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Show Volume XV Issue VIII The Ogden Valley news Page 13 April 1, 2008 SKIER cont. from page 1 be very proud of [his] accomplishment. It takes a lot of preparation, training and hard work to get to this point. [His] dedication has singled [him] out as a top athlete in [his] sport.,” says Bill Marolt, President & CEO, U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association Loudon brought home a very respectable 21st place finish in downhill at the Junior Championships. In the Super G race he finished 28th and 27th in giant slalom. Snowbasin sponsored an Intermountain Division (USSA) open race with a slalom race and giant slalom. In the age 16 and younger class, Fruth finished first in the giant slalom but was unable to complete slalom course. Loudon started alpine ski racing when he was 8 years old. He has been a member of the Snowbird FIS (International) Race Team for two seasons after six seasons with the Snowbasin Ski Team. In addition to his skiing, Loudon is a sophomore at Weber High School. According to Bounous, “Loudon loves skiing; he is highly motivated and has a very strong work ethic. Loudon treats his fellow competitors and teammates with kindness and respect, and the sportsmanship he displays on and off the hill is a great example to others. Loudon is totally committed to his racing.” HISTORICAL cont. from page 11 Before we had a separator, we would put the milk in pans then the cream would come to the top and we’d skim it off. The milk we sent to the market was in large ten-gallon cans. They were heavy so in the winter we put the milk cans on sleds and pulled them down the long driveway. The best sled you could have was the “Flexible Flyer” because you could guide it. Later on, we finally bought a milk separator. You would put the milk in and turn it by hand, and then the milk and cream could separate and come out in different places. The people who bought milk in stores got it in one-quart bottles. Many times the dairies didn’t separate the milk from the cream, so thick cream was at the top of the bottle. We made our own butter. We would put it in a churn and put the churn over by the stove. The secret to churning butter is that it has to be just the right temperature. It can’t be too cold and can’t be too hot or you won’t get the butter to come. We’d put the cream in and put it over by the stove and let it get just the right temperature; then we had to sit there and pound it up and down till the butter started to come. When it was just the right temperature we’d throw some ice cold water on it and it would coagulate. Then you take the butter out and put it in a large bowl and press it with a paddle to get as much water out as you could. We would also salt it at that time. At my house my brother and I made the butter. After we had all the milk pushed out of the butter, we’d put it in a butter press then we’d push it through the block and a nice cube would come out. The milk that was left is called buttermilk, and some people liked to drink it. We were very self-sufficient on our farm. In the fall of the year, we’d buy a couple of hundred-pound bags of flour, a couple of hundred-pound bags of sugar, and we didn’t have to go to the grocery store for anything else. We had our own vegetable garden and put up our own vegetables. We put up our own fruit in two-quart bottles. We used a little grinder to grind our own hamburger. We killed our own beef and pork, then we put the meat in the grinder. Grinding hamburger was a very hard and tedious job. We didn’t always have the money to buy coal. In those days you could go down by the river and cut up as much wood as you wanted. That was our job every weekend and every school holiday. We had to go down and cut wood and then chop it up. We used a two-man saw. We would pull it back and forth and you could cut more wood in two minutes with a power saw today than we could cut all day back then. Kids ask, “What did you do in your spare time?” We never had any spare time. Every minute was work and you worked hard on a farm. My grandfather used to go cut ice with an ice saw. He’d go down to the pond in the winter and cut out big blocks of ice. The blocks could weigh as much as 300 pounds. They would put them in a shed and put a lot of sawdust around it. Then they’d have ice for most of the summer. Along toward the first of August, it would all get melted and that would be the end of the ice until the next winter. We kept the ice in an icebox and the ice would melt so you had to keep a pan under the icebox. We had to be sure to remember to empty it every few hours or else there would be water all over the floor. Very few people had refrigerators. You could go down to Ogden and buy blocks of ice at Farr’s Dairy or Fairmont Dairy. I can remember what a glorious day it was when we got an electric refrigerator so we didn’t have to worry about ice any more. Another task we had was to clean eggs. We raised a lot of chickens. Every night we had to clean a case of eggs each; my brother cleaned one, my mother cleaned one, my dad cleaned one, and I cleaned one. When we got through with supper, we’d go down- Snowbasin Hosts Annual Meltdown Race and Festival