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Show Volume XXX Issue IX The Ogden Valley News Page 13 July 15, 2023 Eden Youth Earns Scholarship to CFOV Announces 2023 Essay Contest Winners The Community Foundation “How Nonpro昀椀t Organizations Bene昀椀t the Study in Germany of Ogden Valley (CFOV) is Citizens of the Ogden Valley” Below are copies pleased to announce the winners of our 2023 essay contest. The theme of this year’s contest was of this year’s 2023 CFOV winning essays. Additional essays ran in the June 1, June 15, and July 1 issues of the paper. The Bene昀椀ts of Ogden Valley’s The U.S. Department of State and CIEE, the Council on International Educational Nonpro昀椀ts Exchange, are pleased to announce that By Della Anderson, Kambell Haymond of Eden has been selected Valley Elementary 5th-grade student for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) scholarship for the 2023-2024 acaImagine if we didn’t have open land or if we demic year. CBYX is a bilateral exchange didn’t have bike trails or if we didn’t have a nice, program of the U.S. Congress and German Kambell Haymond will study in Germany for groomed place to cross country ski. We are all Bundestag (Parliament). The program is admin- the 2023-2024 school year. so grateful we have these things, and it is, in big istered by the U.S. Department of State’s the last forty years the program has positively part, thanks to CFOV. You’re probably wonderBureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs changed the life trajectories for thousands ing, what does CFOV stand for anyway? Well, through nonprofit implementing partners such of American young people. Find out about it stands for Community Foundation of Ogden how the CBYX program builds the skills of Valley. CFOV helps fund local nonprofits so that as CIEE. Kambell will spend the academic year American participants in the recently complet- Ogden Valley can be even more amazing. CFOV in Germany living with a host family and ed independent evaluation (eca.state.gov/files/ funds sixteen different nonprofits. Here are a few attending high school. The program will start bureau/evaluationreport_congressbundestagy- of my favorites: in August when Kambell travels to Germany outhexchange_508_compliant.pdf). To begin with, Ogden Valley Land Trust For more information about CBYX, visit holds an annual fundraiser. For the last two for a one-month intensive German language exchanges.state.gov/cbyx or contact CIEE at years, it has been held at the monastery. This program. Over the course of the year, Kambell ciee.org/cbyx Applications for the fully funded fundraiser raises money for conservation easewill share a bit of Eden with their hosts in 2024-2025 academic year will open in August ments. At this fundraiser there is a silent aucGermany. In addition to their role as citizen 2023. German language skills are not required tion and a classical pianist. This fundraiser is so diplomats, CBYX participants also visit the to apply for the scholarship. To learn more much fun because of the main attraction: In A German Bundestag, meet with German gov- about hosting an international high school Landscape (an outdoor classical piano concert). ernment officials, and explore the beauty and exchange student for the 2023-2024 academic At this fundraiser, they provide wireless headdiversity of Germany. Upon return to the year, please visit ciee.org/host-families. phones, and these headphones are connected About The U.S. Department of State’s to the piano and you walk around with the United States at the conclusion of the exchange program in Germany, the participants will meet Bureau of Educational and Cultural headphones on and you hear the most beautiful with their elected representatives on Capitol Exchanges - The U.S. Department of State’s music. The headphones have a very long range Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs so you can explore with the music and see the Hill. At the same time that Kambell is in (ECA) promotes international mutual under- beautiful monastery land. This is definitely one Germany, a group of young German CBYX standing through a wide range of academic, of my highlights of the summer. This event will participants will spend a year in the United cultural, professional, and sports exchange pro- take place July 29 this year. States. This allows American communities to grams. ECA exchanges engage youth, students, Secondly, Trails Foundation Northern Utah get to know Germany without leaving home. educators, artists, athletes, and emerging lead- (TFNU). TFNU makes biking and walking on the road Schools and families who volunteer to host ers in many fields in the United States and much safer. Which means they make the bike trails that these German youth help strengthen the U.S. in more than 160 countries. Alumni of ECA you see everyday when you’re biking or driving in a relationship with Germany and showcase their exchanges comprise over one million people car. There are lots of field trips and other fun things that community to international audiences. U.S. around the world, including more than 50 take place on these trails. For example, the fifth grade citizens interested in bringing a bit of Germany Nobel Laureates and more than 350 current or goes on a biking field trip every year. They get up bright to their community should reach out to CIEE at former heads of state and government. More and early in the morning, gather their bikes, and they information on their programs can be found at are off to Huntsville Park to participate in some special highschool@ciee.org. While each