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Show The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Your Community Newspaper March 15, 2004 PRSRT STD POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO Scouting for Food Drive Slated for March 27 By Shanna Francis Ogden Valley News Community members are being asked to remember this year’s Boy Scouts of America’s Scouting for Food drive slated for Saturday, March 27 by generously donating non-perishable commercial food items. Participating in this nationwide scouting program, local youth from the Trapper Trails Council will go door to door in Weber County picking up bags of groceries donated by area households. Official bags will be distributed the week prior to the pickup, but are not necessary in order to donate food items. To expedite the one-day volunteer effort, scouting representatives are asking those wishing to donate to leave food items outside their front door prior to 9:00 a.m. After pickup, the non-perishable goods will be donated to Ogden area food banks. Last year, approximately 50,000 scouts canvassed the state collecting over 840,000 food items. State officials say this annual event does more to stop hunger in Utah than anything else. Food banks rely heavily on this annual infusion of food to restock supplies. For more information, contact a local scout leader, or the Boy Scouts of America Trapper Trails Council office at 479-5460. Children from Mrs. Jorgensen’s first grade class help paint a mural at Wolf Creek Resort. Wolf Creek Includes Valley Students in Remodeling Project Wolf Creek Resort is expanding the Golf Shop retail space, placing a temporary wall in the area while remodeling work is in progress. Wolf Creek staff invited Mrs. Jorgensen’s Valley Elementary first grade class to visit the resort on Friday, February 27 to allow the students to use their imagination by creating artistic images on the new wall. Head Golf Professional Erin Dauby’s daughter Melinda is in the first grade at Valley Elementary. “We thought that it would be fun for Melinda and her classmates to come and paint the wall.” Participating student Elizabeth Jenkins stated, “I loved the field trip. I have never experienced a field trip yet that I liked that much.” Amber Broderick added, “We were painting pictures at Wolf Creek. We ate pizza. We had fun and felt happy. I painted a picture of a rainbow and me.” When the wall is torn down at the end of the project, Wolf Creek will have it cut into section sizes appropriate for framing. They will then be displayed at Wolf Creek Resort during Mother’s Day week, and then will be sold during the month of May. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the art sale will go to Valley Elementary School to provide funding for school programs. Liberty Youth Honored with Citizenship Award Twenty-one year old Edward Lewis of Liberty was recently presented with a Citizenship Award by Officer Hindes of the North Ogden Police Department for helping an elderly man who was in diabetic shock. Lewis is being called a hero after rendering service that saved the man’s life. Edward Lewis (left) displays his Citizenship Award for helping Mr. Winder, shown at right. Lewis, who takes Institute classes at Weber State, was returning home when he stopped for some lunch at the Subway in North Ogden and saw Mr. Windor slumped over in a car. The incoherent man was unable to communicate his needs but Ed recognized what the problem was. Others who were witnessing the incident thought the man was drunk. Ed stepped in to help Mr. Winder, and recognized that he wasn’t drunk but ill. He was in diabetic shock due to extremely low blood sugar levels. Ed got the man a soft drink, cookie, and a sandwich. He then revived him enough to get Mr. Winder to take a few sips of the soft drink and a couple bites of the cookie. It was enough to revive him until professional help was summoned. Police and medical personnel arrived soon after. Ed never mentioned the incident to his family. His mother Becky stated, “You have to know that this is just Ed’s way of life. He is an extremely compassionate person, always looking out for his fellowman. He not only shows this in his actions, but in all aspects of his life. He was just doing what needed to be done, and looks for no recognition in that.” Though Ed hadn’t ever had any medical training, his mother explained that their family had taken care of an elderly aunt who was diabetic. “He remembered what would happen to her. He just followed the feelings that he had and saved this man’s life.” Windor’s family was present at the presentation by North Ogden City. The recognition program has been established for about six months, and Ed was the first recipient of the award. Edward is the son of Derwin and Becky Lewis of Liberty. He recently returned from an LDS mission in Spain, and is looking forward to attending BYU-Idaho next fall majoring in Forestry. Haiti and its People By Betsy Wiscombe My husband Allan retired in July of 2002. We had always wanted to serve a mission for our LDS Church and so the following winter we submitted our applications. In February 2002, we received word that we would be going to Haiti to serve as the “office couple” in the church’s mission office in Port-au-Prince. (We have currently been home from Haiti a month). Because of other assignments we also had the opportunity to travel extensively to all of the other parts of the country. We worked in the office during the week and then traveled on church assignments each weekend. We knew that Haiti was a poor country and had undergone much political strife throughout the years. I had remembered from junior high geography that it shared the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic and that Haiti was about 750 miles southeast of Florida. Haiti is a religious country and the people attend church frequently. It is primarily Roman Catholic but most religions are recognized and Voodou has recently become a recognized religion. The LDS church has about 11,000 members in Haiti and has been in the country for 22 years. Before leaving, we found out that we would be learning to speak Haitian Creole, which is an offshoot of the French language. The French had taken over the western 1/3 HAITI cont. on page 8 Gas Leak Shuts Down Portion of Highway 162 in Eden A Questar Gas leak at a regulator station in Eden along Highway 162 near River Drive closed the highway for several hours. The leak was reported March 1 at about midnight. The leak was found in a fitting for a portion of a 2-inch above ground utility pipe. Questar spokesperson Audra Sorensen stated, “Leaks of this type are not that uncommon. When there is a high velocity of gas traveling through pipes, they tend to heat up. This heating and cooling cycle creates stress, and eventually the pipe can weaken and split. The leak created no danger to residents or visitors in the area, and no service was interrupted.” It took a Questar High Pressure crew 16 hours to complete repairs. Letters to the Editor . Page 2 Calendar of Events . . Page 14 Announcements . . . . Classifieds . . . . . . . . . Page 15 Page 6 Historical Article . . . . Page 9 |