Estate Sale June 20-22

The Lake House address is: 328 S 150 E Garden City, UT 84028
Lake front property in the Mar Vista Subdivision.
The location shows up clearly on Google Maps but not on MapQuest
10 am to 3 pm  Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 20-22

A partial list of goodies include:

Fully Furnished Home: matching like-new heavy solid wood coffee and end tables, entertainment center, dining table /chairs. Couches, lamps, leather captains chairs, 2 recliners, 4 rocking chairs. Board games. Mens clothing, hat rack with hats, matching luggage set, wine rack. Matching bar stools, large standing wooden salad bowl, 3 bedroom sets, dressers w/mirrors with many small tables and chairs. Casio electric organ with back-up box.  LOTS of outdoor furniture. Dishes, glasses, utensils, many electric kitchen appliances, canned food and storage racks, vacuum cleaners. Dramatic, beautiful stuffed animal birds and heads.

Garage: Electric golf cart, gas golf cart, 38” riding lawn mower, snowblower, electric de-thatcher, heavy duty cement mixer, air compressors, pneumatic hoses and tools, battery chargers, commercial freezer, ice machines, refrigerators, gas blower, dollies, steel storage racks, workbench w/drawers, bench vice, wet vac, ladders, wood chipper, 5 golf bags full of clubs, hundreds of golf balls, fishing boats with trailer, out-board motors, 4 cisco nets and fishing gear, old water skis, ice skates, LOTS of lawn tools and garden hoses, LOTS of hand tools, nuts, bolts, irrigation and electrical parts, old steel petrol cans, axes, sledgehammers, etc., etc... Vintage skiboat and trailer, Dodge Caravan.

Clouds

Photo by The Bear Lake Tourist and Convention Bureau

Short Term Rental Issues

Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  June 12, 2014. Short term rental licenses  were approved for four properties: 1705 S Bear Lake Blvd.  2206 S. Beach Comber Lane, 607 West Belle Drive, and 1690 South Bear Lake Blvd.

Joan Akre, Garden City resident,  asked during the public comment period, “can the  private companies doing rentals give out  a sheet  that has the city and beach rules that they sign when they rent  so that we don’t have people doing things against the law and then saying they didn’t know it was against the law since they were only renting?  Who do we call when there is something wrong?”

Residents are advised to call Gary Cox at the city offices 435 730 5109 or Chaz Crookston 801 391 6467 on weekends or call the county dispatch.

New Businesses To Open

Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter

Rich Civic Times 

GARDEN CITY, Utah. June 12, 2014.   Seven businesses requested business license approval.  Sunrise Resort has remodeled the Harbor Village facility as a family reunion center and business retreat center at 865 Harbor Village East Drive. Owners Nate and Amber Parry.   He said that he hopes they can attract more corporate retreats with their facility and the city facilities. 

Western Skies Lodging, owned by Don Webb will conduct a small hotel, there are three cabins built, there will be 13 more.  UDOT gave them approval to build their turnout. They will be in business at 2085 S. Bear Lake Blvd. UDOT said that they will now enforce the no parking on the highway.  That issue may involve Pickleville Playhouse’s parking.  "But," said Webb, "Western Skies Lodging has plenty of parking for their facility."

Bear Lake Marine will repair vehicles, boats and RV at 100 W. Logan Road. ThIs business is owned by Harrison Bennion.

Firehouse Pizza, owned by Neal Chambers, requested a license for their restaurant at 50 S. Bear Lake Blvd.  They will also do burgers and breakfast.  After the updates on the outside and inside, Firehouse will open the first week  of July.

Jim Stone requested a business location license to conduct a convenience store and paddle board and canoe rental at 585 Bear Lake Blvd, catering to the marina and beach.  Stone said that he will also help people with tours through the area.

There will be a shaved ice business, Endless Summer, at 6 South Bear Lake Blvd, in Raspberry Square, owned by Dillian Liechty.  

McFarland Farms requested a license for a produce stand at 116 S. Bear Lake Blvd.

Increased Parking & Beach Access

Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter

Rich Civic Times 

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  June 12, 2014.  The studies and drawings for expanded beach access and parking have been completed by JUB Engineering.  With the widening of 75 North, 150 North and 350 North there will be an increase of 300 parking places for people wanting to use the beach.  The parking places will be striped at 45 degree angles and there will be trees along the roadway and walkways for beautification.

350 South has room for significant parking. There will be 42 parking spots to where the walkway will hook onto the boardwalk into the beach. The property is owned by Gloyd Sprouse but the city has an easement for a walkway.

