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Friday, September 25, 2020
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Amendments you'll be voting on in 2020
What’s on my ballot? You can get more details about these amendment proposals by going to https://voteinfo.utah.gov RCTonline would also like to hear from people who have opinions on these amendments.
Constitutional Amendment A (page 42)
Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to change words that apply to a single gender (such as the word “men”) to words that are not limited to a single gender such as the word"Persons"?
Constitutional Amendment B (page 45)
Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to specify that certain requirements that a person must meet to be eligible for the office of senator or representative in the Utah Legislature apply at the time the person is elected or appointed?
Constitutional Amendment C (page 47)
Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to make the following changes to the Utah Constitution’s ban on slavery and involuntary servitude:
• remove the language that allows slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime; and
• clarify that the ban does not affect the otherwise lawful administration of the criminal justice system?
Constitutional Amendment D (page 49)
Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to:
• rewrite a provision relating to municipal water rights and sources of water supply;
• allow a municipality to define the boundary of the municipality’s water service area and to set the terms of water service for that area;
• state that a municipality is not prevented from:
• supplying water to water users outside the municipality’s boundary; or
• entering into a contract to supply water outside the municipality’s water service area if the water is more than what is needed for the municipality’s water service area; and
• modify the basis upon which a municipality is allowed to exchange water rights or sources of water supply?
Constitutional Amendment E (page 52)
Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to:
• preserve the individual right to hunt and to fish, including the right to use traditional hunting and fishing methods subject to certain regulation; and
• establish public hunting and fishing as the preferred way of managing and controlling wildlife?
Constitutional Amendment F (page 56)
Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to:
• change when annual general sessions of the Utah Legislature begin from the fourth Monday in January to a day in January designated by a law passed by the Utah Legislature; and
• exclude state holidays that are not also federal holidays from counting towards the maximum number of days of the Utah Legislature’s annual general sessions?
Constitutional Amendment G (page 59)
Shall the Utah Constitution be amended to expand the uses of money the state receives from income taxes and intangible property taxes to include supporting children and supporting people with a disability?
Trucks overturn and spill fuel in Rich County
RANDOLPH, Utah, Sept. 24, 2020 (Gephardt Daily) — A tanker filled with gasoline rolled over Thursday morning on State Route 16 near Randolph, and the driver had to be extricated and flown by air to an area hospital.
From Gephart Daily "The single-vehicle accident happened at 10:51 a.m. near mile marker 19 of SR-16, Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Chris Bishop told Gephardt Daily. The driver was critically injured.
The tanker has leaked, and the cleanup will keep the roadway closed to traffic for multiple hours, Bishop said at 12: 55 p.m. Thursday.
FOX News reported:"RANDOLPH, Utah — An estimated 6,000 gallons of fuel spilled on State Road 16 near Randolph after a tanker overturned outside the city.
The Utah Highway Patrol says the tanker driver was injured in the single-vehicle accident and airlifted from the scene in critical condition.
Utah Highway Patrol
In photos sent out by officials, the tanker appeared to catch on fire as gasoline flowed from the tanks.
SR-16 was closed for several hours as crews from Rich County cleaned up the fuel spill.
Two days later, another fuel tanker overturned in Laketown Canyon, the driver was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Hazmat crews had to drill into the tankers to drain fuel but worked quickly to open the road.
Truck escape ramp project
Crews have completed paving and striping and the lane restriction has been removed. Crews are still working outside the travel lanes so please stay alert to workers and equipment in the work zone.
Crews are now installing the cable net system inside of the escape ramp and the ramp is not ready to use. This project is anticipated to be completed by the end of September.
*Construction schedules are weather dependent and subject to change.
Flu vaccinations available in Rich County
The Bear River Health Department will be offering a flu clinic for all seniors at the Rich County Senior Center on Wednesday October 7, during regular lunch hours.
Flu vaccinations are also available for everyone during regular office hours at the Health Department. Mondays: Garden City Office from 10 to 2. Tuesdays and Thursdays: Randolph Office from 9 to 4. Come get your flu vaccination.
Monday, September 21, 2020
Meet the candidates
October Empty Nesters
Garden City Meet the Candidates -
Everyone's invited even if you are not an Empty Nester
October 5
6 p.m.
The sack dinner meeting will be held at Heritage Park located on 3rd West.
The speakers will be Chris Wilson for the Republican Party and Nancy Huntly for the Democratic Party running for the Utah State Senate. They will tell us what they would bring to the office if elected in November. There will be a Q&A after they speak so have some questions to ask.
Bring your own chairs and food so we can follow the social distancing requirement.
