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Thursday, October 1, 2015
Original Ballet
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Students Of The Month Rich Middle School
Each Month Rich Middle School will nominate the Students of the Month and the Citizens of the Month. These are the September Students:
Student of the Month
Sixth Grade – Justin Adams and Katelyn
Wahlberg
Seventh Grade – Hayden Meek and Amanda Schulthess
Eighth Grade
– Colton Hislop and Ellianna Brown
Citizen of the Month
Sixth Grade - Josh England and
Makynzee Smith
Seventh Grade – Konner Greer and Amiya
Trenery
Eighth Grade – Randy Trujillo and Kashton
Butler
Job Open in Garden City
Garden City Cemetery District
Job Opening for Cemetery Groundskeeper/Maintenance
The Garden
City Cemetery District is now accepting applications for a maintenance supervisor. Hours will vary depending on need. Compensation will vary depending on
experience. Qualifications are listed
below. Interested individuals please
send resume and cover letter to Garden City Cemetery District, c/o Tiffany
Wahlberg, PO Box 37, Garden City, UT 84028.
Applications will be accepted until October
12. The position may be reopened at
any time if a desirable applicant is not found.
Brief Job
Description
This position involves maintaining the cemetery
grounds. Duties include, but are not
limited to, mowing, weed eating, sprinkler system repair, and tree
trimming. Applicant will be expected to
work some evenings and weekends and be available in an emergency.
Qualifications
1. Live in the Garden
City area from May-October (must be available in an emergency)
2. Be familiar with
and be able to work with equipment such as riding lawn mowers, weed eaters,
etc.
3. Be able to make
minor repairs to equipment such as riding lawn mowers, weed eaters, etc.
3. Be familiar with
sprinkler systems and be able to turn on and off the system and make minor
repairs.
Garden City Library Book Review
By Kathryn Warner
Two new books by the
author Chris Grabenstein have recently arrived. He is a New York author, who
started writing ads for the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Company. He was the
Executive Vice President and Group Creative Director at Young & Rubicon
when he retired. He has written screen plays and scripts for Jim Henson’s
Muppets. He has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list as well as
achieving the Anthony Award for Tilt A Whirl in the Adult Creepack Mysteries.
His Haunted Mysteries series for children has received the Agatha and Anthony
Awards. He writes both adult and children’s fiction. These novels are for
Middle grade readers.
In his Agatha Award winning book: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, a twelve year old boy named
Kyle Keeley wants to win the contest where only twelve, twelve year olds can
enter. Mr. Lemoncello is a game maker who has modernized the town’s library. On
opening night only twelve, twelve years olds will be able to go into the library.
They must play the game and figure out how to get out of the library in order
to win the prize. The prize is a chance
to be in all of his ads and a five-hundred dollar gift certificate for Mr. Lemoncello’s
games and products.
The children entered and saw this quote; “Knowledge not
shared remains unknown-Luigi L. Lemoncello.” Each twelve year old had to solve all kind of
riddles and puzzles in order to find their way out of the library. The only way
they could do this was to know the Dewey Decimal System in order to find the
books with the clues inside. Here is a list of the books they had to find. Do
you know where to find them in a library?
·
Incident at Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert
·
One Fish Two Fish Red fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
·
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
·
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Synder
·
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
by J.K. Rowling
·
The Wresting Game by Ellen Ruskin
·
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Vern
·
The Yak Who Yelled Yuck by Carol Pugliano-Martin
·
No David by David Shannon
·
Olivia by Ian Falconer
·
Unreal by Paul Jennings
·
Scat by Earl Hiaasen
·
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
·
Anna and the Infinite Power by Mildred Ames
·
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
·
I Love You, Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt
·
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
·
Six Days of the Condor by James Grady
·
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
·
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
·
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Find out what these letters mean: INDNSETHTTATOUTAASAW??IT.
Find out if once the contestants shared their knowledge who became the winner
of the game.
In Chris Grabenstein’s book, The Island of Dr. Libris, Billy has a riddle to solve. Dr. Libris’s
home is close by. His bookcase has special books, where characters come alive
on Dr. Libris Island. Could Dr. Libris experiments with theta waves have
anything to do with it? What does it have to do with Billy?
