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Show Volume II , Issue III Page 1 December 1999 The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS The OGDEN VALLEY December 1999 NEWS BULK RATE POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 POSTAL PATRON EDEN - LIBERTY- 84310 HUNTSVILLE - 84317 OGDEN CANYON - 84401 HCR 843AO Your Community Newspaper Inside This Edition: Holiday Stress? Kick Back and Put Your Feet Up Page 3 Weber High Warriors, State Champions! Four-Legged Hero Page 4 By SHANNA FRANCIS Ogden Valley News Staff Preventing Dog Bites Page 4 Generators for the House Page 5 One Voice on the Family Page 6 Parent Notes Page 6 Pediatric Chiropractic Care Page 6 Hatch Bill Page 7 How to Harvest the Rewards of Retirement Page 8 Weber High School football team celebrates 17-14 victory over Bountiful in the state 4-A championship game at Rice-Eccles Stadium. State 4-A Championship Title Returns to Weber After 14 Year Wait By JEANNIE WENDELL Ogden Valley News Staff Poor Phone Service Page 8 Calendar of Events Page 9 Champion Stock A Christmas Story Page 12 Announcements Page 14 - 15 Student News Page 16 - 17 Fly-Fishing Page 18 Legacy Highway Page 19 Pineview Dam & Reservoir - Historical Article Page 20 Dieticians Warn About Miracle Diets Page 22 Classifieds Page 23 Is it Poinsettia (poyn-SEHT-ee-uh) or Poinsettia (poyn-SEHT-uh)? held the Warriors to just 40 yards The Weber Warriors delivered an rushing. Bountiful had a nearly two-toinspiring performance that led to a 17 to one edge in possession time, but the 14 victory over the previously Weber defense held them back for a win. undefeated Bountiful Braves in the state The opportunistic championship games defense converted two on November 19. The Bountiful turnovers, an Warrior’s state 4-A interception and a championship victory fumble, into a defeat for at the University of the Braves. Darin Utah’s Rice-Eccles Scott, a mid-linebacker Stadium came 14 years for the Weber Warriors after Weber won its made an interception first state football title that he returned for a back in 1985 with the touchdown, which same 17 to 14 score coach Kory Bosgeiter victory over Davis in said was the biggest the same stadium. The play of the ball game. odds for a win were in “The mascot for Weber the Bountiful Braves’ is the warrior and that is favor, but the final how they played,” said score was all that coach Bosgetier. mattered. “Senior leadership was “The Warriors went the strength of our in pretty knicked up.” game.” said Weber coach Kory Weber High Bosgeiter. Quarterback offensive line coach Mike Bailey played the Holger Hansen will be last three games of the after this season with a broken Weber Warriors Taylor Oberg and retiring foot. Other players Ashton Buswell display well earned season. He is quoted as saying, ”This is a good were playing with trophy. time to get out, while injuries as well. “We you’re on top. It’s hard to keep up with numbed my foot just hoping to get me these young guys. I’ll step aside and let through the last game and it worked,” them take over.” Bailey said. “I’ve never had a better feeling in my life, winning the state Valley players from the winning championship. If we took care of the team included kicker Ryan Toponce, turnovers, we knew we could do it. I Erik Gill, John Graves, Dalton Jones, stepped up and did what I had to do.” Justin Kingsford, Ryan Nichols, Taylor Oberg, Shad Owens, Joel Vandegraff, The Braves ran off 25 more Matt White, and Brandon Wood. offensive plays than Weber did, and Either pronunciation of the, what has become, the traditional Christmas flower is correct according to renown author Christine Anderson who recently visited Rainbow Gardens to present two seminars on the festive and familiar December botanical wonder. Anderson writes in her co-authored book Poinsettias Myth & Legend– History & Botanical Fact that the ancient Aztecs prized poinsettias for their medicinal, commercial and religious value. But it wasn’t until 1828, when Joel Roberts Poinsett an avid amateur botanist and the first U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, chanced upon the blooming fiery red wildflower in the month of December while roaming the Mexican countryside, that the plant was introduced into North America after he shipped cuttings of the plant back to his greenhouse in South Carolina. Within ten years, the plant found its place alongside the holly and the mistletoe as a holiday tradition. Though Mr. Poinsett was distinguished as a special envoy to Argentina and Chile, a State Legislator from South Carolina, a U.S. Congressman, Ambassador to Mexico, President Van Buren’s Secretary of War, Advisor to West Point, founder of the National Institution for the Promotion of Science (later the Smithsonian Institution), he may be best remembered as the man for whom this now renown Christmas flower was named. The ancient Aztec healers and medicine men used the milky white sap from the plant to control fevers. Clothing merchants brewed the bract from the plant–the substance that produces the red colored leaves–to make a reddish-purple cotton fabric dye. The Aztec priests used the plant in ceremonies because the color red symbolized purity. The popularity of the poinsettia suffered a set back when in the early 1900s, rumors began circulating that the poinsettia was poisonous. In 1919, it was circulated that a two-year-old, treated by an Army doctor stationed in Hawaii, died after eating just one poinsettia leaf. The media helped to promote the myth. Finally, the Society of American Florists asked Ohio State University to conduct a series of scientific tests in the 1970’s to determine the truth. They found that poinsettias were not poisonous. Even if extremely large quantities of the plant are eaten by a 50-pound child or pet, the consequences may only be a minor upset stomach. According to a survey conducted in 1993, 63% of women and 42% of men still believe this myth, that the poinsettia is toxic. If you purchase or receive a poinsettia for Christmas, after the holiday season fades into a new year, how do you care for your fading red plant? Ms. Anderson’s book dedicates a Poinsettias cont. on page 13 |