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Show Volume XXVIII Issue XIII The Ogden Valley News Page 11 August 1, 2021 Your Gift Grows the Community: CFOV seeks your help You can see, from the youth essays written by our local 5th- 6thgrade students that were recently printed in The Ogden Valley News, what matters most to them are pathways and trails to safely walk and ride on, places to play, opportunities to learn new life skills, and, most importantly, our beautiful environment that we are able to enjoy while living and recreating in our valley with its clean air and open spaces. Community Foundation of Ogden Valley (CFOV) helps raise money for and awareness about nonprofit organizations that help make our valley such an amazing place to live and enjoy. By donating to CFOV, you are donating to 17 nonprofits from our community. The foundation supports schools, parks, recreation teams, pathways, the arts, emergency preparedness, local Boy Scout programs, military families, land conservation and preservation of open space, tennis and skiing, and search and rescue efforts. Your gift makes a positive difference in the viability, sustainability, and improvement of these valuable community assets. CFOV is currently in the middle of its annual Giving Period. While donations are always welcome, now is an especially great time to donate. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 restrictions, CFOV moved away from the Annual Summer Scramble golf tournament and Helicopter Ball Drop to several smaller events. Music on the Patio in June was a wonderful return to community gathering and the 4th of July Parade was a great way to get out and celebrate with friends and neighbors. Be on the lookout for this year’s Pickleball Tournament and fall gatherings to close out the 2021 Giving Period. There are four CFOV donor categories that need your support. Please consider a generous gift to one or more of them. 1. Sponsor Fund - You or your business can become a sponsor that supports CFOV’s operational costs—everything from insurance to advertising to printing costs. Sponsor funds in excess of actual administrative and operational needs will go to CFOV’s Matching Fund account and, from there, to our local nonprofits. To learn more about CFOV sponsorship opportunities, please visit cfov.net or call Jeannie Wendell at 801-745-2879. 2. Nonprofit Fund - You can go online to cfov.net and make a donation to your favorite CFOV nonprofit(s). Our nonprofits are currently raising funds for their organization’s missions. CFOV will match these funds up to $5,000, depending on available CFOV funds at the end of the year. In essence, your donations could double! As a nonprofit, CFOV is also a donation option on the cfov.net website. 3. Match Donor Fund - Match Donors are community-spirited people, businesses, and families who care about all our local nonprofit organizations. Match donor gifts are spread among all the good causes our nonprofits represent. To become a Match Donor, please speak with a CFOV board member, or call Melissa Lewis at 801-4302088 or visit <cfov.net> 4. Fundraiser Fund - Be on the lookout for any of CFOV’s 2021 fundraising events. Any donation toward a silent auction or raffle item, or purchase a purchases of these items, will benefit all of our sponsored nonprofits. DROWNING cont. from page 1 A week before that, on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 20, 37-year-old Adrian Luna Sr. drowned while trying to help his son who had drifted away from shore on a flotation device. The father perished before reaching his son. The first drowning of the 2021 summer season occurred May 15 near Port Ramp Marina. The victim was a 61-year-old male who had been seen playing in the water but was later found face down. While life-saving efforts were administered, soon after he was pronounced dead at the scene. Representatives from the Sheriff’s office and search and rescue remind people to know your swimming abilities, and to use life preservers when enjoying the water. this young man’s family and friends.” Nearly three weeks ago, on Sunday, June 25, a 25-year-old was pulled out of Pineview Reservoir near Cemetery Point after he had jumped in to help his brother. Bystanders were able to pull him from the water and a firefighter and nurse practitioner began lifesaving efforts before the man was airlifted to an area hospital in critical condition. He survived but was recently taken off life support and died. For more information about CFOV or donating, please contact Melissa Lewis at 801430-2088. Subscriptions available for out-of-area residents at $18 annually. Send payment with mailing address to: The Ogden Valley News PO BOX 522, EDEN UT 84310 Growing up in Ogden Valley: Liberty’s Own Pioneer Roundup By Carol Lee Storey Pilcher Sometimes my granddaughter Emma will climb up onto my lap as I sit in my favorite lounge chair. “Grandma, I