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Show Volume XXIII Issue XVI The Ogden Valley news Page 13 February 1, 2016 It’s Time for Kindergarten Valley’s First Lego League (FLL) Bulldog Round Up at Valley Elementary! Builders Headed for State Competition Once again, it is time for the child’s birth certificate and immunization By Valley Elementary Student Reporters Jaxon fold it or put an engine into it. We chose to put “Kindergarten Round Up” at Valley Elementary. It will be held this year on April 20 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Kindergarten Round Up is for parents and their children who will turn 5 years old on, or before, September 1, 2016. If your child qualifies, please come into the school and register. To register a copy of record will be needed, along with a photo identification of a parent. The staff at Valley Elementary looks forward to serving your child in the upcoming year “Where Children Come First.” You may contact Valley Elementary at 801452-4180. Buy Your Tickets Now for the 13th Annual Serve to Save Dinner & Silent Auction Scheduled This year the Valley Elementary’s annual Serve to Save Dinner and Silent Auction are supporting Live Hannah’s Hope-Empowering Youth, an organization begun in honor of Hannah Warburton and other young people. It is dedicated to helping young people find a way to heal from despair and depression. We are also supporting a campaign to raise money for a facility to be built in a small village in Uganda called Jinja. The facility would provide a place for the children of the village to shower, be fed, and educated. The organization that is trying to facilitate this is called Mpendo Packer Foundation. We are also adding to the Valley Bulldog Scholarship fund for higher education. Have you or your business donated a service or commodity yet for this year’s event? The following businesses are already on board: Alpine Pizza, Eats of Eden, Carlos and Harleys, Gray Cliff Lodge, Snowbasin, Jackson Fork Inn, Timbermine, The Greenery, The Oaks, Huntsville Barbecue Company, Luis’s Restaurant, Tony Ward, Rusted Orange.com, Wasatch Valley Excavating, Arrow Disposal, Cobble Creek Dental, Diamond Peak, Biker’s Edge, Bahama Bronze, David K. Wayment Cosmetic and Family Dentistry, and Hearth and Home. This community-wide event will be held at Eden’s Valley Elementary’s gymnasium on Thursday, March 10 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. You may purchase tickets at the front office ALCOHOL cont. from page 3 to develop some symptoms of depression. It’s that good old brain chemistry at work again. Regular drinking lowers the levels of serotonin in your brain—a chemical that helps to regulate your mood. People who experience anxiety or depression are twice as likely to be heavy or problem drinkers. For some people, the anxiety or depression came first and they’ve reached for alcohol to try to relieve it. For others, drinking came first, so it may be a root cause of their anxieties. Drinking heavily can also affect your relationships with your partner, family, and friends. It can impact on your performance at work. These issues can also contribute to depression. Alcohol is Linked to Suicide, Self-harm & Psychosis - Alcohol can make people lose their inhibitions and behave impulsively, leading to actions they might not otherwise have taken— including self-harm and suicide. According to the NHS in Scotland, more than half of people who ended up in hospital because they’d deliberately injured themselves said they’ve drunk alcohol immediately before or while doing it. 27% of men and 19% of women gave alcohol as the reason for self-harming. Alcohol Can Damage Your Memory Soon after drinking alcohol, your brain processes slow down and your memory can be impaired. After large quantities of alcohol, the brain can stop recording into the “memory store.” That’s why you can wake up the next at the school or through any sixth-grade teacher or their students. Remember the succulent dinner provided by Ogden Valley and Ogden’s finest eateries and restaurants? Remember how fun it was to have it served to you by a sixth-grade student? Remember how students ushered you to your seats, how others manned the silent auction, while still others emceed the program? Plan on attending so you can enjoy music, fine food, silent auction items, great entertainment, and, most important of all, experience the joy of extending a charitable act as you participate! One hundred percent of the proceeds from this annual event are used to help others. This year checks need to be made out to The United Way. Checks for the United Way should memo either Live Hannah’s Hope, Mpendo, or our Valley Bulldog Scholarship, which will be held in trust through the Weber School District Foundation and for which our classes will choose the recipient! Onehundred percent of your donation goes to help the cause of your choice. If you or your business can donate a product or a service for the silent auction, please contact a sixth-grade teacher at Valley Elementary— Carolyn Hogge, Rebecca Warnes, Cindy Hillstrom, or Michelle Evans. You can reach them at the school by calling 801-452-4180. Banners are created each year with the logos of donor businesses. These banners adorn the school’s hallways. Flyers are also sent out that highlight your business and its charitable donation. Your information is also highlighted through the media! Thank you for your support of Serve to Save! day with a blank about what you said or did and even where you were. Alcohol & Depression - According to recent research, alcohol abuse or dependence may increase a person’s risk for developing depression in the first place. One explanation is that alcohol might trigger a genetic vulnerability for the disorder. Also, because alcohol is a depressant, this may lead to depressed mood among people who already abuse or depend on alcohol. Also, having a family member who’s struggled with alcoholism or depression increases your risk for both disorders. Sleeping Problems - Alcohol can negatively affect sleep, which becomes a major problem when you’re depressed. Depression already compromises sleep quality by causing you to sleep too much or too little. When you add alcohol to the mix, your ability to get a good night’s