News at the Garden City Library!

The Garden City Library recently held a Grand Re-Opening highlighting the new technology in the Jason and Jill Johnson Conference Room. UEN representatives were on site and demonstrated some of the capabilities of the library has through this new technology. 

UEN rep, Kim Davis, hosted a call to recent Library Board Chairperson, Ronda Menlove, who is currently serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Egypt with her husband.  Menlove was instrumental in making the connections with UEN and acquiring the technology and services for the library. 


While that was happening downstairs, children made turkey crafts with The Family Place volunteers upstairs and Family Place representative, Judy Hull, explained the programs that are offered.  She also signed locals up for their newsletter.  The library’s Senior Services representative, Ken Hull, had a table with pamphlets and other information he has access to.  He answered questions and promoted the different services he offers.  The Food Pantry was in service for those needing items and had tours available for curious visitors.  Refreshments were served, Mayor Leonhardt spent time guests, and board members were here to greet new comers.

The Garden City Library is proud to partner with The Family Place, offer senior’s online assistance and programs, join in providing grocery items to our community through the food pantry, and explore the many options now available to us through the wonderful technology and connection with UEN.

GC Library staff want to remind patrons that they are doing “Food for Fines” through the month of December. Bring “unexpired,” non-perishable items for the food pantry to pay your fines!  We are also hosting a coat and boot drive.  Donate your winter clothing that’s in good condition.  Trade for what you need.  Take what you can use.  Items are in the library’s breezeway and open 24/7.  And finally, for all children who participated in our KUED sponsored November Readathon, turn in your reading logs by December 15, 2019 to be entered into the prize drawing! 

Rich Middle School Honors

Academic Student of the Month

Paige Smith                Sixth Grade

Easton Eborn             Sixth Grade

Brenley Hatch           Seventh  Grade

Kobey Johnson         Seventh  Grade

Trae Jolley                  Eighth Grade

Jainee Wallentine       Eight  Grade 

Citizen of the Month

Avery Weston           Sixth Grade

Cori Finlayson           Sixth  Grade

Branzten Argyle         Seventh Grade

Peyton Cluff               Seventh Grade

Jonah Negus                Eighth Grade

Lindsey Wahlberg        Eighth Grade

The Fearless Foodie

                                             

By Scott Heiner

The Three F’s

Hopefully you have had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are looking forward to more good times with the Three F’s: Food, Family and Friends for the rest of the holidays.

The other day, I stopped by Arby’s for a roast beef sandwich a gyro.  I enjoyed the great quotes about food they had on the wall.  Here are some of them:

·       Food is our common ground, a universal experience – James Beard

·       One of the nicest things in life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.” – Luciano Pavarotti

·       Laughter is the brightest where food is the best – Irish proverb

That got me looking up more quotes about the Three F’s and Thanksgiving:

·       Food is everything.  Food, Friends, Family: those are the most important things in life – Zac Posen

·       Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often -- Johnny Carson

·       I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it – Robert Brault

·       We may not have it all together, but together, we have it all -- Anonymous

·       After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations ― Oscar Wilde

·       Coesistence: What the farmer does with the turkey—until Thanksgiving -- Mike Connolly

·       Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg -- Tom Swyers

·       I’m looking forward to seeing pie this Thanksgiving more than some members of my own family -- Damien Fahey

·       I can't cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast -- Charlie Brown

·       Thanksgiving: Bringing out the best in family dysfunction since 1863 -- Anonymous

·       Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence -- Erma Bombeck

·       Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie -- Jim Davis

·       What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving -- Erma Bombeck

·       Pie makes everybody happy -- Laurie Halse Anderson

·       You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out -- Jay Leno

·       Thanksgiving—when the people who are the most thankful are the ones who didn’t have to cook -- Melanie White

·       I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage -- Erma Bombeck

·       There's always something to be thankful for on Thanksgiving. Even if it's just not being a turkey -- Anonymous

·       On Thanksgiving Day, we acknowledge our dependence -– William Jennings Bryan

Here’s a great poem I found:

May your stuffing be tasty

May your turkey be plump,

May your potatoes and gravy

Have nary a lump.

