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Show The Ogden Valley news Page 12 Volume XVII Issue XXIV June 1, 2010 Letters to the Editor Volunteers and Sponsors Continue to Support Cleanup Efforts Knitwits Thank Donors for Yarn Volunteers who helped pick up trash along the Ogden River and within Ogden Canyon on April 22 had a great day! Several new people also helped this year. About 43 people showed up to clean up debris in Ogden Canyon on April 22—a twice-a-year effort by the community that is sponsored by the Ogden Canyon Club. Because of the great community support, a lot of junk was cleared away. Lunch was provided courtesy of Keith and Belinda Rounkles of the Oaks Restaurant, and Jody Sniggs of the Gray Cliff Lodge baked desert. Thanks again for your continued support. The Ogden Canyon Club would especially like to thank our sponsors: Kirk Langford La Ferrovia Ristorante Oaks Restaurant Olive & Dahlia Roosters Snowbasin Ski Resort Sonora Grill Staker Parsons Companies State of Utah Highway Dept. The City Club The Daily Rise Union Grill Weber County Road Dept. The Knitwits want to thank Penny Ogle of Eden and Ellen Eden of Ogden for their generous donation of several bags full of yarn. Our heartfelt thanks to both of you! This will enable Teaching Kids about Healthy Diet is Critical May was National Stroke Awareness Month, and as a dietitian, I think we should focus on decreasing our own risk factors for strokes, and on reducing the risk of strokes for future generations. Nearly half of all adults in the United States have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or diabetes, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. These conditions all increase the Gail Breeze, risk for heart disease and strokes, and they are all Ogden Canyon Club related to diet and lifestyle. Eating habits are learned at an early age, so it is Universal Health Care—So easy even a caveman can do it! absolutely crucial that we teach children healthy eatI would like to thank The Ogden Valley news for Constitution; it is about social responsibility. It is about ing habits. We need to do all we can to fill school their courage and willingness to allow all views of finding the Samaritan within us. When I see the rile of bile that torrents up against A Community Worth Saving an important issue a fair hearing. I would also like to thank those who have given me such kind cards, universal health care I cannot help but think about We live in a small community. Like small businotes, and phone calls which, much to my surprise and the twenty-year-old man who died sometime between nesses, everyone is important. Your views, your delight, told me my Ogden Valley vigil is not as lonely 10,000 and 15,000 years ago. The archeologists who opinions, your ideas are all valuable assets to the discovered him were astonished when they realized there place we call home. Like a small business, every as I once believed. Finally, I’d like to thank Dr. Lonnie D. Crockett, was no way this young man, given his obvious deformi- decision has rippling effects felt by the entire pond. PhD. My goodness! He used my name so many times ties, could have survived to the age he did without being On June 1, you have the right, the opportunity to in his responsive missive that it kind of made me feel cared for by those around him. So, in the Paleolithic, send a ripple through this pond we call The Valley. like a Hollywood celebrity. All I need now is the they had stone tools and universal health care. A long time resident of the Valley, one of our I am confident the Founding Fathers never intended own sold their property called Powder Mountain to paparazzi and I can be Britney Spears. Mr. Crockett suggests he too has a legal education the Constitution to be used as a tool to escape the duties a group of developers. It’s been a long and winding and therefore knows the way I think. But his dubious we have that have made us human for several millen- road with many hurt feelings along the way. Politics assertion of legal credentials should make one wonder nia. I would hope that, with all our advantages, we can have been ugly and useful. Gossip has been hurtful. whether he is the most qualified source for an educa- at least muster up the courage to emulate our prehistoric Assumed motives coupled with ramped up emotion on Constitutional law. The President’s Health brethren. As they say. “It’s so easy, a caveman can do tions have written far too many hurtful distasteful Care Reform Act will withstand any Constitutionally- it.” And they didn’t even have PhDs! anonymous blog posts. Whole groups of innocent based attacks—just like the Medicare Act, the Social home owners have been taken hostage. Long time Security Act, and