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Show Volume XXI Issue II The Ogden Valley news Page 3 May 1, 2013 Letters to the Editor Science Day a Phenomenal Success! The Science Day at Valley Elementary on April 2 was a phenomenal success. Thanks to all the community volunteers, who taught over 30 workshops, and thanks to all the parent volunteers who supported them. We are especially grateful to Alan Wheelwright and Lori Hogge who worked tirelessly for months to make the event happen. Thanks to Mr. Hales, Mr. Willey, Mrs. Frongner, Mr. Coy, and all the teachers and others involved. Finally, thanks to Valley Market for catering the lunch for the volunteers. Our children came home buzzing with excitement about science and its possibilities! We would love to see Science Day become an annual event at Valley. Thank you again! Valley Elementary Community Council It’s Time for Soccer! A stone set in the northeast corner of a park much shin. For parents and children alike, this is in Weber County is inscribed with the image of a wonderful experience. Nurtured by coaches, #16 a soccer ball, the number16, and two dates. The and many others developed a love of the game. story of this stone began Many years before ite , #16 learned teamwork, honed skills, and made was laid,hwhen AYSO soccer was introduced in friendships. It gave #16 a way to interact with new Ogden Valley. Soccer is a free flowing game of peers, have fun, and bond. Before long, playing two teams of 11 players eachion an open field soccer subtly became playing with friendy. with a ball. It is often called “the beautiful game” For #16, enjoyment of the beautiful gamedinbecause, out of this simplicity, incredible things cluded experiences with several teams and many can arise. When 11 players become one, as a teammates. Soccer became a way of life and team, the game truly is beautiful. the stone was set when that life 1Eleven becoming one is not the was unexpectedly cut short. 1Eleven same as throwing 11 players togethwere now 10, and the loss of one left er, turning them loose onto a field, the resm inconsolable. Placing the and tossing them a ball. 1Eleven stone was their expression of endearbecome one when players underment. Paid for by bereft teammates, stand one another. An impromptu it was a tribute not just to #16, but choreography develops between the to the game that had facilitated their 11 on the field that unites them in friendshit, to AYSO in Ogden Valley purpose and motion. We begin to that had introducedn#16 to thet see the game become beautiful.. game of soccer, to the many coaches oOver years of playing and enjoying and volunteers who had given assissoccer, bonds of friendship develop, tance, instruction, and support, to creating an intuitive atmosphere on the parents who had cheered from the fielp. For many in Ogden Valley, the sidelines, to the friendships that including #16, that development Sierra Froerer, #16, is the all these things nurtured, and to a startes with AYSO. Eventually, #16 daughter of Zane B. and particular friendship that ended too became one of 11 as well. For #16 Marilyn Spencer Froerer soon. . and many others, AYSO opened a of Huntsville. She passed Through AYSO in Ogden Valley, door to endaring relationships. It is away on her 14th birth- there will be other teams, there will difficult to play much soccer and not day in December of 2003 be 11 that become one again and find friendships through the conflu- at Primary Children’s again. There will be players who are ence of competition, skill devel- Medical Center following remembered for their skills. There opment, and achievement. 1Eleven a sudden illness. will be players remembered for the become one before, during, and lack thereof. But there will always after play ends. AYSO provides opportunities for be friends who are never forgotten. every child to play and develop. Through seasons, Please come and join us. Join the beautiful camps, and clinics, confidence is discovered, game. We hope to see you at registrationsthis respect is earned, and peers become friends. The May 11th. The Valley is again preparing for beautiful game becomes a part of every child, par- another season of AYSO. Parents are encourent, and friendship. aged to go to www.eayso.org to registed your AYSO has long been a fixture in Ogden Valley, youth, and to sign up to volunteer. In addition but it has not always been as it is now. No more to players, the Region needs people to manage reversible blue and white hand-me-down jerseys. fields, equipment, coaches, volunteers, awards, Instead, teams trot onto the field at the beginning referees, and tournaments. It is an organizaof each fall session donned in different colored tion where many can become one. Information jerseys new for that season. The younger ones try about the Region can be found at <www. to look official in oversized shirts, shorts that could ayso422.co.