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Show The Ogden Valley news Page 10 Volume XX Issue VII May 1, 2012 The Amazing Raise Non-Profit Highlight The Amazing Raise is brought to you by the Community Foundation of Ogden Valley. CFOV benefits the charities working together to benefit residents and the thousands of visitors who enjoy the Valley. Through the Amazing Raise, the Foundation will help RAISE awareness about these non-profits and assist them to RAISE funds. A special group of Pioneer Donors has given money which will be used to match funds raised by the non-profits during the AMAZING RAISE giving period, July 4-September 17. They challenge you to join them in generous giving. www.cfogdenvalley. org We will be featuring each of these non-profits in every issue of the OVN. We encourage you to check them out. are invited to Wolf Creek for a complimentary weekend that includes accommodations, all meals, a dinner dance, recreational opportunities, and a program to help parents and children deal with deployment issues. This program has held Best Practice status within the Air Force since 2008. What we do: One of the unique qualities of this program is what is done for the children. Several base organizations along with Air Force child development specialists take over the local junior high with a myriad of activities along with focused programming to help these children deal with the inherent fear and uneasiness that comes with a parent’s deployment. The parents go through three training sessions put on by the base Chapel that thoroughly deal with the issues that arise during a spouses deployment as well as re-integration issues when the spouse returns. Why give to us: Several seasoned officers have reported that in 25-30 year careers they have never been offered anything as beneficial to their families as this program. With the recent mandated military budget cuts, the federal funding that previously helped pay for these retreats has been eliminated. It will now be up to the Wolf Creek Foundation and the generous citizens of the Ogden area to see that this program continues. Donations made to the Wolf Creek Foundation during the Amazing Raise Giving Period July 4 through September 17 will be matched by the Community Foundation of Ogden Valley. Featured Non-Profit of the Week Who we serve: In early 2006 a chance meeting between Steve Roberts, managing partner at Wolf Creek Utah, and a chaplain from Hill Air Force Base resulted in a program that has served over 800 airmen and their families. Three or four times a year families that have someone scheduled to either deploy, or to return from deployment, Free Shooting: Public shooting ranges host two open houses you can shoot bows and arrows and firearms for free at two public shooting ranges in May. If you don’t have your own equipment, or you don’t know much about shooting, no problem—free equipment and instruction will be provided each day. And the shooting you can do is just part of the fun. When you’re not shooting, you can watch a group of expert shooters—dressed like cowboys from the Old West—demonstrate their shooting skills while moving through a course that includes stationary and pop-up targets. The Division of Wildlife Resources is hosting the open houses at its two public shooting ranges—one in Salt Lake City and one in Logan—during the following days and times: at the Lee Kay Shooting Range in Salt Lake City on May 4, from noon to 8:00 p.m. and on May 5 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Also, at the Cache Valley Shooting Range in Logan on May 11from 1:00 to 8:00 p.m.; and again on May 12 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. With the exception of the facilities’ shotgun ranges, all of their shooting ranges will be open for free on those days. And, if you want to shoot on the shotgun range, you can for a reduced price. The Lee Kay range is located at 6000 W. 2100 S. in Salt Lake City. The Cache Valley range is at 2851 W. 200 N. in Logan. RaLynne Takeda, shooting sports coordinator for the DWR, says equipment and instruction will be available for those who would like to try archery, muzzleloaders, shotguns, .22 rifles, and handguns for the first time. For more information, call the Lee Kay range at 801-972-1326. you can reach the Cache Valley range at 435-753-4600. Watch Professional Shooters in Action - The Cowboy Action Shooters and the Practical Pistol Shooters—two professional shooting groups that conduct meets at the ranges—will be at the ranges on the days the open houses are held. Both groups are skilled shooters that shoot at targets as the shooters move through a predetermined course. The Cowboy Action Shooters shoot pistols similar to those used by cowboys of the Old West. The Practical Pistol Shooters use modern pistols. Shoot Some of the Newest Firearms Experienced shooters are also invited to come to the range. In addition to shooting your own firearm for free, you can also try some of the most current firearms available on the market today. Representatives from various gun manufacturers will be on hand at both open houses. For a small fee to cover the cost of the ammunition, you can shoot some of their latest offerings. Fitness Classes in the Valley Shuttle Available to Valley Elementary for $3. Call for details. Fitness Classes start at 8:30 AM in the High Altitude Kids Tumbling Room $40/month unlimited MWF classes ~ $5/class drop in rate ~ All fitness levels & ages welcome. 