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Show Page 2 The Ogden Valley news Volume XXI Issue VIII August 1, 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 August 15 issue is August 1. Letters to the Editor Thank you Extended to Liberty Days Volunteers We would like to extend a huge “thank you” to all of the many Liberty Days volunteers for their incredible work this Independence Day! The day was extremely successful, and our community had so much fun celebrating together. Liberty Days could not happen without you, and we want you to know we appreciate all that you do! Howard Geller, Executive Director of Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP) Applauds President Obama’s Climate Action Plan The President’s Climate Action Plan includes a number of concrete actions that will help households and businesses save energy and money, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions that are contributing to climate change. These actions include establishing new cost-effective appliance efficiency standards, new financing mechanisms for energy effiRoss and Julie Mertlich, ciency upgrades in multifamily buildings and in Mike and Julie Rhodes, rural areas, and tougher fuel economy standards Liberty for heavy trucks. SWEEP applauds President Obama for issuing this forward-looking climate plan.” Note: SWEEP is a public interest organization that advances energy efficiency in Arizona, How wonderful is it that nobody need wait Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and a single moment before starting to improve Wyoming. Editor’s Note: President Obama released the world? --Anne Frank his plan on June 25. The plan also calls Inspirational Thought for regulating carbon dioxide emissions form existing plants and ratcheting them down for new proposed plants, which will impact coal plants. Other industry leaders, primarily led by the Institute for Energy Research (IER), called the president’s plan a “back-door energy tax” through the EPA. An article in the Phoenix Business Journal quotes IER”S president, Thomas Pyle, as saying, “We will continue to see regulators squeeze affordable energy sources out of the market, more preferential treatment for ‘green’ sources like wind and solar that cannot survive without mandates and subsidies, more loan guarantees for Solyndrastyle companies to waste, more onerous rules and punitive tax measures designed to cripple coal, oil, and natural gas producers, and all with the result that consumers will pay much more for less reliable energy.” Quality of Life in the Garden of Eden . . . In the spring of 2010, my husband and I decided we wanted to see the West. We began in Texas. We RV’ed with our two best friend’s Mia—a Brittany, and Raven—an American Cocker Spaniel. During our travels we discovered Ogden Valley. Our first meal was at Texas Barbeque in Huntsville, which we thought ironic since we were from Texas. Everywhere I shopped the locals would ask, “Where are you from?” A Texas drawl is a difficult thing to discard. By the time we located Eden (my Garden of Eden), I told my husband I wanted to live the remainder of my life here. We located a home in a Vacation Rental web site and were pleasantly surprised to meet the realtor, Leigh Ann Fincher, who was also from Texas. Yahoo! She helped us negotiate a long-term rental. We wanted to lease at first to be sure Utah was going to be our long-term destination for living a quality life. Ogden Valley was so beautiful and provided my husband and me with so many opportunities for adventure and fun—hiking, snow skiing, mountain biking, barn dancing, the hot air balloon festival, musical entertainment at Texas Barbeque, Wolf Mountain Under The Stars, Snowbasin, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, ice skating, and ice fishing. Did I say ICE FISHING? What in the world is that? We have taken our visitors on a fun horsedrawn carriage or sled ride “Over the River and Through the Woods to Grandma’s House” for hot cider and cookies and to be up close and personal with a herd of elk—even in the dark. I suppose the above would be enough to excite any individual or family looking for a new residence, but there’s so much more. Wide open spaces and sky where you can see a beautiful double rainbow, both ends, right after a rain shower. Great sunsets that will have you saying, “ahhhh.” Abundant wildlife where you can see a cow moose and her calf grazing while hiking in a campground at North Fork. Small herds of deer, flocks of wild turkey, sand hill cranes, and red fox hunting. Seldom does a day go by that we don’t see one or more of the above mentioned wildlife. No, I am not a realtor or marketing rep- resentative promoting the valley as a great place to live and play. My husband and I are retired. We just appreciate the beauty of this area so much, I wanted to express how blessed we are to have found such a marvelous valley. No signal lights, no traffic, no big box discount stores; just a bunch