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Staff Sgt. Nick Bricker (right) pulls a Humvee during the fitness challenge organized by the Hill Air Force Base 75th Security Forces Squadron as part of National Police Week Thursday in Layton.

‘Rock Hard Cop Physical Challenge’ held at Hill for National Police Week

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Air Force Airman 1st Class Lydia Tejera learned she has to be ready for anything, including pulling a 2,000-pound Humvee.

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Tiyah Adams smiles as she receives her first-place medal in the fifth-grade Krypto competition at the Math and Science Olympiad at Roy High School on Tuesday. Krypto, a math-based card game, is one of numerous events that students from around Weber School District participate in each year.

Math and Science Olympiad held at Roy High School

ROY — Kymberley Peterson carefully cradled her shoebox with the balloon car inside as she listened for the results of the balloon-car derby Tuesday morning.

A hiker, Kelly Rogers (in tank top), waits to be lowered Tuesday by Weber County Search and Rescue after he became injured, then disoriented, and spent several days on the North Ogden Divide above North Ogden.  (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Injured hiker may have been on Divide 3 days, officials say

NORTH OGDEN ­— Search and rescue officials on Tuesday participated in the rescue of a Weber County man who claimed to have been stranded on a hillside for three days after sustaining injuries and becoming disoriented on a hike near the North Ogden Divide.

Exactly how long Kelly Rogers, 43, waited to be rescued is still unclear.

Rogers told Weber County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue that he had been dropped off in the Nordic Valley area Sunday afternoon and suffered injuries to his knee and ankle after walking for some time.

Norman Skanchy, a former national racquetball champion, leads a tai chi class at the Eccles Community Art Center in Ogden on Tuesday. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Racquetball champion, 87, turns to tai chi

OGDEN — A few years ago, Norman Skanchy was in a racquetball tournament in Phoenix. His opponent was younger than he and exercised like mad to prepare for the event. Skanchy thought the competition was going to be tough.

“I got in there and tore him apart,” Skanchy said. “After the tournament, he came up and asked me if I would mind telling him what I did to get ready.”

Skanchy told him he did tai chi.

Bob Quick, 53, of Roy, rides along Washington Boulevard in Ogden on Thursday to pick up new gear for his upcoming trip across the U.S. Quick has had heart problems the last nine years and wants to make the ride to show those who helped save him that he is living life to the fullest and is not just sitting around. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Roy man with serious heart problems to cycle across the country

OGDEN — Bob Quick has always loved riding bikes, and over the years he has amassed a collection of them in his garage. So when he had a massive heart attack in 2004, he wasn’t going to let it keep him off his bike.

As a matter of fact, it motivated the 53-year-old Roy man to attempt something difficult — riding his bike from coast to coast.

“I wasn’t going to let it slow me down. I want to show the people that saved my life that I am living and not just sitting on my couch,” he said.

Quick is dealing with advanced stages of coronary artery disease, a hereditary heart problem.

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