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Show The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Your Community Newspaper Weber School District Physical Therapist Doug Williams and Assistant Golf Instructor Ryan Taylor with students with disabilities learning how to golf at the Wolf Creek Golf Course. -NOTICEThe North Ogden Divide scheduled closure has been postponed For more information, call 801-781-0522. The Divide will be closed so that safety improvements can be made to the road. POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO © STV Dalpias The Weber Fire District has launched a new health information program aimed at providing fire and emergency medical personnel with an additional tool in assisting you in an emergency medical situation. The Health Information Packet, or HIP, consists of medical information forms in a clear plastic envelope. The envelope has an adhesive back so that it can be placed on the refrigerator or other conspicuous place in the home. With the Weber Fire District logo on the front of the form, it can be easily spotted by personnel arriving to assist the patient. Members of each household are asked to fill in their own medical information. The form asks for such things as current illnesses, emergency contact, allergies, medications being taken, hospital of choice, and doctor’s name. This will help Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) in the event they respond to a medical emergency in your home. The form also asks that the date of the information be noted in case of changes. Dyer's woad is a bluish-green plant that normally grows from 1 to 4 feet tall. PRSRT STD POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT Irish Jan—A Special American Quarter Horse Fire District HIP Program Helps Emergency Medical Personnel Help YOU! “The information is the same as we routinely ask the patient when we respond to a medical emergency,” reposts David Austin, Chief of the Weber Fire District. “Sometimes the information is not available when we arrive.” He continues, “Either the patient is unable to provide the information or no one else seems to know. Often traumatic circumstances surrounding the emergency make it difficult for a family member to provide the information. Having this information already available provides us with an additional tool we need to provide medical care for our customers. We believe it will help us provide better service.” The packets are provided at no charge and are available at any Weber Fire District station. For further information, contact the Fire District at 782-3580. Remember, in all fire or medical emergencies, call 9-1-1. May 15, 2004 Weber County Asks Residents to Eliminate Noxious Weed Compiled by Shanna Francis Ogden Valley News Spring is so beautiful in the Valley, especially with all of those beautiful tall, yellow flowers blanketing many fields, greeting those who drive by at the edge of the road, and cropping up in patches of turned over soil here and there . . . and there, and there, and there! No, I’m not talking about dandelions, but dyers woad. Though the noxious weed may look lovely to some, its presence is an economic nightmare for others. A non-native plant of Utah, dyers woad usually grows between one to four feet tall. It is a plant native to southeaster Russia. Around 1910, alfalfa seed contaminated with dyer’s woad seed was imported from Ireland and introduced to Utah near Brigham City. County residents are being asked to control the state listed noxious weed. You must pull the taproot out to eliminate it completely; at the very least, destroy or cut off the yellow blossoms to prevent plants from going to seed. On average, it takes about seven years of eliminating the plant from an infested area, as seeds can lie dormant in the soil for many years. Landowners can also spray for the weed. It was originally cultivated for its leaves that produce a blue dye (this is where the word “dyers” came from). According to information obtained form the USU Extension Office, “Dyers woad . . . is a serious problem in the northern most counties along the Wasatch range. In Cache, Box Elder, and Rich Counties alone it has been estimated that two million dollars a year are lost in reduced crop yields and range production. The number of acres infested is increasing at an alarming rate and has doubled in the last ten years.” Property owners can do their part to eradicate the plant and to prevent its rapid spread by destroying the hardy plants before they go to seed during the summer season. According to the Extension Service, “Dyers woad can be controlled effectively by rogueing or hand pulling. This is especially true in areas that are just now being invaded or where plants are scattered. Simply cutting them off probably won’t do the job as the plant has the ability to send out new shoots if it is cut off near the ground. It is important to pull the plants before they go to seed. The importance of hand rogueing, or eradicating the tap root, cannot be overemphasized. It is one sure way of guaranteeing 100 percent control in an area. Rogueing needs to be done, however, two to three times each year for two to three years.” Dyers woad can also be controlled through cultivation and spraying. Tuesday morning April 13, 2004 unexpectedly became the beginning of a very bad day for Alex and Laurie Papageorge of Farr West, Utah. Early that morning, they were excited at the birth of a healthy sorrel foal to an older broodmare they had leased from her owner Randy Marriott. Everything progressed normally for the first few hours until suddenly the mare began to fail. Veterinarians were called and extreme efforts were taken—all to no avail; the sorrel colt’s mother died when he was less than half a day old. Brad and Robin Hart of Farr West arrived at the Papageorge farm to help with the postnatal care of the foal. When the mare’s condition began to worsen, Brad Hart called his veterinarian Dave Moss. Dr. Moss responded immediately and was one of the veterinarians who worked to try to save the mare. He remembered a mare he had looked at just the day before and decided to call her owner—STV Dalpias of the Painted Moose Ranch in Eden, Utah—to discuss Irish Jan. To her owners, Jerry and STV Dalpias, Irish Jan is a special American Quarter Horse. Steve and Melba Spears of Eden, Utah purchased Irish Jan in 1996 at an auction. Her cost was just pennies a pound over the price bid for her by the slaughterhouse. The Dalpias family purchased her as a broodmare later that year and discovered that she was also a wonderful mare to ride. She taught Jerry how to ride, packed elk, was a broodmare until she was sixteen, and served as a recipient mare for an embryo transfer foal when she was seventeen. Due to her age, Irish Jan was not rescheduled to be used as a broodmare after the arrival of her eighteenth birthday; the Dalpiases planned for Irish Jan to enjoy a leisurely retirement at their ranch until the end of her days. Irish Jan had a different itinerary in mind and that was why Dr. Moss had just been out to check her. Irish Jan presented all outward appearances of being in the last stage of an advanced pregnancy but there was no way the mare could be pregnant and the Dalpiases were concerned that the mare was seriously ill. Irish Jan’s illness was a false pregnancy—she retained fluid, produced milk, was walking uncomfortably, but there was no foal. She also became very depressed as she could not manage to steal a baby from one of the younger mares. There is no cure for a false pregnancy so the only comfort Irish Jan could have found would normally have been nothing more than time for her body to give up hope for the arrival of the nonexistent foal. Tuesday, April 13, 2004 turned out better NOXIOUS WEED cont. on page 2 IRISH JAN cont. on page 3 Irish Jan with adopted foal. Letters to the Editor . Page 2 Calendar of Events . . Page 14 Announcements . . . . Classifieds . . . . . . . . . Page 15 Page 6 Historical Article . . . . Page 9 |