Menlove Family Rescued From Capsized Boat During Storm On Bear Lake KSLTV

BY MATT RASCON & MADISON SWENSON, KSL TV | JULY 23, 2021 AT 6:27 PM

UPDATED: JULY 24, 2021 AT 10:34 AM

BEAR LAKE COUNTY, Idaho — A boat carrying 14 people, including 11 children, capsized on Bear Lake Thursday night due to stormy conditions. Luckily, the family was rescued by park rangers after spending some time in the rough water.

They are experienced boaters, but park rangers said waves reached up to six feet that day.

On Friday, the family told KSL-TV they are still shaken, but grateful for what they describe as divine intervention that helped bring them to shore.

When you’ve been in rough water, you know and appreciate the calm.

For the Menlove family, nothing will compare to the rough water they experienced Thursday night.

“And very quickly, the lake got very wild,” said Marisha Menlove.

Last picture of boat sinking

Conditions started out just right.

Marisha Menlove had her 3-year-old twins in her bother-in-law’s new 2021 Malibu boat, with two other adults and seven other children.

They surfed and wakeboarded, but Menlove said she is most thankful they brought the tube with them.

“The wind started to come up, and we thought, ‘Ah, we better get back to the beach,'” she said.

Around 6 p.m., they started heading back to shore for dinner, but they didn’t get very far. Waves crashed and the engine shut off.

That’s when Menlove grabbed her twins and went for the tube.

“To have a storm like that, where the waves are crashing into this huge boat — hitting the driver, knocking people over in the boat — and then to be on this little tube with 10 kids inside and 4 people holding on, how does the tube not capsize? How does it not deflate?” she said.

Menlove expected the boat to drag the tube down with it because they couldn’t get the rope untied, but it came loose on its own.

“We’re just in a water park, rolling with the waves. It was just peaceful,” said Menlove. “Curtis wasn’t scared. I wasn’t scared. The kids didn’t seem scared. It was just like we had this bubble around us keeping us safe.”

After about 15 minutes in the water, park rangers saved them.

Looking back, Menlove believes someone else was also looking out for them.

“He said, ‘I don’t know how that happened,’ but I do. We all know how that happened and we’re grateful. Our family saw a miracle,” she said.

Everyone was wearing life vests, and park rangers stressed how important that was.

“We’ve definitely seen people get stuck out there, and unfortunately, people have lost their lives on this lake,” said Aaron Nelson, the park ranger who came to rescue the family. “I want to make sure that people aren’t only having fun, but that they make it home at the end of the day.”

Summer Night

Photo by Carol Ann Dyer

 

Garden City Park gate closes at ten

Don't get locked in!

Garden City has installed an automatic gate at the park on Bear Lake Blvd. The gate will close promptly at 10 pm and will reopen at 6 am every day. 

If you are lucky enough to get locked in after it closes you will be in for the night so we hope you enjoy the night sky. Please pass this on as it has been quite a few years since we have closed the gate to the park and we really, really don't want to lock anyone in. We hope you all have a fun and safe holiday weekend.

Fire Restrictions

Utah Forestry, Fire & State Lands

Garden City will be following the State of Utah and Rich County, Stage 2 Fire Restrictions. The restrictions ban the use of campfires or any open flames, tent stoves, coal and wood burning stoves, charcoal grills and barbecues (propane stoves are allowed). This applies to all public land, as well as unincorporated private land.

The restrictions also include the ban of smoking, using fireworks, tracer ammunition or other pyrotechnic devices including exploding targets, cutting, welding or grinding equipment use without an appropriate spark guard on state lands or unincorporated private lands.

See https://utahfireinfo.gov/

for more information on current restrictions.

All state & unincorporated private lands in Box Elder, Cache, Rich, Weber, Morgan, Davis, Tooele, Salt Lake and Utah counties enter Stage II Fire Restrictions at 12:01 am on July 21, 2021. Open fires of any kind are prohibited.

Detailed Restriction Order: https://bit.ly/RestrictionOrder

The restriction includes campfires, tent stoves, coal and wood burning stoves and charcoal grills and barbecues. 

Devices using pressurized liquid fuel or gas with shut-off values are permitted in areas with at least 3 feet or more of clearance from flammable material.

Restrictions also apply to smoking, discharging or using fireworks, tracer ammunition or other pyrotechnic devices including exploding targets, cutting, welding or grinding & equipment use without an appropriate spark arrestor. Read the Fire Restriction Order for specifics.

