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Show The Ogden Valley news Your Community Newspaper October 15, 2009 PRSRT STD POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO CERT Trainings Offered The Valley CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) will be sponsoring a training class. The class will be held on Saturdays in October at 10:00 a.m. at the Ogden Valley Library, and will continue through November 7 every other Saturday. The cost is $30, which covers the participant manual, hard hat, gloves, CERT vest, and safety goggles. If you have already taken the class you can come sit in for a refresher at no charge. What will you learn? 1. Disaster Preparedness 2. Fire Safety 3. Disaster Medical Operations 4. Light Search and Rescue 5. Incident Command 6. CERT Organization 7. Disaster Psychology 8. Mock Disaster We need at least ten people to have this training. We should have at least that many people in the Valley who are interested in becoming better prepared. For more information and to sign up, please contact Wayne Hillstead at 745-1561, whillstead@msn.com or Darla Weston at 745-2365. Red Cross Emergency Shelter Class Offered Your Valley CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) is up to it again. We have coordinated a special training opportunity to take a Red Cross class in First Frost in the Valley—It was 26 degrees Fahrenheit at the home of Bruce Grandin of Eden on the morning of October 2. He emergency shelter management. The class snapped these icy wonderland photos of an old fence along State Road 158, just a half mile up from the Valley Market on the way CERT TRAININGS cont. on page 3 to Wolf Creek. Grandin commented, “It looks like someone forgot to turn off the irrigation water.” FUNdraiser Planned for Powder Victims On Friday, the 13th of November, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., Weber County citizens will host a fundraiser to show their support for the homeowners fighting to resist town incorporation by Powder Mountain. Supporters say, “These citizens are being snatched from the valley floor, out of their hometown of Eden. They have not had the right to vote on whether they want to be in the town and they will not be able to vote on the developer-appointed city council, either, that could govern and tax them. This issue is more serious than any other we’ve ever seen in the Valley.” Event organizers have planned a fun evening in Ogden’s Union Station Browning Theatre. The social hour will feature music by Shades of Gray and an open house in the stunning Browning antique car museum. Dinner will be provided by Union Grill followed by a lighthearted melodrama written and produced by local playwright Paul Birkbeck. Attendees will receive a copy of the video being pro- duced by Jack Wright about the Powder Mountain incorporation issue. Why is this issue important to you? Supporters state, “For those of us who live in the Valley, it is twofold. First, the intent of this incorporation is to increase the equity value for the sale of Powder Mountain by circumventing county law to the detriment of all of us. Secondly, and most importantly, it deprives citizens of their right to vote. In a democracy, when the rights of any citizen are denied, it is our responsibility to stand up for them. And standing up we are.” Plan to join in on this fun-filled fundraiser event. Tickets may be purchased at the Eden Coffee & Cocoa Co., Valley Market, or by calling Chelse Maughan at 801-745-4627. You may also contact her at <chelse21@hotmail.com> Remember, you can love Powder—the mountain, and still be absolutely outraged at the planned takeover by Powder Mountain— the town. Eden Youth Part of Xterra Utah Winning Relay Team Conner Smith, 16, son of Bart and Chris riding the 19km mountain bike ride, finished in Smith of Eden, and two of his Weber High 1:43:54, taking the men’s and the overall relay class wins by almost two minutes School friends and teammates, over the second place team. Keith Barker, 17, of Pleasant Smith, suffering from a View and Zane Enders, 17, also of cold and sinus infection, fought Pleasant View, joined together to off the effects and pounded win the Xterra Utah Team Relay home a relay class best run time class at the 2009 Xterra USA offover the beautiful fall-decked road championships held in Ogden Snowbasin trails of :20:40, Valley, Saturday, September 26. erasing a 1 minute deficit at the Smith and Barker are teammates beginning of his run. Not only on Weber High school’s swim was Smith’s run the best in the team. Smith and Enders are teammates on the Autoliv Junior Conner Smith of Eden. relay class, but was the 5th fastest time