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Show Page 12 The Ogden Valley News Volume XXX Issue IX July 15, 2023 July Fun @ Ogden Valley Branch Library 2023 Reading Challenge! Keep your reading list going strong by joining our 2023 Reading Challenge. New challenge prompts are available each month to help you choose which titles you will tackle during the year. For each month you complete, you can earn a badge. Whether you’re trying to end your reading rut or just want to branch out from your normal reading habits, see how many books you can read this year! Art Up Close - July 1-July 31 - Think you’re an art buff? Stop by the library this month to test your skills. We’ve zoomed in on several well-known pieces of art. Can you identify them all? Bingo Night – Mon., July 10 @ 6:30 p.m. For all ages. Bring your family, friends, and neighbors for an evening of action-packed Bingo excitement. Players of all ages are welcome, and prizes will be given. Teen Scene: Young Writers’ Workshop – Wed., July 19 @ 6:00 p.m. Calling all young writers and aspiring authors! Learn more about the craft of creative writing and practice your art with other like-minded, creative individuals in a critique workshop setting. Recommended for teens ages 11 and up. LEGO Robotics - Thur., July 20 @ 4:00 p.m. Use Lego WeDo to build and program a robotic structure. Recommended for children in grades 1-6. To register, or for more information, call 801-337-2660. Air Plant Holder – Thur., July 20, 7:00 p.m. Whether you have a green thumb or are looking to break your brown-thumb streak, air plants are a great choice! Make a planter to display your air plant and learn how to care for these soil-free plants. All materials will be provided. Registration required. Detective Bootcamp – Fri., July 21, 1:005:00 p.m. Become a detective for a day and learn the ins and outs of crime scene investigation science! Recommended for children in grades 2-6. To register, or for more information, call 801-337-2660. Family Fun Night – Wed., July 26 @ 6:00 p.m. Have some fun with your family at the library! From crafts to games to art, join us for a different activity each month. Pokémon Club – Mon., July 31 @ 4:00 p.m. Pokémon fans unite! Bring your cards or games to this monthly club and learn how to play the original card game, complete a craft, and discuss all things Pokémon. Recommended for children in grades 1-6. Great Reads for Kids – Tues., July 11 @ 7:00 p.m. Join us for a fun discussion and activities. For more information or to register, call 801-337-2660. Recommended for children in grades 3-6. This month’s title: The Wolf’s Curse by Jessica Vitalis. Gauge has been outcast from his small village because he dared to speak the truth—that he saw the Great White Wolf—and his townsfolk didn’t believe him. When the Great White Wolf comes for his grandfather, the townsfolk believe it is Gauge’s doing. With his new friend Roux, Gauge sets out to discover the truth about the Wolf and about his village once and for all. Novel Teens Book Discussion – Tues., July 25 @ 7:00 p.m. Limited free copies of the book will be available to those who register for this discussion. For more information or to register, call 801-3372660. This month’s title: Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean. When Quill and his friends make their yearly journey to a remote sea stack to hunt for birds, they aren’t worried at all about getting home. They know they will be retrieved—only no one comes for them. Now Quill and his friends must survive, stranded and alone, atop a stone pillar. On Pitch Performing Arts Presents “Jekyll & Hyde” OPPA!’s production of Jekyll & Hyde, the epic struggle between good and evil, is now playing live on stage at On Pitch Performing Arts. An evocative musical tale of two men—one, a doctor, passionate and romantic; the other, a terrifying madman—and two women—one, beautiful and trusting; the other, beautiful and trusting only herself—and both women in love with the same man and both unaware of his dark secret. A devoted man of science, Dr. Henry Jekyll is driven to find a chemical breakthrough that can solve some of mankind’s most challenging medical dilemmas. Rebuffed by the powers that be, he decides to make himself the subject of his own experimental treatments, accidentally unleashing his inner demons along with the man that the world would come to know as Mr. Hyde. “This cast has been amazing, they are incredible storytellers who will make you feel all the feels” says Dan Tate, Production Director. “I hope people leave this show thinking about their own duality and how to face that in themselves.” This show contains language and situations that may not be suitable for all audiences. We encourage attendees to understand the show before purchasing tickets. OPPA! is located at On Pitch Performing Arts: 587 N. Main Street in Layton. Playing through July 15 - Select dates with Matinee and Evening performance options. (This show is double cast) Reserved Seating Tickets: Adults, $16.50; Student/Child, $14.50; Senior/Military, $13.50 Theatre Doors open at 7:00 p.m. with performances beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available through our website or by calling the Box O昀케ce at 385-209-1557. For more information and ticketing, please visit onpitchperformingarts.com/. Don’t miss OPPA!’s next community theater musical of the year. A special thank you to Intermountain Healthcare Layton, George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, First Community Bank and Utah Division of Arts and Museums for their sponsorships and continued support. 