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Show Page The Ogden Valley news Volume XVIII Issue VII September 15, 010 The Ogden Valley news Staff: Shanna Francis Tel: 801-745- 688 Fax: 801-745-006 Cell: 801-791-4387 E-Mail: slfrancis@digis.net Jeannie Wendell Tel: 801-745- 879 Fax: 801-745- 879 E-Mail: crwendell@digis.net crwendell@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. Letters must be signed and the address of the writer submitted. The Ogden Valley news reserves the right to edit or decline printing of any submissions. Announcements Sought As a community service, The Ogden V alley n ews will print local birth, wedding, obituary, anniversary and missionary farewell & homecoming and Eagle Scout announcements free of charge. 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Note: The contents of The Ogden Valley News are copyrighted. To protect this publication and its contributors from unlawful copying, written permission is required before any individual or company engages in the reproduction or distribution of its contents, by any means, without first obtaining written permission from the owners of this publication. The deadline for the OVN October 1 issue is September 15. Letters to the Editor An Open Letter to My Fellow Americans It seems that every two years the politicians from both the Republican and Democrat parties declare that the upcoming election will be a defining moment for America. Yet, until now, I have never believed that. However, the elections that will take place in November 2010 will decide whether the United States of America will survive as a democratic republican form of government where the rights of individuals are paramount, or become a socialist form of government where the rights of the people are abolished in favor of an all powerful government where individuals are now subjects of an elitist group. Our forefathers had all experienced this type of elitist form of government in Europe and they specifically rejected it in 1776 when they adopted the Declaration of Independence and in 1787 when they wrote the U.S. Constitution. This lead us to create a country that for over 200 years has been the most prosperous nation on the planet and served as a shining example of liberty to the rest of the world. Yet, now it is in the process of being destroyed by so-called progressives who believe that most Americans are too stupid to control their own destiny and must be led by those who are more enlightened. So, who am I that rejects this concept? That’s simple, I am an American. Note that I am not a hyphenated American. I am not an Irish - American, an African - American, or a Mexican - American. I am just an American. My family arrived in this country in 1756 and we have fought in every war since the American Revolution. My father landed on Utah Beach during the invasion of Normandy, I am a former officer in the U.S. Army, and I have four sons, two of them are veterans and two others are currently on active duty with the Army. Yet, while they and their fellow soldiers, sailors, marines, and air force personnel risk their lives to defend the Constitution of the United States from terrorists who would destroy our nation, they have to deal with the fact that our Constitution and our freedoms are being taken away by the very people who have ordered them to fight. We are led by a President of the United States who has never served in the military and openly shows his disdain for the limitations placed on him by the Constitution. He is backed up by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the leaders in Congress who continue to ram through legislation that is clearly unconstitutional and limits our rights as free Americans despite the fact that most of what they are doing is opposed by the majority of us. I track every piece of legislation being introduced into Congress and what I see is appalling. All ten of the first amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, are under attack, if not by Congress than by left wing Federal judges and the so-called Czars illegally appointed by Obama in violation of the Constitution. However, when we raise our voices as a free people against what is happening we are attacked as bigots or racists even though none of our concerns have anything to do with race, religion, or ethnicity. These attacks are echoed by the socalled mainstream news media who no longer provide news coverage, but have instead become propaganda organs for the Obama administration. In fact, a group of these left wing news members have actually been exchanging emails about ways to get the government to shut down news organizations such as Fox News that report what is really happening. Everyone needs to understand what is occurring here. If this November we do not elect enough people who support our Constitution to the House of Representatives and Senate the fight may be lost. The elections in 2012 may occur too late to save our Republic. The bottom line is this: we must turn out the votes in November to save our freedom. If we don’t then our free market economy will be destroyed and our liberties as a free people under our Constitution will be destroyed. Contact your friends, neighbors, and family members and let them know what is at stake this November. We owe this to our children and grandchildren. God Bless you all and God Bless the United States. Michael Connelly www.michaelconnelly.viviti.com mrobertc@hotmail.com Constitution Day Ceremony to be Soroptimist International Meeting Planned Held at Weber High A Constitution Day ceremony, which celebrates the 1787 signing of our country’s founding document, is planned for Friday, September 17 at Weber High School. The ceremony will begin at 7:00 a.m. near the flagpole near the front entrance of the school. Doug McGregor of the Sons of the American Revolution will be guest speaker. Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is observed each year on September 17 to commemorate the signing of the Constitution on September 17, 1787, and to “recognize all who, by coming of age or by naturalization, have become citizens.” This commemoration had its origin in 1940 when Congress passed a joint resolution authorizing and requesting the President to issue annually a proclamation setting aside the third Sunday in May for the public recognition of all who had attained the status of American citizenship. The designation for this day was “I Am An American Day.” In 1952, Congress repealed this joint resolution and passed a new law moving the date to September 17 to commemorate “the formation and signing, on September 17, 1787, of the Constitution of the United States.” However, the day was then designated as “Citizenship Day,” though retained its original purpose of recognizing all those who had attained the status of American citizenship. The law urged civil and educational authorities of States, counties, cities, and towns to make plans for the proper observance of the day and “for the complete instruction of citizens in their responsibilities and opportunities as citizens of the United States and of the State and locality in which they reside.” In 2004, Congress changed the designation of this day to “Constitution Day and Citizenship Day” and also added two additional provisions: first, that the head of each federal agency provide each new employee with educational and training materials concerning the Constitution, and also provide such materials to every employee on September 17 of each year; and second, that each educational institution that receives Federal funds shall hold an educational program on the Constitution for students on September 17 of each year. He who commands that law should rule may thus be regarded as commanding God and reason alone should rule; he who commands that a man should rule adds the character of the beast. -- From Aristotle’s “Politics” Note: Information from the Library of Congress. The Soroptimist International meeting will be held September 21 at 6:00 p.m. at Your Community Connection located at 2261 Adams Avenue in Ogden. The speaker will be Corinne Wiese, PT, a Physical Therapist in the community. She will speak on Women’s Health and Healthy Lifestyles. The catered meal will be $15.00. All women of the community are invited. Please RSVP to LeeAnn Crompton by September 18 at 801-645-5179. On September 30 at 5:30 p.m., the soroptimists will be tying purple ribbons around the trees and shrubs at the YCC for the start of October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The YCC is a shelter for battered and abused women as well as women that are raped in Weber County. All members of the community are invited to assist in this purple ribbon event. Soroptimist International of the Ogden Valley is a service organization of women who work to improve the lives of women and girls in our local community as well as our global community. They support YCC, Christmas Box House, St. Anne’s, CJC, Youth Impact as well as schools in countries recovering from war where women were brutalized such as Vietnam, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. For more information contact LeeAnn at 801645-5179. |