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Show The Ogden February 15, 2012 Valley news PRSRT STD POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO Your Community Newspaper Winter Dew Tour Fans Invited to Free Athlete Meet and Greet at IFLYDewUtah Tour fans are invited to attend a free meet and greet with the world’s top freeskiier athletes on Friday, February 10 at iFLY Utah during the Winter Dew Tour Championship event. Autograph attendees will have the unique opportunity to meet their favorite Salomon competitors including Bobby Brown, Dane Tudor, Nick Martini, Alexis Godbout, James “Woodsy” Woods, Matt Walker and more. The event is sponsored by iFLY Utah, Salomon and Alpine Sports. The autograph signing is one of many community activities held during the four-day ski and snowboard event at Snowbasin Resort. The Winter Dew Tour Toyota Championships will occur February 9-12, 2012. During the Dew Tour, top competitors in freeski and snowboard will battle in slopestyle and superpipe, for the top spot and the highly coveted Dew Cup. The Meet and Greet event will be held from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. iFLY Utah is located on the second floor of The Salomon Center: 2261 Kiesel Ave, Downtown Ogden (23rd Street between Washington Blvd. and Grant Avenue). The Salomon Center, Utah’s indoor extreme adventure destination, is home to activities such as iFLY (indoor skydiving), Flowrider Utah (indoor surfing and body boarding) and iROCK a 55-foot climbing wall. The center’s additional venues include Gold’s Gym, Fat Cats, Pizza Factory and Costa Vida. The center has become an indoor recreation hub, known nationally. Photo by Lynn Peterson of Eden. See article and more photos on page 10. Preparations for The Great Utah ShakeOut Statewide Earthquake Drill are Underway! At 10:15 a.m., April 17, 2012, hundreds of thousands of Utahns will “Drop, Cover, and Hold On” in the Great Utah ShakeOut, the state’s largest earthquake drill ever! All schools and Utah residents are encouraged to participate in the drill, or to plan a more extensive exercise to inform and ready the public for a future emergency event. Major earthquakes may happen anywhere you work, live, or travel in Utah. The ShakeOut will provide an opportunity to practice how to protect ourselves, and for everyone to become prepared. The goal is to prevent a major earthquake form becoming a catastrophe for you and your community. Millions of people across the country have participated in ShakeOut drills since 2008. Utahns will join the activity in 2012 as part of a statewide earthquake response exercise. The scenario for Utah ShakeOut 2012 is based on a modeling of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on the Salt Lake Segment of the Wasatch Fault. Data from recent surveys have been included in the modeling to help provide a sce- We, as the Community Foundation of Ogden Valley, are excited to announce the countdown for the Amazing Raise. And what is that you would ask? On Saturday, September 8, in just six short months, we will host a community celebration of the non-profits in this valley who do such amazing work to make our community a better place. This will be a day of fun and excitement for residents and all those who love Ogden Valley. We want all of you to be a part of that day. Here is what you can do now. RUN - One of our activities of the day is our half-marathon, 10k and 5k. Get yourself and all of your friends signed up by going to <www. amazingraise.com> LEARN - For the next six months, we will be featuring several non-profits under the Amazing Raise logo. Those non-profits will help you understand what their mission is, what projects they have been involved nario that is as realistic as possible. Situation - The Wasatch Fault is a normal fault geologic feature stretching for 240 miles from southern Idaho to central Utah. The central segments of the fault are centered on the Salt Lake Valley and run from Brigham City in the north to Santaquin in the south. A ninecounty region of concern has been defined, consisting of Weber, Morgan, Davis, Summit, Box Elder, Salt Lake, Wasatch, Utah, and Tooele Counties. These counties contain 80% of the state’s population. The state’s inventory of buildings, roads, other transportation networks, utilities, and emergency response infrastructure is also concentrated in the nine-county region. Geologic investigations indicate that the recurrence interval of major earthquakes on the central segments in once every 350 years. The last such rupture was 600 year ago on the Provo segment. The Utah Geologic Survey has estimated that there is a 13% probability of a rupture (magnitude 7.0 or greater) along one or more of By Shanna Francis the central segments within the next 50 years. In front of a standing-room-only crowd at SHAKEOUT cont. on page 13 Weber High School, the Weber Warrior’s varsity basketball team stole a win from the Freemont Silver Wolves as the end-of-the-game buzzer sounded with a final nail-biting score of 56 to 54. The February 3 game added to a series in Snowbasin to claim the Cup. He finds his most of wins by the Warrior’s varsity team that has threatening competition in Iouri Podladtchikov, caught the fever. The talent and chemistry the winner of Killington’s Pantech Invitational found in this year’s team is launching the Weber and current leader in the Tour standings by a mere team towards the head of the 5A pack, offering two points. In slopestyle there is no shortage of a chance to move into a first place position in fresh faces and