Can you imagine Hercules in tights and a tight tunic part of
Robin Hood’s Merry Men? How did Tom Sawyer help Billy? Pollyanna just wanted to have a picnic and
play the glad game. The more books he opened the more mixed up the characters
became with the Sheriff of Nottingham after them all.
Chris Grabenstein used the books he read as a child to write
these witty, humorous books with a few puns mixed in. The books found on
Chris’s book shelves were:
·
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
·
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
·
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carls Collodi
·
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
·
The Labors of Hercules by Peisander
·
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
·
Moby Dick (or The Whale) by Herman Melville
·
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
·
The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the
Sailor (part of the Arabian Nights)
·
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by
Great Renown in Nottinghamshire by Howard Pyle
·
“The
Three Billy Goats Gruff” (Norwegian folk tale)
·
Aesop’s Tales by Aesop
·
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
·
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
·
Aladdin (part of the Arabian Nights)
·
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
·
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
·
Pollyanna, The Glad Book by Eleanor H. Porter
·
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Auguste Maquet
·
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
·
Holes by Louis Sachar
·
Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
·
Journey to the Center of the Earth by
Jules Vern
·
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
·
“The
Fall of the House of Usher” by Edger Allen Poe
·
“Jack
and the Beanstalk” (traditional English folk tale)
·
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
·
Le Morte d’Arthur Sir Thomas Maloy
·
Glenda of Oz by Harper Lee
·
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
How many books have you or your children read? How many of
these books does our library have? If you get the number right you win a prize
at the library.
Monday, September 28, 2015
School Board Member Advises "Opt Out"
September 28, 2015
Dear Parents & Citizens of Rich County School District 5,
Please consider opting your children out of SAGE
testing. You have the right to do so
with no negative consequence to your children from any Local Education
Authority (LEA) or, in other words, local schools in Utah. Jennifer and I have elected to do so because
of our concern for our children’s future and safety. Schools are required to gather data on
children and families. This data is
stored on a longitudinal database system.
This system was created by the state with federal grant money to meet
certain specifications. You should learn
more about this here. https://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/schools-are-sharing-private-information-via-slds-and-p-20-statefederal-systems/ (Some of the contacts listed in the article
have changed, but the information is the same.)
When I was running
for election last year, I was very open about my concerns related to federal
intrusion into our local education and the dangers that intrusion brings. I have now been on the school board for 9
months and been through enough training from Utah State Office of Education
(USOE) and Utah School Boards Association (USBA) to validate my concerns.
Recently, we have heard about data breaches in diverse
places. If we don’t want crooks and
thieves or anybody else to have access to our children’s data, perhaps we
better not give the data in the first place.
A hacker stealing our children’s data is frightening, but
even more frightening is the thought of our own government having that kind of
data about our children and families. We
should be very careful here. The
government should be our last defense and protector, so if this kind of
invasion of privacy by the government is allowed, who will we go to for redress of grievances?
I received an email recently from USOE which confirms my
concern about data safety. Somehow, two
news organizations were sent statewide testing results before the results were
released to the Local Education Authorities (LEA). While this data is of the aggregate type (I
hope), it shows how easily things can get muddled/intercepted/hacked.
Oh, don’t forget, American Institute of Research (AIR) which
created SAGE has all your data and they don’t have to ask for permission. You should know who and what kind of company
holds your family data. http://www.air.org/about-us, think about
who they say they are—behavioral testing.
I believe in limited government and local education. God bless the USA.
Your friend and neighbor,
Bryce Huefner
School Board Member District 5, Rich County School District
CC: Rich County
School Board Members
Rich County School District
Administrators
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Musings Of A Muddled Male
Importance of the Look
By Bob Stevens, The Muddled Male
Several years ago some friends talked us
into a trip to Canada's Vancouver Island.
Ann, my wife, and I are not much for traveling, but Vancouver Island was
a place of fond memories from when we had visited earlier in our marriage and
we thought a trip there again might bring those fun times back into our life. The problem was that life had moved into the
post 9/11 era, and travel between the U.S. and Canada now requires a passport,
or at least a passport card to get back and forth across the border.
