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Show Page 2 The Ogden Valley news Volume XX Issue XX February 1, 2013 The Ogden Valley news Staff: Shanna Francis Tel: 801-745-2688 Fax: 801-745-0062 Cell: 801-791-4387 E-Mail: slfrancis@digis.net Jeannie Wendell Tel: 801-745-2879 Fax: 801-745-2879 E-Mail: crwendell@digis.net crwendell@msn.com Opinions expressed by advertisers, columnists or letters to the editor are not necessarily the opinions of the owners and staff of The Ogden Valley news. guidelines for Letters to the Editor Letters should be 300 words or less. Letters must be signed and the address of the writer submitted. The Ogden Valley news reserves the right to edit or decline printing of any submissions. Announcements Sought As a community service, The Ogden V alley n ews will print local birth, wedding, obituary, anniversary and missionary farewell & homecoming and Eagle Scout announcements free of charge. 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Note: The contents of The Ogden Valley News are copyrighted. To protect this publication and its contributors from unlawful copying, written permission is required before any individual or company engages in the reproduction or distribution of its contents, by any means, without first obtaining written permission from the owners of this publication. The deadline for the OVN February 15 issue is February 1. Letters to the Editor Wolf Mountain Skis Pink! On January 12, Wolf Mountain Ski Resort held its inaugural Ski Pink day to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation in support of breast cancer research. As you approached the resort, visitors were welcomed by the parade of bright pink Susan G. Komen banner flags. Once there, you were greeted by the giant pink ribbon painted on the mountainside. Wolf Mountain Ski Resort donated $1 from each lift ticket sold that day and 10% of the total food and beverage sales to the foundation. The first 100 customers to buy lift tickets received a free pair of pink sunglasses, and pink merchandise was available for purchase. The community turned out and the color pink was everywhere! A dedicated group of volunteers organized a very successful silent auction and raffle. Casey Scott from KUTV was the MC for the event, and presented the prize for Best Pink Outfit to Leyla Householder of Liberty. Wolf Mountain would like to thank both the volunteers and sponsors for their support in finding a cure for this devastating disease. Volunteers included Terry Murphy, Marla Rawlings, Eileen Burke, Ashley Stoddard, Leigh Chessler, Jamie Brooks, Melinda Velasquez, and Marianne Biffel. Sponsors were AdPro Marketing, Intermountain Medical Group, Diamond Peak Mountain Sports, Alpine Sports, Salomon, K2 Skis, and Image Reborn. Sunglasses and pink shirts and hats will continue to be sold throughout the ski season with the proceeds benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foundation. You can visit the gift shop located in the Ski/Snowboard School, at the ticket office, or visit to <www.wolfmountainutah.com> If you are a breast cancer survivor and are interested in participating in our ongoing support group through our women’s ski program, please call 801-745-3511, option #2. Wolf Mountain Ski Resort is honored to live and work in such a caring and generous community. Thank you! Wolf Mountain Ski Resort, Eden Encouragement for Republicans Conservative Republicans have reason to be optimistic about the future. President Obama has four more years to build up or tear down this country. Preventing further destruction of our Constitutional Representative form of government will be largely in the hands of Conservatives of either political party. The problems we face are solvable, history will deal harshly with those who dither away the opportunity to do so. The good news: Obama can’t run for a third term unless he can change the constitution; so far he has only been able to subvert it by using Presidential Executive Orders. The history of presidential elections shows that American voters have a tendency to throw out the party in power after two terms. Hillary Clinton has a questionable political future with age and health concerns as well as other baggage. Has Bill Clinton commented publicly on his wife’s condition? She is being touted as being the best ever Secretary of State presumably on the strength of having logged a million air miles. Best ever? Some of us put Henry Kissinger, Jim Baker, George Shultz, Condoleezza Rice, Dean Rusk, John Foster Dulles, and Madeleine Albright in the greatness category but the LLP (Liberal Lapdog Press) have their own agenda, which certainly does not include standards for judging greatness. VP Joe Biden would be a non-starter in 2016 for obvious reasons. The king of faux pas should quietly retire or go into show biz as a stand-up comedian. His performance in the VP debates had everyone laughing while scratch- ing their heads. His erratic behavior seemed to indicate that he was on “something” and it wasn’t a “roll.” The LLP dismisses his aberrant behavior as just “Joe being Joe.” Did you ever hear them say that Cheney was just being Cheney or Quayle just being Quayle? Although Romney lost the election more voters saw him as being better able to manage the economy than Obama. The president has never produced a budget of any consequence and has been missing in action in debt control. The administrations’ growth in government spending is alarmingly reckless and the president shows no sign of changing course. President Obama’s tendency to be a would-be dictator is demonstrated by his desire to have no debate on the debt ceiling. Apparently the ceiling is meaningless and he just wants to spend us into prosperity. More good news: Republicans have time to build more positive relationships with voters, particularly among minorities—especially Hispanics. They have time to create better solutions for out of control growth of entitlement programs and can make the case for taking a better course than that of Democrats whose only answer is to spend more and create more programs and agencies. Republicans have their work cut out for them in the next four years but should be encouraged by factors favorable for regaining power. Once the full impact of continual deficit spending and raising taxes on everyone sinks in, even the “Coffee Party” folks will be spiking their favorite brew to dull the pain. The core problem with the current administration is that it’s loaded with elite intellectuals who, for the most part, are educated beyond their intelligence. Just ask yourself, would intelligent people increase government spending when our national debt threatens to overpower economic growth? Would they add more restrictions and taxes on small business entrepreneurs who create most of the jobs? Would they entangle us with restrictive alliances that give away our resources and sovereignty? Would they invalidate our Constitution by subverting it with executive orders and misinterpretation? The answer is, of course not? But of course, Progressive/ Liberals would and are. History will deal harshly with those who squander our future and bring this country to its knees. The problems we face are solvable if we act with intelligence and good will. The question is, Where are we now? More importantly, who will guide us to a better future; the party that has little regard for the Constitution and wants to spend us into prosperity or one that is bound by the Constitution and promotes prosperity? For Republicans there is good reason to be encouraged about the future and to live by Conservative principles that create a better government and country; these qualities have never been needed more than now. And that can be the best news for Republicans and this country. John W. Reynolds, Pleasant View |