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Show THE OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Page 6 Volume III, Issue XI April 1, 2001 Cowboy Poet to be Performing at Red Rock Outfitters Ranch David Anderson has been a “Cowboy” and has enjoyed music and the cowboy lifestyle since he was very young. David was born in Salina, Utah. He is the father of four children, and now lives in Harrisville, Utah with his wife Vicky and their two daughters. David has sung the National Anthem for countless hockey games at the Ice Sheet in Ogden, Utah. He has performed at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering at Cedar City, Utah; Pioneer Days in Ogden, Utah; and at the Weber and Salt Lake County Fairs. He has also performed at the Festival of the American West in Logan; the Orrin Porter Rockwell Gathering in Brigham City; and he just recently entertained at the World Jr. Curling Championships at the Ice Sheet in Ogden, where he is the Facilities Manager. Music has also been an important part of David’s life. He has fond memories of his Mom playing the piano at home, and his Dad having his own dance band. David was involved with musicals and choirs, and he even had his own rock band when he was young. He has been playing the guitar and performing locally for about thirty years. Anderson will be performing at the Badwater Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Malad, Idaho on April 6 and April 7, and at Pioneer Days during the 24th of July celebrations in Ogden, to name a just a few. David loves to sing and play his guitar. He says that he and his guitar feel Dave Anderson singing about what he loves the most - horses! Ice Sheet in Ogden, and at Rainbow Gardens, at the mouth of Ogden Canyon. David has recorded two CD’s, Just Me And My Guitar and Ridin’ Wild Horses. You can pick up his CD’s at Crosses in Ogden, the Cowboy Trading Post on Historic 25th Street in Ogden, Rainbow Gardens, and at The Red Rock Outfitters Ranch eight miles east of Huntsville. The title cut of his new CD Ridin’ Wild Horses is a reflection of his life that has been filled with tremendous experiences in training, riding, showing, and racing horses throughout the West. You see, he has a disease; it’s called “Horses.” David doesn’t remember when he rode his first horse, but it was well before he could walk, and that seems to be when he was stricken with the disease. When David isn’t ridin’ wild horses, he rides the Zamboni at the most at home on a mountaintop, and sitting next to a campfire, surrounded by friends and family. He feels that mountains and campfires are a great place to talk about old times, dream about the future, reflect on where you’ve been, and to make new friends. That’s why he enjoys so much the time he spends with Janice and Ray Yoak, the good people, who own the Red Rock Outfitters Ranch near Huntsville. If you can’t make any of the Cowboy Gatherings or other events just mentioned, come make some new friends and enjoy the hospitality of the Yoaks’ at the Red Rock Outfitters Ranch. David will be singing and playing his cowboy songs around their campfire April 28, May 26, June 9, and June 23. Also, July 14, September 1, and September 15. For more information, call Janice at 745-4305 at Red Rock Outfitters Ranch. Valley Resident Awarded Highest Academic Achievement by WSU Dr. Bill McVaugh, Long time Psychology Department colleague. Huntsville resident, professor of He has received more than $1 million Psychology at Weber State University in research and development grants from (WSU) for 25 years and Chair of the such agencies as N.A.S.A.,the National Department of Psychology, was recently Institute of Education, Utah’s presented with the Department ofSocial university’s highServices and the est accolade, the Utah Board of John S. Hinckley Regents. His Fellow Award.” research has been states WSU presented in regionProvost Dr. David al, national and interEisler. “It (the nationalscientifics Hinckley Award) meetings and he has is the highest acapublished a number demic recognition of scientific articles, for a faculty mema monograph, and a ber at Weber State book, most of which University and is involved undergradrichly deserved. uate WSU students. The Hinckley Continuing his comaward is areflecmitment to the comtion of the confimunity and his studence McVaugh’s dents, McVaugh Dr. Bill McVaugh colleagues have in with others, recently his”scholarship, leadership, innovation secured a grant from the Hall and work in the classroom. Over the past Endowment and a Hemingway grant to 25 years McVaugh has demonstrated a fund an intervention program for at-risk deep commitment to the undergraduate children which involves WSU students students he teaches, the academic com- as tutors. munity he works for and the community He worked to develop the Child at large.”according to Provost Eisler Behavior Intervention Unit and WSU’s By actively engaging students and TEACH Program, both of which training them in scholarship, McVaugh involved students developing their abilihelps to prepare students for graduate ties in therapeutic and research processes school or the professional world. One and the virtues of community service. A such case was Todd Rose, a student who number of students would later say that dropped out of high school only to return their experiences with Bill in these proto WSU. Todd flourished as a student, grams were pivotal in their lives.He researcher, and student instructor with helped found The Family Support Center the help of Bill’s steady mentoring went of Ogden, and was a pro bono consultant on to graduate school at Harvard.. to the Utah Division of Family Services, McVaugh and Rose presented their for which he twice won the Governor’s research on the difficulties of parenting Certificate of Recognition for skills in Stockholm, Sweden at the Outstanding Citizen Volunteer Service. International Congress of Psychology. Dr. Eric Amsel, a colleague of Dr. “What is so notable in Bill’s 25-year McVaugh feels that “He (McVaugh) career at WSU is his competence regard- applies his heart and mind to all he does ing, commitment to, and care in teaching and in doing so inspires others to follow undergraduate students and providing suit. clinical services.”states Dr. Eric Amsel, deborah h“egg” Associate Broker - CRS “Simply The Best” See the Valley’s homes at www.deborahhegg.com Office: 801-745-0100 Cell: 801-745-1548 2555 N. Wolf Creek Drive Eden, Utah 84310 RIDERS NEEDED Boys and Girls ages 8 - 17 Jr. Posse Needs More Members Buy 4 get your installation FREE On Select Kirsh Blinds 399-1616 Need an excuse to ride that horse? Join Jr. Posse for a summer of riding fun. Kick off party April 4th. For more information call Marv or Madelyn Evans at 745-3415. |