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Show The Ogden April 1, 2007 Valley news PRSRT STD STD PRSRT POSTAGE PAID PAID POSTAGE PERMIT NO. NO. 11 11 PERMIT EDEN UT UT EDEN POSTAL PATRON PATRON POSTAL EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYONCANYON- 84401 84401 OGDEN HCR 843AO 843AO HCR Your Community Newspaper Annual Canyon Clean Up Part of Earth Day Celebration Open Burning Period Set For Weber County Each year, Weber County residents are allowed a brief time to burn yard waste. Weber County Fire Marshal Ted Black has announced that, this year, the spring open burn period for the Upper Valley of Weber County will begin April 15 and end May 14. All burn permits other than yard cleanup should end by May 31. Farmers may have permits for agricultural purposes as needed after the May cutoff period. The open burn window for lower Weber County is April 1 through April 30. General burn permits will be issued again in the fall beginning October 1, 2007. Ogden Valley residents may obtain burn permits from Weber Fire District Station 62 located in Eden at 5550 E. 2200 N. Regular business hours are Monday through Friday, and Saturdays, from 8:00 a.m. to noon. The written permit identifies the products that may be burned and general safety requirements. The permits authorize permit holders to start and maintain a fire under prescribed conditions and serves as a notification of intent to burn. The permit does not relieve an individual from Competition heats up at the Town Challenge at Snowbasin. See page 14 for article and OPEN BURN cont. on page 8 more photos. Photo courtesy of John Swensen of White Line Photography. Earth Day is Sunday, April 22. To help celebrate, the Ogden Canyon Club is holding its bi-annual spring Canyon Cleanup. The Canyon Club hosts this event twice a year—once in the spring and once in the fall. This will be their 12th consecutive year of service. “Each time we hold a cleanup, spring and fall, we fill a whole dump truck full of trash, and that’s just from the garbage that is found on the sides of the road in Ogden Canyon. That’s a lot of trash,” states Keith Rounkles of the Ogden Canyon Club. This year’s spring cleanup will be held Saturday, April 21. Those who would like to participate need to meet at the Alaskan Inn at 9:00 a.m. where they will receive mapped out instructions and assignments for the cleanup. Everyone’s help is needed. This year the Ogden Sierra Club is putting an emphasis on cleaning our local waterways. The Sierra Club is going to use their efforts to clean the Ogden River from the mouth of the canyon all the way to the Great Salt Lake. The Ogden Canyon Club is also going to focus on cleaning up trash and debris out of the Ogden River—the portion that flows through Ogden Canyon. Anyone who likes to fish, or otherwise CLEANUP cont. on page 12 Huntsville Resident Appointed to Septic System Owners Encouraged to Attend Seminar Weber School Board By Shanna Francis Ogden Valley News Huntsville resident Buck Froerer was recently appointed by the Weber School Board as its newest member. On March 7, standing board members voted Froerer onto the school board to replace Cheryl Ferrin of Eden who will be moving to the Philippines Buck Froerer with her husband who has been called as a mission president for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Froerer will officially be sworn into office in June as a representative of Precinct 6. His appointment will expire in 2009. Normally an elected position, Utah state law provides that when a seat on a school board is vacated prior to the expiration of a term, sitting board members have the right to appoint a new member to fill the office for the remaining time period. Froerer, 62, is currently Chief Deputy Ogden City Attorney. He has a bachelor’s degree in banking and finance, and a law SCHOOL BOARD cont. on page 8 The Utah Division of Water Quality, Utah State University Extension, Weber Soil Conservation District, and the WeberMorgan Health Department are conducting a Septic System Training and Maintenance Study in Ogden Valley. This project is funded with Congressional Earmark 104(b)3 funding. The goal of the project is to reduce phosphorus and nitrogen loading of the Pineview Reservoir from septic systems through homeowner training coupled with a financial incentive to assist in the cost of septic system clean out and maintenance. In November and December 2006, Ogden Valley homeowners were invited to participate in one of two septic system education seminars taught by Judy Sims of Utah State University Extension. Brian Cowan, Waste Water Specialist from the Weber-Morgan Health Department, was available to answer questions. Those that participated qualified for a $100 rebate on septic system clean-out. Additional seminars will be held this spring in the Ogden Valley Branch Library auditorium on April 18 at 6:30 p.m. Sufficient grant funding exists to pay rebates for 200 more homeowners. To qualify for the rebate, you must own a home with a septic system in Huntsville, SEPTIC SYSTEMS cont. on page 8 Preliminary Approval Granted for New Unit Gets the Lay of the Land in Construction and Operation of Sewage Ramadi—Applying lessons of 1 Armored Division, Treatment Facility in Controversial new arrivals use sugar to sweeten relationship with Iraqis Combat Team, 3 Infantry Division replace By Monte Morin, “Stars and Stripes” Bison Creek Ranch Development outgoing troops from the 1 Brigade st rd st the overflow crowd that came to protest the development on the basis of concerns related to impacts on wetlands, streams On March 14, the Ogden Valley and stream corridors, wildlife habitat, and Township Planning Commission granted water quality; and increased traffic and preliminary approval on a conditional use pollution. Residents also complained that request for construction and operation of planning staff failed to provide and make available information pertinent to the decision made by commission members. The decision by the planning commission granting preliminary approval of the development is now being appealed by residents from the community through the Weber County Board of Appeals. While a letter from Aqua Engineering, Inc. endorsing the proposed sewage treatment plant was distributed to planning commission Original site of proposed sewer facility and home lots. members for consideration Standing water routinely covers several areas slated for in their decision, the engidevelopment in the controversial proposed Bison Creek neering review only considRanch Subdivision. ered hookups for 150 homes a sewage waste water treatment facility in the development; however, Weber County in the controversial Bison Creek Ranch officials and developers brought to the comSubdivision proposed for development in mission a plan to approve 750 sewer conthe East Huntsville area located near 8150 nections to accommodate additional housE. and Highway 39. The facility would ing developments also being proposed in service the proposed 150 lot master planned the Huntsville area. In response, the Ogden community located on 450 acres situated Valley Township Planning Commission northeast of Huntsville Town. Preliminary only granted preliminary approval for the approval of the master planned community construction and operation of a sewage was granted petitioners at a planning com- facility that will accommodate 225 of the mission meeting held February 28 despite BISON CREEK cont. on page 17 By Shanna Francis Ogden Valley News RAMADI, Iraq—It’s been just a few weeks since Capt Diogo Tavares and his soldiers made their home in this rubbled and bullet-pocked corner of downtown Ramadi, and already they’ve been greeted by mortar rounds, sniper attacks, roadside bombs and sporadic blasts of AD-47 fire. Tavares, a 30-year-old Hillside, N.J., native, said the explosive reception was par for the course. As units of the 1st Brigade st Combat Team, 1 Armored Division at Combat Outpost Falcon, insurgents were expected to pour on the heat. “We’ve been dealing with an increase in small-arms attacks, but we’ve handed it to them,” Tavares said of the enemy. “The first 30 days are always the most hairy. The enemy is trying to test you, and you’re RAMADI cont. on page 17 Sgt. 1st Class Todd Bair, 35, of Bountiful, Utah, and son of Toni and Patricia Bair of Nordic Valley, gives chemical light sticks to Iraqi children during a recent patrol in downtown Ramadi, Iraq. Bair, of the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regional, 1st Infantry Division, arrived in Ramadi five months earlier and will finish his tour with the incoming unit. Photo used with permission from “Stars and Stripes.” ©2007 “Stars and Stripes.” |