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Show Volume XXX Issue III The Ogden Valley News Page 7 April 15, 2023 Air Quality – 2022-2023 Winter Report Children’s Justice Center Announces Annual Fundraiser: Luau UnderThisthe Stars The Friends of the is a year of change By Richard Menzies and Ken Beck We return to our occasional Air Quality report after an enforced six-month hiatus. For good business reasons, Purple Air changed their data download routines. This meant that all the functions in Weber/Morgan Children’s for the Weber/Morgan CJC. our computer code no longer worked and required a substantial rewrite. But we’re back—until the Justice Center (CJC) holds With a growing caseload next change! an annual fundraising dinner and limited facilities, we Wow, what a winter it has been! The good news is, although we have had a number of inversions, and auction gala called Starry have struggled to meet the none of them have been long-lived because of the continuous train of storms that have rolled through Night. Our theme this year is needs of the number of chilthe area. As a consequence, there has been little opportunity for major inversions to build up. We collected data from four areas—Logan, Ogden, Ogden Valley, and Salt Lake City—for the Luau Under the Stars. The event is planned for dren who require our services. We are currently months December 2022 through March 2023. As can be seen in the accompanying graph, there Saturday, May 6, 2023 at the Ogden Eccles in the process of constructing a larger facility, Conference Center. This lively luau will feature in partnership with Weber County. The Friends have been a number of inversions along the Wasatch Front all occuring at the same time. drum performances by the Ogden Buddhist Board would like to thank all the donors and Taiko Group. We are actively seeking sponsors, agencies who are helping to make this possible. donors, and participants for this fun gala. For From the beginning, the CJC has been funded event, ticket, and other general information, through a combination of state, local, and fedplease visit cjcogden.org, email cjc-friends@ eral funding. In addition, the Friends of the utah.gov, or call 801-778-6268. Weber/Morgan Children’s Justice Center, a priWe all feel a duty to protect the innocence vate 501(c)3 non-profit, raises funds to provide a of youth. What would you do if a child you care child-friendly, comfortable environment designed about tells you something you never expected to reduce victim trauma during child abuse investo hear? Imagine if a child told you that they tigations. The non-profit owns and maintains the don’t feel safe anymore because someone they facility and offers program and training support love, someone they trusted, did the unthink- for our care providers that would be unavailable able. It is estimated that 1 in every 4 girls and 1 through the government agencies. Our Starry in every 6 boys will be abused before they turn Night Gala is our primary fund-raising event, eighteen. Nearly all of them know their abuser providing the budget for operating expenses such because it is a friend, a relative, a neighbor, as facility maintenance, training, and comfort etc. Thirty-two years ago, the Weber/Morgan measures for our patrons each year. Children’s Justice Center was founded to serve We hope to see you May 6 at our Luau Under the Stars. Thank you for your support! The day-by-day calendar plots for the four months of winter in Ogden Valley show only ten victims of child abuse. The organization is moderate days and all the rest were rated as good. Other areas, such as Logan, showed 72 moderate or worse air quality days. Although we have color coded the results based on the EPA’s Air housed in one of Ogden’s Quality index, the actual values reported by the Purple Air sensors tend to be slightly higher than historic homes. The focus the actual measurements recorded by official EPA sensors. This means Purple Air data will cause of the CJC is to provide a safe, friendly place more bad air days to be recorded when there are specific cut off limits on the color scale. Logan tends to have the worst air quality because there are a number of sources of ammonia where victims of child in the area, which is a chemical precursor for formation of PM2.5 particulates. On the other hand, abuse and non-offending Ogden Valley tends to be the cleanest because we have no major industrial sources, with nearly guardians receive services and meet with a all pollution coming from our cars and the air and water heaters in our houses. The month of february had the most intense inversions. The Air Quality plot for Salt Lake multi-disciplinary team City for the month of February, along with a plot of the wind speed as measured at Salt Lake City of professionals specially trained to investigate crimes against children. The CJC brings together partners from child protection services, law enforcement, medical and mental health providers, advocates, and prosecutors who share resources and work collaboratively with the child needs central to their work. They seek to reduce secondary trauma that children can experience during the investigate process of the criminal justice sysairport, is shown in the figure above. The wind speed at the airport was taken as an approximate tem. Hundreds of chiloverall macro representation of the wind speed at ground level over the Wasatch Front. Obviously, dren are seen annually this is a gross over simplification; nevertheless, it appears that once a wind speed rises above about through referral from 10 mph, it is usually strong enough to clear out the PM2.5 pollution and the inversion dissipates. law enforcement, child Interestingly enough, there is no such correlation with wind speeds measured at elevations protective services, or medical providers. All Having fun in North Fork Park. Pictured from front to backare Finn at Hidden Lake and James Peak at Powder Mountain. It was just windy there the whole winter! As always, if you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us at menziesrg1@gmail. services are provided free Graff, Nora Burningham, Lee Burningham, and Charlie Graff Jr. Photo courtesy of Charlie Graff. of charge. com or nekkceb.durfee@gmail.com. |