rest is ruined. Though it might seem like alcohol helps you sleep. In reality, you wake up more during the night, and alcohol doesn’t let you get to the deep stages of sleep, which is when your body receives its much-needed rest, grows and repairs tissues, restores energy to the mind and body and boosts brain processes. Sleep deprivation can increase depression symptoms—including depressed mood, difficulty concentrating, remembering things and exhaustion—and have a negative impact on your overall well-being. Dangerous Drug Interactions Medications, such as antidepressants, may be prescribed to help treat depression. If you drink 801-745-4000 2555 WOLF CREEK DR. EDEN From the Service Deli www.valleymarketeden.com STORE HOURS: MON. - SAT. 7 AM - 10 PM SUNDAY 7 AM - 9 PM Large Avocados 99c each with coupon Expires 2/15/16 Valentine’s Candy 50c OFF with coupon Expires 2/15/16 Garlic Cheese or Jalapeno Rolls 6 pk 50c OFF with coupon Expires 2/15/16 From the Bakery Dept. Dryer’s Ice Cream 50c OFF with coupon Expires 2/15/16 22 oz. Longhorn Baby Back Ribs $3.99 with coupon Expires 2/15/16 From the Meat Dept Sackett, Kaden Olsen, and Ty Post Valley Elementary’s FLL team includes eleven team members and two coaches. The team members are Ty Post, Kaden Dunn, Braden Shupe, Kaden Olsen, Jaxson Sackett, Luke Denis, Nicholas Hanson, Tom Watson, Cole Griffin, Osten Peterson, and Richard Wolf. The two coaches are Jill Burgavoy and Craig Hanson. The team stated, “We started in a small room with no knowledge whatsoever about robotics. The more we met, the more we learned, and the better we got. The whole FLL is about teamwork, and every year teams have a new project. This year’s project is called Trash Trek and all the teams had to come up with an idea to use less trash. Our team was split into three groups: Ty’s group consisted of Jaxson and Luke and came up with our main project idea—biodegradable and compostable utensils. “Our robot was programmed to do multiple missions. Those missions consisted of a car that you had to drive across a board and then either the engine into it, tip over a tower, collect the parts from the tower with the robot, take Lego minifigures to their career place, a.k.a. the Lego brick sorter, and so on.” During the Research project, Kaden Olsen and Cole Griffin worked on the project by typing up and doing the research, and gluing on pictures and information to the display board. “When we presented to the judges, we gave them examples of our own homemade spoons and some store-bought spoons. Then, after we presented to them, we went to the core values judging, where judges asked us to create a team project and build a small house out of paper and tape.” In the competition, there were three rounds for all of the teams where they could earn more points. “On the first round, we set up the robot wrong so we didn’t earn as many points as we had hoped for; but, on the second round, we earned more points—but still didn’t earn as many as we had wanted. Then, finally, on the last round, we earned more points than we expected. Because of our great teamwork, now we are going to state to compete!” REFERENDUM cont. from page 1 The most recent public hearing was held January 19. Two days later, the town council voted unanimously to approve the new zoning ordinance, which opens the door for the condominium and retail space development. Organizers of the referendum petition learned that the town council vote was not necessarily the final say; Utah law provides for a safeguard called “Local Referenda” (Utah Code, Title 20, Chapter 7, Part 6, Section 602). The state law says the referendum process requires a formal petition to be circulated among residents to put the law (or new zoning ordinance) up for a vote by the people in a special election or during the next general election. The petition is the first big step. To get the ball rolling, residents recently filed a Referendum Petition Application with Huntsville’s Town Clerk. One referendum organizer, Chris Stevenson, stated, “This issue is of such importance to our community that it seems blatantly obvious there needs to be a vote on the matter by the people it will directly impact.” The town now has the responsibility of putting petition packets together. The opposing parties to the new zoning law will then have 45 days to obtain enough signatures of residents who are registered voters to officially make this a ballot measure for the next election. If there are enough votes in the election against the newly-passed zoning ordinance, the law will be immediately stricken from the books. Mr. Cornell, commenting on the issue, stated, “This matter is of such huge importance to the future of Huntsville Town that it should be decided by a popular vote of the citizens who live here. I am grateful that the State of Utah has given us a legal pathway to bring this matter to a vote of the people.” More details and information on the referendum petition are available at huntsvilleunited.blog.com> and take antidepressants at the same time, the result can be dangerous. For one, alcohol can reduce the beneficial effects of the antidepressant. Secondly, alcohol may affect you more than usual, impairing your behavior. It can also aggravate side effects like drowsiness—potentially risky if you’re driving. If you’re taking a medication from a group of antidepressants called monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), the interaction can be fatal. Some alcoholic beverages like beer and wine contain tyramine, an amino acid that controls blood pressure. When these drinks interact with an MAOI, your blood pressure can skyrocket, triggering a stroke. Suicide - Abusing alcohol when you’re depressed increases the risk for suicide attempts and for completed suicides. It’s also been associated with suicidal overdoses and car crashes. When you aren’t thinking clearly because alcohol has clouded your mind and you’re more impulsive, that’s when dangerous things that you can’t take back can happen. In fact, alcoholrelated accidents are the leading cause of death among college students. If you’re depressed be careful with your alcohol intake—it could save your life. Note: Information collected from drinkaware. co.uk and <www.ulifeline.org/articles/460alcohol-and-depression> |