr. Hoi ‘Holly’ Xuan. Anjala Evans. Jose Hernandez.
As he read their names aloud Thursday night in front of a somber crowd illuminated by candlelight, Herbert Elliot — co-chair of the consumer advisory board for the Fourth Street Clinic, which provides health care for the homeless in Salt Lake City — dropped a small stone into a glass jar for each name…