801-678-7959 or 801-745-2444 Located at 4776 E. 2600 N. in High Altitude Fitness in Eden behind the old car wash. 801-745-4000 2555 WOLF CREEK DR. EDEN From the Service Deli www.valleymarketeden.com STORE HOURS: MON. - SAT. 7 AM - 10 PM SUNDAY 7 AM - 9 PM 16” Size Fresh Pizza 50c OFF with coupon Expires 5/15/12 From the Deli Next, the author looks at competition and the liberal way of planning. Concerning this the author writes, “The liberal argument (of planning) is based on the conviction that, where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other. It emphasizes that in order to make competition work beneficially a carefully thoughtout legal framework is required. Competition RemembeR ShoppeRS! Mention Valley eleMentary AT Farm Bread Expires 5/15/12 Package of Steaks $1.00 OFFwith coupon From the Meat Dept. Expires 5/15/12 4 or more 1 lb. containers Science made the great strides which in the last 150 years have changed the face of the world. the result of this growth surpassed all expectations. Wherever the barriers to the free exercise of human ingenuity were removed, man became rapidly able to satisfy ever-widening ranges of desire. By the beginning of the 20th century the workingman in the Western World had reached a degree of material comfort, security and personal independence which 100 years before had hardly seemed possible . . . a new sense of power over their own fate. Fresh Strawberries $1.00 OFF with coupon Expires 5/15/12 is not only one of the most efficient economic methods known, it is also the only manner which does not require the coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority. It dispenses with social control and gives individuals a chance to decide.” Essentially what Friedrich Hayek is saying is that competition typically keeps the government out of the equation. People are able to compete against each other and the best efforts usually win out. There is no middle man to complicate matters. Hayek does, however, believe that some types of government interference are useful. The examples he gives include the harmful effects on deforestation, the smoke coming from factories, the limit of working hours, and requiring businesses to adhere to certain sanitary arrangements. Government does have its place, but it should not, according to Dr. Hayek, centralize all the power. Competition and centralized trends are inefficient when mixed together. Planning and competition can be combined only by planning for competition—not against it. Do we see this today? Was Dr. Hayek on to something as early as 1944? As we move down the road to serfdom, we see more and more of what he was trying to say about socialism and its movement of power to the center. Our founding fathers set up a government where the power in the center was limited with most of the authority delegated to “we the people.” Unfortunately, in our present situation, we see most of the power moving towards the center. The next thing he expounds on is The Great Utopia. He says “most . . . still believe that socialism and individual freedom can be combined. yet socialism was early recognized by many thinkers as the gravest threat to freedom . . . . Nobody saw more clearly than the great political thinker (Alexis) de Tocqueville that democracy stands in an irreconcilable conflict with socialism.” He even proclaims in his book that the word “freedom” has been subjected to change over time. The word had formerly meant freedom from coercion and from the arbitrary power of other men. Now, as Hayek puts it, “it was made to mean freedom from necessity, the old demand for a redistribution of wealth.” Although, as he states, “modern socialists’ promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism.” Case in point: the relative ease with which a communist youth could be converted over to a Nazi and viceversa is now well known, but until the early 1940s it was not that apparent. Just ask Neville Chamberlain! Many societies of the past have longed for and promised their citizens the Great Utopia where people have little or no cares, and the governing body takes care of all of their wants and needs. This, according the author, is a fantasy and central planning of all economic activity will not get us to this state. Dr Hayek states that socialism is quite frankly authoritarian. Many nations in Europe have moved slowly into socialism without realizing that the end result is high taxes and a government that usually goes