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Show The Ogden Valley news Your Community Newspaper December 15, 2019 USPS MARKETING MAIL POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO Huntsville Utah Stake Hosts Blood Drive December 12 Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood. One donation can save up to three lives. A Red Cross blood drive is scheduled for 2:00 to 8:00 p.m., Thursday, December 12 at the Huntsville Utah Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Stake Center in Eden ( 2900 N. Highway 162). The Red Cross is moving to an online sign-up protocol. Donors are still welcome to donate without an appointment, but appointments will receive first priority. To signup online, please visit www.redcross.org then click on the “Give Blood” button; or, if on a phone, click on “Menu” in the upper right-hand corner, then click on “Give Blood.” 1. Click on “Find a Blood Drive” from the drop down menu; 2. Type in the zip code “84310”; 3. Scroll down the page until you find the “Huntsville Utah Stake”; 4. Click on “See Times”; 5. Then pick a time and you’re signed up! Please call Kurt Lyman at 385-214-8796 or Stephen Noel at 801-476-0303 if you have any questions. Sunnyfield Farm dog Luna poignantly expresses the feelings of many about recent snow levels Valley residents received during the last week of November. Weber County Approves Eden Road Study Proposal: Aims to find solution to sharp corners in Eden By Shanna Francis On Tuesday, November 12, Weber County approved an agreement with consulting firm A-Trans Engineering to conduct a traffic study focused around two sharp—almost rightangle—turns within a short distance of each other at both the north and south ends of 5500 E. in Eden. The road, 5500 E., runs north and south along the west side of Eden Park. At the north end—at 2300 N.—it takes a sharp turn to the west; at the southern end, it takes a sharp turn to the east onto 1900 N. before a long straight- away running in front of Valley Elementary heading to towards Huntsville. Weber County Commissioner Gage Froerer stated, “We are working with specialists to conduct this speed study, which will ultimately help us provide safe travel for all motorists passing through. The study will give us a few different options to implement traffic slow down,” and will be undertaken to generate a report on average speeds motorists are taking these curves based on time of day and road conditions. ROAD STUDY cont. on page 8 Give the Gift of Blood Advantage of Traffic App: Find where snowplows are in your area! In 2015, UDOT released a free app for iPhones and Android Smartphones that allows users to track the state’s snowplows in real time as they clear Utah’s roads. To find where snowplows are in your area, download the UDOT Traffic App, select settings, then layers, then check the “snowplow” box. When you do this, you will then see all the snowplows out on the road. A purple line will also trail behind them showing where the Snowplow has been in the last 30 minutes. Shown at the end of this article is a UDOT screen shot of the app being used in the Ogden Valley area. Snowplows that have been parked for 30 minutes or longer, like at the maintenance station, will not be displayed. UDOT now has two maintenance stations that are now crewed on a 24-hour basis— Sardine Summit and Logan Canyon Summit. All others are manned by on-call status. Based on a schedule worked out by the Supervisor, they are called into work as needed. Trucks are TRAFFIC APP cont. on page 10 Time is Growing Short for making a 2019 Notice of Public Hearing of the Weber County Tax-deductible Donation: Give Now! Ogden Valley Recreation/Transmission Special Could you use a tax deduction come April 15? It’s still not too late to make a contribution. Give now to the Eden Heritage Monument Project for creation of a monument and reflection area honoring the founders of Eden, which is being built in Eden Park. Construction on the monument area will begin in 2020, and donations are still being collected. Planned and organized by members of the Committee for an Eden Heritage Monument, the monument project is sponsored by Sons of the Utah Pioneers (SUP) and supported by the local Ogden Valley Chapter. The monument has been designated as SUP Historical Site #229. In their honor, the names of Eden’s founders who pioneered this beautiful settlement before the year 1900 will be engraved on the monument at no cost. In addition, donors may also have their or their ancestors’ names, who lived in Eden after 1900, engraved on the monument for a donation. Donations are now sought to cover the estimated $45,000 cost of completing this community heritage project. Large Donor Categories Platinum Donor - donations of $5,000 or more Gold Donor – donations of $2,500 to $4,999 Silver Donor – donations of $1,000 to $2,499 The names of Platinum, Gold, and Silver donors will be engraved on the monument and designated as such. Their names will also be printed in the monument’s dedicatory program, TAX DEDUCTION cont. on page 11 Oil Spill at Pineview Spillway Shuts Down Traffic to One Lane the roadway and onto its rocky shoulder. By Shanna Francis Traffic in Eden across Pineview Reservoir’s spillway was narrowed to one lane of traffic Tuesday morning and early afternoon, November 23, after a small oil spill. The incident occurred when a five- or tengallon bucket of mineral oil, which was being used for a home remodeling job, fell off a truck when it was taking the sharp turn on SR 158 at the spillway. The oil then leaked across part of The Weber County Sheriff’s Department was called in to assist Weber Fire District with the oil spill and traffic control. The WeberMorgan Health Department also responded per state protocol procedures associated with hazardous material spills. According to Health Department Public Information Officer Lori Buttars, the oil did not cause any serious problems and was quickly cleaned up. No one was cited for the incident. Service District December 11, 2019 Notice is hereby given that the Weber County Ogden Valley Recreation/Transmission Special Service District will hold a public meeting Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Huntsville Library, located at 131 S. 7400 E., Huntsville, Utah (84317). The sole subject of the agenda will be to review the District’s 2020 Budget. No increase in the $24 annual fee is proposed. All interested persons will be given reasonable opportunity to be heard. A copy of the budget is available for review by sending an email to ogdenvalleytv@gmail.com. Written comments are also welcome at the same email address. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Weber County Ogden Valley Recreation/Transmission Special Service District will make reasonable accommodations to participants in the hearing. Requests for assistance can be made by calling 801-745-2793 at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting. Free Avalanche Awareness Program Offered: Know Before You Go Snowbasin Ski Patrol is hosting a Know Before You Go avalanche awareness training program December 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the Ogden Valley Branch Library in Huntsville. The library is located at 131 S. 7400 E. Know Before You Go is a free avalanche awareness program. Not much science, no warnings to stay out of the mountains, no formulas to memorize; however, in one hour you will see the destructive power of avalanches, understand when and why they happen, and how you can have fun in the mountains and still avoid avalanches. For additional information, please call or text Mark Meakins at 801-891-5939. You can also visit https://utahavalanchecenter. org/education/uac-kbyg-classes for additional training information and events. Avalanches - Snow avalanches are a common feature of Utah’s mountain landscape. The combination of heavy annual snowfalls and steep slopes results in potential instabilities in the layered mountain snowpack. On average, Utah mountains receive between 22 and 25 AVALANCHE cont. on page 8 Tributes Pour in for Hansen Family as NTSB Investigators Travel to Plane Crash Site Pictured above, from left to right, are Jim Hansen Jr., Jim Hansen Sr. and Kirk Hansen. Courtesy photos. By Nate Eaton, EastIdahoNews.com Idaho Falls – The Idaho Falls community “has a dark cloud over it” following a plane crash that killed nine family members and injured three others Saturday (November 30). That’s how Brian Wood describes his thoughts one day after Jim Hansen Sr., his sons Kirk and Jim Hansen Jr., and six others, including two children, died in the South Dakota crash. The Hansens were executives with Conrad & Bischoff, Kyӓni and KJ’s Super Stores. Wood is the owner of Wood Funeral Home and calls the Hansens “pillars in the community.” “Oftentimes people that lose a loved one are not financially prepared to pay for the many things surrounding their final expenses,” Wood wrote in a Facebook post. “Many, many times through the years I received a text message from Jim or Kirk asking if there was anyone having a hard time paying their bill. When there was, they’d give me their credit card number without a second thought and pay the bill for them.” The Hansen family is now preparing for the funerals of those generous men and the others who perished in the crash. They were on a PLANE CRASH cont. on page 12 Supporters of this year’s “Give Thanks Charity Run” braved snowy conditions for a great cause November 28. See article on page 13. |