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Morgan Veterans retire dozens of flags with the help of MHS cheerleaders By Verlene Johnson Schools Editor
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organ High School Spirit Squad has been placing flags for holidays such as Independence Day, Memorial Day and Veterans Day, for many years. When the cheerleading coach Sue Kelsey noticed that some of the flags used for this fundraiser were needing to be disposed of, she contacted the Morgan Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) asking how to dispose of the flags. Van Nelson, Commander, VFW Post 6154, told Kelsey that the VFW can take the flags and retire them. He then suggested that Kelsey asks her cheerleaders if they would be interested in participating in the Flag Retirement Ceremony. “When Sue told us about this, we were all really happy to go,” said senior cheerleader Kerigan Ovard. “This was such a great opportunity for us.” Thirty-two cheerleaders, their coach and parents gathered at the church bowery on Cottonwood Road in Mountain Green, Tuesday, Aug.16, with veterans from the VFW Post 6154 and American Legion Post 67 to retire over 50 American flags. With the tattered flags from the cheerleaders and flags collected from around Morgan Valley, by the VFW and American Legion, they prepared to retire over 50 American flags including a Utah State flag. Two weeks prior, the same area was set ablaze by fireworks, so Mountain Green Brush 132 stood by
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Proposed RV resort development moves forward Linda Petersen petersen@mycityjournals.com
Wisconsin man convicted of killing six with an SUV in Christmas parade A Wisconsin man was convicted Wednesday of killing six people when he drove his SUV through a Christmas parade last year, ending a trial in which he defended himself erratically and sometimes confrontationally. The jury found Darrell Brooks guilty of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide. He faces a mandatory life sentence on each count.
Another casualty of Russia's war: Some Ukrainians no longer trust their neighbors The war in Ukraine hasn’t only destroyed lives and buildings. It’s also ripped apart trust in communities that endured Russian occupation. Neighbors now see each other as collaborators with the enemy.
The International Space Station had to move to dodge space junk The International Space Station had to fire its thrusters this week to make sure it avoided space junk in orbit around Earth. The station fired its thrusters for five minutes and five seconds in what NASA called a “Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver” at 8:25 p.m. ET Monday to increase its distance from a piece of what used to be a Russian satellite. NASA says the maneuver increased the ISS’ altitude between 0.2 and 0.8 of a mile. Without the move, the satellite debris would have come within about thee miles of the space station.
Emmanuel the emu does not have the avian flu, but is likely stressed out, owner says A wave of avian flu struck Knuckle Bump Farms, which Emmanuel the emu calls home. Several birds had to be euthanized as a result, which could be causing stress for the TikTok star. Emmanuel became a viral sensation for his behavior interrupting his owner Taylor Blake’s TikTok videos and attacking the phone while Blake was filming.
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he Morgan County Commission has approved a conditional use permit for a proposed redevelopment of Como Springs Resort at 805 E. Como Springs Road, along the Weber River. The developer, Granda Real Estate, wants to increase developed sites on the 30.14acre parcel. Currently the resort offers 13 tent sites, 40 RV sites and two large group sites. Granda plans to increase the RV sites to 72, put in a village of 24 cabins with walking paths, and add a new restaurant/club house and a new bathroom/shower facility, a pavilion and a playground. They also plan to install a cable-suspended and concrete bridge for campers to access single tent sites and the two new group areas, a vehicle bridge and four fishing piers. On Oct. 18 the county commission included several conditions in its approval of the conditional use permit for the development. Primarily, commissioners want a traffic study and a subsequent traffic plan to address the additional impact to local streets. Morgan City officials and several residents in the area have expressed opposition to a plan put forward by the developer to utilize access off 100 South as the resort’s main en-
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THIS MAP SHOWS THE location of the Como Springs Resort in Morgan County.
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trance instead of the traditional entrance on 500 East over a narrow, privately owned bridge that does not meet county standards. Since there has been so much opposition to the resort using 100 South, the developer asked for an exception and asked that they continue to be allowed
use the resort’s current main entrance off Commercial St. Rather than grant that, the commission said the issue warranted some serious study and asked for the traffic study and plan. Those plans will need to provide for access by emergen-
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A recent study of an M dwarf star planet suggests that such stars may actually not be ideally suited for the conditions necessary for organic life, as had been previously thought. M dwarf stars are the most common in the universe. Scientists had theorized that such stars might allow for earth-sized planets to exist in a zone where they could be warmed by the sun, but kept free from atmosphere destroying radiation. New data shows that the areas in which that might be possible are fewer than they had previously suspected, lowering the number of potential life-sustaining planets to a number that is still in the billions, including 1,000 sunlike stars relatively near home.