Keep McCallister Funds - Write to Your Legislators

Rich County has been the recipient of LeRay McAllister Land Conservation Funds so land that we all enjoy has been purchased to keep open lake views and to keep prime grazing and wildlife areas open we need all to write to our legislators to keep their support for this decades old fund.

In his opening statements of this year’s session, the President of the Utah State Senate, Wayne Niederhauser, remarked that the population of Utah will double within the next 30-40 years. He asked what you, as a legislature, were going to do so that future generations can enjoy the same high quality of life that makes our lives so satisfying and rich today.

With so much development projected in our near future, open space and other critical land will become even more valuable. The LeRay McAllister fund has consistently shown that it leverages far more conservation dollars than its own appropriation. Without the LeRay McAllister fund, many land conservation groups will experience extreme difficulty raising funds to match federal conservation dollars.

Please write to your legislators to do all they can to fund the LeRay McAllister Critical Land Conservation Fund this year and every year. Please heed President Niederhauser’s warning and do not postpone until the moment of crisis. Our children are counting on us to leave them a world with open space, recreation, natural areas, and locally grown food.

STATE SENATORS
Peter Knudson - Cache & Box Elder Counties
pknudson@le.utah.gov
Mobile 435-730-2026
Fax 435-723-6371

Lyle Hillyard - Cache & Rich Counties
lhillyard@le.utah.gov
Home 435-753-0043
Fax 435-753-8895

STATE REPRESENTATIVES
R. Curt Webb - Mendon, Providence, River Heights, Millville
Email: curtwebb@le.utah.gov
Home Phone: 435-753-0215
Work Phone: 435-753-2467

Jack Draxler - North Logan, Hyde Park, Amalga, Smithfield, Benson, Petersboro, Richmond, Lewiston, Cove
Email: jdraxler@le.utah.gov
Home Phone: 435-752-1488

Melvin Brown - Rich County
Email: melbrown@le.utah.gov
Home Phone: 435-336-3309
Cell Phone: 435-647-6512

Scott Sandall - Clarkston, Cornish, Box Elder County (except Perry & Willard, and east Brigham City)
Email: ssandall@le.utah.gov
Cell Phone: 435-279-7551

Lee Perry - Perry & Willard, and east Brigham City
Email: leeperry@le.utah.gov
Home Phone: 435-720-7838
Cell Phone: 435-225-0430

Marina Construction Project Underway

Pardon our dust at the Marina!

We are starting a construction project to replace the long-term rental docks on the north side of the marina and the overnight/transient docks on the south side of the marina. We will see some great upgrades with the new docks. Significant completion for the project is planned for May 23rd.

Landmark Construction from Cache Valley is starting to remove the old docks. They will be utilizing a portion of the launch ramp and the north dike, east of the crane platform for their working areas.

When the project is complete, there will be a new gangway to the overnight/transient docks and the concession operations for Bear Lake Fun.

Musings Of The Muddled Male

Shopping as Exercise

By Bob Stevens, The Muddled Male

Ann, my wife, worries that I don’t get enough exercise. I, on the other hand, feel that I am probably getting too much since I drop off to sleep as soon as I sit down to watch the news. In my defense I have developed a very disciplined exercise regimen designed to keep me physically and mentally sharp. If you have ever seen Ann and I grocery shopping, you have witnessed “Bob at exercise".

I call my routine the Aerobic Shuffle. It only requires two specialized pieces of exercise equipment. The first is a shopping cart, usually furnished by the grocery store at no charge. The other is an iPhone preloaded with mind stretching games of your choice. The iPhone is, of course, a little more expensive than a free grocery cart, but justifying one to your wife is the first step in exercising your mind. If you can convince her that you really, really need an iPhone then your mind may already be sharp enough to allow you to focus mainly on the shuffle.

The shuffle requires the subject to hold the iPhone in the right hand while leaning on the shopping cart handle with the left elbow. You may need to occasionally grasp the cart handle firmly with the hand to facilitate steering while attempting to maneuver around the potato chips or some other display at the end of the aisle. Next you shuffle sideways with the left foot in the lead while playing your favorite game on the iPhone with your right thumb.

Leaning to the left stretches the abdominal muscles, shuffling strengthens your calf muscles, and sliding your thumb around on the iPhone screen strengthens your grip. Doing the whole thing while trying not to drop your iPhone makes your heart race and speeds up your breathing, thus providing the aerobic part.

I am convinced that even Ann notices the resulting improvement in my overall health. I say that because she seems to have loosened up a little on the dietary restrictions she normally uses to control me. The other day she said as much when she hollered over her shoulder on her way out the door to go visit a friend, “Bob, I left your lunch on the counter.” Well, I’m always ready for lunch and so I dutifully went to the fridge to get my health beverage, strawberry flavored milk. I choose strawberry flavored milk since milk gives me Calcium for my bones and, because strawberries are fruit, I am claiming that strawberry flavor gives me antioxidants to protect my cells from oxidation.

When I moved over to eat my lunch I thought I had died and gone to heaven. There on a napkin was a small portion of Fiddle Faddle™. Oh there were also several sugar peas to remind me to eat healthy, but the Fiddle Faddle was the main course. To top it off I found Nature Valley™ granola bars called Sweet & Spicy in the pantry for desert. And to satisfy every boy’s dream, a box of Berry Berry Kix™ in case I needed a little breakfast cereal to round out my lunch.