bankrupt trying to fulfill all the promises it made along the way. As quoted in the book, F. Holderlin says, “What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven.” Some of the additional topics discussed by Dr. Hayek in the remainder of the book are; 1) economic control and totalitarianism otherwise known as the control of the production of wealth, which is essentially the control of human life itself; 2) equality of things and security and freedom of which Benjamin Franklin said, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither.”; 3) why the worst get on top, which correlates with Lord Acton’s statement, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”; 4) the totalitarians in our midst, and 5) the prospects of international order. This classic was written in a bygone era, but it still holds true to our own time. Friedrich Hayek was a great world economist, but he is largely ignored today. His predictions of societies moving towards national socialism and away from individualism seem to be coming true. As he well noted, the strong urge for security rubs against the desire for freedom and liberty and always will. I suggest that we read this great work and discuss it and make it part of the national debate. So take the challenge and dive into this classic then email me your comments at <brownfamily09@msn.com> For our school to receive a donation from them. 25c OFF with coupon Any Family Size The work, the road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and others for over half a century. Published in the spring of 1944 in Britain, it has since become a timeless review on the relationship between individual liberties and government authority. The enduring influence of this book is evident in the everchanging political and social climates of the twentieth century. From the rise of socialism after World War II to the Reagan/Thatcher revolution in the 1980s, to the transitions in Eastern Europe from communism to capitalism in the 1990s, Mr. Hayek’s book is a classic in political philosophy, intellect, economics, and in cultural history. Join me on this journey as we look at a great work of literature. Friedrich Hayek was born in 1899 in Vienna. He obtained two doctorates from the University of Vienna, in law and in political economy. He worked under the great economist Ludwig von Mises at the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research, and in 1962 he was appointed Professor of Social Moral Sciences at the University of Chicago. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. This book, the road to Serfdom, came after he had spent half of his adult life in Austria studying closely German thought. He was concerned that the western world, primarily the United States and England, did not see the destructive path of the National Socialist (Nazis) before it blossomed into a magnitude of horror and a totalitarian system. There are many parallels from his book with our current society. Concerning planning and power, Dr. Hayek says that “Many socialist have the tragic illusion that by depriving private individuals of the power they possess in an individualist system, and transferring this power to society, they thereby extinguish power.” This is what fascism tried to do in Germany. Their movement began as a social effort and was largely accepted by the people of Germany as a good thing. Then power of the people was slowly given to the central governing body as the common people lost their authority little by little. The author states, “Our generation has forgotten that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom . . . (and) when economic power is centralized as an instrument of political power it creates a degree of dependence scarcely distinguishable from slavery.” Could we be headed toward some form of slavery or serfdom as the author suggests? Individualism, in contrast to any other form of collectivism, is, as the author writes, “based on the respect of Christianity.” This is because the basic Christian religion teaches that the individual should be free to grow and develop his or her own gifts. According to Dr. Hayek, this philosophy sprung up during the Renaissance and then spread to the rest of the Western civilization. The basic concept of individualism was to move social development towards the freeing of the individual from the ties which bound him in the feudal society where the majority of the people were servants. When people are able to enjoy their freedoms and liberties and fully develop their individualism, then, as Dr. Hayek puts it, “marvelous growth” occurs such as in such things as the sciences. He declares: From the Bakery Expires 5/15/12 Any Loaf Assorted By Forrest Brown Valley Market----Target----Smith’s Any 1/4 Sheet Cake $1.00 OFF with coupon The Road to Serfdom: A Book Review Design & Maintenance sprinkler systems, lighting Waterfalls & Ponds Custom Patios & Fire Pits Demolition & Renovation snow Plowing, salt & sanding |