Monday, December 13, 2021
Favorite Christmas Stories
Please send your stories of Christmas to Bess Huefner at dbhuefner@yahoo.com to be published next Monday, December 20th. Then come and get your Christmas Cookie or Orange that week.
Bear Lake Valley Market
Bear Lake Valley Market continues to provide great Christmas, birthday, & friend gifts. Remember that Santa will be at the Market on the 18th.
Buddy Bench at North Rich
Avery
Kohl had big dreams of growing up to be a humanitarian. Through kindness, she
wanted to help the world. When, at the age of 10, Avery passed away in a UTV
accident, her friends and family created Avery’s Dream Foundation to fulfill
her important dream. Her foundation encourages kindness, inclusion and service
to people in need socially, emotionally or physically. We create Kindness Clubs , and hope to spread the clubs as far and
wide as our funds will allow. The focus of these clubs is
to encourage young people to be kind by being inclusive of
lonely class mates and by performing other acts of
kindness. Lastly, to date we have donated twelve Buddy
Benches, with plans to donate another eleven in October
and November, 2021.
Buddy Benches have been proven to be an inexpensive and effective method to curb playground isolation in grades kindergarten through sixth grade. There are two types of troubled children, extroverts and introverts. Extroverts are easy to spot and are typically disruptive and therefore get much funding and resources. Introverted troubled children are quit, spend time in isolation and seldom get good help. In studies, Buddy Benches have been found to be a great tool to reduce the number of isolated children, i.e. lonely, friendless children during lunch as recess. When lonely children muster enough courage to sit on a Buddy Bench, they declare to their playground world, “I need a friend”. This wordless declaration is answered by good classmates eager to kindly invite them to play, to be included. The seed of friendship and kindness is planted and quickly playground isolation decreases.
The Buddy Bench was
delivered to our school on Monday December 6, 2021, at 10:45am.
We had a short assembly where Jasonn & Jennifer Kohl, a connection to a student in our school, talked to the children about the purpose of the Buddy Bench and movement behind it and its proper use on our playground.
Student's
role-played scenarios of proper ways to use the bench, including sitting on the
bench when you don't have anyone to play with, inviting those on the bench to
come and play and the person on the bench having the right to decline the
invitation to play and remain sitting on the bench. Then the bench was placed
by students outside at the NRE playground.
blundgren@richschool.org
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education
at all. ~Aristotle
Synopsis of Garden City Town Board Meeting Dec. 9, 2021
The Town Board presented Kathy Hislop with a retirement send off. She has served for over 20 years and has helped the City through various dynamic changes in the Councils. Also honored was Howard Pope who will be serving in other capacities.
Items discussed on the Agenda were: Yearly Financial Report from Gary Teuscher-he said the City was in great shape financially and praised the accounting program as one of the best he works with; Approval of the Conceptual plan for Blue Vista Hills was given as was the Final Approval for Phase 8B of Water's Edge Resort; Preliminary Approval was give to the 5 lot subdivision at 275 S. Bear Lake Blvd.; Phase 2 of the Villages at Lighthouse Pointe on Pickleville Road was approved upon conditions.
You may call in every month to listen to the proceedings by calling Garden City Offices for the number.
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Garden City & Laketown Food Pantry
Garden City
& Laketown Food Pantry
Located
above the Garden City Library
Days &
hours
Tuesdays 9:00 to 11:00 AM
2:00 to
4:00 PM
Wednesdays 4:00 to 6:00 PM
Garden City Pool Exercise Class
Garden City Pool Exercise
Men
& Women
Monday,
Wednesday, & Friday
8:30 AM to 9:30 AM
Synopsis of Rich County Commissioner's Meeting Dec. 8, 2021
The Rich County Commissioner's reviewed the budget for 2022. There were a few changes in departmental budgets, but all departments were within the budget. You can follow the Commissioner's meetings on Jonathan Lee's website. I noticed that 183 people looked at the meeting this week.
Christmas tree permits
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be issuing Christmas tree permits. The permits are $10 each with a limit of one per family. The permits allow for Christmas tree harvest on public lands managed by the BLM in southeastern Idaho. Members of the public seeking to harvest Christmas trees on National Forest lands should contact the Caribou-Targhee National Forest for permit prices and restrictions.
Cristy Transtrum Obituary
Cristy (Michaelson) Transtrum 6/14/1953 - 11/28/2021 Cristy Michaelson Transtrum was called home to our Father in Heaven's arms on November 28th of 2021 in Pocatello Idaho.
Cristy was born on June 14th of 1953 in Montpelier Idaho to Alton and Velma Eborn
Michaelson. Cristy was raised in Saint Charles Idaho where she played in the fields, rode horses, and brought home every injured animal she came across to nurse them back to health.
After graduating from High School, Cristy set her sights on Weber State University and
graduated with an Associates Degree in Nursing. She then returned home to her beloved Bear Lake Valley where she practiced nursing at Bear Lake Memorial Hospital for over 40 years. Upon returning to Bear Lake, she later met and married Robert James Transtrum. Robert and Cristy had three children during their marriage, Jamie, Chad, and Lindon. Cristy's second child, Chad, only needed a body and swiftly returned home to our Father days before Cristy gave birth. Cristy was a faithful and life long member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She received several callings in the church but none more precious to her than playing the piano in the Primary.
Cristy is survived by her children, Jamie Transtrum and Lindon (ChiVon) Robert Kennedy Transtrum, and by her siblings, Arthur (Shauna) Michaelson, and Carolyn Michaelson Moore.
The viewings were held Friday, December 10th from 6 PM - 7 PM at the Saint Charles Church and Saturday at 10:00 AM - 12:45 PM, followed by the funeral services at
1:00 PM at the Saint Charles Church. In lieu of flowers, please give donations to the Bear Lake Memorial Hospital.
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