the Income Tax Act did before it. Gary D. Anderson, advocates of responsible planning have been stunned But this issue, at the end of the day, is not about the Huntsville at the possibility of years of thoughtful work being dismissed. Ultimately, there are those who jumped to one side or another. Then, there are those who A Marxist, by and Other Name, is Still a Marxist simply ignored the whole mess. There is no guarantee that the best argument Crockett’s letter got published ahead of ours.] Regardless if you took a side or decided to mind will win, but it is certain that if you don’t make the Now let’s talk about doing good. You site one of argument the other side wins by default. So we must your neighbor’s hymns, “Have I Done Any Good.” your own business, it’s time to come together for make the effort to answer Mr. Gary D. Anderson. A What you don’t know is that in an earlier, less politi- the sake of the future of this Valley. Regardless if close reading of his Letter to the Editor, “Obama’s cally-correct age, the words “the world has no need you’re pro personal property rights or a board memHeath Care Reform” etc., in the May 1 issue of The for a drone” were in that song. Those words are now ber of the Sierra Club, it’s time to come together. The developers of Powder Mountain have subOgden Valley news, reveals some interesting things replaced by “to God each good work will be known.” about the author. As an impressionable nine-year- Words and substitute words of a poet are not where we old his soul was corrupted by the notion that he is need to go in this argument, but both sets do emphasize Economics Forces Huntsville entitled to live by the sweat of another man’s brow. the importance your neighbors place on work. You Regarding the new toll booth in Huntsville on We truly are sorry for his father’s misfortune; we’re know what we mean by your neighbors—those even sorrier for the damnable philosophy Anderson people who in times past labored in a sugar beet the road to the Forest Service facilities at Cemetery imbibed at such a tender age. His corruption mani- welfare farm field, or who now work at a cannery Point, this was neither an easy decision nor one that fests itself in the mean spiritedness he directs toward so that less fortunate people, including your “non- the Huntsville Town Council wanted to make. We felt his Ogden Valley neighbors exercising their right of card board clients” who likely are among the 47% there was no other choice and the decision to have a toll free expression. Using such phrases as ”right wing of Americans who pay no federal income tax, can booth was unanimous amongst the council members. Huntsville receives about $40,000 from the state nut job,” ”rant of late,” “snug and smug,” “well live better. So let’s enunciate a principle here about appointed church pews,” and ”how righteous they “good.” When an FDR, LBJ, or BO does something each year in B & C road funds that is supposed to are,” reveals more about Mr. Anderson than about in the name of helping people in the short run that, cover snow removal, salaries, road and truck maintehis neighbors. So Gary, if you’ll come with us to the in reality, damages their character for generations to nance, repairs, sand, salt, etc. for all of Huntsville’s woodshed, we’ll set you straight. come, that’s a perversion of “good.” It’s like giving roads. A much-needed overlay of First Street will cost Shame on you for the obvious attempt at asso- them a fish as opposed to teaching them how to fish, more than $350,000, while Huntsville’s entire annual budget is also about $350,000. Maintaining First ciation of the word “Marxism” with a racial slur and, like rotten fish, it stinks. because of alphabetic proximity to some other letter. You spoke of our “duly elected president,” and Street is not only taking away from the other roads in Either you can read people’s hearts or your crude so he was. If Obama is a qualified U.S. citizen, his town, but causing us to fall further behind each year. Huntsville has only 225 households but there are observation, coupled with your publicly funded cho- election gave him legitimacy to serve as president for sen profession, along with your mean-spiritedness four years—or until he attempts to take this country some 30,000 vehicles using First Street each summer, reveal that you are a niggardly pettifogger. Don’t in a direction where a majority of its citizens refuse to many of them are trucks pulling heavy boats. Our you realize that any accusation of racism, where no go. When he does this, he looses his legitimacy. We road is the primary access to boating, picnicking, and beach-going at Cemetery Point where recreation racism exists, is itself racism? measure legitimacy by elections