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Show Volume XIX Issue XIII The Ogden Valley news Page 11 May 1, 2011 Ogden Valley Regional Team Wraps It Up at IMD Champs Facing variable weather conditions all weekSkiing slalom on Sunday, in the female J5 end, select Ogden Valley Ski Team Regional class, Hallie Miller and Katie Townsend placed and Junior Olympic athletes competed in the eighth and ninth respectively. In the female Intermountain Division Championships at J4 class, Laura Anderson placed sixth. In the Snowbird, Utah on March 25 – 27. The female J3 class, Fiona Boomer, Lyndsay Harris, IMD Champs is an and Jana Robinson invitational race featurplaced eighth, tenth, and ing the top junior skiers fourteenth respectively. from Alaska, California, In the male J5 class, Idaho, Wyoming, and Bridger Harrison took Utah. Skiing Kombi on the bronze. In the male Friday, in the female J5 J4 class, Jack Davis (ages 9 - 10) class, Hallie placed ninth, Cooper Miller placed thirteenth Harrison placed elevand Katie Townsend enth, and Josh Almony placed fifteenth. In the finished in fifteenth female J4 (ages 11 - 12) place. In the male J3 class, Ruby Marden took class, Happy Brown the silver. In the female took silver and Charlie J3 (ages 13 - 14) class, Right of center Eden resident Happy Brown Fuertsch placed sixth. Jana Robinson, Lyndsay (grey jacket) took second in the GS race on The Junior Olympic Harris, and Fiona Boomer Saturday March 26 and third in the Kombi on team will return to placed fourth, sixth and Friday in his age class. Snowbird next weekend eleventh respectively. to race in the Snowbird In the male J5 class, Bridger Harrison Snowcup GS and Last Chance Slaloms. placed third. In the male J4 class, Cooper On March 31 through April 4, the Ogden Harrison placed ninth. In the male J3 class, Valley Ski Team Junior Olympic athletes Happy Brown took the bronze. On Saturday, ended the season at the Snowbird Snow Cup skiing giant slalom, in the female J3 class, Last Chance Giant Slaloms and Last Chance Hallie Miller placed tenth and Katie Townsend Slaloms. Skiing for Ogden Valley in the placed thirteenth. Female J3/J2 class were Isabel Torres, Kelci In the female J4 class, Laura Anderson Huffaker and Fiona Boomer. Torres shone in placed sixth. In the female J3 class, Jana the giant slalom with a nineteenth place finish. Robinson placed seventh, Fiona Boomer placed In the male J3/J2 class, Eric Anderson, Davis eighth and Lyndsay Harris finished in fifteenth Anderson, Michael Townsend, Ryan Totman, place. Happy Brown, Charlie Fuertsch, Tommy In the male J5 class, Bridger Harrison Franquelin, Parker Gray, and Joey Thomason took the bronze and Christian Belmont placed represented Ogden Valley. Gray saw his best twelfth. In the male J4 class, Cooper Harrison result with a twelfth-place finish in the giant placed ninth and Josh Almony placed eleventh. slalom. All athletes had the opportunity to In the male J3 class, Happy Brown took the sil- improve their standings for the upcoming 2011ver and Charlie Fuertsch finished in fourteenth 2012 race season. place. Third Annual Snowcrest Relay Powered by Ragnar—A fun family event! Mark your calendar for May 7, 2011 for so athletic because they will be laughing at the the third annual Snowcrest Relay powered by hilarious costumes that many teams wear. Ragnar. It is Snowcrest Junior High’s only Every runner will receive a Ragnar tech PTSO fundraiser and is geared to be fun for all. shirt and a swag bag full of freebies and The relay will run from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m. discounts from local merchant—not to menat the junior high. tion a shot at becoming In addition to the reigning champions and safety bike check that getting their names on a Diamond Peak will be perpetual trophy housed running and the blow-up at Snowcrest. toys that High Altitude Businesses who Kids will provide, there want to contribute to will be a silent auction Snowcrest’s fundraiser available to purchase can donate in several merchandise and serother ways besides crevices from local busiating a team. A businesses while supportness can donate items ing Snowcrest. Also, or coupons for items for Zeppe’s will be providthe swag bags. If a busiing gelatos for all runness donates $25 or more Ragnar Relay 2010. ners, and will also have they can provide advertheir delicious treats available for purchase. tisements that will be added to the swag bags. Valley Market will be donating all profits from Of course, there is also a silent auction where their hamburger meal sale. businesses can donate services or items to be This fun-run is a 15-mile relay where auctioned off. Finally, prizes will be given to teams of 1, 3, 5 or 15 can split up the run into runners on outstanding teams for speed and the 1-mile legs. In the past there have been spirit. some super student athletes, some cute future You do not want to miss this fun, family athletes, and some not-so athletes competing. event! Come get some exercise and watch the Runners and walkers of all fitness levels are goofy teams support Snowcrest. encouraged to come out and take a lap with us. If you are a business wanting to donate to Nobody will be laughing at you if you are not the event, please call Sherene at 801-920-4460. The American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos count, solve puzzles, learn symbols, and retain By Bill Fenimore It used to be that the only information. Crows also cache food. Crows soon learned that they could make an time one would see a crow easy living picking through dumpsters behind in Utah was during early fall when crows migrated through fast food