Snowbasin is shaking things up a bit with this year’s Meltdown race slated for April 12, 2008. The event welcomes the arrival of spring to the area. Race as a team or go solo. The Meltdown festival will include live music, race results, awards ceremony, and prize drawings. This year, instead of having the event in a triathlon-type format, there will be three timed events where combined times will be used to declare the winner. There will also be a team category. Categories include the Downhill, beginning at 8:00 a.m.; the Kombi Race, beginning at 10:00 a.m. starting at the bottom of Porcupine Terminal, where riders will go over rollers and jumps, and through gates; and the all new Mass Start Road Bike Criterium beginning at 11:30 a.m. beginning at the Olympic lot with six laps equaling 3 miles using road or mountain bikes. Athlete registration/check-in at the Snowsport’s Desk at Earl’s Lodge. Early registration is $25. Registration the day of the race is $35, and will be from 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. Awards will be given at 12:00 noon at Earl’s Plaza. Age categories include 12-17, 18-29, 30-44, 45-59, and 60 plus. A team award will also be given to the over-all winning team. Prizes will include Snowbasin 20082009 winter season pass, and an overside stay at Lakeside Village. Registration Now Open for 6th Annual Fly With the Flock 5K Fun Run Loudon Fruth If you are interested in helping Loudon, or would like additional information on Enjoy the great out- ities for the whole family. The 5K course is him, feel free to contact the Snowbird doors and a fun, physi- two laps winding through 152 acres on dirt Sports Education Foundation at 801-550cal morning at the Ogden trails. Children 12 and under can choose a 2426. Donations may be made to the Nature Center. The 6th 2.5K—or one lap around. And very young Snowbird Sports Education Foundation, a Annual 5K Fun Run and 2.5K Kids Run children can participate in a 100 foot kids non profit 501 C3 organization. is slated for Saturday, May 3. The Ogden dash with medals for every child participatNature Center¹s staff will be on hand to ing in the dash. Please note: Walkers will stairs before we did anything else and each introduce live birds of prey while Union not be timed for medals, but are welcome Grill caters a pancake breakfast following and encouraged to participate. one of us had to clean thirty dozen eggs. Please dress appropriately. The Fun Run We had a little sandpaper block about the race. Registration fees are $18 for adults and will be held rain or shine. All proceeds will the size of an eraser and we’d keep rolling the egg. Then we’d candle it by putting it $12 for children. After April 25, late registra- directly benefit the Ogden Nature Center. under a real bright light and turning it to see tion fees are $22 for adults and $15 for kids. Special thanks to our generous sponsors— if there was a blood spot in it. If there was, Cool t-shirts and a goodie bag are guaranteed especially the L.S. Peery Foundation, Costco you’d put those eggs aside and feed them to those who pre-register and all participants and Striders Running Store. will be entered to win prize drawings. To register online, go to <www. to the calves. Start time for the run is 8:00 a.m. Lastogdennaturecenter.org> To register in perIt was a good time as I look back on minute registration will be held between son, go to the Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. it now. It brought families close together 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. There will be fun activ12th St., Ogden, Utah or call 801-621-7595. because for about an hour every night, I sat there with my mother, father, and my brother and as we cleaned eggs, we talked. Sometimes we’d listen to the radio and we’d talk over family problems. The next day we’d ship the eggs to Ogden to sell. It’s time for another year intersection on Hwy 162 next to the Valley When I went to school, the bus didn’t of running in the Valley; Markey, again, until about noon. come right up to our house. It came up to Questions regarding the ½ Marathon after 3 races in Ogden City, the road where you turn to go to the monasthe Striders Winter Racing on April 5 and/or the 30K on April 26 can tery and that’s as far as they would plow it Circuit will move to Ogden be directed to Striders at 801-728-9121 or in the winter. It was about a half-mile walk Valley on April 5 for its ½ online at <www.stridersrunning.com> from our house to where I caught the bus. Marathon, and April 26 for In good weather it was OK, but when it hit 40 below zero, Mrs. Bingham would call us the 30K. Approximately 500 runners in The Ogden Marathon The Ogden Marathon and ½ Marathon the ½ marathon on April 5 will be bused and let us wait in her house. Since my father was a farmer, he used to from The Red Moose Lodge in Eden up to is scheduled for May 17. Almost 4,000 wait for me to come home. He’d wait at the the South Fork campground on Hwy 39. runners will be bused from downtown house as I came up the driveway and then The race will start at 8:00 a.m. as runners Ogden to either the Eden Park or on Hwy come down and greet me. He’d tell me all the make their way back to