and opinion polls. But let’s get serious in this argument. With a So Mr. Anderson, don’t lecture the good people enthusiasts utilize the American Land and Leisure wave of your pen, you dismiss the word “Marxism” of Ogden Valley when they do what they think (AL&L) operated marina and facilities. For several years the town has tried to encourage as “socially and politically obsolete.” Says who? If necessary to rescue their country from a cancer that a fundamental premise of Marxism is “from each threatens precious constitutional principles from American Land and Leisure to help with the road costs. according to his ability, to each according to his need,” people who obviously know nothing about that We initially asked for a small portion of the $10 they now charge visitors and AL&L refused. Last year, we and this is to be accomplished by government’s power document beyond its general welfare clause. then asked them to collect an additional $2 or we’d have of taxation, and Obama does this, with your approval, Richard Evans, to install a toll booth to do it ourselves. They discussed then you are both Marxist. You know . . . if it “wal- Charles Watson, this but delayed answering us until the end of the 2009 lows” like a pig and smells like a pig, then it’s probably Eden season, when they again refused to cooperate. a pig. [Sorry about having to change our metaphor; We enlisted the support of Congressman Rob Bishop and Senator’s Hatch and Bennett. They Athenian Restaurant Bingham Cyclery Brewski Costco Diamond Peak Mountain Sports Gray Cliff Lodge Restaurant IPS, For All Your Promotional Needs Kay & Evelyn Chapman Morgan Lion’s Club and Broken Heart Rodeo Presents…... 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The Healthy School Meals Act, H.R. 4870, would help schools add plant-based vegetarian meal options to help fight childhood obesity and other chronic health problems. Learn more at <www. HealthySchoolLunches.org> Kathryn Strong, M.S., R.D. Staff dietician Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, D.C. mitted a base plan for development for our consideration called a memorandum of understanding. In addition, Weber County Planning has prepared a Staff Report outlining the history of this project including zoning details. We have the right and privilege of reviewing their proposal that could profoundly affect our way of life. Please find both documents here for your review <http://www.co.weber. ut.us/commission/pdf/Powder%20Mtn%20Combina tion%20MOU.pdf> or <http://www.co.weber.ut.us/ commission/pdf/Powder%20Mtn%20Staff%20Repo rt%20to%20Co%20Com%20060110.pdf> On June 1st we have the privilege of bringing our questions, concerns, and suggestions before our sincerely concerned elected county officials. I hope this will be an exercise in civility. The developers proposed base from which to start a development agreement needs our scrutiny. The numbers of homes and buildings requested promise to rigorously test our delicate infrastructure. However, upon closer look, there is far more at risk than too many houses, too many cars, too many people. If we cannot look upon our neighbors as allies and friends then what “community” is worth saving? It’s time to come together. Laura Warburton, Huntsville Town to Install Toll Booth offered plenty of moral support, but in the end, neither the Forest Service nor AL&L stepped up to the plate. Huntsville has been promised some grant money to help with resurfacing, but it won’t be funded until 2015. Quite simply, our well-traveled road will not make it that long without extensive maintenance or reduced traffic. Up until two weeks ago, we thought AL&L would see the light and realize the best option for everyone would be for AL& L to collect the $2 fee. Unfortunately, they have again chosen to refuse our request to cooperate and we now must charge $3, with the extra $1 to cover salaries and other expenses associated with the booth. While we wanted to give Weber County residents, whose county taxes already contribute to some of the services provided in the Valley, special treatment, our attorneys, along with legal counsel for the US Forest Service, advised us that a toll would have to be uniform to all road users. We cannot be selective and give certain people or groups special treatment while charging others. As individual council members, we would not institute a rule that we are not willing to abide by ourselves. In fact, four of the council members are active boaters and will be directly affected as regular users of Cemetery Point facilities. My boat is typically launched at Cemetery Point three to four times each week, so my recreational expenses just went up too. Happy Boating! Richard L. Sorensen, Huntsville Town Council |
