Low-income

OGDEN — A court decision in Arizona means the U.S. Forest Service may reduce or eliminate recreation fees in some of its forests, but there are no changes yet in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache, which covers most of the Top of Utah.

OGDEN — “Shopping” for groceries at the Catholic Community Services Joyce Hansen Hall Food Bank will be more pleasant for low-income clients after shelving is installed by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Officials recently announced approval from Smith’s Food and Drug Community Affairs to provide the shelving and a promise from members of the LDS Ogden, Utah, stake to provide the labor to install it.

“I told (CCS of Northern Utah Director Marcy Valdez) if there were any costs involved, we would love to pay for that,” said Scott Handy, chairman of the Ogden stake special projects committee. “We will go down and set up the shopping experience.”

OGDEN — More than 150 homeless and working poor area residents are expected to receive free flu shots Wednesday afternoon, thanks to a partnership with Ogden Clinic and the Ogden Rescue Mission.

OGDEN -- On a frosty fall weekday morning, a dozen or so young men could see their breath as they unloaded construction equipment from the Ogden-Weber Tech truck.

They'd spend the next few hours laying bathroom tile, and fastening white baseboard around the kitchen laminate flooring they had installed to replace torn linoleum. A new lighting fixture went up, and a modest, formerly dingy apartment began to take on the glow of a small, but proud, home.

RIVERDALE -- The efforts of members, employees and visitors at America First Credit Unions mean hungry Utahns are less at risk today.

On Thursday, America First donated about 400 turkeys and a similar supply of donated nonperishable food to the Utah Food Bank, which will redistribute the items to the 154 partner agencies it serves.

OGDEN -- Catholic Community Services Director Marcie Valdez was giving a tour of the Joyce Hansen Hall Food Bank and showing her visitors a typical cart of food low-income people get to take home. "I started to cry," she said.