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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
WOODRUFF TOWN, 195 S Main Street, Woodruff, Utah 84086 Woodruff Town (Owner) is requesting Bids for the demolition and reconstruction of the Town Hall Sidewalk and Stoop. Bids for the construction of the Project will be received at the Woodruff Town Office Located at 195 South Main Street, Woodruff, Utah, 84086, until June 17, 2025, at 5:00 pm. local time. The Project includes the following Work: Demolition and reconstruction of the sidewalk/ramp in front of the Woodruff Town Hall and the stoop on the north side of the town hall. The existing sidewalk/ramp is approximately 44' long and 8' wide. The existing stoop is approximately 4' long, 3'-4' wide, and 8' thick. The existing sidewalk/ramp and stoop shall be removed and disposed of properly. Subgrade shall be excavated to 10' below final grade of concrete, scarified, moisture conditioned, and compacted. Imported road base shall be moisture conditioned to within 2% of optimum moisture and placed and compacted to 96% maximum dry density in a 6' lift. Road base shall meet UDOT standards. Concrete shall be placed 4' thick to final grade for the sidewalk/ramp and shall be broom finished. Sidewalk/ramp shall be constructed to ADA standards. Concrete shall be formed and placed to result in an 8' step for the stoop. Concrete shall meet UDOT standards for Air Entrained (AE) concrete for sidewalk. Concrete control joints shall be utilized per ACI standards. All work shall be done in accordance with applicable building codes, laws, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards for Accessible Design, American Concrete Institute (ACI) recommendations, and industry standards. Contractor shall protect the building, landscaping, utilities, etc. and shall repair any damage at no additional cost to Owner. The Project is expected to be completed by August 29, 2025. Project, if awarded, will be for a single contract to the lowest responsible bidder. All bidders should include project names and references for at least 5 previous similar projects that the contractor has completed over the course of the last 5 years. Questions related to the project may be directed to: Scott Sabey at (435) 503-0454 Pre-bid Conference: A pre-bid conference will not be held. The contractor is encouraged, but not required, to visit the site to view the project prior to bidding. The Owner may reject any or all bids submitted, if doing so is in the best interest of the town. Issued by: Owner: Town of Woodruff By: Scott Sabey Title: Mayor Date: June 3, 2025
It’s not a rainbow, it’s a “sundog” (or parhelion). Sundogs are colored spots of light that develop when sunlight refracts through hexagonal ice crystals, acting like prisms. Simply amazing!
Jim Stone once owned the Pickleville Country Store but sold it and moved to Alaska, where he has been living off the grid for nearly four years. He unexpectedly now has the store back. He shared the story of how he first came to own it
I had been guiding for about 10 years. I had been saving all of my money from tips. I called it my dirty sock money. After I would do a guide trip, I would take the the tip money and stash it in a dirty sock. I thought that was a pretty safe place, that nobody would be looking in a bunch of dirty socks for a stash of money. I had no idea how much money I had.
There used to be two gas pumps in front of the store. I was in my mid twenties and I was up here hunting and I pulled in. I was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser and I filled my tank up and I went inside the store and there was this kind of gruff guy in there, an older gentleman, and I had forgotten my wallet. This guy says, well I am probably going to have to call the cops on you. Then we stared talking and I told him that I was up here fishing all the time and he says, "OK, how about you leave me your shotgun and your driver's license and you run back home and get the money that you owe me." So, I did and I came back and we ended up becoming friends.
About a year later I was in talking with him, and he was the type of guy that loved to fish and hunt, so he was sharing some of his hunting and fishing secrets with me and different things about him and we ended up to be pretty good friends. He said that he and his wife were older and thinking about selling the store.
I told him I would be really interested in buying the store and asked him if he would be willing to carry the loan. He said he would, but there would have to be a pretty substantial down payment. So I thought. about all of the dirty sock money I had stashed from 10 years of guiding. I didn't even know how much money was there. I told him I would see what I could come up with.
I ran back home and I must had had twenty or twenty-five dirty socks and they were just packed full of money. I started counting the money out and had $42,000 in cash. It was unbelievable. So I grabbed that money and came up here (I took it out of the dirty socks, of course) and he didn't have any customers in the store. So, I laid $40,000 in cash in fives, tens, 20s and 50s and 100 dollar bills. So you can imagine what $40,000 in cash would look like sitting on a counter. I said, "I have got $40,000 down. Would that be enough for a down payment to buy your store?"
He said it would be and that they would owner finance the store for me for 9% interest. That was quite a lot. That is how I came about buying this store. It had been built in 1930.
There is a sign on the window that says "Utah Liquor Control Commission 1935". It was a liquor store. The center part of the store was a beer bar and was named El Centro. The downstairs of the store was used for moonshine and illegal gambling. Out back was an actual brothel. There are nine little hotel rooms in what looks like an old shed now, as the people that took over the store didn't keep that part cleaned up.
