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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Local Artist Work

Art by local Computer Artist, Savannah Lamping



We are looking for  photographs and art work by local artists to share at RCTOnline!

Don't Miss Music Fest Aug 17!

Beaver Mountain Resort is having a music festival on Saturday,  August 17.   It is an afternoon/evening event for the entire family,  with food and fun booths, mostly for the kids.   We have several good music groups coming.  

Needles and Leaves


Tomato Blossom End Rot
By Jennifer Huefner, Bear Lake Landscape, Inc.

435 757 0940 Cell  435 946 8244 Office  jenniferbearlake@gmail.com

 
This year one of my tomatoes developed blossom end rot.  Unwilling to nurse along a tomato plant that wouldn't produce good fruit for me, I decided to do something about it.  After a little research, I learned that the most common cause of blossom end rot in tomatoes is a calcium deficiency.  This deficiency is easily corrected with a calcium supplement.  I found one called Yield Booster by Fertilome in a ready-to -use spray bottle.  I followed the bottle's instructions for application, an easy once per week spray during the cool hours of morning or evening to avoid leaf burn.  Within one week my sad looking tomato plant was significantly happier-looking!  The leaves have gone from yellowing and dry to green and lush.  The new fruit that is setting does not show signs of blossom end rot.  I'm a believer in the effectiveness of Yield Booster in helping tomatoes be healthy and happy!  If you have tomatoes that are showing signs of blossom end rot, or are just not healthy, come in to our Garden Center for a bottle of Yield Booster.  You'll like the results of this easy solution!

County Fair Info


Friday, August 9

6:00 pm “THUNDER ON THE WATER” Truck Pulls - Laketown Arena

9:00 pm (or after truck pulls) “COUNTY RED” Concert -  Laketown Arena 

Saturday, August 10


6:00 pm “THUNDER ON THE WATER” Truck Pulls  Laketown Arena 

Monday, August 12

7:00 pm Jackpot Barrel Racing 

Tuesday, August 13

9:00 am Open Horse Show

6:30 pm Volleyball Tourney
 
Wednesday, August 14

1-5:00 pm Enter Open Class Home Arts, Indoor Exhibits and 4-H Projects

6:00 pm Junior Rodeo – Randolph Arena
 
 

2013 RICH COUNTY FAIR BOARD

Chairman . . . . . . . . . . Bret Argyle (435) 881-3184
Vice Chair . . . . . . . . . Tracy Hatch (435) 881-4370
Secretary . . . . . . . . . .  LouJean Argyle (435 881-3158
County Extension . . . .Darrell Rothlisberger (435) 881-3198
4-H Assistant . . . . . . . Kathy Putnam 793-2435
Queen Contest . . . . . . Michelle Hatch (435) 452-2810
Home Arts . . . . . . . . . Lisa Johnson (435) 881-4985
Jr Rodeo . . . . . . . . . . .Brandon Hatch (435) 881-2859, Michelle Hatch (435) 452-2810
Rodeo . . . . . . . . . . . .  Jade Willis (435) 757-3663, Tracy Hatch (435) 881-4370

Fair Book & Publicity . . Chelsey Bruce (435) 881-3159
Commercial Exhibits . . . Greg Thornock (435) 881-3937
Livestock Exhibits . . . . . Dwight Lloyd (435) 757-9327

Truck Pulls . . . . . . . . . .. Bret Argyle (435) 881-3184
Truck Pulls Parking . . .  Nikki Weston (208) 847-5243
Volleyball Tourney . . . . Dustin Wasden (801) 209-4659
5k Fun Run/Walk . . . . .  Glen Smith (435) 881-4059

Parade . . . . . . . . . . . .  . .Geo Peart (435) 881-5574, Dana Peart
Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Suzanne Siddoway (435) 213-5716
Parking . . . . . . . . . . . .   Shae Pace (435) 757-0060
Team Roping . . . . . . . .  Jade Willis (435) 757-3663, Ron Stuart (435) 881-4005
Dutch Oven Contest . . . Joseph & Jency Weston (435) 757-5662
Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . Brady Thornock (435) 730-0573

Jackpot Barrels . . . . . . . Pam Cornia (435) 793-3143, Jeanie Myers (435) 793-5895
Open Horse Show . . . .  Sheila Erickson (435) 757-8100
Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . Town of Randolph
Medical Services . . . . .  Rich County EMT

 

 

August 2013

Ballingham - McKinlay

 
DJ Ballingham and Heather Rosenvall McKinlay
Were married July 25, 2013
 


Friday, July 26, 2013

Raspberry Days August 1-3


 

Bear Lake Raspberry Days

August 1, 2 & 3
 

The 29th annual Bear Lake Raspberry Days will be held August 1, 2 & 3, 2013 in Garden City, Utah.  The craft fair and most of the entertainment will be located at 50 South and 100 West in Garden City’s parking lot next to the LDS church.  The Bear Lake Valley Craft Fair (local crafters) will be located at 69 North Paradise Parkway.  Free parking will be available a long 100 west and Hwy 89 and also near the Bear Lake Valley craft fair on 300 west.  