The City plans to start building the parking and turn-arounds on 75 North and 350 North in the next thirty days.  The road improvements will go to bid on July 1.  It will take $500,000.  Over half of that money will be used to improve 150 North.  This makes access to beach convenient and easier.  For less disruption, 150 North will be worked on after labor day.

The city is considering buying two used buses to have them running through the city in the summer on weekends to shuttle people to the beach and to the downtown. City Councilman Bruce Warner does not want to add anything to the sales tax to run it but wants to run it out of the existing budget.  Mayor John  Spuhler suggested that it might have a fee for use, but others countered that the city wants the bus to encourage visitors to use it to do more shopping in town. Warner said, “we are taking on a new continuing expense we should be able to pay for it out of existing funds.”  Sphuler said the visitors will use it the most and the visitors increase sales tax.  The sales tax passes the cost to the visitors, but Warner said it affects our citizens here too.  Spuhler said that every time the city gives visitors something to do it causes an increase the sales tax.

The tourist kiosk is being finished.  Power will be there this week with the signs and maps coming in the next week. The kiosk will have the interactive computer installed soon.

The jetty boat launch idea is getting a lot of support.  Mayor Spuhler said he will be meeting on July 12 with several legislators to get support for the state to build and own it.  It would be a resource for Rendezvous Beach.   The Director of Wildlife Resources said he liked the idea because it creates a fish structure as well as providing a launch.

Needles and Leaves

 

By Jennifer Huefner,

Bear Lake Landscape, Garden City, Utah

 

Rich County May Sheriff's Report

Anita Weston, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah. May 214. There were 114 incidents during the month of May.  There were 22 citizen assists, 11 agency assists, 9 medical emergencies, 8 civil processes, 6 animal problems, 6 criminal histories, and 5 alarms.  Garden City accounted for 58 of the incidents.  There were 15 incidents in Laketown, 1 incident in the north end of the county, and 2 incidents out of the county.  There were 27 incidents in Randolph, and 11 incidents in Woodruff.

There were 12 citizen assists in Garden City, 7 agency assists, 5 alarms, and 5 medical emergencies.  There were 4 welfare checks, 3 traffic violations and 3 VIN number inspections.  There were 2 each of the following:  animal problems, attempts to locate, civil processes, suspicious persons/circumstances, thefts, traffic hazards; and one each of the following:  an assault, a dead body, a controlled substance problem, a harassment call, a juvenile problem, a traffic accident with damage, and property damage—not vandalism.

Laketown had 3 agency assists, two citizen assists, and two medical emergencies.  There was one each of the following:  an animal problem, a domestic disturbance, a DUI Alcohol or drug incident, an information report, a lockout, a traffic accident with injuries, a suspicious person/circumstance, and a tobacco problem.

There was an agency assist in the north end of the county and two citizen assists out of the county.

There were 27 incidents in Randolph as follows:  1 alcohol offense, 1 animal problem, 1 burglary, 4 citizen assists, 2 citizen disputes, 2 civil processes, 6 criminal histories, 1 disorderly conduct, 1 information report, 2 medical emergencies, 2 traffic accidents with damage, 1 traffic accident with injuries, 2 traffic hazards, and 1 transport of person/property.

There were 4 civil processes, 2 animal problems, 2 citizen assists, 1 traffic accident with damage, 1 suspicious person/circumstance, and 1 VIN Serial Number Inspection in Woodruff.

There were 18 traffic citations and 19 violations.  Garden City had 10 citations and 10 violations.  Laketown had 3 citations and 4 violations.  Randolph had 3 citations and 3 violations.  Woodruff had 2 of each as well.

The 19 violations were as follows:  15 were speeding, 1 was driving on a denied license, 1 was the purchase or possession of tobacco, 1 was disorderly conduct, and 1 was allowing a vicious animal to go at will. 

There were 19 warnings and 19 violations given.  Twelve warnings and 12 violations were in Garden City.  Six warnings and 6 violations were in Laketown.  There was 1 violation and 1 citation in woodruff.  Of these warnings, 5 were speeding, 2 were an OHV within 100 feet of the water, 11 were motor vehicles on the beach, and 1 was a boating safety certification required.

Obituary: Val Woodward 1927-2014

Val W. Woodward

Val Waddoups Woodward passed away in the peaceful company of loved ones on Friday, June 6, 2014. Family and friends remember him with warmth and fondness as the kindest person, a caring and effective teacher, a colleague of high integrity, fun and engaging company, gently humorous, open and sharing, appealingly good looking, inclusive and international in friendships, a worker for social justice, vigorous and athletic right into his mid-seventies, and, in his last years, generous and patient in sickness. He is deeply missed.


