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Show Page 10 The Ogden Valley news Volume XXIII Issue XVIII March 1, 2016 New Nail Technician Joins Team at Valley Hair My name is Casey Gay and I am beyond excited to announce that I will be joining the team at Valley Hair in March as their new nail technician. Jen Duke and Heather Holbrook have worked hard to create a successful business in the valley, and I look forward to becoming part of that experience. I was born and raised in Ogden Valley and I am a graduate of the OWATC Nail Tech program. When I am not doing nails, I enjoy outdoor activities, cooking, crafting and spending time with my family. I will be offering the following services at Valley Hair: Gel Nails, Shellac/Gel Polishes, Glitter Toes, Gel Overlays, and Basic Manicures. Gel nails are artificial nails cured under a UV or LED Light. Shellac and Gel Polishes are applied directly to the natural nail and is cured under a LED light. Both products last up to 21 days. To express how thrilled I am to be joining the team at Valley Hair, I am offering first-time clients $5 off any purchase (excluding basic polish application and gel overlays). Call today to make your appointment at 801791-0774 (cell) or 801-745-1979 (Valley Hair). Great Salt Lake Bird Festival Planned for May 12 - 16 Registration information for the 18th Annual Great Salt Lake Bird Festival field trips and Dutch oven dinner is now available at <www. GreatSaltLakeBirdFest.com> Online registration has begun. If you would like a festival booklet mailed to you, call 801-451-3286 or email <tour@daviscountyutah.gov> The complete program of field trips, including Behindthe-Gates trips, workshops, vendors, and youth activities can be found on the website. Festival planners are so excited to feature author and artist Julie Zickefoose as the Keynote Speaker and James Currie from Nikon’s Birding Adventure TV as our Special Guest. They will co-lead field trips, offer a workshop, and give special presentations. The 2016 festival takes birders of all skill levels to the great birding locations in seven counties in northern Utah and Utah County. Birding by car, van, bus, horseback, and canoe are all available. The festival offers the best birding guides in Utah. Student Art Contest - Utah K-12 students are invited to create a picture of a spotted towhee (2017 spotlight bird). An instructional packet with pictures is available at <www. GreatSaltLakeBirdFest.com> Contest entries will be judged in one of five grade categories, with winning artists from each category receiving cash prizes. An overall Best of Show image will also be chosen and featured OPEN WATER cont. from page 1 identified open-water swim area for local and visiting athletes. The Forest Service, Weber County Sheriff and Utah State Parks Division are all tasked with public safety in and around Pineview. And the Weber TriSwim Club would like an identified swim area in which to ply their trade safely. This working group explored numerous options before unanimously agreeing on designating an open-water swim area adjacent and east of the existing Homeland Security Buoy Line. This site has numerous advantages and addresses the issues because it is already in a designated wakeless zone, it is the least trafficked area on the reservoir, and there is an existing parking area and access approach from Highway 158. The project will be undertaken in several phases: • Phase 1 (2016) will include funding and installing additional buoys to outline the swim area and reminding boaters about the designated wake less zone. Signage will be installed above the high-water mark detailing the open water swim course and distances. • Phase 2 (2017) will fund and construct a wooden swim deck area above the high water mark. The structure will include benches where swimmers can put on/take off wetsuits. • Phase 3 (2018) will fund and install a fivefoot wide concrete walkway connecting the existing parking area to the swim deck What is Community Supported Agriculture? By Farmer Pete Rasmussen Know your farmer to know your food. CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is a direct partnership between the farmer and the consumer. Each spring in the United States, thousands of families are joining CSA programs at local farms to access the healthy foods they desire and deserve. CSA provides members with an easy opportunity to buy local, organic produce and to eat fresh food all summer long. Home gardeners know the secrets to enjoying flavor and freshness from the garden, and since the dawn of agriculture, families, food, and community have been intrinsically linked together. However, during the past 50 years, large-scale farming has created a long-distance relationship with our food. Today, small-scale farmers and local residents are working hard to reconnect their communities to farming and fresh food. This is the essence of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). The community-based, cooperative principles of CSA are believed to have their roots in Japan in the 1960s. Over 200 women from Tokyo joined forces to take action after they learned of neighbors who had suffered chemical poisoning from industrial farming runoff. This group of women approached local farmers with a simple proposition: the women’s group would agree to pay up front for the farmer’s harvests, in exchange for the farmer agreeing to raise the food in a clean and safe manner, without the use of chemicals or synthetic fertilizers. These early family-to-farmer agreements emphasized integrity, transparency, and trust in the production of healthy food. This early model of CSA inspired a new wave of agriculture and community partnership in the U.S. and around the world. Today the CSA model functions in much the in the 2017 Great Salt Lake Bird Festival’s promotional materials. Entries must be hand delivered or postmarked by May 2, 2016. All artwork will be displayed for public viewing as part of the festival on Friday, May 13 and Saturday, May 14, 2016. The event is expected to draw more than 3,000 local and out-of-state participants for numerous field trips, workshops, free family activities, and special speakers. Although Utah’s incredible array of wild birds is the focus of the festival, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about a range of topics including local owls, reptiles, and lots of birds. For more information about the Great Salt Lake Bird Festival, registration, and Student Art Contest, and other activities, please visit <www.GreatSaltLakeBirdFest.com> Hand deliver (no mailed entrants