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We Have A Health Care Navigator

Outreach & Enrollment Navigator For Affordable Care Sign-up For Logan and Bear Lake Area

Chase Merrill was recently hired as the Health Insurance Marketplace Outreach and Enrollment Navigator . His job is to help guide the uninsured and underinsured through the application process with the goal of obtaining health insurance for themselves and their families.

 The Health Insurance Marketplace was established by the Affordable Care Act, and open enrollment begins October 1^st, 2013, and goes until March 31^st, 2014. Chase is a State Certified Applications Counselor (CAC), and also speaks Spanish. Chase will be available to help answer any questions you may have about the Health Insurance Marketplace qualifications and application process. You may send him an e-mail at cmerrill@cvchc.org.

Chase Merrill was born and raised here in Cache Valley. He graduated from Logan High in 2006 and from Utah State University in May 2013, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Marketing. While at Utah State University, Chase was a member and President of the Utah State University Phi Beta Lambda/ Future Business Leaders of America chapter, and also competed on a national level, placing 7^th in Marketing. Apart from business, Chase enjoys spending time hiking, fishing, playing tennis and volleyball with friends, listening to music, pretending to be a mechanic and working on his car, skeet shooting, working in the garden, and also beekeeping.

Chase’s Contact Information:

Schedule an appointment:   435.755.6061
General Questions:                435.363.5640
Fax:                                            435.755.6091
Email:                             cmerrill@cvchc.org

Things Are Happening In November!

 

November 2013

• 2nd: Live Music and Costume Party at Cooper's at Bear Lake West 8PM - 12PM (208-945-222). Live music by Nate Eye.
• 15th: Hunt Mysteries presents The Phantom Killer at the National Oregon/California Trail Center.  Dinner and Show starts at 6:00PM.  
• 15th: Off the Wall Comedy Improv at the National Oregon/California Trail Center.  Show starts at 9:00PM
• 23rd: Rich Legends and Melodies: stories, poetry, & music! Located in Garden City, UT at Lake View Room, Bldg C, 69 N. Paradise Parkway. Performance starts at 6:30 PM. Free Admission! For more info contact 435-730-6559.
• 29th - 30th: Holiday Craft Fair & Tree Festival at the Oregon Trail Center in Montpelier on Friday from noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Santa will visit Saturday at noon. 208-847-3800.
• 30th: Paris Craft Fair, Paris Elementary School, 10am - 3 pm, for more info call 208-847-0722.
• Thanksgiving in Bear Lake, bring your family for a great time of year, call 1-800-448-BEAR for activities and services

Halloween At The KOA

Garden City's Fifth Annual Witches Night Out

Photo by Lauriann Wakefield

Rich Middle School VS Kemmerer

Photos by Tammy Calder

Rich High School Lady Rebels Volleyball VS Mt. View

Photos by Tammy Calder

The Muddled Male

Loser

By Bob Stevens, The Muddled Male

         Fall is a tough time of year for your friend, the Muddled Male.  Don’t get me wrong.  It is breathtaking to drive down Logan Canyon in the fall when the evergreens stand as dark green backdrops for leaves of pink, gold, red, yellow, and brilliant orange that burst forth from the seasonal trees that have begun their annual slide into winter.  And who can complain about gorgeous sunny days followed by nights cool enough to turn my infestation of box elder bugs into a fossilized zoo of barely moving creatures just waiting for my shop vacuum to inhale them into its darkened tomb of similarly expired insects.  Okay, I confess.  It is Ann, my wife, who brings frustration into the fall of my life. 

            Ann, you see, is what my dad would call a fuss-budget.  Each fall, in spite of the pending storms of wind and dust and rain that are the harbingers of winter, Ann, like a lemming to the sea, marches to a drum that only she can hear; and we wash windows.  Now I don’t mean just a few windows given a once over wipe down.  There are thirty-eight, including sliding windows, fixed windows, sliding glass doors, decorative doors, and storm doors.  Window cleaning to Ann doesn’t mean just cleaning the window panes.  It also includes removing each sliding window, then removing the rail in the bottom channel of the frame so that any bugs or stains that might have snuck in on the coattails of melting snow during the spring can be scrubbed away.  Next we scrub down the frames inside and out, the channels where the windows nest, the glass inside and out, and the sills.  All of that is followed by reassembly while making certain, of course, that I hadn’t disturbed the curtains. 

            The friction in our loving relationship comes from a difference in style.  I am one of those window washers whose method of cleaning is more of a “squirt, swish, swish, zip” and I’m ready to go to town for an order of French fries and then a nap.  Ann, on the other hand, is more of a “squirt, rub, rub, rub, inspect, rub, rub, inspect, rub inspect squirt, rub, rub, rub, rub, rub” kind of window cleaner.  Then she insists on going back to check the window we just finished to make certain that I hadn’t left any fingerprints during reassembly.  This went on for two long days before I could lay my poor head down for a nap. 

            I might have survived all that except that a few days prior, our friend Kathy, who just happens to hold the land speed record for a car driven through Logan Canyon, called and woke me from a sound sleep just to ask if I had forgotten that my assignment that day was to clean the Church restrooms.  And did I realize that I was to have started at 8:00 AM and it was now 8:30 AM?  She didn’t say, but I could tell from the giggle that the word would spread immediately around town that the Muddled Male, as one might expect because he is a man, had failed an assignment.  On top of that Ann, my wife, punished me by refusing to let me buy a $5 bag of delectable waffle fries, but she paid $3.49/pound for sprig of broccoli. 

