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Show Volume I , Issue X The The Ogden Valley News Ogden Valley News July 1999 Your Community Newspaper Grasshopper Infestation Page 2 Uses for Bounce Sheets Page 4 The American Flag Page 5 Traditions in Ballooning Page 8 Calendar of Events Page 9 History of Rainbow Gardens Page 10 Credit Union Legislation Page 12 Estate Planning Page 12 Announcements Page 14 Student News Page 15 Red Rock Ranch Page 16 Dutch Oven Cooking Page 17 Summer Games for Kids Page 18 Classified Ads Page 19 Fourth of July Pics Pages 22 & 23 POSTAL PATRON EDEN - LIBERTY- 84310 HUNTSVILLE - 84317 OGDEN CANYON - 84401 HCR 843AO By Matt Frandsen Hummingbirds Page 3 Improve Your Golf Game Page 7 BULK RATE POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 Delivery Due For New Huntsville Post Office Inside This Issue: Forest Service Info Page 6 Page 1 July 1999 Novice Lightweight Horsemanship Champion Lori Heckelman & “Cat’s Fury”. Local Equestrian Earns North American Trail Ride Conference 3 of the organization, along with Awards Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Compiled by Shanna Francis The only Valley rider in the North American Trail Ride Conference (NATRC) Great Western Competitive Trail Ride, held near Hardware Ranch, rode away with a number of first place titles, along with her horse, a Missouri Fox Trotter, “Cat’s Fury.” Lori Heckelman of Huntsville took 1st place in the Novice Lightweight Horsemanship category, Cat’s Fury won 1st place Novice Lightweight Horse and 1st place Novice Fox Trotter Championship, and the two of them together, the combined horse and rider award, the Novice Sweepstakes. The ride was sponsored by the Utah Fox Trotting Horse Association, in conjunction with The 2nd Annual Great Western Celebration that was being held in Ogden. The ride, held June 25th and 26th, was made possible due, in part, to the efforts of volunteers, many from the local area. Those who helped consisted of volunteers from the Back Country Horsemen, Utah Fox Trotting Horse Association, and NATRC, Region 3 members. Local volunteers consisted of Jan Tixier of Eden, who served as Judge Secretary, along with Wanda Lindquist and Jessica Schroder of Huntsville, and Cindy Winegar, also of Huntsville who volunteered as Ride Secretary. Harold Edwards of Eden, representing Back Country Horsemen, helped keep the camp clean and running—coordinating the many volunteers. Stan Tixier, cowboy poet, volunteered as a Safety Rider. He also helped select and mark trails. Bruce Heckelman served as Ride Manager. The NATRC is an organization that was started in California in 1961. At that time, there were several groups sponsoring distance rides, each with their own set of rules to follow. NATRC was created to standardize rules and judging criteria for the sport that is known as competitive trail riding. Today, NATRC sanctions over 70 rides per year from Alaska to the southern borders, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, thus giving it its name, the North American Trail Ride conference. Utah resides in Region Wyoming, Alberta and Saskatchewan. In competitive riding, rides are conducted under a set of uniform rules developed to make it possible for judges to evaluate horses and riders on an objective basis. NATRC uses time, distance and stress, not speed, as judging criteria. All breeds of horses may participate, as long as the animal performs satisfactorily. Horses, also, need not be registered breeds. Champion Lori Heckelman proudly displays her Novice Lightweight Horsemanship trophy. Rides are judged by at least two judges, one veterinarian and one horsemanship. Each horse starts the ride with a score of 100 points, evaluated as follows: Condition - 40%, Soundness 45%, and Trail Ability/Manners - 15%. Riders also start the ride with a score of 100 points. They are judged throughout the ride on how they care for and ride their mounts in a trail situation. On June 22th, a public meeting chaired by the U.S. Postal Service was held at the Ogden Valley Library. At the meeting an announcement was made regarding the location for the new Huntsville Post Office. This announcement surprised many of the citizens in attendance. Most of the residents who came were generally uninformed about the proposed site selection located at 500 S 7800 E (Hwy 39). Despite periodic articles regarding this issue published by the Standard Examiner, and earlier Huntsville Town meetings where attendance had been relatively low, people in attendance at the meeting held at the library were not informed about the new final selection site. The task for the U.S. Postal Service of finding a new Huntsville Town site has been daunting for many reasons. The new office needs to be four times the size of the existing 800 sq. ft. office which stands next to the Lost Texan in the center of Huntsville. This size increase is due, in part, to the increased demand for post office boxes, and the increased volume of mail–much of it junk, but necessary to help subsidize mail service. Plans for the enlarged facility have prohibited the designation of other sites as legitimate options, including an expansion of the existing building onto an empty adjoining lot, another bid site submitted by McKay/Ingstrom/ Richardson, LLC at property located at 100 South, a block west of the library, another site submitted by the Sorensen family for the Woods Market location, and a site located at the new South Fork Village. None of these sites have been deemed suitable by Postal authorities. The site that was previously selected is located on a southwest parcel across the highway from the Chevron station. As already prepared architectural site plans were displayed at the public meeting, people complained because of the lack of public input that had gone into the site selection. Yes, developers and owners are ready to move to facilitate completion of the facility so it can be completed by the fall of 2000. A postal worker at the Huntsville Post Office, expressed frustration with late public comments that would further delay construction. The objections at this most recent meeting only intensified these frustrations. More delays would mean no improvements to current working conditions at the inadequately sized facility, and no additional help or salary increases to compensate for current conditions. Postal workers, like many hard working people, don’t or can’t unionize, to demand better conditions. Before the ride, riders present their horses to the veterinarian judge for a thorough physical examination. Any scars, blemishes or other details about the horse are noted on the judging card. From the Post Office Director’s view point, the selected site location is favored due to its high visibility and its central location that is nearer to new growth areas and families that will be populating the greater Huntsville area. No bid sites were made by developers in the TRAIL cont. on page 2 POST OFFICE cont. on page 3 |