Voice Male December 8 in Montpelier

Proposed Tax Increase

Notice of Proposed Tax Increase
Laketown Fire District

The Laketown Fire District is proposing to increase its property tax revenue.

The Laketown Fire District tax on a $150,000 residence would increase from $17.66 to 35.43, which is  $17.77 more per year than is being paid currently. The Laketown Fire tax on a $150,000 business would incrase from $32.10 to $64.40  which is $32.30 more per year than currently being paid.

This represents, if approved, a budget increase of about 100% excluding any new growth.  All concerned citizens are invited to a public hearing which will explain the need for the tax increase.

Public Hearing
December 11, 2012 at 7:30
Laketown Fire District
20 North 200 East
Laketown, Utah 84038

For more information, call Laketown Fire District at 435 881 2690.

November Garden City Fire Board Meeting

By Kathie B. Anderson, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

GARDEN CITY, Utah, November 15, 2012 - The Fire Board approved the tentative 2013 budget. Five firefighters will attend the Winter Fire School which will be held in St. George, Utah, on December 11-12. Fire Chief Dan Kurek will attend an Incident Management Team workshop first week in December, food and fuel costs will be reimbursed for those who travel out of the county. Ben Negus, Fire District Board member, will take an on-line Gamma training course conducted by the State

A wild land fire likely which was caused by an individual was covered and cleared. That individual will perform concrete work at the fire station as restitution. The  other calls received by the fire district this past month include one medical assist, eleven fire pits, (four were rejected), and four burn permits.

Four new pairs of turn outs (protective clothing), and new high pressure pass equipment upgrades are being purchased. These high pressure pass devices will enable (loud) audible sound to help find victims.

During the meeting there was a lengthy discussion regarding the proposed District Policy and Procedures. Recordings of the last few meetings will be listened to in order to clear up any conflicts which the Board members feel.  Board members are becoming very involved in the fire department. 

Fun Place to Live and Serve

If you like to cut down your own Christmas tree you can get an Idaho Forest Service permit at the Alinger Center in Montpelier, Idaho.  It certainly is a fun way to start Christmas.

 

This is a wonderful place to live! We always show pictures of our beautiful lake or the red leaves of fall and the snow capped mountain.  But what really makes this Bear Lake Valley so wonderful are the friends we find here, the activities that bring us together and the help in time of need.

Each Mayor of each town in Rich County is spearheading a Sub-for-Santa program.  There are angel trees around towns so that you can pick someone to help this Christmas.  Call your city offices for more information.

 

Garden City Christmas Party - December 8

Garden City Christmas Party 

Saturday, December 8th at the Garden City Conference Room at 1:00 p.m. 

There will be hot chocolate and doughnuts for everyone. 

A beautiful hand made Christmas Quilt will be raffled at the party

 

Can you remember this little girl five years ago?

Santa will come on the fire truck!  Bring your kids and cameras!

Free Holiday Ice Show December 7th

Bring a can of food for the food bank in Logan! 

The show is free, delightful and popular.

So come early.  The Indoor Ice Show begins at 7. It's not too cold but bring a coat!

George S. Eccles Ice Center 2825 North 200 East in North Logan.

 

 

Musings of a Muddled Male

Flying

 

Bob Stevens

Muddledmale@gmail.com

 

      We put a lot of miles on our car because Ann, my wife, is not allowed on airplanes.  No, it is not because Bob, Ann's husband, is cheap.  It is because of the problem Ann creates for pilots whenever she is a passenger. 

 

      Ann, you see, is afraid of heights.  She is especially frightened at an altitude of 30,000 feet.  Her solution is to grab the arm rests of her seat tightly and use them to hold the plane up.  Now that technique may seem silly to you, but it works for her.  She has never been on an airplane that fell out of the sky so long as she was lifting up on the arm rests.  It works so well, in fact, that the first time she tried it the pilot was unable to get the plane down to land at our destination.  He would push the stick forward to bring the nose down, but when Ann saw the plane start down she would lift up harder on the arm rests and the plane would go back up.  Our flight from Seattle to Salt Lake City ended up in New York because Ann kept lifting up on her arm rests.  We only managed to land then because the pilot sent the co-pilot back to our seat to pry Ann's hands off her arm rests and tie them behind her back.  After that they just refused to let her fly.

 

      I could fly by myself, but now they won't let me board a plane either.  It's not because I associate with Ann.  It is because of the proliferation of x-ray machines at airports. No, I'm not talking about the machine that shows me nude when I pass through the screening area, although I admit that would likely get me kicked off the plane and laughed out of the terminal.  I am referring to the x-ray machine that scans my carry-on luggage to see what's inside.  There was a time when I packed mundane stuff like a bag of candy for emergencies, an extra sock in case I lost one of the two I was wearing, and an extra pair of underwear in case of an accident.  No, not that kind of an accident.  Mom always said to pack an extra pair of clean underwear so that I could put them on before I flew in case the plane crashed and I was taken to emergency.

