United Way

OGDEN — The United Way of Northern Utah’s annual Bravo Night to honor distinguished community and corporate leaders and volunteers will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the ATK Conference Center in Ogden Canyon.

OGDEN — United Way of Northern Utah is looking for reading tutors for Top of Utah elementary schools.

OGDEN — The United Way’s turkey drive for Thanksgiving dinners was still 1,000 birds short of its goal Friday afternoon.

OGDEN — Gov. Gary Herbert helped United Way kick off its annual turkey drive Friday afternoon by dropping off a couple of turkeys and some ham to a few community service organizations.

“United Way is such a good organization, especially in Utah,” Herbert said as he toured the local offices and shook hands with employees.

“You have always been very supportive of our charitable organizations,” Robert Hunter, director of United Way of Northern Utah, told Herbert. Herbert said he likes to support private-sector charities that are always willing to give and help others.

OGDEN — The large numbers of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who volunteered for area reading programs last spring got a compliment from Sally Carter this week.

Carter is a co-director of the Volunteer Engagement Center at United Way of Northern Utah.

She said the LDS Church’s efforts to recruit tutors for area volunteer reading programs made a phenomenal difference in the success of the pilot program last spring and stands to make a similar difference as the program goes forward.

“Even though Mitt Romney has regained momentum as the front-runner in the GOP race with wins in Arizona and Michigan, many within the Republican Party are ready to pull the rip cord and find someone else.”

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Mitt may have Utah locked up, but he’s looking dicey elsewhere. There are more questions about President Barack Obama’s birth. It may be time to throw my hat into the ring and save the nation from the loonies.

Or at least introduce a different loon. Whatever.

OGDEN -- Larry Florence has collected and sold honey for over 50 years, but Saturday was his first day to sell it at the place where he once spent his time exercising.