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Show The Ogden Valley News Volume XXX Issue X Page 11 August 1, 2023 The Second Annual CFOV Farm Festival Coming to Eden’s Sunnyfield Farm Close out summer 2023 and welcome the fall season with an evening of downhome farm fun! Community Foundation of Ogden Valley (CFOV) is sponsoring a free community celebration Friday, September 8 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Sunnyfield Farm in Eden. The festival will feature games and activities for the entire family. Relax with your neighbors while listening to the homegrown, smooth stylings of Eden’s Yellow Rose as they perform familiar and classic hits. Enjoy dinner from the Scally Wagon or enjoy slices of pizza and other food for purchase. There will be farm-fresh vendors like Iris & Emily, Milk Barn Creamery, Ogden Valley Sweets, Patio Springs Gardens, Fresh Simple Greens, Misfit Mushrooms and Plant Candy. The Sunnyfield Farm Store will be open and will offer their great products—beef, eggs, sausage, and honey. You may also visit local favorite businesses Emie James, Simply Eden, and Free Spirit Mountain Spa who will be represented on-site. The Farm Festival will also offer another chance to support the Community Foundation of Ogden Valley by purchasing tickets in their Opportunity Drawing. There are many great prizes from our local sponsors and supporters, including: • Season Pass to Snowbasin • 5-day pack of passes to Powder Mountain • A kid’s bicycle • 4 rounds of golf from Wolf Creek Eden’s Yellow Rose • Gift certi昀椀cates for Club Rec rentals A full list of prizes is available on the CFOV website at CFOV.net. Tickets are $20 for one or $50 for 3. The money raised from ticket sales will be added to the CFOV Matching Fund and be passed on to the amazing nonprofit organizations that add so much to this great Valley! Those who have already purchased tickets at Music on the Patio are still included in the drawing, which will be held at 7:00 p.m. during the festival. Winners need not be present to win. Tickets can be purchased at the festival using cash, Venmo, or credit card. Tickets may also be easily purchased online on CFOV’s website at CFOV.net. On Friday, September 8, gather your family and meet up with friends for one of the summer’s last celebrations on a beautiful Ogden Valley summer evening. See you at Sunnyfield Farm at the Community Foundation of Ogden Valley’s Second Annual Farm Fest. Community Foundation of Ogden Valley is an all-volunteer organization that raises awareness and support for other nonprofit organizations that help make Ogden Valley such a wonderful place to live. The current nonprofit organizations CFOV supports are: • ADAPT – Ogden Valley Adaptive Sports • Back Country Horsemen • Boy Scouts of America – Crossroads of the West Council • Great Basin K-9 Search and Rescue • Mountain Arts and Music • Northern Wasatch Rescue Professionals • Ogden Avalanche • Ogden Nordic • Ogden Valley Land Trust • Ogden Valley Tennis & Pickleball • Snowbasin Sports Education Foundation • Snowcrest PTSO • Trails Foundation of Northern Utah • Valley Elementary PTO • Wolf Creek Foundation For more information, call Beth Mannino at 773-425-6306 or Kim Best at 801-675-1723. You may also visit cfov.net. Subscriptions available for out-of-area residents at $18 annually. Send payment with mailing address to: The Ogden Valley News PO BOX 522, EDEN UT 84310 Valley Hair Co. Welcomes New Junior Stylist Marijke My name is Marijke (Ma-rye-kuh). I was born and raised in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. At the age of seventeen, I moved to Paris where I met my first husband, an American basketball player. After we had our daughter, we moved to Salt Lake City, where our son was born. In January 1994 I went to Von Curtis Hair Academy where I met Heather Holbrook (founder of Valley Hair) and we became instant best friends. At the end of that same year, I moved back to Amsterdam, but Heather and I always remained close friends. I’ve had a career in yoga, not only teaching classes but also training new yoga teachers, throughout the Netherlands. Doing hair has always remained a passion of mine and I continued doing friends’ and family’s hair on the side. Now, my second marriage has brought me back to the states and it’s a full circle moment to again stand behind the chair next to my friend Heather and all of the great stylists at Valley Hair Company. I’m excited to be back and look forward to having you in my chair! About Valley Hair - Valley Hair, located at 2234 N. 5500 E. in Eden, has been in business for Marijke 24 wonderful years. We are so grateful for all of the love and support we have received and are extremely excited to welcome Marijke (and her cool accent) to our team! Call today to book your appointment and take advantage of Junior Stylist specials! Walk-ins are also welcome. We are open Monday thru Saturday. Contact Valley Hair Co. at 801-745-1979. EDITOR’S VIEW cont. from page 3 as were many colonists, a creed that valued “self-government, discipline, virtue, reason, and restraint.” For most ruling families, it was a modern idea—a philosophy of “moral striving through virtuous action and right conduct, by powerful men who believed that their duty was to lead others in a changing world. Most of all, it was a way of combining power with responsibility and liberty with discipline. “Much of this creed was about honor…. This honor was an emblem of virtue. These gentlemen of the Northern Neck [Northernmost area of Virginia] lived for honor in that sense. The only fear that George Washington ever acknowledged in his life was a fear that his actions would ‘reflect eternal dishonour upon me.’” Fischer continues, “A major part of this code of honor was an idea of courage. The men around young George Washington assumed that a gentleman would act with physical courage in the face of danger, pain, suffering, and death. They gave equal weight to moral courage in adversity, prosperity, trial, and temptation. For them, a vital part of leadership was the ability to persist in what one believed to be the right way. This form of courage was an idea of moral stamina, which Washington held all his life. Stamina in turn was about strength and endurance as both a moral and a physical idea.” Where are the honorable and courageous young people and seasoned men and women of our era who are willing to step up to the legacy that is ours as American citizens? Where are those who are willing to embrace the type of disciplined honor that led to the miraculous success of an amazing, inspired group of American patriots and a rising nation, and can also lead to the continued success of our country as a wellregulated society composed of self-composed, empathetic, honorable families and individuals ready to better self and community? throughout their life in association with others. Sadly, in a deteriorating society, a person’s standing and how they are regarded may have very little to do with their character and their integrity but with extreme, loud, even outlandish actions, behavior, and dress that draws superficial attention to them and hits about them on social media. Our great Founding Father and American statesman Benjamin Franklin shared his thoughts for obtaining a happy and successful life as found in the book the Art of Virtue. He writes, foremost, “If your desires are to the things of this world, they are never to be satisfied…. There is no happiness then but in a virtuous and self-approving conduct.” Born in 552 B.C. into a disintegrating society, Confucius endeavored to restore health, order, and the highest virtues to his country. To do so, he taught that, first, the people must learn to regulate their individual families. But before they could do this, they needed to learn to discipline self through perfecting their own soul. Before they could successfully perfect their own soul, they must learn to discipline their thoughts. Before discipling thought, they must extend to the utmost, their personal knowledge base, which comes from the quest or thirst for learning and an investigation of things as they really are. Then, knowledge could become complete, thoughts pure, souls perfected, selves cultivated, families properly regulated, the community or state finely ordered, and once again, the world, a peaceful and happy place. Though simply worded, there is much truth in Confucius’s wisdom that we can adopt to better self and community. David Hackett Fischer reaffirms in his Pulitzer Price-winning book Washington’s Crossing that George Washington was taught, THANK YOU TO OUR CFOV 2023 SPONSORS MATCHING OVERDRIVE HAS BEGUN www.cfov.net WHEN MANY GIVE IN SMALL AMOUNTS IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE cfov.net DONATE AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE! WHEN MANY PEOPLE GIVE A LITTLE, BIG THINGS HAPPEN. |