Community center meeting Tuesday OGDEN — Advocates of the Marshall White Community Center will host a public meeting at the center, 222 28th ot, at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Members of the Ogden Community Coalition plan to unveil new strategies to battle the city’s plan to cut funding to the center by contracting witn an outside firm, such as a charter school, to operate and maintain the facility in exchange for priority daytime use. - “We recognize that change is inevitable, but we oppose the city’s plan to bring someone else in to manage the center,” said Betty Sawyer, a member of the coalition. “We're looking for citizens from all over Ogden to participate, because we believe it impacts us all.” A political strategy ‘guaranteed to lose Ogden’s mayor handled the Marshall White Center proposal like an amateur t was Bismarck who was credited with the classic understatement regarding politics, observing that it “is not an exact science.” While all politicians know this to be true, most understand that to be successful in political dealings, a politician must at the very least be careful. Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey, for all his energy and ideas and passion, habitually stumbles when it comes to being careful. This is due, near as we can tell, to his chronic impatience: He desperately wants to propel his city forward, so much so that he imprudently abandons caution and consensus. He’s done it again with his proposal to privatize some operations of the Marshall White Center, the central-city community gathering place that serves all residents, but has been especially important to Ogden’s low- to moderate-income population and minority communities. Many of the people who have used the Marshall White Center — some of them since its dedication in 1968 to the memory of its namesake, a slain Ogden police officer — have responded angrily that they were not consulted earlier in the process. Godfrey says his administration has been discussing since January ways to reduce the city’s $600,000 support of the Marshall White Center. Indeed, there have been informal discussions with representatives of charter school companies as far back as early July. But the Marshall White Center’s director, Butch Sawyer, and members of the center’s advisory committee were not informed until last week, on Aug. 19, in a series of meetings with the city’s Public Services Director John Patterson. And those meetings weren't to request input, but to reveal the city attorney was working on final revisions of a request for proposal (RFP) to be sent out in hopes that charter schools, the Ogden School District or some other organization would offer bids to run the center during the day, after which the city would fund existing late-afternoon and evening programs as it’s doing now. If Godfrey and his administration had been trying to antagonize the community served by the Marshall White Center, it could hardly have been more effective. We will leave for another day the question of whether or not privatization of the Marshall White Center is sound public policy. In the meantime, the mayor has a mess of his own making to clean up. He should have been bringing all affected and interested parties aboard for discussions since the proposal was first seriously considered by his management team — months ago. The Ogden resi- dents who utilize the programs and facilities at the Marshall White Center are passionate about it, devoted to it and understandably feel disrespected by their mayor. We wish Godfrey weren’t so self-destructive, and that the people around him would give him better advice. He needs it. ; Genter offered dignity, caring, not profit Our good mayor and his cohorts are figuring out another way to prey on the less-than- affluent citizens of the Ogden area. “Privatizing” — for the uninitiated, that means “profitizing” — the Marshall White Center or closing it to its original chartered and intended use is nothing more than the old practice of having the town cop buy a ticket and Shove the “undesirables” on a bus outta town. If one has access to less than the much touted “median wage” in today’s Ogden, you are “undesirable” irrespective of personal lifelong contributions which built the city in the first place. I know whereof I speak. More than 20 years. ago, as , an Ogden resident, I asked the Ogden chief of police if we could get just a bit more law enforcement presence in our neighborhood. He simply shrugged his shoulders and said “Your neighborhood is deteriorating” and walked away. Didn’t take me long to get the heck outta Dodge. The Marshall White Center, a community facility that was never created for the profit of © man, has served with great purpose. It offered, for decades, dignity and caring for the local neighborhood and those less-than-financially fortunate (plus many other groups). It’s now being slated for destruction relative to its original intent. I ‘agree with Charles Trentelman’s Aug. 24 Wasatch Rambler column (“Torpedo that subsidy! Trying to make government profitable”), ex- cept I would go a step further: The city management positions should be “privatized.” Forcing them all to be both profitable and self-supporting; that would certainly, in short order, eliminate the low- and fixed-income “undesirables” Ss well as drive away thouands of other citizens, all the hile (maybe) putting us on a war with other ultra-right-wing totalitarian Utah communities our leaders seem to wish to emulate. Jim Morkin Uintah Talks stall over Marshall White Center BY JESUS LOPEZ JR. Standard-Examiner staff jlopez@standard.net OGDEN — Despite a proposal to privatize the Marshall White Center and possibly involve the Ogden School District, school officials say they have given the proposal no more than a passing thought. “We have not received a copy of the RFP (request for proposal) or discussed with the city the future of the Marshall White Center,” school district spokeswoman Debbie Hefner said. “There have been no kinds of discussions with the city.” Hefner said Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey has only mentioned the idea to Superintendent Catherine Ortega in passing, and the district has not said whether it will respond to the RFP to be put out by the city within the next few weeks. Since January, Godfrey and his administrators have discussed ways for the center to be self-sufficient. Godfrey said several organizations have shown interest 1n taking over the Marshall White Center, 222 28th St. Godfrey has mentioned letting a school share the facility. He said he talked to a charter school company and Ogden School District. “T think it has only been the mayor that met with them,” Public Services Director John Patterson said. “The mayor has cauged the level of interest of people.” The DaVinci Academy of Science & the Arts looked at using the center for basketball games, but the center did not have enough seating capacity, said DaVinci spokesman Dan Early. “We are not interested in the Marshall White Center at all,” he said. “We are moving into the American Can center. I find it kind of amazing that anyone even wondered that.” There is still the possibility DaVinci could approach Marshall White to use the building for basketball practice, but Early said the school would not try to locate itself at the center. Ogden Weber Community Action Partnership also mentioned an interest in the center, but it would prefer a partnership. OWCAP needs more space to teach the children of central Ogden. “We have a waiting list in central city of 170 to 180 kids,” agency administrator Donald Carpenter said. Carpenter said he is not certain if OWCAP could use Marshall White, with cer- tain criteria expected to be in the request for proposal. Godfrey promised that the request for proposal would stipulate that the center must retain its services to the community, such as pool access and after-school hours for the public. Marshall White Center was established in 1968 to serve the low- to moderate-income sector of the community. The city subsidizes the center with $600,000 a year. Godfrey said he hopes to cut that figure by 66 percent. If the city relinquishes control of the center, some fear employees could lose their jobs. ne Se oe ee _——— ~ ee ——— Marshall White family upset over privatizing talks | BY CATHY MCKITRICK Standard-Examiner staff cmckitrick@standard.net OGDEN — In a meeting Tuesday, Marshall N. White’s ioiDE: No takers for privatized Marshall White Center/2C Declaration of Independence so we would understand how divide and conquer works,” daughter vowed that she and White said. “If you privatize her siblings would sue the this, my brothers and sisters city 1f the mayor and city will sue you because it does administrators privatize the not honor him. A community community center named in center is for the community honor of their father in 1968. — that’s why we pay taxes, to “My father was president serve the community.” of the NAACP for over 30 About 80 people showed up years. He was killed when I to the question-and-answer was 15 and Daphne was 2,” session hosted by Public SerMarcella White said. vices Director John Patterson Marshall White was serv- and Mayor Matthew Godfrey. ing as an Ogden police officer Patterson explained to the when he was gunned down in crowd that the request for the line of duty in 1963. proposals (RFP) would be “My dad had us read the Book of Mormon and the see WHITE/4G From 1C given to the Marshall White Advisory Counci today for their review and input. “We'll release the RFP on Sept. 13 and s¢ licit proposals until Oct. 28,” Patterson said. The city has subsidized the center by abor— $600,000 a year for many years. Godfrey. aims to trim the subsidy.to abot $210,000 but promises to retain Butch Sawye as the center’s director, keep the pool ope and continue current programs for the elder! and also the after-school, weekend and sum mer youth programs, which are run in con junction with the Boys and Girls Club. The advisory council will have a chance f offer input concerning the RFP and also w set to review the proposals that come in. decision on which proposal will be selected expected to be handed down by Nov. 10. Godfrey said the administration had toss around ideas since January on how to ma the center run more efficiently and reduce t city’s subsidy. But the advisory council a center employees did not find out about t city’s plans before Aug, 19. “T have great concern about how this haj pened to us,” said Delores Archuleta, a senic citizen who enjoys using the center with oth« family members. “In a civilized manner, th doesn’t seem right. I have been taught thi due process is allowed for every American.” Archuleta said the Ogden Weber Commu nity Action Agency had shown an interest i using the center during the day. Archuleta and other members of the community present at Tuesday’s meeting sup- ported that option but most rejected the idea of a charter school moving in during daytime hours. “We their want don’t own agenda,” strangers Archuleta in there said. with “Come down during the day and see what a hub of activity it 1s.” Some voiced concern about the elderly and disabled who swim, eat, work on computers, make ceramics and interact socially at the center during the day. They believe a charter school in the building would change all that. “T guess I’m Pollyanna enough to think there will be some way we can join the interests of the seniors and the new charter school activities,” Patterson said. His remark evoked a skeptical response from_Jovce. Tillman-Frye, who chairs the. O : SACO MMM 3]0PUOD Puss Ye BO ‘JeeadS YlgE WOW JSesO]NY OL 18 p00? '€ 4 pjey 9q {|IM 16 vy ‘uoneWwalD JOW syIAee7 SINOWEK PIE JBAIAINS SI BUS ‘WD JO uosuEyed ‘PAlg uo}HulyseM 009} | OWCAP to take over Qaden center Committee wants to wean facility from city funding BY CATHY MCKITRICK Standard-Examiner staff cmckitrick@standard:net OGDEN — The Ogden-Weber Community Action Partnership received the nod Tuesday to take over management and operation of the Marshall White Community Center, which has been largely funded by the city since 1968. The recommendation came from a noon meeting of a 10-member committee set up to review proposals aimed at weaning the center off city funding. The committee consists of representatives from the city administration, the Marshall White Advisory Committee and the City Council. “The committee agreed that OWCAP’s proposal should be pursued,” said Public Services Director John Patterson. “OWCAP put together a solid proposal that will tremendously expand the mission and programs at Marshall White.” Patterson indicated that Mayor Matthew Godfrey supported the committee’s recommendation. “Our next step detailed negotiations Y u Ag Pree) ay,” Godfrey said, referring to the when, where and how the transition will occur. “We’ll make changes as.soon as it’s feasible and makes sense to do SO. 99 OWCAP intends to pursue grants to help fund the center, and also plans to utilize space at Marshall White for Headstart programs. OWCAP also plans to conduct a survey to find out what programs the public would like to see offered at the center. “T’m optimistic at this point,” said Doretha Keeling, who chairs the Marshall White, Advisory Committee. “I can think of a lot worse things that could have happened.” Keeling views the selection of OWCAP as a potential win-win for all involved. “Nothing is perfect but this is a very good start. There’s a chance for real growth and better use of the facility and that’s what we all want,” Keeling said. Members of the review commit- tee spoke highly of Donald Carpenter, agency administrator for OWCAP. “Carpenter gets no additional compensation for taking on this extra work, but he really believes that he and his staff can make a difference, see CENTER/5B Genter i i From 1B and he’s willing to stake his credibility and _ reputation to make the Marshall White Center a full-service facility,’ Patterson said. Several questions remain concerning the transition in management and funding. “There’s. a question about Ownership and what of the building will happen in the long term. Both the council and the administration will have to address it to find a resolution,” said Councilman Kent Jorgenson, who served on the review committee along with council members Brandon Stephenson and Amy Wicks. Earlier this fall, the administration proposed cutting four of six staff positions at the Marshall White Center to reduce the city’s funding. In their proposal, OWCAP promised to retain all staff through July 2006 and stipulated that any cityplanned layoffs would have to occur before OWCAP takes over. While Patterson declined comment about any pending layoffs, he said the city would do what it could when the time comes. Patterson Said that employees who are laid off will be considered for other jobs with the city. “We'll do all we can to work through the normal attrition process and place