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Show Volume XXX Issue VIII The Ogden Valley News Page 5 December 1, 2023 Weber County Library Now Accepting Rainbow Gardens Hosts Book Signing Kiss by Margaret Bagley Donations The forWeber Its Annual Winter Fest Event Event: Dear County This annual event is held at the Main Rainbow Gardens, at the sweethearts growing up in the heart of Ogden, Library System is now gladly accepting donations for its annual Winter Fest community celebration. Warm winter hats, scarves, socks, and gloves will be accepted for distribution to those in need during the library’s Winter Fest event. Library in downtown Ogden. All are welcome to enjoy free music, food, stories, and fun on Saturday, December 23 from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. For more information about upcoming library events, visit or call the Ogden Valley Branch Library at 801-337-2660. mouth of beautiful Ogden Canyon, is hosting a book signing event Saturday, December 9 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The book, Dear Kiss, by locally born author Margaret Bagley, is a novel of life and love in the Victorian west. Dear Kiss, dedicated to her grandparents Dora Pauline Hatch Holther and Louis Jensen Holther Jr., is inspired by their actual letters. Ogden, Utah, in the late 1800s, was a burthe darkened remnants of a candle’s lamentable geoning Western town as the railroad brings journey. What tales has it illuminated in its new opportunities. Dora and Lou, childhood wavering glow, what macabre specters has it cast upon this basement’s cold, damp walls? As if guided by an unseen hand in a spectral dance, the candle’s wisps of fading smoke intertwine with the shadowy contours of the Don’t miss the Chordettes’ Christmas condark bird’s form. Amidst the waning tendrils, a cert coming soon! The choir will be joined solitary ember clings tenaciously to the wick’s this year by the Huntsville Bells, a bell choir end, a fragile remnant of a once living flame. directed by Becky Adams. The bell choir, like Yet, in this cryptic cavern, one cannot help but the Chordettes, is also made up of local Ogden ponder the secrets concealed behind those aged Valley residents! walls, where the echoes of Poe’s chilling tales The program will be held at the Chordettes’ seem to whisper from the very plaster itself.” usual venue, The Hearthside, which is located Goodson, a prolific painter of representational art in a realistic style, covers a wide vari- at 5612 E. 2200 N. in Eden. Three Christmas performances are schedety of genres in subject matter. He often paints large-scale paintings that bring out the glorious uled this year: two on Sunday, December beauty of local landscape scenes, and a true 10 with one at 5:00 p.m. and another at sense of life and light to his portrait paintings. 7:00; and the third performance on Monday, Goodson invites the public to come into his December 11 at 7:00 p.m. Admission is free, working studio, to see his easel and workspace, and attendees of all ages are welcome. But to experience his process, and to speak with make sure arrive early; seats fill up fast! We are also asking the community to bring him as he is working. There are many impressive available paintings on display, and Mark canned or dry-packaged food, which will be accepts commission work as well. donated to the Utah Food Bank. Baskets to To see more of Mark’s work, visit his Huntsville deposit your food donations will be located at studio in the Green Haus Art Co. at 7341 E. 200 S. the entrance of the Hearthside. Hours are noon to 7:00 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The studio is Pictured left are Chordettes president Jessica closed Tuesdays and Sundays. Erickson with her mother Tia Shaw, treasurer. Also check out his website at markbgoodson.com, or contact him at 801-564-4585 or mgbfineart@gmail.com. Ogden Valley Artist Mark B. Goodson Wins Dennis Klaus Honorary Award Celebrated Huntsville artist Mark B. Goodson was given the distinguished “Dennis Klaus Honorary Award” with his painting “Poe’s Raven” in the Salt Lake Community College’s esteemed annual President’s Art Show. There was an impressive variety of exceptional submissions, many truly beautiful, well-executed works of art in the show. Goodson stated that he felt it a great honor to be in this marvelous show among such creative artists. After visiting “The Poe House” in Philadelphia, where Edgar Allen Poe actually lived for a time, and painting this scene set in the haunting basement of that house, Mark wrote the following: “In the beating heart of Philadelphia, amidst the lingering shadows of The Poe House’s basement, an inscrutable impulse seized my soul. There, in that subterranean abyss, I was compelled to craft a painting that would encapsulate the very essence of Poe’s eerie world. Upon an oaken table, bearing the weight of bound erudition and dark suspense, are a small collection including a tome bearing the august name of Poe himself. Central to this ominous tableau, and most vital to its haunting charm, is a Raven—a creature not merely ruffled in plumage, but one imbued with the power of speech, a being to extinguish light’s flame and transmute the very atmosphere into one of dread and mystery. A forlorn candlestick of tarnished pewter, weathered by time’s relentless grasp, cradles experience the growth of their relationship right along with that of their city. But as children are born and Lou’s business endeavors take him farther and farther away from Ogden and his family, Dora wonders if it is all worth the cost. Temptations and trials abound for them both, testing the love and devotion they have shared for years. The author, Margaret Bagley, was born in Ogden, Utah. Her father was a lawyer, her mother a musician. Bagley graduated from the University of Utah and taught special education in Maryland. She has lived all over the U.S., from South Carolina to Arizona, and currently resides in Salt Lake City with her husband. It’s Time to Ring Those Christmas Bells! The Cup Hop is Back! Ogden Nature Center’s Cup Hop is back for its fifth year, so fly into a local coffee shop and add a lucky ladybug mug to your collection while supporting Ogden Nature Center! For a $20 donation, you will receive a collectable ladybug mug, filled with a specialty coffee, tea, or cocoa at the coffee shop where you purchase your mug, at time of purchase only. In celebration of Ogden Nature Center’s end-of-year friend & fund drive, and to give back to the coffee shops who always support Ogden Nature Center, a portion of your donation will go to Ogden Nature Center, and a portion will go to the coffee shops! A lucky ladybug mug belongs in your set and matches the raven, bluebird, tortoise, and squirrel mugs from years past. Cup Hop cups will only be available on the following dates, and at these locations, while supplies last! Each shop will have a limited supply beginning on their starting date. Nov. 20-25 | Ka昀昀e Mercantile, 1221 26th St. Nov. 27 – Dec. 2 | Daily Rise, 2314 Washington Blvd. Dec. 4-9 Grounds for Co昀昀ee | 111 Historic 25th St. Dec. 11-16 Co昀昀ee Links | 287 Park Ave. Almost all world cultures believe that a ladybug is lucky! If a ladybug is held in the hand while making a wish, some believe the direction that it flies away shows from where your luck will come. Some cultures believe ladybugs carry away illness if they land on you and fly away unassisted. Counting spots will tell you any number of things such as how many months of good fortune one will have in the coming year, how many children the person holding it will have, and/or how much money one may expect to gain. They are often seen as symbols of keeping safe and healthy, which is why ladybugs often appear on children’s clothing. Because ladybugs eat many of the insects that cause damage to garden plants, a good population of them help prevent the need for harmful pesticides. For more information, contact Ogden Nature Center at 801-621-7595. 1/2/2 4 - 12/2 4/2Lorem 4 Ipsum 2024. or used with other offers or discounts. 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