 

       Such a meager collection of items is no longer sufficient, however, even for a short trip.  The other day, as we were packing to drive to Washington State to visit our daughter, I loaded my bag with things that are now absolutely necessary for the modern traveler.  When I checked I had the charger for my iPhone, a charger for Ann's flip phone, my iPad with its charger, the iPad key board and its charger, my razor with its charger, and my toothbrush with its charger.  My bag was so full of chargers and electronic gadgets that there was no room for my underwear or socks.  I even had to remove my emergency bag of candy.  And you can probably guess what the x-ray machine would say when it spotted my bag full of wires and circuit boards, "ALERT, ALERT, BOMB IN THE BAG, BOMB IN THE BAG, TERRORIST, TERRORIST!!!"

       That is why Ann and I made an agreement that we will never again try to fly on an airplane.  As part of our cooperative effort she also promised that she won't lift up on the armrests of the car if I promise never to buy another iPhone.  So what is a modern man expected to do?  From now on she will be driving and I will be walking wherever we go.  If you see an Expedition being lifted off the ground by the arm rests....that will be Ann, my wife, driving.  I will be the guy walking along side with his iPhone....and a bag full of chargers.

 

Concealed Firearms Training

Be Thankful!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you who are reading and sharing this newsline!  I am so grateful to be living in this beautiful valley that is Rich County.  It may snow but the sun shines a lot and the people are warm. 

We have a wonderful country and we should stop a moment to think about those few people who left England to the Netherlands and then came to the American shores in hard conditions to build a unique civilization that has given us unprecedented freedoms.

Christmas is coming!

The Garden City Second Ward's Christmas Party will be Tuesday, December 18 at 6:30 p.m.  There will be dinner and everyone is invited.

Please send me news of your Christmas activities so they can be posted here.  Send it to rctonline@gmail.com,

The Nutcracker

Featuring
the Northern Utah Symphony and
Cache Children's Choir. Thanksgiving Weekend
Nov 23, 24 & 26 at 7:30 PM & Nov 24 at 1:30 PM
$10/$15/$18/$21
Ellen Eccles Theatre • 43 South Main, Logan
For Tickets: 435-752-0026 • Cache Valley Center for the Arts
For Info: 435-753-3633

Evening performances: 7:30 pm
Saturday Matinee performance: 1:30 pm

The Nutcracker

Featuring
the Northern Utah Symphony and
Cache Children's Choir. Thanksgiving Weekend
Nov 23, 24 & 26 at 7:30 PM & Nov 24 at 1:30 PM
$10/$15/$18/$21
Ellen Eccles Theatre • 43 South Main, Logan
For Tickets: 435-752-0026 • Cache Valley Center for the Arts
For Info: 435-753-3633

Evening performances: 7:30 pm
Saturday Matinee performance: 1:30 pm

Cisco Sonar

Looking toward Rendezvous Beach during Big Spring Creek spring flooding

By Bryce Nielson
For All Who Live and Love Bear Lake

I was intrigued to see that a group wants to hold a Rendezvous near Meadowville.  As long as I can remember there has been a big rock at the rest area at the south end of the lake that talks about the mountain man rendezvous held at the south end of the lake.  A few years ago I met with a group of historians known as the Utah Westerners that wanted to talk about the rendezvous' that were held at Bear Lake.  I have always had a theory that the Rendezvous' were held near the spring where Big Spring Creek originate in round Valley between the Wamsley and Johnson ranches. 

 Round Valley looking towards Meadowville

During this get together they provided me with some research done by Philip Covenington who wrote extensively about trapping in the West.  Understand at this point there are pages and pages of accounts of the 1827 Rendezvous at Sweet/Little Lake (Bear Lake).  I wish there was space for everyone to read it but a quick synopsis is all I can do.  First try to visualize Round Valley before white men, cattle, farming, fences and irrigation ditches.  Big Spring Creek would have been clear, lined with cottonwoods and other riparian vegetation.  The surrounding areas would have been, grassy teaming with wildlife.  Rendezvous sites needed firewood, good water, grazing areas and plenty of game to accommodate the 1000's of Indians and traders. 

Covenington described Sweet Lake as follows:  "We camped at the south end of the lake.  It had a most beautiful shore, sloping gradually to the water's edge, sandy and gravelly, with a considerable quantity of cottonwood trees growing without any underbrush .  South of the lake was a beautiful valley as eyes ever beheld, about two or three miles in each way, all covered with the most luxuriant grass, which furnished excellent pasturage for our animals.  About a half mile from the lake, a large spring (Fallulla Spring) came up out of the prairie, which made a stream about two feet deep and fifteen to twenty feet wide with plenty of the finest quality of fish.  This was on the east , and on the west, came out another spring (Big Spring) nearly the same description, both boiling up on the prairie and dry ground all around.  Both of these streams ran down a gradual gradient slope into the lake."   I believe that Round Valley is a much more appropriate location for a rendezvous than the beach.