Born in 1927 in Preston, Idaho, to Rollo and Hazel Woodward, Val grew up in Logan, Utah, graduated from Logan High (Class '45), served in the U.S. WWII navy, and earned degrees from Utah State University (bachelor's), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Ph. D., 1953), and Brookhaven, NY (postdoctoral fellow). He was Professor of Genetics at Kansas State, Wichita State, Rice University, and for 33 years at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul campus. His publications include dozens of research articles in highly regarded scientific journals, two textbooks, and memoirs of his father and growing up in Logan. Val won essentially every teaching and human rights award given by the University of Minnesota, and the even more satisfying tribute of continued contact and friendship from former students and associates. Friends and colleagues from numerous countries and all continents kept in touch for decades. Val retired in 2000 to Garden City, Utah, overlooking Bear Lake, and later wintered in Salt Lake City.


Val's life is remembered with joy by his wife Clare Woodward, son and spouse Jim and Terry Woodward, daughter and spouse Kathryn and; Larry Bittner, daughter-in-law Carol Woodward, grandchildren Adrian and Jessica Woodward, Alana and Dan Brooks, Chandra Baca, Deanna and Kevin Budack, Valerie Woodward, Dawn and Peter Drlik, Lauren Bittner, Dustin Bittner, and 8 great/great-great grandchildren. He grieved to his final days the death of his son, Dean. Val's heart held special affection for brothers Ken Woodward and Dow Woodward, sisters Ann Porter and Ruth Harris, and their families.


As he wished, Val is to be buried privately. A memorial gathering will be announced at a future time. Val's wife and children will be at home to visit with family and friends on Thursday, June 12, from 4-7 p.m. at 77 C St. Salt Lake City, 84103 - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hjnews/obituary.

The Muddled Male

Paranoia

By Bob Stevens, The Muddled Male

         I have been struggling this week to put together a true event in my life that would be a subtle admission that I am a muddled male without making me look too bad in comparison to Ann, my wife, who struggles to keep me among the living by sharing secrets with our dentist in an attempt to get him to lecture me about my eating habits while my mouth is full of dental tools and I can’t do anything but lay there and listen while he stands over me waving a high speed drill and a needle with which he inflicts pain while claiming that he is doing it to prevent pain.

            What Ann doesn’t realize is that I can hear everything she says concerning my addiction to French fries and pop because I am strapped in the chair across the half-wall from the chair in which she sits elucidating my flaws.  I guess this came to mind tonight because I am schedule for an expensive, multiple gold-crown replacement this week at which time I am likely to receive another lecture at the instigation of my wife.  I know this will happen because I received a preview of her current concerns when we went together to visit with DJ, our doctor, to get our annual checkup at which time she again recited my culinary sins.

            But what I had planned to share has to do with what Ann calls my paranoia.  I spent, you see, fifty years in an area that is now rapidly becoming over populated with legal pot smokers, many of whom started their career as illegal pot smokers.  Which explains my habit of locking my car even as it sits in my own driveway high on Sweetwater Hill.  Ann, who after moving back to Utah resumed the Utahan’s tendency to assume that everyone is honest and there is no reason to lock anything, badgers me because I have a habit of locking my car even if it is sitting in our locked garage.  Same with the house.  “Don’t worry about locking the house,” she says, “we’ll be back in a week and what burglar would be dumb enough to hike all the way up here in the snow just to break into a house that contains nothing desirable.”  Luckily I have been able to trump her trust with my paranoia and we lock the house with a dead bolt even when we just go out to shovel snow off the deck or stand in the yard and pull weeds.  And I won’t even mention my tendency to shred every piece of paper that carries any mark that might identify it as having once belonged to me.  I am known at the Logan dump as the bag man for the bales of shredded identifiers I carefully place into the recycle bins and then stir them in to make certain that mine and all the others are mixed together so as to complicate any attempt to identify me by reassembling my particular shreds.

            I have decided that I am going to place a sign at the entrance to our property that notifies any potential burglar that a simple, poor engineer lives here who already has spent his retirement and who has nothing of value to steal except his iPhone which is strapped to his chest at all times in a locked holster that will explode if touched by anyone other than himself.  And if the burglar does take the risk and causes the phone to explode, the burglar will likely be covered all over with bits and pieces of an unhealthy man.  The sign will also include a note that tells the potential burglar that he/or she (to be politically correct) should go down the hill to the wealthy, un-muddled mathematician’s house where he likely has gold and diamonds laying around in neat piles arranged according to the Pythagorean theorem and will be easy to load.  Oh yes, I will note, bring a large bag.