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Show The OGDEN November 1, 2000 VALLEY 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 Issue: Letters to the Editors Page 2 - 3, 21 Food for Thought Page 8 Governor Leavitt Visits Ogden Valley Fund Raisers to be Held for Young Burn Victims By Marianne Ratcliffe Library Exhibits Page 8 Hey, Does Your Blinker Work? Page 8 Calendar of Events Page 9 Announcements Page 10 Utah State League of Women Voter Information Page 12 - 14, 16 Eden Resident Running for Second Term on State Board of Education Page 17 What’s Wrong with H.B. 320 and is it Being Fixed? Page 18 Two Incumbents Running for Huntsville Township Planning Commission Page 19 Parties Hope for Final Ruling on Powder Mountain Land Deal Page 20 Governor Leavitt Visits Ogden Valley Page 22 Gubernatorial Candidate Bill Orton Responds to Questions from the OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Page 23 Student News Page 24 Tips on Tipping Page 25 Clearcutting on the North Ogden Divide Page 25 Making Hayfever Symptoms More Manageable Page 26 “The Quiltmaker’s Gift” Comes to Ogden Page 26 Classifieds Page 27 Governor Leavitt takes time out of his campaign schedule to sit and visit with fiveyear-old Eddie Barker and six-year-old Adam Barker. Adam and Eddie are the children of Carol and Kent Barker of Eden. See page 22 for more photos and an exclusive interview with Governor Leavitt. The Life of Gunn McKay In 1980 when Gunn was running for was extremely busy in a partnership with his sixth two-year term in the U.S. his two brothers running thousands of Congress, the political opposition printed sheep, a few cattle and operating a farm. and circulated a pamphlet entitled “The Gunn’s father was also on the General Real Gunn McKay.” The pamphlet with Board of the Mutual Improvement falsehoods and innuendoes mischaracter- Association for the LDS Church, and was ized Gunn as an undesirable liberal who also active in politics at the local, state could not be trusted. Enough of the elec- and national level, later running for the torate believed the pamphlet and Fist Congressional District seat in the switched their previous voting pattern U.S. Congress, which Gunn was later and Gunn was defeated. elected to in 1970, more than 35 years Both before and after that pamphlet, after his father failed to win. Gunn proved that he was truly one of the Gunn had a normal childhood for his stalwarts of his generation and overcame day and age and geographic location on a obstacles, made great contributions to farm and in the mountains with the sheep. family, community, nation and to his Gunn went everyplace with his father, and church, and has set an example well was given tasks and responsibilities that worth emulating. Gunn was the firstborn challenged him at every age. His father of eight children from gave him more difthe marriage of James ficult work and Gunn McKay and greater responsibiliElizabeth (Bessie) ty than his mother Peterson McKay. thought appropriate, Gunn was born and even gave more February 23, 1925, and discipline than his given the name of Koln mother would have Gunn. He inherited the done. Gunn’s reacname of McKay. The tion was to become name “Gunn” came strengthened and from his father’s midincreased both in dle name and his great stature, wisdom and grandmother’s maiden determination. As name. He showed that Gunn grew into his he was his own person teens, there were by having red hair in two words that best addition to a red face-in described him. The contrast to the dark hair first was “deterof both of his parents. mined.” The secKoln Gunn McKay His mother Bessie worond was used to ried and fretted over how to take care of describe him in the high school yearher firstborn son and notwithstanding book—“unassuming.” These two charachaving little background after being an teristics served Gunn well over the only child herself, she was able to take remaining part of his life. He was so care of his needs and figure out what to determined that he never let obstacles or do. Later Gunn looked after a younger discouragements defeat him, and he was brother, Quinn. It seems from that time so unassuming that friends trusted and on, to the date of his death, Gunn felt a praised him and even those against him responsibility for others. McKAY cont’d on page 4 At the time Gunn was born, his father On August 21, 2000 three Old Faithful summer employees accidentally fell into a hot thermal pool while walking home from a nighttime swim at Firehole River. My nephew Tyler Montague and his friend Lance Buchi (both 18) received third degree burns to over 90% of their bodies. Twenty-year-old Sara Hulphers was 100% burned. The three victims were part of a group of ten employees. They were inadvertently separated from the other seven who had flashlights. Due to a moonless night it was pitch black. The three youths could only distinguish dark and light on the ground where they were walking. Knowing they were in a field of geyser run off streams they would jump over the dark runoffs to the lighter land on the other side. They were successfully maneuvering their way back to Old Faithful Lodge when they approached another strip of dark. Unbeknown to them, this particular strip of dark was not hot water. Rather, it was grass lining the edge of Cavern Springs; a 178-degree hot spring lay deceptively below the edge of the grass strip. Thinking they were once again jumping over a small river onto land they jumped straight into the thermal pool. Tyler was able to pull himself out and assisted Lance from the pool. Upon hearing the boys screaming for help the other group found them and pulled Sara out of the water. The group walked for help to a local ranger station. Tyler and Lance recall trying to walk while watching the scalded flesh fall from their bodies. The trio were taken by ambulance to Idaho Falls, then air lifted to University of Utah burn center in Salt Lake City. It had been six long hours since the accident. Sara died a few hours after admission into the hospital. Lance and Tyler were given a less than 40% chance of surviving the next 72 hours. There has been much speculation as to how the three youths ended up in a hot thermal pool. This was purely a horribly tragic accident. No one willingly jumped in to swim. The group had already been swimming and by this stage were fully clothed. These kids worked in Yellowstone and knew where it was safe to swim. Blood tests following the accident showed absolutely no trace of either drugs or alcohol. These are Eagle Scouts and Sterling Scholars who adore nature. Lance and Tyler had just graduated from High School and were planning to attend college this fall. It has been over two months since this horrible ordeal. Both boys continue their fight to live and are beating the odds. To date there has been no other human being who has lived this long with burns to over 80% of the body. These boys are modern day miracles. They have fought pneumonia, staph infections, organ failure, allergic reactions and more. They are fully aware of what a long, hideous road lies ahead. Years of grueling physical therapy and hundreds of skin grafts are just a few BURN VICTIMS cont’d on page 7 |