Monday, August 28, 2023
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
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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