Alicia Blickfeldt Concerts

Alicia Blickfeldt, will have concerts at 7 pm on July 30th, August 13th and September 3rd at the Paris Tabernacle, in Paris, Idaho. We encourage you to please make a note of these dates and plan to attend those events that are of interest to you.

Alicia Blickfeldt is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is an author, actress, and creator. You can find her book titled They Said I Would Die: A journey to self-healing on Amazon.com. Alicia has a powerful voice that will transport you. As classifications go, she is a classical crossover soprano. However, her musical preference is to sing EpiClassical Fantasy. She studied music under opera star, Hans Gregory Ashbaker, and university professor, Karen Brookens Bruestle. She has sung in a variety of venues, including productions with the Salt Lake Pops Orchestra, the Davis County Symphony, and multiple concert locations throughout the United States. Alicia is also a two-time nominee for the Utah Music Awards and she has been voted #1 in multiple music festivals and Internet musical ranking sites.

Alicia Blickfeldt is a powerful force for good. Her vision and focus are to create music videos that draw people in through powerful and relatable emotions and then lifts them to a place of hope and encouragement. She enjoys delivering public performances that lift others out of the norm, transporting them into a place of peace. She says, “My greatest desire is to make an impact! Not in my life, but in the lives of all those I can reach through this amazing music! My voice is my gift, and I want to give it to you. I’m eager and excited to share it.”

Mary Putnam Argyle 1920- 2021

Mary Putnam Argyle passed away at her home peacefully in Randolph Utah on July 18th 2021. She was born in Woodruff Utah to her parents John Melvin Putnam and Rosabelle Hoggan Putnam on May 13, 1920 where she was born and raised. She attended grade school in Woodruff and freshman year in Randolph Utah.

She went to Rock Springs Wyoming her sophomore year and lived with her older sister Geneive and husband Clarence Meacham and attended school there. The next year she moved back home to help on the ranch and met and married her eternal companion Wayne William Argyle Sr on June 10th 1938 in the Salt Lake Temple. To that union was born 8 children 4 boys and 4 girls with one boy and one girl being twins.

 Her days were filled with tending children, cooking, helping milk cows and even driving a push rake in the haying time on the ranch. Her church callings and Sundays was always her high point of her life. She filled every calling a devoted member could fill with in her Ward and Stake, including 2 full time missions after the death of her husband in February 1982. When her husband was diagnosed with M.S in the 1950’s she became the bread winner working as a school and church custodian and she cooked for the school lunch program for many years even serving as the school lunch Supervisor over the lunch Program for the South and North Rich Schools.

In the 1960’s the home in Randolph was bought where she spent the remainder of her life. While on the ranch cooking was done on coal stove, water from a well by bucket and the old log out house was the norm. When she moved into the house in Randolph with indoor plumbing, hot and cold water and electricity she said she thought she had gone to heaven. Both the ranch home and the home in Randolph was always home to family and friends and who usually left with some kind of goodie being cookies, cakes, pies, home-made bread, dinner rolls, jam and even home-made candy. She had a modest income but thought she was rich with the blessings of family and friends which surrounded her during her life and with whom she shared her Love, Knowledge and Possessions.

Mary is survived by her children: Wayne (Sheila) Argyle Jr.; Ireta (Kenny) Norris; Rosemary Argyle & Bob Wamsley; Howard (Ellen) Argyle; Louise (Don) Miller; and Kurt (Cindy) Argyle.   Her brothers, Howard, and Jack Putnam; and a sister Clarine Osborn.   She will also be missed by Gerold Arnell.  Her posterity includes 265 grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her daughter, Helen Arnell, and a son, Keith Argyle; father, John Melvin Putnam, mother, Rosabelle Hoggan Putnam; brothers, Kenneth Putnam, and Willis Putnam; and sisters, Geneive Meacham, Loa Madsen, and Mildred Wettstein,

Funeral service for Mary will take place Wednesday July 21, 2021 at 1:00PM at the Randolph LDS Church, with a viewing at 11:30AM.

A viewing will be held Tuesday July 20, 2021 from 6-8PM at the Randolph LDS Church.  Mary will be laid to rest at the Randolph Cemetery.

Services

VIEWING

Tuesday

July 20, 2021

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Randolph LDS Church

The Fearless Foodie

 

Poke Me in the Eye                                         

By Scott Heiner 

As a “fearless foodie,” I have strived to try every kind of food.  However, just when I think I pretty much know about all the foods around, I discover something totally new. 

It was Father’s Day, and my daughter and her husband asked where I’d like to eat out.  Of course, I responded, “I want something weird, something that I haven’t tried before.  They suggested Hawaiian Poke.  “Poke?” I asked, “what on earth is that?”  I had no idea, so it was a no-brainer; we got in the car and took off to “Bigeye Poke & Grill” in Draper.   

