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Show Volume XXX Issue X The Ogden Valley News Page 3 August 1, 2023 Eden Artist Releases New Book: Celebrates with Free Concert at Sunnyfield Farm on August 4 Local band Eden’s Yellow Rose made tractor tracks in the Children’s Music genre last summer with the release of their debut single, “Go Tractor, Go.” Today, the band is very pleased to announce that their much-anticipated companion children’s book, “Go Tractor, Go,” is now available at the Sunnyfield Farm Store in Eden and on Sunnyfield’s e-commerce website sunnyfield-farm.com. This delightful children’s book teaches the importance of making do with what you have until you can earn and save for what you want and need. Determined young farmer, Sunnyfield Dave, demonstrates how the sum of honest toil and thrift can make dreams a reality, how setbacks can be converted into triumphs, and how the journey can be as satisfying as the destination. The book’s author is Brad Vause and the editor is Jodi Booth, both of Eden’s Yellow Rose. The original idea for the project was the brainchild of Alan Vause of Sunnyfield Farm. Producing an original children’s book with a companion song and associated music videos, has been a very enjoyable project for both the band and the farm. To celebrate the book’s release, Eden’s Yellow Rose will play a concert at Sunnyfield Farm on Friday, August 4, at 6:00 p.m. The concert is free to the public and will coincide with Sunnyfield’s Anniversary Sale, celebrating two years since the Farm Store opened for business in Eden. ---NOTICE OF PROPOSED TAX INCREASE--WEBER BASIN WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT W e b e r Basin Water Conservancy District’s Board of Trustees intends to increase the service fees for retail and wholesale water for municipal, industrial, replacement, secondary, and agricultural purposes. The Board of Trustees will hold a public hearing on August 28, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as business allows, at the District’s offices (2837 E Hwy 193, Layton, Utah) for the purpose of hearing comments regarding the proposed increases and to explain the reason for the proposed increase. Interested persons are invited to provide comment to PublicComment@ weberbasin.com or at the hearings. More information can be found at weberbasin.gov/tax or by scanning the QR code right. OGDEN CANYON cont. from page 1 Aug 7 - 10: Multiple roadway signs to be installed. (Some of this work may happen at night) Short distance one-way alternating traffic control will remain in-place with pilot car operations. August 7 – 17: TBA ing construction zone. Motorists should expect moderate delays upward to 15 minutes or more, particularly during peak hours. Be cautious and slow down near construction barrels and cones. Speed reductions will be enforced in construction zones. All lanes will remain open For Additional Project Information on Fridays, weekends, and holidays. • Call our hotline at 435-990-1050 • Email sr39paving@utah.gov Projected Work July 25 – 27: Chip-Seal resurfacing ongo- • Visit our website, udotinput.utah.gov/ sr39paving ing from the mouth of the canyon to Pineview Dam. Work will also include some additionFor Your Safety - For your safety and the al patching of the roadway. July 31 – August 3: Additional shoul- safety of those working in the area, please use dering work. Traffic hold times should be extra caution, reduce speeds, and follow all reduced. Painting and striping for roadway posted signs and signals when driving through crosswalks, directional messaging, and travel construction zones. Barrels and other traffic lane lines. There may be some nighttime work control devices are placed to guide motorists utilized to install signs in the canyon. This will safely through the work zone, and to protect the project team. assist in limiting daytime traffic hold times. Editor’s View Where Are Today’s Honorable Patriots? Almost every evening when I watch the ten o’clock news, there’s a new story about out-ofcontrol individuals doing unthinkable things— road-rage incidents; shootings and stabbings over minor issues; individuals who scream, rant, and rage or walk into businesses and walk out again with thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise they haven’t paid for. Or, perhaps, its people sleeping, urinating, defecating, or doing drugs on busy public sidewalks in the light of day; the use of the foulest language; sloppily dressed individuals, millions of healthy Americans relying on government to take care of their personal needs; and even presidential families being implicated in unthinkable corruption schemes, drug use, and prostitution. What is going on? How has the greatest country in the world slid so far, so fast? What is happening to the moral backbone of this country? The formation and formulation of America’s amazing system of government is nothing short of miraculous. Author Craig Nelson, in his book Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of a Modern Nation, notes three primary conditions that led to the making of our unique, productive, and freedom-loving system of government based on the rights of the governed. First, at the time of the American Revolution, the British government had evolved into a three-tiered aristocratic society that had become repugnant to most living in the New World. Instead of an aristocratic system of monarchs, nobles, and commoners vying against one another for power, the New Englanders hoped to create a new system based on individual skills and abilities and their specific merits—a meritocracy. “... a New World required a new government based on Enlightenment principles of liberty and the educated citizen.” Second, the example of their new neighbors—most prominent, the Iroquois, whose confederation of various tribes was governed by a constitution, the Great Law of Peace, and headed by a Great Council of sixty representative—“sachems,” or chiefs. The native Americans’ constitution limited the power of leaders and referenced the individual’s consent to be governed. They also treated all as equals, “since men are all made of the same clay....”2 Thirdly, and most importantly, according to Nelson, while the young boys and men of today may dream of growing up to be rock stars, great athletes, or business titans, our Founding Fathers grew up wanting to be like their heroes from the golden years of the Roman Empire: Tacitus, Cicero, Virgil, Sallust, Livy, Plutarch, etc. These heroes helped bring about a golden age of liberty, virtue, and justice in Rome. An age when happiness was equated with order, reason, industry, self-control, frugality, simplic- ity, selflessness, honor, service, and fortitude, etc. The founders, too, wanted to build such an ordered republic, which also resembled God’s vision for humanity, much as the Christians who settled this freedom-loving nation also envisioned. Today, our country is at a crossroads. Once again—and perhaps more than ever—young visionaries and idealists who desire to reestablish, implement, and uphold eternal qualitative, positive values, which Dietrich von Hildebrand refers to in his classic book Ethics, as “absolute goodness and beauty” and “moral goodness” that bear and sustain the good life—a virtuous, life-giving society. The term “of good character” also comes to mind. The history of the word “character” comes, originally, from the Greek and references “a stamping tool” or “distinctive mark” or etched or inscribed symbol, such as a hieroglyph or letter or number that represents something else—such as letters or characters strung together as written language or other communicative representations. Originally, it was stamping tools that were used to etch these symbols; thus, the meaning of a stamping or etching “tool”—a “character.” The term has come to also represent the etchings on a soul—or a person’s “distinctive mark,” their character or attributes that, taken together cumulatively, communicate the type of person an individual has become or is becoming. As with many civilizations through time, the Greeks, asked what it meant to be human. Aristotle discussed this in his book of writings titled The Nicomachean Ethics where he asks, “What is the highest human good?” He concluded that it is personal excellence, which he describes as “activity of soul exhibiting excellence.” This excellence is of two kinds—intelligence, and character in connection with moral choice, which presupposes “the possession and exercise of mind or intelligence” related to acquired and developed characteristics, including the power to reason; the formulation and obedience to laws, regularities, and systems; and moral virtue associated with development and discipline. In a truly advanced society, character and character building are highly regarded and, therefore, sought after. In an advanced culture, respect for a person is tied more directly to who the person is—their being—or what kind of character traits they possess versus what they have done or accomplished. Their standing is tied less to their physical, economic, academic, or social status and more to their character and the virtues they have cultivated and magnified EDITOR’S VIEW cont. on page 11 |