Library Rummage Sale June 21-22

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*

Garden City Farmers and Artisan's Market

By Sandra Warner

For the Rich Civic Times

 

Every Friday Until  The End of August 5 - 8 p.m.

 

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  There is a substantial movement across our country to know where our food and products are from. What better way than from your local farmers market!

Last year Melissa Spuhler spearheaded the Garden City Farmers and Artisans Market (GCFAM) -      the mission of which is to educate consumers about sustainable agriculture and healthy foods, provide a source of revenue for local farmers, artisans, and businesses and create a vital community gathering place for all ages.   

Based on its success and with lessons learned, the 2013 GCFAM is even bigger and better.  Offering fruits and vegetables grown in the Bear Lake area and surrounding regions, local fresh eggs, gourmet baked goods, and other freshly made goodies, the farmers part of the market is sure to make mealtime a gathering to enjoy and savor. 

Stroll the artisan booths to find that perfect   handcrafted gift.  Expertly crafted wooden bowls, rustic frames, unique jewelry, handpainted saw blades, wearable art, and handmade toys are just a few of the offerings from the many talented artists.  Bring a blanket and sit on the lawn to enjoy the live music to complete your Market experience.

The GCFAM is held every Friday from June through August (except Aug. 2) from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. at the southwest end of the city parking lot located at 50 S. Bear Lake Boulevard (where Raspberry Days is held). 

Garden City hopes to live up to its name sake by providing this venue for gardeners to help the local farm to table and buy handmade movements on the shores of Bear Lake.  

National Guard Training At The Lake

Photos by Bobbie Coray

LAKETOWN, Utah.  June 8, 2013.  The Utah National Guard used Rendezvous Beach near Laketown, Utah as a training ground for several days this week.  They worked with local Search and Rescue people and the Sheriff's office and practiced using machines, equipment and flying over potential rescue sites.  Then the public had a chance to see the helicopters up close. 

It was an amazing sight to see three Black Hawk helicopters flying in formation over the mountains and over Bear Lake.

Photo by Carmen Wimmer, who is 8 years old.

Randolph Fire District

Bobbie Bicknell Coray,
Reporter, Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah. Rich County Commission.  June 5, 2013.  The Randolph Fire District has a problem with their shed not being large enough or open enough to avoid having trucks parked in front of each other.  "They would like a new door so that there is two way access," said Kim Wilson,  a member of the fire department.  “There usually is one truck that has something not working and then we have to jockey them around to get a running one out.”  

There hasn’t been an official decision on this, but it is being discussed.   "The man-power strength is now coming from Woodruff as so many of the Randolph fire fighters are now working out of the county," said Wilson.   Many of the volunteer firefighters are increasing their certification levels and receiving additional training.

Bear River Mental Health Report

Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah, Rich County Commission Meeting. June 5, 2013.  Reed Ernstrom, Director of Bear River Mental Health Services, explained  the updated  2014 Area Plan.  The commission is the mental health authority for the county and therefore BRMH must report to them .   Mandated  services include out- patient service, in-patient services, residential care,  24 hour crisis care, psychotropic medication management,  peer support services, education, as well as other non-mandated services.

Funding comes from Medicaid and is matched by Rich, Box Elder and Cache Counties. Both adults and youth are served.  There is a sliding fee based on a family’s income and they mainly treat low income residents.   BRMH has a psychiatrist, psychologists, therapists, advanced nursing staff and clinical licensed therapists.   They have relationships with Logan Regional Hospital and the State Hospital.  They have adult residential care and availability for transitional patients.  They have a 24 hour crisis line. 

BRMH works with jail inmates; often Rich County inmates with mental health needs are sent to Logan because they have better facilities.  Dr. Ed Redd provides medical services to the jail.   Financing from the Utah legislature has dropped significantly, so BRMH are more dependent on Medicaid.  That means that they cannot serve everyone, as has been done in the past, they will lean toward Medicaid patients and find other options for others.    There are three private psychiatrists in Cache Valley for the rest of the population.  In crisis situations, however, they will take everyone.

 

 

Record Retention and Employee Policies To Be Updated

Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah. Rich County Commission Meeting. June 5, 2013.  Kathleen Liuzzi,  Utah Counties Indemnity Pool, introduced herself as the new Loss Control Manager,  She has worked with many counties as part of the UCIP’s defense counsel team.  Liuzzi worked for the law firm of Dunn & Dunn where she has worked with UCIP’s staff to defend county claims for the past nine years.  

Commissioner Bill Cox asked if she would review county’s personnel policies and manuals and update them before they are put on line.  He also asked if she conduct a sexual harassment avoidance workshop in the fall.  Cox said that other policies are being reviewed now, including jail policies, by private contracted experts.  Liuzzi asked if the county had a records retention policy in written form.  “We use the state rules.” said Clerk Becky Peart, “ and it is not written anywhere in County policy.”  Liuzzi said she is working on State policy now and will work with the county on theirs.

She gave the commissioners a check from Workman’s Compensation.  It is the annual dividend check.  Every year when  Workman’s Comp has extra funds they reimburse the counties. This year there was better than expected investment returns of $82 million.  All private companies as well as government entities will receive a check this year.  Rich County received $762.49.

We Are All Visitors

By Doug Alder, Historian

Doug and Elain Alder

Nearly 40 years ago, our family built a cabin on Sweetwater Hillside.  We became seasonal visitors in Bear Lake Valley and are still visitors, now with an expanded family of four generations.

This spring we arrived and were once again thrilled with the rich green growth everywhere and the deep blue color of the lake from our view up on the hill.

The first day here, a moose carefully walked by, quite unimpressed by our presence.  Later came a fawn, quite cautiously.  Squirrels darted across roads and paths.  Magpies flew by the windows.   A pair of wrens have occupied a nest under the eaves and are awaiting the hatching of eggs.  The evidence of badgers was visible.

To our amazement, we saw that a porcupine had climbed up three of our Austrian pines and eaten the bark.  When
we visited Jay and Yvonne Spencer at their lakeside home we saw about 25 pelicans on a small sandbar near the shore.  The Spencers say the birds are there daily in a group.

These are all most impressive to those of us who are summer visitors.  The full-timers tell us that they are contiually thrilled by nature's richness surrounding us.

So we conclude that all of us humans are visitors on nature's turf, where the birds and mammals and fish and insects are the real owners, the real long timers.

Bear Lake Shake To Be Annual Affair

Don't miss the Bear Lake Shake next year.  It was fun! 

Frank Anderson looking yachtly
Photo by Bobbie Coray

We toured some amazing sailboats, watched motor boats on the Poker Run and enjoyed the Sailboat Shake Race.  Richard Droesbeck, Division of Natural Resources, said that they were tasked with creating an event that would bring people to the lake at a slow time.  His research found that the weekend after Memorial Day is the slowest of the summer, so the Bear Lake Shake will be an ongoing event.   Everyone had a great time, the hot dogs were free.  Kite flying on Rendevous beach is good during the afternoon breezes and then they finished it off with a dutch oven cookoff.

Flying Over The Lake

Photo by Lauriann Wakefield, Little Starling Photography