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Show Page 2 The Ogden Valley News Volume XXX Issue VIII February 1, 2023 The Ogden Valley News Staff: Shanna Francis Tel: 801-745-2688 Fax: 801-745-2688 Cell: 801-791-4387 E-Mail: slfrancis@digis.net Jeannie Wendell Tel: 801-745-2879 Fax: 801-745-2879 E-Mail: crwendell@digis.net crwendell@msn.com Opinions expressed by advertisers, columnists or letters to the editor are not necessarily the opinions of the owners and staff of The Ogden Valley News. Guidelines for Letters to the Editor Letters should be 300 words or less. Letters must be signed and the address of the writer submitted. The Ogden Valley News reserves the right to edit or decline printing of any submissions. Announcements Sought As a community service, The Ogden Valley News will print local birth, wedding, obituary, anniversary and missionary farewell & homecoming and Eagle Scout announcements free of charge. 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Note: The contents of The Ogden Valley News are copyrighted. To protect this publication and its contributors from unlawful copying, written permission is required before any individual or company engages in the reproduction or distribution of its contents, by any means, without first obtaining written permission from the owners of this publication. The deadline for the OVN February 15 issue is February 1. Letters to the Editor Thank You Ogden Valley! Recently, Weber County Commissioners unanimously approved an updated short-term rental (STR) ordinance that will not expand STRs beyond the current areas they are permitted. Weber County has also contracted with a third party to scrape web sites like AirBnb and VRBO (and many more) that advertise STRs to identify and report STRs in the unincorporated areas of Weber County. This is an excellent first step to provide Weber County with sufficient data to enact effective STR enforcement. A special “thank you” is in order to the Weber County Planning staff and the Weber County Commissioners for all their work on this ordinance. But, most importantly, a very special “thank you” is in order to the Ogden Valley STR team (from multiple areas in the valley) for their work reporting STR violations, collecting factual information on the negative impacts STRs have had on our communities, soliciting signatures on the STR petition, and taking the time to voice their concerns to the County Commissioners. Thank You! The next step now is to pay attention to the Utah Legislature that is now in session with the hopes that they do not pass some type of state ordinance that overrides the Weber County STR ordinance just approved. Please share this information with your neighbors and related communities. Kind Regards, Jan Fullmer, Eden Family Expresses Gratitude to East Huntsville Irrigation Board This is an open “Thank You” letter to President Rex Mumford and the board members of the East Huntsville Irrigation Company for the special award meeting they held January 9, 2023 to posthumously honor the contributions of our father R. Kent Wangsgard for his over four decades of volunteer service to that organization and to acknowledge its official name change to The R. Kent Wangsgard Huntsville Irrigation System. The board has planted two blazing red maples in his memory near the head works on the South Fork River as a living memorial, and also placed an engraved plaque there, which we unveiled at the meeting. Our family has been so deeply moved by the board’s extra efforts made (that went above and beyond) to honor Dad that we are publicly expressing our gratitude and thanks. This will be a memorial we can visit with our children and grandchildren, and down through following generations, helping all to recall his memory with a great sense of pride. What the waterboard has done for our father and family is priceless, and we thank them from the bottom of our hearts. Gratefully, Shown above, left to right, are members of the Huntsville Irrigation System: Royce Dye, water master; Brenda Grow, secretary/treasurer; Taylor Grow, assistant secretary; Benjamin Wangsgard (son), Ron Parry, board member; Garrett Grow, board member; Dale Satterthwaite, board Karlyn Wangsgard Mosier (daughter), member; Karlyn Wangsgard, family member; Nate Buttars, board member; R. Kent and the Wangsgard Family Wangsgard, family member; Rex Mumford, company president; Brad Dobson, board member; and Kelly Wangsgard, board member. An Open Love Letter to My Fellow Americans Author Unknown • Seek to understand, not to be understood (from Saint Francis). • Being high on emotion and low on logic doesn’t solve much. • Be a critical thinker not a behavioral tribalist. • Your side isn’t going to solve all the problems, and the other side isn’t causing all of them. • Your side created a lot of the problems, and the other side is trying to solve them. • If you dislike bullying, hateful comments, and the disparaging of other people, don’t emulate this behavior! • Everyone has a right to feel what they’re feeling; however, no one ever has the right to put someone else’s life or property in danger Please Help Keep Our Pathways Cleared! If you live next to the Pineview Loop Pathway in Eden, please help out and take the time to clean the snow off the pathway when you are clearing your driveway. Many kids use the pathway to get to school at Snowcrest Jr. High and Valley Elementary. Also, it’s great for everyone else to be able to get out for a walk, jog, or ride during the winter. When doing so, please keep in mind that the bridges are not rated for tractors or heavy equipment. Thanks for making Ogden Valley a great place to live and to enjoy the outdoors. Alan Wheelwright, Eden • • • • • • • because of the actions they choose as a result of these feelings. Revenge doesn’t lead to restoration. If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all (from my mother). You can hate or you can help heal. You can light 昀椀res, or you can love. You can 昀椀nd commonalities, or you can create further division. We can’t expect our leaders to display any admirable leadership skills when we are demonstrating and creating our own hate mongering and vili昀椀cation. Let’s start by calling ourselves to a higher standard of sharing and communicating when it comes to what we passionately believe, especially on social media. • A house divided never stands. It just creates a lot of damage when it falls. • Let’s lead ourselves out of these challenging times and into greater days ahead by working with each other instead of against one another. • We are the people. We can do great things together. We will not always agree but we can rise up and say to each other, “I see you. I hear you. You have a perspective. Thank you for allowing me to see this from a di昀昀erent point of view. Let’s 昀椀gure out how to work together on this.” America is still a great country. Not perfect but no nation is. It can be greater still. But we must purpose in our hearts to make it so. Waypoint Students Serve the Community Waypoint teachers James Spencer & Ericka Roundtree give service to Valley residents along with their students. Students from Huntsville’s Waypoint Academy have been shoveling sidewalks every other Friday throughout the winter for several Huntsville residents as part of a service project their school instituted. A Waypoint representative stated, “Community involvement is one of the school’s priorities, helping students create a lifelong mindset of the importance of helping others.” Service has also been shown to alleviate stress and anxiety. We can all benefit from this positive coping skill! Waypoint students have been participating in a service project this winter—shoveling sidewalks for Huntsville residents. Shown above are the students with sta昀昀 member Xinjie Clark. Photos courtesy of Becky Wood. |