Monday, May 18, 2020
First traffic light in Rich County
Construction will begin this week on the first traffic light in Rich County at the Logan Road intersection. Passing of an era.
Pickleville Philosophy
By Jim Stone, The Pickleville Philosopher
There is so much beauty in the magical outdoors. But even though some things are beautiful, which
they are, sometimes a beautiful thing is not a good thing. The picture in this post show a brilliant yellow flower, it is very pretty but it’s actually a noxious weed that takes over all the other flowers and feed for Mother Nature’s animals.
Its name is Dyers Woad. It was introduced to Utah in 1932 from England. I was so blessed to be a Boy Scout leader for 7 years. There is a County bounty that pays $10 for each bag of Dyers Woad. The counties in a lot of our communities pay the $10 bounty for each bag and they supply the bags. So I would take the Boy Scouts on a community outing and we all would learn about Mother Nature and pick and dig up this beautiful flower that is not good for the environment. The kids would learn how to work hard to have a reward for doing something that yes is hard work, but something that teaches them to be a steward of the outdoors protecting all of our natural resources.
It is a wonderful learning experience to be in the outdoors seeing all of the beautiful things that are so prevalent, like the other wild things.
The cool thing is all of us spending time together cleaning up the outdoors making a better place for the wild things that belong in the outdoors.
So we would pull this noxious weed out of the ground and turn it into the county, and then get paid for our efforts. We took the money and went and got double cheese burgers, fries or onion rings, a drink or ice cream shake.
It’s a wonderful opportunity to clean up our communities, help wild life, make some money, and then all go together and talk about what we all saw and did together.
Plus get a big reward when we are all together making not only our communities better but having a big reward like double cheese burgers and fries just for paying attention to things that are beautiful but need to be controlled and be gone so more beautiful things that help all things can have a better chance to survive
There is so much beauty in the magical outdoors. But even though some things are beautiful, which
Its name is Dyers Woad. It was introduced to Utah in 1932 from England. I was so blessed to be a Boy Scout leader for 7 years. There is a County bounty that pays $10 for each bag of Dyers Woad. The counties in a lot of our communities pay the $10 bounty for each bag and they supply the bags. So I would take the Boy Scouts on a community outing and we all would learn about Mother Nature and pick and dig up this beautiful flower that is not good for the environment. The kids would learn how to work hard to have a reward for doing something that yes is hard work, but something that teaches them to be a steward of the outdoors protecting all of our natural resources.It is a wonderful learning experience to be in the outdoors seeing all of the beautiful things that are so prevalent, like the other wild things.
The cool thing is all of us spending time together cleaning up the outdoors making a better place for the wild things that belong in the outdoors.
So we would pull this noxious weed out of the ground and turn it into the county, and then get paid for our efforts. We took the money and went and got double cheese burgers, fries or onion rings, a drink or ice cream shake.
It’s a wonderful opportunity to clean up our communities, help wild life, make some money, and then all go together and talk about what we all saw and did together.
Plus get a big reward when we are all together making not only our communities better but having a big reward like double cheese burgers and fries just for paying attention to things that are beautiful but need to be controlled and be gone so more beautiful things that help all things can have a better chance to survive
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Garden Gate & Thrift
With other thrift shops closed now you may find you really love this cute shop.
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Two pieces of GREAT NEWS today!
- 1: WE'RE OPENING for the summer on June 18! We cannot wait to share the love and laughs with our extended Pickleville family very, very soon.
Tickets are now back on sale, but capacity is down over 50% with distancing protocols, so get your tix ASAP!
Get tix here: www.picklevilleplayhouse.com
- 2: There will be three nights that you can watch 2018’s hilarious production of “Who Shot Juanito Bandito?” online.
Get streaming tix here: https://bit.ly/2WMVbh6
It’s a GREAT DAY!!! Woohooooooooooooo!
COVID 19 affects races and restaurants
Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter
Rich Civic Times
RANDOLPH, Utah. May 6, 2020. Chris Shurian, owner of Cody’s
Restaurant and “Run Bear Lake” told commissioners that they wanted to change
the date from June to August for the run because of the COVID 19 shutdowns. They propose to run into Round Valley. Commissioner Bill Cox said that they do not
allow runners from the middle of August thru September as this is when the cattle are coming off the hills.
