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Show Volume XXV Issue VII The Ogden Valley news Page 13 June 1, 2018 CFOV Essay Winners Announced The Community Foundation of Ogden Valley (CFOV) sponsors an annual essay contest. The contest is open to all Valley Elementary students. A cash award of $25 from CFOV is then awarded to the ten students with the top ten essays. Each student also receives a $25 Mountain Maggie Check for that they donate in their name to the CFOV nonprofit they have pre-selected. By allowing the students to donate half of their prize money to the organization of their choice, it is hoped that the students will begin a lifelong journey of philanthropic giving. Below are copies of this year’s CFOV winning essays. CFOV By Eveline Malmborg The Community Foundation of Ogden Valley, or CFOV, helps all throughout the Valley in many ways. They have many nonprofit organizations that help everyone in different ways. The Huntsville Town foundation is very important to me, and many others. Huntsville Town does loads of service for the community of Ogden Valley, such as maintaining public parks, and the Huntsville park ice rink. I and my family really enjoy the ice rink and go there often. I can benefit from donating or helping Huntsville town, because it can help improve and maintain some of the things we all love about the Valley. From the CFOV website, I found that a great way to help support the nonprofit organizations is to sponsor them by donating to them. I believe that the Community Foundation of Ogden Valley does so much for the Valley, and they need our help! Help support our nonprofit organizations so we can all improve and help the community of Ogden Valley! Helping CFOV & Ogden Valley By Isabella Willie, Valley Elementary 6th-grade student There are many different strategies to increase interest of visitors around the globe; everyone has a part to play in our little valley. Comparable to a puzzle, without every piece the picture is incomplete—the same with any piece of art. If we don’t put all of our time and effort in to this valley, the picture will remain undeveloped and slowly, piece by piece, the image will disappear. If untouched for so long, it will decompose and ultimately dissolve into a pile of dust. Evidently, this can be prevented. With help from everyone, this valley can remain nourished and healthy. “This land is your land, this land is my land,” these lyrics are a good example of the fact that this land is not just your land, but my land as well. Everyone can make a difference. Through the giving of our time, many things can be accomplished. Individual activities may include donating your talents to make an entertaining fundraiser. Offering donations to a certain organization can benefit you and others. By putting our effort in to this valley, visitor numbers will increase and this beautiful valley will grow in strength and numbers. In the end, the sky’s the limit. How I Can Benefit by Donating My Time & Money to Help Others through CFOV By Preston B. Rumsey, Valley Elementary 6th-grade student How can I benefit my time and money to help others through the CFOV? Well, I can start by volunteering at events or help build playgrounds, trails, tennis courts, and parks. I can also pay my taxes and donate my money to help towards the trails, parks, playgrounds, and tennis courts. Cleaning the parks, trails, and tennis courts would be the most beneficial thing to do to help the CFOV because that way they get more people using their stuff. Some other ways are to go hiking so that the trails stay there and I can also use the tennis courts, playgrounds, and the parks so that they don’t feel like they spent all of that money for nothing. Those are my ways of donating my time and money to help others through CFOV. Valley Elementary’s Entrepreneur Day Winners Announced Sixth graders at Valley Elementary would Mr. Roberts 6 -grade 1 Class: th like to thank Shaye Larsen and Michael Minnoch for another incredible Entrepreneur Day! The two founders of Fabuso have judged and awarded the winners of our Entrepreneur Contest for the past 12 years. Fabuso is a company that builds internetbased projects for clients around the world. They are so generous to motivate our students in this inventive, innovative, and engineering project. All winners receive a trophy with a personalized plaque. Another thank you to Regen Sorensen of Wasatch Awards & Engraving for our beautiful trophies. Winners for 2018 Grand Prize Winner ($200): Isabelle Crookston - The Travel Pillow 1st - Lily Chessler- Tee Up Four 7up 2nd - Isabella Willie - Ballet Barre 3rd - London Bushell - Music! Necklace Mrs. Hogge’s 6th-grade 2 Class: 1st - Cooper Peterson - Gas Pills 2nd - Ty Bailey - Laser Tape 3rd - Sunee Shaw - Shot Safe Mrs. Warnes & Mrs. Hillstrom’s 6th-grade 3 Class: 1st - Fisher McQueen- The Tie Snack Stash 2nd - Christian Wolthuis - Cleat Covers 3rd - Peyton Zindel - Clear Scissors Mrs. McKay’s 6thgrade 4 Class: 1st - Samantha Messerly - Step Up 2nd - Maiya Creager - The Spininator 3rd - Cami Cvitkovich - Ice Wipers OFOAM Hosts Music Festival forming short sets between the major acts. Once again, the Ogden Music Festival will be kicking off the summer festival season at Weber County’s beautiful Fort Buenaventura June 1-3. The Fort, located at 2450 “A” Ave. in Ogden, will be transformed into a worldclass venue, featuring big names in traditional Americana, and folk and bluegrass music. Steep Canyon Rangers, Lake Street Dive, IBMA Guitarist of the Year winner Molly Tuttle, Balsam Range, and rising bluegrass stars Sugar & The Mint, are just some of the artists taking the stage at this year’s festival hosted by Ogden Friends of Acoustic Music. The festival features plenty of traditional and contemporary bluegrass, folk and Americana music by national recording artists and more. Additionally, more than a dozen seasoned local artists will be showcased as “tweeners,” per- The Ogden Music Festival is also host Shown above are this year’s sixth-grade Entrepreneur Day winners with judges Shaye Larsen to the Utah State Instrument Championships and Michael Minnoch, founders of Fabuso. (USIC) with open and novice divisions in flatpick guitar, banjo, mandolin and fiddle as well as open division fingerstyle guitar. Winners are eligible to compete at the National Instrument Championships, which take place at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. The comSend payment with mailing address to: petitions are free and open to the public. The USIC will be held Friday, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.; he gden alley ews and Saturday and Sunday, 8:00 to 11:30 a.m. Tickets are available online at <OFOAM. PO BOX 130, EDEN UT 84310 org> As always, kids 16 and younger are free. Tickets for the entirety of the festival are $65 if purchased before May 31; $70 June 1. Singleday entry to the festival is $35 and $40 at the door. TRAIL cont. from page 1 home. “Well, now, you can ‘Know Before You Go’—know about all the trail conditions in Weber County. This new website www.webertrails.org is your one-stop website for trail conditions. This easy to use, crowd sourced website shows the conditions for almost every local trail in Weber County. “To make this work, we need your help to report conditions when you are on the trails. A simple form on the website allows you to provide trail updates to help others. You can access the website from your home computer or smartphone by entering www.webertrails. org into your favorite web browser.” So before you head out to enjoy the trails, take a few minutes and “Know Before You Go.” For additional information, you may also Bridge damage on North Arm and Pineveiw West Trail caused by heavy runoff in spring visit <www.weberpathways.org> 2017. Subscriptions available for out-of-area residents at $18 annually. T O V n |
