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Show Volume II , Issue VI March 2000Page 1 The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS March 2000 BULK RATE POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 POSTAL PATRON EDEN - LIBERTY- 84310 HUNTSVILLE - 84317 OGDEN CANYON - 84401 HCR 843AO Your Community Newspaper Inside This Issue: Winter Survival Page 4 What About the Shamrock? Page 5 Airline Meals Page 5 Ogden Canyon News Page 6 The Guise of Progress Page 7 Let’s Pretend Page 8 Better Health by Better Thinking Page 8 Calendar of Events Page 9 Art School Opens Page 10 Student Receives Heisman Award Page 10 The Horse Whisperer Page 11 Student News Page 12-13 Announcements Page 14 Reflections Winners Page 15 One Voice on the Family Page 15 Sports News Page 16 Eden Post Office Remodeled Page 17 Government/Planning News Pages 18-21 Classifieds Page 21 Historical Article Page 23 Huntsville Woman Named Utah Mother of the Year By Barbie Sunderland spiritual foundations of the family in America.” “Awards are nice but there is nothing more wonderful than the complete love Hale knew as a young girl that it of a child,” said Barbara Hale about was her hope and dream to be a mother. being named Utah Mother of the Year. She received the inspiration for her American Mother’s, Inc. (AMI) bechosen career one day when she passed stowed the honor on the Huntsville up the ordinary novels she typically resident last month. read and opted for a book of discourses by the early Hale said she was LDS (Mormon) prophet flabbergasted at and leader Brigham Young. receiving the honor as she didn’t even know After the Hales both that fellow members of graduated from Brigham her book club had Young University, they spearheaded a moved to Southern nomination. California. While Philip attended medical school at She says she UCLA, Barbara taught wouldn’t be able to be English at a junior high mother of the year school. without the support of her husband of 40 years, When their first child Phillip N. Hale. “His was born, the couple Barbara Hale sense of humor has been agreed that it would be best a saving grace for the for Barbara to stay home whole family.” with their son. Although it was a struggle financially as Phillip continued As part of the nominating process, medical school, she says it was well each of her 12 children submitted worth the sacrifice to stay home with personal and touching letters—letters their children. Hale considers treasures. The children wrote about specific, meaningful events With so many children underfoot, that reflected Barbara’s influence in she said it was a big help that people their lives. wouldn’t ask her to do things outside the home. She was able to devote all of her “We would have been thrilled with resources to raising her family. And any of the mothers, but were thrilled when someone asked her to do that Barbara was chosen,” said Fern something, “the children let me say no.” Wimmer, AMI President of Mentoring Hale considers her career choice as the “best use of intelligence and gifts I had.” Nothing is of greater value than helping a child grow by giving them confidence and helping them to develop discipline so that they can survive with others, says Hale. One would have thought they had a full plate with ten children of their own. But the Hales The Hale Family thought differently. They opened their hearts and home as a Mothers. She said the competition was foster family to two Navajo boys. The stiff and all were well qualified for the boys, now grown, continue to be an award. integral part of the family. AMI began in the Civil War era and Hale says as a young mother she was formally organized in New York quickly realized that children drain your almost 70 years ago. The nonphysical, emotional and spiritual denominational organization is resources. She values and passes along “dedicated to preserving the moral and AWARD cont. on page 3 Public Meeting Held Regarding Pineview Dam Improvements By Shanna Francis The Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) hosted a public meeting February 23rd at Snow Crest Junior High School in Eden. The purpose of the meeting was to collect comments on the proposed alternatives to the modification of Pineview Dam as outlined in a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) prepared by the Bureau. The modifications have been determined necessary to strengthen the dam according to guidelines of the Federal Safety of Dams (SOD) program. Proposed modifications include strengthening of the spillway, densification of the soil below the dam’s downstream toe, and improvements to prevent possible seeping and piping through the dam. The Draft EA provides the BOR with information to determine whether proposed alternatives result in a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), or in the needed preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). About thirty citizens attended the Wednesday night meeting. BOR representatives addressed numerous concerns from the audience regarding outcomes of proposed modification alternatives. Issues of concern included roadway closures across the spillway anywhere from five months to two years, diminished water supplies for irrigators and agricultural producers below Ogden Valley due to depleted supplies necessary to accommodate construction, increased traffic on alternative travel routes— particularly the North Ogden Divide, and economic and environmental impacts on upstream and reservoir fisheries. Powder Mountain owner Alvin Cobabe voiced concerns over the economic impacts to the resort if road closures occurred simultaneously with the ski season. Concerns were also raised regarding the impact of the proposal on recreational water use on the reservoir as water levels lower to the point, potentially, that boat docks are left high and dry. The Real Estate market in the Eden and Liberty areas could also be affected. Pineview Dam is a zoned, earth fill structure. It was completed in 1937 and was designed to provide supplemental irrigation and municipal water within the Ogden River Project Area. In recent years, its recreational aspects have been DAM cont. on page 3 The Ogden Valley News Plans Expansion The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS staff is pleased to announce that beginning April 2000, two editions of the newspaper will be printed and distributed each month. The staff would again like to thank Ogden Canyon and Valley residents for their generous support, making the expansion possible. The paper will be distributed at the beginning of each month, and at mid-month. In an effort to continually improve and provide interesting material, the staff encourages participation by the readership through contributions or by notifying the staff of community news, human interest stories, historical information and/or pictures, birth, wedding, eagle, anniversary, missionary, and other announcements and announcement pictures, classified and lost and found ads, recipes, awards and accomplishments obtained by community members, pictures of the month, community announcements, and other items of community interest. Submitted articles are also sought for consideration. Please contact Shanna Francis at 745-2688 or Jeannie Wendell at 745-2879, or e-mail, fax, or mail information to addresses and/or fax numbers listed at the top of page two of the paper. |