employees elsewhere,” Patterson said. tour S f center today Women's mf aces Beier City Council over Marshall White Center BY CATHY MCKITRICK Standard-Examiner staff mckitrick@standard.net OGDEN — The Weber affiliate of he Women’s Legislative Council, an orranization representing about 400 local omen, took a public stand Tuesday in upport of keeping the Marshall White Center as a publicly funded community center. Dr. Norma Hansen presented the resolution to the Ogden City Council Tuesday, explaining that the Women’s Legislative Council felt very strongly about the issue. Their resolution spoke of the diverse population served by the center, the health benefits afforded by daytime aerobic swim classes, the after-school programs provided for disadvantaged youth, its role in reviving the sport of boxing, its use as a central location for cultures to come together in celebration and also its dedication to the memory of one of Ogden’s heroes. At 10 am. today, city officials will host a site tour of the Marshall White Center, which is mandatory for all en ties planning to respond to the admin tration’s recent request for proposals. Mayor Matthew Godfrey hopes trim the city’s funding to the ce from $600,000 to $260,000 a year partnering with an outside entity, a charter school, which would have ority use of the facility between 7 and 3:30 p.m. in exchange for mai ing the center and overseeing c contracts. The RFP stipulates that the Bo Girls Club after-school and su programs must be retained, whil¢ center programs could be change Programs subject to change the Happy Hours Senior Progr See CEN FS # bi & ~, Pincitsntisnhninndidbeeaet Center Frqm 1C Teen Thing after-school, weekend drop-in and summer programs, aquatic programs and the USA/ American Boxing Federation programs. Joyce Tillman-Frye, chairwoman of the Ogden Community Coalition, also spoke to the City Council Tuesday in behalf of the diverse community served by the Marshall White Center. “We do not want this,” Frye said, in reference to the mayor’s plan. “We weren’t involved in the nine to 12 months of prior deliberation, which indicates a lack of respect and inclusion. It borders on discrimination.” Frye pointed out that the MarShall White Center has the only man- agement team employed by the city that consists of an African-American, a Latino and a female. “This is our haven of hope, our place of refuge. Everyone can come to the Marshall White Center and not feel ‘less’ because of their race, income or disability,” Frye said. Godfrey sought to clarify details of his plan at Tuesday’s meeting. “We’re trying to administer the Same services in a different way,” Godfrey said. Godfrey also said he would wel- come any suggestions or alternate plans and explained that the RFP was simply a way to seek input. “With more information, we can make better decisions, and that’s our goal,” Godfrey said. Councilman Fasi Filiaga suggested combining the center’s elderly programs with similar efforts offered by the Golden Hours Senior Center. Councilman Jesse Garcia said that four generations of his family have utilized the Marshall White Center. “We need to keep it as close to what it is as we can. That’s what tax dollars are for. I have a problem with replacing programs at the center with similar alternatives offered at other locations,” Garcia said. All proposals are due in to the city by Oct. 28. Garcia voiced a strong desire to serve on the committee that will review those proposals. ———— eae. Ve SA Salt Lay Lave ery WIE City, Utah — Saturday pons wind pide) ~ October 19, 1963 rae 21 Ais “-“Gunfire F ata For Ogden : Detective, 54. | Sehool Escapee Waiting Court Hearing Monday Special to The Tribune OGDEN—An Ogden detective shot Tuesday night while investigating a house prowl died of a rifle wound at Thomas D. Dee Memorial ne Friday at 7:45 p.m. DETECTIVE SGT. MARSHALL N. (Doc) White, D4, a vet- ‘eran of 18 years’ service with the Ogden Police, force, had ‘been in critical condition since the shooting. When taken from the home of Joseph Black, 11 Quincy . _Ave., he was. bleeding profusely from an abdominal wound eat ‘inflicted by a .32 caliber’ special carbine. jc eeerere = BEING ‘Michael HELD Patrick IN CONNECTION Jones, 16, 5749 jcapee from a Utah State In-, dustrial School only a block|} from the scene of the shooting. Judge E, F. Ziegler, . First District ‘Juvenile Court; has ' set Monday, Golden with tis shootiiid is Dr., quay, éan ies at 10'a.m., for the -youth’s hearing. P WEBER COUNTY “Attothey Max D. Lamph said he will consult with juvenile court officials Monday on -whether criminal «charges will be directed against ' Jones, in which case. he will be ‘bound over to the district court. ben. _ — (Black wife. { THE home by the SHOOTING owner’s occurred at 11:15 a.m.; only 45 minutes ‘after Jones escaped iy institution, from the SINCE THE shooting, repercussions have followed from local and state levels regarding jescapees from the state school. _ At a meeting Thursday ¥ . afternoon, Claud’ Pratt, super-| Marshall N. White ... Shot ‘intendent of State Industrial _while ‘searching for youth. School, told of obsolete ar owded conditions. and|™ THE SCHOOL’ WAS built “ideally to hold 250 inmates,” he said, but now holds 350, despite . the fact that some of the buildings are obsolete, OGDEN MAYOR Merle FE. Allen, at an informal session earlier Thursday, said escapees by the more hardened inmates “create a serious risk to the community.” jam added. oO “ESCAPEES c'eate an ever increasing demand for police work and there is no control over this demand,” Chief Need- fer [ed HE SUGGESTED that a study |: be made of the methods of|: handling the older and more hardened inmates at the school. Ogden Police Chief Harry H. Needham said his department received 114 runaway complaints this year, with each complaint averaging about eight hours of police time, t ON TUESDAY Jones and an- : other youth escaped from al|' tomato-picking detail at the School. They were part of a su- ' ‘pervised group. After getting call’ from neighbors, two Ogden officers in- |. vestigated at the Black resi,dence and found it apparently empty although a basement win- Dine a _ APPOINTED TO defend Jones is Calvin Gould, Ogden t+attorney. Sgt. White and four other officers had been calied to the ' | dow pane had been broken. : LATER MRS. Black returned home and upon entering the house smelled cigarette smoke. She then phoned police from a ici s house. passport, and isnt above stealing one. A brazen Kea parrot, which spotted a Scoitish man’s passport in the luggage compartment under a tour bus, nabbed the document and made off into dense bush with it. The bird made its move while the bus was stopped along the highway to Milford Sound on South Island, and the driver was looking through the compartment. Milford Sound, which runs inland from the Tasman Sea and Is surrounded by sheer rock face, is part of Fiordland National Park, a world heritage site and major travel destination. Police said the passport has not been recovered and is unlikely to be located in the vast Fiordland rain forest. “My passport is somewhere out there in Fiordland. The (parrot) is probably using it for fraudulent claims or something,’ the passport owner, who did not want to be named, said. A replacement passport from the British High Commission in Wellington could take six weeks and cost up to $250. Cock-a-doodle-NO-O-O! ‘SSRs Godfrey: Agreement ‘positive and exciting for the community’ By SCOTT SCHWEBKE Standard-Examiner staff sschwebke @standard.net OGDEN — The Ogden-Weber Community Action Partnership signed an agreement Friday with the city’s administration to begin managing the Marshall White Community Center on July 1. However, the contract won’t become effective until Mayor Matthew Godfrey signs it next week, said John Patterson, the city’s chief administrative officer. Godfrey said he plans to review it and hopes to sign it Monday. “T think this will be very positive and exciting for the community,” he said. “OWCAP will provide more services and resources as well.” The agreement won’t affect any existing services at the center, will keep its indoor pool operating for at least six months, and should enable OWCAP to assume all financial responsibility for the facility early next year, Patterson said. OWCAP’s approval of the agreement ABuO tt C — The Associated Press ing out Weber parties on to celebrate the public smoking ban that starts Monday. 1B SPORTS Speed demons See CENTER Dean, Rose lead WSU at NCAA track regionals 1C COMING SUNDAY graces GROSEMAN Stanian eyatiner Above, Gay Stenquist, of Kaysville, feeds food scraps to her chickens in her backyard on Thursday. The Stenquists have had chickens for about 10 years, she says. Below, eggs from her hens. Davis County’s latest plan is more than a walk in the park. Roosters are fowlus non grata, —e By LORETTA PARK Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau lpark@standard.net May 30, 2009 Vol. 122, No. 150 Obituaries Religion Comics Dear Abby Editorials Sports Theaters To subscribe: (801) 625-4400 For news: (801) 625-4224 To advertise: (801) 625-4345 ws & RECYCLE Printed on recycled paper @ I 773"00001 & AYSVILLE — With a cluck, cluck here and a cluck, cluck there, the Stenquists’ chickens don’t go much of anywhere. Instead, they are good neighbors and stay in their coop and own backyard, said John Thacker, Kaysville city manager. He is a next door neighbor to Paul and Gay Stenquist, who have owned chickens for 10 years. “T didn’t even know they had chickens for quite awhile,” Thacker said. The Stenquists have raised chickens in their backyard, in the middle of Kaysville, for the past 10 years. “They’re better than kids,” said Gay Stenquist as she tossed pieces of waffles at the seven hens in the coop. “When it’s dusk, they’ll go right back into their coop.” She likes that the insects in her garden and lawn are almost nonexistent because the chickens snack on them when she lets them out of their coop. Kaysville is among a number of cities along the Wasatch Front that allow residents to have chickens, depending on the size of the lot and what the residence | Page 2A Ethridge attorneys seek to push death penalty off table By TIM GURRISTER Standard-Examiner staff tgurrister@standard.net but many Top of Utah cities think chickens are just ducky Partly cloudy/5A Business 8A Classifieds 1-12D OWCAP to take over the Marshall White Center is zoned. The Clearfield city council recently decided not to pass an ordinance to allow residents to raise chickens. Officials who voted down the measure said it would be taking a step backwards in improvements being made in the city. The Provo city council did the opposite recently. They passed an ordinance to allow residents See CHICKENS | Page 4A OGDEN — The Utah Supreme Court is considering a pretrial appeal from Jacob Ethridge’ s defense team that would determine if he is eligible for the death penalty. Ethridge is charged in the fatal shooting of two women in downtown Ogden last July 13. With the presumption of innocence long gone, his public defenders now Ethridge argue in numerous court documents that the killings amount to two separate incidents. The defense team calls a state law “unconstitutionally vague” that makes such a multiple killing an aggravating circumstance that upgrades the charges against Ethridge to aggravated murder. Second District Judge W. 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Davis office ...... 801-625-4200 801-629-5220 Editorial Page Editor . 801-625-4234 Production Director. . 801-625-4568 Business Manager . . 801-625-4504 Publisher........ 801-625-4501 1A comes amid complaints from several residents and members of the Ogden Chapter of the NAACP who fear the center’s recreation mission may change if the city relinquishes control. Julie Aldrich, of Liberty, who teaches senior water aerobics at the center pool, said she worries about OWCAP’s running the facility. “Keeping the pool open and keeping the center open to the community is my main concern,” she said. OWCAP already operates four Head Start classrooms in the basement of the center, at 222 28th St. George Garwood Jr., chairman of OWCAP’s board of directors, said the organization would like to expand the center to add six more Head Start classrooms as well as several new programs. “It’s important that those ... hew programs draw people into the community and the center,” he said. City Council Chairwoman Amy Wicks said in a Friday e-mail to the StandardExaminer that she hadn’t received a copy of the management agreement from the administration. “The Ogden City Council is still waiting for the contract,” she said. “We have been left out of all discussions and negotiations regarding turning this Ogden city taxpayer-owned facility over to a nonprofit organization and so have other important stakeholders in our community. “IT am open to looking ast doll and the changing of the shoes in which the father or other male figure changes the girl’s flat shoes to high heels. Other traditions don’t allow a young woman to date, attend parties, wear makeup or high heels until after her quinceafiera. Until the 1990s, quinceafiera celebrations were rarely seen in Utah. The tradition, however, goes back centuries, maybe even to the time of the Aztecs. “We would really like to invite the public to come out and support this special event,” said Javier Chavez, owner of Javier’s Restaurants. “Come and see what it’s all about. It’s very special for the His- panic community and also for the people who support it. We will also be having some special deals for our customers.” Thorpe said several things are planned throughout the day, including 16 vendors showing-off the latestin, cakes, invitas. tions, dresses, catering anid Crowns. La Grande, a local radio station will be onsite with a live remote from noon to 2 p.m. An informal fashion show will be held at 12:30 p.m. and a Mariachi band featuring Los Hermanos Zavala and the Tutulli Ballet Folklorico will entertain from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. “The event is all free to the public, unless you eat at the restaurant,” Thorpe said. “This is really a big deal and we invite everyone to attend.” at options to help the Marshall White Center, but it needs to be done in a manner which involves all who have a stake in the center. That includes the Boys and Girls Club, Community Aging Services, Weber Human Services, facility users, neighbors and the City Council,” Wicks said. “I am very disappointed that this never occurred before the mayor decided to negotiate a contract with OWCAP.” Godfrey’s initial fiscal 2010 budget proposal to the council called for no funding for the center in anticipation of its operations being completely financed by OWCAP. Negotiations with OWCAP have evolved to allow the city to fund the center for half a year. However, at the request of the city council and administration, John Arrington, the city’s finance