Saturday, February 13, 2021
Family Activity by Rich School District
Discovery Family Adventures Program
Free family experiences from My Discovery Destination! Create opportunities for your family to build resilience and strong relationships, by completing activities at home and at family-friendly businesses. My Discovery Destination! takes the work and the cost out of the activities you wanted to do anyway.
My Discovery Destination! is working with the Rich School District and the Bear River Health Department to provide this for our area, and we highly recommend that you take advantage of it!
Get connected to the Discovery Family Adventures program by downloading the GooseChase app and searching for “Discovery Family Adventures” or visiting MyDiscoveryDestination.com/Discovery. If you have any questions, email Tori@MyDiscoveryDestination.com
Change in Rich School District Calendar
The Rich School District calendar is ratified each year by the Board of Education, following input from staff and patrons. The goal is to maximize academic learning time, while meeting or exceeding the number of instructional hours, required by State Statute and State Board Rule.
Recently, changes have occurred which affected the Utah High School Activities Association calendar. Noting those changes, it was proposed that the Rich Board of Education adjust the local calendar to reflect opportunities afforded by the change in the UHSAA calendar.The intent of the proposed changes was to enhance academic learning time and better facilitate scheduled school activities.
Accordingly, the Rich District Calendar has been modified as follows:
(1) Wednesday, March 3, will be a regular school day. (It had previously been scheduled as a non-school day.)
(2) Friday, February 19, school will not be held. (It had previously been scheduled as a school day.)
Click here for new detailed calendar Click here for new calendar summary
We recognize this change may be problematic for some students and families; we apologize for the inconvenience. However, in the short time we had to gather input, it appears that this change was overwhelming supported by staff and stakeholders.
If you have questions or concerns, please visit with your building principal or call the district office at your convenience.
If you have questions or concerns, please visit with your building principal or call the district office at your convenience.
Bear River Health Department COVID update
NEW CASES TODAY: 47
LAST UPDATED: FEBRUARY 13, 2021 10:00 AM
CASES HOSPITAL DEATHS
BOX ELDER 4712 218 41
CACHE 14419 522 31
RICH 122 6 0
TOTALS 19253 746 72
Sunday, February 7, 2021
Good Stuff!
By John Brown
The Future is Faster Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
You ain’t seen nothing yet, and it’s coming faster than you can imagine. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years.
That’s the message of The Future is Faster Than you Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler.
Peter Diamandis is an engineer, physician, and entrepreneur best known for founding and chairing the X Prize Foundation, which holds public competitions that are intended to encourage technological development to benefit humanity.
For example, one X Prize was for $10 million dollars and went to the first privately financed team that could build and fly a three-passenger vehicle 100 kilometers into space twice within two weeks. Then there was the $10 million prize promised to the first team that could create a mobile device that can "diagnose patients better than or equal to a panel of board-certified physicians.” The X Prize competitions help push the envelope of science and innovation.
Because of his work, Diamandis has the pulse on what’s coming next with technology. And he’s teamed up with Steven Kotler, an American author and journalist, to share it with us. And it will blow your mind. Because it’s not forty, fifty, or sixty years out. It’s coming within the next ten years.
The reason why these innovations will be coming so quickly is because various cutting-edge technologies are merging and accelerating each other’s growth. Things like artificial intelligence, virtual reality, digital biology, fabrication on demand (called 3D printing), and quantum computing. And that’s going to bring huge changes in transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance.
For example, what happens when solar energy becomes virtually free? We’re not talking about the current solar cells. We’re talking about huge advances in that technology converging with new innovations with batteries. We will shift from coal and gasoline to electricity. We’ll be driving electric cars. Air pollution will plummet. And we’ll be able to provide clean water to everyone.
What happens when computers, paired with advanced sensors, can monitor your health better than any doctor?
What happens when farming goes vertical and people in big cities begin growing crops up the walls of buildings and in food towers?
Those are three of the dozens of innovations Diamandis and Kotler share. If you like science and technology and want to get a fascinating glimpse of what’s coming down the road, read this book. And if you listen to it on audio, you get a bonus of the authors explaining what’s new since the book was published.
Rich High institutes tests
TEST to STAY Information
All activities have been canceled for the weekend. Rich High School will institute “Test to Stay” protocols on Monday. Starting on Monday, in order to attend school in-person, each student will be required to test negative for COVID-19. These tests will be administered Monday morning at the school. Any student who tests positive or chooses not to test will be asked to quarantine for 10 days and will not be allowed in school for that time period. A COVID-19 Informed Parent Consent form, signed by a parent or guardian, is required before students will be tested. Students who have been participating in the “Test to Play” protocols have been testing every-other-week and have already filled out the form. Only those who have not previously been tested at the school will need to sign and return the form.
SKI JOURING
MW Quarter Horses and Beaver Creek Lodge will provide horses and riders for an exhibition event featuring an afternoon of “Ski Jouring”. Horses will pull skiers through a ski course around gates and jumps. This event will have a “demo” or “learn to ride” time that allows new participants to try their skills behind the speed of a horse. Skiers must provide their own ski equipment. Immediately following the exhibition demo time, there will be a timed event with prizes for winners. ****** Free to the public******
10:00 am to Noon: Open pulls
Noon to 2 pm Race Event:
Categories:
Youth (Ages up to 18)
Adults (Ages 19 to 40)
Seniors: (Ages 40+)
Due to limited amount of horses, race entrants will be limited and coordinated day of event. Prizes will be awarded for winners in each category.
For any persons interested in bringing a horse or team to compete, please coordinate with Marie Wamsley. She can be reached at 435-881-5056.
Sponsors:
Bear lake Valley Chamber of Commerce
Bear lake Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau
Town of Garden City
MW Quarter Horses
Beaver Creek Lodge
BRHD COVID update
COUNTIES IN THE BEAR RIVER HEALTH DEPARTMENT DISTRICT
BOX ELDER CASES CACHE CASES RICH CASES TOTALS
4634 14163 117 18914
TOTAL HOSPITAL
212 507 5 724
DEATHS
38 28 0 66
NEW CASES TODAY: 29
LAST UPDATED: FEBRUARY 7, 2021 10:00 AM
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