Obituary-James (Jim) Kemp

 Harold James Kemp Jr., 87, passed away on August 16, 2022 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was born July 4, 1935 to Harold James and Irene (Nalder) Kemp.

Jim attended East High School where during his senior year he met the love of his life, Linda (Hall) in the same music class. Jim was a force of nature with his capable ways and brilliant mind and attended the University of Utah on a football scholarship. After serving an LDS mission in England, he completed his education, receiving a bachelor’s degree in business with emphasis in management. Jim and Linda were married during their junior year of college and remained happily married for 62 years before Linda’s passing in 2019.

They moved their family to Logan in 1968 and started their own business, JK Business Machines. Jim and Linda sold the business in 1982 and Jim moved into the banking industry for the next six years. As an experienced business owner and manager, Jim also consulted and gave several seminars a year.

Jim was someone who filled his life to the brim with deep lifelong friendships, skiing, activities, travels and experiences. He was passionate about history and biography. Anyone who spent time with Jim knows how much he enjoyed being “on-stage”. He shared his talent with Valley Players and other community acting groups over the years.

In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by his sister, Jeanne, his wife, Linda (Hall) Kemp and son Christian James Kemp. Surviving are his children, Jennifer Carlson (Idaho Falls), Carolyn Spillane (Fullerton, CA), Tori Raphael (SLC, UT), and Daniel Arthur Kemp (Midway, UT), as well as spouses, grandchildren, great grandchildren and extended family members that will miss him dearly.

A viewing was held Friday Aug. 26th from 6:00-8:00 at Allen-Hall Mortuary, 34 East Center Street, Logan, Utah.

by Lauriann Wakefield

 

Say hello to these marvelous teachers and leaders of the Rich School District!

 

District Phone Extensions and assignments

101 Dale Lamborn-Rich School Superintendent

100 Tammy Hoffman-Rich School District Admin Asst

103 Casey Johnson-Rich School District IT

102 Jennie Johnson-Rich School District Business Admin

RHS Phone Extensions and assignments

109 Weston Taylor-Rich High School Principal

115 Travis Eborn-Assistant Principal

104 Andrea Weston-Rich High Admin Asst

146 Cooper Cornia-Earth Sciences and Biology

125 Lex Cornia-Language Arts, Creative Writing, Art

114 Justin Groll-Math, Health Sciences

108 Jodi Muir-Home Ec.

122 Glenn Smith-Math

205 Tyson Larsen-Math

124 Danelle Wasden-Counselor

123 Erin Wirthlin-Geography, Spanish

117 Christopher Woods-Music

South Rich Elementary assignments

112 Ashley Brown-5^th Grade

129 Josh Sulser-4h Grade

130 Michelle Hatch-3^rd Grade

126 Emily Weston-2^nd Grade

127 Ashley Rex-1^st Grade

128 Jackie Schulthess-Kindergarten

111 Tara Cornia-Reading Specialist

118 Shelly Stapel-Special Education

149 Jaci Keetch-Instructional Coach

121 Lynne Leifson - Reading Specialist

110 Speech-Kati Mena

107 Media Specialist-Lisa Cornia

105 Rick Larsen-Rich Middle School Principal

200 Karla Allen-Rich Middle School Admin Asst

207 Jesse Calder-Basic Skills

202 Connie Earley-Media Specialist

206 Brittney Lundgren – Counselor

211 Nellie Brown-7th & 8^th Language Arts, Reading

209 Connie England – Special Education

219 Texie Johnson – Utah Studies and History

149 Jaci Keetch – Instructional Coach

 205 Tyson Larsen – 7^th Grade Math

210 Cody Lundgren – Health and PE

223 Kati Mena – Speech

214 Travis Muirbrook – 7^th Grade Science and STEM

213 Frank Smith – 6^th Grade Science and Coding

216 Sarah Taylor – 6^th Grade Language Arts and Spanish

215 Heidi Weston - Math

208 Christopher Woods – Music

North Rich Elementary assignments

217 Andrea Carlisle - Kindergarten

220 Emily Conk – 1^st Grade

218 Chelsie Stuart – 2^nd Grade

212 Ruby Hunter - 3^rd Grade

225 ChaRee Larsen - 4^th Grade

227 Michelle Peterson – 5^th Grade

Bridgerland Assignments

303 Jason Petersen – Drafting and Machine Shop

302 Lacy Morse – Health

Jaden Larsen - Welding

Bear Lake Chamber of Commerce Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022

 

August 26th Another scary ride down the mountain-he was lucky

 

Rich High Football vs Gunnison Fri. Aug. 26th

On Friday, the Rich High Rebel football team played their first eight man football home game since 1970 against the Gunnison Bulldogs, a 2A school.   The Rich Rebels scored early and led the game going into half time.  The Gunnison Bulldogs were able to come back in the second half  tying the game with less than two minutes to play.  The game went into sudden death overtime where the Bulldogs were able to score first and ended up winning in an exciting, though disappointing game for the Rich Rebels.  The final score was 33 to 27. 

