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Show Volume XXV Issue X The Ogden Valley news Page 13 June 15, 2019 Sixth-grade CFOV Winning Essays Selected Curiosity Peak Preschool Hosts Community Foundation of Ogden Valley (CFOV) recently sponsored their annual sixth-grade essay contest in conjunction with Ogden Valley’s event of the year—the CFOV OVerDRIVE community celebration and fundraising activities that will be held later this summer. The themes for this year’s essay contest was, “How I Can Be a Part of Community Foundation of Ogden Valley” or “Here’s How I Benefit by Donating My Money or Time—or both—to Help Others through CFOV.” CFOV benefits the entire Valley, and also those who visit and recreate here. Examples include multiple and varied valley-wide improvements—from building tennis courts and trails, to bettering our local schools and community parks, and multiple efforts in between, no matter the way, CFOV is committed to Ogden Valley. The contest was open to all Valley Elementary students, and cash awards of $25 each were awarded to the ten students with the ten best essays, as judged and evaluated by Valley Elementary teachers. In addition, a Mountain Maggie check for an additional $25 was distributed to the students with the winning essays so they can then donate it to their favorite Ogden Valley CFOV-sanctioned nonprofit organization. Here are two of the winning essays. Additional essays will be printed in future issues of The Ogden Valley news. How I Can Be a Part of Community Foundation for Ogden Valley & How I Benefit by Donating My Money or Time—or both—to Help Others through CFOV By Valley sixth-grade student Scarlet Buttars I would like to be a part in my community. I want to be able to be a help in my community. I have thought of some things that I could do to make my community a better place. Having HEARING cont. from page 1 the petitioner reads, “While operating under existing stream alteration and restoration permits from the Federal and State government to improve and maintain the North Fork river and Wolf Creek river, the goal will be to create a sustainable project of which will allow the supply of the main constituents used in ready mix concrete and other local construction projects throughout the area.” The petition continues, “At current the property sits next to the industrial manufacturing zone area in Eden and will share the same access road (Clark Lane) that is already utilized by the county maintenance yard, heavy civil construction yard, and landscape yard. It will better improve the health of the public by reducing truck trips form Box Elder county through the county and Ogden Canyon. Vehicles are one of the main contributors to poor air quality and can be dangerous in tight spaces like Ogden Canyon. They contribute to congested road ways.” Mr. Edwards indicated to the Planning Commission at a planning meeting held June 4 that the company hopes to be able to pull the mined sand, gravel, and rock from the river for the next 30 years, extracting approximately 50,000 yards of material from the site annually, or the equivalent of about 5,000 truckloads of material each year (a large truck load can accommodate approximately nine to ten yards of material), which would be hauled out from a happier place to live makes people happy. I know me and my siblings love playing outside and smelling the fresh air. With an unhealthy community and environment then there are no happy and fun kids playing in the environment and no families going on walks and stuff like that. I know that having litter and cans in the roads and on the sides of them can get annoying and that could kill animals and plants and that makes an unhappy environment and community. I would love to clean up the litter around my community. I would also love to clean out stickers and weeds around where I live. I know that there are many other ways to be a part of the community but I know that what I would do now would be a great start! ******* By Valley sixth-grade student Sophie Riggs Annual Art Show Curiosity Peak Preschool, located in Huntsville, hosted their annual art show Thursday, May 16. Throughout the year, students had learned about different artists then choose nine different artists to focus their art work on. They painted in the styles of Art in the Garden by Claude Monet, Tree of Life and The Kiss by Gustav Klimt, Cake Art by Wayne Thiebaud, Printmaking, Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, Lines and Stripes by Piet Mondrian, Concentric Circles by Wassily Kandinsky, Splatter Art by Jackson Pollock, and our very own barn mural paintings by Jake Songer of Huntsville! The event was a huge hit, with over 130 pieces of art displayed. The work was created by 15 students from both the undergraduate class, and graduating class. It was a great send off for our 2019 Curiosity Peak Preschool graduates! Curiosity Peak Preschool is owned and operated by teacher Syrina Stewart of Huntsville. Stewart has been the owner/teacher of the school for the last five years. When people think about helping their community, they think, “Oh, I’ll just go pick up some trash or get rid of some weeds or dyer’s woad!”, but there are more impactful ways you can help your community. You could join organizations like the Valley Elementary PTO or the Snowcrest PTO to help with financial matters, school activities, and fundraisers. You could also donate, join, or support organizations like the Ogden Valley Winter Sports Foundation or Ogden Valley Adaptive Sports to make sports available to the kids in our Valley. If you want to improve the environment, you could donate to an organization like the Ogden Valley Land Trust. All of those things can be done through the Community Foundation of Ogden Valley. If you donate your money or time through CFOV to an organization that works to make the Valley a better place, then everyone in the community benefits. CFOV supports organizations that help improve trails, sports, arts, the environment, volunteer emergency services, and culture. When you donate, you help your neighbors, yourself, your future or current kids, and everyone else around you. Plus, you get a good feeling knowing you helped out to make our community a better place. the proposed facility. In order for the proposal to be approved, Levanta will have to be granted a rezone. If given the rezone, he has the right to proceed with development plans. He will then have to come before the county again to ask for a Conditional Use Permit. At the June 25 public hearing, the Weber County Planning Commission can table a decision on the zoning request to ascertain additional information, or recommend to Weber County Commissioners to approve or deny the requested rezone. The Weber County Commissioners will make the final decision. Initial concerns mentioned at the June 4 Planning Commission focused on health and safety issues: noise pollution, possible diminishing air quality, and traffic concerns in relation to the vicinity of Snowcrest Jr. High School and the public tennis and pickle ball courts and school field and track oval located nearby, and if air quality issues from rock crushing and excavation could inadvertently diminish the health of the students and general public participating and supporting sports activities, and the health of students who spend large amounts of time at the school and may have asthma or other breathing issues, which can be agitated by fine particulate dust and other pollutants. The public hearing on June 25 is scheduled to be held at Snowcrest Jr. High at 5:00 p.m. Public comment will be taken at this meeting. Curiosity Peak Preschool graduates, from left to right: Asher Baker, Freddy Hale, Gideon Burton, Ellie Palm, Zoey Kyle, Claire Goldston, and Violet Phillips. Subscriptions available for out-of-area residents at $18 annually. Send payment with mailing address to: The Ogden Valley news PO BOX 130, EDEN UT 84310 |