posted by all 288 runMountain Bike Team. Competing against 35 other men’s, wom- ners competing in the Xterra Utah. Barker’s swim time of :13:11 was the en’s, and mixed class relay teams of all ages, Smith, running the anchor 5km trail run; Barker, 2nd fastest time in the relay class and the 4th swimming the leadoff 750m swim; and Enders, EDEN YOUTH cont. on page 12 Finding Utah’s Garden of Eden By Lee Benson Editor’s Note: At the end of September, Lee Benson’s office was his bicycle as he traveled the byways and backways of northern Utah, looking for columns. OGDEN VALLEY — If there’s one place in the Beehive State that might be excused for going all pious on us, for acquiring a holierthan-thou attitude, it’s gotta be this place. Nestled between majestic mountain peaks keeping watch like so many Roman sentinels, the Ogden Valley has movie-star good looks. You’d swear Norman Rockwell painted it. It’s as incapable of looking bad as Salma Hayek. It makes everywhere else look lone and dreary. And don’t think the people who live here, all 6,000 of them, don’t know it. The verdant valley’s centerpiece town is named Eden. The Mormon pioneers who came in 1859 to farm the land and follow their bliss racked their brains and couldn’t think of a better fit. Eden sits between the equally small, equally charming towns of Liberty and Huntsville. These villages are surrounded by farms, ranches, horse pastures, Snowbasin, Powder Mountain and Wolf Creek Utah ski resorts, the occasional top-rate golf courses—and right in the middle there’s a pictureperfect lake: Pineview Reservoir. All this is overlooked by Monte Cristo (The Mount of Christ). Is it any wonder the valley’s two biggest tourist attractions are spiritual in nature? Each is located east of Eden. On 7600 South in Huntsville, the family home of David O. McKay, the enormously popular president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1951 until his death in 1970, attracts visitors on Saturdays throughout the summer months. Family members who maintain the old homestead personally conduct guided tours free of charge. FINDING UTAH cont. on page 7 Wildlife in Ogden Valley On Thursday, October 6, Huntsville Town’s “Meet the Candidate Night” was held at the old Valley Elementary School in Huntsville. Pictured above left to right are Alan Clapperton, Doug Allen, Mike Engstrom, Jim Truett, and Richard Sorensen. EPA Finalizes Nonattainment Designations for Utah Counties—Designations will lead to plan to bring cleaner air to Wasatch Front Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert was notified October 8, 2009 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final decision on the areas in Utah that do not meet the revised 24hour fine particle standards (PM2.5). These areas have been designated as “nonattainment” areas and will require action in order to achieve a common goal of cleaner, healthier air. This is the first time Utah has had PM2.5 areas designated as nonattainment. EPA sent letters to Governors and Tribal leaders in August 2008 outlining the areas that did not meet the federal health-based fine particle air quality standard and invited comments for consideration. EPA evaluated the comments and additional data submitted before making these final decisions. In December 2008, after closely reviewing recommendations from states and tribes along with public comments, EPA identified attainment and nonattainment areas based on air quality monitoring data from 2005 through 2007. The December 2008 designations were never published in the Federal Register and have been under review. Because the 2008 air quality data is the most recent, EPA used this data to make final designations. “PM2.5 levels in Utah communities can have considerable impacts to human health. Designating areas as nonattainment will lead to the development of a plan to reduce air pollution emissions and bring cleaner air to the Wasatch Front,” said Carol Rushin, EPA Region 8’s Acting Regional Administrator. According to the most recent state-validated air quality monitoring data, several counties in Utah violated the 24-hour PM2.5 federal standard. Based on this data, EPA Eight fox have made friends with neighbors in the Elk Horn Subdivision in Eden, although only one or two visit at a time. Darcy Adams stated, “They eat out of our hands now and even have licked my toes! They are beautiful and we really enjoy them. Sometimes when we open our front door, there they are on the porch just waiting. They have joined me in the yard when I am weeding, or doing other chores.” Pictured above is Darcy’s sonEPA cont. on page 8 in-law Derek and grandson Drayten. See page 11 for more wildlife photos. |