This is what I learned from Wikipedia:  Poké (pronounced “Po-keh”) is diced and seasoned raw fish served either as an appetizer or a main course.  It is one of the main dishes of Native Hawaiian cuisine. Traditional forms include tuna, octopus, but more recently, raw salmon or various shellfish has been added as a main ingredient. 

The modern version is usually called a “poke bowl”, and the ingredients are arranged in a grouped way rather than mixed. Poke restaurants are mostly fast casual style restaurants where the dish is fully customizable from the base to the marinade on the fish. 

Beginning around 2012, poke became increasingly popular in North America. It started with a foothold in California and gradually migrated inland to Utah.  So, last month, we migrated to Bigeye Poke & Grill and I found it delightful. 

At Bigeye, to create your custom poke bowl, you move through the serving line with four steps:

1.     Base – Choice of white rice, brown rice or greens, or half-and-half

2.     Protein – Choose two of: (raw) tuna, salmon, octopus or (grilled) salmon, mahi-mahi, tilapia, beef or chicken

3.     Sides – Choose two of: edamame, black beans, kimchi, coleslaw, macaroni salad, honey crab, spicy cucumber or seaweed salad

4.     Garnish – fresh ginger, sesame seeds, wasabi, egg roll wrapper crisps, teriyaki sauce.

There are some other variations of the menu, but that’s the main idea.  I ordered (1) brown and white rice, (2) raw tuna and “volcano salmon”, (3) kimchi and honey crab, and (4) teriyaki and unagi sauce and crisps.  It’s kind of like Café Rio, Hawaiian-style. 

My poke bowl was very fresh and flavorful.  The sides, sauces and toppings made for a perfect taste.  There was so much variety of ingredients at Bigeye that I want to return.  What’s more, there are a number of other poke restaurants cropping up along the Wasatch Front, so I’ll definitely be eating more poke bowls in the future. 

So, when I think I’m knowledgeable am I about all the types of food around--well, just poke me in the eye.

 

 

Flying High

Photo by Brent Hirschi

 

Fires at the Lake

 Bear Lake State Park 

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With the warm, dry weather we are experiencing, a visit to Bear Lake is a refreshing option. These few incidents have occurred around the lake in just the last four days. A few things to remember:

1- Make sure your vessel has been checked for any mechanical issues, ventilation system works correctly, you have run your blower for 2 minutes before starting the engine, and your fire extinguisher is up to date. 

2- Do NOT discard hot charcoal into any trash receptacle before ensuring that it has been fully extinguished. 

3- Prior to leaving with the camper, make sure your propane is off, trailer brakes are working correctly, and chains are not dragging on the roadway. 

With two of these incidents, we were extremely lucky that they didn’t spread into a large wildfire. Please be safe while recreating and hope to see you soon.

June School Board Meeting

Kathie B. Anderson, Reporter
Rich Civic Times  

Gary McKee, Bear Lake Realty, is the listing agent for a large piece of  property (3.21 acres) located directly north of the Laketown School Campus.   McKee asked the Board if the School District has any interest in purchasing the property.  The purchase price was not discussed during the regular School Board meeting, but a special Board meeting was held on Friday, June 25, 2021, regarding the land acquisition.  As of the preparation of this article no decision has been made.

A motion to adopt the 2021-2022 School District Budget totaling almost $13,000,000 was approved unanimously. 

The following individuals will fill the stated classified positions:  Janine Kurek – lunch room in Laketown, Jayna Smith, aide at South Rich Elementary School, and Misty O’Mealy, aide at Northridge Elementary.  The School District will implement the new early learning program specific to Math.  Lisa Cornia will fill the position vacated by Ashley Rex, which position is funded out of South Rich Elementary Trust Lands and involves working with students, under the direction of their teachers, to enhance student learning.  Bethany Lundgren will fill the Counseling position that was approved last month.

It is extremely difficult to find substitute teachers.  There are many reasons for this, including the current pay structure, which needs to be addressed.  Superintendent Dale Lamborn recommended that the pay for substitute teachers be  increased, but he suggested that the pay rate not be too close to the rate that is received by aides who are employed daily.  There was a  short discussion of Policy 603.4,  and a motion was approved  unanimously  by the Board to implement a pay raise for substitute teachers.

For the second year in a row, the Rich High girls were the 1 A State Girls  Golf Champions!

Summer Nights

Photo by Lauriann Wakefield

 

Fun at the Library