Rich School District Upcoming Events

12/02/14 Tue		RHS Leonardo Body Worlds Field Trip Starts at 10:00am
12/04/14 Thu		RHS BBB West Side Starts at 4:00pm
12/04/14 Thu		RHS GBB @ North Summit Starts at 5:00pm
12/04/14 Thu		RMS Boys' Basketball (B Only) Bus leaves RMS @ 3:15 Starts at 5:00pm

Bear Lake Convention and Visitor Bureau Notices

Coming Events in the Bear Lake Area

Light up Montpelier Main Street

December 05, 2014 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm

It's time for the 2nd Annual Light Up Main Street Event!  Activities will include tree lighting, pictures with Santa, Shop at Home Tickets for purchases at participating locations, karaoke contest and more.

 

T minus 5 Christmas Concert & Holiday Social

December 06, 2014 4:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Garnering national acclaim for their signature vocals, T Minus 5 promises a musical adventure that defies the limits of the human voice. T Minus 5 delivers a high-energy performance. Experience the power of the human voice with T Minus 5!

 

All show only tickets are $18 for the 4 PM or 7:30 PM show. For $30 each come see the show and enjoy a special holiday social featuring dishes created by Jeff the Chef. The Holiday Social is served from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM. Two shows are scheduled at 4:00 PM and 7:30 PM so that you can enjoy the holiday social meal and choose your show with T Minus 5!.

Purchase your tickets today! Allinger Theater in Montpelier.

Live Nativity

December 18, 2014 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Visit a live nativity scene in Montpelier, Idaho.  You'll be able to take pictures with the animals, enjoy hot chocolate, and listen to Christmas carolers.  

Bear Lake Cisco Disco & Monster Polar Plunge

January 24, 2015 7:00 am - 2:00 pm

Catch Cisco fish that morning and take the Plunge that afternoon! All proceeds from the Monster Polar Plunge will be donated.  Call 435-946-2197 for more information.

Musings Of A Muddled Male

Tough Winter

By Bob Stevens, The Muddled Male

        Winters are tough up here on Sweetwater Hill.  First of all it is darned cold.  When we drove past the Sinks on the way home from Logan the other night it was thirteen degrees below zero.  Another tough thing on the hill is having to plow a snow covered driveway sitting astride a four-wheeler in the midst of a snow storm made unbearable by a howling, freezing wind. 

        By contrast, it is kind of cozy sitting in our warm house by a roaring fireplace watching those weather conditions through the window.  Ann, my wife, is on a propane conservation kick, however, and a roaring fire is not an available commodity in our house.  Instead, she uses our winter shut-in time as an opportunity to lecture me on my sinful eating habits.  Ann and I stand on opposite sides of the issue of what is good to eat.  In my world, high value foods are those that are pleasurable to the taste.  Ann, on the other hand, judges the value of food like she does medicine.  If it tastes bad, it is likely good for you.

        If I were to use Ann’s scoring system my favorite health-food snack of French fries and M & M Peanuts wouldn’t even show up on her Good Things to Eat list.  That is because her list is overloaded with strange sounding things like kale, and broccoli, and Brussels sprouts which taste, indeed, like medicine.  She pooh-poohs my argument that potatoes and goober peas (peanuts to you) are vegetables.

         What she does lecture me about, though, is that everything I think is good to eat has likely been injected with partially or fully hydrogenated oils by evil and conspiring men.  Partially hydrogenated oils are a creation of men who use hydrogenation to make things solid but spreadable at room temperature (for example margarine).  Partially hydrogenated, according to Ann, is the worst because it creates trans-fats, and Ann is so against anything containing trans-fats that I began to worry that she might know something that I don’t.  After coming across a study by researchers at UC San Francisco I really began to worry.  They followed one thousand healthy men under the age of forty-five who ate various amounts of trans fats, and they found that men in that age range who ate the most trans-fats did measurably worse on a word recall test.  The results showed that each additional gram of trans-fat consumed per day was associated with 0.76 fewer words recalled, meaning that those that took in fifteen grams per day would have a decrease in the number of words recalled by as many as eleven or twelve, a drop of about ten percent.  Well at least we know now why I can’t remember your name.  Based on that study, the only thing worse that I could eat would be my friend Scott’s homemade goose jerky.

        Ann claims that she works hard to keep me healthy because she is afraid that I might expire and leave her alone up here on the hill.  She tells me over and over that her lectures about healthy living are for my own good and she wouldn’t put up with my unhealthy habits and whining if she didn’t love me and want to keep me around.  So I shaped up (kind of) and tried to follow her counsel.  And then I read another scientific study.  It seems that the anti-bacterial soap that I use multiple times every day as a way of ridding myself of germs is likely causing more harm than good.  According to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, anti-bacterial soap contains an antimicrobial agent called triclosan which, among other things, causes liver fibrosis and cancer in laboratory mice along with being linked to endocrine disruption that could cause infertility, and impaired muscle function.  What’s worse, triclosan is used in liquid hand soaps, toothpastes, shampoos, cosmetics, plastics, yoga mats, cutting boards, and ice cream scoops.  I might be able to avoid yoga, but ice cream scoops are beyond my ability to resist.

        There is only one thing left to do.  I am going to lay down in the fetal position in front of our cold fire place and suck my thumb while trying to absorb some heat from the pilot light.  Have a happy Thanksgiving and don’t worry about me.  I will get by ……… somehow.

Winter Blizzard

Photo by Lauriann Wakefield

Rich School Board Meeting

Chris S. Coray, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH,  Utah.  November 19, 2014. The Rich County School Board held its November meeting at noon.  The meeting was held early in the day in anticipation of attendance by state legislators but due to other commitments the legislators were unable to attend.

The board heard a report from Superintendent Dale Lamborn .  The report recognized 6 students as recipients of academic all state awards.  Lamborn also said that a few students had gone to USU for the academic decathlon but that none had finished in the top 3 on a test where those in the top 3 earned substantial scholarships.

The annual audit report was presented, accepted, and approved.  There were no material deficiencies noted.  The auditor noted that the average cost to educate a student for a year in Utah is $13,000.

Two staff changes were approved, the appointment of Brandon Peart as a special education aide and Pam Cornia as a bus driver.

The board expressed concern about two or three upcoming freshmen athletic events that are scheduled during the school day on Thursday.  Principal Larsen indicated he would reschedule.  Board member Cornia indicated that he did not like the scheduling of the recent football state championship on a Friday, especially at such a distance.  The board recognizes that there are challenges with venue scheduling for such events but thought perhaps it was time to move some of the events to USU, if possible, and even up the year-to-year travelling issues so that northern schools and their families and fans are not always required to do the long-distance movement.

The board went into closed session for the purpose of discussing personnel.