$1.50 April 5, 2024 | Vol. 3 Iss. 12
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Disney Lego display Exhibit features Legos with a Disney theme.
MORGAN COUNTY NEWS
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Covering Your Community Since 1929
Morgan Community Choir celebrates 25 years of singing page 6
By Steven Carrigan
MORGAN CHOIR SINGS in the Assembly Hall on Temple Square with the Salt Lake Symphonic Choir in 2008.
Come Join the Morgan Community Choir
The Morgan Community Choir is a group of city and county residents over the age of 18, who enjoy singing and performing quality music together. Their purpose is to provide the Morgan area with cultural enrichment, community pride and spirit, as well as developing associations with friends, neighbors and newcomers. They meet regularly on Thursday nights at 7:30 p.m. A minimum of 70% attendance is required. A $20 yearly fee is charged to all members. A variety of music will be learned. Spring and winter concerts will be scheduled, besides other invitations to perform will be accepted. For more information contact Lois Manning, or Suzanne Carrigan. The city and county officials gave permission for the choir to practice in
Tesla sales weaker than expected
Electric car pioneer Tesla reported its first annual drop in sales since 2020. The news caused the stock price to drop 5%, which makes the price drop for this year alone nearly a third. The sales numbers are blamed on increasing competition from both foreign and domestic electric car manufacturers, as well as issues with the roll out of the truck line of electric vehicles over the last several months.
Disney shareholders back Iger
CHOIR PRACTICE SESSION in the Morgan City and County Building in 2001. Fourth year of the choir.
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their building and the first rehearsal was Jan. 7, 1999, with 13 singers in attendance. The numbers soon grew to 23 and the first performance of the choir would be a Spring Concert held in the City and County Building Auditorium,
Saturday, April 10, 1999 at 7:30 p.m. The evening of April 10 the auditorium of the county building was filled
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The Morgan County Historical Society moves to new home By Ethan Hoffmann
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s of this year, the Historical Society is no longer located at the Morgan County Library. The Historians of the Morgan chapter, Cindy Kay and Tyler Clarke are excited to announce that the Morgan Union Pacific Depot on Commercial Street is reopening and the Historical Society will now be based there. With the help of library staff, everything was boxed up and the bookshelf collections were transported to the Depot throughout December. “The move was completed in late January 2024” Kay said. “Luckily, the weather was pretty mild that month.” The goal of the Morgan County Historical Society is to collect, preserve, and present Morgan County’s history in meaningful and engaging ways. Their office is open to the public and everyone is welcome to browse their numerous collections of photos, yearbooks, government reports, and more. They are also happy to give tours through the newly renovated Train Depot or help with historical photographs, histories, or collections. The Historical Society is open Monday through Friday
Trump’s bond underwritten by Hankey Chairman of Knight Specialty Insurance made a deal to pay former president Donald Trump’s $175 million bond in New York, in order to avoid the need to sell any of the property moguls properties, which are under the additional strain of being litigated for potentially having been misvalued. Knight Specialty Insurance is a company most known for providing subprime auto loans to car buyers with weak credit scores. Cash was posted as collateral.
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he Morgan Community Choir will reach a milestone in its history as they present their spring concert April 29, 2024. This concert will mark 25 years the choir has been in existence. Suzanne Carrigan always had a dream that Morgan needed a choir. Having been involved in choirs at Ogden High School, Weber State Close and the Ogden LDS Institute she had a love for music and knew what it offered to those who performed for those who would come to listen. In 1995 Lee and Lois Manning moved to Morgan just down the road from the Carrigans. They became good friends and Suzanne found that Lois had a lifetime of musical involvement, teaching, singing, and accompanying. She talked choir with Lois and the dream began to take shape. The two ladies approached the city and county officials for their support and after receiving encouragement to move forward the word went out. The following notice went in the Morgan County News:
NEWS BREAK
Investor Nelson Peltz’ bid for a shakeup at Disney came up empty this week. Peltz and others had been endeavoring to fill several seats on the company’s board of directors, but, the shareholders voted decisively to retain Bob Iger, Disney CEO, and the board of directors as it currently stands. Following the vote, Iger and others within the organization reiterated their commitment to the company, and to improving its intellectual property. Included in his comments, Iger responded to increasing pressure at both the box office, and theme parks, by reaffirming coming developments at two of Disney’s resorts, Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
Solar eclipse
Many are flocking to be in the path of the solar eclipse, slated to sweep areas of the United States this week. The northwest will not get much of a view, but, from the southwest to northeast many areas are predicted to be in a full solar eclipse. As with any solar eclipse, those who are planning to view the event are cautioned to use proper protection as looking into the sun at any time can still cause damage. The thousands of people flocking to view the eclipse are predicted to cause a surge in not only traffic but local businesses, hotels, and other industries in areas where the eclipse is to be at its peak.
Cicada broods to overlap
CINDY KAY AND TYLER CLARKE with the many movers near the truck.
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from 12-5 p.m. Kay has been living in Morgan for over 26 years and is a longtime realtor in Morgan County. Kay started working for the Historical Society in April of 2023 and she enjoys working with
the patrons, the personal histories, the photos, and other collections. Clarke lives in Ogden, Utah, and has recently
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Two different broods of cicada are expected to hatch this year, leading to an unprecedented surge in the creatures across certain areas of the United States. Emerging on different cycles of 13 and 17 years, two different cicada broods will likely overlap this year causing a huge surge in their population. While they are large and loud, experts say there is no reason to worry about the possible surge in numbers, and that, as per usual, they will die out until the next cycle of cicadas emerges.