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Show The Ogden Valley news Your Community Newspaper April 1, 2010 PRSRT STD POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO Snowbasin Offers Ski Patrol Training Scenario On Friday, April 2, Snowbasin Ski Patrol will offer a training scenario in Middle Bowl Cirque involving a large inbounds avalanche with numerous buried and/or injured mock victims. This training will involve Ski Patrols and dog teams from ski areas all over the Wasatch, and is scheduled to begin at about 10:00 a.m. Anyone who is interested in the training can observe. The Ski Patrol is also looking for willing public participants to help out. Participation is open to anyone who is interested. Being involved in this training should be a great opportunity to experience what would happen in the case of a large inbounds avalanche. Participants will be directed and organized by Snowbasin Ski Patrol. Anyone interested in participating in this training should meet at the top of the Needles Gondola at 9:20 a.m. on April 2. For more information, or if interested in helping, please call 801-620-1017. Please note our new email addresses: Shanna Francis, slfrancis@digis.net Jeannie Wendell, crwendell@digis.net Spring balloon. Photo by Kevin Mikkelsen. USDA Forest Service Hosts Public Events Future Eagle Scout Leads Troop In Quest for Organ and Tissue Donors on Development of New Planning Rule On March 24, 2010, The Uintah-Wasatch-Cache National Forest Supervisor Brian Ferebee announced a series of events to provide opportunities for public discussion on the development of a new Forest Service Land and Resource Management Planning Rule (planning rule). A roundtable discussion will be held on April 8, 2010 at the Radisson Hotel, 215 W. South Temple, in Salt Lake City from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Each session will be identical. In addition to the roundtable meeting in Salt Lake City, the Forest Service will host a national science forum, three national roundtables, eight regional roundtables, and 14 roundtable meetings throughout the Intermountain Region on April 8 at each Forest Supervisor’s Office. Meeting locations, agenda, and pre-registration can be found at www.fs.fed.us/r4 by clicking on the “Planning Rule” link. Providing multiple opportunities for public participation ties directly to President Obama’s call for open government that is transparent, participatory, and collaborative, and illustrates FOREST SERVICE cont. on page 7 Saying Goodbye to Brother Felix By Kristen Moulton The Salt Lake Tribune Brother Felix McHale, one of the founders of Utah’s 63-year-old Trappist monastery, was sent out of this world Tuesday the same way he lived: simply. After a funeral Mass in the chapel at the Abbey of the Holy Trinity, Felix was lowered into his grave on a plywood slab, taking his place next to a couple dozen other monks whose lives are marked with plain white crosses. In the tradition of Trappist monks, there was no casket. The body had minimal preparation; there was no makeup to disguise death. Felix—a monk known for corny jokes and spontaneous singing—wore his simple white habit, the cowl covering the top of his head, and black socks. “We brought nothing into this world, and it’s certain we can carry nothing out,” said the Rev. Leander Dosch, who led his fellow monks in chanting psalms and other prayers over their 93-year-old brother’s body in the shadow of the church, snow still covering much of the ground. The distant honking of geese filled the chilled air. BROTHER FELIX cont. on page 11 Eden Family Burglarized—Community needed for help in finding suspects By Shanna Francis An Eden family was burglarized March 11. Shawn Durrant had only been gone for about one and a half hours—between 1:00 and 2:30 p.m.— when he returned home to find that his home and garage had been pillaged of electronic equipment; guns; tools; personal information, including birth certificates; a leather coat, and even baby clothing. The burglars also tried to hot wire his Cadillac that was parked in the garage, and grab his motorcycle too. All in all, the burglars got away with about $35,000 worth of merchandise. In return, they left a muddy mess behind, with muddy shoe prints found all through the house. From the evidence, it looks like there were at least two individuals involved in the crime. They also left tire prints near the bottom of the drive way that leads onto River Road. The victim stated, “It looks like they got stuck near the bottom of my dirt drive, and almost went in the ditch.” The tire tracks were made by BF Goodrich Mud Terrain tires that probably fit some type BURGLARY cont. on page 10 U.S. Air Force Non-Commissioned Officer Returns Home from Iraq— By Shanna Francis Ogden Valley’s hospitality can make coming home after serving in Iraq with the U.S. Air Force just that more meaningful, according to Mark Hudson of Nordic Valley and his wife Kallie. In March, Hudson returned home from serving active duty in Iraq to find that his neighbors, friends, and a scout and church group had lined the street to his home with American flags. They also displayed a large banner that expressed a hearty welcome home. Mark’s wife Kallie stated, U.S. Air Force “That welcome has meant Technical Sergeant everything to us.” Mark Hudson in On March 20, friends Balad, Iraq. and neighbors also hosted a homecoming open house for Mark at their neighbor’s—Delbert and Joy Morris. Mark states that he comes from a three-generation tradition of servicemen in his family. His grandfather retired from the U.S. Air Force after serving his country for 31½ years, and his father met his mother at Schofield Barracks when he was stationed in Oahu, Hawaii. He served his country during the Viet Nam war. Mark was born and raised in Alabama—in Huntsville and Athens respectively. He