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Saturday, June 1, 2013

Rich County Day At Rendevous Beach

June 8, 2013 is designated as Rich County Day at Rendezvous Beach.

 
Bear Lake State Park will turn back the Day Use entrance fee 20 years, from the current $8 to $3 per vehicle when the driver of the vehicle shows a proper identification with a Rich County, Utah address.
 
For the days of June 5 through June 12, 2013, the Utah Army National Guard will be conducting training south and west of the Bear Lake valley. 
 
On Saturday June 8, the Utah Army National Guard will have one of its helicopters and some of its staff on display in the Day Use parking lot at Rendezvous Beach.  Park visitors will be able to get a close look at the helicopter and will also be able to ask questions to the National Guard staff members.
 
 
 
Richard Droesbeke
Park Manager, Bear Lake State Park
Visit the park on Facebook at: Bear Lake State Park, Utah
or on the web at: www.bearlakestatepark.utah.gov

Items Needed For Library Rummage Sale

ANNUAL LIBRARY RUMMAGE SALE JUNE 21-22
 
Rummage around your house and bring your gently used items to the Garden City Library for the Rummage Sale Friday and Saturday, June 21st-22nd.  It will be held at the Garden City Park.
 
For assistance with large items call the library at 435-946-2950, or Kathie Anderson 801-518-5172, or bring them directly to the sale on June 21st-22nd.
 
No mattresses, clothing, or broken appliances or electronics, please. 
             
We hope to see you there, we already have some really great items!
 
*ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE GARDEN CITY LIBRARY*

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Bear Lake Monster Bike Ride

Century Ride

The Bear Lake Monster Century is a fun bicycle ride with distances and challenges for cyclists of all abilities. We offer five different distances for riders.

We will start our 100 Mile riders at 7:00 a.m. 75 Mile riders roll out at 7:05. 100 Kilometer (62 miles) hits the road at 7:10 and our 50 Mile participants follow at 7:15.

Bear Lake also offers gently rolling roads that hug the shoreline while still challenging the legs and lungs of cyclists. The Bear Lake Monster Century bicycle ride will be held June 29, 2013 with a start and finish in Montpelier, Idaho.

With five bike ride options ranging from 25 to 100 miles, there is sure to be a distance and challenge for everyone. The entry fee includes a post-ride barbeque at the park.

Save $10. Sign up for the Bear Lake Monster Century ! http://bearlakemonsterride.com/
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Sunday, May 26, 2013

The Muddled Male


Crushed Ego

By Bob Stevens, The Muddled Male
 
It has been a particularly rough week for your friend the Muddled Male.  No, I didn’t have a root canal, and I certainly didn’t get another speeding ticket, since I now drive the legal speed no matter the urgency of the trip.  My goal is to avoid another $165 speeding ticket even if Ann, my wife, is in the middle of labor, which luckily she isn’t, and I have to rush her to the geriatric maternity ward.  I might make an exception if I am asked to be the judge at a French fry cooking contest and am running late, but anything else will have to wait until I can get there at or below the legal speed.
 

      My rough week occurred as I was participating in a planning meeting for a Church activity.  All went smoothly until the duties were to be assigned to various participating groups.  Bring the food, check.  Reserve the park, check.  Line up the games, check.  Cook the hamburgers and hot dogs……no response.  And then my friend RA looked right at me and said, “Let’s have the little guys do the barbecuing.”  Now I must admit that age may have caused me to shrink a bit, as it has many of the guys in the group I represent, but really, little guys?  Well, I accepted the assignment, but my ego was crushed and I decided that I needed to have an eye to eye talk with RA about her obvious and unfair bias caused, I felt, by the fact that she is tall.  Statuesque, I think is the word. 

      So, as the meeting ended I followed RA into the hallway, stood on my tip-toes, stretched to stand as tall as I possibly could, and found that I could look her in the chin, but not her eye.  The only thing I had left was to jump as I made my point.  [Jump] “I” [Jump] “am” [Jump] “not” [Jump] “a” [Jump] “little” [Jump] “guy!”  Well by now I was out of breath and passed out.  I came to long enough to see the flashing lights and hear one of the Medics say to the doctor on the other end of the radio, “We are bringing in a little guy who passed out from oxygen deprivation.  It is almost like he was doing something stressful at an altitude where he should have been on oxygen.”  As they put me on the stretcher I tried to cry out, “It’s the tall lady’s fault.  And I am not a little guy,” but I was out of breath.
 
 
 
Ed: Note:  And RA's little daughter asked if she could bring cookies to the people on Old People's Hill which actually happens to be where the Muddled Male lives...as do I,  hmmm.

Bear Lake Shake

The BEAR LAKE SHAKE  is at the State Park marina and Rendezvous Beach. Activities include: Sailboat races, motor boat poker run, volleyball tournament, dutch-oven cook off, and more! For more information or to register for an event contact Bear Lake State Park at 435-946-3343

The fun starts with Motorboat Poker Run at 9 a.m at the State Marina and the Sailboat Race at 11 a.m.

Then move to Rendevous Beach for a volleyball tournament, kite flying and other family activities starting at 2 p.m.