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Show Page 14 | HE OGDEN V A l l KY NEws Volume X Issue VII July 15, 2004 Every Monday — “Children’s Discovery Times” are offered at the Ogden Valley Branch Library in seven-week intervals. All children from infancy through five years of age and their caregivers are invited to hear stories and participate in learning activities. Children are introduced to books, music, and art. Two sessions are offered; the first is at 10:30, and the second is at 11:30. There is a combined craft activity at 11:00. Discovery Times do not require registration and are offered free to the public. For more information, call 7452220 Every Tuesday: Weber County Commission meets at 10:00 a.m. at the Weber County Bldg., 2380 Washington Blvd., Ogden. Public hearings are held on Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. as needed. Meeting minutes and agendas can be found on the county’s web site at <www.co.weber.ut.us> Every Tuesday and Thursday (during summer and fall): Bike rides from Diamond Peak in Eden. The group meets Tuesdays for a road ride, and Thursdays for a mountain bike ride. Please come and offer to lead us on your favorite bike ride. Meet at the Diamond Peak parking lot at 6:00 p.m. Call 745-0101 for more information. Every 1 and 3rd Tuesday: Spinal Care Classes at Harper Chiropractic located at 2580 N. Hwy 162 in Eden, at 6:15 p.m. For more information call 745-0977 Every 2nd Tuesday: Nordic Mountain Water Board meetings are held at 6:30 p.m. in the S & S Office Building located at 4786 E. 2600 N. in the Valley Junction Park in Eden. Meetings are open to shareholders. Call 745-2605 for more information. Every 4th Tuesday: Ogden Valley Township Planning Commission meets at 4:30 p.m. at the Weber County Bldg., 2380 Washington Blvd., Ogden Every Wednesday: Ogden Valley Community Church YOUTH GROUP for teens, grades 7 - 12. Great Bible study, and fun fellowship/activities. 7:00 p.m., 7390 E. 200 S., Huntsville. 745-4133. Every 2nd Wednesday: Ogden Valley Recreation/Transmission Special Service District Board meets at the Ogden Valley Library from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Every 4th Wednesday: Eden Park Board meets at the Eden Park Bowery at 7:00 p.m. Call Rod Peterson at 7453942 for more information. Every 18¢ 3d Thursday: Huntsville Town Council meetings are held the Ist and 3rd Thursday of each month and start at 7:00 p.m. at the Huntsville Town Hall located at 7309 E. 200 S. in Huntsville Town. Every Thursday: Senior Lunch in the Ogden Valley Branch Library Community Room at noon. $2.00 for Seniors, $4.00 for ages 59 and younger. Call 745-2220 for more information. Every 18¢ and 3°4 Thursday: Community Writing Group. 7:30 p.m. at the General Store. Writers of all skill levels are welcome. For more information, call Driennie at 745-3635. Every gnd Thursday of the month: Blood Pressure Clinic A registered nurse from Applegate Home Health Care will be doing Blood Pressure and Glucose checks every second Thursday of the month prior to the Senior Luncheon at the Ogden Valley Branch Library. If you would like to be involved in the screening, please be at the library at 11:40 AM. If you have any questions or comments about these scheduled events please contact the staff of the Ogden Valley Branch Library at 745-2220. Every 2nd Thursday: Seniors’ Foot Clinic at the Ogden Valley Library, 12:45 p.m. Cost is $10.00. Call the Ogden Valley Library at 745-2220 for more information. Every 2nd Thursday: Eden Planning Committee meets at 7:00 p.m. at the new Great American Real Estate office in Eden. The public is welcome. Call 745-1217 to confirm meeting date, place, and time. Every gnd Thursday: Readin’ in Eden. p Community Reading Group. For more information, call Shanna Francis at 745-2688, or Martha Schickedanz at 7453688. Every gnd Thursday: Come join us at Utah Homemakers Association. We have monthly meetings to promote stable homes and satisfying family living. We invite speakers who share educational information. We gain skills that will contribute to our interest and needs as homemakers. We also participate in service projects to help the welfare of others and our community. We meet from 10:00am to 11:30 a.m. There For the Benefit of Ogden Valley Military Veterans and Non-Military Wednesday Night - Taco Night 6-9 pm. Quesadilla $3.00 Tacos $3.00 Taco Combo $4.50 Taco Salad $4.00 Friday Night - Dinner Night 6-9 p.m. Steaks $9.00 to $11.00 Halibut $10.00 Sat. & Sun. - Hamburgers ali Day $3.00 Sunday - Breakfast 9am. to noon Homestyle $3.00 to $9.00 Post 129 Huntsville American Legion for the benefit of our members Take Out available for members and non-members 745-3802 isa nursery for $1 per child. Our yearly fee is just $12. Please contact Renee at 745-2468. It is fun and fulfilling! Every 3rd Thursday: La Leche League meeting, 1:00 p-m.