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Show The Ogden Valley news Your Community Newspaper April 15, 2018 USPS MARKETING MAIL POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO Annual Ogden Canyon Clean-up Part of Earth Day Celebration Nationally, Earth Day will be celebrated this year Sunday, April 22. To help celebrate, Ogden Canyon Club is holding its annual spring Canyon Cleanup Saturday, April 21. The Canyon Club hosts this event once a year in the spring. This will be their 21st consecutive year of service to the community. “Each time we hold a spring cleanup, we find a lot of trash on the sides of the road in Ogden Canyon and around Pineview. As we all know, trash flies out of vehicles so every year we like to do our part to keep our canyon clean,” states Keith Rounkles of Ogden Canyon Club. Those who would like to participate in this year’s spring cleanup should meet at Alaskan Inn at 9:00 a.m., April 21, where volunteers will receive mapped instructions and assignments. Everyone’s help is needed. At noon, after the completion of the cleanup effort, lunch will be provided at The Oaks restaurant. Ogden Canyon Club is asking everyone to come out and help with the cleanup. “How CANYON CLEAN-UP cont. on page 7 Moose above Causey Reservoir. Photo by Norman S. Hall. Plans Underway by Forest Service to Ogden Valley Weeds Day May 12: Save the date and Decommission Jefferson Hunt Campground do your part to eradicate state-listed noxious weeds By Shanna Francis USDA Forest Service Uinta Wasatch Cache National Forest Ogden District Ranger Sean Harwood has confirmed that the Forest Service is in the process of developing a plan for the decommission of Jefferson Hunt Campground located near Huntsville. In a written statement, Forest Service District Recreation staff member David L. Ashby stated, “This is something the Ogden Ranger District has spent a good deal of time looking over and trying to make the best decision for the long run and for protecting and improving National Forest Resources.” In a phone interview, Ashby further explained that the process of decommissioning and deconstructing the campground has to go through the least rigorous National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) process—a NEPA Categorical Exclusion. Under this NEPA category, an inventory and hydrological and habitat study of the site is formally conducted and recommendations are made to Ogden Ranger The Ogden Ranger District of the UintaWasatch-Cache National Forest, Weber Pathways, and the Ogden Valley invites the public to join us for the 11nd-annual Ogden, Ogden Valley Weeds Days. The public is invited to participate in the community wide event. The ongoing efforts offer fun, exercise, a chance to meet new people as well as give back to the local community! Saturday we will have a BBQ lunch, music provided by Mountain CAMPGROUND cont. on page 12 raffle, Arts and Music, and a demonstration dying wool with dyers woad. This year’s event will be held Friday, May 11 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in Ogden at the 29th Street Trailhead; and in Ogden Valley until they were half way through their hike, and Saturday, May 12 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., then it was too late. We hope to give users the meeting in Eden Park (2150 N. 5500 E.) for ability to protect the incredible trail network we have here in Weber County by using it responsibly. The idea behind the website is to know-before-you-go,” said Site Designer Alan Wheelwright of Eden. Trail users are encouraged to send in trail information through the website and to check it By Shanna Francis regularly to find the most up-to-date trail inforAn accident occurring April 12 in Ogden mation in Weber County. Canyon shut down traffic for several hours and For more information, please visit <www. knocked down a power pole. weberpathways.org> According to the Weber County Sheriff’s Office, a male driving a Dodge truck lost control of his vehicle near the Smokey the Bear sign at about mile marker 10 (237 Ogden Canyon), and hit the pole, which launched it across the highway, along with the electrical powerlines it was supporting. A report of the accident came into canyon while it’s closed, and this year they will dispatch at about 3:00 p.m. The driver walked away from the accident end downtown with the other athletes. The Ogden Marathon is a major component uninjured, according to Sgt. Christopher Ryan in the GOAL Foundation’s mission to get Weber with the Weber County Sheriff’s office, who County residents and visitors out and active. To also reported that it didn’t look like the man further its mission of encouraging participation involved in the accident was driving impaired. A representative from Rocky Mountain in outdoor events, the GOAL Foundation has integrated youth and family activities into race- Power estimated that it would take until 10:00 day participation. Nearly every event hosted by p.m. that evening to complete repairs so the GOAL has a youth component that recreates the adult version or allows kids to participate MARATHON cont. on page 10 New Trail Conditions Website Now Available Weber Pathways and Ogden Trail Network are excited to announce the release of their new Trails Conditions Website (www.webertrails. org). The