Anita Kersey

West Haven gets new scoreboards, bleachers

WEST HAVEN — The new West Haven “Sports Park,” home of the Wasatch Front Football League, has come of age since the city installed new electronic scoreboards and the latest design in bleachers.

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A Monarch butterfly feeds on flowers at the Ogden Botanical Gardens. Monarch butterflies migrate from Canada and other northern regions of North America to Mexico and farther south every fall.

Prepare in the fall for spring yards

OGDEN — Most of us need help at one time or other with our lawns and gardens, and there’s no better place to go for help than the Ogden Botanical Gardens, 1750 Monroe Blvd.

Manager Dori Jones says people call their office all the time in need of advice or help.

“I feel very blessed to have a job that I love and get to help people by answering their plant questions,” Jones said. “I get to create beautiful, relaxing landscapes and use my talent to help others feel peace in a hectic world.”

Frank Dougherty inspects his yard in South Ogden recently. He and his wife, June, have dedicated 40 years to creating a yard full of green and bursts of color. (KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner)

South Ogden homeowners work hard to grow forty shades of green

The Standard-Examiner's Fall Home Show & Spa Expo is set for Oct. 5-6 at the Golden Spike Event Center in Ogden. Watch for a special section in Sunday's Standard-Examiner

SOUTH OGDEN — Forty shades of green, as the Irish say — and Frank Dougherty, of South Ogden, stays true to his roots, literally.

He and his wife, June, have spent the past 40 years creating a splendor of horticulture at its best — and right in their own backyard.

At least 40 shades of green, blended with flowers and foliage of all the colors of the rainbow, cascade in perfect order down the steep incline of their foothill property.

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Handlers release their dogs during the race for extra-small dogs at Hooper Tomato Days on Monday.

Racing dogs a highlight of Hooper Tomato Days

HOOPER — Sam, a red heeler, is the 2012 Grand Champion of the Hooper Tomato Days dog races, held at the Hooper Park rodeo arena. He won first place in the medium dog division and then went on to win the overall spot, netting his owner a $100 first prize.

This year’s excitement grew as 127 dogs of all sizes, shapes and breeds lined up at the gate, where their owners paid their $3 registration fee. Then dogs and owners walked through and on to the holding area, awaiting their turn to take off.

Two-day Hooper fest honors city's rural roots

HOOPER — This weekend’s Tomato Days celebration marks the event’s 87th year.

Patricia Francesconi adds details to her chalk drawing Friday. Fifty artists paid $5 each for a tray of chalk and a sidewalk square for the popular art event, which is in its fourth year. Heritage Days concludes today at the Clinton City Park and Civic Center, 1500 W. 2300 North. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Chalk artists create on concrete canvas at Clinton Heritage Days

CLINTON — Maria Hyer is studying to be a nurse, but one of her great passions in life is creating her own form of cartoon artistry. “My mother says I’ve been an artist ever since I could grab a crayon and write on the wall,” the 21-year-old says.

Hyer was displaying her artistic skills Friday, using sidewalk chalk on concrete at the Clinton Heritage Days celebration.

Family fun today, Saturday in Clinton

CLINTON — Concerts, a chalk art festival, art displays, a basketball tournament, painting and a softball tournament will be packed into two days of celebration here.

The last two days of Clinton Heritage Days go on from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. today and Saturday at the Clinton City Park and Civic Center, 1500 W. 2300 North.

The Sherman Wayment 5K Fun Run and 2-Mile Walk will begin at 6:30 a.m. Saturday, with registration for the race at 6 a.m. at the tennis courts.

Admission to most activities is free. Some events, such as the carnival, require tickets.

Council decides not to rename Hooper Park to commemorate Reagan visit

HOOPER — The people — at least some of them — have spoken, so Hooper Park will remain Hooper Park.

Several people attended a recent city council meeting to let council members know they do not want the name of the city’s oldest park changed.

After hearing the residents’ objections and being presented with about 200 names on petitions, the council unanimously voted to forgo the idea of changing the park’s name to Reagan Park to commemorate President Ronald Reagan’s visit to Hooper on Sept. 10, 1982.

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Bette Wilson, of Hooper, stands by the new Hooper veterans memorial Tuesday. Wilson helped organize the list of names to be displayed.

Hooper honors a thousand veterans in granite

HOOPER — Wednesday was no ordinary Fourth of July celebration in the small farming community of Hooper.

On this day, patriotism was at its highest as several hundred people showed up at the Hooper Park to witness the historic dedication of the new Freedom Military Memorial.

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Tyler Kealamakia rides a Strider No-Pedal Balance Bike during an event at Steed Park in Clearfield on Friday. The event is to promote the bikes that are designed to teach a child to learn to ride a bike without training wheels or pedals.

Balance bikes teach toddlers how to move sans pedals

CLINTON — The Steed Park Toddler Balance Bike Race in Clearfield drew plenty of attention from parents and bystanders, as little tykes on little bikes raced along the pathway.

These weren’t any ordinary kids on ordinary bikes. These were toddlers, ages 21 months to 4 years, on their balance bikes — all rolling along and being coached by their instructor, Meg Hawks.

Hawks is a representative of Strider, which is introducing balance bikes to parents as a way to teach kids how to ride bikes almost as soon as they learn to walk. Hawks holds clinics to introduce the bike and teach the kids how to use them.

(DAVE LABELLE/Standard-Examiner) Then-President Ronald Reagan, shaking hands among a multitude of well-wishers, makes his way back to his limousine after speaking at the Hooper picnic on Sept. 10, 1982.

Hooper residents want park name to memorialize Reagan visit

HOOPER — Not every small town can say that the leader of the free world gave a speech in its park.

Hooper can, and some residents want to memorialize the historic event by changing the name of the city’s oldest park. However, the feeling isn’t unanimous.

After much discussion, the city council recently gave tentative approval to changing the name of Hooper Park to Hooper Reagan Park.

Clinton city ordinance orders bank signs to come down

CLINTON — It’s official: The old 25-foot-tall Centennial Bank sign at 1750 W. 1800 North is coming down, according to a decision made by the city council.

Austin Hawks, a Clearfield High teacher, explains basic bike maintenance Thursday as part of the Clinton City Community Enhancement Program. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Ready to roll? Clinton class covers prepping bikes, making repairs

CLINTON — “Get that dusty old bike down from the hook, dust it off and let’s get it ready to hit the road,” says Austin Hawks, a Clinton resident who teaches Agriculture Education at Clearfield High School and repairs bikes on the side.

At a recent Clinton City Community Enhancement Program class, Hawks demonstrated simple ways to “get your bike ready to roll in no time.”

Hooper City Council members to get salaries

HOOPER — Hooper has reinstated salaries for city council members, but not everyone is happy about it.

Clinton applies for federal grant to replace old roads

CLINTON — City officials unanimously passed a plan to apply for a federal Community Development Block Grant to replace roads that have served several neighborhoods for the past 40 years, Assistant City Manager Lynn Vinzant said.

At a recent council meeting, Vinzant recommended the city apply for a two-year $300,000 grant that would be paid to the city over two years at $150,000 each year.

“The processing and application season for the 2012 CDBG is upon us and the first meeting to begin the process was April 6. We should know by about the end of July whether we got the grant; and if so, work could start this year,” Vinzant said. “Some of these roads are as old as the subdivision, and we have been patching them as we go along. However, the time has come that these roads need to be replaced.”

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