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Show Volume I, Issue VII Page 3 The Ogden Valley News April 1999 CABIN - cont. from page 1 again and were eating everyone’s crop. They flew over my field. I thought it was my turn next. I was in debt for the seed and was so discouraged. . .I prayed in the Name of the Lord, and threw a stick at the grasshoppers and said, ‘Get out of here.’ In a little while I went out. There was no grasshoppers to be seen. Every man’s crop in Eden was eaten up. [But] I raised 7 hundred bushel of grain. The Lord was on my side.” Cabin built by William VanDawson FIRST SECURITY BANK CELEBRATES GRAND OPENING OF OGDEN VALLEY BRANCH First Security is celebrating the grand opening of its newest branch located in Ogden Valley at 2487 N. Highway 158, Eden. The grand opening celebration is scheduled for April 7 through 24. A ribboncutting ceremony to kick-off the grand opening festivities is scheduled for Wednesday, April 7, 1999, at noon. The media and public are invited to attend. “The continued growth in the Ogden Valley makes it possible for First Security to make this sizeable investment and expand our operations here,” says Carl Buchanan, First Security Northern Utah area president. The new single-level mountainresort style branch opened March 1 to customers. Most First Security services are offered at the branch including consumer and home equity loans, safety deposit boxes, business banking services, a variety of deposit accounts, investor services, mortgage loans and insurance. During the celebration, customers can take advantage of several bank offerings including special rates on new CDs; special options on a new checking account; first year’s rental on safety deposit box free when opening any new checking account; and a special introductory rate of one year on a new Visa or MasterCard. Customers may also enter to win daily drawings which include dinner certificates, golf passes and other prizes, or the grand prize drawings that include a big screen TV, a mountain bike, and camping equipment. The new branch offers two drive-up banking lanes, a 24-hour ATM lane, a night-depository, and four teller stations inside the bank. Lobby hours are open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; the drive-up is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and both the lobby and drivethrough are open Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. With assets of more than $22 billion, First Security Corporation is the West’s second largest independent bank holding company. First Security operates almost 400 banking, insurance and investment offices in Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming. The corporation also operates more than 150 mortgage, construction lending and equipment finance offices in 26 states through subsidiaries CrossLand Mortgage Corp., First Security Bank and First Security Leasing Company. For more information on First Security, visit <www.firstsecuritybank.com>. Carl W. Buchanan, Area President of Northern Utah for First Security Bank, cuts the official ceremony ribbon for the bank’s grand opening, held April 7. Finally the family built a sturdier and larger home nearby on the farm. Fire eventually destroyed this frame home that sat back down the lane off of Patio Road. In 1902 William built the large red brick home that still exists today located on the road to Wolf Creek. The Sowers family bought the property and home in November of 1946. The original log cabin came to be used as a storage shed on the Burnett, and later, Sowers farm. In response to promptings from members of the Burnett family, recently the Sowers family generously donated the historic Burnett cabin to The Old Deseret Village located at This is the Place State Park across from Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City. The cabin will be moved to its new home this month where it will be restored and maintained. Old Deseret Village is being created to accurately portray life as it was in early territorial Utah. The park will eventually reflect a, “fully operational landscape and animal husbandry and crop program. . .including other aspects of Utah prior to statehood, including mining, railroads, the fur trappers and Native Americans. The park has 400 acres on which it can expand those themes.” Contractor and Eden resident Rod Anderson has volunteered many, many hours in preparing the cabin for disassembly and removal. Each board had to be labeled and meticulously taken apart. The boards of the walls and floor were dovetailed together. Wadman Construction has donated the use of a trailer to transport the cabin to its new home in Salt Lake City. —Please send your early Valley pioneer stories to: THE OGDEN VALLEY NEWS, ATTENTION SHANNA FRANCIS, PO BOX 130, EDEN UT 84310 or e-mail them to: <shannafrancis@worldnet.att.net> Rod Anderson disassembling the Burnett cabin in preparation for removal to the Old Deseret Villiage located in Salt Lake City. Bring in this Coupon for a FREE 20 oz. Soda Fountain Drink (a $1.25 value) |