Metal cisterns on the Lake bed by Bluewater Beach

 An interesting bit of Pickleville history has come to light. For many years with the rise and fall of Bear Lake various metal cisterns would appear about 50 feet east from the shore between Ideal/Sweetwater and Bluewater. Kids have thrown rocks at the metal just to hear the ping or dropped things into the cisterns. If you have seen equipment on the lake bed, that is the Army Corp of engineers digging the cisterns out of their hiding places this summer. Also, if you know of any others, it would be helpful to inform the Army Corp. so people/boats would not get hurt on the remnants.

It has been suggested that when the lake was low that the cisterns were placed in the lake bed to gather water to be used as the farmers needed water for their crops which they grew on the lake bed.

Would love the rest of the story as Paul Harvey used to say.

Rich Middle School 8th Grade Football

 

Eyes4Zimbabwe.com

 

Eyes4Zimbabwe.com Service Project

Reeve Nielson from Zimbabwe would like to tell you how appreciative she was of the items that were donated last year.

Suggested list of things needed:

1.   Any clothing item in fairly good condition (underpants have to be brand new for sanitary reasons).

2.   Shoes & socks-wash & taped together.

3.   Small toys, soccer balls, rubber balls, Frisbees.

4.   Medical supplies & newborn kits (see the website).

5.   School kits & supplies.

6.   Buckets with handles for the hospital.

7.   Toothbrushes, toothpaste, bar soap.

8.   Towels, washcloths, blankets, quilts.

Please call 208-945-1337

Jan & Ed Brennan

Obituary-Stanley Gene Thompson

 

Obituary

Stanley Gene Thompson Jr, age 67, stepped into Eternity on August 29, 2023 after one last summer of laughter and love at home with his family. He was born September 21,1955 in Montpelier, ID to Stanley Gene Sr and Norene Murdock Thompson, the oldest of 4 children. Stan grew up on the Thompson Land & Livestock Ranch, 3 miles south of Cokeville, WY where he learned to work hard.

He graduated from Cokeville High School in 1974 and then went on to study and graduate from Denver Automotive and Diesel College in 1975. He came back to Cokeville to fulfill his dream of working on the ranch and then marrying his high school sweetheart Betty Jo Buckley on September 18, 1976. They were later sealed for time and all eternity in the Logan LDS Temple June 5, 1996. Together they welcomed 6 children: Michael (Angela) Thompson of Cokeville, Wy; Meaghan (Bryon) Stinson of Laramie, Wy; Stanley James ‘Jim’ (Amy) Thompson of Lyman, Wy; Zane Thompson of Cokeville, Wy; Marlena (Jeremiah) Johnson of Green River, Wy; Michaela (Sean) Neth of Midvale, Ut.

For years Stan participated in bowling, softball, baseball and basketball leagues around the Bear River valley. He excitedly took on the role of ‘Coach’ as the Defensive Line Coordinator for the Rich High School Rebels in Randolph, UT in 1990, where he coached for 25 years alongside and among some of his very best friends. He also coached at Bear Lake High School for 5 years.

Stan took his civic duties seriously and was currently serving as Cokeville Mayor, a position he already filled for 8 years 2 decades ago. He also has served on the City Council for 12 years, Lincoln County Predator Board, and Planning and Zoning Committee. He was awarded the Cokeville Citizen of the Year in 2004 and for ‘20 Years of Service’ to the Town of Cokeville. He also actively helped the Lincoln County Search & Rescue for most of his life. His favorite church callings were Cub Scout Leader, Master and Primary Teacher. For years you could find him and the best group of men cooking all night long in the church parking lot for the 24th of July Celebration. And a couple of those years he could be spotted the next afternoon with his Wild Cow Milkin’ partner Jon Child winning buckles at the rodeo.

Stan never walked into an event or town where he didn’t run into someone he knew. He was a friend to everyone he met. He donated and sponsored to every good cause and would not be out-auctioned when a chocolate roll was up for grabs. 

Stan fought valiantly against cancer and after receiving a grim diagnosis, he defied the odds and lived many years past the doctor’s time frame. He never let cancer get him down as he continued to contract hay every summer as Stan Thompson Haying. He enjoyed chasing around his 10 grandkids whether it was on the mat, court, field, show ring, or even throwing rocks in the river. Anyone that knew him will never deny that Stan was loyal to the Wyoming Cowboys to the very end. Go Pokes!

Funeral Services will be held Saturday September 2, 2023, at the Cokeville Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, at 11:00 a.m. with an interment to follow at the Cokeville Cemetery. A viewing was held the night before Friday September 1, 2023 at 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Cokeville LDS church, along with another viewing prior to the service from 9:00 to 10:45 a.m..

Interesting and fun-I think Bear lake was in it's own bubble during this time!

