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Show THE Page 14 OGDEN VALLEY NEWS December Snowcrest Announces Essay Contest Winners During the month of October, students at Snowcrest Junior High School had the “Why I like 1, 2006 Snowcrest Music Student Wins Piccolo—Christmas concert announced community and how I am a good citizen.” ustin Bulloch, Blake Merriam, Demi Ybarra, Drew Peterson, and Briann Russell were the school essay winners The following article, Demi Lives in the “O.V.’, was submitted by one of the winning essay writers, Demi Ybarra. Summerhays Music recently hosted a flute seminar with guest Paul EdmundDavies. Mr. Edmund-Davies was the m Demi Lives in the “O.V.” By Demi Ybarra Citizen Essay Contest Winner to Europe and Australia. There are places in the world that are very crowded and smelly. There are also dishonest people. But in our Valley, everyone tries their hardest to be honest and keep this Valley clean. My community is wonderful because it is isolated behind the beautiful mountains. There are places for children to play in the dirt and not grow up on concrete, controlled playgrounds. In San Jose, I got in trouble for playing with a stick on the playground. The recess lady threw it away. Our yards were fenced with a small patch of grass. Children never played in the front yard without their parents. It is not safe. One time I was playing in the front yard and a man came running down our street. The police were following and chasing the guy. There was a lot of noise and fence jumping. The man had just stolen a lady’s purse. He ran right past me and I was really scared. My mom grabbed us and put us in the house. The thing that makes me a good citizen is that I help people who are in need. Some of my friends were moving here, but at the time I didn’t know they would become my friends. | helped them move in. It was really fun. I helped carry all of the boxes into her house and I put stuffa way and cleaned their house. We also got a really big welcome party to come and greet them at their house. Also, another time was for an activity that | chose to attend. I helped some of our friends clear their property of dyers woad. It was really fun. We all got dirty. I felt good after I did it. I also helped some of my friends move out of their home. I cleaned every speck of their home, laid sod, and planted flowers. I also befriended anew girl that moved here. She was really lonely and needed a friend. I enjoy mepne others and, in the meantime, I am a good citi am thankful to live here in Ogden Valley, and enjoy the beautiful, peaceful life here. I am able to grow up with a wonderful childhood and be around good and honest people. It motivates me to become a better person and citizen. d you know that Ogden Valley (OV) is an awesome place? I can tell you right = how it is, because this is my essay for ae love my community and how I am a goodc izen. I have lived here for almost four years now, and let me tell you, it is a great place. That is, not just because I live here, it is because the people here are so nice. Let me share an experience | had when moving here. I moved here from California in a large moving van. When the truck driver got here, he dumped us at Chevron and said, “Come get your stuff.” He wouldn’t drive his truck to our house because of his fear of the small roads. So we started loading our stuff into our Suburban and bringing it to our house. We were really worried about how long this would take. We just kept working anyway. We never really found out how this happened, but all ofa sudden, trucks with trailers started showing up at the Chevron. W think that someone saw what we were doing t Chevron and told other people that we needed help. Before we knew it, there were eight trailers, forty people, and ten cars hauling our stuff to our house. We didn’t know one person and they didn’t know us. e watche ir belongings were loaded into manure and hay filled trailers. e were so thankful for the help that the dirty trailers didn’t bother us at all. The people were so kind to us, and we made friends that very day. Within four hours, our moving van was unloaded and all of our things were brought to our house. Our truck driver was impressed at watching the community rally around our family when we were strangers ow from experience that this community is really awesome. I came from San Jose, California. It is a fast-paced, competitive place to live. Big cars and big homes are very important to people there. Here in our Valley, things are more simple and slowpaced which gives a child more opportunity to grow up with peace. I have also traveled | | Shown are Brent Broome, Melissa Tidwell, and Summerhays representative. principal flutist for the London Symphony for 20 years, and was the flute soloist in the Star Wars movie Smashing eggs, making slime, and but it was all in the name of science. Taught by volunteers for girls interested in math and science and wanting to have a fun time, too, a specia event was held at Mt. Ogden Middle School for sixth to ninth grade girls. total of 600 girls came on Saturday, November 4 for the day-long event with five girls from Valley Elementary, and five from Snowcrest Junior High. But back to the broken eggs. Some of the girls got to make “space capsules” for some unfortunate soon-to-be omelets. They wrapped them in bubble wrap, stuffed them in Styrofoam, and sealed the packages in tape before dropping these UPS’s worst nightmares offa ladder. The impact these “capsules” suffered taught the girls about how important this kind of packaging is on Mars rover missions where the rover has to survive a drop \ 6-teenski- $75 3:30-5:30 pm through layers of atmosphere onto unforgiving rocks, and still be able to collect data. Unfortunately, I don’t think any of these egg-rovers are getting up anytime soon. Other girls got to experiment with borax, glue, and starch to make slime similar to the fuel used in rocket propulsion systems; and others got to go on a scayenger hunt through cyberspace and win prizes. Still others built catapults and launched objects at their least favorite superstar’s headshots; and even more girls combined ingredients to make perfumed lotions (one batch did explode, though). In addition, there were 20 other classes the girls could take. This is an annual event, and classes are assigned on first-come-first-served basis. This is definitely an event for every girl in sixth to ninth grade. By the way, things usually don’t explode—unless you’re in a class about rockets where you make lemon juice-powered missiles, of course Available Hidden Classes are filling up fast. Sign up now! (all 801-430-5710 ask for Heather Syr.olds— $100 Snowcrest Students “Jazzed!” To round out Snowcrest’s music program, the school has started a Jazz band program. Rehearsals are held after school on Mondays and Thursdays. Music teacher Brent Broome states, “The students currently attending are real excited about this prog ram. Te s not too late to come and join the grou For more information, please contact Mr. Broome at Snowcrest Jr. High. Humpty Dumpty’s Wild Ride By Glorya Toloso, Snowcrest Student Reporter Eden Where Else Would You Rather Be? Series begins January 10 - February 7, 2007 sound track. He also played flute in the movies Titanic and Harry Potter. Snowcrest flute players attending the seminar were Colleen Stone, Melissa Tidwell, Kelsey James, Nathan Baker, and Alexis Chouros. At the seminar, there was a drawing for a Sonare piccolo, which Melissa Tidwell of Liberty won. Annual Christmas Concert Announced On December 14, Snowcrest will host their annual music department Christmas Concert. The concert will begin at 6:30 p.m. Music instructor Mr. Wood, formerly of Ogden Valley, and a choir from Weber High School will perform, along with one of the school’s bands directed by Mr. Jenson. WojMountain $3 Volume XIV _ Issue V Retreat! = ~~ : jan 8-teenride- $75 Second Series begins February 21st, 2007 Following both sessions, the Utah Winter Games will hold a Family pL $15 late registration fee after December 20, 2006. —— == Visit www.realestatehiddeneden.com www.wolfmountaineden.com Experience the “Changing Seasons” Artist Reception and Anniversary Open House at Wolf Creek Resort, December Ist (3900 N. Wolf Creek Dr. Winter on the Weber, oil, Jeff Hepworth Eden) 7-9 p.m. Our valley is an exceptional area for artists and their subjects. View the exhibit “Changing Seasons” and immerse yourself in the autumn colors, spring flowers, summer warmth and white winters we know and love. The exhibit will run through January 29th, 2007. We look forward to seeing you and thank you for letting us enrich your life through art! Wilkerson Fine & Consulting Touch of Lupine, oil, David Jack (801) 745-9557 www.wilkersonfineart.com Live a rich, we kris@wilkersonfineart.com ll-considered life! |