manager, has identi- plications for eight state and federal grants totaling about $3.8 million to expand Head Start services for children ages 3 to 5 and to add several new youth programs at the center. The new programs would focus on juvenile delinquency prevention, homelessness outreach, employment assistance, substance abuse treatment, gang prevention, community training to prevent child sexual exploitation, and economic recovery issues. If OWCAP is unable to obtain enough grant funds to begin leasing by the end of the year, it would continue managing the facility until June 30, 2010, at which time a new agreement with the city would have to be reached, Patterson said. The city council cannot prevent the administration’s contract with OWCAP from going forward, but is responsible for determining fied about $168,000 within how much money to allocate the center in the municipalthe proposed 2010 budget ity’s fiscal 2010 budget, said — by reducing insurance for Ogden Christmas Vil- Bill Cook, the council’s executive director. lage and chip sealing and “The ideal situation road projects — that could would have the council inbe used by OWCAP to help volved (in negotiations with fund the center. OWCAP) all along so that The current management they don’t have to grasp at agreement with OWCAP ways to make appropriacalls for the city to reimtions in the budget,” he said. burse the organization up The council is slated to to $30,000 a month for opadopt a tentative budget erational expenses and emTuesday and a final budget ployee salaries associated with running the center, Pat- June 16. Before adopting a final terson said. budget, the council plans The agreement is expected to run through the end of to hold a work session with 2009 with the hope by that Patterson and OWCAP adtime OWCAP will have ac- ministrator Donald Carpenter to discuss the managequired sufficient grant funds ment agreement. to lease the center from the “The council wants to uncity for $100,000 a year and pay for all operations on its derstand what the contract means for services (at the own, said Patterson. OWCAP is preparing ap- center), Cook said. ates speech delivered his harshest words to date to North Korea since Pyongyang detonated an underground nuclear device Monday, followed by several short-range missile launches over the last few days. “The choice to continue as a destitute, international pariah, or chart a new course, is North Korea’s alone to make,’ Gates said. “The world is waiting.” The Pentagon chief focused most of his comments on U.S. priorities like high-seas piracy and the war in Afghanistan. Despite his warning, he appeared to take.care in the half-hour speech to avoid ratcheting up the rhetoric in the weeklong war of words between North Korea and nations alarmed by its shovwof weaponry. The U.N. Security Council is considering tough sanctiens te punish North Korea for its nuclear test. In turn, North Korean leaders said they would respond in “self-defense” to the as-of-yet unspecified sanctions but did not say how. Terrorist indicted in plane bombing flees NEW YORK — A master bomb maker who once targeted commercial airliners and was suspected of aiding the Iraq insurgency has fled to Lebanon, an FBI official has confirmed. There is information that 73-year-old Abu Ibrahim was reportedly in Tripoli, a city in northwest Lebanon, the official said earlier this week. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation continues. The Palestinian terrorist is accused of bombings in the 1980s. He was indicted in the 1982 bombing of Pan Am Flight 830. The explosion killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded more than a dozen passengers as the plane headed to Honolulu from Tokyo. The FBI has been looking to catch Ibrahim for decades and has recently increased its efforts to arrest him. Phil Spector gets 19 years to life in prison LOS ANGELES — Phil Spector was sentenced Friday to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, who was shot through the mouth in the music producer's home six years ago. Spector, 69, looked straight forward and showed no emotion as Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler ordered a term of 15 years to life for second-degree murder plus four years for per sonal use of a gun. Clarkson's mother, Donna, made a brief statement before sentencing, speaking of her daughter's fine qualities, sense of humor, intelligence and dedication to her craft of acting. “?m very proud of Lana, proud to be her mother,’ Donna Clarkson said. She added, “No one should suffer the loss of a child” The judge also ordered Spector to pay $16,811 in funeral expenses, $9,740 to a state victims’ restitution fund and other fees. — The Associated Press . ine 0 ~~ *~ . a a eee, Se = ees ec ee secseare: i eee talAt Gres Ree = 2. ee YOR wre5 — ee. ay, ae . ae, ~ | = Orr ween ee ~ wor be! . “25 YEARSOF “WORKING TOGETHER TO BUILD A BETTER TOMORROW" ~ ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE MARSHALL WHITE CENTER You are cordially invited to the 25th anniversary celebration of the Marshall White Center on October 15-] 6, 1993, honoring those whose dreams, labor and sacrifice brought it into being and those who are still “working together to build o better tomorrow.” EVENTS Friday, October 15: 5:00-10:00 p.m. $7 Per Person for the Evening, The Reverend France Davis, Keynote Speaker © Exhibit/Tour with Refreshments © Commemorative Ceremony © Dinner and Dance Saturday, October 16; 8:30 4.m.- 10:00 p.m. © 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament Check-in: 8:30 4.m.-9:30 sm. Games Begin: 9:30 4.u.-4:00 p.m. $7 Per Person Registration Fee Pool Party 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Free—Children Under 6 Must be With o Person 16 or Older WSU Football Game & Tailgate Party Meet at Marshall White Center for Ride 5:00 p.m.-10:00 Pm. 17 & Under—Free 18 & Over—'/ price Admission For more information call 801-629-8346; Marshall White Center, 222 28th Street Black» History month celebrated Lunch, panel discussion to be held Tuesday BY JESUS LOPEZ JR Standard-Examiner staff jlopez@standard.net OGDEN — The Marshall White Community Center and Ogden-Weber Commu- nity Action Partnership Inc. will have a panel discussion to talk about the Brown vs. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision. On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court desegregated public schools with the land- mark case. “It just goes back to the taking down of the bonds of Segregation,” Marshall White Center Director Butch Saw- yer said. Panelists will discuss the effects of the decision 50 years later as part of a Black History Month celebration at the center, 22 28th St., at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. “Things are still somewhat segregated in Sawyer said. some senses,” The panel is made Weber State United; Keith University up of stu- dents Carlton Munn and Willa Kemp from Black Scholars Wilder from WSU’s Leadership and Diversity Center; and moderator Donald R. Carpenter, OWCAP agency administrator and Head Start director. OWCAP Development Spe- Cialist Cheryl Gustafson said some of the planned topics for discussion are local regional and national impacts of Brown vs. Board of Educa- tion, today’s educational needs and education as a gateway to self-sufficiency. In addition to the panel discussion, organizers wil] present Standing an award for Out- African-American Senior Citizen to Cleo Myles and Outstanding AfricanAmerican Youth to Sharae Hill and Matthew Smauldon. “All of them are worthy candidates that deserve to receive them,” Sawyer said. See PANEL/2B ys Earl Xaiz and Ed Brass, have so not joined in the defense motions filed any of t q own. Pax el From 1B OWCAP Social Enterprise For more information will cater a traditional soul food menu of fried chicken, baked sweet potatoes, blackeyed peas, collard greens and peach cobbler at a cost of $4.50 a person. 629-8346. call ‘SEARCH Our Obituary Archive _wwwstandard.net ping ime blues and istling a happy tune. ,000 cash at Fort Hall bn Saturday, April 17. Get P entry to win when you for the Tax Time Blues ny at the Buffalo Club booth. ditional entries when you t Hall Casino’s 700 gaming es using your Buffalo Club ne more you play, the more you earn, and the more 5 you have to win! Ten entries picked daily and entered into ng barrel. Only those names barrel will be eligible to win. night on Saturday, April 17 try will be drawn from the ‘o win $50,000 cash! You must ALAN MURRAY/ Standard-Examiner Roberto Harris voices his concerns to Ogden Mayor Matthe w Godfrey Tuesday night that the community has not been involved enough in the city’s plans for the Marshal l White Center. Residents demand For more coverage S Pu LZ Marshall White say scien should Ogden privatize Grill mayor over privatization plans BY JESUS LOPEZ JR Standard-Examiner staff jlopez@standard.net vote, log on at Standard.NET. do not want to lose the services the center offers to inner-city Ogden. “We don’t need to continue to have someone come in and tell us what is best for our community OGDEN — Residents expressed a desire to be included in the fate of the Marshall N. White Center during proposal for the center. ter. Many looking at ways a Tuesday night meeting at the cen- came with fears that the beloved 35-year-old community center would close its doors and its staff would be put out on the street. A diverse group of Ogdenites met in the center’s gymnasium and rapid- ly fired questions at Mayor Matthew Godfrey, telling the mayor that they without so- liciting our input like we did today,” Marshall White Center Chairwoman Doretha Keeling said. The community gathered at the Marshall White Center to discuss the city’s plan to send out a request for Godfrey said he and his Staff are to have another or- ganization take over funding of the center. about The city currently $600,000 for the center a year in subsidies but hopes that figure by 66 percent. Some provides to reduce of the possibilities include making a deal with the Ogden School —_— District, a charter school or Ogden Weber Community Action Partner- ship Head Start program. The organization would have use of the facil- ity during the day, when use of the center is lowest, but would open to the public when school lets out. However, full-time positions such as the assistant director, administrative assistant, maintenance person and programmer would not be funded by the city. Godfrey said the jobs would be either picked up by the hew organization or the employees could be absorbed into the city. Godfrey promised that the re- quest for proposal would stipulate that the center must retain its ser- vices to the community, as well as See WHITE/4A ‘ White From 1A paying for much-needed changes to the center, such as outdoor bathrooms and an extension, which would not be covered in the city budget for at least {two more years. Many of the residents were skeptical that the center would stay the same. Ogden resident Winston White, son of the center's namesake, said no matter of the residents felt a de sion has already been mac but he wanted to stress t the future of the Marsh White Center has not be decided and that the city include the Marshall Wh Center Advisory Committ in preparing the request f proposal. Ginger Paxman, executi\ director of Boys and Gir Club of Weber/Davis, said tk meeting helped explain mo} of what was happening to t center. “’m just hopingto be part of the process,’ Paxm 6A Sunday, October 3, fos WE. Seadlaccl a a SERVING THE TOP OF UTAH SINCE 1888 Scott Trundle, Publisher | Don Porter, Editorial Page Editor | Ron Thornburg, Editor, News & Circulation . | Andy Howell, Managing Editor ___viEw § Marshall White Center mission must continue Whatever happens with Ogden facility, its constituency must be served en the Marshall would take over operations will have to maintain most dedicated more existing programs. However, ' than a generafor several promised protion ago, its mission was to grams, the RFP also includes serve members of the comthe words “alternatives that munity who live in the heart provide the same level of serof Ogden’s downtown. Today it vice will be considered.” This still meets that goal. Whether ambiguous language drives _ It’s meals for seniors, boxing fears in the community. These classes for youth, swimming, fears have already led to comdance and karate lessons, munity vigils and threats of a after-school and weekend prolawsuit if the center is run by grams for students, daytime an outside entity. activities for the mentally If the change in managehandicapped, a place to exerment does occur, we hope © cise, play games, swim a few the entity taking over will be laps or go down a water slide, able to make much-needed the center offers it. improvements to the cenWe also believe the center and attract more Ogden ter and its staff have helped residents. The truth is most many at-risk kids to lead sucOgden residents paying taxes cessful lives by providing a for the center are not using it. safe, healthy place to be. If, _ According to the RFP, a daily through involvement of an average of only nine seniors outside entity, the Marshall attend the seniors program at White Center should lose this the center, which offers social ability to adequately serve and exercise programs, free the community, it would be a health checks, transportation tragedy not just for any staff and an inexpensive lunch. members who may lose their Also, with a change in manjobs, but also for Ogden itself, agement, we wonder if the which has relied on the center outside entity could accomfor almost 36 years. plish what it wants and still White Center was Although we have criticized ~ the abrupt manner in which Ogden announced its interest in privatizing many services at the center, we understand the fiscal predicament driving _ this decision and the Godfrey administration’s responsibility to Ogden taxpayers. The city’s cost of running the center is around $600,000. The city has a low tax base to draw from — about 21,000 households. Mayor Godfrey has promised the city will still pay $210,000 a year to the center. The private entity would presumably pay the rest. According to the city’s recently issued request for proposal, the organization that benefit. The center has existed on the public dole. As a result, costs to clients remain very low. The RFP states that only the Ogden City Council can approve fee increases. What will happen, if a year or two later, the entity tells the council it must have fee increases or else? A final word on the importance of the Marshall White Center to Ogden: The center’s neighborhood regards it as . part of its community. If an outside entity is involved, the center’s mission must remain an integral part of the neighborhood. Anything less would fail those who rely on it. Marshal But staff reductions likely as city tries to reduce expenses BY CATHY MCKITRICK Standard-Examiner staff