—Mother-to-mother support and information for breastfeeding and pregnant mothers. Contact KeeNan with questions or for more information: 745-2664. Every 3rd Thursday: C.E.R.T. (Community Emergency Response Team) meets at the Ogden Valley Library at 7:00 p.m. Leaders meet monthly, and team members meet quarterly. Volunteers are needed. For more information, call Linda Spencer at 745-0805. Every 4th Thursday: Quilter’s Guild at the Ogden Valley Library at 6:30 p.m. For more information contact Marilyn Summers at 745-3539 or Joan Clarke at 745-3525. Every Friday: (June 11 through July 23) — Summer Movies The Ogden Valley Branch Library will be screening movies for the whole family every Friday at 11:00 a.m. from June 11 to July 23. Admission is free, and yummy refreshments will be served. Every Saturday (June — August): Guided tours through Aldous Cabin in Huntsville Square from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Call Sheryl Andrews at 745-3294 for more information. Every Saturday: Team Sorting at the Eden Park arena at 5:00 p.m. Everyone invited to come and participate, or to come and watch! It’s a “whole lot of fun!” If you can ride a horse and count, you can participate—no matter your age. For more information, contact Audrey at 745-3018. Every Saturday: The Red Rock Ranch and Outfitters presents Free Live Music—and friends for a jam session. The fun begins at 6:00 p.m., and ends around 9:00 p.m. Open to the public. FREE. Bring your instruments and join in, or just come and listen to our local talent. June 11 — July 23 — Summer Movies at the Ogden Valley Branch Library. Movies for the whole family every Friday at 11:00 a.m. from June 11 to July 23. Admission free and yummy refreshments will be served. e 12 — August 6: 2004 Summer Reading Program, “Go Buggy Over Books” — Join the staff of the Ogden Valley Branch Library for eight weeks of reading fun at every library location. Registration begins June 1. All events are free! Children aged three and older will most enjoy the program. Weekly drawings for prizes donated by local businesses will begin on June 12. For more information please call 337-2639. July 6-22: WSU and Utah Musical Theater will co-sponor “Kids Act Up 2004,” summer theater camp for youth (ages 9-14), 9:00 a.m. — 2:00 p.m., Peery’s Egyptian Theatre (2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden), $350 with lunches provided, 395-3231 or 395-3227. (Session runs Monday through Friday through July 22.) July 14-17: UMT’s Utah premiere of “Triumph of Love,” 7:30 p.m. with matinee on Saturday at 2:00 p.m., Val A. Browning Center Allred Theater, $18/adults, $16/seniors, $10/students, or $48 for season pass, 626-8500 or 1-800WSU-TIKS. (Show also runs July 21-24.) July 16: Weekly Overeaters Anonymous meeting, 11:30 a.m., Student Service Center 152, free, 626-6361. July 17: The Grand Opening of Hen Feathers in Trapper’s Village in Huntsville will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Free gift with purchase. More information about Trappers Village can be found at <www.trappersvillage.com> July 17: WSU’s Small Business Development Center will hold a Start Smart class, 10 a.m.-noon, Ogden Business Information Center (2444 Washington Blvd.), free, 6267051. (Please pre-register.) July 17: St. Ann’s benefit concert featuring three guest singers, 6:30-9 p.m., Shepherd Union Ballroom, $5 or $3 plus 2 donated articles (clothing, food, etc.), 479-4668. (All proceeds will go to the homeless shelter.) July 19° Introduction to Microsoft Word at 7:00 p.m. at the Ogden Valley Branch Library. Call 745-2220 for more information. July 19: The Eccles Community Art Center, Ogden will be holding an Arts & Crafts Summer Camp for children ages 7-10 years, from 9:30 to noon July 19- July 23. Space limited. Pre-registration required. Information or to pre-register, call Debra at 392-6935. July 20: Fun With Bugs at the Ogden Valley Branch library at 1:00 p.m. Plan to have fun at our final summer reading activity. For more info, call 745-2220. July 20: Utah Festival Opera presentation of “Brigadoon,” 7:30 p.m., Val A. Browning Center Austad Auditorium, $19-$55, 626-8500 or 1-800-WSU-TIKS. July 21-24: UMT’s Utah premiere of “Triumph of Love,” 7:30 p.m., Val A. Browning Center Allred Theater, $18/adults, $16/seniors, $10/students, or $48 for season pass, 626-8500 or 1-800-WSU-TIKS. July 21: WSU’s Small Business Development Center will hold a Money Smart seminar to help with financial chal- Check out the Calendar of Events posted online at www.ovba.org To place your scheduled event in the Calendar of Events, Call Shanna Francis or Jeannie Wendell 745-2688 745-2879 lenges of starting a new business, 6-8 p.m., WSU Davis Campus 117 (2750 North University Park Blvd. in Layton), free, 626-7051. (Please pre-register.) July 23: Pioneer Day Holiday observed. July 24: Pioneer Day. July 28: Talent in the Park concert-final concert for the Summer Strings program for young string players, 7 p.m., Ogden Amphitheater, free, call 626-8169 or 626-6431. August 2: Eccles