See you there
Randall Knight
Good Stuff
The Chosen
By John Brown
Nellie and I stumbled onto a new TV series that we are really enjoying. It’s made us laugh, think, and feel. It’s called The Chosen and is based on the life of Jesus Christ, but it’s not like any Jesus series I’ve seen before.
Now I have to admit that when I first saw ads for this, I
wasn’t interested. It’s not that I don’t like videos about scriptures. There
are some I love. It’s just that the purpose of so many of them is to illustrate
a scripture instead of tell a story. And there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s
just that when I’m looking for a drama, I want to watch a drama.
But this series is different. They have taken a historical
fiction approach, which means that while they adhere as closely to the facts as
we know them, they don’t limit the story to those facts. And so they imagine
people, events, and motives that are plausible, and then tell a story. A great
example of this type of storytelling is Gerald N. Lund’s bestselling The
Work and The Glory series about a family in the early 1800s who become
Mormons. Or Michael Shaara’s bestselling The Killer Angels about the
Civil War.
The Chosen focuses on stories about characters
surrounding Jesus and those who plausibly could have met him. It also imagines
Jesus as more than a sober Lord. He laughs, jokes, engages with children. It is
a reimagining of the familiar that makes the story fresh again and leaves you
wondering and pondering.
It’s created by Dallas Jenkins, an evangelical Christian, and produced and distributed by VidAngel Studios, run by Latter-day Saints. And their love and delight in the subject show. I can’t wait to see the next episode. You can watch it right now on VidAngel for free. Go through the VidAngel site or to https://studios.vidangel.com/the-chosen/
If you like religious fiction, if you like a good drama, if
you’re interested in knowing more about the life and times of Jesus Christ,
then I think you’ll love this.
Amazing Rescue, first hand account
By Ryker Conk
It was the afternoon of September 19, 2020, when my dad, Brian Conk, got a text, “We have a Call Out for a missing 10-year-old boy. He has been missing for four hours from Swan Flat area. Family was camped in Cache. Please respond to the State Rd Sheds on 89 for the Rally Point, Bring ATV’s and all applicable gear.”
We did not think much of it because we have gotten these
types of texts before, but every time we got things together and were about to
leave, we'd get a text saying the search is off. By the time we got home I had
texted my uncle Jacob Lamb, to go fly fishing up Logan canyon. He picked me up
at my house and we took off for the mountains. We were almost to the top of the
canyon when my dad called to say the boy had still not been found, and that he
needed Jake's and my help. My dad got everything we needed together within a
matter of minutes, we have everything together because of all the hunting trips
that we have been on. My dad grabbed me hiking boots, one hoodie, one zip up
camo jacket, my binos, and my backpack. When my dad got to the look out of the
canyon we stopped by the sheriff’s car so he could give us the coordinates and
a radio so we could communicate. The sheriff was nervous to send people out
because it was pouring rain and super windy, it had been raining almost the
whole day.
Jake punched the coordinates in his phone and off we went.
His phone took us to a two track the ended up as a dead end. We parked our
truck there and got everything on that we needed. I strapped on my backpack and
off we went, hiking into wet, cold, and thick woods. I probably got 20 yards before
I was completely drenched, my coat was soaking wet and my sweatpants were
soaking wet as well. I could already feel the water in my boots. Before we
dropped off of the mountain to start looking we met up with a guy on a
four-wheeler who informed us of his name and that he had heard the boy yelling
before it started to rain again and the helicopters flew over him. With that
information my dad told me to go lower and work my way across the mountain. My dad would go straight and my uncle would
go up and to the left and we would meet at the bottom of the valley.
I dropped off and went to the right covering ground as fast
as a I could while yelling his name. I walked for probably ten minutes before I
heard something, it sounded like the boy, but I could not make out what he was
saying. Hearing him made me walk even faster covering more ground. Going
through this terrain was some of the most challenging thing I have ever done;
keep in mind I have been hunting since I could walk, so I have seen some bad
terrain. It was basically straight down, and it was super wet, so I was
slipping and sliding everywhere. I stopped counting how many times I had fallen.
There was one time where I slipped right into a dead tree knocking It down. I
finally got to a little opening on the side of the mountain where I could see,
I could not see much but at least I could see something.
I yelled his name, I got a clear response saying, “what”. I then yelled at my dad telling him I could hear the boy. When I was looking across the valley to the other side, I spotted something red. I then yelled at him to move a bit; that is when I confirmed I had actually seen the boy.