cmckitrick@standard.net OGDEN — The fate of the Marshall White Center still hangs in the balance, although day-to-day operations continue as usual. So far, nothing has been decided about whether the city will partner running the community center. If OWCAP does take over the center’s operations, Donald Carpenter, Head Start director and OWCAP ad- ministrator, wants to be clear on one item in particular. “Whatever the city is going to do in terms of reduction of staff at the center, they need to do before we come onboard. I’m not taking the heat on that,” Carpenter said. Under OWCAP’s proposal, all current staff at the center would be retained at least through June 2006. The city hopes to cut funding for four of the center’s six current employees as soon as possible. ~ In August, Mayor Matthew Godfrey revealed the administration’s plans to reduce city funding to the inner city recreation center by contracting with an outside entity to take over maintenance and operations in exchange for daytime use. Since the center’s dedication in 1968, the city’s general fund has sup- ported it with about $600,000 a yeaf. Godfrey hopes to cut that amount by about 60 percent. Once made public, Godfrey’s plan was met with widespread opposition from the community served by the center, most of whom cannot afford to go elsewhere for similar services. But the administration’s stance has been that there are no sacred cows, and budget cuts need to occur across the board. “The challenge is to find how it would be possible for us to share personnel resources and overhead,” Godfrey said. “It’s about maximizing personnel at the center to do the OWCAP mission and fulfill the center’s mission as well.” OWCAP was one of two nonprofits to respond to the city’s request for See WHITE/5B a ang White | mittee. a4 ‘i AD/ From 1B. IV f 4 y (/ é s . i ) proposals, afd is regarded as the more serious contender. Both respondents considered the city’s RFP unfeasible. “We made it very clear what we are willing to do,” Carpenter said. “We’d do The Mar- whatever we could to bring in funding sources, but I can’t legally take Headstart money or community service block srant funds to defray city costs.” Carpenter sees OWCAP’s work as compatible with that of the center. “We have a moral obligation to poor people. That’s what our agency is all about — people who are disenfranchised. shall White Center is in the Carpenter hopes to write an expansion grant for more federal funding for Head- using the Marshall White Center as an.integral part of that request. OWCAP currently operates with a $5.3 million grant for Headstart, a $265,000 com- munity service block grant, and several smaller sources of funding. The agency also recently received a $1.3 million grant to build handicapped housing behind OWCAP’s facility at | 3159 Grant Ave. Although successful in ob- “There will come a time where we'll have to decide which is most important — ’ revenue or services. I’m hoping we can find some middle ground.” While the Marshall White Advisory Committee publicly opposed the mayor’s plan to privatize the center, it supports OWCAP’s proposal, believing the two entities serve the same community and same boat,” Carpenter said. start, of the review com- taining grants, Carpenter said the competition is fierce and there are no guarantees. A review committee made up of three members of the administration,. three members of the city council and three members of the Marshall White Advisory Committee will meet some time in the next two weeks to arrive at a recommendation for Godfrey, who will make the final decision. “At this point, the objective is to see if we can reduce some costs, but we’re sensitive as a council to the input we’ve received to retain services at the center,” said Councilman Kent Jorgenson, share the same mission. “T think it’s in the best interest of the children and the senior citizens that we work this out so they have a community center they can depend on,” said Pam Molen, a member of the Advisory Committee. “Getting kids on the right track, kids going on to college — you can’t put a dollar figure on it, but it’s so much more valuable than the figures the mayor’s looking at.” — ahs os ‘Sa| a ; . ae 3 1s bebe + Gpdis aa: SO ent 4 ae Seen Cie BS i sate Z 3 as ‘ : A t BE Seas idee ae ; to mayor's plan for Marshall White Center Standard-Examiner staff cmckitrick@standard.net OGDEN — About 60 members of the community served by the Marshalt White Center met Tuesday to fortify opposition to the mayor’s plan to cut funding by contracting with an outside entity to manage the center in exchange for priority daytime use. Mayor Matthew Godfrey first unveiled his plan in late August to center employees, the center’s advisory coun- cil, members of the City Council and the public, although his administrative staff began discussing it in January. Joyce Frye, chairwoman of the Ogden Community Coalition, unveiled several ways people could show support of the center in the next few weeks. Frye asked for a strong showing at the 5S p.m. City Council meeting on Oct. 12, and also designated Oct. 18 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. as “Monday Madness,” a day to deluge City Hall with phone calls opposing the mayor’s plan. “Coalition From 1C Deadline for submitting proposals to the city is Oct. 28. “I saw the RFP It was very poorly constructed, and requirements were not Clearly spelled out,” said Bob Fehrmann, a Pleasant View resident whose wife utilizes the senior aerobics program every week. Frye agreed. “We feel there was not adequate selection criteria in the RFP and several parts of it don’t appear to be legally binding. We also feel that some firms received preferential treatment,” Frye said, re- en : Ogden coalition coordinates resistance BY CATHY MCKITRICK Sece ag osition strategy A noon meeting on Oct. 20 is also planned at the center for all members of the community who utilize the facility and believe in its current mission. Center supporters also have a new slogan: “Save the Marshall White Center, changing communities one life at a time.” “The community center was built to serve the people, not to generate revenue for the city of Ogden,” Frye said. i Located in the heart of the inner city, the center has served Ogden’s low-income population, young and old alike, for almost 36 years. Godfrey hopes to trim the city’s financial support of the center from costs with a charter school or similar entity, which would have priority daytime use in exchange for maintaining and operating the facility. But center advocates fear that current users will be shut out if Godfrey’s plan is implemented. Some questioned the validity of the request for proposals, which the city sent out in the third week of September. | 7 F The RFP requires that some of the center’s current’ programs remain intact, while others might change as far as scheduled time or location, and could also be replaced by a “similar alternative.” See COALITION/14C $600,000 a year to $260,000, by sharing ferring to a private tour given a week after the “mandatory site tour” set forth in the RFP “We'll litigate if necessary, but at this juncture, we prefer to negotiate, Frye ” said. “Once you start litigation, the whole ball game changes.” A few weeks ago, members of the Marshall White Advisory Council were given a chance. to respond to the RFP and submit their plan to make the center more profitable. On Oct. 14, the center’s advisory council will meet to finalize a letter in response to the city’s RFP. “We are qualified to put together a plan but need more time. We’re a volunteer board. The mayor spent nine months on this, and I think we should have the same courtesy,” said Doretha Keeling, who chairs the advisory council. _ Ogden resident Cliff Benoit questioned Godfrey’s mo- tives. “He’s -mind had from something the in beginning,” Benoit said. “He’s got his group that already knows where they’re going with this.” | John Terrill, president of Telemundo, the Spanish language television station that serves most of Utah, attended Tuesday’s meeting and promised help to get the word out. “We're here, we support you, and we'll put this on our Station,” Terrill said. If negotiations with the city prove unsuccessful, Frye said legal representation is waiting in the wings. Center From COLIN BRALEY/Standard-Examiner Joyce Tillman Frye, co-chairwoman for the Community Leaders Coalition, leads a rally at the front entrance of the Marshall N. White : Community Center, 222 28th St., Wednesday. About 40 people asked questions and voiced their opinions on how to fight the mayor’s plans for the Ogden facility. Many oppose Marshall W1 nite Center plan Only mild interest shown in mayor’s vision for the project BY CATHY MCKITRICK Standard-Examiner staff cmckitrick@standard.net OGDEN — A handful of people participated in Wednesday’s mandatory site visit at the Marshall White Community Center, showing mild interest in Mayor Matthew Godfrey’s plan to contract with an outside entity to take over the center’s operations. Meanwhile, about 100 members of the community served by the 35-yearold center formed a human chain outside and sang “We Shall Overcome” in a show of unified opposition to the plan. “The center has been in my life for 27 years,” said Tricia Broadnax, of South Ogden. “I grew up here and can’t imagine what I would have done before or after school without it.” Broadnax and others fear the center’s focus will change if a new firm takes over, and the community currently served will no longer feel welcome there. The request for proposals was mailed out to a half-dozen interested parties last week, outlining programs at the center that need to be preserved, those that could be changed, and several current contracts that the new firm would oversee. ; Godfrey hopes to reduce city funding to the center from $600,000 to $260,000 a year by giving the new firm priority use of the building between the hours of 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. in exchange for maintaining and operating the facility. Representatives of Youth the Children’s Discovery Impact, Learning Center, and the Ogden Area Community Action Partnership toured the facility Wednesday. Senior citizens participating in aerobics sang “You Are My Sunshine” to the group as they came through the pool area, changing the final line of the song to “Please don’t take our center away.” Monty Hardy, of the Children’s Discovery Learning Center, asked several questions during the site tour and said he needed time to “do the numbers.” “This will take an organization with a lot of capital,” Hardy said. Public Service Director John Patterson told the group that another see CENTER/7B 1B walk-through would probably take place next week for Academica West and perhaps some other firms. He said they were misinformed about Wednesday’s site tour. In a phone interview Wednesday, Jed Stevenson, vice president of Academica West, said he had been out of town until Monday night and had little chance to look at the RFP in depth. Academica West, based in Layton, is a for-profit company that manages charter schools, including the Ogden Preparatory Academy. Stevenson said he toured the center about six months ago and had been aware of floor plans, building size and other details for quite some time. “The building would work for us, but it’s too. early to make a definitive statement on our level of interest,” Stevenson said. “I’m not sure it will work for us within the current time frame.” The mayor and city admin- istrators began discussing Jorgenson, Brandon Stephenoptions for the center in Janson and Amy Wicks. uary, part of their continuing Garcia found the actions effort to streamline all city of his fellow council memdepartments and facilities. bers “disheartening.” However, the City CounIn an e-mail to Chairman cil first heard of the plan in Rick Safsten, Garcia wrote: August. “I feel I was not selected to Since then, they requested the committee because of my a voice on the committee that strong belief in serving the will review the proposals and people and not the adminismake recommendations for tration’s every whim.” selection of the final candiBut Safsten said a decision date. had to be made quickly and At this week’s council that Garcia was not present. meeting, Councilman Jesse “The other three got the Garcia expressed a strong most votes, Jesse got the desire to participate in that least,” Safsten said. “The proprocess, saying that four genposals are coming back soon, erations of his family used and we didn’t want to join the the center. process late in the game.” Garcia, who represents Councilman Kent Jorgenconstituents in west Ogden son said Garcia’s absence at and the inner city, the area two work sessions regarding most served by the Marshall the center, along with his firm White Center, spoke out opposition to the mayor’s plan publicly against the mayor’s were factors in his not getplan. ting a seat on the committee Due to recent health probto select the final candidate to lems, Garcia did not attend take over the center, the work session following “The council wants to Tuesday’s lengthy council have a voice in that final demeeting. cision,” Jorgenson said. “We At that session, the councan’t stop discussions for one cil took a straw poll and council member. We had to chose three members to parmove on these issues.” ticipate on the committee to Deadline to submit proposreview the proposals: Kent als is 4 p.m. Oct. 28. 2 & Link To Article &Print Article Article Last Updated: 10/11/2004 “Email Article 12:59:08 AM Is Ogden ‘safe haven’ at risk? Marshall White Center: The mayor has a plan to restructure the community hub, which infuriates advocates - and White's family By Kristen Moulton The Salt Lake Tribune OGDEN - Marshall White was a medical doctor who found it impossible to practice in Ogden in the 1940s. Whites would not patronize the black podiatrist; the state licensing agency wouldn't even give him a license. So the Tennessee native instead became a police officer, rising to the rank of sergeant before losing his life as he tried to make an arrest in 1963. Now, his children are ready to go to court, if necessary, to block the northern Utah city from continuing to use White's name on a community center that for 36 years has served Ogden's minority and low-income communities. They - and leaders of the black community : | are incensed over Mayor Matthew Godfrey's plan Marshall White (Photos to reorganize the Marshall White Center in central provided by the family Ogden. of Marshal White) The mayor wants to save about $375,000 a year by turning its management over to another company or agency. His proposal: Managers would get free use of the center - with its swimming pool, gymnasium and playground - for its own mission. The city would continue to spend $260,000 yearly on two salaries and some program costs. "We want to operate the facility more cost-effectively," says Godfrey, who is awaiting management proposals, which are due Oct. 28. The plan would make better use of the recreation center during the day, he says. "We believe it will actually enhance the services." —"T think he's a liar," = = pS as As ae : tte SOAS wee WE Pickup basketball in the gymnasium. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune) says Marcella Oneita White, the third of White's _ six children. She was 15 when her father was - gunned down. "T grew up without a dad who died protecting that community, and now they're just going to toss it away," says Daphne White Bradley, of Riverdale, who was 2 in 1963. "It's like Ogden City murdering him all over again." Godfrey's proposal, made public in August, rankled residents who saw the mayor's proposal as privatizing the center where they go for senior water aerobics, ceramics classes, medical checks and meals, and for after-school and drop-in programs for children and teenagers. They see no good coming from the change, and they're still sore that Godfrey did not consult the on-site manager or advisory council during the eight months he and his staff developed the plan. "We get slapped in the face," says Val Tinajero, a 25-year-old professional boxer who, as a child, would often drop in to the center to play. He now trains and coaches younger boxers there. Opponents are staging a letter-writing campaign to City Council members, the mayor and even Utah's congressional delegation. They also plan a daylong "Monday Madness" telephone blitz of City Hall on Oct. 18, hoping to persuade Godfrey to change his mind. The high emotions, according to Betty Sawyer, stem from the Marshall White Center's role as the one place in town where folks of all races get together every day - a function that Godfrey insists will not change if management is changed. "This is the place that reflects what Ogden is all about, more than anywhere else in the community. It's one of the keys to its success," says Sawyer, a former director of Utah's Office of Black Affairs. “We all understand fiscal responsibility," says Sawyer. "But these are things we elect to do for the quality of life in our community." Tinajero, the son of Mexican immigrants, says the center is a welcoming community to children who feel out of place elsewhere. "They feel like they're a different species, like they don't belong. If you're black, white, Latino, you're welcome" at the Marshall White Center, he says. With no money in their pockets, children and teenagers can shoot pool or hoops, play pingpong, swim, lift weights and box, and there's also the Boys and Girls Club's after-school program and "The Teen Thing" program on Friday and Saturday nights. "If you take this away from the kids, they'll be on the streets," says Linnard Holston, an ex-boxer and boxing coach who has worked at the center since it opened in 1968. Prominent Ogden residents are also joining the fray. George Handy, an 83-year-old attorney who remembers Marshall White as "towering, handsome and kind," has volunteered - along with attorney Deven Coggins, who boxes at the center - to advise those fighting to keep the center as is. The Women's Legislative Council opposes tampering with what member Advertisement Catherine Feeny calls "a safe haven" for Maya Bell, 10, Shoots some stick last week at Ogden's Marshall White Center, Safe place for youngsters a to gather. The mayor's plan to revamp the way the community center is run has upset many in the city, including the family of Marshall White. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune) low-income and minority youth. “Our group felt it was uncalled for. It was a bad idea." Joyce Tillman Frye, a South Ogden resident who heads up the Ogden Community Coalition, says patrons and advisory council members should have had a say in planning the center's future. They were not told until August, just a few weeks before the city published its request for proposals, seeking a management partner. “That's why people are in such an uproar. They felt so betrayed," Frye Said. Godfrey acknowledges that he and other city officials last spring were discussing the management deal with charter-school groups - months before the on-site manager and advisory council were told. But city management has every right to brainstorm and consider ways of managing better, he says. "That's what good management does. It's not fair to say management hasn't the right to have any ideas unless the advisory committee has had time to have ideas first." As it turns out, the charter-school management company that initially showed interest will not submit a proposal, according to its president, Jed Stevenson. "The timing is not right for us," said Stevenson, whose Academica West manages North Davis Preparatory Academy and Ogden Preparatory Academy. The company never considered moving Ogden Preparatory, where the mayor's children attend school, to the Marshall White Center, Stevenson says. There's enough demand for a second charter downtown. Godfrey blames the uproar on a deliberate campaign to miscast what he is attempting to do. The plan is not to close the center or to change its vital role in serving the community, says Godfrey. The center is not being privatized. He compares it to Union Station and its museums, which the city still owns but now are managed by a private foundation - saving the city thousands of dollars a year. It'll be the same at the Marshall White Center. "We're still serving them. We're just going to spend $400,000 less doing that." Godfrey says he'll fight any attempt to remove Marshall White's name from the center, as the White family is threatening to do. "It's sad they would take that approach," he says. "He's somebody who needs to continue to be honored." kmoulton@sltrib.com Who was Marshall White? * The Tennessee native moved to Ogden after visiting the city as part of a military task force investigating why so many soldiers were getting venereal diseases and using opium along the community's infamous 25th Street. * A graduate of Northwestern University, he had a medical degree from Meharry Medical College, one of the few in the nation that admitted blacks. * He couldn't practice podiatry, his specialty, in Ogden the health department and then became a police officer. so he worked for * Founded the Ogden chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1943 and served as president for two decades. * He was killed in 1963 by a young man who had escaped from custody. White, a sergeant, was the first Ogden house where the man was hiding. police officer in the door of the * Survivors included his wife, Jessie, and six children. White a member of the review committee. “There will come a time where we'll have to decide which is most important — revenue or services. I’m hoping we can find some middle ground.” 3 While the Marshall White Advisory Committee publicly opposed the mayor’s plan to privatize the center, it supports OWCAP’s proposal, believing the two entities serve the same community and proposals, and is regarded as the more serious contender. Both respondents considered the city’s RFP unfeasible. | “We made it very clear what we are willing to do,” Carpenter said. “We’d do whatever we could to bring in funding sources, but I can’t legally take Headstart money or community service block grant funds to defray city costs.” Carpenter sees OWCAP’s work as compatible with that of the center. “We have a moral obligation to poor people. That’s what our agency is all about — people who are disenfranchised. The Marshall White Center is in the same boat,” Carpenter said. Carpenter hopes to write an expansion grant for more federal funding for Headstart, using the Marshall White Center as an integral partof that request. OWCAP currently operates with a $5.3 million grant for -Headstart, a $265,000 community service block grant, and several smaller ‘sources of funding. The agency also recently received a $1.3 million grant to build handicapped housing behind OWCAP’s facility at 3159 Grant Ave. a Although successful in obtaining grants, Carpenter said the competition is fierce and there are no guarantees. 2 A review committee made up of three members of the administration, three members of the city council and three members of the Mar- | Shall White Advisory Committee will meet some time in the next two weeks to arrive at a recommendation for Godfrey, who will make the final decision. : “At this point, the objective is to see if we can reduce some costs, but we’re sensitive as a council to the input we’ve received to retain services at the center,” said Councilman Kent Jorgenson, | share the same mission. “I think it’s in the best interest of the children and the senior citizens that we work this out so they have a community center they can depend on,” said Pam Molen, a member of the Advisory Committee. “Getting kids on the right track, kids going on to college — you can’t put a dollar figure on it, but it’s so much more valuable than the figures the mayor’s looking at.” Marshall White stl in fimbo City Editor: 625-4224 www.standard.net Obituaries | Weather Standard-Examiner But staff reductions likely as city tries to reduce expenses BY CATHY MCKITRICK with the Ogden-Weber. Community Action Partnership to share costs in running the community center. If OWCAP does take over the center’s operations, Donald Carpenter, Head Start director and OWCAP ad- ministrator, wants to be clear on one item in particular. “Whatever the city is going to do in Standard-Examiner staff terms of reduction of staff at the cencmckitrick@standard.net ter, they need to do before we come OGDEN — The fate of the Maronboard. I’m not taking the heat on shall White Center still hangs in the that,” Carpenter said. balance, although day-to-day operaUnder OWCAP'’s proposal, all curtions continue as usual. rent staff at the center would be reSo far, nothing has been decided — tained at least through June 2006. The about whether the city will pant | city ay to cut ed 4 for four of the center’s six current employees as soon as possible. In August, Mayor Matthew Godfrey revealed the administration’s plans to reduce city funding to the inner city recreation center by contracting with an outside entity to take over maintenance and operations in exchange for daytime use. Since the center’s dedication 1968, the city’s general fund in has sup- ported it with about $600,000 a year. served by the el NEWS Snowy weather causes accidents center, most of whom cannot afford to go elsewhere for similar services. © But the administration’s stance has been that there are no sacred cows, and budget cuts need to occur across the board. “The challenge is to find how it would be possible for us to share personnel resources and overhead,” OGDEN — More than 100 accidents up and down Weber County happened — throughout the snowstorm Saturday as police, medical and tow-trucks went from crash to crash. lf the newspaper were Godfrey said. “It’s about maximizing running an accident contest, Weber County residents would have won. Box Elder - personnel at the center to do the OWCAP mission and fulfill the center’ S mission as well.” — OWCAP was one. of two nonprofits Godfrey hopes to cut that amount by about 60 percent. Once made public, Godfrey’s plan to 23 was met with widespread opposition, pee from the community Sunday, November 28, 2004 to the ety request County would have come in a close second place with about 90 crashes. Davis for see WHITE/5B | County ran a distant third place with about 25. “Snow does not cause eo 5 | Teng —Vatal al foe a, a P ! J ~) é 4 é é dl ét { F LPS SA 4 SORE,jig“g ; fe Of Te Mf Classifieds t Mo Pe A a it Off (Lbs. rf’ A ML © v # 4 ‘4 OLEATE v4 tb Thursday, June 18, 2009 Godfrey to weigh Marshall White options Policy threatens the executive powers of mayor's office, he says By SCOTT SCHWEBKE powers of the mayor’s office, Godfrey said. The 2010 budget allocates to the center; which will be managed by OGDEN — Mayor Matthew GodOWCAP starting next month, full frey is weighing options to address a funding totaling $337,450, which will controversial city council policy re- keep services and the pool in place quiring the Marshall White Center’s for at least a year. services and indoor pool to remain ir A management agreement between place after Ogden-Weber Communit,’ the administration and OWCAP calls Action Partnershin assumes managefor the city to reimburse OWCAP up ment of the facility. to $30,000 a month for operational exThe city council approved the penses and employee salaries associpolicy Tuesday night in conjunction > ated with running the center. with its adoption of the municipality’s It’s anticipated that the agreement $120.4 million fiscal 2010 budget. ° will run through the end of 2009 ‘beThe policy threatens the executive cause the city’s administration is opStandard-Examiner staff sschwebke @standard.net 4 4 R cal f 4 ¥ f SLILESASLS? ti of 7 ¥ * er A i APEEA ¢ GUE: a’ | \.=a { a tT x timistic OWCAP will have obtained sufficient grant funds by that time to lease the center and pay for all operational expenses. Godfrey said Wednesday he hasn’t decided how to deal with the city council’s policy mandating that the center’s services and pool remain intact. He wouldn’t disclose whether he intends to veto the 2010 budget or take legal action. “No options are off the table,” he said. | After Godfrey receives a final copy of the budget this week he will have 15 days to veto the document. However, it isn’t clear whether he would be able to veto just the Marshall White Center policy, said Bill Cook, the city council’s executive director. The city council could override a veto if a super majority, which is at least five of its seven members, agree to do so, he said. The city council’s policy is a serious attempt to alter a voter-approved “strong mayor” form of government that has been in place in Ogden since _ 1992, Godfrey said. “They (the city council) are trying to co-op power and take administrative responsibilities,” he said. “We are going to protect the form of government the people voted for.” While the council has adopted legislative intents in the past, the Marshall White Center policy is unique because it’s tied to the city’s 2010 budget, said Cook. “It was implemented as a statement in the budget ordinance to be binding,” he said. City Council Chairwoman Amy Wicks has said the council had no See OPTIONS | Page 3B Oeden signs five-year deal to use Marshall White center classrooms BY SCOTT SCHWEBKE Standard-Examiner staff sschwebke@standard.net OGDEN — The city of Ogden has signed a five-year agreement with the Ogden-Weber Community Action Partnership to operate four Head Start classrooms at the Marshall White Community Center starting with the new school year. The contract paves the way for the city to resume negotiations with the OWCAP that may eventually Afternoon T-storms High 92; low 62/6B result in the organization assuming management of the center, located at 222 28th St., said Dave Harmer, the city’s public services director. Opponents of the city’s plans to privatize the center have complained that fees could go up and some current uses could be elimi- nated. Last year, when the city broached the idea of privatizing the center, the facility’s employees and advisory committee said they were not included in the municipality’s dis- June 23, 2005 Vol. 118, No. 174 Business/Economy ....... 