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Show Page 2 The Ogden Valley news Volume XXV Issue III April 1, 2018 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 Letters to the Editor Valley Elementary 6th-grade Team Thanks Community for Serve to Save Support Dear Valley Residents, Wow! Thank you for another incredible experience for our 6th-grade students. Your support for our annual “Serve to Save” dinner and auction was overwhelming. We would like to thank all of the people and businesses who donated items for the dinner and auction, as well as all those who came that night to enjoy the dinner and 6th-grade entertainers. We also have a fantastic lunch room and custodial staff who helped with set-up, serving, and clean-up. 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Luxury, Valley Elementary PTO, Miss Beehaven, High Fitness, Weber State, Old Town Barber, Zucca, BDO Outlet, Creager Family Dentistry, Inspire Gymnastics, Liberty Broadband LLC, Aunt Hill Farms, Zimbi Dental, Ogden Valley Pizza, Liberty Tax Service, Nordic Valley, EmieJames, Hearth and Home, Deziria Chocolates, Ogden Ice Sheet, Simply Eden, Club Rec, Peterson Builders, Root & Petal, Powder Mountain, Summit, Valley Hair, Dr. Booth, Norwex, Diamond Peak, Ashley Stoddard Jewelry, Jennifer Jones Salon, SAL Management Group, Wendy Toliver, Wheeler Cat, Thirty-One Bags, Mad Valley Elementary 6th-grade Teachers, Cindy Hillstrom, Carolyn Hogge, Lisa McKay, Paul Roberts, and Rebecca Warnes Million Mom March 18 Years Later We can go on pretending that we have a gun problem, obsessing about which guns must be banned, how old one must be to purchase, and restrictions on ammunition configurations; there has been no shortage of protests, marches, and celebrity incursions into fixing the “gun problem.” In May of 2000, Rosie O’Donnell famously rallied moms from across the nation in a public display of anti-gun demonstrations—not much has changed to make the public safer from evil people who want to kill others. My two daughters and their mother flew to Washington DC to support the rally that would make a difference—it didn’t. Guns still haven’t killed anyone in the past 18 years but many evil people with guns, knives, bombs, cars, trucks and other lethal devices have. In fact, death by knife in the U.S. is five times that of rifles; yet, my daughters and many others still doggedly believe guns are the problem. Why would we expect the same responses to make a difference this time? Criminals still don’t obey the law no matter how many restrictions are placed on gun ownership. The criminally ill will continue to act unless more care is taken in enforcing the law. The status will remain “quo” unless and until we recognize that mass killings are a ‘human problem” and not a gun problem. We should be very weary of anyone who sees this as a single issue tragedy. Interestingly, when it comes to mass shooting deaths per capita worldwide, the U.S. is only number eleven; in a Crime Prevention Research Study (2009 – 2015) reported in Investor’s Business Daily (Feb. 22, 2018), Norway led the way—followed by Serbia, France, Macedonia, Finland, Belgium, and the Czech Republic. Other data from this study do not conform to the Liberal narrative Anxiety Isn’t Cool, But Talking about It Is! By Max Carr, Waypoint Academy Wa y P o i n t Academy has recently gained nationwide attention for its efforts in combatting adolescent anxiety. Last fall, IndieFlix released a documentary entitled Angst, which explores anxiety disorder in youth and teens. The film featured WayPoint Academy and its students who attend the school to confront various forms of anxiety. Since the film’s release, it has gained momentum, touring throughout the U.S. and abroad. Angst shares a message of anxiety awareness, communication, and how parents, family, and friends can assist those who have anxiety. Olympian Michael Phelps talks about his own struggles in some of the film’s best moments. The young men of WayPoint would like to host a public screening of the documentary on Wednesday, April 18. The event is free to the public and begins at 6:00 p.m. at the Ogden Valley Branch Library in Huntsville. Students from WayPoint Academy will participate in a Q and A panel afterward. All are invited to attend the event! Refreshments will be provided. In other news, WayPoint Academy will be featured in an upcoming segment on the Today Show’s website. Filming will focus on students who attend the school and how they are regular kids working on themselves. Our hope is to raise further awareness of anxiety and to spread the message of what therapeutic boarding schools and treatment centers can do for adolescents and their futures. Updates for the online release date of this segment will follow. For additional information, please visit <waypointacadeny.com> and statements by leaders such as President Obama, Harry Reid and others who inaccurately describe the U.S. as the leader in mass gun related deaths. Democrats are becoming the party of “shibboleth” (statements empty of real meaning) when it comes to the gun debate, border security, sanctuary cities, and many other current issues. Unfortunately many in the “main-stream media” are following down the “shibboleth” path or, as President Trump likes to call it, “fake news.” Perhaps the most frightening aspect is the depths, to which Liberals, Progressives and Democrats will go to distort, obfuscate, and otherwise misrepresent the facts with knowing assistance from their friends in the media. John W. Reynolds, Pleasant View Correction In The Ogden Valley news March 15, 2018 issue article “ Nordic Valley: Taking a look back . . .” we incorrectly named Art and Pat. 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