of very friendly folks raising families in a special place. This year, I miss the summer nights under the stars enjoying music on Wolf Mountain sitting in our lawn chairs with our ice cooler filled with refreshments. I miss the balloon festival. I hope we can find enough people to donate their time, energy, and money to bring these events back to our beautiful Valley. Great family fun. Snow, oh my yes . . . the more the better. If you aren’t into winter sports, you can always find some good books at the local library and nest. Thank you Lord for bringing us west and to the Garden of Eden. Glenda Duke, Eden Thanks and Best Wishes to Our Great Football Players in the WFFL Coaching Wasatch Front Football League of these teams along with Rowdy Romrell and (WFFL) in Ogden Valley for several years Jaxon Porter. Without their dedicated comhas been totally awesome. It has been one of mitment to winning, this success would have the most pleasurable experiences that I have never happened. Also, they are a lot like me; ever had. I have loved coaching and developing some of the Valley boys. It has been nothing short of a total success. We always started with a small catalyst of boys—five to six young men who were completely dedicated to football and winning. Then, we took the rest of the kids that did not have total killer instinct and built them up around these five to six leaders and put together play-off con- Valley Wasatch Front Football League players with Indoor tention teams and won Championship trophy. in play-offs consistently, which is a tough thing to do in Ogden Valley because the lack of population compared to schools along the greater Wasatch Front. Some teams that we had to compete with had two to four teams the same age as our group, and we always struggled in Ogden Valley to put one team together at each age level so we could compete. After WFFL, a few coaches and I thought that we would extend some of the boys’ experience who played with us in Ogden Valley and neighbor friends from the North Ogden area and start participating in an extremely competitive Indoor Football League. These teams that play in Indoor Football League are young men from all over the Wasatch Front as far north as Cache Valley to as far south as Utah County. They are all fully loaded with studs that are used to winning football, and it has been one of the most competitive leagues that I have ever coached in. It was a huge incentive for me and a few other coaches to keep developing some of our local boys because most of them would and have moved onto Weber High School Football, which is a program that has been nothing short of a miserable, non-winning program and has fallen way short of taking our boys to the next level, which is used to winning. This is nothing new; the Weber High School football program has had a pretty long duration of completely struggling to win even a game in the past, and it has been extremely frustrating for me, along with my other coaches, fans, and especially players, for years . . . really frustrating for tons of people over the years in Ogden Valley In short, this was the third year that I have coached in this Indoor Football League and we finished the job this year by winning the Championship. It was a blast to be a part of this program and our boys—with help from other high schools, mostly in the extreme Northern Davis and Weber counties—were the best on the Wasatch Front this year. I want to thank coaches from the past in WFFL like Brett Harrop who actually got me into coaching and Marty Porter, who has coached with me forever. A special thanks to coaches in Indoor Football like Francis Remkes, Hunter Bell (who coached defense and played on our team this year), Mason Ewing (who coached defense from Layton/ player that was injured). A Huge thanks to all of the parents that have basically given me the right over the years to yell, legally, at their boy’s. They have all been a super support for our teams. Most of the thanks need to be given to the young men who were the catalyst of our teams and the leaders of our winning tradition. They include Wyatt Watts and Braxton Beck, who were our leaders on most I don’t like to loose and neither do they. One last thanks to my wife Julie Watts. She has been nothing short of the Best Football Mom for years, and I could not have accomplished with my boys what I have without her total support. I wish all of the boys continued success in their high school football programs. I am totally glad that the coaching staff has been changed at Weber High School. I hope that they can take these boys to the next level because they do have the players on their Junior and Senior High School football program that can help get them back to a winning tradition. Best of luck and success to Matt Hammer who is the new Head Coach of Weber High. You do have the kids now who can help you take your program back to the glory years of the past. Best of wishes to all, Coach Mark Watts, Liberty |