            P.S.  Ann said that I have exaggerated so much that the chocolate chunk cookies she just made to thank me for helping with the windows are now going to be given away to a more truthful person.  It is true, I may have exaggerated a LITTLE.  But losing a whole batch of chocolate chunk cookies really makes me a loser.

Quite Possibly The Most Beautiful Day This Year

These unexpectedly beautiful fall days are treasures to all who live in the Bear Lake area.



Scotty and Jake
Photo by Lauriann Wakefield

Rich County School Board Meeting

Anita Weston, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH,  Utah.  October 22, 2013. Two new teachers who have joined the teaching faculty this year were introduced to the School Board members.  Lisa Shipman earned her degree from the University of Wyoming.  She obtained a master’s degree from Utah State University.  This is her first teaching job, and she is looking forward to the coming year as the new speech pathologist.  Lauran Kennedy graduated from Rich High School and completed her bachelor’s degree from Utah State University.  She is the new history teacher and will also assist with the volley ball team. It is also her first teaching experience.

Mrs.Cornia reported on how the UCA Plan will be used this coming school year.

            Title 2A is for professional development for the district.

Title 1A is for the South Rich elementary para-professional area.  It will provide equipment and lap tops.

IDEA is for pre-school and special education.  It will pay for para-professional salaries for the community preschool

IDEA School Age Special Education.  It will pay for the para-professional contracted services.

At Risk SRE will pay for professional development, summer school, after school tutors, incentives, and year end parties.

Reading Achievement has no money.  Monies will be found and used for kindergarten

salaries: $3,000 for reading supplies for K - 3, and purchase of pre and post test materials.

            Early Intervention will handle kindergarten salaries. 

Superintendent Dale Lamborn noted that it becomes more and more difficult each year to cover all of the required applications.  It has become a major project, and he offered a special thanks to Mrs. Cornia for her hard work.  He noted that Mrs. Davis also works with her on this project.

Mrs. Esterholdt reported that the turn around at the bottom of Swan Creek Village is unusable.  Asphalt has been placed for a short length at the bottom of the hill leaving a very abrupt, deep edge.  The buses can’t leave the road, turn around, and get back up on this new asphalt.  It will be impossible to make this maneuver this coming winter when the roads are slick.  She recommended that the busses use the KOA area for the turn around.  This will require parents (seven sets of parents and 14 students affected) of the students north of KOA to drive their children to the KOA to catch the bus. The parents will be reimbursed 48 cents a mile by the state.  A letter will be sent to those individual affected to inform them of the change will take place on the 4^th of November. 

The winter sports schedule for the high school and middle school was approved.  All activities are scheduled on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday.

The middle school currently doesn’t have a wrestling coach.  The job has been posted for about three weeks.  Only one person has responded so far.  The board encouraged Mr. Motta to contact that applicant and hire him if possible.

Brittany Lundgren has already been working as the aide for the second grade.  Sherrie Larsen and Trish Walentine have been asked to assist in the Cheer and Dance program. 

Mr. Williamson was made Coach of the year in 1A golf.  It was noted that most of the young women who participate in this program are not active in any of the other programs offered at the school.  This has given them an opportunity to participate and be successful.

Michele Hatch has been to the Governor’s Summit and the Education Summit and is helping write the State goals from 2020.  The Governor visited several classrooms when he was in the vicinity and was most impressed with the kindergarten teacher and the activities he was able to observe there.

The procurement policy was ratified.  Policy 302.3 and 302.4 from last month that were adopted were also ratified.  A written hiring procedure for assistant coaches was written, and it was recommended that the board adopt this procedure.  The procedure follows what has always been done.  It is now, however, in written form making it easier for everyone to follow and be consistent.

It was recommended that the Christmas Gift to employees be raised from $20 to $25.   There have been some minor changes in enrollment.  They are about the same as at the beginning of the school year.  The State uses October 1 enrollment figures for all state funding.

Some school activities have been listed as not being covered by the Risk Management portion of the school insurance policy.  After a discussion, it was determined that several activities that the school has used and sponsored in the past will be continued.  However, it was noted that special care should be taken and good judgment used during these activities. 

Lamborn will meet with the Executive Board of the UHSAA/Sportsmanship Committee to see if they will agree to allow our school to participate in the tournaments that have been held in Richfield in the past.  The committee felt that there wasn’t enough facility in Richfield to have them continue at the location.  Richfield, however, does have the facility and is willing to host the tournaments.

November Board Meeting will be held in Randolph on November 20.  It will be held during the day so that the legislators can attend. Lunch will be served at 11 and the meeting will begin at noon.

A meeting on internet safety will be presented to the students on November 6.  K- 3 grades will receive this instruction at 9:30, 4-5 grades at 10:10 and the rest of the middle school at 11:00 a.m.  Internet safety education is a state mandated activity.

A meeting concerning bullying for the high school students and their parents is also a state mandated meeting.  This meeting will be scheduled soon.