And then I realized that she had given me the Fiddle Faddle only because she wanted to empty the box so she could put it in the recycle bin. She left me the Sweet & Spicy bars because the dark chocolate into which each has been dipped is sometimes claimed to be healthy, and the cayenne pepper only adds zing. And she left me Kix only because General Mills is using vegetable and fruit coloring in place of food dyes such as blue #1, red #40, yellow #5, and yellow #6.

I have not only been tricked, I have been used. To get back I plan to go out and buy another box of Fiddle Faddle and keep it in my office to eat when she’s not looking.

Big Fish Are Being Caught!

Shantell Calder caught a really big one!

Rich County Sheriff Report, January

Anita Weston, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

INCIDENT REPORT BY NATURE OF INCIDENT
Nature of Incident	Total Incidents
Abandoned Vehicle	1
Agency Assistance	2
Alarm	3
Animal Problem	11
Child Abuse or Neglect	1
Citizen Assist	7
Citizen Dispute	1
Civil Process	3
Criminal History	14
Dui Alcohol or drugs	1
Finger Prints	4
Fire	1
Harassment	1
Juvenile Problem	1
Lockout	1
Lost Property	1
Medical Emergency	8
Traffic Accident with Damage	10
Suspicious Person, Circumstance	3
Theft	4
Traffic Hazard	4
Transportation of Person/ Property	1
Vim Serial Number Inspection	4
Welfare Check	3
TOTAL	90

TOTAL INCIDENTS BY LOCATION
Location	Total Incidents
Garden City	28
Laketown	15
Out of County	1
Randolph	32
Woodruff	14
TOTAL	90

  

INCIDENT REPORT BY LOCATION
Garden City	Total Incidents
Abandoned Vehicle	1
Agency Assistance	1
Alarm	2
Animal Problem	2
Child Abuse or Neglect	1
Citizen Assist	4
Civil Process	3
DUI Alcohol or Drugs	1
Harassment	1
Medical Emergency	3
Traffic Accident with Damage	3
Suspicious Person/Circumstance	1
Theft	1
Traffic Hazard	1
Welfare Check	3
TOTAL	28

  

INCIDENT REPORT BY LOCATION
Laketown	Total Incidents
Alarm	1
Animal Problem	4
Citizen Dispute	1
Medical Emergency	4
Traffic Accident with Damage	2
Traffic Hazard	1
VIN Serial Number Inspection	2
TOTAL	15

  

INCIDENT REPORT BY LOCATION
Out of County	Total Incidents
Traffic Hazard	1
TOTAL	1

  

INCIDENT REPORT BY LOCATION
Randolph	Total Incidents
Agency Assistance	1
Animal Problem	5
Citizen Assist	2
Criminal History	14
Fire	1
Lost Property	1
Medical Emergency	1
Traffic Accident with Damage	3
Suspicious Person, Circumstance	1
Theft	2
Transportation of Person/Property	1
TOTAL	32

INCIDENT REPORT BY LOCATION
Woodruff	Total Incidents
Citizen Assist	1
Finger Prints	4
Juvenile Problem	1
Lockout	1
Traffic Accident with Damage	2
Suspicious Person, Circumstance	1
Theft	1
Traffic Hazard	1
VIN Serial Number Inspection	2
TOTAL	14

TOTAL TRAFFIC CITATION REPORT BY AREA
Area	Citations	Violations
Garden City	2	2
Laketown	1	1
Randolph	6	10
TOTAL	9	13

  

TOTAL TRAFFIC CITATION REPORT BY VIOLATION
Description	Total
Minor in Possession Alcohol	1
Minor in Possession Alcohol	1
Speeding	6
Possession Controlled Substance	1
Possession Marijuana	1
Possession Drug Paraphernalia	3
TOTAL	13

TOTAL TRAFFIC WARNING REPORT
Area	Warnings	Violations
Laketown	1	1
Randolph	1	1
Woodruff	1	1
TOTAL	3	3

TOTAL TRAFFIC REPORT BY VIOLATION
Description	Total
Speeding	3
TOTAL	3

Avalanche In Logan Canyon Closes Road

Photo by Utah Avalanche Center 

A wet avalanche crossed Hwy 89 in Logan Canyon at the Dugway at around 2:30 in the afternoon, Tuesday February 16 . The highway was fairly quickly cleared by a UDOT crew in the area. 

Eric Frandson, of the Cache Valley Daily, reported that temperatures above freezing and light rain Sunday and Monday made for dangerous avalanche conditions in Northern Utah's backcountry. The Utah Avalanche Center spotted several avalanches in the area, including one in Logan Canyon on U.S. 89 in the area commonly referred to as the Dugway.

Other avalanches were spotted in Logan Canyon at lower elevations, near the River Trail and in Green Canyon. The Avalanche Center has issued a High avalanche warning for lower elevations throughout Northern Utah because of warming temperatures and saturated snow.

Remember that you don't want to try to hand dig a route around avalanches on the road because you expose yourself to following or adjacent avalanches which are likely in many areas.