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Show The Ogden Valley news Page 10 Volume XIX Issue XXII December 15, 2011 Brighton, Park City Mountain and Snowbasin Resorts Introduce Wasatch Mountain Night Rail Jam Series Brighton, Park City and Snowbasin Resorts welcome a Friday Night Rail Jam Series to the Wasatch Mountains. The Friday Night Jib Fight (FNJF) rail jam series consists of ten rail jams over the course of the 2011-2012 winter season. “Last season, Park City Mountain Resort and Snowbasin hosted independent Friday night rail jams at each resort. Rather than compete against each other, we decided to join forces and take the series to the next level,” said Jeremy Cooper, Park City Mountain Resort Terrain Park Manager. Jared Winkler, Brighton PR and Marketing Manager, added, “When Snowbasin and Park City Mountain Resort approached me about Brighton joining the series it was a perfect fit; including a Wasatch Front resort will round out the series.” The FNJF series will begin at Snowbasin on December 16. Each resort will then host three rail jams over the course of the 2011-2012 winter season, with a final event being held in Park City on March 30. Each contest will have the same format and similar terrain layout with each resort’s terrain park crew adding its own twist. Competitors will register the day of each individual event, starting at 4:00 p.m., and each contest will start at 5:30 p.m. Each event will be $15 to enter with an amateur division competing for prizes and a pro division that has cash prizes. Jason Dyer, PR and Marketing Manager at Snowbasin, said, “We all decided on a unified format, layout, and organization that are both fun and exciting, which people have grown to expect of our resorts.” For a list of full details about the contest, dates, and times, visit Friday Night Jib Fights on Facebook at <www.facebook. com/fridaynightjibfights> Utah Wildlife News: Have fun & see wild elk at Hyrum festival You and your family can elk starts at the ranch the day before the festiparticipate in several outdoor val—on December 16. On this date, the ranch’s activities at this year’s Elk visitor center will be open and sleigh or wagon Festival. You might even have rides will be offered during the following a chance days and times: Fridays, noon to take a to 4:30 p.m.; Saturdays and horse-drawn Sundays, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 wagon or p.m.; and Mondays, noon to sleigh ride 4:30 p.m. through the middle of a If you want to go on a bunch of wild elk! sleigh ride or a wagon ride, The festival will be held at you must buy your ticket at the Hardware Ranch Wildlife the visitor center by 4:30 p.m. Management Area (WMA) On Tu e s d a y s , on Saturday, December 17. Wednesdays, and Thursdays, Activities run from 10:00 the sleigh rides will not be Having fun at the Elk Festival. a.m. to 2:00 p.m. running and the visitor center Except for a fee to ride will not be open. You can a horse-dawn sleigh or wagon through the still bring your binoculars and view the elk meadow at the WMA ($5 for those 9 years of from a distance, though. age or older, or $3 for those 3 to 5 years old), For more information, visit <www.hardall of the festival activities are free. wareranch.com> You can also call the ranch You can reach the WMA by traveling 18 at 435-753-6206 or email Lee at <marnilee@ miles east of Hyrum on state Route 101. utah.gov> “You don’t have to travel all the way to Apply for a Turkey Hunting Permit the North Pole to see Rudolph this year,” says Even though snow is just starting to fall in Marni Lee, assistant manager at the Hardware Utah, one group of Utahns—the state’s turkey Ranch WMA. “Instead, come to the ranch and hunters—are already preparing for next spring! see his cousins—Rocky Mountain elk.” Applications to hunt wild turkeys during Activities - Making Christmas ornaments Utah’s limited-entry hunt are now being acceptusing sagebrush, bitterbrush, and other plants ed. You can apply at www.wildlife.utah.gov found at the WMA are among the activities Your application must be received no later your children can participate in. “We’ll also than 11:00 p.m. on December 28 to be entered teach you how to turn a pinecone into a bird in the draw for permits. feeder,” Lee says. “And your kids can paint General Statewide Hunt - If you don’t their very own replica of a fish.” draw a limited-entry permit, don’t pack your Lee encourages you to bring some bin- gun away—you can still hunt turkeys this oculars and to dress for all types of