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Show The Ogden Valley news February 1, 2015 PRSRT STD POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO Your Community Newspaper Slug Games held at Snowbasin. Photo by Dennis Maher. Red Cross Calls for Blood Donors as Unique as the Patients They Help In honor of Black History Month this February, and in the spirit of Dr. Charles Drew, an African-American surgeon who was the first medical director of the American Red Cross and a modern blood-banking pioneer, eligible donors as diverse as the patients who need their blood donations are encouraged to give blood to ensure a sufficient blood supply. Blood from a donor with a similar ethnic background as that of the patient is less likely to cause complications, particularly for those patients whose chronic conditions require repeated transfusions. Sickle cell disease is one such chronic condition affecting as many as 100,000 people in the United States. Prior to transfusion, blood type and Rh factor are matched between donated blood and the patient in need. In some cases, additional red cell markers in donated blood must be matched, as well. These markers are best found in blood from donors of a similar ethnicity. With seasonal flu and inclement winter weather preventing many regular donors from giving, the Red Cross urges healthy, eligible donors to make an appointment to donate blood in the coming days and weeks. All blood types are currently needed to help maintain a diverse and sufficient blood supply, especially types O negative, A negative, and B negative. To learn more about donating blood and/or to schedule an appointment, download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767). Upcoming Donation Opportunities Harrisville - Feb. 2, 2:30 – 7:30 p.m.: LDS Harrisville Utah Stake, 435 W. Harrisville Rd. North Ogden Jan. 30, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.: N. Ogden City Offices, 505 E. 2600 N. Feb. 10, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.: ARW Engineers, 1594 West Park Circle Ogden Jan. 27, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.: Ogden City, RED CROSS cont. on page 2 Huntsville Pair Create Ice Tepee in the Town’s Park Ice tepee in Huntsville Park. For years, Jake Songer and his good friend As you probably know, the Huntsville Ice Mike Malmborg of Huntsville kicked around Rink is established and maintained by local volthe idea of making a spray-sculpture on his unteers. After a full day of flattening snow and 3-acre lot near the Monastery. This winter, in laying down a heavy slush base at the rink, the mid-December, Mike bought the parts and they volunteers would all take turns showing up and built it together. The project had a few major setbacks, but was eventually successful. ICE TEPEE cont. on page 8 Ogden Canyon Transportation Use Study Moves Forward: Comments and input still sought If you have already done so, thank you for taking the time to comment on the website for the Ogden Canyon Transportation Use Study. If not, now is the time to send an email or call us. We also appreciate those of you who we have been able to meet with us in person. All of your information has been carefully documented and is a vital part of this first phase of the study. We have been working to compile all of the comments we have received thus far and separate out the information into different key areas that seem to be of the most interest to you. We have created a survey to get further information on these areas. Please click on the link below to take the survey. Only one survey will be allowed per electronic device. If more than one person per household would like to take the survey and you don’t have access to another device, please call our hotline and we will input your answers for you. Ogden Canyon Survey The survey will be open for the next month. Please share this information with family and friends who have an interest in Ogden Canyon. We will compile the survey data along with the other data we have collected and present our findings to UDOT. We will keep you posted as we move forward. Project Overview The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) is conducting a Transportation Study in Ogden Canyon. The Transportation Commission asked UDOT to conduct the study and look at all modes of transportation in the OGDEN CANYON cont. on page 3 Liberty Park Districts to Look at Neighboring Date Changed for County Decision on Nordic Properties for Possible Additions Valley’s Pine Canyon Lodge CUP Application A group calling themselves, simply, “friends of the park” have been working behind the scenes to bring into fruition the enlargement of one of only a few public gathering places in Ogden Valley proper—Liberty Park. The enlargement could potentially increase Liberty Park from its current size of 4.9 acres to almost 16 acres. As a result of the efforts of friends of the park, the Liberty Park District now has the option to acquire three additional parcels of land that abut the current park. Two of the parcels are situated just west and southwest of the park. The now-vacant property runs along Highway 162. These two parcels, together, total about 2.3 acres. The properties makes up the area that used to be home to the “Old Red Liberty Church,” that burned in March of 2006, which stood on the corner of Highway 162 and River Dr.; and the abutting parcel directly to the south (see accompanying map). The total purchase price for the two adjoining lots, which are commercially zoned, is $565,000. A developer in December 2014 obtained a conditional use permit from Weber County to build an auto repair garage and various store fronts on the southern-most property, and also has under contract the neighboring