Utah Faces

OGDEN — Gone are the days when surgery for women’s issues involved a long, ugly incision.

OGDEN — Janet Shipton likes to think of herself as her husband’s wife, and not so much her father’s daughter.

CALDWELL, Idaho — Robert Dayley has always valued higher education, so winning the 2011 Idaho Professor of the Year award was especially sweet to him.

NORTH OGDEN — Aspen Field’s dream of becoming a dancer was nearly destroyed when she broke the tibia in her left leg in a fifth-grade gym class.

OGDEN -- When Cassie Cox dropped out of high school in 1992, all she saw were dead ends. Now, 19 years later, she inspires the at-risk students at Two Rivers High School to reach for the stars. She credits her life change to one major thing: education.

Cox remembers well the feeling of hopelessness she felt when she became pregnant at the age of 17.

MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE -- Lee Mitchell's list of hobbies isn't a typical one: hammer throw, railroad handcar racing, power lifting, spike driving and, most important, caber tossing.

Since 2002, Mitchell has fallen in love with the caber toss, which involves throwing a large, wooden pole called a caber. Maybe it's in his blood, as both his father and mother have a Scottish heritage. It has led him to a decade of state caber-toss championship titles. Most recently, he claimed the Washington State caber-toss champion title Aug. 6.

OGDEN -- Every month, Arlene Muller rearranges all of the displays in the Carriage House at the Eccles Community Art Center, 2580 Jefferson Ave.