Community Art Center Arts & Crafts Summer Camp for children ages 7 - 10 years from 9:30 — noon, August 2 - 6. Space limited. Pre-registration required. For information or to pre-register, call Debra at 801-3926935. August 9: Mad Science of Salt Lake’s Summer Science Camp at Eccles Community Art Center, Ogden August 9 — 13, 10:00 a.m. to noon for children ages 5 to 10. Space limited, pre-registration required. For information or to register, call Debra at 801-392-6935. August 11 —- 14: Weber County Fair. Visit <www. WeberCountyFair.com> Eccles School of Ballet Theatre Arts at the Ogden taking pre-registration for Fall Ballet classes. For information, call Peggy at 627-2515. September 25: The Ogden Valley Reunion, 5:00 p.m. at Valley Elementary. The OVN is extending the invitation to anyone born on, or before, 1945 that spent time growing up or residing in Ogden Valley or Ogden Canyon. Also on the Calendar, the light-hearted production of Frank Capra’s Pulitzer winning play about a bride’s family meeting the family of the groom for the first time. On-stage Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays through July 24, “You Can’t Take It With You.” Where: Terrace Plaza Playhouse When: Curtain Time 7:30 p.m. Cost: - $8 For more information: call 393-0070.+ PIONEER DAYS cont. from page 9 process this old kettle played a part in, and that was the making of soap and candles. Fats, like fibers, were important. It was melted in the old kettle on a fire outside. The melted liquid was strained to remove any solids that might remain. In making candles, the molds were made ready beforehand. Our mold had two rows of brass tubes soldered together. Each tube was about an inch in diameter and eight inches long. A string, like yarn, had been fastened up the center of each tube and this served as the candle wick. Then each tube was filled with fat and when the fat cooled, the form was removed and there was your batch of candles. Fats for making soap were also melted in the old pot. Wood ash, free from charcoal, or other solids, was kept in a tub or other container with water. This process produced a kind of lye. A certain proportion of this stuff was mixed with the fat in the copper kettle and stirred somewhat constantly as it was boiled. When the cooking was finished, the product was allowed to cool and harden. Then it was cut into cakes of such size and shape as desired. Later on, the lye cold be acquired in stores in half-pint rusty cans, and the tubs with the ashes in them were eventually forgotten. The scythe, the ox team and the flail had passed out of universal use by the time I came along. I don’t remember of either of them being used but very little. I do remember, however, all the older children binding grain into bundles by using a handful of grain stems as a binding cord. A great deal of dexterity had to be employed to do that job fast and thoroughly. You can buy your food now every day without inconvenience to anyone, but that was not true in early days. You took your wheat to the mill in “seamless sacks” as early as you could in the fall and you brought back a year’s supply of flour, plus the bran and shorts. The miller had taken his toll. It was also very wise to get the winter wood before snow came in the fall. It was neither pleasant nor easy to travel in the canyons in the winter time. Meat was secured and stored in the fall whenever possible. Some times it would be cut in pieces of suitable size and salted down in barrels. Others would hang it up in a protected place where it would likely keep frozen until used. The smaller items were secured from the little stores here or in Ogden. Mother was sociably inclined, and had many visitors. Most of them were her own neighbors, but quite a few of them were from out of town. It was a wonderful picture to see a group like Granny Smith, Christiane Aldous, Agnes Hislop, and Elizabeth Bronson sit around the kitchen table with Mother, enjoying a cup of tea. Each of them wore a white apron and a white cap frilled with lace when they attended these functions. Their knitting went on automatically without detracting in the least from their conversation or their enjoyment of the tea. These affairs occurred frequently. There were many younger women who came to our home also, but they made no such impression on me as did these old ladies. One of this group of women, Granny Smith, was a very important person in the town. Before coming to Utah, she had been trained as a nurse in a hospitable in London. Her presence in the community was a blessing of the highest order. She not only presided at all births, but her skill in treating the afflicted settlers was the only semblance of medical help available to them then. About the only drugs or medicine available were the herbs that nature provided, aided by her knowledge, experience, and a lot of common sense. There was no night so dark or storm so bad that it would deter her from going where help was needed. |