weather. spring. “We will host the event,” she says, “even if it Permits for Utah’s general statewide hunt snows.” go on sale February 23. The general statewide On your way to the ranch, you can enjoy hunt will be held in May. the scenic drive up Blacksmith Fork Canyon. More information about Utah’s 2012 Food is not available at the ranch, but you’re turkey hunting season is available in the welcome to bring a picnic lunch and eat it in the 2011 - 2012 Utah Upland Game and Turkey WMA’s lunch room. Guidebook. The free guidebook is available Sleigh rides Start December 16 - Another at www.wildlife.utah.gov/guidebooks and chance to take a horse-drawn sleigh or wagon from DWR offices and hunting and fishing ride through the middle of hundreds of wild license agents across Utah. Fitness Classes in the Valley Fitness Classes start at 8:30 AM in the High Altitude Kids Tumbling Room Shuttle Available to Valley Elementary for $3. Call for details. HIGH WINDS cont. from page 1 and land-based intercontinental ballistic missile strategic nuclear arsenal from 1946 to 1992. called the Weber County Sheriff’s Office to Jay S. continued, “This guy was on the leadreport the vandalism and the insurance com- ing edge of technology in the 1950s. He flew pany to file a claim against the losses. B-50s, B-47s, B-52s, and, in January 1957, Bachman’s oldest son Jay S., named after was one of three pilots to fly B-52s non-stop his father, called the criminal activity “sense- around the world. It was the first time this had less and shameless.” He continued, “It was a ever happened. Through the remainder of the random and cruel act, one that is out of char- 50s and 60s, he was in training and administraacter for the Valley. It is something that is big tive positions in Louisiana; at SAC headquarand shameful. . . . Dad has lived here thirty ters in Omaha, Nebraska; was assigned to the years, and the home contains sixty years’ of Pentagon—he was there two years in the midmemories.” sixties; and was 13 months in South Vietnam, The family agreed that it was the personal 1966-1967. He retired from service in July of items that were ruined—for no meaningful 1975. purpose—that was the most hurtful result of the “When asked about his experiences,” Jay vandalism. “The act can be S. explained, “Dad said he equated to an invasion of did it with a smile, and if he the soul,” stated Bachman’s could do it again, he would son Jay S. do it even better.” Jay S. spoke about his Jay and his wife, Nedra, father, Jay, who recently who is now deceased, built turned 90. “He entered the their home together in Eden army in 1942. He had an above the Eden Cemetery opportunity in 1944 to join between 1980 and 1981. the Army Air Corp, even The original, older Bachman before there was a U.S. Air family home is located on Force. Originally he flew a the corner just east of Grass B-29 over the South Pacific Plus Landscaping in Eden, in battle against Japan. Dad where the Bachmans lived always said that a high point in Eden beginning in the for him was flying a B-29 mid-‘60s. over the battleship the USS The family is hoping Missouri while the Japanese that someone may come forwere surrendering.” World ward to “right this wrong” War II formally ended on against their father and the the ship with the signing of rest of the Bachman family. the surrender papers at that If you have any informatime. The USS Missouri tion that may be helpful to was one of only four Iowa solving this crime, please class battleships completed contact the Weber County by the U.S. during World Sheriff’s Office or Weber War II. County Lt. Keith Burns at After the war, Bachman Act of vandalism flooded basement. 801-940-7225. came home to attend the Bachman’s sons stated that they’re hoping University of Utah, from where he graduated. that someone who knows something about the In 1947, as a member of the Reserves, he was “senseless act” will step forward. Jay S. added called back into active duty and became part of that he hopes the person will have some remorse the Strategic Air Command (SAC), which was and want to right the wrong. Referring to a conboth a Major Command (MAJCOM) of the U.S. sciousness of guilt, he concluded, “They can’t Air Force and a “specified command” of the continue to carry this kind of load.” U.S. Dept. of Defense. SAC was in charge of America’s land-based strategic bomber aircraft with disabilities to share with their families and friends in a world-class alpine environment. 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