Good morning, Ogden.

Operation Hero opened Utah’s Fallen First Responders Boot Display on Wednesday, Oct.

28; about 56 boots representing police, dispatchers, firefighters, EMS + K-9s who died since 9/11 are on view at Layton Hills Mall through Sunday, and the public can submit additional names on Operation Hero’s website.

Biologists and volunteers are planting roughly 3,000 sagebrush and brittlebush across the Middle Fork Wildlife Management Area (about 400 acres) to restore habitat after a summer wildfire and help mule deer, while crews also work to limit non-native grasses that could take over the burned area.

Unaffiliated and third-party candidates are on the ballot this fall to push for ranked-choice voting and multi-member districts, and several are campaigning in the northern (2nd District) even though none qualified for the congressional debates.

A Halloween weekend storm could drop heavy snow that might let Brian Head meet its planned Nov.

6 opening, with forecasts calling for about 22 inches at Brian Head and roughly 4 inches at Powder Mountain and Snowbasin near Ogden.