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Golden Spike Event Center’s HOF Germanfest. Pictured is the Salzburger Echo Alp Horns performance group from last year’s fest.

Germanfest still a 'go' Friday, Saturday

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 6:58am

OGDEN -- Though Winterfest is canceled, the Golden Spike Event Center wants to remind everyone that Germanfest will go on as planned this weekend.

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Participants gather along 25th Street for Winterfest on Saturday in Ogden.

Winterfest lures 12,000 attendees

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 12:39am

OGDEN -- The city's second annual Winterfest proved to be the hottest ticket in town over the weekend, drawing thousands of spectators and flooding downtown restaurants with hordes of hungry customers.

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A participant snowboards down Grant Avenue near 25th Street during the skijoring event at Ogden’s Winterfest on Saturday.

Ogden's 2011 Winterfest adds thousands

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, January 29, 2011 - 8:20pm

OGDEN -- The streets were paved with snow, but for some spectators and participants at Ogden's 2011 Winterfest, it might as well have been gold.

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Kristin Heinichen, Nick Short, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, January 29, 2011 - 6:58pm

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(KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner) Two members of the Ogden City Fire Department push their toboggan filled with children down 25th Street during the Winterfest parade in Ogden on Friday. The free annual event’s activities continue until 10 p.m. today.

City agencies, businesses test homemade toboggans at Ogden Winterfest

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, January 29, 2011 - 12:07am

OGDEN -- Aaron Jackman could not help but smile that his toboggan made it down the hill as fast as it did.

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James Johnson, who is planning to be a contestant in the Ogden Winterfest dog look-alike and costume contest, plays with his pug Pugsley at his home in Ogden.

Does your mug match your pug?

Becky Wright Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 10:11pm

With a mix of graying hair around the muzzle, a slight underbite and dark eyes, James Johnson and his pet pugs look alike -- at least that's what Johnson's son-in-law, Dan Bosworth, thinks.

"He and his dogs look more alike with every passing season," Bosworth said.

Johnson says he and his dogs, Bugsey and Pugsley, aren't mirror images, but he is willing to concede they may share a few traits.

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