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Show Page 12 The Ogden Valley News Volume XXIX Issue XIV June 1, 2022 CFOV Announces 2022 Essay Contest Winners Heroes: Americas Veterans, Past and Present The Community Foundation of Ogden Valley (CFOV) is pleased to announce the winners of our 2022 essay contest. This year we had an amazing response with many entries from the fifth- and sixthgrade classes at Valley Elementary. The theme of this year’s contest was “The Community Foundation of Ogden Valley—A Nonprofit Empowering Other Nonprofits” The CFOV will now award $25 cash and a $25 Giving Check to each of the eleven winners. A Giving Check is a $25 donation from the student to the CFOV nonprofit participant organization of their choice. This year’s 2022 CFOV essay contest winners from Valley Elementary are: Brooke Bell Jonah Bushell 5th Grade Ogden Valley Tennis & Pickleball 5th Grade Trails Foundation Northern Utah CFOV: A Nonprofit Empowering Other Nonprofits By Jonah Bushell To start this all off, I think that it’s a very good idea to have a group of people that helps out nonprofit communities. That is why there are things that exist called nonprofit organizations. Also, another name for these organizations known as nonprofits is COFV. This is important to know because when I use the word COFV, that means I’m talking about nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit communities are very important because they help out everyone who is around them. For example, when nonprofits clean up pine needles that are scattered all across the path, it helps people by making the road less slippery so people don’t fall off of their bikes. Another example of things that nonprofits do for us is about the things they do for other people. To add to that, when nonprofit organizations go to different places to fix and make things better for their community, it not only helps out themselves, but it also helps the whole community around them. Plus, they also do tons of different things such as [run] the Ogden Valley Park service, Valley Elementary PTO, Snowbasin Sports Education, etc. All of these nonprofit services are absolutely great. They all help out everyone in their community by educating and working for the different areas of the valley. Also, there are actually lots more nonprofit organizations out there. In total, there are seventeen that are helping people out. So, what organiza- Alley Carver EllaKate Clegg Elizabeth Harris Oakley Holm Ben Komenda Stevie McQueen Urban Stuart Benjamin Wright Zayden Williams 5th Grade 5th Grade 5th Grade 5th Grade 5th Grade 5th Grade 5th Grade 5th Grade 5th Grade Great Basin K-9 Search and Rescue Wolf Creek Foundation Mountain Arts & Music Ogden Valley Parks Great Basin K-9 Search & Rescue Ogden Nordic Ogden Avalanche ADAPT – Ogden Valley Adaptive Sports Ogden Avalanche Congratulations to these authors! The checks were presented to the students on the last day of school, Friday, May 27 at Valley Elementary. The “Giving Checks” will automatically be distributed to the nonprofits that winning students recognized in their essays. The donation will be given in the student’s name. A huge thank you to Hap Stephens who generously donated the funds for the essay winners. The essays will be published now and in upcoming issues. tion should you join, you may be asking? Finally, out of all the great organizations to choose from, the organization that stood out to me the most was the Trails Foundation Northern Utah. The Trails Foundation organization strives toward building different trails throughout Northern Utah. To add to that, another goal of theirs is to build a great community that can enjoy nature any day they would like by walking through the hiking trails that are found throughout Northern Utah. Also, in the Google docs page called “Our nonprofits,” it stated that they believe in “Trails that create a culture where all have places to walk, run, and ride as they enjoy nature and connect with their neighbors in the greater Weber County area. I strongly believe that you should join the Trails Foundation Northern Utah organization’s goal to improve the valley’s members and visitors. To add to that, I think that it would be educational if I were to tell you more about these CFOV organizations that are working throughout the valley. And that is exactly what I’m going to do. Another thing is that nonprofit organizations such as the Trails Foundation Northern Utah only do their job for the community. You see, the reason why these organizations are great is because they give their time when the nonprofit organizations contribute to the community around them. In conclusion, I think that the nonprofit organizations are very helpful to everyone because they don’t profit from it. If you ever would like to join this group of organizations, do it for sure. By Shanna Francis In the Pulitzer Prizewinning book Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer, we learn some of the miraculous stories leading to the success of America’s earliest patriots as they battled the greatest naval fleet in the world and sought freedom from tyrannical domination. As the “rebels” defied the burdensome and numerous injustices applied by King George III in the new world, the king waged war against the upstart colonists. Fischer notes how the motherland sent five hundred transport and victualing ships—ships that supplied British crews with food, beverages, and other necessary provisions— to the colonies, which arrived in New York’s lower harbor. “They brought twenty-three thousand British Regulars, plus ten thousand German troops [paid mercenary Hessians], many civilian workers, and several thousand women of the army. Another thirteen thousand troops were sent to Canada. By late August [1776] two-thirds of the British army were in the colonies. Supporting these troops were seventy British warships in American waters, half the fighting strength of the Royal Navy. In 1776, it was the largest projection [deployed forces outside a state’s territory] of seaborne power ever attempted by a European state.” In total, the British paid approximately 30,000 German troops to help fight during the American Revolution. In addition, British officers and troops were well-seasoned with many years of military experience in contrast to America’s, most having only a few months of training. Whatever persuaded the colonists to believe they could succeed at taking on such a world force, let alone overpowering it and winning their cause? Referring to the small army of colonists, Fischer writes, “In a desperate struggle they found a way to defeat a formidable enemy.... They improvised a new way of war that grew into an American tradition. And they chose a policy of humanity that aligned the conduct of the war with the values of the Revolution…. “Too many writers have told us that we are captives of our darker selves and helpless victims of our history. It isn’t so, and never was. The story of Washington’s Crossing tells us that Americans in an earlier generation were capable of acting in a higher spirit—and so are we.” As ordered by General Washington, captive Hessian soldiers were treated as friends, with twenty-three percent choosing to stay and live in the colonies after the war. Fischer reaffirms that George Washington was taught, as were many colonists, a creed that valued “self-government, discipline, virtue, reason, and restraint.” For most ruling families, it was a modern idea—a philosophy of “moral striving through virtuous action and right conduct, by powerful men who believed that their duty was to lead others in a changing world. Most of all, it was a way of combining power with responsibility and liberty with discipline. “Much of this creed was about honor…. This honor was an emblem of virtue. These gentlemen of the Northern Neck [Northernmost area of Virginia] lived for honor in that sense. The only fear that George Washington ever acknowledged in his life was a fear that his actions would ‘reflect eternal dishonour upon me.’ “A major part of this code of honor was an idea of courage. The men around young George Washington assumed that a gentleman would act with physical courage in the face of danger, pain, suffering, and death. They gave equal weight to moral courage in adversity, prosperity, trial, and temptation. For them, a vital part of leadership was the ability to persist in what one believed to be the right way. This form of courage was an idea of moral stamina, which Washington held all his life. Stamina in turn was about strength and endurance as both a moral and a physical idea.” This Memorial Day, we pay homage to the men and women who have lived up to the legacy that is ours as American citizens. It is the disciplined honor of men and women who have sacrificed so much to protect this sacred legacy that we honor—an honor inspired by a visionary group of American patriots. We thank these patriots and all who have served, and continue to serve this great nation and, in turn, all of us. Subscriptions available for out-of-area residents at $18 annually. Send payment with mailing address to: The Ogden Valley News PO BOX 522, EDEN UT 84310 - Window Cleaning - Solar Panel Cleaning - Screen Repair - Gutter Cleaning - Holiday Lighting 801-458-9114 Contact us today for a free estimate. |