Our friends with whom we would be
travelling already had passports because they were world travelers. We, on the other hand were passport-less, so
to speak, because the only foreign land we had visited recently was the town of
Dingle by way of the Dingle Bottoms Road.
Thus began our venture into the world of State Department intrigue and
high finance. First came a multi-page
form that could be found on the internet and had to be printed and filled out by
hand without error because errors counted as fibs and fibs screamed
TERRORIST. The "T" word would not
only keep us from getting a passport, it was also likely to place us in a
supine position on a Guantanamo Bay water board. It took me five tries for each form since I
was nervous and kept making mistakes.
Next came the passport pictures. We tried taking them ourselves and then
digitally manipulating them into Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt look-a-like's,
but we only printed one set when we needed two, and we used a pastel color
background when it was supposed to be white.
"So," said the young
lady at the Montpelier Post Office, "take
off your glasses and I will shoot real passport photographs for you.” Ann disliked her official photo immediately
because it highlighted a wrinkle she had been trying to hide. As for me, I don't use my glasses to read, I
use them to hide my nose. In the harsh
light of the Post Office close-up the lack of glasses amplified my proboscis
(prominent nose, in case you wondered what a proboscis is) to king sized proportions.
Then came the fees. Each passport card cost forty-five dollars. Expedited service cost another sixty dollars
each. And the obligatory official
passport photo set us back fifteen dollars apiece. Grand total for Ann and I came to two hundred
and forty dollars and we hadn’t even begun our trip. Even more painful was that Ann's wrinkle showed,
and my picture proved that Ann had married a man with the profile of an
elephant seal.
The memory of this painful experience
came flooding back the other day when I was trying to take a photograph of
myself for use in renewing my concealed-carry card. Filling out the forms was much easier now
because I could enter the information online and make corrections by keyboard until
I had everything just right. The Photo
was a little tougher, however, because the instructions clearly stated that it
had to be “passport” quality and it had to be taken from a distance of six feet
so that it showed me from about six inches above my head down to and including
my chest. I was at home alone because
Ann had gone visiting, and so I activated my engineering skills and invented a setup
by which I could take a “selfie” from a distance of 6 feet even though my arm
was only two feet long. Since Ann wasn’t
there to stop me I put a step-stool on the dining table to hold my iPhone at
the correct elevation with the step-stool located six feet from where I would
be standing in front of a blank wall for background while trying to look like a
conscientious U.S. citizen that could be trusted to pack a weapon in
public. Then I placed a pile of books on
the step-stool against which I could lean my phone, set the flash to add light,
and set the timer to five seconds to give me time to click the button and move
back in front of the wall to look trustworthy before the flash flashed. I admit that it took several tries before I
got the correct look of trustworthiness in spite of one drooping eyelid and a
proboscis only partially hidden by a pair of outsized glasses.Insurance Service Office Responds to Fire Department
Chris Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times
GARDEN CITY, Utah. September 25, 2015. The Insurance Service Office (ISO) finally responded to
Chief Mike Wahlberg’s request for information why the ISO was proposing to
lower the district’s rating from 6/6x to 7/7x.
It turns out that while the ISO wrote the single line about the “Swan
Creek HOA not meeting the minimum requirements and therefore not being
recognized” that fact and statement were not the reason for the downgrade.
The proposed downgrade reason turns out to be a change in
ISO standards, specifically requiring the department, in order to keep the existing rating, to have 2 pumper engines and some additional equipment and
testing. This requirement can be met by
acquiring 600 feet of 2 ½ inch hose for the white ladder truck, by conducting
annual pump testing on both the ladder truck and engine 40, and by completing a
structural test on the ladder within the last 5 years. As the ladder was tested in 2013 and
certified at that time that requirement has been met and the chief will
complete required pumping tests on the two pump engines on an annual
basis. The department will also acquire
the needed hose. The district has a year
to meet all the new standards and the chief noted that it will be a short and
easy route for the other requirements to be satisfied so the district will be
in full compliance before that time limit.
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