I made a lot of improvements after I bought the store. I wanted to fix up the little rooms in the back, but couldn't get permission from the city because I didn't have enough parking.
I only had parking for 200 square feet so I turned one of the old brothel buildings into the cute building out back and served raspberry shakes and sandwiches out of it and it became kind of a hub of Bear Lake. Then I had a great big raspberry patches. They are gone now. They grew all of the way along the deck and then I had a trail coming all the way through the center of this little yard. It was full of raspberries and strawberries so people could pick them and I would make them a berry shake with them. I even had red currants and gooseberry currants.
Some of the old signs are still here for subs and shakes. We named the restaurant The Big Pickle and we would serve those great big giant pickles and they were a big hit to a lot of people.
There is an apartment upstairs. That is where I lived and the center floor is actually the store.
That is the story of how I bought the Pickleville Country Store. It was actually a little grocery store and I turned it into a sporting good/grocery store/rental shop and I was renting paddle boards and sea kayaks and bicycles and then I was running the store and also the little shake shop.
Sending you a great big smile from my old store, Pickleville Country Store.
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This week’s vendors include Any Alaska, G Cubed, BearLake Custom Wood, Kathy’s Tumblers, Nomadic Creations, Burger Daddy, A Clasp Above the Rest, Kandi Corner, Leaf Guard and Mahogany Ridge Farm.
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Dates: June 17, 18, & 19 
Location: Lakeside Studio
Ages: 6-12 Fun Projects Include:
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In 1892 Nathaniel Morris Hodges purchased the entire ranch from Mr. Emanuel Bisbing of Garden City. This extended from the Hansen property on the north end of the community to the hills on the south, and the lake on the east, including what is now Ideal Beach and the Church Welfare Farm. This included all the farm land as well as the lake shore, which was then being used as pasture. These early settlers cleared the land of brush, built houses of logs, dug wells, and with the Garden City early settlers worked to bring water for irrigation purposes from Swan Creek Spring. The south end of the ditch was called the Bisbing Ditch, some parts of which are still in use. Because farming was becoming more extensive as new land was broken up, the water supply was insufficient for irrigation, so in 1902 Mr. Hodges formed Hodges Irrigation Company, and began the project of enlarging and extending the canal to supply water for the increased acreage. This new canal extended south to new grounds known as Little Valley and Mud Spring Hollow. The work was all done with teams and scrapers, shovels, picks and axes. Lots of hard manual labor was involved, but it enabled N. M. Hodges, to greatly increase the acreage of wheat, barley, oats, and alfalfa. The crops at this time were harvested with horse drawn mowers, rakes, and binders. Hay was pitched by hand into the stack. Later hay loaders came into use and also derricks for unloading. Still later on the push rakes and over-shot stackers were used for many years. Grain was cut and bound into bundles by horse drawn binders, shocked to dry and later stacked. Threshing was done with six team horse power machine and the bundles were pitched onto the machine by hand. The women folk came in for their share of hard work also, during these early years. Milking cows, raising chickens, and taking care of the gardens. They churned their own butter and did their washing by hand.
Garden City was a two miles away. The church, school, grocery store, and Post Office were located in Garden City. During the good weather the children walked to school and at other times the families provided transportation with teams and wagons and sleighs.
In 1905 N.M. Hodges built his 2nd saw mill---this one was located east of the Charlotte Hodges home on the property next to the lake shore. It was operated by Vin Hansen, who was an experienced sawyer, lumber was planed and shingles were made, which was a great asset to the ranch and enabled families to improve their homes. A number of new homes were soon built on tracts of land which had been purchased from N.M. Hodges, who with his sons had organized a company called-- THE HODGES LAND, LIVESTOCK, AND MILLING COMPANY-- with N.M. Hodges as “EXECUTOR”.
Considerable range land had been acquired previous to this organization, hundreds of acres were leased to the government by special permits - located in the mountains west of the Hodges properties- between Logan Canyon and Bear Lake, for grazing of the herds of sheep, cattle, and horses. 2o to 24 men were employed the year round on the ranch for a number of years, considerable logging being done during the winter months. Old records show that many of the Garden City men had steady employment on the Hodges Ranch for many years. It was customary for the hired men to be given Saturday afternoon off, and this was looked forward to with pleasant anticipation by all, including the ladies, Many lively baseball games were played with neighboring towns and always a well attended dance in the evening, this being the chief recreation. Horse racing was an anticipated weekly sport. The Hodges boys owned many riding ponies of superior breeds and abilities. This sport was very competitive and enjoyed by the menfolk of the neighboring settlements on Saturdays. The race track was located from the big ditch, south of the “Ranch House” to the end of the main road--which ended at the property line--which is owned by Mrs. Parley Hodges today. In the wintertime, there were church programs and home dramatics. All of these taking place in Garden City.
