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May 12, 2023 | Vol. 2 Iss. 19
Covering Your Community
MORGAN COUNTY NEWS
MHS Coach named Assistant Athletic Director Basketball coach Brad Matthews takes on new role. page 6
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National memorial honors fallen firefighters
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King Charles III honored at Coronation Ceremony
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or the 20th time, Mountain Green Fire Chief Brian Brendel (left) once again led the Firefighters Memorial Pipes and Drums at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The ceremony took place Sunday, May 7, 2023 at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial. Chief Brendel has been attending the Memorial service with firefighter pipe and drum bands since 1993 and in 2003 was chosen Lead Drum Major of the combined firefighter bagpipe band with membership from across the United States.
The Utah contingent was at the Memorial this year to honor Unified Fire Authority Engineer Chris Cage, who had responded to the 9/11 attack with Utah USAR Task Force 1 and developed 9/11 related cancer. Each year the National Fallen Firefighter service adds to the National Memorial the names of Firefighters who died in the line of duty. This year, 144 Firefighters were honored, 79 who died in 2022, and 65 who died in
previous years. Chief Brendel also leads the Unified Fire Authority of Greater Salt Lake's Pipes and Drums, and the Utah Firefighters' Emerald Society Pipes and Drums, representing all of Utah at Line-of-Duty First Responder memorial services.
Photos are courtesy of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
The Morgan Family Adventure: Making Tracks comes to Morgan By Ethan Hoffmann
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ast month was the first day of The Morgan Family Adventure. Local families gathered at Riverside Park, Morgan for a free event taught by Making Tracks Earth Education. The goal of Making Tracks is to inspire confidence and creativity through survival skills and Earth Education. Participants got to explore nature and learn survival skills such as fire by friction, primitive weaponry (axe throwing and bow shooting), ropemaking, and using stone tools. Exciting games were played and everyone had an opportunity to have fun, while learning and connecting with nature The instructor, Erik Rasmussen, started Making Tracks in the fourth quarter of 2016 Rasmus-
sen got his degree in park recreation and tourism at the University of Utah and he also studied entrepreneurship during college. He decided to go into parks and recreation because he had been studying primitive technology and survival skills since he was seven years old. Additionally, he started teaching about the subject when he was thirteen. Rasmussen has also helped recruit contestants for the reality survival competition series “Alone” and is good friends with some of the participants; Dave Nessia, Alan Kay, Sam Larson, Nicole Apelian, and Carleigh Fairchild to
TRACKS on page 2 ERIK, THE OWNER OF MAKING TRACKS, teaches students how to make fire using friction.
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The coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, took place in London on Saturday as the pair were ordained as the king and queen of the United Kingdom. On May 6, a crowd of over 2000 guests filed into Westminster Abbey, alongside the Royal family, to see the historic events take place. The crowning of the new sovereigns was the first coronation to take place in 70 years since the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. King Charles III took The Oath and offered several prayers throughout the ceremony. The Queen’s coronation took place after her husband’s where she was likewise anointed, and then presented with the Queen’s Ring and Queen Mary’s Crown. At the conclusion of the coronation, the King and Queen led the Coronation Procession.
2nd grader rescued after going missing during a family camping trip Second grader Nante Niemi was finally located on Monday, sheltering under a log in Porcupine Mountain Wilderness State Park in Michigan. The eight year old was in Michigan on a camping trip when he got separated from his family while he was gathering firewood. Niemi found shelter underneath a tree log that protected him from the elements. Volunteer rescue units searched a 40-square-mile area surrounding the family’s campground. Rescuers searching the area found footprints, and later they heard the young boy yelling. Niemi was found safe and sound two miles from their camp and reunited with his family.
Bystander saves runaway baby stroller from entering traffic In California, a bystander is being praised for his role in saving a young child whose stroller was nearly blown into traffic by a gust of wind. The child’s great aunt had gotten the child out of the car into the stroller, and then turned back to grab something else from inside the car. Within those few seconds, a large gust of wind caught the stroller, and it began to roll toward a traffic filled street. She ran to try and catch the baby stroller, but tripped and watched helplessly as she stumbled after the runaway stroller. Thankfully, a bystander, Ron Nessman was able to step in. Video surveillance captured the near-disastrous event and Nessman’s amazing heroics. Nessman who was sitting on a bench nearby heard the commotion as the child’s great aunt yelled out for help. He jumped into action and caught the stroller mere feet from entering the busy street.