20 Years Ago: Police Beat Compiled by Shanna Francis On the morning of July 11, around 2:00 a.m., Weber County Sheriff Ray Day spotted flames and smoke coming from Huntsville Park’s gazebo. Day, who was on duty, put out the flames with a fire extinguisher. Original estimates value the damage at about $1,000. Paper and accelerant were found strategically placed underneath the gazebo. Prior to the incident, Day had seen some juveniles in the area. The incident is still under investigation. Anyone with information is being asked to call the Weber County Sheriff Office at 778-6600. On July 4, an 11-year-old Cache County boy was struck by a vehicle while riding a bicycle in the Nordic Valley area around 5:00 p.m. He was taken by ambulance to a local hospital. According to Weber County Sheriff Sargent Ryon Hadley, the injuries, though serious, were not considered life threatening. On July 1, a 15-month-old toddler stumbled into a fire pit and received severe burns to over 30 percent of her body. The family was cooking dinner at a campground near Causey Reservoir around 7:30 p.m. when the accident occurred. The girl was brought to the Huntsville Chevron station area where a Life Flight helicopter landed and carried the girl to Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City for treatment. Traffic was stopped along the highway for a short period of time to accommodate the transport operation. According to Weber County Sheriff Lt. Jeff Malan, the left side of the girl’s body was burned by hot coals when the girl wandered too close to the campfire being used to cook a Dutch oven dinner. U.S. Space Command Gets Taste of Weber State’s Role in Aerospace Innovation Weber State Spencer Peterson and current students to test University engineering students demonstrated the progress of their senior capstone project to U.S. Space Command official Thomas A. Lockhart as he toured WSU’s Miller Advanced Research and Solutions Center on June 26. Lockhart is a member of the Senior Executive Service and the Director of the Capability and Resource Integration Directorate at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado. As part of his visit, Lockhart learned about the MARS Center’s ongoing materials and additive manufacturing projects with local aerospace partners, and proposed layout changes to the facility that will accommodate additional high-tech equipment. To showcase the real-world studies conducted at MARS, WSU graduates joined mechanical engineering professors Dustin Birch and the heat tolerance of a carbon composite rocket nozzle under extremely high temperatures. The team said they’re testing materials and technologies never before used for rocket nozzles. Ren Fisher, who works as a research engineer and served as project manager for the capstone project, said their research can ultimately help cut time, labor and cost for organizations working with rockets. “Our testing platform makes it easy for us to try out different combinations, and collect data about how they perform, so future projects can trust that their rocket is the best it can be,” Fisher said. Several of the recent Weber State grads now work at the MARS Center, located near Hill Air Force Base. Opened in August 2022, MARS gives WSU students and faculty opportunities to research and apply innovative solutions to problems in aerospace and national defense. EDITOR’S VIEW cont. from page 3 quently providing cooling action via plant and plant canopy evaporation. Green turf unnecessarily gets a bad rap. Doug Fender, one-time director of the nonprofit TurfResource Center stated, “desert or native plants are not water-saving plants by themselves. It’s the well-intentioned, but ill-informed homeowner who wastes water, whether it’s a desert plant or a grass plant…. Turfgrass can be maintained with a lot less water than most people give it and many scientists have noted that more lawns are killed with too much water than too little. We should encourage people to accept dormant lawns in the height of summer. Just one-quarter inch of water every four to six weeks will keep grass plants alive and ready to green-up when temperatures cool and rainfall returns, or peak water demands have passed. We can conserve water and have beautiful and balanced landscapes.” Greenspace provides areas for children and youth to play, provides habitat for urban birds (how many worms can a bird find in a concrete, weed barrier covered rock garden, or concrete/rooftop jungle?), helps cool the environment, retains and cleans the air we breath and the water we drink, and lowers crime rates, blood pressure, heart rate, and stress levels. The more urbanized we become (Utah is one of the fastest growing states in America), greenspaces become more needed than ever. Say no to the county’s proposal to eliminate greenspace! the impact of the urban heat island and minimize local climate change. Reduced impact of the urban heat island may prolong or even prevent more widespread global climate change as cities continue to increase in both size and number.” Finally, a geoscience article titled “Exploring how groundwater buffers the influence of heatwaves on vegetation function during multi-year droughts” notes how groundwater has the potential to moderate the impact of droughts and heatwaves. Land-atmosphere interactions can intensify and prolong both heatwaves and drought, impacting their intensity, and influencing the risk of their cooccurrence. Soils covered by green vegetation, including grasses, is much better at retaining its moisture content. This is important when it comes to minimizing heat extremes, which further increases the atmospheric demand for water, intensifying droughts. Vegetative access to groundwater has the potential to alter extreme land-atmosphere interactions by maintaining vegetation function during extended dry periods, supporting transpiration, cooling and moderating the impact of droughts and heatwaves. Ensuring that too much population growth doesn’t deplete groundwater is also important, as vegetative access to groundwater helps buffer drought and heatwave stress, as vegetation retains water and sustains transpiration, conse- UTVs l Motorcycles Boats l Personal Watercraft Kayaks l Canoes l SUPs Snowmobiles On Site Rentals & Tours Eden (801) Pineview Reservoir/Marina Monte Cristo Trailhead l 745-3038 www.ClubRecUtah.com |