You can watch the games on 98.3 My Local Radio Station from Evanston, Wyo. on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/kadqradio

Thank you to all of the sponsors that support the Rich teams.

Eyes 4 Zimbabwe

This non-profit organization collects useable items from school bags to clothing for the children of Zimbabwe. You may drop your items off in the quilting room above the Garden City Library on Tuesday.

The group usually fills several containers and ships the items to Zimbabwe at the end of October.

Rich High Volleyball

Rich High Football schedule

 

by Debbie Batt

 

Some Grand Champions from Rich County Fair

                                                                Dom Casillas

                                          Emily Casillas



RCT is willing to print pictures of anyone else who participated in the Fair
 

Woodruff Moratorium on building

 

Obituary - Jim Kemp

 Full Obituary will be next week.

Jim died August 16, 2022

Rich School District 2022-2023 Year Schedule

https://www.richschool.org/calendar

Bear lake Level-Bear Lake Watch -Dave & Claudia Cottle

 

BEAR LAKE LEVEL August 14th 5911.38

The recent storms have been delivering quite a wallop at certain locations, some more welcome than others. So sorry if you have been negatively impacted. ☹

But the good news is that it has helped the irrigators that use Bear Lake water. The pumping has been decreased to three pumps - 800 cfs. As of August 11th only 101,490 AF have been released. Less than half of the allocation. Bear Lake is at 5911.32

How low can it go? Yes, there is a limit! In the last Splash we covered how much water can be drawn out of Bear Lake in a single year. The obvious next question: What is the lowest it can ever go?  The Splash answer is “5902”.... watch for more. The bottom of the storage pool is 5902

A Deep Dive ! Someone asked if we could get out of the Bear Lake Settlement Agreement Guilt by association! I can see how it is easy to get the wrong impression of the Settlement Agreement - because we so often reference the agreement when talking about how much water is being taken out of the lake. So, let me set the historical background to help us understand how this all came about.   The authorization to use Bear Lake as a storage facility, started 142 years ago! In 1888, the powers of the federal government decided that the lake and area around it would be Reserved from transfer of ownership and would be held for development as a federal reservoir project for irrigation for the arid region. Bear Lake was officially designated as “Ut – Id Reservoir Site #1”, with a plan to raise a dam that would add ten feet on top of the natural lake elevations. This would have inundating lands already settled and there is little doubt that it would have destroyed the very nature of the lake and its shoreline. It was an interesting time when Washington politicians were trying build a political hold on the western territories that were vying for statehood, while industrialists were attempting to grow fortunes through the mining industries booming in the west and agriculture was becoming an industry rather than a survival skill - all of which could grow exponentially by adding electricity provided by hydro-power!   Washington never got its act together… And there sat Bear Lake, an untapped “gold mine” as the lynch-pin to control the waters of the Bear River as it drops the 1700 feet into the Salt Lake valley. It is no wonder that by 1907, a private industry would finally wrangle the authorization to build structures and hold storage rights to Bear Lake. However, it was only granted once the proposal combined Power Generation and Irrigation. It wouldn't have worked  without acquiring agreements with the agricultural companies in the lower basins who already held the water rights to the natural flow of the river. There were no environmental protection laws or even considerations for the “lake” – it was just a container to be “used”. Even as the U.S. has developed extensive natural resource law and administration, the private industries of Power and Agriculture, with the blessing of the States, have managed to keep the operations of our lake excluded from federal scrutiny. (I’m sure there is some good and bad tied together in all that.) In the 1920’s, Irrigators sued the power company to ensure their deliveries - the uses were somewhat settled by the courts’ Decrees. On a larger stage, it took the Federal Bear River Compact of the 1950s to settle disputes between the three states (Utah, Idaho and Wyoming) therein defining apportionment of the river’s supply. Well, almost settled, as there was an Amended Compact in 1980, expanding possible storage and use.(As always, only about use!) It wasn’t until 1992 when some brave BearLakers found an opening and executed legal action that brought the parties to the table - leading to the signing of the Bear Lake Settlement Agreement (BLSA) which: # 1 curbed the use of water throughout drought periods, # 2 tightened the measuring and monitoring of the releases, #3 established a “recovery” pool for the lake #4 created a seat at the table for Bear Lake interests. The Bear Lake Settlement Agreement is the first and only defense of these waters of Bear Lake and is now intertwined into the “law of the river” among the states. No, we don’t want to get out of this agreement. Yes, we do want to uphold it and strengthen it when opportunity arises. Thanks for Caring enough to ask, Claudia

*All Bear Lake Elevations are given in UP&L Datum

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