exchange year is unique, over exchanges.state.gov. classes such as creative writing and rope making. But no matter the activity, they would not be able to do it without TFNU. TURKEY cont. from page 3 Jim Christensen, the DWR’s northern region Finally, Ogden Nordic. Ogden Nordic wildlife manager, wouldn’t get into specifics also noted the impact to wild animals of the about turkey efforts in Huntsville but said the makes groomed trails for cross country skiing. particularly tough winter of 2022-2023, which agency, generally speaking, gets involved in They also hold cross-country skiing lessons drew more hungry critters fighting for survival trapping and relocating wild animals when they over the course of the winter. These lessons are so much fun and also teach you so much to the town than is normal. become a nuisance. Over the past five years, about cross-country skiing and how to get “The town worked with Utah DWR for DWR efforts throughout the Ogden Valley, assistance with mitigation, and turkeys were including Huntsville, have led to the removal of much better at it. This program teaches you to ski downhill safely, know your way around on trapped and removed several times throughout more than 550 turkeys. cross-country skis and so much more. I would the long winter,” Sorensen said in an email to Though not weighing in on the court case, the Standard-Examiner. “Huntsville is planning both Christensen and Faith Jolley, the DWR definitely recommend it. In conclusion, we need CFOV. Without it to build some turkey traps to have in place for spokesperson, counseled against feeding wild next winter so we can proactively assist DWR critters. Among other things, feeding animals our valley, which we love, would not be what it is today. The CFOV is really helpful, and we in removal in the future.” can create “public safety concerns,” foster are very grateful for it. So next time you go He declined comment on the lawsuit as the spread of wildlife diseases and potentially harm litigation is ongoing but said DWR officials the animals if they are given food not in their horseback riding, cross country skiing, bike riding or really any fun thing there is to do trapped and removed around 150 turkeys from typical diets. the town last winter. “Concentrating wildlife near inhabited areas can sometimes result in increased traffic accidents and other human/wildlife conflicts, including damage to private property,” Jolley said. The 2nd District Court cases are in the preliminary stages and Judge Jason Nelson has yet to weigh in on the varied issues. Stuart, meantime, is getting exasperated. “I’m shocked that this has continued for five years. There seems to be no end in sight,” he said. Note: This article, which ran in the “StandardTurkeys outside a Huntsville home, there to eat feed provided by a Examiner” June 30, resident in the neighborhood, are pictured in a still from video taken 2023, is being reprinted by Greg Stuart on Dec. 27, 2022. He is part of a contingent suing by permission of the the neighbors who feed the birds to get them to stop the action. “Standard.” (Greg Stuart) in the valley, think about CFOV, Community Foundation of Ogden Valley. How Nonpro昀椀t Organizations Bene昀椀t Citizens of Ogden Valley By Felicity White, Valley Elementary 5th-grade student Do you know what CFOV stands for? It stands for Community Foundation of Ogden Valley. CFOV helps our nonprofit organizations and helps keep our valley amazing. The nonprofit organizations do this too. Imagine if we didn’t have nonprofit organizations? What would we do? Well, in this essay I will talk about how nonprofit organizations benefit the citizens of Ogden Valley. To begin, I would like to mention a few of our nonprofit organizations. Some of them are: The Northern Wasatch Rescue Professionals, Trails Foundation of Northern Utah, Wolf Creek Foundation, Great Basin K9 Search and Rescue, and Back Country Horsemen. Next, nonprofit organizations benefit our valley by helping keep communities nice. Some organizations allow you to spend time with your family. One of these is the Wolf Creek Foundation. The article, “Our Nonprofits” stated, “The Wolf Creek Foundation lets you have 30 days with your family before one of your family members leaves for the military.” In addition, the Back Country Horsemen do trail work activities on horseback. Great Basin K9 Search and Rescue helps keep people safe, especially when they are in trouble. I have not personally had to be searched for and rescued, but I have watched movies and documentaries about it. They are there for you when you need them. Finally, my favorite nonprofit organization is the Wolf Creek Foundation. I have mentioned a little about the Wolf Creek Foundation previously. The Wolf Creek Foundation helps families get special one-on-one time with their families before they go to help serve our country. This allows families to connect with their loved ones before they head out to the military. Also, CFOV is going to put the best essay in the newspaper and allow you to donate to your favorite nonprofit organization. If my essay is chosen, I will donate to Wolf Creek Foundation. In conclusion, to answer my question “What would we do if we didn’t have our nonprofit organizations?” I think the valley wouldn’t really be as amazing as it is with our nonprofit organizations. We wouldn’t be able to enjoy some of the benefits for our families. That is why I think our nonprofit organizations are amazing along with the CFOV. It provides and helps nonprofit organizations keep the valley alive. 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