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Show The OGDEN August 15, 2000 VALLEY NEWS BULK RATE POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO Your Community Newspaper Water Users in Ogden Valley Asked to Conserve Inside This Issue: Valley Quilt Guild Formed Page 2 Ogden Valley Unscathed So Far Page 3 By Shanna Francis Ogden Valley News Staff Coping with Market Volatility Page 4 Lasik - Laser Vision Correction Page 5 Caring for Your Foal Page 6 Eden Gearing Up for Annual Balloon Fest Page 7 It’s All a Matter of Style Page 8 Calendar of Events Page 9 Annoucements Page 10 Ogden Canyon Club News Page 11 Pathways News Page 12 Have It the Way You Want It Page 12 Wildlife Lands Project Page 13 Huntsville’s Early Years Page 14 Classifieds Page 15 Suzie Wood proudly shows off her award wining “Walla Walla Onions”, top, and “Five Pears.” Artist Paints Way to Award more seriously about six years ago. Even though she attended some classes, she primarily taught herself how to paint. She Art in some way, shape or form has developed her own technique and style by been a part of Suzie Wood’s life since she reading many books and studying the can remember. In May, the Huntsville work of other artists. Suzie says that watercolor attracted her woman’s talent in watercolor landed her a Merit Award in the invitation-only Utah because she likes the look it produces, and because it isn’t as messy or toxic to work Spring Salon Exhibit in Springville. “It was exciting just to get in the with as oil paints. Another plus, it doesn’t show,” said the mother of five. “[The require much space, which is good since award] validates your work . . . I’m still her studio is just a small corner of her sewing room. celebrating.” Animals and humor The show, the largest often find a way into her professional fine art works of art. “Bessie exhibit in Utah, features Poses for a Portrait,” a all types of visual art delightfully distorted including water colors, picture of a cow, is guaroil paintings, pottery and anteed to bring at least a sculpture to name a few. smile if not a chuckle. In First, second, third and the future, Wood hopes merit awards are given to create a series of aniin several categories. mal paintings. A panel of jurors, The artist also comprised of nationally expresses herself in renowned artists, evaludrawings and crafts ates and decides which ranging from woodpieces will be a part of working to paper the annual show. More maiche. Sometimes she than 900 works of art trades in the watercolors were submitted and for acrylics. approximately 200 were Wood sells her work selected for the exhibit. primarily through The award winning exhibits at various art “Walla Walla Onions” is “Bessie Poses for a Portrait.” her favorite painting Animals and humor are often fea- shows. She says it’s very flattering that peobecause it captures ele- tured in Suzie’s work. ple will pay for your ments of her husband Bob and herself. The picture features a work. “It knocks your socks off.” Even though she hesitates to, she has handful of onions, grown by her husband, sold a few pieces by commission. Suzie’s lying on a quilt stitched together by her. Her paintings follow a realistic and tra- concerned that what she produces and ditional style. Close-ups of vegetables, what people expect will be two different flowers, animals and people all can things. It’s more fun to create work that become a part of her creations. She stays I’m interested in, she says. “It’s enjoyable to start with an idea, away from controversial subjects and sticks to ones that are “uplifting and that work through it, and have it turn out to be something I like,” Wood explained. make people feel good.” Wood took an interest in watercolor “[Painting] is something that will always about ten years ago and began to paint be a part of me.” By Barbie Sunderland Ogden Valley News Staff Utah, lying west of the decisive hundredth meridian, is the second driest state in the union, where only a little less than 3% of the land is arable, or suited for cultivation and crops. Utah’s topography varies from three thousand feet above sea level to over thirteen thousand feet. Much of the land is too high for crops to grow, or too stony, and almost all of it is too dry. This is how Utah was verbally portrayed by John Wesley Powell, in an early perspective of our western, arid state. Much has been made of Utah’s position as “second driest state.” The Salt Flats outside Salt Lake City, are one of the driest places on earth. This title of second direst state is based on average annual rainfalls throughout the state. Large portions of desert areas receive very little annual rainfall, but along the Wasatch Range, the state is relatively water rich, receiving approximately 48 inches of precipitation a year on average, which is comparable to rainfall totals in the midwestern and eastern regions of the country. The population along the Wasatch Front relies on fickle annual mountain snow packs to provide its lifeblood— water. The winter snowpacks rejuvenate the aquifers and fill the streams, lakes and reservoirs. Currently, an unusually dry fall in 1999, a below normal snowpack this past winter, and an unusually hot summer this season, have all combined to create water shortages along the Rockies—including Ogden Valley. Several local water districts have asked their water users to conserve water in an effort to avoid more serious water shortages in August and September. Water Districts in Huntsville, Liberty, and Eden have all been affected. A new well in the Liberty water system is about ready to go on line. The new well should relieve shortages on the northwest side of the Valley. The new well will produce 250 to 300 gallons of water per minute. Wolf Creek water users received a letter asking them to water only during the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m., and to water only every other day. The Wolf Creek company is awaiting the construction of a new reservoir that, according to Lowell Peterson of Eden, would have mitigated the seriousness of the situation had it been completed. Huntsville town water users have been asked to use their secondary water wisely, and to water only every other day according to their house number—if your house number is an odd number, water only on odd numbered days, etc. Green Hills water users have also been asked to only water every other day. Jim Banks, who manages several water systems in the Valley, says that the bottom line is, “We all need to use water UTAH WATER cont. on page 2 |