Not much in the way of Emerald City red meat news this morning, so we'll roll out this series of items which we've more or less kept on the back burner until now:
1) The Park [City] Record published this story a couple of days ago, which sheds further light on Boss Godfrey's "Ogden high adventure" marketing plan:
• Ogden's ski town pitch: we're cheap and close2) The Deseret News carries this interesting piece, which discusses the not-so-subtle transformation of Mt. Ogden Peak from the relatively pristine location of a decade ago to the cluttered mess that it is today, and poses the questions, "Is this kind of development good or bad? Should some peaks be protected from this kind of development? Where do you draw the line?":
• High tech peaks?3) One of our gentle readers informs us that The Salomon Center climbing wall now has some new in-town competition:
• Gym not just for climbers4) This morning's Deseret News carries this story, reporting that "[t]he final site plan for the LDS Church's renovation of its Ogden Temple got the go-ahead Wednesday from the Ogden Planning Commission":
• Ogden LDS temple renovation to move forwardComparing the artist's rendition with the current structure, it looks like downtown Ogden is in for a dramatic aesthetic improvement.
The DNews story reports that "the church wants to attract more weddings and wedding parties to Ogden," which invites this reader query:
Could this at least partly explain Boss Godfrey's recent downtown hotel obsession? Out-of-town wedding parties need overnight digs, right?
Feel free to chime in on any of the above suggested topics, or consider this an open topic thread.
We don't care what you say... but be sure to say somethin'. It's been a mite too quiet around these parts of late.