I yelled saying, “stay where you are at, I see you and I
will be to you shortly.” I then hiked straight down falling even more, every
time I fell, I got back up faster. I got to the bottom when I looked straight
up, there was a 10 foot cliff that I had to climb, but once I climbed it I knew
that I was going to be super close to him. Very carefully I scaled my way up
this cliff, grabbing anything possible, twigs, grass, and sticking my hands in
little cracks so that I could pull myself up. When I got to the top, I saw that
he was on the other ridge, there had been a ridge in between me and him that I
could not see.
I then leaped my way down as fast as I could and as safe as
I could. When I got to the bottom it cleared up a little and I was able to walk
faster, when I got to the edge of the ridge that he was on I hiked straight up
because I knew he was right above me. I spotted him just where I told him to
stay. I walked up to him and asked if he was hurt. His response was no, except that he had a
couple of little scratches on his ankle because he was wearing shorts.
I could tell he was
cold, so I told him to take of his drenched shirt and jacket. Once he took
those off, I gave him my black hoodie out of my bag and my camo zip up jacket,
within 5 minutes he told me that he was warming up. We are waiting there hoping
that my dad and my uncle could make it over to us, but they could not because
it was so thick and steep. My dad made me tell him the boys name to confirm I
had found him. It was confirmed and a
point on the mountain because he had called life flight to come find us because
it was pitch black. I had my head lamp so that we could see. In this time of
not knowing what to do I had made a connection with this boy and had made a new
friend.
The sheriff called me and asked if I could see the ATV’s
lights beneath us down the hill. I could see the lights, but they were two to
three miles away, and they could not get to us. The sheriff told the DNR
officer to head more north on the trail to see if he could get closer to us.
While I was on the phone with the sheriff, he told me to
head north east and we should end up on a two track, so that is what we did.
About ten yards is all we got before it started to drop straight down, and it
was pure trees. We then went back to the highest point and were told to head
north west. The sheriff said we need to go through trees to where it will open
and then need to head straight north. That is exactly what we did, I was
starting to get a little nervous because it felt like we were making no
progress.
We went up hills and down hills until eventually it opened
even more into just sagebrush. I told him we were in luck because now we could
see more, and that I could see the lights of this ATV and we were super close.
I took one more step north and stepped right onto the road that I was told
about. I called my dad saying we found the road and he needed to tell the DNR
to head up the two track to find us.
That is exactly what happened, we got to the Razor and we
packed up our stuff and headed down the mountain to safety and warmth.
I will never forget how my fly-fishing trip turned into
saving a 10-year-old boys life. I am very grateful for the opportunity to help
him and his family. I made a friend that night and I will always hold this
story close to heart.
Sunday, September 20, 2020
COVID 19 update
“In my last message I indicated that we had seen a steady reduction of Covid-19 cases over a two month period. Now, within the last 2 weeks we are seeing a significant increase in cases, particularly in our 18-25 year old age group. In fact, individuals within that age group make up 60% of our new cases over the last two weeks. Similar trends are being observed in other areas of the state, especially Utah and Salt Lake counties.
Situations can quickly change so it is extremely important to be vigilant in our preventive efforts by physical distancing, staying home when sick, wearing masks and protecting those with underlying health conditions and our most vulnerable populations. We need to do this together.
We will keep you informed as we get closer to a safe and effective vaccine. We strongly encourage you to consider getting your flu shot now rather than waiting. We have been advised that flu shots and COVID vaccines will likely need to be administered at separate times, even as much as a month apart. So, please plan ahead and get your flu shot early. It is currently available at your health care providers, pharmacies and here at the Bear River Health Department.
We knew there would be a risk of increased COVID cases with the return of the academic year. Now that we see this happening, we continue to ask for your help with our prevention efforts. Let’s be wise and know that others depend on the decisions we make. We can do this. Thank you for all your efforts!”
Lloyd Berentzen, Executive Director – Bear River Health Department
Special Education Aide opening
Rich County School District is accepting applications for the following position for the 2020-2021 school year:
One Special Education Aide at RMS/NRE
Applicants must be willing to submit to a background check.
Interested individuals must be 18 years old, be a high school graduate or equivalent, have the ability to communicate effectively and help others, have a valid Drivers License, and be willing and able to transport school age children in a district-owned vehicle. Must also be able to lift 50 pounds. Applicants should have the ability to work with children, perform routine record keeping functions, and establish and maintain working relationships with co-workers, teachers, students, and the public.
Application can be found online www.richschool.org, employment
Send application to: Rich Middle School
Principal Kip Motta
P O Box 129
Laketown, UT 84038
Phone: 435-946-3359
Fax: 435-946-3366
Email to: kmotta@richschool.org
CLOSING DATE: This position will remain open and applications accepted until
a qualified candidate is hired.
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