Rich High School Prom

The Time of Our Lives!

Concealed Weapons Class

Utah Concealed Firearms Permit Class will be held march 30^th at the GC Fire Station. The cost is $25 per person and an additional $15 to add Arizona’s permit. 

With both permits you can carry a firearm in 38 states. Call Bruce or Chris to register. Bruce: 801-891-2871 Chris: 801-915-4118  or chris@strategictacticalgroup.com

Kindergarten Registration Due

If your child turns 5 on or before September 1, 2013,

Now is the time to register for kindergarten.

North Rich Elementary pre-registration will be

Monday, April 29, 2013.

A birth certificate is required to pre-register.

Current immunizations, vision screening and a

physical are required by the end of this school year.

To schedule an appointment, please call Karla Allen

at 946-3359 X200

Before April 15.

Cisco Sonar

Ice Pushing
by Bryce Neilson

Bryce Neilson

It is a beautiful spring day outside at Bear Lake.  Everyone knows that spring begins next week and everyone can't wait for the snow to leave and the green to appear.  This will begin everywhere around us but not in the Bear Lake Valley.  We have, as close as I can estimate,  (for the Muddled Male's benefit) 24,393,600 tons of ice to melt.  We are an icebox and it is going to take some time to turn the ice into water.  This is especially true considering the lake is covered with new snow that reflects heat and in fact it is still making ice.

If you travel along the shoreline you will see ice being pushed up on shore.  This is not due to the wind or changing lake elevations but expansion.  This action is actually very important to the littoral zone of the lake.  After years of low water, dead trees and phragmities in addition to sandbars and rocks are now encased in ice which is now moving.  With that much mass nothing can resist it.  So when it melts some time, I hope,  in April things will look different,  This stirs up and revitalizes the shoreline.  I personally be happy to see the old dead snags gone.   When breakup get closer I will talk about what happens then. 

 

(Editor's note: I'm just waiting for my first hamburger at Cisco's on the Marina!)

Ice Skaters Spring Show Coming

The Cache Valley Figure Skating Club presents their annual spring show, “Celebrate: An Occasion to Skate” on Friday April 26th and Saturday April 27th at 7:30 pm at the George S. Eccles Ice Center.

 Cme watch local skaters along with guest skater, Hina Ueno, skate to songs celebrating the special occasions throughout the year. Hina Ueno is an Orem-based twelve- year old US National skating competitor who often includes triple jumps in her programs.

Show admission is $8.00 for reserved seats, $5.00 for general admission, and children under 3 are free. Tickets will be available beginning April 1st at the George S. Eccles Ice Center, 2825 North 200 East, North Logan 84341. For more information go to www.cvfscutah.org or call the EIC at 435-787-2288.

Larry Jay Hodges

Larry will be so missed.  He contributed a great deal to Rich County and Garden City.

Larry Jay Hodges (1939 - 2013)

From the Herald Journal                                                  

 

Larry Jay Hodges, 73, of Garden City, died Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at the home of his daughter in Henefer, Utah. He was born August 13, 1939, in Logan, Utah, the son of Jay P. and Margaret Fuller Hodges. He married Lana Pollock on March 18, 1960, in Elko, Nevada.

Larry grew up in Pickleville, Utah, and attended North Rich High School. He served in the U.S. Navy and retired from Hill Air Force Base in 1993. Larry was a member of the American Legion and Rich County Search and Rescue.

Larry passed away surrounded by his family shortly after celebrating he and Lana's 53rd wedding anniversary. As owner of Hodges Toy Box in Garden City, Utah, Larry's motto was "He who dies with the most toys WINS" and he WON!

Larry is survived by his wife Lana Hodges; children Terrie (Guy) Cox and Robin (Joel) Riches; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; siblings Nancy Gibson and Jayne (Brad) Davis; and a plethora of lifelong friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Margaret Theora, brother Douglas Fuller and granddaughter Afton Lynn Riches.

There will be a gathering to celebrate his life from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 23, 2013, at the Hodges family home in Garden City on Hodges Canyon Road. Graveside services will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Garden City Cemetery with military honors. Arrangements are under the direction of Allen-Hall Mortuary of Logan.

Condolences may be shared with the family online at www.allenmortuaries.net.

Musings of a Muddled Male

By Bob Stevens

The Muddled Male

 

Chaotic Mind of an Engineering Insomniac

      It actually started with Ann, my wife.  It was 11:30 PM and I was tired from a long day.  So as soon as Ann started watching a chick flick on the Hallmark channel I slipped off to bed to get some sleep to prepare for the next long day.  One blink and I was snoring....and then it was 2:20 AM and the TV was blaring from the Den where Ann had fallen asleep before her show had ended.  And so, like a dutiful and loving husband, I slipped quietly into the den, turned off the TV, covered Ann so she wouldn't be cold, and went back to bed where I now lay wide awake, staring into the dark; thinking.

 

2:45 AM- I was thinking about water rights and how the maximum flow rate that was allowed by the water right affected the maximum quantity of water that could be pumped during the year without violating the volume portion of the water right.  Let's see now, I need to convert cubic feet per second to gallons per minute and then multiply that times the number of minutes in an hour, the number of hours in a day, and the number of days in a year.  I knew that the last step was to divide the answer by the number of gallons in an acre-foot of water, but it was more than I could juggle in my already tired mind.  I know that my friend the math professor has never met a number he didn't like, and can do complicated math problems in his head, but I needed sleep.  Besides, I think better in spreadsheets.

