Plant City Flowers
28 May | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
69 North Paradise Parkway, Garden City, Utah, United States, 84028
Volunteer Responsibilities
PLANT FLOWERS IN CONTAINERS AS DIRECTED
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Laketown Planning and Zoning May 27 7:00 PM
1. Pledge of Allegiance 2. Minutes 3. Open discussion on Lot Sizes 4. Report from City Council 5. Other 6. Around the Room
Monday, May 25, 2026
Cisco’s Sonar
The beginning of summer is upon us. New and old businesses
alike are all opening and ready for the crowds. Things will be different for me
this year.
I have decided to leave the lake at recreation business after
22 years. I started in 2004 with
Cisco's landing and operated that until 2015. I really enjoyed my years there
mentoring young people and meeting all kinds of nice visitors. It was also interesting to be part of the
Marina population of folks who lived on their boats. At Cisco’s Landing we ran a grill, fully
stocked marine store, fuel dock and all kinds of other stuff. We rented all
types of watercraft, including ski, pontoon, fishing and paddle boats in addition
to a fleet Wave Runners. Canoes, kayaks
and paddle boards were also available.
We tied that all together with various water skis, wake boards, and a
full array of towable toys. Visitors even
fed tons of carp while we were there. During that time, I also guided fishermen
and took people on tour out on the lake.
When I think back on it, I'm not sure how I did it all. After working 30+ years for Utah Wildlife Resources
As in Bear Lake fisheries biologist I wanted to know if I could be successful
at running my own business. I was but the
real reward for me was the Cisco Kids. The many employees I had over the years,
mostly girls, kept me feeling young and motivated. They gave me the opportunity
to mingle with a new generation of kids and learn what challenges they had. It really expanded this old Boomer's views. I just know it was very rewarding to provide
services to folks who visited Bear Lake State Park Marina.
In 2016, after Cisco's Landing
did not get its least renewed, I started Cisco Charters focusing on lake tours and
fishing. I couldn't give it up because I got so much pleasure out of telling
people about the lake and meeting new people, that I had to keep going. I had
to quit guiding a couple of years ago because my eyesight was bad and I just
didn't have enough help to run the boat and catch fish for the money they paid.
Last few years I have just doing tours by reservation.
With the new Marina expansion under construction now is a good
time to give it up. Next year they'll be rebuilding the road so traffic trying
to access the Marina will be a mess. These issues and the fact that I am old as
dirt (77) means I probably ought to quit.
I will keep my pontoon boat in the Marina so you may see me cruising
around the lake but it's going to be just for fun. It was truly a great time in
my life. I will miss it, but the
memories will still be there.
America 250-New Hampshire (Wikipedia)
In 1679, King Charles II separated New Hampshire from Massachusetts, issuing a charter for the royal Province of New Hampshire, with John Cutt as governor. New Hampshire was absorbed into the Dominion of New England in 1686, which collapsed in 1689. After a brief period without formal government (the settlements were de facto ruled by Massachusetts) William III and Mary II issued a new provincial charter in 1691. From 1699 to 1741, the governors of Massachusetts were also commissioned as governors of New Hampshire.
The province's geography placed it on the frontier between British and French colonies in North America, and it was for many years subjected to native claims, especially in the central and northern portions of its territory. Because of these factors, it was on the front lines of many military conflicts, including King William's War, Queen Anne's War, Father Rale's War, Dummer's War, and King George's War. By the 1740s, most of the native population had either been killed or driven out of the province's territory.
