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Show THE Page 2 OGDEN VALLEY NEWS December Staff: Shanna Francis Tel: 745-2688 Fax: 745-0062 Cell: 791-4387 E-Mail: slfrancis@att.net Jeannie Wendell Tel: 745-2879 Fax: 745-2879 E-Mail: crwendell@att.net erwendell@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. Let- reserves the right to edit or decline printing of any submissions. Announcements Sought As a community service, The OGDEN VALLEY NEws will print local birth, wedding, residents to send their announcements to: The OGDEN VALLEY NEws PO BOX 130 EDEN UT 84310 If you would like your submitted items NEws, while respecting all property received, will take no responsibility for lost or mises items. Please remember to keep a copy for yourself. Invitation for Articles The staff of The OGDEN VALLEY NEws welcomes the submission of articles by our readership. We invite you to submit local historical accounts or biographies, articles pertaining to contemporary issues, and/or other material that may be of interest to our readers. We also invite you to submit to the paper, or notify the staff of local events. Awards that have been earned by the reader, family members, neighbors or friends are also sought. While the staff of The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS) ee the Lush All is Well? Then Why Are Our Boys Taking Their Lives? Nationally, Utah is #1 in the rate of suicides for young boys and men ages 15 years. Most states want to hold the title of being number one in something, but no one wants this one! So, what’s wrong? Yes folks, something is wrong. Justify as you might, this statistic has to wake us up to the reality that all is not well in Utah. Perhaps our lack of willingness to embrace this fact is the crux of the problem. But we need to embrace our imperfections before they kill us “When the Standard-Examiner ran a story on suicide on Tuesday, November 15, I was happy to see the silence broken. I was happy to see that the state had launched a program to aid our schools in dealing with this real life, real time pandemic. But what of the parents? Are the schools responsible for our children’s emotional health? Who loves our children more, knows them better, and carries the God-given right to care for them? Not the schools. As parents and relatives, we sit in a unique position with our children. We are theirs and they are ours. When that tie is broken, when we become disconnected, we run the risk of loosing our loved ones to suicide. What can we do? Have we not taught them? Have we not loved them? What have we not done? The well meaning neighbor might say that we have indeed done all we can and that we shouldn’t blame ourselves. In cases of extreme chemical imbalance, this might be a true statement. Otherwise, it is no more than an invitation to rest in the same darkness of denial that brought us to this awful state in the first place. Where, then, do the answers lie? Here in our protected and unique Valley, we have many of the answers. We work together, play together, and help one anothWe have few unhealthy outside distractions. We don’t have youth centers, hang outs, or dark alleys where youth are easily lost in the shuffle; we have homes. As a matter wn fact, many of us don’t indulge in V. e don’t have high speed internet. pales we spend time together. Time is the answer. Outside of severe chemical imbalance, suicide is the result of feeling completely, 100% disconnected. The answer is to sta connected. Turn off the TV. Spend qualitytime with your children. Read a book together, dig a ditch, make dinner for a neighbor. Stop the gift buying and go out for an icecream cone. Too tired at the end of the day to spend time with your children? Work less, buy less, want less, and end up with much, much more . . . your child’s happiness. Laura Warburton, Huntsville Wife & Mother Suicide Prevention Hotline Certified HEROES Inspirational Thought "4A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” Valley will lose the opportunity to become ‘and To avoid a future no one seems to like, the plan recommends new zoning tools that encourage landowners and developers to reduce sprawl and create a Valley of small hamlets, separated by significant open space, surrounded by world class resorts—all while protecting the rights of private property owners. Additionally, it recommends the county commission adopt a sensitive in environ- mental and wildlife sensitive areas u can view and read the entire plan on the Envision Utah website (the easiest way to find the plan is through the study committee’s website http://ogdenvalleygem.org). All recommendations are presented in Chapter 9. Nearly two years ago, county leaders, with financial help from Envision Utah, contracted with Bio-West, a Logan based consulting firm, to conduct the study. The Commissioners invited about 20 individuals who represented | a vari iety ofi study. This group included landowners, resort management, local business people, elected and appointed a interested in igen the i Department; and re Committee. As the study was concluded, this group felt so strongly about both the need for the changes the plan recommends and the urgency of getting started with these changes that it reformed as the Ogden Valley Growth with Excellence Mandate (OV GEM) committee. 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If you love children and there is any way that you can become a foster parent, we would encourage you to do so Laura stated, “While raising children can be challenging, having foster children has really taught our family about how to love, and how to make personal sacrifices for others.” To become a foster parent, the state of Utah requires prospective parents to complete 30 hours of training provided by the state. Foster parents can specify what age of foster children they are willing to care for, and the level of care needed by each child. For winning the Hometown Hero Award, Meadow Gold i is providing the Tesch family with a year’s supply of free milk and ice cream. For more information about foster parenting, visit the tah Foster Care Foundation’s website. the right to select which material will be considered for publication. All material, to be considered, must be submitted with The OGDEN VALLEY NEws does not ee promote or g of any product or d newspaper. 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