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Show Page 2 The Ogden Valley news Volume XXI Issue III May 15, 2013 The Ogden Valley news Staff: Shanna Francis Tel: 801-745-2688 Fax: 801-745-2688 Cell: 801-791-4387 E-Mail: slfrancis@digis.net Jeannie Wendell Tel: 801-745-2879 Fax: 801-745-2879 E-Mail: crwendell@digis.net crwendell@msn.com Opinions expressed by advertisers, columnists or letters to the editor are not necessarily the opinions of the owners and staff of The Ogden Valley news. guidelines for Letters to the Editor Letters should be 300 words or less. Letters must be signed and the address of the writer submitted. The Ogden Valley news reserves the right to edit or decline printing of any submissions. Announcements Sought As a community service, The Ogden V alley n ews will print local birth, wedding, obituary, anniversary and missionary farewell & homecoming and Eagle Scout announcements free of charge. 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Note: The contents of The Ogden Valley News are copyrighted. To protect this publication and its contributors from unlawful copying, written permission is required before any individual or company engages in the reproduction or distribution of its contents, by any means, without first obtaining written permission from the owners of this publication. The deadline for the OVN June 1 issue is May 15. Letters to the Editor Public Radio Can Now Be Heard Loud and Clear in Ogden Valley Hi Valley friends and neighbors, Radio station KUER recently sent a field engineer to fix the problem with their translator/antenna tower above Wolf Creek, which sends out the public radio signal around the valley. It is so much better now that you’ll hardly recognize it. Please pass the word around since I suspect a lot of people simply quit listening. Finally, Doug Fabrizio is audible again! And you can now listen to low frequency music such as blues without the BUUZZZZZ we have had while listening. It really is a good signal now. Tune into 89.7 KHZ for all NPR and local Utah programming. While the Spring Funding Drive, that began April 24, is over, it’s still not too late to donate. Visit <www.kuer.org> If you are a KUER listener, please consider honoring their efforts by making a membership pledge/donation. Thank you. Miranda Menzies, Eden AYSO Tournament Update: Volunteer needed for game scheduling The 20th Annual High Valley Shootout slated for June 26 thru June 29 will be cancelled without one more person to help with the scheduling of games! Please help! This annual soccer tournament brings many people, and much business, to our beautiful valley, but for it to continue this year, we need help! I will be out of town the week before and up to the tournament start time, so will not be able to schedule games; however, we can move forward and get referees scheduled if the game schedules can be worked out by a volunteer and given to us by June 18. We know the times and locations of Saturday’s games, we know generally the times of Thursday’s and Friday’s games (depending on the number of teams attending), and Wednesday night is always overflow for local teams, i.e., Cottonwood and Vernal teams always play one game Thursday night and two on Friday—a minimum of six hours apart. If someone could step up and help with scheduling, then I will commit to getting trophies, medals, referees, garbage cans, ref food, and tents and tables. A field painting team will also be needed, but that’s fairly straight forward. During specified times, I will be available via cell phone and, possibly, Skype to answer questions about team scheduling while I’m out of town. If you can help, please contact me ASAP. Thanks in advance! Gina M Gonzalez ayso422@gmail.com Outgoing Regional Commissioner, AYSO 9R-422 What is the Motivation for Building a Publicly-Funded Pathway on Land Trust Property? What is the motivation for building a publicly-funded pathway on Land Trust property within the Patio Springs Community? Ogden Valley Pathways plans to build a 4-foot-wide roadbase pathway on Land Trust property located within the Patio Springs Community between Patio Springs Drive and Willowbrook Drive. The property is wooded and has Wolf Creek running through the middle of it. Sounds like a nice place to take a stroll . . . that is, if the planned path was through the middle of the property. The path is actually planned to circle the property on its outermost edge that borders the property lines of the Patio Springs homeowners. The Land Trust obtained this land a few years ago when Wolf Creek donated it. During the time Wolf Creek owned it, a few Patio Springs homeowners encroached on said land, some with actual permanent structures, some with backyard landscaping. Some of these easements were actually the result of the abandonment of the original Patio Springs plot map when the contractor went bankrupt in the 1970’s. Some homeowners received permission from Wolf Creek to improve and maintain the land behind their homes. When the Land Trust surveyed the property, they discovered the property line violations. Law suits resulted. My understanding was that the judge filed in favor of the homeowners, in that permanent structures do not have to be removed. The rationale was that the survey was done several years after acquiring the land. So now the Land Trust wants to put in a pathway that essentially delineates their property from Patio Springs’ property. They certainly have the right to do it. But what is their motivation? Is it really for public benefit? And should public monies (Ogden Pathways and Ramp funds) be spent for their border pathway? And is it really in keeping with their charter of preserving the land? I find it hard to believe that no tree will be cut down in the construction of this 4-foot wide border pathway. How can this small plot of land be better preserved by opening it up to more traffic that will essentially chase the wildlife somewhere else? Is there no other solution to resolving land disputes than raising (or paving) a fence? How is this considered “trust” by any definition? Beth Kristenson, Eden |