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Show The OGpEN VALLEY NEWS December 1, 2006 PRSRT STD POSTAGE PAID oF RMIT Ni [DEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-843 10 HUNTSVILLE-84317 HCR 843A0, Annual Altrusa Home Tour Slated The 9th Annual Home Tour sponsored by Altrusa International of Ogden will be held Saturday, December 16 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The tour will include seven fesively decorated homes and the new Treehouse Children’s Museum, which will feature five large Christmas trees and four small ones Cost for the tour is $10. Tickets are available at the Treehouse Children’s Museum, 347 22nd St.,; Wisebird Bookery, 4850 Harrison Blvd.; and Rainbow Gardens at the mouth of Ogden Canyon. You may also purchase tickets by calling (801) 547-7392. Quarters for Cans Drive Begins By Zoé Noéll and Haylie Hirst Weber High School is hosting Quarters for Cans. Quarters for Cans is a fundraiser to help buy gifts for people in need at Christmas time. With the money they raise, they buy groceries for others, and the money also goes to help children with needed med- oe treatments. ce ash ary i Me y WL Firefigghters ‘work to put out‘flames after ‘fire completely engulfe d Christi Tisdale's vehicle on the North Ogden Divide. By Shanna Francis Ogden Valley News when two men who were target shooting off the side of the road noticed flames car fire completed gutted a 1995 Toyota nate near the top of the North Ogden Div On Wednesday, November 22, Christi Tisdale of Liberty was driving up the Divide heading east toward Ogden Valley coming from the woman’s vehicle. They ran out to the road waving their arms, convincing Tisdale to stop. Shortly after she exited the vehicle, several explosions rocketed the venie leaving it completely engulfed in flar An See call came into the Sheriffs Office Asks for Cooperation from Residents oO WEBER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE With winter just around the corner, the Weber County Sheriffs Office is asking residents for help by keeping vehicles parked off the roadway to allow for proper snow removal. plow drivers in the Ogden Valley have many miles of roads to plow in the winter. Parked vehicles or trailers left on Sheriffs Office and the Champion Cyclist Has Ties to Ogden Valley Compiled by Shanna Francis Ogden Valley News the roadways slow down the process of clearing our roads. Weber County Ordinance #99-32 prohibits the parking of vehicles on the roadway from 4:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon during or after a snowstorm. Vehicles in violation may be cited or impounded. The North Ogden North View Fire Department at approximately 2:40 p.m. One fire engine and an ambulance responded and arrived at the scene No one was injured in the incident. road department are asking for your cooperation in helping keep the roads clear for snowplowing and for the safety of our drivers. Serious Target Practice for Local Scouts | tI along with Snowcrest Junior High’s donations. It is fun for us to collect pennies because we do math things like measuring,weighting, and estimating. It’s also fun for us to collect pennies because the older kids compete against each other to see who collects the most money, and pennies count against their contributions. For us, it’s oka e date for donations for this fundraiser is just before the Christmas salle Donate. Donate. Donate! If you follow the sport of cycling, you should recognize the name of Steve Hegg, son of Deborah Hegg of Eden. In November of this year, Steve was inducted into the U.S. Bicycle Hall of Fame. Hegg recently finished his 25-year professional road and track racing career. He can list as his many accomplishments of being one of only six Americans to ever win an Olympic Gold Medal in cycling. That same year, in 1984, he also won a Silver Medal. He has also won 13 National Cycling Championships, a Gold Medal at the Goodwill Games, and two Gold iene at the Pan American Games. In 1995, Hegg traveled to China where he won the prologue time trial and became the leader of the inaugural Tour of China. He held the lead for three days and finished third overall. Hegg began cycling as cross-training for downhill skiing when he was a member of the U.S. National Ski Team. Before becoming an Olympic cycling champion, he was the youngest downhill skier to be ranked #1 in the world at the age of 17. He won four’ National Skiing Championships, and still holds downhill skiing records to this day. Steve is also an avid golfer, and has competed on the celebrity player’s tour, and has even made Golf Digest’s list of Jocks with Game. He ran and completed the New York City Marathon, and the 2000 Hawaiian Ironman While Hegg is no longer competing professionally as a cyclist, he is now the cycling Team Director for Team Olympic medalist Steve Hegg and his good friend Greg Lemond, the first U.S. Tour de France winner at the Bicycle Hall of Fame ceremony held in October. Successful Living. He also still rides these days with his young son Jack on the back of his bike yelling, “Faster Daddy, faster!” CHAMPION cont. on page 10 Group Organizes in Response to County Ordinances Being Drafted By Shanna Francis Ogden Valley News ——— the Nordic Valley Cub Scout Pack and Liberty’s Serious target practice — Troop 249 Cub Scout Pack at their annual Turkey Shoot held in Liberty this November. The boys each colored a large paper turkey then attached it to a box. Each scout then used a BB gun for the shooting event. The Turk ey Shoot was part of the troop’s pack meeting, which began with a flag ceremony, followed by instruction on gun safety. The event ended with the shooting match between the boys Concerned that three new Weber County ordinances being drafted might threaten their property rights, a group called the Save Ogden Valley Property Rights Committee has organized. The ordinances are bein drafted by a community based stakeholders’ firm out of Cache Weber County hired the firm Bio West to committee in uC with a consulting help with the development of the three proposed ordinances; one to govern and facilitate the transfer of development rights TDRs), a second to help protect sensitive lands within Ogden Valley in response to growing pressures from growth and development, and a third to govern resort type development within the Valley. The group is eS aie at the Ogden Valley Library on November 30 at 7:00 m. to discuss a draft of the proposed ordinances. |