6-7C Classified adey sai xcs. 1-8D’ (Action PARTN ERS HIP Helping People. Changing Lives. cussions on how to make the center more profitable. However, since then the advisory board has had more input on the city’s negotiations with OWCAP regarding the Head Start program ae ee ala COMICS De@armADOY. ois. hae SS. Editorials & letters......... 6-7A VHOPOSCOBOS % 62.8. a BB and managing the center, said Pam Molen, an advisory board member. OWCAP is leasing space at the center because some utility playground equipment. OWCAP will also shift some of its employees to the city’s former water utility building, which is vacant and is located off west 30th Street. The move will free up space at the partnership’s headquarters on Grant Avenue to house an additional Head Start classroom, Harmer said. OWCAP will pay all utility costs at the water building. Information has agreed See DEAL/8A classrooms at Weber County schools are unavailable for Head Start programs due to a lack of space, Harmer said. OWCAP will pay the city $40,000 annually to establish four classrooms that would handle about 20 students each and will also contrib- ute $10,000 a year toward costs for the center. In addition, OWCAP to pay about $35,000 to install new © Jets WISI TOO KS voi ee es oes ph 3 Lae ear ..Go! UbMuartess........ rea te "1, RE Fa”). 1] nO BC TOO Of Ulan) .f6..5..60% 1-8B Scoreboard.......... Beara TV schedule.............. "SOONG ie eas Been le 1-5C t3 READ & RECYCLE Printed on - recycled paper 4 | WEQS 77 S'OOOO | 1h, Deal was not immediately available from the city regarding possible expenses to renovate the structure to accommodate OWCAP workers. The establishment of Head Start classrooms at the Marshall White Center will be beneficial to some Ogden children, Harmer said. “The thing I like about it is that the kids (already enrolled in Head Start) are primarily from the neighborhood surrounding the Marshall White Center,” he said. “Head funding Start brings in good to the city and pays its own way.” OWCAP’s Head Start program is funded to provide child care and_ pre-school classes to 703 low income children at 22 sites in Weber County. With the Head Start contract in place, the city is poised to resume negotiations started last year with OWCAP to possibly manage the Marshall White Community Center, Harmer said. Privatization could allow the center to be better used and would reduce the city’s costs to operate the facility, which are expected to total about $550,000 for fiscal year 2006, he said. OWCAP does not have the money to immediately begin managing the Marshall White Center, but wants to partner with the city to ensure the facility adequately benefits residents, said Donald Carpenter, who heads OWCAP. “We will do anything we can to partners and want to look at ways to better serve the people of the community,” he said. Molen said the city needs to stop looking at the center as a financial liability and more as an asset. “The center has changed kids’ lives,” she said. “The city needs to put more money into programs to help enhance their lives.” Officials employed by the Marshall White Community Center could not be reached for comment. MATT HOUSTON/Standard-Examiner From left) Fred Simpson, Mabiba and Pierre Dufresne perform at the 12th Annual Juneteenth Cultural Arts Festival held at the Marshall White Center in Ogden Saturday. December 2007 The Div A Gift of Love Minister Vincent Walker, right, shares a word with Shorty Louis Kendrick during “A Gift of Love Thanksgiving dinner. (The Diversity Times Photo) A Gift of Love at Marshall White Gift of Love, from... Page 1 Thanksgiving meal, it had outgrown the restaurant. “He was talking about not doing it anymore,” said Betty Sawyer, director of Project Success Coalition. “It was a tradition. I asked him, ‘Do you mind, would you still be involved if we continued the meal?’ He said yes. It’s community collaboration.” Sawyer also engaged in God talk. “Everybody looks at Thanksgiving as a time to reflect on how good God has been,” she said. “We take it to the next level. We want everyone in our community to know they are loved and appreciated. We take delight in giving back.” Volunteers were mostly families and individuals. However, 15 volunteers came from the Youth Ministry at Ogden’s St. Mary’s Catholic Church. “We wanted the kids to get a feel for how to give back to the community and see that there are people out there who don’t have what they have,” said Lisa Mendez, St. Mary’s youth minister. Becky Smith runs a family busines a and also teaches water aerobics to sen- Volunteer Becky Smith sorts through Jers at Marshal Winte. clothes at Marshall White Center. ee (The Diversity Times Photo) “Volunteering is the greatest gift given to us to do every day,” said Smith, who worked in the clothing pantry. “It just doesn’t happen on the holiday. “This is awesome,” she aid. “It helps us to appreciate what we have to be thankful for. Giving to our communities is one way of giving thanks.” Project Success’ Betty Sawyer, left, packages meals for home delivery with Lisa Mendez during A Gift of Love Thanksgiving dinner. (The Diversity Times Photo). + ao oa eee §r ae ne ys Ay ; %, ~ * 4 4 \ * a Ot, we we eas, 6 acts WeGSE, £) rei fone f } ees N is he M37 OD sssPbecdeabedenstlaad Uh salaskestatastUfesuslbestsfensteLsdb te - a)a 4~ ; ¢ : Qa 3 eh: = : og : MR & MRS WILLIE BROCK 1987 EAST 5875 SOUTH OGDEN UT 84405 OS } wie Bee See ‘” aSy a : \ iM *, 1 ‘2 “e BM Ff H ; BA an Ph WR gs OADM } Ca : ‘ek i fy fe # | The Marshall White Community Center 222 - 28th Street Ogden UT Presents African Americans in Business: The Path Towards Empowerment Black History Luncheon / Program Tuesday, February 17, 1998 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Guest Speaker: Dr. John Mbaku College of Business & Economics Weber State University Menu: Oven Fried Chicken ~ Whipped Potatoes with-sre Sweet Potatoes — MA ANAL Ma Black Eyed Peas with Ham Hocks Corn Bread with Honey Butter Peach Cobbler - Quttirimrilhs pre Coffee / Lemonade $ 3.00 per person Fee: For further information call: 629-8346 * Ogden City Recreation Division complies with the Americans With Disabilities Act and will make reasonable accommodation and adaption for all qualified individuals with a disability to participate in all programs and services offered. special needs please call 629-8253, TDD# If you 629-8984. have LES SRS SS ARK SES SS SS ENE SAN SAN ~ ~ ASS OC ‘ AS AN SON : Patrolman Chad Beazer and Marshall White display a pair of jumbo-sized bloomers allegedly worn by girls on a novel shoplifting raid through downtown Ogden, February 24, 1951. SAA DOO OOI OO ’ . , PRANTL ae nes LRN a ihe rg panini Many youngsters, including teenagers, are attending activities at the Wall Avenue USO center Above is a typical group at the piano and a handicraft table. The director Vera Hughes, is in the background, February 25, 1946. a Judge: | | Rt RS UR Raa Seniors can help youths By CHARLES | } F. TRENTELMAN Standard-Examiner staff Solutions to the problems of youth may be found in the experience of senior citizens, 5th Circuit Court Judge Tyrone Medley said Wednesday as his mostly gray-haired audience nodded in agreement, Medley, who sits on the bench in Salt Lake and Summit coun- ties, was speaking to more than 200 senior citizens at the annual Black Awareness Luncheon at the Marshall White Center The luncheon was sponsored by the Weber/Morgan Department on Aging and the Senior Gary Clark/Standard-Examiner jirects the audience in. singing ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing.’ take time and look at our ances- try and our heritage and recog- nize all that community. matters in our “We appreciate the contribu- as tions of black people to the community,” Hunter said. “You know,” Hunter said jokingly, “I’ve always considered black people superior to white people, and the thing that proves that is every summer the white people go out and try to get a sun tan.” marks to the gathering, said he need look no further than himself as a case of just how much Citizens Nutrition Program part of February Black Emphasis Month and to honor local blacks who have contributed to the community. Weber County Commissioner Robert Hunter, in Opening re- felt it was “very important to Medley, who is black, said one the young owe the old. “I walked a path where the trees were already cut down,” said the 35-year-old judge. “I did not have to cut down any trees, cut down any grass or Slay any dragons. | certainly want to thank all the senior citizens here for blazing that path for me.” Medley described his own upbringing as not what most people expect a lawyer to have. “My mother wasn’t married to my natural father and unfortunately my arrival interrupted her high school education,” he said. Despite that, he said, his mother and grandparents worked hard to make sure he followed a “straight and narrow path” and had what advantages they had to give him. “I know I never starved for anything, “My grandmother and those seniors in my neighborhood, they fought the long, hard battles and I benefited from that.” That kind of direct influence on the young by the nation’s se- nior citizens is missing today, he said. “We are besieged by drugs, problem pregnancies and crime, I really visualize and believe Ogden Standard-Examiner, Thursday, February 12, 1987 ET SPR Judge Tyrone Medley gives the keynote speech. that seniors play a very impor- tant role in trying to turn this situation around.” Three Weber County officials who work with senior citizens and the nutrition program were selected to receive plaques honoring their work. They include Weber County Commissioner Robert Hunter, Director of Aging and Adult Services Ken Bradshaw and Evelyn Hoogland, director of the nutrition program. Members of the black community singled out for certifitheir honoring cates contributions included Georgia Turner, the Rev. Robert L. Harris, Martha Graham, Elizabeth Peoples, Daisy Griffin, M.G. Carter, Richard Toliver, Charles Eubanks, Bessie Giles, Dovey Goodwin, Gladys Hayes, William Lyons, Bennie Hall, Betty Moore, Carrie Thompson, Ira Horton, Edith Heath and Theima Tucker. Church briefs \y; Lee troop shag Ff f wee vy oo r Z aes , , will present several skits, an d Ty-. Gicodwit will perform a John Henry, 4 characterization. The Ogden Area Square Dance Association with Hazel Keyes of Keyes Corner have donated the costumes with Janiece Bingham as costume coordinator. he mutual South Weber | | ie : : Iton * MShery l Cole, Dian e Know lton , sriitivnn White , Tyrone Goodwin. participants represent 17 Area Stakes. The Young Women are led by Eva Kunz, with counselors, Connie Burton and LaRae Ewing. The Young Men and Scouting program are led by Jim Kunz with counselors Harry Nasfell and Don Erikson. Activities are held weekly at 7 p.m. Thursdays in the Ogden 9th/27th Ward . building, 3270 Orchard Ave. For more - information, contact Kunz at 392-4106. Peat oh | Standard-Examiner, Sunday, Oct. 26, 1969 ey Interesting Program for Youngsters Scheduatled Marshall White Center we se ~ Community activitie s are in full swing at ~ ‘the spacious Marshall .White Center with the new . _. enlarged. fall - program ranging from supervised -recreation to how to be “attractive and charming. ~. Registration for all Classes are sdk _ Sary, and can be made in person at -necesoye tar or by-mail anytime during the the cenregistraP Peleg: 2 eee Membership cards * sata ‘ Re re -y ra tiled, gract in ate <2 are available to _~~. you ngs ter s for $1 a yea r whi ch permits the holder SO st aera to all activitie except the swimmi | e pool, which, with as memb ership ‘card ngis ‘only 25 cents. « — foe » The ee daily. gymnasium schedule Swimming, ttumbling, . trampoli if ne, offers weight training, basketball, volleyball, boxing, © judo, and a weekly movie on Monday eve—hin _. gsfrom5to6pm. 3 Instructional classes including cooking, on Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. is available. to girls ov14, er with basic cooking, demon _ Strations and printed material provided. - The weight training classes for boys over 15 on Monday, Wednesday and Frida ‘includes instructions and supervision y, body building and ‘an individual progr in am _ workup for each individual. — On Monday evenings at. 6, volunteer, : Ste a Martinez, instructs girl s from AS. "years and up, in a’ charm. course, which cludes classes in hair styling, make in-up, clothes, posture, poise and personality. A program of various craft projects boys and girlsis available on Tuesday for and > Thursday from:3 to6 p.m. ‘i A “mothers morning out” is scheduled for Wednesday from 10:30 a.m.to 12 noon. ~ program of Jeisure for women who need to” get out. It includes card playing, cake tating, crafts, flower arranging, firstdecoaid __and others: eke at Be, On Wednesday from 5 to 6 p.m. there | is a co-ed cooking class for boys and from 13. to.18 years. It’s a fun-filled girls class. of making candy, cookies and other goodie s. This class is limited to pk ae Aa ae _ A -leathercraft class is held: on Tuesday from 5 to 6 p.m. which offers boys and girls 10 years old and up, the Skills in making wallets, belts and PUTSOS ig oe OT A slim and trim class with days hours to be arranged is Scheduled. Thisand is | a progra m designed to help ladinies weight control and ‘exercise, with swimming to fol- ; low. Tecate | es a Russell C:-Sneddon is director. of the center, with Bill Lyons, recreation director, Beulah Jones, women’s director and Don | Denney, _pool manager. cee Ee Russ Sneddon, director of the Marshall White Center, assists young Steve . Carpenter during a work-out at the gym. Boxing is a favorite on the list of “ activities at the neighborhood recreation center i> Young Richard Hendricks (left) waits his turn on the diving board at the Marshall {enter pool, as James Waiters gets diving tips from Don Denney, pool manager. White Pe Soa ek ge a a tandard-Examiner, Friday, November 9, See 1973 * caine the course instructor, and Laura Watkins. q a : a ? « 2s re r miliar Items Provide Materials - For Center Arts, Crafts Program : The arts. and crafts room at many he Marshall White Center of the project ideas come the ike a mini-museum. with all;displays, but she says she also ‘inds of original projects itries to encourage the children ianging on the walls and to come up with their own tacked on the shelves. projects. The projects themselves ANY IDEAS ange from burlap drawings to “T tell them that if they have vaper bag masks to umbrella any ideas for crafts, they