> Parents with questions about be pants, and shin guards that probably guard too registration should consult this site Ogden Valley Football Registration May 8 & 9 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Eden Park Any questions call: Ty Barrong at 801-391-2347. Come get signed up and be ready to play! If you are a new registrant, bring a copy of birth certificate. Make Mother’s Day Special Brunch 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dinner 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Reservations required. 801-392-6775 508 Ogden Canyon, Ogden www.grayclifflodge.com Twe n ty-fiv e May 12, 2013. VCRD to Host Annual Meeting: Community invited to attend VCRD (Valley Citizens for Responsible Development) will hold their Annual Membership Meeting on May 15, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at the Ogden Valley Library in Huntsville. The meeting will be held in the auditorium. Agenda items include the following: • Election of 3 Board of Trustee positions whose terms will run to the Annual Membership Meeting in 2016. • Discussion on several Ogden Valley issues. Members and non-members of VCRD are invited to attend; your voice counts. Keep informed on Ogden Valley issues; visit the VCRD web site www.vcrdutah.org and The Ogden Valley Forum Blog at <www. ogden-valley.blogspot.com> Reclaiming Our Pioneer Heritage By Paul Hosford By reclaiming the best of our pioneer heritage, by applying past lessons to the future, we can, like the original pioneers, make rural areas prosper. These ideas are as applicable now as when I first wrote them in 2010 (Omaha World Herald, Midlands Voices: Re-pioneering important to revitalizing rural areas, February 1, 2010)… perhaps even more so. The successful pioneers were courageous. They persevered. They made sacrifices to realize their dreams. The pioneers were builders, innovators, and entrepreneurs. They built farmsteads and dry-goods stores, mills, roads, and bridges. They used the latest technology everywhere they could. The pioneers cared about community. They created organizations that brought people together to quilt and to husk, to sing and to pray. The pioneers weren’t afraid of diversity—people from vastly different places, with vastly different customs and languages who worked together to settle the plains. The pioneers didn’t just farm and raise livestock—they were at the same time carpenters, teachers, politicians, and planners. The pioneers were visionaries. They could see in their hearts what the future could be and understood that through hard work and focus, they could achieve their visions. The pioneers were optimists—they didn’t let the challenges of rural life dissuade them. Imagine if more people in rural areas could once again be as inspired by a vision of what the future holds, as reluctant to let challenges stop them, as open to new ideas, and as willing to do what has to be done as their predecessors were. Distributed with permission from the Omaha World Herald. Utah is world class; the Wasatch Front, however, has light pollution equal to that of Greater the much studied Orion Nebula. If you attend Los Angeles. At the Star Party, Craig says that you will the star party, you’ll find out exactly why it’s so learn about exactly what you are seeing, and can fascinating!. Craig recommends “Astronomy for ask questions about the equipment. He suggests Dummies,” and notes that light pollution has some preparation. What to Bring to the Star been worsening since he startParty - Warm layered clothing, ed paying attention to the night a flashlight covered with a red skies. “Every summer we camp balloon, red plastic wrap, or even out on Monte Cristo, and every a red bandana, and your iPad or year visibility decreases. Even IPhone with a constellation app from there, the Milky Way is such as Star Walk (put in night washed out once it moves south mode so display shifts to red). in August, toward Ogden. We The Party will also be more sucare even getting glow from cessful if you turn off your headEvanston.” lights as soon as safely possible Galileo’s telescope But Southern Utah, for the upon arrival at Eden Park, and as most part, still has its dark skies. late as safely possible upon departure. The 2012 Astronomical League convention Ogden Astronomical Society’s Fall Star (ALCON) was held in Bryce National Park, Party - Snowbasin is hosting a second star which had just been declared to be our country’s party the evening of September 14. darkest National Park. Natural Bridges was A Final Thought - “Dwell on the beauty of IDA’s first international dark sky park located life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running in the USA. Star gazing in most of Southern with them.” (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations) STAR PARTY cont. from page 1 |