former church property. Just before Christmas 2014, the friends of the park met with the developer in an effort to see what could be done to avert the construction of a commercial center, including a garage, on the property neighboring the park—the thought being that a garage and high-density commercial uses in the proposed location would detract from the overall feel, open space, and recreational purpose of the historic area; and that the two abutting parcels, given their location, instead, would make a great addition to Liberty Park. According to a friends of the park representative, “After some back-and-forth discussion—to the credit of the developer—an agreement was reached whereupon the developer agreed to find another place to build the desired garage/ store fronts, while offering to sell to the park the two adjacent parcels for the same amount of money that had been previously invested in LIBERTY PARK cont. on page 10 We b e r County has announced that the anticipated February 3 meeting date for a decision by the Ogden Valley Township Planning Commission on the Nordic Valley Pine Canyon Lodge CUP application has been postponed. A decision on the requested conditional use application has already been delayed twice before. In the planning commission’s last meeting, the applicant was requested to bring back a new design to the commission after new information was discovered by the county’s planning office and the Fire District, which required the applicant to alter formerly submitted plans. The date of the planning commission meeting where the Pine Canyon Lodge applicant was to present their new plans was originally slated for February 3. The new date COUNTY HEARING cont. on page 12 SuicidalShortly ManbeforeBarricades Himself Inside Home 2:00 p.m. on patience and proceeded with extreme caution Saturday, January 10, deputies responded to a call on a threatened suicide at a residence near 500 S. 8750 E., just west of the town of Huntsville in the unincorporated area of the Upper Valley. A 58 year-old male, Robert Paul Hooten, was reportedly armed and intoxicated inside his home. The male was threatening suicide and harm to anyone who came to the residence. Another family member had been with the subject, but left when the situation started to escalate. At some point, the subject did fire a gun inside the house. Deputies arrived and established a perimeter. As a pre-caution, a reverse 911 call was made to residents in the surrounding area advising them to stay inside their homes. Due to the violent nature of the call, the Ogden Metro S.W.A.T. team was requested to respond. Once in place, officers exercised while trying to make contact with the unstable man. They were at the residence for six hours. A Weber County representative stated, “S.W.A.T. officers who responded to the scene . . . are to be commended for their patience and diligence in peacefully resolving a very dangerous situation.” Just before 8:00 p.m., contact was established with the subject and the stand-off ended peacefully. He was taken into custody without incident, and the scene was secured. According to the Weber county Sheriff’s Office, Hooten was booked into the Weber County Jail on the charge of reckless endangerment, a Class A misdemeanor. This charge stems from Hooten’s firing of a handgun inside the home while another family member was present. The round from the gun is also believed to have exited the home. According to SUICIDAL MAN cont. on page 11 Eden Post Office Going Dark-Sky Collection Box at Huntsville Post accreditation as a prestigious International Dark Sky Park. Accreditation will be moniOffice Vandalized: Mail stolen tored annually with night sky testing by Weber By Shanna Francis ed that if anyone remembers placing mail State University. It is estimated that 80% of the world’s population can no longer see The Milky Way; Ogden Valley residents are, however, still rewarded regularly with superb night sky viewing. See www.starrynightsutah. org for more information. To volunteer, email <janet.e.muir@gmail.com> Installing a solar-powered, dark-sky friendly flagpole light was a New Year’s resolution for Eden Post Office Manager Jeannie Marsell. A local group, Ogden Valley Starry Nights, helped her check that resolution off on January 5 by presenting her with a downward-directed light (see photo below) that will be installed in the spring. Exterior wall pack lights may then also be subject to dark-sky remediation. The flagpole light is exactly the same as that tested by Weber Fire Marshall Brandon Thueson and installed this fall at the Eden Fire Station. “We’re pleased that our flag will be properly lighted with the additional advantage of energy savings. “Thank you, Ogden Valley Starry Nights,” Jeannie remarked. Frank Cumberland who delivered and presented the light, noted, “Ogden Valley has the first dark-sky ordinance in Utah. Appropriate lighting is essential to retaining our Valley’s Frank Cumberland presents Jeannie Marsell rural character in the face of rapidly increasing with the new dark-sky solar light that will be growth pressures.” North Fork Park is in the process of installed at the Eden Post Office this spring. Sometime between 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 15 and the next morning, January 16, the collection box—the snorkel box—at the Huntsville post office was vandalized, and the mail that was in it stolen. Huntsville Postmaster Darlene Filban stat- in the collection box during this time, they should call and notify the post office at 801745-2567. “And, if anyone saw anything suspicious during this time, please contact and report the information to the Weber County HUNTSVILLE Huntsville collection box vandalized January 15. cont. on page 12 |