 

Morning Glory by Samantha Koontz

 

Celebrate the Super Blue Moon August 30th

 

A thought from "As A Man Thinketh", by James Allen

I enjoy uplifting thoughts. This one was put on Facebook by Bryce Huefner.

"Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into acts, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit."

Zion's Bank is providing exhibits from the Utah Natural History Museum- Thurs. Sept. 7th through September 30th

  

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, ZIONS BANK BRING FREE COMMUNITY SCIENCE NIGHT TO GARDEN CITY

The museum’s ‘Soil Stories’ exhibit will be on display at Zions Bank through September

 

 Garden City is the latest stop in the Natural History Museum of Utah’s “Soil Stories” traveling exhibit, featuring the untold stories of the earth beneath us. The public is invited to a free Community Science Night on Thursday, Sept. 7, from 4:30-7 p.m. at Zions Bank’s Bear Lake Garden City branch, 557 N. Bear Lake Blvd. The community event will feature interactive stations, hands-on activities and touchable specimens.

 

In conjunction with the Community Science Night, a traveling exhibit, which is free and open to the public, will be on display at the Bear Lake Garden City branch during regular bank hours through Sept. 30 as part of its multi-county tour across Utah.

 

Soil Stories highlights the uniqueness of soil, which is often taken for granted. The exhibit unveils the process and players who make, enrich, and survive in soil, including:

 

• Soil samples and soil crusts from across Utah
• Insect specimens and small vertebrates
• Indigenous farming tools, artifacts, and pottery
• Paleosol: where it’s found, and why it matters

 

“We’re excited for Traveling Treasures to come to Garden City for the first time since our branch opened in May 2021,” said Steve Allred, manager of Zions Bank’s Bear Lake Garden City branch. “The museum does a great job making science and history accessible.”

 

Visitors will learn that soils vary in color, texture and smell, and that the organisms that inhabit soil – like cicadas – are just as interesting. One exhibit shows the Indigenous farming practices that allowed Utah’s original peoples to thrive in an arid climate, while another highlights the importance of corn, beans, and squash, and their role in the soil.

 

“In my work studying insects, I have always been fascinated by soil,” said NHMU entomology collections manager Christy Bills. “Invertebrates such as beetles, ants, and snails enrich soil and play a large role in sustaining all kinds of ecosystems in surprising ways.”

 

For more than 20 years, the Natural History Museum of Utah and Zions Bank have partnered to brings natural history collections and research to Utah’s diverse communities. Each year, a team of educators, exhibit designers, bankers, and museum volunteers create a new traveling exhibit that explores a unique aspect of natural history in the state, region and beyond.

 

For additional details about future Traveling Treasures stops and locations, visit https://nhmu.utah.edu/outreach/traveling-treasures.

Eyes on Zimbabwe

 Jan Brennan, former school teacher, has been collecting new and used clothing for several containers of items for a school in Zimbabwe. She knows the director and the things go directly to her to be distributed to the families in need who attend her school.

Jan's number is 208-945-1337

Bear Lake Valley Market - Labor Day 1st-4th

 

Rich High Sports-Many more pics on Facebook Rich High Forum

                                     

           Some of the greats at Rich High 2023. Win over Monticello.

        Hard working Lady Rebels! Win over Manilla.

Idaho Bear Lake Public Lands Committee

 

The Idaho Bear Lake Public Lands Committee met August 7 to discuss implementing new restrictions on lakeshore access and use.

Members of the committee had met with Governor Brad Little on July 20, one day after the governor had signed an Idaho Board of Land order prohibiting certain activities below the high-water mark of Bear Lake.

Most notably, the order prohibits motor-vehicle travel parallel to the lakeshore, within the high-water boundary. Vehicles may drive to the lake in a perpendicular direction only, and may not park within 100 feet of the water, per the order.

County commissioners were scheduled to vote on signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the state, at the time this newspaper went to press. The effect of this document was to lay out enforcement procedures for the new policies. The Department of Lands has no enforcement authority, so enforcement on the Idaho side of the lake would fall to county agencies.

The stated reasons for the new order and memorandum were environmental protection and public safety, though some parties at the August 7 meeting expressed misgivings about the practical effects of enforcement. As it stands, much of the shoreline on both east and west sides of the lake would become functionally off-limits, except to the adjacent property owners.

Sheriff Bart Heslington, a member of the committee, said that most of the policies in the new order were already in place in the 1991 document that is being superseded, but that the new order and memorandum will provide a mechanism for enforcement.

Bloomington mayor Roy Bunderson spoke to question the new obligation of enforcement on the county’s side, given the absence of funding from the state. On the south side of the lake, the state of Utah provides funds to Rich County to offset enforcement costs.

Full versions of the governor’s order and the Memorandum of Understanding can be found on this newspaper’s Facebook page.

 

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