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Show The Ogden Valley News Your Community Newspaper June 15, 2023 USPS MARKETING MAIL POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 11 EDEN UT POSTAL PATRON EDEN-LIBERTY-84310 HUNTSVILLE-84317 OGDEN CANYON- 84401 HCR 843AO Photo by Dennis Maher. Monte Cristo and Big Mountain Highways, Now Open Monte Cristo Highway, also known as State Route 39, opened June 8, 2023 between milepost 37, just east of Huntsville near Ant Flat Road, and milepost 56 near Woodruff in Rich County. Due to its high elevation, Monte Cristo Highway can be hit with extreme snowfall in a matter of hours. When UDOT closes the highway in late fall, it typically remains out of service until late spring. Winter maintenance on the road is expensive and because of the chances of a swift, incoming heavy snowstorm, motorist safety is a concern during the winter months. The road typically closes from late November through May, but sometimes heavy snow forces closures to last longer, as was the case this year. It’s also important to note that closing and opening dates for the highway are always a moving target. UDOT tries to strike a balance between maintaining access on this mountainous road and ensuring the safety of the traveling public. Please remove dyer’s woad from your property before it goes to seed. Photo of mother and child great horned owls by Marlin Jensen of Huntsville. Standards Outlined for STRs in Unincorporated Weber County On Tuesday, June 6, the Weber County Planning Commission held a special meeting dedicated to shortterm rentals (STRs) and their current status in Weber County in regard to identifying and addressing illegal STRs. Code enforcement officer Iris Hennon provided a presentation. Following is a summary of this presentation. This information is good for both those who want to provide STRs and owners of neighboring property. When everyone understands the law, better outcomes are assured. Before you decide to rent out your house, there are a few things you need to do. The most important is, first, read the county’s STR ordinance found in Section 108-11 of the zoning code. Then, make a check list of those items that are required to acquire a license, as outlined in the ordinance. Have you made, or are you making, any changes to the home to accommodate your proposed STR. If so, did you obtain a building permit? Huntsville Town Plants Trees in Honor of Community Volunteers If you are applying for an STR license (yes, a Huntsville held its Arbor Day Huntsville town council, planning commislicense from the county is required to run an STR), Celebration, Thursday, June 8 in the sion, and waterworks board and retired as the following items or requirements must be met Town Park. Huntsville is a Tree City Captain with the Weber Fire District. Members in order to obtain a certificate of occupancy: USA and proclaiming a day for their of the Huntsville Fire station attended in Arbor Day and having a celebration Allen’s honor. • The proposed STR is located in a zone that is one of the requirements to qualify for Tree Doug was very patriotic and was the “stewallows for STRs. City USA. There were about sixty people in ard” of the flag in Huntsville Town. And • A site plan, which includes a parking plan. Do attendance at the you have a driveway or designated parking event. HUNTSVILLE cont. on page 7 spot for your short-term renters? Along with • A trash disposal and collection plan. Who will the Arbor Day collect and dispose of the generated refuse? Celebration, Over昀氀owing trash cans or extra garbage sacks two trees were sitting next to full trash cans is unacceptable. planted in the • An existing fence or perimeter screening (if park in honor of applicable). two residents of • A detailed 昀氀oor plan of the building to be used Huntsville who for STRs, indicating all areas allowed to be recently passed. occupied or used by STR occupants. A burr oak, dedi• A “will serve” letter from those providing cated to the late utilities for your home or unit, such as culinary Douglas (Doug) water and sanitary sewer services, speci昀椀cally Mark Allen (October 27, STANDARDS cont. on page 12 2022), who was born and raised Truman and Jake Songer in Huntsville. He served on the The Jim McKay family. Photos courtesy of plant tree for Doug Allen. Deeanne Smith and Sandy Hunter. information, please visit redcrossblood.org or contact community blood drive coordinator Janet Wampler at 305-796-7778 or janet. wampler@gmail.com. Drop-in donors are also welcome. You may start the donation process by completing an online pre-donation health history questionnaire on the day of your appointment On Tuesday, August 1, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. at sharing and teaching his kids about his many by logging in to redcrossblood.org/RapidPass. Middle Inlet on Pineview Reservoir, Huntsville hobbies. He also loved practicing his trumpet resident Ejnar Dyrr will attempt to set three early in the morning to wake them up for school. Your gift could save a life. new World Records in the following water In 1989, he married Diana Joyce Garner sports: Hydro Foil Air Chair, Water Skiing, and of Bountiful, Utah. They moved to Huntsville Wakeboarding. in 2007. They have eight children, twenty-six Come celebrate Ejnar and his family as he grandchildren, and thirty-six great-grandchildren. attempts to break the current world records! Let’s all be at Pineview August 1 to cheer There will be plenty of excitement and fun, and on Ejnar! food trucks, too. Please bring your own chairs. Bear River Massacre near Preston in southern Ejnar was born in 1928 in Southern Idaho. Darren Parry, former chairman of the California. As a teenager, he earned his Eagle Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, Scout award. He served in the U.S. Navy on the will be the tour guide and will explain the mas- Destroyer, USS Duncan during the Korean War. sacre from the Shoshone perspective. Anyone He is a graduate of UCLA, where he received desiring to join the tour can do so by contacting a degree in Engineering. He was then hired by Marlin Jensen at 801-718-0858. Motorola, where he worked for many years The Utah history classes have been jointly until opening up and running his own electrical sponsored by the Ogden Valley chapter of and telecommunications business. the Sons of Utah Pioneers and the Ogden Ejnar has enjoyed snow skiing, waterskiing, Valley Library. The classes have been intellec- tennis, surfing, and scuba diving for many years. tually stimulating and have been well attended. In California, he was a volunteer on the San Professor Sessions has demonstrated why he Bernardino County Search and Rescue Team. has long been one of the most popular lecturers Another of his many talents—he can build or Pictured above is Ejnar Dyrr. on the Weber State University faculty. fix just about anything. As a father, he enjoyed Ogden Valley Blood Drive Slated for June 10 The Community Foundation of Ogden Valley, CFOV, has teamed up with the Red Cross to bring regularly scheduled blood drives to Ogden Valley. The first of these Community Blood Drives is scheduled for Saturday, June 10 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Eden Park community room at the bowery. To schedule an appointment, or for more Witness An Event 94 years, 225 days in the Making! June Utah History Class to Focus on Native Americans On Wednesday evening, June 21, at 7:00 p.m. in the Ogden Valley library, the sixth and final class on Utah history taught by Professor Gene Session of Weber State University, will feature a historical overview of the Native American population of Utah. The relationships of the various tribes with each other and with the Mormon settlers and significant events in the history of Utah’s indigenous peoples will be discussed. The class will serve as a prelude to a visit class members and members of the Ogden Valley chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers plan to make August 6 to the site of the Huntsville Memorial Day service photos by Bruce Grandin of Eden. |
