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OGDEN — New four-hour defensive driving courses are available at Weber State University.

Be prepared. While this motto works for Scouts, the law enforces preparedness by requiring classes and education that must take place in order to access various legal remedies and privileges.

House Bill 363, which is awaiting Gov. Gary Herbert’s signature (or veto), would prohibit local school boards from educating our students on the full spectrum of reproductive health, harshly limiting the discussion of sex to abstinence and within marriage. (Note: Herbert vetoed the sex ed bill late Friday night, after this column was written and posted.)

OGDEN -- Athletes often speak of the workout high -- a time of clarity and concentration, a clean feeling of purity and purpose. And that "high" is just what Dustin Hawkins is using to help former addicts change their lifestyle in the Workout Addiction Recovery (WAR) program that he designed based on his own recovery from addiction.

Hawkins, a Bonneville High School alumni, baseball standout, and former Houston Astro, became addicted to prescription drugs starting with a knee surgery. He was doing the drugs, playing baseball, and sinking further into it when he started seeing a therapist for his problems.

OGDEN — Mount Ogden Junior High School will launch its first session of community school classes on Tuesday.

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Officials at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington say classes will go on as scheduled, even though a suspect in an armed robbery ran toward the campus after the holdup.

OGDEN -- Citing the need to be able to communicate with all neighbors, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden is offering conversational Spanish classes beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday.

OGDEN -- The Weber State University String Project is an after-school orchestra program at WSU's Ogden Campus that will start classes Monday.

Classes, for beginning to advanced students in violin, viola, cello or string bass, run Mondays and Wednesdays. The age for beginning students is third through sixth grades.

Registration is 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday at the Val A. Browning Center, second-floor lobby, at WSU. Students will be able to rent instruments/purchase books on the spot.

Cost for the program is $60 per semester.