Raspberry Days are here!

 

EVENTS SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5TH

ZUMBA 8:30 AM-9:30 AM - FREE ENTRY

LOCATED ON STAGE AT HERITAGE PARK. CAROLINA LINKOGLE WILL GET YOUR BODY IN GEAR FOR THE DAY! COME HAVE FUN AS WE DANCE AND GET MOVING! HERITAGE PARK VIEW MAP

MAIN FESTIVAL AND FAIR 10 AM-8 PM

HERITAGE PARK 300 WEST - NO SMOKING ALLOWED. NO PETS ALLOWED.

BINGO 11 AM-12 PM

HERITAGE PARK WEST OF THE STAGE

PARADE 6:00 PM

THEME – RASPBERRY DAYS AMERICAN PRIDE 2021. GRAND MARSHALL DAN & DEBBIE MOLDENHOUER.

LIVE CONCERT “FENDER BENDERS” 6:00 PM

 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6TH

ZUMBA 8:30 AM-9:30 AM - FREE ENTRY

LOCATED ON STAGE AT THE CRAFT FAIR AT HERITAGE PARK. CAROLINA LINKOGLE WILL GET YOUR BODY IN GEAR FOR THE DAY! COME HAVE FUN AS WE DANCE AND GET MOVING!

MAIN FESTIVAL AND FAIR 10 AM-8 PM

HERITAGE PARK 300 WEST - NO SMOKING ALLOWED. NO PETS ALLOWED.

PIE EATING CONTEST 11 AM-12 PM

PRESENTED BY CHAD’S RASPBERRY PRODUCTS. MAIN FESTIVAL STAGE. $5 ENTRY FEE. THREE HEATS WITH POSSIBLE CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND. ALL ENTRIES RECEIVE A FREE T-SHIRT. PRIZES FOR WINNERS. YOU CAN PRE-REGISTER UNTIL JULY 20TH. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT CHADSRASPBERRYKITCHEN.COM.

LIVE CONCERT: “SUMMER BLOOM” 12:00 PM        

BINGO 2 PM- 3 PM

HERITAGE PARK WEST OF THE STAGE.

LIVE CONCERT, BROTHER CHUNKY 3:00 PM

BINGO 5 PM–6 PM

HERITAGE PARK WEST OF THE STAGE.

LIVE CONCERT “BREAKFAST KLUB” 6:00 PM

 

SATURDAY, AUGUST 7TH

5K FUN RUN 8 AM

RACE STARTS AT LAKETOWN PARK. REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION AT WWW.RUNNERCARD.COM

PANCAKE BREAKFAST 8 AM – 10 AM

HERITAGE PARK VIEW MAP

BINGO 10:30 AM-12 PM

HERITAGE PARK WEST OF THE STAGE

GOLF SCRAMBLE 8 AM- 2 PM

BEAR LAKE WEST GOLF COURSE (4 MILES NORTH OF GARDEN CITY)

CALL 208-945-2744 FOR REGISTRATION 4 PERSON SCRAMBLE. SHOTGUN ARRANGEMENT.

ZUMBA 8:30 AM-9:30 AM - FREE ENTRY

LOCATED ON STAGE AT THE CRAFT FAIR AT HERITAGE PARK. CAROLINA LINKOGLE WILL GET YOUR BODY IN GEAR FOR THE DAY! COME HAVE FUN AS WE DANCE AND GET MOVING!

MAIN FESTIVAL AND FAIR 10AM-6 PM

HERITAGE PARK AT 300 WEST - NO SMOKING ALLOWED. NO PETS ALLOWED                                                                                        

LIVE CONCERT “MASON JARR” 3:00 PM

LIVE CONCERT “JORDAN MATTHEW YOUNG” 6:00 PM

BOAT LIGHT PARADE PROVIDED BY THE BEAR LAKE YACHT CLUB 9 PM

RUNS BETWEEN MARINA AND IDEAL BEACH  

FIREWORKS APPROX. 10 PM

Logan Regional wary as COVID makes Cache Valley comeback

Herald Journal

By Charles McCollum staff writer Jul 26, 2021

Logan Regional Hospital Medical Director Taki May addresses COVID concerns in a video interview on Monday. 

Intermountain Logan Regional Hospital Medical Director Taki May is expressing concern as coronavirus cases climb back up in Cache Valley. “Right now we have high volume of patients in the hospital and we’re really nervous about our COVID numbers because we remember what it was like when it was really bad, and I fear that we’re heading there again,” May said in a video interview distributed Monday by Intermountain Healthcare. 

Statewide, hospitalizations from COVID rose 18% to 343 over the past four days as case numbers continue to rise. The seven-day average number of daily cases in Cache County has more than doubled in the past month, from 9.3 to 20.9. The vast majority of the new cases both locally and statewide have been identified as the new, more infectious Delta variant of the virus that is sweeping across the world. 