 

3:15 AM- I was in the middle of designing a mental spreadsheet that would get me the number of acre-feet for various flow rates so that I could create a graphic that would give me a visual of the acre-feet at different flow rates and for different hours of pumping each day.  What I really wanted to do was to go to my computer and just do it, but that is where Ann was sleeping and I didn't want to disturb her, so I just continued designing in my mind.

 

4:00 AM- I had my spreadsheet firmly in mind and was now totally exhausted.  So I rolled over on my left side, pulled my legs up into a semi-fetal position, and prepared to drift off into the sleep I so badly wanted.  Have you ever noticed that if you are awake and trying to sleep on your side with one leg directly on top of the other that the knee and ankle bones of the leg on top press uncomfortably down on the knee and ankle bones of the leg on the bottom?  The same thing happens in reverse if you roll over and sleep on your right side.

 

4:15 AM- I tried sleeping on my back with even worse results.  I couldn't lie with my feet pointing straight up because the blankets pressing down hurt my toes.  And I couldn't turn my feet inward or outward onto their sides while sleeping on my back, because it distorted my hips.  I finally settled on the Egyptian-walking, Hieroglyphic position.  You know, the one where you lie on your side with one leg slightly ahead of the other and both slightly bent at the knee so that in profile you look like you are walking.  That way nothing is pressing down on anything, and now I was certain that I could go to sleep.

 

4:30 AM- while I was laying there trying to sleep I noticed that the heat vent in the ceiling right over our pillows would blow warm air down onto my face when the furnace went on in the middle of the night, and that is probably what had been drying out my mouth while I was sleeping.

 

4:45 AM- by now my dry mouth was giving me heart burn so I got up to sneak a couple of the Tums Ann uses to provide calcium, and while I was up I decided to see if it had snowed, which it hadn't.

 

5:00 AM- While I was laying there in the Hieroglyphic position I began to think that this whole thing was the making of a Muddled Male column, but I would never be able to remember all the things that had been tumbling through my sleepless mind if I didn’t get up and make some notes.  So I got up and went to the Den, got a pen and a note pad, and stood at the bathroom counter in the cold in my underwear and scribbled.

 

5:20 AM- Finally, I told myself, I can go to sleep....and then I began to fret over the fact that tomorrow would begin Daylight Savings and I was going to lose another hour of sleep that I would never recover and now, because I was worrying, I couldn’t go to sleep.

 

And that was why you may have caught me snoozing in Church.  And how was your night?

March Garden City Council Meeting Report

Kathie B. Anderson, Reporter

Rich County Times 

GARDEN CITY, Utah- March 2013. Zan Murray, Garden City Town Engineer, reported that the meter project in Harbor Village and Cisco Landing is well below budget. It was suggested that Garden City purchase city meters, which would also be cost efficient.  

Riley Argyle, of the Garden City Public Works Department, reported that the Heritage Park Pond will need more bendinite since at least 10 feet was lost during the winter.  Zan Murray will conduct an evaporation test on the pond.  Home water meters and landscaping will be put on hold until the thaw begins. Two rebuild kits will be required to get the pumps going again. In about two weeks, the City will need to purchase parts. At the present time, equipment is down to the “bare bones”. Replacement parts will cost $11,000. This work needs to be done before the warranty expires. There have been several spring time leaks that must be repaired. Travis Argyle and Travis Hobbs attended the State Safety Conference.  A seasonal person to help beautify the town, clean the canals, etc. will likely be hired in April.  

George Peart, Rich County Building Inspector, attended the March Planning and Zoning Meeting and acknowledged that the committee had several legitimate concerns such as the sign ordinance, ingress and egress in Lochwood Subdivision, rental space in the Texaco gas station for Subway, and parking requirements. The kiosk public works project will allow city employees to build the kiosk without a contractor. Peart asked Garden City if any “transfer of rights transaction” has ever occurred. The answer was “no”.  

Andy Stokes, Code Enforcement Officer, reported that temporary signs will be allowed for businesses, thereby encouraging more businesses to stay open during the winter. Temporary directional signs will also be allowed for temporary events. The signage can be set up five days before the event, but must be taken down within five days after the event. A form on the city website must be filed out before a sign will be allowed.

Danny White, Garden City Administrator, reported on the decorative signs and solar lights. Weather permitting; installation of the solar lights will begin in April. The garden City banners for the lights have been designed and manufactured. The banner for Raspberry Days has been designed and Raspberry Days lettering is being made darker.  

The master plan for Heritage Park and the possibility of running irrigation lines and planting some turf this year are being looked into. Creating a designated parking area with compact road base is also under consideration. The kiosk is now in the final phase of design. A structural engineer at JUB Engineers is reviewing the kiosk plans to make sure the design is sufficient to support the loads to which it will be subjected. Mr. White is working with JUB to revise the city’s master plan to predict how many new buildings will be built by 2050, determine how many buildings could be built based on current zoning, and create a GIS layer for the Garden City Zoning Map. Data is being collected on existing parks and trails which will be analyzed to determine Garden City’s future needs. 

The Traveland RV Park located at 145 North 300 West is under the new ownership of Steve Knap.

A business license was discussed and approved by the Garden City Council. 

Ordinance #13-03 is an update of REQUIREMENTS FOR A SIGN PERMIT

Ordinance #13-04 is an update of SIGN DEFINITIONS 

Both of these Ordinances were discussed and approved. These new updates will be listed under the Garden City Website. 

Elections by mail were unanimously approved by the City Council. 

The Garden City Town Council proclaimed April, 2013 to be CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH,which will be implemented by actively promoting and improving public awareness; encouraging responsible intervention; and supporting the collaborative mission of Strengthening Families and Protecting Children.