the Red Moose via 39 just below Red Rock Ranch. Both races things I had to do that night. I can remember Hwy 39, 7100 E. and 1900 N. The Weber will start at 7:00 a.m.; marathoners will telling my mother, “I wish just one night I County Sheriff’s office will be controlling run down Hwy 39, and 7100 E. and 1900 could come home without him standing there traffic from South Fork to the Red Moose N. through Eden. Once through Eden, waiting for me.” But as I look back on it Lodge, including the intersection on Hwy marathon runners will make their way on now, it was a good thing that he kept track of 162 next to the Valley Market until about Hwy 162 all the way to Ogden Canyon. Half-marathoners will start at the Eden me. If I didn’t come home by the right time, noon. The Red Moose Lodge will also host Park and will quickly make their way to he was in the car and he headed down to find out where Bill was. Did Bill get kicked off about 300 runners in the 30K on April 26. Hwy 162 and to Ogden Canyon. Traffic the school bus for misbehaving? If I wasn’t Runners will start at the Red Moose and coming in and out of the Valley will make their way through Eden via 1900 be directed by UHP Troopers and Weber there, he was looking for me. In the summer after we got through N. and 7100 E. into Huntsville. Runners County Sheriff’s. Both races will end in hauling hay or working on the thrashing will then head east on 500 S. all the way downtown Ogden. Any questions regarding the Ogden machines, we’d come down to the dam. to 9800 E. before backtracking back to the There was nobody around the dam in those Red Moose on Hwy 39 and 7100 E. The Marathon on May 17 can be directed to days so you could go swimming without a Weber County Sheriff’s office will also the GOAL Foundation at 801-399-1773 or swimsuit. We used to go down there and control traffic along this course and at the online at <www.ogdenmarathon.com> take a bar of soap and have a bath. We didn’t have bathtubs. We had to carry 2008 Special Olympics Winter Games Held at Snowbasin the water in five-gallon buckets so we took The 2008 Special Gold, silver, and bronze medals are awardbaths in the tub we used to wash our clothes. Olympics Winter ed to the first, second, and third place winWe put it right in front of the kitchen stove Games was held ners respectively and opened the oven door. Then you’d get at Snowbasin on with ribbons in and stand and wash the top of yourself then sit down and wash the rest of yourself. February 1 and February 2. Many teams being awarded In families that had large numbers of kids, from throughout the state competed. to the fourth and the last kid had pretty dirty water to take a Special Olympics is a non-profit world- fifth place winbath in. I was lucky there were only two in wide organization that gives those with ners. cognitive disabilities the opportunity to With the my family—just my brother and myself. I used to hate UEA days. I had to dig compete in various events throughout the exception of a few paid staff up potatoes. We raised a lot of potatoes and year. The ski competition at Snowbasin was members from did not have machines to pick them up. We went down the rows with a fork and a plow a great success. USU Aggies ski coach the state office, and plowed up the potatoes. Then we took Melanie Hall stated, “Athletes learn healthy all others work on a large basket and picked up the potatoes competition, but there is a lot of camarade- a volunteer basis. and put them in gunny sacks. The other rie found in the Special Olympics—not Any money that thing we used to do was pick apples. So only among team members but between is raised goes teams. It is not unusual to see someone directly to the UEA days were just hard, hard days. For A smile of achievement We raised a lot of cabbage. Boyd cross the finish line and then turn and cheer athletes. more informa- shows on the face of this Shupe’s wife used to come around the val- on their competitor.” Athletes are placed in divisions of 3-5 tion, please visit Special Olympics team ley and make sauerkraut for people. We had a wooden stave barrel with a wooden each and are grouped by age and ability. <www.sout.org> member. lid on it. She’d chop the cabbage and put it in the barrel with a layer of cabbage, a layer of salt, a layer of cabbage, a layer of salt until it was full. She put some vinegar in it, then put the lid on it with some rocks that would weigh it down. The sauerkraut was good, but I didn’t like the smell of the juice. My brother liked the juice. It would get a green skim on top of it. He’d push the skim back, take a cup, dip it down, and drink it. When you went to school, you had a wooden desk with an inkwell hole in it. Each student got one bottle filled with ink and you’d put it in the hole. Then we had to practice penmanship every day with a straight pen. The girls in those days would wear their hair in long braids that came clear down to their waist. Some boys were known to stick the girls’ braids into the inkwells. I Members of the USU Aggies Special Olympics Team pose at the 2008 Winter Games never did that, but I know people who did! recently held at Snowbasin. Races Planned in Ogden Valley— Drivers alerted to foot traffic |