The cattle are required to come off of public land at that time.
In June when they
first proposed the run there will be few livestock in the area. Shurian said he could do the Sweetwater Loop
route August 13-15 which is a week after
raspberry days. They want to be off of
the highway. It will be about the time of
the Rich County Rodeo which would be a good entertainment option for the
runners.
Commissioner Cox asked about the restaurant and if they have
a plan for Covid 19 restrictions. He said that hopefully by August we will have
a new normal. Shurian replied that Cody’s
was open Friday, and revenues were 29% higher than last year. Other restaurants have reported the same
numbers but all are less year to date than last year.
“We may see a higher
usage than normal,” Cox said, “because people may not want to vacation out of
state.”
Cox said he would be able to get masks for the employees, he
said that the county would like to help as much as possible. Shurian said that would be helpful since everyone
has to wear gloves and masks. Tables
will be separated and there will be fewer tables.
Marie Pope Weston 1919-2020
Marie Pope Weston passed away on May 13, 2020, in Garden City, Utah, at the age of 100. She was the daughter of Robert and Alice Teeples Pope. She was born on September 4, 1919 in Garden City, Utah. She was the youngest of eight children. Alice Pope died when Marie was only eight years old so her Father raised her on his small farm. She loved him very much and often said, “he was so good to me.”
Marie married Benjamin Earley Weston on June 16, 1937, in the Salt Lake Temple. She was the mother of three children: Dale B. Weston (Pamela Porter), both deceased, Carolyn W. Davidson (Ted E Davidson), and Anita Weston.
Marie graduated from North Rich High School. After Ben E. and Marie were married, they lived on a ranch in the Bear River Valley for two years where she cooked for 12 – 14 men three times a day. Marie was a good cook and always set a delicious meal on the table for her family and for others who may be working or visiting at their ranches. They moved to Laketown for a time and then settled on their own ranch at Pickleville in the Bear Lake Valley in 1941. Marie loved this beautiful place and made it even nicer with her flower nd vegetable gardens, lovely handwork and quilts.
Then came a move to Sage, Wyoming. Marie helped make this ranch an outstanding place with her gardening, flowers, and quilting talents as well as adding lambs, pheasants, turkeys, geese, quail, peacocks, and a passel of grandkids. After Ben E died on May 13, 1986, Marie meticulously remodeled her great-grandparents’ house in Garden City and made it her home. Because of her efforts, this place has become a showcase. A painting of her home is on a puzzle and is known as the white house with all the flowers.Marie began a quilting group in Garden City that resulted in thousands of quilts being donated to the Church Welfare Program. The state of Utah awarded the Silver Bowl Award to her for being an outstanding citizen of Rich County two different years.
As an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Marie served in the Mutual program teaching the young women and was the director of the Junior Sunday School for a number of years. She was the President of the Primary for many years and always taught the older boys’ class at the same time. She was a councilor in the Relief Society for five years and enjoyed interacting with those who attended. Marie was especially talented in working with young children of primary and Sunday School age. She was a wonderful storyteller. Children and adults were mesmerized with her flannelboard Bible stories. Her grandchildren recall many, many stories that she told that contained a moral relating to a particular problem they brought to Grandma. Marie was a genealogist. She loved her family and her heritage. She gathered many family pictures and histories. She made a history of the homes in Garden City for the past 100 years and the families who lived in them. She gathered current genealogy pictures and dates at every opportunity. She readily shared any of her information.
Marie was a pleasant, hard working, energetic, creative person who always made people and places better than they had been. She will be missed.
Marie was preceeded in death by her parents, four brothers and 3 sisters, her husband, her son and her daughter-in-law, and a great-granddaughter. She is survived by her two daughters, her one granddaughter, June Marie Saxton, seven grandsons, Kevin and Lyn Weston, Weston, Robert, Glenn, Wayne and Michael Davidson, thirty nine great-grandchildren, and fourteen great-great-grandchildren.
A family dedicatory meeting and burrial was held at the Garden City, Utah, Cemetery, with the assistance of the Schwab-Matthews Mortuary of Montpelier, Idaho.
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