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Show Volume XXX Issue V The Ogden Valley News Page 7 May 15, 2023 --- PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN REGARDING --2023 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS FOR HUNTSVILLE TOWN Huntsville Town, Weber County, Huntsville, Utah, gives notice that in the upcoming 2023 Municipal Elections, to be held November 7, 2023, the following positions will become vacant and need to be filled: • Two, four-year terms for Huntsville Town Council Member Two Nominating Conventions will be held Wednesday, May 24 at 6:00 p.m. at the Ogden Valley Branch Library in Huntsville Town to nominate new candidates to fill these two vacancies. Candidates must be registered voters of Huntsville Town and live within the Huntsville Town boundaries. Any person nominated for the Town Council Member vacancies must file their candidacy during the filing period, June 1 - June 7 at the Town Hall located at 7381 East 200 South in Huntsville, Utah. Office hours for filing during the week of June 1-7 are 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Monday and Wednesday. Outside of these hours, you may contact Beckki Endicott at 801-745-3420. Dated this 13th day of April, 2023. Huntsville Town Announces Part-time Job Opening Huntsville Town is seeking a qualified individual for the part-time position of Town Municipal Clerk. The Town Clerk attends, records, and transcribes all town council meetings. The town government meetings are held at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday evenings, and you must be available to attend these meetings. Minutes can be done at your home or at the office. A municipal clerk performs a variety of administrative, technical, and sometimes complex clerical duties related to administrative functions established by state statute or local ordinance. Other duties include administering municipal elections, posting agendas, administering property re-zones, office clerical work, grant applications and administration, appeals authority secretary, and records management. A successful candidate will need to be able to type, transcribe, and take good notes. They need to be self-motivated and have great customer service skills. They must have a working knowledge of Office 365. The Huntsville Town office is open Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The hours required are flexible but must work around the town government meeting schedule. This job requires an average of 50-60 hours a month. To apply, please send resume to: HUNTSVILLE TOWN CLERK PO BOX 267 HUNTSVILLE UT 84317 Or submit to: clerk@huntsvilletown.com Applications must be received by Monday, May 22, 2023. Accident on North Ogden Divide occurs May 9 at about 9:30 a.m. and remained closed for several hours. Photo by Jamie Cornaby. Valley Veterans Participate in Utah Honor Flight The evening of May 3, at the Provo airport, was filled with marching band music; people holding American flags; red, white, and blue banners; and “welcome home” signs. Even beauty pageant queens wearing silver crowns and sashes were there, all gathered together for one purpose: to welcome home 75 veterans, who served our country during major wars, who were now being honored by Utah Honor Flight. We waited over two hours to catch our first glimpse of the passengers, mostly elderly men in wheelchairs, moving between the rows of cheering well-wishers, and knowing as they went by us that they had fought in wars as young servicemen and women to preserve our freedoms in America and around the world. The feeling as we watched them was overwhelming. We were filled with patriotism and appreciation as we shouted, “Thank you, thank you, thank you,” over and over and over again. It was a rare opportunity to openly express our gratitude to some of our state’s veterans and to genuinely show our feelings of pride for these servicemen and women and our great country. These veterans are flown free of charge to Washington D.C. to tour our U.S. capital and see the famous monuments, many of them erected in their honor, and the wars they fought in: WWI and WWII, the Korean War, and Vietnam. They also visited the Capitol Building, the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, and the Navy and Air Force Memorials, and several other monuments and statues in the area. Two very special, highly emotional stops were a visit to Arlington National Cemetery and witnessing the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier—a favorite experience for everyone. And the final stop, also very memorable, was at Fort McHenry Monument and Historic Shrine where Francis Scott Key, during the famous battle fought there in the War of 1812, wrote our stunning national anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner. Two Ogden Valley residents were on this flight: Alan Buttars of Huntsville and Marv Evans of Liberty. It was the trip of a lifetime for these well-deserving veterans, and we congratulate them and thank them from the bottom of our hearts for their invaluable service. The Honor Flight program was started in 2005 by a man named Earl Morse, a physician’s assistant and retired Air Force Captain. When he heard about the dedication of the WWII monument in 2004, he decided he wanted to do something to honor veterans, too, and came up with this incredible plan. Since then, thousands of men and women through their military service have been able to tour the nation’s capital because of this man’s vision. The flight, food, and lodging are all provided for by the Honor Flight organization, which operates entirely on private donations without any government funding whatsoever. Please keep this in mind the next time you would also like to recognize the service of our veterans. They are priceless. To donate, visit utahhonorflight.org. You can also order a Utah license plate to help fund future Honor Flights. KSL ran a segment on Honor Flight, which you can be viewed at ksl.com/article/50637820/ veterans-with-utah-honor-flight-pay-respectsto-fallen-friends. |