Bear River Health Department epidemiologist Caleb Harrison said that among the positive Cache County COVID tests sent to the state lab for sequencing, 94% so far this month have been the Delta variant. “The Delta variant is definitely one of the reasons we’re seeing cases tick back up and why we’re bracing for another wave to come late summer, fall and winter,” Harrison said. 

Asked if Logan Regional is prepared for another onslaught of cases like what hit the hospital in 2020,May responded: “We are ready because we have already dealt with this. The difference is that the stress of the pandemic really did hit health care providers in a significant way. Some nurses have moved into other areas of healthcare, some have left the profession, some have gone back to school. So here in Logan as well as across the state and across the country we’re seeing a real staffing problem. We’re bursting at the seams, and if we have more patients with COVID coming in, that’s really going to stress us out.” 

The Logan Regional medical director said the hospital has seen one instance of a patient contracting COVID after receiving a vaccine, but she cautioned this should not be interpreted as proof that coronavirus vaccines aren’t working. “I think as variants become more diverse, they are going to escape our vaccines, but right now all the vaccines that we have are still very effective, and we really need the entire population to participate in the vaccination effort because that’s how we stop the virus in its tracks,” May said. “We hear about them (breakthrough cases) because they are unusual. … We hear about the scary stuff because it’s scary. We don’t hear about the mundane stuff, which is millions of people successfully vaccinated avoiding COVID.” 

According to data from the state of Utah, the percentage of the adults in Cache County who have so far been vaccinated against the coronavirus is 57 percent, which May characterized as “good but not great.” She said the hospital has admitted many non-vaccinated patients, but to date none of her patients have expressed deep regret about foregoing the vaccine — something being reported daily in the national news. “I personally haven’t experienced any of those stories, but I know that those patients with COVID that I have taken care of, they recognize now that the vaccine would have been an opportunity for them,” she said. Both May and Harrison said they believe the current local COVID caseload is being under reported because a lot of asymptomatic virus carriers are not getting tested.

Good Stuff!

HVAC and appliance help for Bear Lake

By John Brown

It’s rough when your A/C, heating, and major appliances conk out. 

Who can you get to repair them? And do a good job? Especially up here in Bear Lake. 

Today I wanted to share my recommendation of two companies that have done a great job for us. 

The first is JM Mechanical out of Hyde Park for HVAC work. 

We love these guys. 

We have in-floor heating. And the boiler we had installed when we built the house gave us nothing but trouble. It was constantly conking out. There’s nothing quite like freezing cold showers in the winter at Bear Lake. It was like we were in some kind of mad training camp to be Stoics.

And we tried to get it fixed. We worked with the company who sold us the dang thing. We worked with the original manufacturer. We spent thousands of dollars on technicians from Salt Lake, Park City, Ogden, and Logan. They were all nice guys but they could never fix the problem. 

After years of this, we’d had it. We needed a fix. 

Luckily, we’d had a recommendation for JM Mechanical from another person in the valley with in-floor heating. We called. They gave us a competitive bid, installed a new boiler, and it has run like a dream. 

No more cold showers. 

No more freezing inside the house as well as outside in January. 

Just heat when you need it. 

We liked their friendly service so much, we called them to see how they could help us with A/C. Again, we received a competitive bid, friendly technicians, and A/C that works like a dream. 

If you need help with your HVAC, JM Mechanical comes up to Bear Lake one or two times per week. They provide great service. Their number is (435) 563-6267.

The second recommendation is for Cache Appliance out of Logan for appliance repair. 

First of all, it’s owned by a man named Josh Sackett. The family legend is that Louis L’Amour was in Beaver looking at gravestones, saw the name, and rest is history. 

But of course, could this Sackett save the day like the Sacketts in story? My experience is that they can. 

We had two issues with our oven and range. Whoever installed it put in the jets for natural gas, not propane. Later, our oven’s heating element stopped worked. We thought about purchasing a new range, but, holy schnitzel, that’s thousands of dollars! 

Couldn’t we just get a repair? 

Some of you he-men are asking, well, why don’t you just fix it yourself? The answer is you don’t want me fixing appliances. I’ll burn the house down. Even with YouTube videos. 

So we searched high and low for someone to help. We finally found Cache Appliance, which used to be part of another company in Logan. A friendly technician drove over and got our stove running like new. 

We later had an issue with our dishwasher. Again, instead of purchasing a new one, we called Cache Appliance. It was a quick repair from a friendly technician at a reasonable price. 

If you need help with your major appliances, call Josh Sackett of Cache Appliance at (435) 465-5962. 

Summer Fields at Sunset

Photo by Donelle D. Sleight