Kristen Hebestreet

OGDEN — We will always remember.

MORGAN — Time is the secret to building prize-winning gingerbread houses, Jennifer Vesper says.

The high-level gingerbread competitor organized the gingerbread house competition held Saturday at the Old-Fashioned Christmas Celebration on Commercial Street in the historic section of downtown Morgan.

About 700 people attended the event, which featured Santa and Mrs. Claus riding downtown on top of a Morgan County fire truck, followed by the lighting of a Christmas tree.

MORGAN — As music often does, the Morgan Valley Chamber Orchestra came from a desire to create a community voice.

The beauty of this orchestra is that it is intended for anyone of any age who has ever wanted to learn to play a stringed instrument — a violin, viola or cello — to have that opportunity, said Amy Ward, who plays the viola and serves as the MVCO chairman of the board and executive committee president.

MORGAN — Darren Tidwell’s younger sister remembers him as a man she loved and trusted, one who lived his life to the fullest at every moment.

MORGAN ­— A frustrated convicted felon is accused of stabbing his motor home battery with a 10-inch Bowie knife, choking a fellow camper and using the knife to threaten and chase a 4-year-old boy.

MORGAN — Every day, J.T. Wild holsters his Colt 1873 Peacemaker pistol and saunters out to subdue the Evil Roy Gang lurking near the barn.

To put it another way, local marksman Joel LaBorde walks to his backyard shooting range for target practice.

LaBorde is a member of the Single Action Shooting Society, a shooting organization that focuses on firearms of the mid- to late-19th century. Or call it a bunch of Belvideres and Calamity Janes out to have a hawg-killin’ good time; either way, it’s true.