accepted here) student art submissions by May 2 to: The Davis County Administration Building. Great Salt Lake Bird Festival Attn: Student Art Contest 61 S. Main St., Room 304 Farmington, Utah Mail contest entries, postmarked no later than May 2, to: TEXT-TO-911 cont. from page 8 GREAT SALT LAKE BIRD FESTIVAL ATTN STUDENT ART CONTEST International (APCO), text-to-9-1-1 capabilities PO BOX 618 were in place on those four carriers’ networks FARMINGTON UT 84025 in May 2014. However, this does not mean that text-to-9-1-1 service is available to all consumarea. Currently there is an unimproved ramp ers; the actual availability hinges on the deployconnecting these points. ment of new systems and training at more than Potential Funding - Potential funding for 6,000 9-1-1 centers across America. That said, this venture can be collaboration between many the “Big 4” agreement—and subsequent action entities, including the Forest Service, Utah by the FCC to begin codifying that agreeState Parks, Weber County, GOAL Foundation, ment—is expected to hasten the day when all Intermountain Health Care Live Well campaign, Americans can request emergency aid via text messages. and the Weber Tri-Swim Club. How does it work? Wireless carriers will In-Kind Contributions - Wasatch Civil Consulting Engineering & Mark Miller is creat- provide text-to-911 services in the format ing all the engineering drawings for the swim requested by local 9-1-1 call centers, e.g., through TTY, through Internet Protocol (IP), or area, the deck structure and the concrete path. Public Comment Period - The Forest other technologies. The carriers will provision Service is initiating a 30-day comment period the service based on the call centers’ requests. Sending a text to 9-1-1 is the same as sendFebruary 15 thru March 15, 2016. This proposal would not change the current designation of ing a text to your family or friends. Just type in open swimming on Pineview Reservoir; how- the phone number then the message and press ever, the Forest Service would like your input send. The cell phone must have a texting plan to take into consideration in its final decision through the carrier and normal charges may of this proposal. The construction of the deck apply. What are the differences between callwould require an environmental analysis prior to construction. A decision can be expected up ing and texting 9-1-1? If you choose to text to 9-1-1 it will be important to provide your to a month after comments are received. location and the nature of your emergency as Comments can be submitted by mail: clearly as possible using simple plain English. Ogden Ranger District Robert Sanchez Avoid using abbreviations or “text jargon” as District Ranger it may cause confusion delaying the emergency 507 25th St. response. The 9-1-1 call taker will ask you stanOgden UT 84401 dard emergency questions. What does this mean in terms of fundOr by email at <comments-intermtning for 9-1-1? There is growing concern that wasatch-cache-ogden@fs.fed.us> existing funding models for 9-1-1 cannot be See full size maps on The Ogden Valley sustained because of the growing number of news Facebook page. same way. Here’s how it works: Community members seeking healthy, local, organic food join a CSA farm by paying a membership fee in the spring. This pre-season member investment helps cover operating expenses for the growing season (seeds, irrigation materials, labor, soil amendments, and more). In return, the farm provides members with a weekly harvest basket of the highest-quality, most nutrient-dense and diverse selection of fresh produce, herbs, flowers, and fruits from June thru October. In Ogden Valley this summer, Eden’s Sandhill Farms is offering a CSA membership program so you and your family can buy local and eat fresh. Farming with organic methods since first breaking ground in 2006, Sandhill Farms will be Weber County’s first USDA Certified Organic farm. The farm is celebrating its tenth year of vegetable production in Eden. On-farm opportunities for CSA members will include monthly workdays and workshops for the whole family with topics such as “home gardening and season extending in the Wasatch” and “nutritional cooking with a fresh harvest.” A Fall Harvest Dinner on the farm will celebrate a season of new friends and great food. Pete Rasmussen, of Sandhill Farms, will host an informational session for those interested in learning more about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), and how to register for the 2016 season. Info session will be held in Ogden Valley in late March. Please contact the farm directly to learn more. A membership for the 2016 CSA season is $525 for 16 weeks of vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruits. Consider sharing a CSA membership with your friends or neighbors. For more information, visit www.sandhillfarms.org/csa or csautah.org or contact Farmer Pete at 801866-3620 or <pete@sandhillfarms.org> devices and services not covered by traditional 9-1-1 fees, as well as the diversion of 9-1-1 funds to other uses in some states. NENA and its partners are exploring and advocating for new funding models to maintain high-quality 9-1-1 services and accelerate the momentum toward NG9-1-1 . Are there current pilots in progress? The state of Vermont and several local governments across the U.S. are currently piloting textto-9-1-1 programs. NENA will help share these successes and lessons learned with emergency call centers across the nation. What are the major challenges to making text-to-911 work? As noted above, the widespread availability of text-to-911 will depend not only on telecommunications carriers, but also on the ability of 9-1-1 centers to implement new systems and training. A key challenge facing 9-1-1 call centers is selecting and implementing the text-to-911 platform that works best in their individual centers and is financially viable. Emergency call centers and authorities need to conduct extensive research and testing - including input from front-line operators - to select the option that best fits their needs and current systems. Why is text-to-911 needed now? Simply put, text messaging is one of the primary ways people communicate today, especially younger people and members of the hearing and speech disabilities community. According to Forrester Research, an estimated 6 billion SMS messages are sent every day in the United States, or more than 2.2 trillion per year. The 9-1-1 community is constantly striving to meet the evolving needs of the public, and right now that means implementing text-to-911 solutions. |