should iolders. All are made out class is'from craft shops, books, or 4-H because early. begins at 1 p.m. school is dismissed Thursday is also. treat. prize day as well as the Mrs. Davis includes games and day as well as crafts as part of the schedule. Her class, which is free of varies in size from 10 to 2 with the bring them in. and we’ll work on children causing Mrs. Davis t them,” she said. ‘““Even when I help of a bit of trim, paint, or always. have _ alternativ lecals, have been transformed give them something to do, I projects in mind. ‘just hope they’ll go crazy with nto beautiful art objects. familiar items which, their imagination.” Many of the projects she devises allow the children to do just that. ONE PROJECT “T try to keep more than oni project going at a time so tha ' and 13 years of age, have all the kids can participate — ransformed shoe boxes into | Given styrofoam balls, pipe but I-really hate to do i rocrastination boxes _ by cleaners and a bit of felt, the because it means I have t overing them in cloth or crepe children were asked to create divide my time among mani aper and putting uncompleted ‘outer space monsters. Another things,”’ she said. rojects in them. project made use of the middle Having to come up with tha Milk cartons cut in ap- portion of the egg shell carton many projects each week car ropriate spots, painted, and to make “‘silly serpents.” serve to stretch the teacher’: uffed with straw have become The class itself is taught five imagination as well as_ the rd houses; and balls of id ays a week from 3:15 to 5 p.m. children’s. added-up aluminum foil i|| j SHOE BOXES. The children who are between readed on. Lee ey strings ee ee | have enarkling it j — except on Thursdays when | l White Center, and the spacious Keeping fit is one of the main objectives at the Marshal ion director, gives a few basketball recreat (left), gym offers numerous activities. Bill Lyons ng) and Calvin Leland (in air’ tips to Eugene Leland while Sean and Terry Ogara (kneeli have fun at the trampoline. “ MRS. ADEEN BLACKWELL © Helping Others Local Begirlé BUR ¥ Woma As Counselor Mrs. Adeen Blackwell is cur- rently serving aide in the habilitation as a counselor, new office of re-| { services in the’ “Marshall White Center, | “Mrs, Blackwell, a resident of ! |Ogden for 17 years, was formerly a legal services aide for 212 years with experience serving the culturally, economically rand academically impoverished people of the community eames LEARNING = ace placement and direction of hair—more commonly called a ‘“comb-out’”—is one of skills taught in Weber State cosmetology department. Stu. ‘dent Jo Ann Simmonds, instructor Vivian Tucker (left to right) and student Sandy Gamble (seated) make the demonstration. -» In her new post, Mrs. Blackwell is gerving the physically, emotionally and culturally im-|# paired. ; | Mrs. Blackwell, a native 4 of Hope, Ark., is a graduate of R. T Cokes High School Kansas ‘City, Mo., and attended a nurs- <=. collegea2, :.in that 4 city for two’ jing. | years. ~ The counselor aide is a. _member’ of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and active in > _ the Creative Women’s Art Club. | She is married to Willard L. | Blackwell. They have four chil_ dren ages 7 to 12. | John G. Oakes, counselor at | the center, said there are cur- 3 _rently 250 active clients with) an average increase of about. 30 a month. | Holiday Tournaments Will Launch 1969 Activities at White Center A number of tournaments dur-|ville and Roy high schools and|said team and individual entries are being accepted. ing the Christmas-New Year’s) will be held Saturday TUMBLING PROGRAM at accepted be Entries will holiday will launch a full pro-| who wish to par“Individuals Friday,| noon until center planned|the being gram of events {ticipate but are not members of at the Marshall N White Center|Mr Lyons reported. a team are invited,” he said.|, 3-MAN TEAMS for 1969. Fourteen table tennis play-| The basketball tourney will in-| ‘We'll find them a team.”’ | ers have signed up for a tourna-|volve three-man teams with} A tumbling and trampoline} ment ~ beginning today remiss the| players up to, age 21. The tourn-| program at and twO|ment wil Ibegin today also is expected to and|Sstart within a week or so, he a week, (continue through, next week.|said. This program is waiting for morecenterthan tinue Assistant director Wil-|leams may still sign up for the|the delivery of equipment that fiam Lyons said plans are be-| Competition, has been ordered. ing made for a city-wide table Mr Lyons reported plans are| “We are planning to have a tennis tournament next summer |Deing made for a city-county|/summer softball program and), boxing TAKING ENTRIES championship | tourna-|to enter a team in the city rec- ment March 7 and’8. The center|reation league,” Mr Lyons re- Mr Lyons said entries are be-|will start accepting entries in| ported. ag accepted for a city-county|the near future for this competi-| Center officials also expressed wimming meet and intra-/tion which will feature different;hope an two tennis courts . be nural basketball tournamtent|age groups and weight classifi-|installed on the center grounds. ‘}to permit a tennis program next}. |eations. . during the holidays. The swimming meet willin-| A volley ball league is being|summer o elve students from Ben Lo-|organized to begin shortly after; A number of arts and crafts ond, Ogden, Weber,. Bontte- the first of the year Mr. Lyons! program also are being planned. | |. EIGHT BALLIN THE . Two youngsters get a few timely tips on pool playin g from Willi am Lyons, assistant director of the Marshall N. White Center The boys are Joe Mopress (left), son of Mr and Mrs. Ed Crowder of 2957 Childs, a nd Jeffr ey Brown, son of Mrs. Ellen Brown of 2838 Child s. Holiday Tournaments Will Launch | 1969 Activities at White Center A number of tournaments dur- ville and Roy high schools and said team and _ individual ening the Christmas-New Year’s will be held Saturday tries are being accepted. holiday will launch a full proEntries will be accepted at TUMBLING PROGRAM gram of events being planned/the center until noon Friday, “Individuals who wish to parat the Marshall N White Center Mr Lyons reported. ticipate but are not members of for 1969. 3-MAN TEAMS ja team are invited,” he said. Fourteen table tennis playThe basketball tourney will in- “We'll find them a team.” ers have signed up for a tournavolve three-man teams with A tumbling and trampoline ment beginning today at the players up to, age 21. The tourn- program also is center Competition for two expected to championship trophies .will con- ment wil Ibegin today and Start within a week or so, he tinue for more than a week. continue through next week. Said. This prog ram is waiting Assistant center director Wil- Teams may still sign up for the the delivery of equipment liam Lyons said plans are be- competition. that | ing made for a city-wide table Mr Lyons reported plans are has been ordered. “We are planning to have a tennis tournament next summer. being made for a city-county Summer boxing championship — tourna- to enter softball program and TAKING ENTRIES a team in the city recment March 7 and’8. The center Mr Lyons said entries are be- will start reation league,” Mr Lyons reaccepting entries in ported. 1g accepted for a city-county the wimming meet and an intra- tion near future for this competiCenter officials also expressed which will feature different hope dural - basketball tournament age two tennis courts _.. be groups and weight classifi- installed on the center grounds. | 100 Mignon: B. Richmond Add‘l 2! Cards ir Extra For envelope {: plete quantity’ lacks don’ t see center as ‘their turf Marshall Wh. By ROBERT “ANDERSON Standard- “Examiner Staff The director. ‘of “the Marshall White Center said: ‘Monday the re- ; e director assails recreation chie aig not a bad pla¢e. fo ¢a kids,‘‘ Hester said, ‘‘and I want to clear up misconceptions that Hennon has.”’ creational facility is used daily by all segments of the public, young Bad old regardless of race or creed. He listed White. ‘The Marshall White Center, said Sami Hester, is not viewed by blacks as“‘their turf’‘ as indicated by his boss, City Recreation Director Paul Hennon,. in an interview oublished i in the Standard-Examinar Saturday The Ben Lomond High School Lakers swim team uses Marshall White as their home pool for meets with other schools. — | The center, located at 222 28th, is 3perated by ‘Ogden City and deditated as a memorial to a police officer, Marshall White, who was dlled in the line of duty “Hester assailed Hennon for sayng the facility is ‘‘not viewed as iccessible to all citizens.’’ Hester director of Marshall NVhite for the past 2% years, said ie is proud of the programs offered it the center and the many voluneers who work with him in various ‘rojects. activities at’ Marshall Weber County paramedics inStruct in a water safety program. Hispanic dance instruction and social events are held at the center Mondays through Fridays, physical fitness programs are set aside for Weber County personnel, Ogden Area Community Action workers and Ogden firefighters. On Wednesdays, recreation is provided for the handicapped and clients of Weber County Mental Health Department. On Thursdays, the Day Christian School uses the center for physical training.as do Boy Scouts. On Tuesdays and Fridays, Bernal Weston puts on special exercise With Name Printed classes and 4 in the afternoons at 2:30 On Saturday, Dr Letta Sattiewhite gives dance lessons for girls. Activities and meals are offered to senior citizens who knit blankets, take part in various crafts and fellowship. The Bonneville Chapter of the American Red Cross will conduct a water safety and life saving course at the center on Jan. 20. Head Start classes are held at the center and 240 hot meals and snacks prepared in the Marshall White kitchen for preschool-age youngsters. A weight training program is carried out daily Art Holston donated 350 pounds of weights. Boxing is a regular sport and the center has been the site for the Golden Gloves. Pro wrestling bouts have been sponsored. Marshall White has been the host for Chicano Day and Black Flistory Week events. ““Hennon’s remarks,’ " said Hes- 3.95 1.90 11.85 ee “might. cause hard- -pressed : the weight room. taxpayers to believe they ‘are payPool tables, ping-port tables: and i ing tax money for a center that. is other items were’ contributed. not utilized and that is inaccessible ~ **=« ‘due to e¢rtain ‘prejudices, ‘a The Clearfield Job ‘Corps: uses the Hennon. dian under the CETA program that © He said Hennon’s statements ‘tenter for custodial training. bordered’ on racial bias and false “Talk about volunteers? I single beliefs and that he: had called | out! ‘Roger Martin, who was a custo° “Hennon replied. that he didn’t an to: answer to me,’ ” Hester sai has’ been discontinued; ‘but he still comes to help clean up and donated . 100’ hours of his time over the holi- “The thing that bothers me there sis no sign of prejudice Mafshall White,’* Hester said. _{Hennon’ 'S reiacks. rsonally ‘hurt:”’ is at ennon’s statements, he said, “destroy everything that we've put together at Marshall White.” he best judges should be the mdny volunteers and contributors to the center, Hester said: Besides Dri Sattiewhite. Mrs. 15.80 iF Weston and Holston, among others who contribute their time are Darnel Haney, Esther Green, Bill Lyons and: Frank Blackfoot. Ogden Community Aétion workers donated full- -length mirrors for _ days,’” Hester said. Hester said, ; ‘fisut the center director said he is | also hurt’’ by a reclassification of : is: job — from director of recrea- | tion at the center to a ‘ ‘recreational 4 supervisor. sig The reclassification did not change his pay of $1, 400 monthly, but seems tobe, in one sense, a demotion that wouldn’t look too good on applications he might make for. Similar jobs elsewhere, Heston said. Hester said the center is kept. Page 's A ELIZABETH PEOPLES LECTURES.AT THE WORK is LUNCH TIME at the Happy Hours Center in the Marshall White Center finds Lester Skaggs, Henrik Pentilla, Ethel Mae Louis and Carrie Young (left to right) enjoying dinner Ftepared by the Weber County Nutrition Program. H C ENJOYING ~ Martha Graham Chairperson MASSEY HIS WORKSHC UIVII Kignts Leader ‘ says President Should Quit or Face Impeachment Ralph . The Rev. David Abernathy, internationally} known civil rights leader, called for the resignation of President Nixon in a Wednesday evening speech at the Marshall White Center. “Tf he doesn’t have the courage to resign, the people should impeach him,” the black leader said. honor He roll.” told’ his luxuries audience that\die.” to the he added. classes must The speaker went on to score corruption is widespread the United States ‘as a “racist sir outtiont government. “T have great sympathy for nation.” He noted, however, progress former Vice President Agnew,” made in. the area of civil rights he said, ‘‘because we have during the past decade. corruption all the way through Atlanta now has a black government, with many others ‘mayor and blacks make up half committing ‘similar or greater the city council he said — ‘‘and crimes.”’ this in a city where for 10 years The civil rights spokesman blacks had to drink out of His’ Marshall White Center appearance was the first of two ‘also told his predominantly sifferen fountains.” scheduled in Ogden. He spoke at: ‘black audience that President |" nation still harbors totally in‘moon today as guest speaker in|Nixon has been Bn he added. “Utah has con- |sensitive to minorities. Blacks | jracism — and even: though I “Weber State Collese’s represen-| vocation series. He repeated his |‘curren‘ly have no ‘haven’t .been in this city for President’s | tation in the administration, he; the calls for ‘more than a-half hour, I say Social programs started | on sail. commenting resignation, » | Ogden has racism, and a-ghetto Nixon during the 1950s have. been’! ‘as well,” he told his audience. what he called “ihe eliminated as . well, Rev. case.” Work ‘Abernathy added. FELT HONORED BECOME in civil heoubinnie? with new TRASH rights must generations | reoresenting hove and salvation, stev. Abernathy, president of “The United States is doomed ' the speaker said. Christian ‘the Southern with to become trash and go onto the | “America gave us a check Leadership Conference bal od offices in Atlanta, Ga. rf -junkpile of time:if the people and it’ bounced, marked — in‘felt it an, honor that he: don’t © rise up to save it,” he sufficient funds. Now we want Rev. Abernathy collect,” ee the -only Georgian “to make |said. “Any nation that denies |to ‘the enemies list — “1 call it the; necessities to the Masses to give (stated. — PND Men ee i < CIVIL RIGHTS : , LEADER SN Rev. Ralph Abernathy : : eS 5 joins Lisa 3%, | ! s Strength tof Black Families C ontrAa aron F Prior to t t f i t fraternal and civic or- } in numerous ganizations and belongs to Pioneer ; American Legion Post No. 66. AME Church, ch, 3} 264 30th St 4.0 gRobinson den. No gifts. He was born June 9 , 1912, in Kansas City, Mo ., to Geor ge and Mary Eliza Kin g Robinson. He was educated in Kansas C i ty, graduatin g from Lincoln Hi gh School . He did odd jobs and in 1 1937 transferred to O gden with the Union Pacific Railroad. He served in the Arm y from 1942 to 1946 and retired in 1974 after 37 years with the railroad. In 1972 he started a shoe shine concession at the Cellar Barber Shop with Ral ph Dayton and Jim Olborn . They still work together Active on various b oards of the Embry Chapel, he is a stewar d emeritus and has served with the senior choir since 1938 . A member of Masonic Family, he has served | . | 5. 