don’t want you to read me a story; will you tell me stories about growing up in our valley when you were young? When the pandemic kept us inside for many hours, it gave me a chance to write down some of these fun stories the grandchildren enjoy. This valley has so changed from my generation to the lives they are living now. So, I’ll start with one of the grandchildren’s favorite stories. At age eight, we lived on a dairy farm in Liberty. Ninety-eight percent of our population lived on farms back then. Now these farms are few and far between. Our farmhouse didn’t have screens on the windows, but we made do, leaving the windows open wide to catch a cool breeze during the hot summer nights. We moved my bed under the window near the apple orchard. In July, we threw up the sash all the way to catch the breeze. In the middle of the night one summer evening, I could hear heavy breathing and a low “moo” rumbling sound. I opened one eye, and then the other and saw the head of a great Brahma bull, his head lying on my bed! I screamed for my dad, who then ran down the hall, turned on my light, and looked out the window to see a herd of bulls, including our own bull, circling the house. Dad quickly pulled on his Levies, cowboy boots, and cowboy hat; then grabbed his loaded shotgun, which he always kept by his bed. He then jumped on his horse, bareback, shot a few shots into the air, and herded the herd up towards the Nordic Valley barn with the red roof. It is still standing today and is used, no longer as a dairy farm, but as the lodge for the skiers at Nordic Valley ski resort. The farmers rushed out to help dad herd the restless roamers back up into the pasture where they had broken out from. Seems the local farmer had rented out his pasture for rodeo stock use for Ogden’s Days of ‘47 rodeo. The fence was mended, and all was well. Looks like our dairy bull and the Brahmas had been communicating and enticing each other to break out! Dad herded our bull back to our correl. Mom and I were much relieved! However, I still slept the rest of the summer with my window open only a wee bit… just in case! Next year, the pasture was not rented to the rodeo folk, much to my relief. Note: Carol Lee Storey Pilcher was born in 1944. Many of her students may remember her as Mrs. Pilcher—kindergarten and preschool teacher at Valley Elementary for fifteen years. Watch for more of Carol Lee’s stories in “The Ogden Valley News”! Fr. Jose Santos to Serve at St. Florence Mission in Huntsville Effective July 28 Fr. Joshua Maria Santos was born in Quezon City, the Philippines, and attended school there through college. He entered the seminary and studied at the Mater Dei College and the University of St. Thomas and was ordained a priest for the Religious Institute of the Marian Missionaries of the Holy Cross on June 26, 2008 by Bishop Vicente Navarra. He served in various ministries in the Philippines until 2014, when he came to the United States, serving for four years in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He came to the Diocese of Salt Lake City in 2018, where he served first as administrator of St. Ambrose Parish, then as parochial vicar of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish and chaplain of St. Jerome Newman Center at Utah State University. On July 28 he will begin serving as administrator of St. Joseph Parish in Ogden and St. Florence Mission in Huntsville. The following is an interview with Fr. Joshua Maria Santos. What would you like your new parishioners to know about you? That I am a simple friend who would like to enter into friendship with them and to make Jesus the center of that loving friendship. What are you looking forward to most about your new assignment? I look forward to helping our people rediscover over and over again the presence of the Lord present in each one of them through meaningful celebration of the sacraments and inspiring fellowships. As a priest, what has been your greatest challenge? The greatest challenge so far is to be able to dialogue and give advice to our dear parishioners who cannot understand English. As a priest, what has been your most satisfying experience? To hear from our dear parishioners that they see the image of a humble, loving and caring God in a sinful man like me. And that they feel they are close to God whenever they are near me. For me, there’s no more satisfying experience than that. For more information call 801-745-LORD (5673) or visit <http://stflorencehuntsville. org/> Note: This article is being reprinted by permission courtesy of “Intermountain Catholic,” Friday, July 9, 2021 Edition. DONATE AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE! WHEN MANY PEOPLE GIVE A LITTLE, BIG THINGS HAPPEN. NONPROFITS IN OGDEN VALLEY MATCHING OVERDRIVE HAS BEGUN www.cfov.net WHEN MANY GIVE IN SMALL AMOUNTS IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE cfov.net |