Partly because New Hampshire's governorship was shared with that of Massachusetts, border issues between the two colonies were not completely settled for many years. As New Hampshire settlements expanded northward, the boundary with York County, Massachusetts (now Maine) became more important to delineate. King George II sent commissioners to perform a survey. They declared the eastern boundary of New Hampshire extended to the headwaters of the Salmon Falls River where it exits Great East Lake, and extends 120 miles north of the mouth of the Piscataqua River, along a line two degrees west of due north.[4] This deviation from north approximately prevents curvature of the line on maps drawn to a different center meridian (such as the center of the colony).[4] The Treaty of Paris of 1783, ending the Revolutionary War, declared the border with Canada as beginning at "the northwestern head of the Connecticut River", but the lack of precision in the terminology left the exact border unresolved until 1842.[5][6]
Territory west of the Merrimack River was highly disputed. Issuers of the Massachusetts and New Hampshire charters had incorrectly believed the river to flow primarily from west to east. In the 1730s New Hampshire political interest led by Lieutenant Governor John Wentworth were able to raise the profile of these issues to colonial officials and the crown in London, even while Governor and Massachusetts native Jonathan Belcher preferentially granted land to Massachusetts interests in the disputed area. In 1741, King George II ruled that the border with southern Massachusetts (Maine was then also part of Massachusetts) was approximately what it is today, and also separated the governorships of the two provinces. Benning Wentworth in 1741 became the first non-Massachusetts governor since Edward Cranfield succeeded John Cutt in the 1680s.
Wentworth promptly complicated New Hampshire's territorial claims by interpreting the provincial charter to include territory west of the Connecticut River and began issuing land grants in this territory, which was also claimed by the Province of New York. The so-called New Hampshire Grants area became a subject of contention from the 1740s until the 1790s when it was admitted to the United States as the state of Vermont.
The only battle fought in New Hampshire was the raid on Fort William and Mary, December 14, 1774, in Portsmouth Harbor, which netted the rebellion sizable quantities of gunpowder, small arms, and cannon over the course of two nights. (General Sullivan, leader of the raid, described it as "remainder of the powder, the small arms, bayonets, and cartouche-boxes, together with the cannon and ordnance stores".) This raid was preceded by a warning to local patriots the previous day, by Paul Revere on December 13, 1774, that the fort was to be reinforced by troops sailing from Boston. According to unverified accounts, the gunpowder was later used at the Battle of Bunker Hill, transported there by Major Demerit, who was one of several New Hampshire patriots who stored the powder in their homes until it was transported elsewhere for use in revolutionary activities. During the raid, the fort's garrison fired upon the rebels with cannon and muskets. Although there were apparently no casualties, these were among the first shots in the American Revolutionary period, occurring approximately five months before the Battles of Lexington and Concord. On January 5, 1776, New Hampshire became the first colony to declare independence from Great Britain, almost six months before the Declaration of Independence was signed by the Continental Congress.[12]
New Hampshire was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule during the American Revolution.
Slavery in New Hampshire
As in the other Thirteen Colonies and elsewhere in the colonial Americas, racially conditioned slavery was a firmly established institution in New Hampshire. The New Hampshire Assembly in 1714 passed "An Act To Prevent Disorders In The Night":[7][8]
Notices emphasizing and re-affirming the curfew were published in The New Hampshire Gazette in 1764 and 1771.[7]
"Furthermore, as one of the few colonies that did not impose a tariff on slaves, New Hampshire became a base for slaves to be imported into America and then smuggled into other colonies. Every census up to the Revolution showed an increase in the black population, though they remained proportionally fewer than in most other New England colonies."[9]
Following the Revolution, a powerfully-written petition of 1779 sent by 20 slaves in Portsmouth—members of what historian Ira Berlin identified as the revolutionary generations of enslaved people in his pivotal work Many Thousands Gone[10]—unsuccessfully requested freedom for the enslaved. The New Hampshire legislature would not officially eliminate slavery in the state until 1857, long after the death of many of the signatories. The 1840 United States census was the last to enumerate any slaves in the households of the state.[7]
While the number of slaves resident in New Hampshire itself dwindled during the 19th century, the state's economy remained closely interlinked with, and dependent upon, the economies of the slave states. Slave-produced raw materials, such as cotton for textiles, and slave-manufactured goods were imported. The ship Nightingale of Boston, built in Eliot, Maine in 1851 and outfitted in Portsmouth, would serve as a slave ship before its capture by the African Slave Trade Patrol in 1861, indicating the region's further economic connection to the ongoing Atlantic slave trade.[7][11]
Sunday, May 24, 2026
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