Artisans Needed For Butch Cassidy Days

Bear Lake Arts Council Idaho

C/o Montpelier City Hall

534 Washington Street

Montpelier, Id 83254

June 12, 2013

The Bear Lake Arts Council and Montpelier Chamber of Commerce are joining together for our annual Butch Cassidy Days, Saturday July 20^th, 2013.  From 9:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. local heritage artisans and vendors will line both sides of downtown Montpelier. A reenactment of the Butch Cassidy bank robbery will take place at noon.

We would like you to participate by displaying your artistic works and if at all possible create or work on your current project.

 Thank you in advance for your support.  For “no charge” booth space and more information contact Sara Lusk at 801-541-2816.

Jeana Hansen, President of Bear Lake Arts Council

The Muddled Male

Ratio Theory

 

By Bob Stevens, The Muddled Male

        We have been traveling from one enclave of grandchildren to another for the past few days, and it has caused me to ponder the issue of aging.  A little about aging in general, of course, but mostly about the aging that applies directly to me.  Ask any of us “old duffers,” as we are sometimes called, and we are quick to tell you that it was only yesterday that we were little kids playing with the same energy and abandon as our great grandchildren do now.  What happened in the interim?  How did we move so quickly from young to old?  What is it that takes us so rapidly from invincible to fragile?  Well, I have been working on a theory that my friend the math professor would say is simply a matter of ratios. 

        When I was little, like our great grandchildren, my only thought was of the moment.  Not anyone else’s moment, mind you, just my own.  That should have been easy to do since I hadn’t been around very long and the number of moments of which I was trying to keep track were few.  When I was three, however, thinking about things that happened when I was two still taxed my little brain since one year was one third of my entire life up to that moment.  At my current age, however, one third of my life is now a block of twenty-six years.  Same ratio, as my friend would be quick to explain, but a whole lot more “stuff” to sort through, especially if I happen to be reviewing the twenty-six years that contains the exciting courtship of Ann, my wife, and especially since I have a much slower processing speed now than when I was three, or when I was courting. 

        I was explaining my ratio theory to Ann, but her processing speed is also slow and she is still stuck in the middle of her lecture about my poor eating habits and why I will regret it one day.  When her frustration becomes overwhelming she always reminds me that amputation is in my diabetic future if I don’t pay more heed to her counsel.  When my frustration becomes overwhelming I respond with a reminder that if her warning becomes reality I will ask for a pair of those springy things that the blade runner used in the Olympics and I will be able to run faster than I can now……even in my old age.  Assuming that she hadn’t heard my explanation about my ratio theory, and assuming that I had finally gotten the upper hand regarding her dismay over my diet, I assumed the position of a smug husband just in time to hear her remind me that the definition for duffer is an incompetent or dull-witted person.  Maybe my ratio theory only applies to husbands.

Summer Bear Lake

Photo by Eric Frandsen

Don't Polite Yourself To Death

Bobbie Bicknell Coray
Rich Civic Times


The other night I was chatting with a friend when she began to mix up words and use the wrong ones. We both stopped talking, startled.  I said to her that she was showing signs of a stroke.  "Oh, no," she said.  "I'm  just fine."  My kind friend never wants to be a bother and is so polite!

I suggested that she let me take her to the hospital, but again she said she was fine.  I left, checked with a friend who had had a stroke years before who told me to call the ambulance because there was a three hour window in the case of a stroke to get the correct medication.  (I learned later that you really need to get to the hospital in two hours, so they can do a CAT scan and other tests.)

So I called the ambulance, got gas, because I was on fumes..(Keep your gas tank half full in Rich County), and got to her house just after the ambulance arrived.  The EMT staff were wonderful and thorough.  They called the hospital and did tests.  But by this time my friend was just fine and looking good.. Again, so polite that she didn't want to put the ambulance people out, she thanked them and sent them on their way.  They agreed when their consulting doctor released her and only if I would take her home with me and watch her.  They left, asking us to call them again if anything changed. I was politely embarrassed that perhaps I'd over-reacted, and wondered if I should have called the ambulance...you see how we were "politing" ourselves to death?

Several people had gathered seeing the ambulance lights, so they helped her get her things together to go to my house and once again her speech pattern changed drastically.  This time we didn't ask politely, we just put her in the car and drove her to Logan Hospital.  We made it in time and she is just fine.  But I learned a lot.

1. At the sign of a stroke or heart attack take the ambulance to a major trauma hospital.

2. Don't worry that you are being a bother or think that you will get better in time. Err on the side of caution.

3. Don't drive someone to the hospital yourself, use the ambulance, because they can deal with an emergency on drive to the hospital, give oxygen and put in intravenous tubes.

Butch Cassidy Days

WANTED!!!  ARTISANS AND VENDORS!!!

The Chamber of Commerce and Arts Council are looking for artisans and vendors who are interested in free booth space for the Butch Cassidy Days Event.  July 20th from 9-2pm.  Please respond ASAP for a registration form as space is limited and will be assigned. 

We are working hard to make this a huge and exciting event for our community so please pass along the attached information.

Thank you so much and please contact any board member with questions!

 

Sara Lusk

Secretary

Bear Lake- Montpelier Idaho Chamber of Commerce

www.BearLakeChamber.org

Owner

BLB Outlet

www.BearLakeBuzz.com