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Show The OGDEN November 15, 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 Octoberfest 2000 at the Ogden Valley Library Inside This Issue: Women in Agriculture Conference to be Held Page 3 By Erika Dreager Eccles Community Art Center Offers Art Lecture Page 3 Student Reporter Library Costume Contest Winners Page 4 Local Craft Fair Continues to Grow Page 5 Athena PowerLink Program Page 6 Retirement Planning Page 6 Relationships and Time Page 8 Ice or Heat? Page 8 Calendar of Events Page 9 Announcements Page 10 Ve Got Eyore Blood! Page 11 Student News Page 12 - 13 Ogden Canyon Club Members Clean Up Page 14 Halloween at South Fork Garden Center Page 15 Rainbow’s Halloween Harvest Food Fest Page 16 Haunted Dinosaur Park Page 16 Mayor McKay Signs Declaration Page 17 Classifieds Page 17 Hunting in Utah Around the Turn of the Century Page 18 - 19 The three amigos Halloween trio. From left to right: Jayne Christensen, Whitney Savage, and Tess Christensen, all from Liberty. Katie Spainhower—a Heroine cord. Unfortunately, removing the bone contributed to the weakening of her spinal column. Remaining vertebrae collapsed. When I think of 15-year old Kaitlyn Again, Katie had to undergo more surgery Spainhower, or Katie as her friends and in an effort to repair the problem. This family call her, I think of heroes and hero- left Katie in a body cast from her chest, ines. What other adjective could ade- down to her hip, and half way down one quately convey the characteristic of this leg. The cast was left in place for nine young woman? Already she has under- grueling months, through most of her gone 23 surgeries in her young life, the fourth grade school year. She would bravely maneuver her way latest—last month on to classes each day. Since October 23. Doctors the cast prevented her from removed part of a steel rod sitting, she spent most of and steel connector pieces the day standing through that were implanted earlier class, or half sitting on a to help support Katie’s chair while standing on one spine. leg. Katie was born with a Complications contingenetic condition called ued. By sixth grade, it achrondroplstic dwarfism. looked as if Katie might This rare form of dwarfism become confined to a occurs in between 1 and wheelchair to prevent her 26,000 to 40,000 births. The spine from collapsing comdwarfism is typified by displetely. Desperate to find proportionally short arms an alternative, the and legs. At her full height, Kaitlyn Spainhower Spainhowers consulted she is barely over three feet tall—a height that she will retain for the with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Harold K. Dunn. Dunn modified an adult procedure rest of her life. Health effects triggered from her con- that allowed for two, custom made, 11dition began to emerge soon after Katie’s inch steel rods to be inserted down both birth. At two months of age, she began sides of Katie’s spine. This procedure experiencing life-threatening bouts of strengthened and straightened her spine to apnea where she would simply quit an extent that has allowed her to continue breathing. Surgery corrected the prob- life, free of a wheelchair. But these same important rods prevent lem—bones that were compressing free movement in her spine. Along with against the base of her spinal cord. At three months of age Katie was diag- the rods, has also come chronic pain that nosed with hydrocephalus, more com- will be with Katie the rest of her life. She monly known as water on the brain. A lives with aches, and sharp pains in her shunt was implanted to draw out fluid that back and, occasionally, sharp pains down began accumulating around the brain. her legs. Sometimes she experiences Since this time, Katie has had to undergo numbness and weakness in her limbs. Her an additional 15 surgeries to make adjust- mother Susie Spainhower states that they ments to the shunt. Bone at the temple rely heavily on Advil. “She gets really has even been removed to allow room for achy, sometimes so bad she wants to cry. the brain to swell. Before she was five, But we have to keep reminding her: At Katie also contracted spinal meningitis, least she can walk. She’s got every reason which traveled, through her shunt up to to be angry and frustrated . . . at the world. her brain. Fortunately it was detected and And there are times that she is. But thank treated before any serious complications heaven she gets out of it.” Visiting with Katie is like visiting with occurred. During her grade school years, Katie any 15-year old. And like most other 15began to have severe back problems. year olds, she likes to shop, talk on the Once again, she underwent surgery. This KATIE cont. on page 14 time to remove bones crowding the spinal By Shanna Francis Ogden ValleyNews Staff Where else but the Oktoberfest 2000 could you find accordion music, yodeling, Alp horns, cowbells, a glachter and much more? The Salzburger Echo Band gave an enthusiastic performance on October 30 at the Ogden Valley Library auditorium. The band opened with an authentic German song, and was dressed for the part, right down to the designs on their socks. Tony Brazelton, Shannon Roberts, Dan Stephensen and Rick Schwemmer have been playing together for the past eight years. While everyone contributed to the vocals, the lead singers were Rick and Dan. Rick Schwemmer played the accordion and the cowbells; Shannon Roberts played the flute, the trombone, the trumpet, the Alp horns, and even the washboard; Tony Brazelton also played the trumpet and the Alp horns, while Dan Stephensen played the drums and one of the few glachters found in America. A glachter is a very interesting instrument; it looks somewhat like a wooden xylophone and produces almost an oriental sound when played. The Alp horns can be up to twelve feet long, depending on the note they play. These spectacular horns produce a beautifully somber sound when played. Tony and Shannon played two beautiful songs on these instruments, one of which was Amazing Grace, which they dedicated to all war veterans and the passengers and crew that were aboard the U.S.S. Cole. Rick played It’s a Small World with a large assortment of cowbells while appropriately wearing a cow hat and Mickey Mouse ears. The band was very effective in getting the audience involved in the performance. People of all ages, including costumed children, were clapping and dancing in the isles, and everyone joined in for the Chicken Dance. If you missed the Salzburger Echo Band performance at the library, you still have an opportunity to see them perform at the Weber County Fairgrounds for the Hof Winter Carnival on the weekend of January 19, 2001. For more information, visit the band’s website at www.salzburgerecho.com. The Salzburger Echo Band Octoberfest 2000 performance at the Ogden Valley Library. |