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Scramble for Easter eggs on Saturday in Syracuse

Last updated Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 11:24pm

SYRACUSE — An Easter egg scramble is planned for 10 a.m. Saturday for children 11 and younger at the northeast corner of Founder’s Park at 1700 S. 200 West.

Children can have their picture taken with the Easter bunny. Accommodations for special needs children will be available.

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Easter memorial balloon release set for Saturday in Ogden

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 11:17pm

OGDEN — Myers Mortuaries and Evergreen Memorial Park will hold an Easter Memorial Balloon release at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Those attending are requested to be at the Memorial Park mall, 100 Monroe Blvd., by 2:30 p.m. so they can decorate their balloons.

Felt-tipped pens will be available to write messages on the balloons, or prepared messages may be written on paper to be inserted in the balloons before filling them.

A helium tank will be provided to fill the biodegradable balloons.

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(Back row, from left) Jay Smith, Jakobie Brown, Caden Harris and Emma Romero, as well as (front row, from left) Tanner Gould, Ashtyn Garner, Ashley Richards, Alyse Larson and Gavin Vaughn, display items donated by a second-grade class at Riverdale Elementary School. The toys, books, games, scrapbooking supplies and more will be assembled into Easter baskets and delivered to children at Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City in time for the holiday. (Photo composite by NICK SHORT and BRYAN NIELSEN/Standard-Examiner)

Riverdale students fill Easter baskets for peers at Primary Children's

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 11:17pm

RIVERDALE — Big purple boxes were overflowing with Easter treats Friday at Riverdale Elementary. Those treats will now fill more than 100 Easter baskets to be delivered to children at Primary Children’s Hospital just in time for Easter next week.

The service project has been going on for eight years at the school, and every year the students, teachers and parents look forward to filling the baskets.

Mom Kristi Edelman hurried into the school to bring a bag full of scapbooking supplies to her son’s first-grade class Friday.

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Year-round tree decorations

Becky Wright, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, December 30, 2011 - 5:07pm

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Community donations prove 'someone cared' at Christmas

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 12:35am

LAYTON -- Daneen Adams could not help but tear up when a young mother of two visited the Family Connection Center the week before Christmas, picking up gifts for her kids as part of the Sub4Santa program.

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Ogden Clinic announces holiday openings

Charlie Pomerleau Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 23, 2011 - 11:28pm

OGDEN -- Ogden Clinic will serve the community this holiday season with special urgent-care hours during Christmas and New Year's weekends.

The distractions of the holiday season often result in unexpected injuries and illnesses that often occur as families gather and celebrate. In anticipation of medical needs during the holiday season, several of Ogden Clinic's facilities will be open to care for the local community and out-of-town guests.

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Humane Society of Northern Utah volunteer John Myers brings donations into the Weber County Animal Shelter in Ogden on Monday. The shelter is still collecting food, treats, towels, blankets and more. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Donors overwhelm Weber County Animal Shelter

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 12:28am

OGDEN -- A holiday wish list for disadvantaged pets has been answered with an outpouring of gifts to furry residents at the Weber County Animal Shelter.

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Realtors host Santa event for kids with cancer

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, December 19, 2011 - 11:42pm

LAYTON — A combination of Christmas and Las Vegas magic gave some area families with children battling cancer a short reprieve Saturday.

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Christmas lights on display at "Fantasy at the Bay" at Willard Bay State Park

TX: Holiday lights on display in the Top of Utah

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Last updated Friday, December 16, 2011 - 3:46pm

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Animal adoption event Saturday

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 16, 2011 - 1:25am

FRUIT HEIGHTS -- Getting adoptable dogs and cats into warm homes in time for Christmas may take Santa's touch.

Davis County Animal Care and Control will hold a special adoption event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the shelter, 1422 E. 600 North, Fruit Heights.

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Tech. Sgt. Steven Frazier, an active-duty member of the 388th Fighter Wing, watches Rigby (center) and Oslo, both 3, go through their Christmas stockings at the Burke family home in North Salt Lake on Thursday. Each year, airmen from Hill Air Force base deliver donated gifts to hundreds of children in foster care through the Utah Foster Care Foundation's Giving Tree program. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Hill airmen deliver Christmas to foster care children

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 16, 2011 - 12:59am

NORTH SALT LAKE -- Christmas came early for Top of Utah foster care families Thursday.

About 80 uniformed airmen from Hill Air Force Base's 388th and 419th fighter wings gathered at the Utah Foster Care Foundation offices in Ogden to help package and deliver Christmas gifts to foster and adoptive families in Weber, Davis, Morgan and Cache counties.

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United Way: Time to give to 'Santa'

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 12:30am

OGDEN -- Parents, here's your chance to show your children how spoiled they are.

Saturday, you can take your kids to the United Way of Northern Utah offices and have them hand toys, clothes or gift cards for those in need over to Santa Claus himself.

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Ogden officer saves life of choking child after Christmas Village visit

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 8:52am

OGDEN — An Ogden police officer saved the life of a 23-month-old girl Saturday.

A family was at Christmas Village, where their daughter took a picture with Santa and got a customary candy cane.

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Crushed car shows only one way many lives are vulnerable

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 11:16pm

The family whose car was crushed by a tree in the recent windstorm reminds me of a 1948 movie, "The Bicycle Thief."

The film is set in economically ravaged Rome after World War II. A man with a small family finally gets his bicycle out of the pawnshop so he can get a job.

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Bookmarks

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 12:32pm

Getting through the hectic holiday season can be especially tough when you're grieving the loss of someone you love. How do get through the busy days ahead with Christmas cheer you may not be feeling?

That question and many more are addressed in a new book compiled by Brigham City native Gloria Horsley and her daughter Heidi Horsley. The book "Open to Hope: Inspirational Stories of Handling the Holidays After Loss" ($12.95) is a companion piece to their other new book "Open to Hope: Inspirational Stories of Healing After Loss" ($14.95).