has been deployed to Iraq twice. The first time was in October of 2007. He served there until May 2008. During his first deployment he was a team leader for the Quick Reaction Forces (QRF), whose duty was to maintain a five-minute response time for any uprising or disturbance, and to provide additional security support for detainees. He was deployed again in August of 2009 and assigned to the 332 Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, Joint Base Balad, Iraq (JBB), where he remained until returning home March 9. During his last deployment he served as an E6 Technical Sergeant from the 75th Security Forces Squadron, Hill U.S. Air Force Staff Air Force Base. Sergeant Kallie Kallie has also served Hudson, in Kuwait. her county in the U.S. Air Force. After completing Basic Training in 2003, she served at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She OFFICER HOME cont. on page 7 Library patrons at the people who are waiting for a life-saving organ Ogden Valley Branch transplant. That list continues to grow as the Library in Huntsville will need for transplant exceeds the number of come away with more organs available for transplant. That list has than books on April 10! recently topped 106,000 people; almost 400 of A group of scouts from Huntsville them are from Utah. will be there distributing information There are many reasons people and encouraging people to say “Yes” are hesitant to take that step and to organ, eye, and tissue donation. say yes to donation. Unfortunately, They will be at the library, located most of those reasons are based at 131 S. 7400 E. on April 10 from on rumors and incomplete informa11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. tion. James hopes to dispel those James Allen, who has chosen as myths and answer any questions his Eagle project to promote organ people might have regarding donaand tissue donation, has arranged with tion. He will be letting people know the library to set up a table to provide that major religions in the United patrons with this vital information. States support organ donation. The April is National Donate Life Month, donor’s family does not pay for the and James decided this would be the cost of donation. The number one James Allen perfect time to let his community priority in a hospital is patient care. know how important it is to register as an organ, Medical staff will make every effort to save a eye and tissue donor. patient’s life, even if they have said yes to organ The United Network for Organ Sharing donation. Organ and tissue donation does not (UNOS) maintains a national waiting list of EAGLE SCOUT cont. on page 7 It’s Time for Kindergarten Round Up at Valley Elementary Once again it is time for “Kindergarten Round Up” at Valley Elementary. It will be held April 7, 2010 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. This is for all children, who will be 5 years old before September 2, 2010, and their parents. Prior to the Round Up, paper work, shots, and dentist and doctor appointments are encouraged to be completed. An original of the child’s birth certificate will be required. At this time we are conducting a survey to locate all children who qualify for 2010 - 2011 kindergarten. If your child qualifies, please call or come into the office at Valley Elementary at your earliest convenience to let us know. Also, if you have a child who is currently attending kindergarten at another location, but this child will be attending Valley Elementary in 1st grade for the 2010 - 2011 school year, please contact the school to let us know. We are looking forward to serving your child at Valley Elementary “Where Children Come First.” You may contact the school office at 801452-4180. Eden Family Embraces Haitian Children —Adjusts to change in family dynamics country for generations. We realize that one effective way to break this cycle is through education.” At about the same time, Sheree’s sister and her After a whirlwind of activity and life changing experiences that began shortly after Haiti’s husband, Michelle and Scott Gordon of Bellingham, earthquake on January 12, 2010, life for the Evans Washington, had begun the process of adopting family of Eden has finally begun to settle down to a a Haitian child through an affiliated organization, Wasatch International Adoption whose office is somewhat normal routine. The journey for the Evans—Eric and Sheree located in Ogden, Utah. Throughout the lengthy adoption process, and their daughter adopting parents Madison (Madi), are encouraged 17,—began a little to travel to Haiti over a year ago a few times to when the family visit the children thought it would before the adopbe nice to sponsor tion is completa Haitian child’s ed. education by “My own making a small, journey to adopmonthly donation tion began when to Haitian Roots, a we made the misnon-profit organitake of actually zation that focuses going to Haiti!” on raising funds Evans comto educate Haitian mented. “I say children as a that jokingly of means of addresscourse; it wasn’t ing the rampant a mistake. But poverty that characterizes the coun- Shown above, from left to right, are Madi, Delanie, if I hadn’t have seen these chiltry. Since about Sheree, Eric, and J.T. Evans. ninety percent of the population in Haiti makes less dren firsthand at the orphanage, and the environthan $100 a year and schooling costs about $250 ment there, we never would have adopted Delanie per child per year, education for the majority of the and John Tony, or ‘J.T.’ as we call him.”—the latest additions to the Evan’s household. country’s children is deemed a luxury. On her first trip to Haiti in January 2009, Haitian Roots representatives state, “Without access to even a basic education, Haiti’s children are EDEN FAMILY cont. on page 13 trapped in a cycle of poverty that has plagued the By Shanna Francis |