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Show Page The Ogden Valley news Volume XVI Issue X August 1, 009 The Ogden Valley news Staff: Shanna Francis Tel: 801-745- 688 Fax: 801-745-006 Cell: 801-791-4387 E-Mail: slfrancis@att.net Jeannie Wendell Tel: 801-745- 879 Fax: 801-745- 879 E-Mail: crwendell@att.net crwendell@msn.com Opinions expressed by advertisers, columnists or letters to the editor are not necessarily the opinions of the owners and staff of The Ogden Valley news. guidelines for Letters to the Editor Letters should be 300 words or less. Letters must be signed and the address of the writer submitted. The Ogden Valley news reserves the right to edit or decline printing of any submissions. Announcements Sought As a community service, The Ogden V alley n ews will print local birth, wedding, obituary, anniversary and missionary farewell & homecoming and Eagle Scout announcements free of charge. 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Note: The contents of The Ogden Valley News are copyrighted. To protect this publication and its contributors from unlawful copying, written permission is required before any individual or company engages in the reproduction or distribution of its contents, by any means, without first obtaining written permission from the owners of this publication. The deadline for the OVN August 15 issue is August 1. Letters to the Editor Bone Marrow Registration Saves Lives—Could be the most worthwhile 5 minutes ever spent My name is Monica Fuit. I had to go through a bone marrow transplant a little over a year ago and I would like to thank the community for all of their support. I can’t tell you enough how much it means to me to have the support that I did. My donor was an unrelated and unknown donor. Without her kind and unselfish ways, I might not be here today. I have been in contact with a very special person to me since I was first diagnosed, and she has been by my side through the good and the bad. She has told me about a cousin of hers that is our same age and lives in another state who was diagnosed with the same thing as I. He has been through a lot of hard times and is married with two small children. He has been going through extensive chemo and radiation for the last while, trying to keep his leukemia under control until they find a match for him on the National Marrow Donor Program. He was hospitalized a couple of days ago with a fever and a very low blood count while his wife calls every day hoping that they find a match for him. As hard as it was for Striker and I to go through what we did, I can not even imagine what they are going through. My friend sent out an email asking that if anybody is at all interested in donating, to please register. When I was told that I had to have a transplant, I was told that they didn’t need any more people to register and that they were actually charging money to register, but my husband Striker registered anyway. Fortunately, they are no longer charging to register. So I guess I am asking if anybody would be willing to donate to please register now. It only takes about five minutes and it could be the most worthwhile five minutes ever to somebody else. For more information, visit <www.marrow.org> Thank you, Monica Fuit, Liberty Wolf Creek Foundation Says Thank You to Weber County & RAMP Funding On July 11, 2009 the Utah Symphony performed at the Wolf Creek Utah Ski Resort in front of over 2000 enthusiastic fans. Residents as well as visitors from several states were on their feet keeping time with the fantastic music and interacting with conductor David Cho. I would like to thank the citizens of Weber County and the RAMP tax committee for making this evening possible. The Music in the Mountains concert series is priced by the carload so that entire families and seniors on a fixed income have the opportunity to hear top quality live music. The price of admission doesn’t come close to covering the cost of bringing the Utah Symphony to the Ogden Valley. Sharon MacFarlane and her staff at the Ogden Symphony & Ballet Association have worked tirelessly in helping us both attract the Utah Symphony and acquiring the RAMP tax dollars. Without them this incomparable event would not be possible. We have hosted the full Utah Symphony for four years and look forward to having them back for many years to come. Thank you RAMP and Weber County! Sue Munson, Wolf Creek Foundation Developers Make Neighbors, Wildlife Suffer In Effort to Reduce Property Taxes In a deal between Wolf Creek and R & O Construction, a token “agricultural” business is going in on properties that abut neighbors in the Wolf Creek area as a way for land speculators and developers to avoid paying their fair share of property taxes. By meeting minimum agricultural standards—on paper but not in spirit—these developers are putting up fences and making a token effort to meet Utah greenbelt requirements as a way of lowing their taxes. By statute, they must have a “profitable” operation for two years before they can legally meet greenbelt standards that will reduce their taxes. When the land reverts back into non-ag producing property at a later date, the taxes saved for a minimum number of years must be paid back. In the meantime, the residents who live in the same development area, sometimes exactly adjacent to the new “ranching/farming” operation, will have to live with the sight, smell, and sounds of ag production outside their windows. This will be done without county planning commission approval because, by ordinance, none is required. Put any other type of commercial operation in next to a residen- tial area, and the planning commission must give the O.K. after a public hearing. But start a ranching operation in the middle of an upscale housing area, and you’re good to go with a good-ol’-boy handshake. Several people in the area have responded to the news with a “well, better-cows-thanhouses” attitude. City slickers . . . they don’t stop to think. Houses were not going to be built there anyway for a while or Orluff Opheikens would not be going to the trouble, and houses WILL be built there eventually. This greenbelt stuff is a temporary thing. The land is not being put into the Ogden Valley Land Trust. It’s just temporarily being taken off the higher tax rolls while the economy recovers. And we’re the ones who will have to make up the difference—possibly with a higher tax rate down the road to compensate for lost revenue. Bottom line, the residents, many of whom sacrificed a lot to live here, will be the ones to suffer from this action. Except for Patio Springs, the very people that R & O and Wolf Creek sold to will be the ones to suffer. Have the developers thought about how many “For Sale” signs will go up when the herds start bellering outside their bedroom window in the middle of the night or when that sweet aroma of the stockyard comes wafting in that window? Because those are the very things that some moved away from when they come up to the Valley. Take a drive through the flatlands of Plain City, Hooper, and West Warren to get a “taste” of what we paid a premium to move away from. Another point. The no-trespassing signs have already started to go up on the 4-wire, steel-post, barbed-wire fences where many people have enjoyed, for decades, hiking or riding the 100-year-old trail that crosses this land. Now, access is denied. Experience also shows that wildlife will have a difficult time crossing the fence too. Many deer get caught up in this type of fencing, and are often found dead hanging from them. How many will die on this new fence between now and when it is finally taken down? Irony. The contractor who put up the fence is form Box Elder County where ranchers there treat barbed-wire fences like a cancer. ROYALTY cont. from page 1 Miss Ogden, and Miss Utah. She also participated in the Miss America pageant the first year it was televised from Atlantic City. Kay was born in Ogden on February 22, 1939, a daughter of Richard and Vera Morse. She has been a member of Durfee Camp for 24 years and has served as Captain and as Recording Secretary of the company board. She is married to Roger Richins. They have four children, ten grandchildren, and three step grandchildren. She also has 22 direct- line Utah pioneer ancestors. Florence was born in Huntsville on May 14, 1923, a daughter of Clarence and Selma Smith. She has been a member of DUP for 41 years, and is currently a member of Camp Olive. She is married to Arthur Mumford. They have five children, 22 grandchildren, and 17 great grandchildren. Mumford states that all of her grandparents were early pioneers. She was also honored as the 1991 Weber County Mother of the Year. of Henry and Sadie Parker. She has been a member of Camp “X” for 31 years and has served as Captain, Company President, Ogden DUP Museum Board President, and is currently first Vice President of the International Society of Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She is married to Stephen A. Smith. They have seven children, 25 grandchildren, and 11 great grandchildren. She is also a former Miss Weber High, Larry Bennington, Eden |