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Show The Ogden Valley news Volume XXI Issue V Page 3 June 15, 2013 Letters to the Editor Guest Commentary “Thanks for Your Service” Calling all Active Military Last November my husband and I went from Liberty to San Antonio, Texas to see our son Morgan Third Annual Dyers Woad Roundup Success graduate with honors from boot camp. While walking around San Antonio with him in uniform, I couldn’t help but notice how many civilians actually greeted our son with a “Thanks for your service.” I have never noticed that before around here, and think it would be nice to carry that greeting forward into our community. Their service is not just given on Memorial Day, but every day and it would be good to remember to greet anyone in uniform with a “Thanks for your service.” Peg Turner, Eden Valley Bus Driver Needs to Be Recognized One of the best bus driver’s in the Valley was left out of the newspaper’s June 1 “Community Says Thank You!” recognition feature. Joan Pilkington drives the special needs bus, and I hope she can be recognized as well. She and Elise Summers have been my son’s driver/ aide team since we moved Joan Pilkington to the Valley 15 months ago, and they are awesome! Always cheery with a friendly hello and wave. She drives the best-looking long-nosed bus as well! Thanks, Amy Saxton, Eden I would personally years will testify that we are making great like to “thank” all the par- progress. However, we must continue the fight. Liberty Park is adding a Community Tribute ticipants who came out I would encourage all private landowners to our evening events during Liberty Days. In on June 1 to help in the to do their part now to remove this weed from an effort to prepare a portion of that tribute, we 3rd annual Dyers Woad their property. If we are to accomplish our goal are trying to identify all active military memRoundup. It was a great of eradicating this weed from our valley, it will bers with ties to Liberty. The active military success because of your require that all owners become involved with member does not have to live in Liberty right involvement. It was a this effort. Voluntary removal is by far the best now; they just need to have roots in Liberty or gorgeous “Ogden Valley” avenue; but knowing that some owners will ties to Liberty. day, and we made excel- not take responsibility, I will be working with Do you have a member of your family that is lent progress in eradicat- Weber County on efforts that allow them to active military? Please call Bryan Bailey at 801ing this weed from our notify property owners, asking for compliance 668-3694 to let him know, or for more information. Valley. of the existing weed ordinance. In the event Thank you. Special thanks to all the stakeholders, of non-compliance by owners, the County will including the U.S. Forest Service, UDOT-State need to have the ability to correct the problem Julie Rhodes, of Utah, Weber County, and Weber Pathways and charge the property owner for cleanup, Liberty and all the sponsors who so generously gave to very similar to what many cities do for junk this fun event. Thanks to all the private citi- cars, etc. zens who took time from their busy Saturday Again, many thanks to all those who helped schedules, who also need to be recognized for in this great effort, and I hope to see you all their selfless efforts in removing weeds both next year as we continue down the path of a Commenting on a heading in a story from public and private property. I know that dyers-woad- free Valley. “From the Past” in the May 15 issue of T he those people who have made a personal comO gden Valley news about Robert Aldous, mitment to rid the Valley of dyers woad and Rep. Gage Froerer, formerly of Huntsville, and the B-24s and have been persistent in doing so the past three State of Utah-House of Representatives B-29s he flew in War II and the Korean War, Mike Roundy wrote in to set the facts straight regarding the picture printed of the type of plane he flew. Underneath the picture, the caption read that Aldous was the top-turret gunner on a B-24 nicknamed In some places, this has already occurred. In Lonesome Polecat after a character in the By Shanna Francis this case, please bag, if practical, and depose Li’l Abner comic strip. Roundy wrote, “The This year’s woad roundup was bigger than caption indicates the plane is a B-24 with ever! For three days—May 30, 31, and June of correctly. Where there are large swaths of nose art name ‘Lonesome Polecat.’ The 1—Weber County community members orga- the weed on your property, mowing may be your only option at this point; please do so to aircraft shown in the paper is a B-29, a later nized to rid the counhelp contain the spread aircraft. . . . ‘Lonesome Polecat’ was a popu- ty of this and other of the weed to other lar name and many apparently had the name, state-listed noxious parcels. including ‘Lonesome Polecat, Jr.’” weeds that are a threat Also, if out hiking to prime agricultural the trails, pathways, lands and native vegEden track, and/or footetation on and along the hills, please take a mincommunity’s hillsides, from within themselves.” ute or two to remove That, I think, is a spot-on prophecy. I mountains, and view random stalks of the don’t know how he foresaw it, but parents corridors. Without an weed that have cropped must be blind indeed if they don’t see it aggressive removal proup, especially in areas happening. For goodness sake, people, put gram, dyers woad rapwhere there are only a a book in the hands of your children. Give idly spreads and takes few stalks that can easthem a library card they can be proud of. over and chokes out ily be contained. Take your children to higher ground before native vegetation and We would like to this flood of tasteless externals brings on crops. recognize and thank If you haven’t Pictured above, from left to right, are State our many community the impotency of thought that Chesterton already removed the Representative Gage Froerer, Commissioner donors who provided predicted. If you remain blind, deaf, and mentally par- state-listed noxious Kerry Gibson’s daughter Kayden, the valuable gifts for alyzed, the day when children lose their ability weed from your prop- Commissioner Gibson, Commissioner Matt this year’s drawing and to create from within is upon us. The peril is erty and its outside Bell, and Andy Kramer. luncheon held at the on the gadget shelves of a store near you. It has perimeters, please do Eden Park Bowery after your part as a community member by ensuring Saturday’s morning of woad removal. They at-last arrived. that it is removed before it goes to seed and include the following: spreads further—either dig, cut, or mow the Doulas Donaldson, DYERS WOAD cont. on page 8 weed down before green seeds begin to form. Clearfield Correction Dyer’s Woad Roundup a Success: Participants benefit from generous community contributors Tasteless Gadgets Are Stealing Kids’ Creativity In between the two great wars, the topic of “the coming peril” was bandied about and all sorts of people addressed it. After the Second World War, the subject narrowed considerably as it became the sole property of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his band of terrible men. But in its heyday, the topic was wide as the world that fretted over it. One man who addressed the subject was G.K. Chesterton, whose wit and wisdom highlighted his pugnacious Catholicism. The coming crisis, he told listeners in Toronto, was “the intellectual, educational, psychological, artistic overproduction which, equally with economic overproduction, threatened the well-being of civilization. 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