site now allows trail users to check the conditions of most trails in Weber County from any smart phone or computer. “It is too common to see people riding and walking on wet and muddy trails, only because they didn’t know what the conditions were WEEDS DAY cont. on page 11 Accidents Cause Road Closures in and out of Ogden Valley Ogden Marathon Offers Events for All Ages & Skill Levels On May 19, the GOAL Foundation will host the 18th Annual Ogden Marathon. The race has become a family favorite thanks to events such as the Granite Construction Kids K, The Utah Eye Centers 5K and the 1-mile Mayor’s Walk, presented by American Pet Nutrition. This year, the GOAL Foundation is continuing the Sunrise Canyon Bike Ride as part of the schedule of events where bike riders will have the unique opportunity to ride their bicycles through the bags and equipment, and later for a lunch with local county commissioners and State legislative leader Gage Froerer of Huntsville. The goal of this project is to help reduce and eradicate invasive weeds threatening the native plant community of the local area. Project areas encompass lands bounded by the Forest Service, Weber County on the Mt. Ogden front, and Ogden Valley area. Invasive weed species threaten the ecological integrity and biological diversity of plant communities within the project area and have caused adverse impacts to recreation, wildlife, and other important social and resource values. heavily-used roadway could be reopened. North Ogden Divide Closure - Regarding an accident occurring April 9 on the North Ogden Divide, Lt. Matt Jensen, also with the Weber County Sheriff’s Office, stated that a 16-year-old juvenile from North Ogden, carrying a female and male passenger, was traveling around 60 miles per hour up the Divide on the North Ogden side when he was unable to navigate a corner and went off the steep roadway. According to the accident report, the Volkswagen Passat rolled three or four times down the mountainside before coming to rest at the bottom of the canyon. All three teens walked away from the accident. The juvenile driver was issued a citation for Unsafe Lane Travel. Dispatch received a call regarding the accident at about 2:25 p.m. According to Jensen, the accident shut down the Divide for about an hour. Let the Giving Begin Julia Rivet—Wonder Woman of Ogden Valley Past A thousand miles north of Ogden Valley in remote British Columbia lies a small town. On the outskirts, an old pioneer cemetery is barely noticeable. In a corner of the graveyard is a solitary grave, the town’s first and oldest resident, a SpokaneFlathead Indian woman buried in 1886. She had lived the last 25 years of her 98-year life there in the settlement of Lac la Hache—“Lake of the Ax” with her daughter Sarah and son-in-law Archibald McKinlay. The dark gray stone atop her resting place reveals a simple inscription— “Julia, wife of Peter Skene Ogden. Though it is well known that Ogden Valley’s name sake is Peter Skene Ogden, there would seem to be no other apparent connection to this woman and Ogden Valley. Yet, a unique and untold association there was. In July of 1825 the first of 16 history-making Rocky Mountain Rendezvous between 1825 and 1840 was held in McKinnon, Wyoming. Author and historian James Beckwourth describes the lively activities of a rendezvous, “Mirth, songs, dancing, shouting, trading, running, jumping, singing, racing, target-shooting, yarns, frolic, with all sorts of extravagances that white men or Indians could invent.” Though not in attendance at the original 1825 rendezvous, Peter Skene Ogden and his wife Julia were the headline talk of that first trapper gathering, consequent of a conflict on the Weber River some eight weeks earlier in mid-May. Events of the encounter fell narrowly short of fatal outcomes ending in massive defections of Ogden’s men to an American group of trappers. The incident also resulted in Ogden’s loss of hundreds of beaver pelts just procured days before over the mountains to the north in present day Ogden Valley. But, the most startling detail of all was a daring rescue of Ogden’s infant son by his wife Julia. Ogden, like many of his trappers in the brigade, was accompanied by his wife and children. In the care of Ogden’s wife, Julia, were his own four—Peter, Charles, Cecilia, and Michael. In the ensuing scuffle, Julia discovered her 8-month-old papoose Michael, and the horse he was strapped to, were missing—likely taken by the Americans. Julia, without hesitation, mounted a horse and rode directly into the American camp, staring down the threat of raised rifles. Grabbing the reigns of the horse carrying her baby, along with an additional horse loaded with pelts, she fled JULIA RIVET cont. on page 10 The Community Foundation of Ogden Valley (CFOV), in conjunction with Wolf Creek Resort and Destination Properties, held an apres ski event at the Moose Hollow clubhouse on March 23. CFOV board members are gearing up for a successful giving season May 1 thru September 30. Pictured left to right are Marion Horna, Jim Morgan, Joe Jennings, Nanci Lifer, Paula Fryland, Sharon Holmstrom, Tim Ludlum, and Melissa Lewis. Not pictured are board members Brian Nielsen, Phillip Coleman, Stephanie Wilkins, Paul DeLong, Chris Poulsen, Neil Drew, and Thaine Fischer. |