Laurie Hopkins, executive director of Shelter the Homeless, and South Salt Lake Mayor Cherie Wood hug at a ribbon cutting ceremony for a playground installed at the FINCH family shelter facility in South Salt Lake on May 6, 2026. (Katie McKellar/Utah News Dispatch)South Salt Lake Mayor Cherie Wood and Laurie Hopkins, director of Shelter the Homeless, a nonprofit that owns several homeless shelter facilities in Utah, laughed as they both took a r…