As always the Raspberry Days Festival is free to the public.  Visitors will enjoy the wide variety of vendors at the craft fairs along with entertainment such as singers, musicians, magicians, and hypnotists. Spectators can also enter the pie, watermelon, and hotdog eating contests.  Tickets can be purchased for kids’ activities such as Bouncy Houses and pony rides.  

Raspberry Days has three new activities this year. The first is Zumba classes from 8:30AM – 9:30AM on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.  The second is a 5k fun mud run called the Messy Rush on Friday morning starting at 8:00AM. You can register online for the mud run at www.messyrush.com. The third activity is Open Mic night August 3rd at 4:00PM.  Everyone is encouraged to share their talents.  Email dhakadtb@gmail.com for more details.  

August 1st, at 6:00PM will be the parade.  The Raspberry Days Rodeo will be held August 2 & 3 at 7:30PM in the Laketown arena. Tickets can be purchased at local retails and at the gate.  Dances will also be held all three nights at the Bear Lake Dance Place located at 535 west Logan Canyon Road 

Saturday, August 3rd activities include a pancake breakfast served from 8:00AM – 11:00AM at the Garden City Park, the Raspberry Days Golf Scramble at the Bear Lake West Golf Course starting at 8:00AM and 1:00PM and the 5K fun run in Laketown at 8:00AM. The festival will conclude with fireworks at the Garden City Park at 10:00PM. 

Please see attached flyer for more specific times and prices.   

Contact the Bear Lake Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau 435-946-2197 or the Garden City Offices 435-946-2901 for more information.

Monday, July 22, 2013

The Muddled Male


Foundations
By Bob Stevens, The Muddled Male

            I am happy to report that we survived yesterday’s near death experience.  It began with sudden darkness and the shriek of a berserk Church organ as the life blood of the town slipped away one power phase at a time.  Then came reports of critical shutdowns of our comfort and convenience sources.  On one side of the system the people on the hill were left to survive with whatever water was in the water system storage tanks when power was lost and the pumps that move water from wells in the valley to tanks on the hill stopped turning.  On the other side of the system, and in the same valley as the wells, stood other silent pumps that just a few moments earlier had been moving that same water from drains to sewage ponds in Round Valley.
 
            The more serious problem, however, came as I watched my life ebb away one percent at a time and nothing could be done.  My iPhone battery was down to sixty percent, my iPad battery was down to seventy percent, and my laptop battery was down to ninety percent and falling rapidly.  It really didn’t matter, however, because the internet expired along with the shrieking Church Organ, and I was left without means of communication or the ability to think. 

         A friend sent me an email the other day that said, “We had a power outage last week and my PC, TV, and games console shut down immediately, so I had to talk to my family for a few hours.  They seem like nice people.”  At first I thought that Ann, my wife, had composed that email as a not so subtle way of telling me that I had become addicted to gadgets.  I admit that I am constantly checking my email and responding to texts, but it is part of the age in which we live, isn’t it?  Besides, if you don’t text you might never get to talk to your grandkids.  You would think that Ann would at least give me credit for that fact that I don’t have a Facebook page, and I don’t have a Twitter Account.  But when I pointed that fact out to her, she responded that she didn’t even know that Twits knew how to Tweet. 

            So in the calm of a powerless Sunday afternoon I picked up a book.  You know, the kind where you read by turning the pages one at a time by grasping the upper right corner of each page and turning it slowly from right to left as you scan each line.  The book, written by Gerald Lund, is titled The Undaunted and is about the Miracle of the Hole-In-The-Rock Pioneers.  It begins with the story of a young boy who had just turned six and started working underground in the coal mines of Yorkshire, England.  As I read of the conditions in which he and his family were living and working I began to think that a brief power outage on a warm Sunday afternoon wasn’t so bad after all.  But the thing that came to mind most forcefully was the awareness that none of the conveniences I enjoy today were of my own doing.  They were created by others and upon foundations built by someone before them who would never enjoy what I couldn’t get along without now. 

            And so on this Twenty-Fourth of July as we celebrate Pioneer Day watching parades and rodeos and shooting off fireworks (except up here on the hill where fireworks are banned), let’s pay tribute not only to those pioneers who settled the west, but also to your parents and grandparents who never had the conveniences you enjoy but on whose foundation you stand.