restaurants. Crows are generalist and Utah before winter. They were are very successful. Being omnivorous, their fairly uncommon. This all changed approxi- favorite food is anything they can swallow. Pet mately 15 years ago. No one knows for certain, foods have become common fare for crows. Walnuts are dropped to be cracked open on there is a specific asphalt roads. They will feed HUNTSVILLE FACILITY cont. from page 1 as the newest member of the Huntsville Town whether biological reason for their on carrion from road kills. Council at a council meeting held April 21 at living here now. However, mal hours from June 1 to There isn’t anything a crow the Town Hall. She will speculation is that it is assoJune 20, 2011. will turn away from, as a fill the remaining 8-month ciated with global warming, Soft compost matepotential food source. term of Councilman Steve and suburban sprawl, which rial such as leaves and Being a gregarious and Johnson, who is moving has provided the crow with grass clippings will be social bird, they travel in to Wyoming for several an abundance of resources charged the normal rate. extended family groups. months with his family. that were not here for them Loads must be separated Young fledglings learn where Gas Stolen - It was before, such as dumpsters (woody tree material septo find food resources and reported by Councilman with lots of trash, fast food arate from soft compost are trained and protected by Richard Sorensen that dur- restaurants and their accommaterial), and only loads adults in the foraging flocks. ing the first part of April, at panying outdoor trash bins, of woody tree material These foraging flocks can least two incidents of sto- pet foods left outside for dogs will be dumped free of number into the hundreds and len gasoline were report- and cats, etc. American Crow charge. thousands. Crows will set ed. Apparently, gasoline A pair of crows migrating Huntsville Town up colonial roosts at night. had been syphoned from Swears in new Council New Huntsville Town councilwoman Laurie vehicles or tanks located through Utah stopped in Ogden and never left. These large foraging flocks will travel throughThey nested that year and raised several young. Member - Laurie Allen, Allen was sworn into office on April 21 by on 200 South between out their habitat searching for food resources. a lifelong resident of Town Treasurer Ramona Clapperton. Photo 7000 and 7200 East in Today, the crow is one of the most widely disThe vocalization of the crow has sevtributed birds in North America. Huntsville, was sworn in by Richard Sorensen. Huntsville Town. Crows are in the family Corvidae. This eral distinctive calls that tell others whether there is danger, food, and/or family of birds includes the predators nearby. These and CRAPPIE cont. from page 1 but unless we see this happening more fre- jays, magpies, ravens, and several other calls help them quently in the future, there’s not a whole crows. The American Crow become top of the totem pole is 17 inches tall with a wing the dam likely sucked fish through that lot we can do.” in the bird world. Crows are span of 39 inches and weighs were suspended in the water column. often seen mobbing owls and Note: This article is being reprinted by 1 lb. It is easily recognized as Penne said the fish are probably dying hawks. an all-black bird. One field from trauma sustained while passing permission of the “Standard-Examiner.” Both sexes build the mark for telling them apart through the dam combined with the fastnest, consisting of twigs and from the Common Raven moving current of the swollen river. “With branches placed high in a is the shape of the tail. A the river so high, there’s really no area for tree or on a utility pole cross crow’s tail is squared off at member. Three to seven those fish to hold,” he said. While casuthe end; the raven’s tail is bluish eggs are incubated alties have been high, Penne said there wedged shaped and rounded by both sexes for 18 days. shouldn’t be any long-term threat to the at the end. The raven is a Altricial young (born with Pineview fishery. “We do suspect losing third larger than a crow. Its mandible is heavy a lot of fish, but we don’t think anglers and thick where the crow mandible is slender eyes closed, naked and helpless) fledge from should despair,” he said. “We don’t perand pointed. The vocalization of the crow is the nest within 35 days. ceive any threat to the overall population.” distinctive with the caw, caw, caw. The ravens Note: Bill Fenimore is the author of the Backyard The first fishes started showing up about call is a deep croak. Crows are one of the higher intelligence of Birds of Utah and owner of the Layton, Wild Bird a week ago. Penne said it’s possible that bird families. Studies have shown that they can Center, <www.wildbird.com/layton> more could be coming downstream in days Photo Credits: Tim Avery and Ted Steinke. or weeks to come, but there’s no way to tell for sure until it happens. Since such an event happens only once every couple of decades, “it’s not likely we could do anything to change it,” he said. “We don’t like Lil Sedgwick of Eden Hills took this photo of to see fish going into the river like that, a mother moose feasting on trees in her yard! Great Clips has moved out . . . We are a sponsor of “Locks of Love” Family Salon is in! Located in the Fresh Market Complex at 21st and Harrison Blvd. Haircuts $10-$13 * Women’s Color $40 * Women’s Perms $45 Men’s Color $30 * Weaves $55 $3.00 OFF Any Service (All Perms & Colors include cut, style, & condition) Experienced Stylists ~ Walk-ins Welcome! 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