up-and-comers eager to make a Region. The team’s success is also spawning name for themselves on the international stage a level of school spirit unseen for many years. The Warriors started the Freemont game of the Winter Dew Tour. Sebastien Toutant’s pair of second place finishes puts him in the lead for strong, ending the second quarter with a 33 the Dew Cup, but Gjermund Braaten, who burst to 24 lead, but by the end of the third quarter, onto the scene with a smooth and technical run at the Silver Wolves had closed the gap, with the the Nike Open in Breckenridge, is not one to be Warriors leading by only 4 points and a score of 45 – 41. counted out of contention. On a roll, the Warriors also overcame the Men’s Freeski Superpipe is set to be a heated competition, as the season has shown more than one athlete can have what it takes to win on any given day. Kevin Rolland has a chance to repeat his 2011 Dew Cup performance while holding a narrow lead in the Tour standings, while Torin Yater-Wallace, fresh off taking the first Dew Tour win of his pro career, can also claim the DEW TOUR cont. on page 11 with, and what they are aiming for in the future. They will attempt to convince you to donate to them during the Amazing Raise giving period, which will run from July 4 through September 17, 2012. GIVE - In July, each residence in the valley will receive a Donor Form in the mail, and you will have the opportunity to give to these non-profits in any amount. The Community Foundation will match money given during this period with money that has been donated by our Pioneer Donors. The Community Foundation of Ogden Valley is excited about this upcoming event. We have chosen to get behind the non-profits in our valley and support their efforts. We look forward to your help in doing so. Please help us make our valley just that much of a better place to live and play in. To become a volunteer, contact Sharon Holmstrom at <s.holmstrom@ovalley.net> Weber’s Varsity Basketball Team on Fire: Defeats Rival Davis for first win in 9 years Louie Vito, Kelly Clark and Tom Wallisch Set to Compete in Winter Dew Tour’s Toyota Championship at Snowbasin, February 9-12 Mac Miller Headlines Free Friday Night Concert on Ogden’s Historic 25th Street The Winter Dew Tour culminates next weekend with the Toyota Championships at Snowbasin, in Utah. The best winter action sports athletes will descend on the resort to battle it out for the Dew Cup in snowboarding and freeskiing superpipe and slopestyle disciplines. The Toyota Championships will air finals competitions live on NBC Saturday, February 11 at 2:00 p.m. EST and Sunday, February 12 at 3:00 p.m. EST. Salt Lake local Louie Vito will be coming to Snowbasin with one goal in mind—to become the first male winter sports athlete to win the Dew Cup for two consecutive years. After landing on the podium just shy of a win at the first two stops of the season, Vito will need to take the top spot The Countdown for the Amazing Raise Has Begun Davis Darts in Kaysville in a 5A Region 1 match held Tuesday, February 7, winning with a comfortable lead, 56-42. Earlier in the season, the Warriors also defeated the Darts on their home court. The Kaysville game was the first win over Davis in almost ten years. The Weber varsity team also played together this summer in a tournament in Las Vegas, competing against great teams from across the U.S. and Canada. The Warriors surprised everyone at the tournament by going all the way to the quarter-finals. The tournament, known as the Las Vegas Classic, has hosted many great players who have made their way into the NBA. This standout performance was the first inkling that this year’s varsity team had great potential for a great showing in the upcoming season. In pre-season play, the team won every game with the exception of a loss to Mountaincrest in Cache Valley. Robert Jones of Liberty stated, “The team BASKETBALL cont. on page 11 Land Contract Guarantee Program Launched Nationwide The Farm Service Agency recently announced that the Land Contract Guarantee Program is now available nationwide. The Land Contract Guarantee Program provides federal loan guarantees to retiring farmers and landowners who self-finance the sale of their land to beginning or socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. “With land values continuing to escalate, beginning farmers and ranchers face ever greater challenges in gaining access to land,” said Traci Bruckner, Assistant Director of Rural Policy at the Center for Rural Affairs. “The program is designed to encourage private land contract sales by providing a degree of protection to the retiring farmer whose retirement savings is often in the land and farm. This protection may be the incentive some need to take that step and self-finance the sale of their land to a beginning farmer and rancher.” In order to be eligible for this program, a farmer needs to self-finance the sale of their land, and sell to either a beginning or socially disadvantaged farmer. The buyer of the farm or ranch must be a beginning or socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher; not be larger than a family farm (in which most of the management and labor is provided by family members); have an acceptable credit history demonstrated by satisfactory debt repayment; be the owner or operator of the farm or ranch when the contract is complete; and be unable to obtain sufficient credit elsewhere without a guarantee to finance actual needs at reasonable rates or terms. LAND CONTRACT cont. on page 3 Hayden Schenck executes a layup. |