7 tonight at the | E mbry Chapel} Raymond Ed ward Robinson : celebrated his. 80th birthday | Tuesday. He will be guest of honor | at an open house | hosted b y his} wife , Pearl, from } Ogden resident | (left), i & Robinson Se SA Hood _daughter of Mrs. Doris Hood, and Chrissandra Tillman (right), 4, daughter of i Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Tillman, at a Marshall White Center Halloween party, just before giving one of two speeches scheduled in Ogden. inte the industrialized: northern ideal the black family by he said. hey. did not even ae at Weber State. cities where the family struccreating a weakened set of Speaking of the history of the . have: the ability to ie their ‘ture came urider attack. values {toward marriage and wives. black family structure, Dr. & Eaeay a individuals Mothers were forced to work family life,” Dr. Staples said. “This negative effect on the the society has made it a» Staples said ~unlike . today’s and families were forced to go ‘*Butafter emancipation, « lack family. is. frequently which .-has__ been sy s tem, viable “social institution, an on welfare because they were thousands of freed slaves went expert on ethnic family systems © “described as matriarchal, ee “Sanuded’ x to as a source of black unable to produce their own out to find former husbands and said Monday. 3 "disorganization today. families have a history of male - food and clothes, he said. “aD Tan Robert Staples, a wives who had been sold “But despite the weakening of dating back to — dominance professor Of © ‘sociology and ‘<In contemporary black away.” | | _ the family by slavery, the: black Africa. author, told a sparse Weber. society, the number one issue ‘He said that until 1910, an With the advent of slavery, he “family. still remained a unit. It State College audience — that been the matriarichal overwhelming percentage of -~ has was ‘still the most important said, the black man’s role many of the stereotypes about. structure of the family — or lived together as. bias institution blacks. had in this became downgraded. black. family : life’ are nothing domination,” the female. ids and wives or in couple: Because slaves could not sigh “country,” he said. more than myths. ‘professor said. The family served as the AS professor . of sociology’ we contracts, there. was no ‘legal Black females ‘have -been te real ‘chanee seems to basis for marriage and families | ~ socialization unit which. taught : Howard. ‘University and a charged with creating Fs taken place. after that black children how to cope with were separated easily as partvisiting professor at University educational failure and welfare time, when blacks moved from “the problems they would enof California Medical Center at ~ ners were sold. dependency among black youths : th rural South, where there “The. men had- no authority _ counter as. slaves, he. explained. San. Francisco, Dr. Staples was’ as well as creating latent eo a Lat inlowary. =. ‘artan thaixn ohilt— Sa ogame social structure, were to es Black a “blaekae Ee hod in 4 He d An ie my MILTON RICHMAN UPI Sports Editor ae (UPI) — It was, mua manner of speaking, like fanething straight out of pure mat2sy; with lights blinking, | MAworks flashing and a full Twn 40-year-old man being feray by his mother as if he OGDEN, UTAH WEDNESDAY EVENING AUGUST 30, 1967 j 3 1B es 7 3 Marshall White Center Se pt) 7 Groundbr eaki Completion Scheduled Within Year Groundbreaking $580,000 Marshall for the Wh ite | Centerat 28th and Lincoln’ will be held Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. with Mrs: Marshall N. White turning the first shovelful of dirt. Coitract for the neighborhood recfeation center is scheduled to be awarded this week, probally to Wadman Construction | D. of Ogden, low bidder on the | construction on the Init. f center, being erected with city | eer es me ee seiris) | Os : ¥¥ AS en oy Ay Bart Kennedy Wolthuis Jr,discusses Marshall N. White Cn). -withAYOR Howard Manuel facilities Zizambo inandnew Archie R. Bie & aie a a a Gomez (left to rig e, br the earth-turning e be completed Vr cece Owen plans | Be ceremon a time | for cil '| have Thursday to City; and “top been city officials concerned with who} meeting at He: of | ! j ALL AGES, RACES completed the center willWhen providé récreational facili: lties for all ages and races, in- areas and equipment, day care ‘|center, hobby areas and group _imeeting places. -| Outdoor picnic areas will be provided, along with parking (|space for about 80 vehicles. — ye The -Marshals White... Cemtewpesrrr a 83. 91 vears 20%: f ce) 3 C i eee aay . ee ounse Oe ae BS oe ors a directed th | In turn, David by Mr. Miller, Bos-| a coun-| Finally, Mrs. Donald Weay originally of Nashville, Tel ¥@5 hired as his replacement te ink | selon at Ogden West, was named | Bountiful. : : a 0 : °/ team leader there. necessitating | “I know it sounds complic| rt ye “ir | the transfer to Ogden West from|€@: but actually this was ¢ > wansfer of Ogden” Probation » Center of|Shakeup in which everyone ' r SUPETVISOL | Douglas P ard a et Green. | team lead-| Se , or Yimerly Firet Court the | cluding swimming pool, athletic’ — | k LC. M. ~ Same’ position at, North Davis been: working hi Sill sod : Probation Center in Layton, for- bation Center. in Bountiful ¥ es ad pa plan Special music will be furnished’ jby a choir from the Embry| ‘Chapel AME Church, 264 30th. | | Groundbreaking will follow a ‘brief council W [sees | | {ning the project are scheduled} Municipal Building. : he i : District JuvenileCourt ! igns Bi, “Brick Siete Wssor Hecth Wolllaig membtic iad Fen | THOMAS L. JENSEN Leaderin Layton WIS COUNTIES 4/5 772_ nder way early next week and| City Planning Director urnham said complete DAVID MILLER Heads West Area i aa -| M Mr. E. Smith, Mountain eters oe Joseph | services. came out ahead,” szc Tite, director of co y | He points out that all parti Smith’s place was taken| pants either got a promotion, est Bs Ogden center by David H.|new job or were assigned wo ved to the| Petersen of Ogden,“ who ne : | Volved — had | nearer to home in lateral shif |. Mr. Bosworth, new Web | County intake — officer, is- ; .| Idaho native who graduat from University of Utah in s cial studies in 1940. An expel enced youth counselor with o1 ‘lyear.of graduate study. in ed: ee : wae Community Action nor other agencies can do it all — or even part of it — if they don’t get support from the people it serves. The reason I ‘support Community Action is because I trul want to help you, and this Aen gives me a chance to do it. Yes, r cl # G ss 4 & 4 we are interested in you, but, we With Name Printed want you to become interested in us. If you want to get up and take action, join up with Community Action. Mr. Ralph M. Kuox Area Co-ordina: ur Marshal White Area 25 3.50 59 7.00 75 10.50 14.00 100 Utah delegation embarrasse A Hi! My name is Mr. Ralph M. Knox, Area Co-ordinator, Marsiial White Area. I’m sure you wonder what my job is? My job: toreach out and help people to heip themselves. It is not enough to refer them to Social Programs, but, to show them other ways to help themselves. Sometimes, personal service is necessary and at others t« shnical assistance is needed. ©Oommunity Action is for the: people. Its nae “salils its purpose aid where } Alpport should come from. \ “this is a Community Progra:i,'and in order to _ function correctly, it must have - community involvement. Tell us _ what the problems are, then _ support us when we ask you to. _ The community must take action, in order to overcome its weak areas, to help heard, its needed, to be and to have their rights respected as an American. Some people say, “‘there is no one out to help the poor ”’ That is a lie! We, Community Action are out to help you that need help, and to organize those of you who want to take part in community affairs and community be heard. But, must become the _in- volved. Speak up, come together and stand up for what is right, 4 and what is yours. Neither; ne. i oan : 2E. Ey, xe ER 1.171 a AF? we a On by Senator Orrin Hatch ay} Los Angeles, California — The national convention of the NAACP, Na- ‘tional Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People, met in Los * Angeles July 8-12. The theme was “‘The Struggle Continues.’’ After pre-convention activities on July 6 which featured a lawyers’ seminar and a gospel extravaganza on the July 7, the convention got off to a rousing opening mass meeting on July 8 with open plenary sessions and on Tuesday, a special youth meeting and discussions of the 1990 civil rights bill being discussed in Washington. An urgent call was given to call home and write to their congressmen Them That Way, Distribution U Marketing of African-American and Music, and Eliminating Bart to Affordable Housing. The highlight of the convention the awarding of the Freec Fund/Springarn Award, which \ to the Honorable L. Douglas Wil Governor of Virginia, the Ur States’ first black Soy ernON, pee and United States senator and ask them to vote for the civil rights legislation. ‘‘Many of the delegates came up to me and asked me what was going on in Utah with Senator Orrin Hatch, R- Utah, leading the fight against the bill. I was so embarrased, along with other Utah delegates,’ stated Jeanetta Williams; Utah delegate and member of the Salt Lake City branch of NAACP Utah delegates attending the convention in addition to Jeanetta Williams were Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gillespie, president of the Ogden Chapter, NAACP; Ms. Dovie Goodwin of Ogden; and Ms. Bettye O. Sawyer, Office of Black Affairs, State of Utah and the Governor’s Black Advisory Council. Workshops were held each day and some of the topics discussed were: The Endangered Black Male, The Role of the Black Law Enforcement Officer wn the Black Community. Get- iting Students Motivated and Keeping \ Governor L. Douglas |Wilder 75th Springarn Medal Winner In 1996 the economic cost of ¢ vascular disease will total $94.51 the American Heart Associatio mates. This figure includes phy and nursing charges, hospite nursing home costs, medicatio} lost. occupational output as a of disability. HREE ‘SOUL SISTERS’ Musical pantomimists Jacqueline Henry, Maria K. Matthews and Shenna M. Hill (left to right) are among the entertainment acts in a talent show scheduled at the Marshall White Center Saturday at 8 p.m. by the Community Action Summer Youth proj- ect. The show is open to the public without charge. SO Young Melvin Steward (front) along with Rita Sanchez, Evonda Timbers, Mrs. Emmett amy White, instructor, and Damon Moore (left to right) get ready for a fun. session of roller skating which will be featured during thehe ddrecr eation departnient’s summer. Ogden Standard-Examiner, Sunday, June = iene 19, 1977 Soest. -” fat a Sete eRe bc Sits boFS + 4% center and at Ogden Standard-Examiner, Wednesday, November 20, 1968 2B _ RA Lindsley will tell Friday at a speGETTING a preview of the story Mrs. Richard Saadia Glover and Johnny Steare am cial program for the Head Start progr and Mrs. Charles Wilson of 115 W. phens (left to right) Their parents are MrStephens. | 3299 4900 S., and Mrs. Karen Stephens of Toy, Book Exhibit Due e purchase of a toy 0 Christmas Art Center, which is under Mrs. | possibl which would be of long direction, will present|book _all designed to aid|Lindsley’s Work gift ideas lasting value to the yo ongster: .” shop a’s «cont al) : fag young children in their cultur : development — will be on disa program wher not is This ex-| the to ned assig being Toys play at a toy and book exhibit orde al and long-last-| hy the parents can placeat the Friday at the Marshall White hibit aren practic e e the goods purchas Ke ae ee isa Center, 28th and Lincoln. se said. she hibit, The special pre-holiday exhibit It is merely designed to < BOOK SELECTION the vari and program is being sponsored A fine selection of books are quaint parents with Toys, books and by Ogden School District Head! which will aid the | toys and books of a beneac Start teachers and several Og-jin the fields in their cultural nature which are readily ave n childre young den merchants. able in this area, Mrs. Ralst The exhibit — designed as , | development. = Mrs. Alice Ralston, elemen-|said. guidance program for the parParticipating stores are E school consultant for the| ‘,|tary d enrolle n ents of the childre Central, G Grand the|Marche, = F the Head Start program be from 4 to 8 p.m. As a special. feakire; wil] | district, said a purpose of s, Skag unique program is to guide those | sons, K-Mart, Penney’ Sears. Mrs bdo with limited funds in the! ZCMI and Richard Lindsley will tell the|§™ avorite and beautiful Christmas |} Story beginning at 4:30 p.m. ‘ The Children’s Theater from % the Bertha Eccles Community| me rr careera een den Standard-Exa ce C—Section OGDEN, UTAH THURSDAY EIGHT BALL IN THE ... Two youngsters getafew timely tips on pool playing from William Lyons, assistant director of the Marshall N White Center. The EVENING pareere erN TT AE YS ; ETT eree, ; ey DECEMBER 26, 1968 boys are Joe Mopress (lett , son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Crowder of 2957 Childs, and Jeffrey Brown, son of Mrs. Ellen Brown of 2838 Childs. > BLACK Brenda Turner QUEENS (left), CEG g % oe a junior SELECTE at Ogden ura High Séfdol, was crowned “Miss Black Ogden” during a pageant Sunday in the Marshall White Center At right is Latisha Baptiste, newly elected queen of the Black Scholars Union at Weber State College.’ sunn ° ogee Css EI Ogde PUBLIC SERVICE CAREERS PROGR hired in March completed their training with Utah Skills Center North and Weber State College and were awarded certificates of graduation on May 25th in clerical skills and stenographic training. They are assigned in the keypunch area of Administrative Services Branch in the Directorate of Storage and Transportation. Discussing the program are Mr. Gerrold Mukai, Dir. Skills Center North, Jenny Salazar, Col. A.L. Schalbrack, USA, Depot 7 Commander, Marina Mendez, and Roietta Goodwin, Shorthand Instructor at the school. PERI Bigsele hecorres Dee ON eSE oes OSlhorAN gigemigas eA nec ivonpappoebincspacie s Roinmi tiacates j Ae SRR AREY YS WES aetna Ny