May your yams be delicious

And your pies take the prize,

And may your Thanksgiving dinner

Stay off your thighs!

-- Anonymous

And finally:

·       I love Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me – Marcus Samuelsson

·       Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home -- Melanie White

·       Happy Holidays and may You, your Family and Friends be blessed spending memorable and joyful times with good Food – Scott Heiner, the Fearless Foodie

Sunrise

Photo by Jim Stone, Garden City

Rich County School Board meeting, November

Kathie B.Anderson, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah. November 19, 2019.The regularly scheduled Rich County School Board meeting was held and all Board Members were in attendance with outgoing Board Member Cyndi Caldwell via phone. 

Superintendent Dale Lamborn introduced Michelle Hatch and Emily Conk.   Hatch is the Kindergarten Teacher at South Rich Elementary School and  Conk is the Kindergarten Teacher at North Rich Elementary School.  Both Kindergarten classes achieved 100% scores on the State Dibble Benchmark Test.   Dibbles are measures that help teachers and schools determine how students are performing on important reading and math skills.  Dibble stands for Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills. 

James Gilbert, Rich County School District Certified Public Accountant, discussed the Financial Statements for the year ending June 30, 2019.

He expressed opinions on these financial statements based on the Gilbert and Stewart Professional Accountants audit.  In their opinion, the basic financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the respective financial position of the governmental activities, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the Rich County School District as of June 30, 2019, and the respective changes in financial position and the respective budgetary comparison for the general fund for the year then ended in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the Government Auditing Standards and in  considering the District’s internal control over financial reporting and compliance.   A motion to approve was made by Scott Tollentino and seconded by Scott Sabey.  Motion carried.

Susan House will be the new aide at North Rich Elementary School.   A motion was made by Scott Sabey and seconded by Pete Cornia.  Motion carried.

According to Rick Limb, Physical Plant, the new building projects have a preliminary finish date of January 31, 2020. 

 On November 18, 2019, the Community Coalition meeting was held in the Concurrent Enrollment room at Rich High School.  Taylor Weston recognized several important speakers at this meeting.  David Watkins, Bear Lake Community Health Department gave a presentation on vaping and bullying, CAPSA, (Citizens Against Physical and Sexual Abuse), discussed physical and sexual abuse, and The Family Place gave a presentation regarding a very important Needs Assessment Survey that will be in everyone’s water bill.  It is imperative that this survey be filled out and returned so they know the needs in Rich County.  Judy Hull is our Famiy Place representative for Rich County.
 
 A Wellness Committee consisting of 14 Junior and Senior students for a Youth Counsel was recommended.

Cyndi Calder has officially resigned from the Board.  There will be a special election held. 

The next Rich County School Board meeting will be held on December 17, 2019 at 12:00 in Laketown (North Rich Middle School).

Foundation of Bear Lake

Dear Friends of Bear Lake,

The Foundation of Bear Lake is a 501 C3 and was organized in 2015 by a group of citizens from the Bear Lake area. Our mission: The Foundation of Bear Lake in collaboration with individuals and philanthropic partners will strive to create a safety corridor for recreation, memorable experiences for friends and families who come to the Bear Lake area, and to strengthen the needs of communities in the Bear Lake Valley now and for future generations.

The Bear Lake Regional Commission organized a focus group to help Bear Lake and Rich counties, and Utah and Idaho work together for the betterment of the Bear Lake Valley. They created a Blueprint for communities to use as a guide for the future planning and development.

Bear Lake has grown exponentially since the recession and the demand for outdoor recreation opportunities has increased. The path will help locals as well as those who come to our valley be safe. It will take approximately $2 million to $4 million to finish the bike path.

Most visitors to our area like to walk to the lake and the one lake park we have is at capacity on weekends. It will take about $1 million to build the new park.

In order to raise money for help in the building of the bike/walking path around the lake and secondly to locate another beach park in Garden City we are asking for donations of $25 per family and $100.00 per business to help improve the valley.

The donations can be given at any Wells Fargo Bank to the Foundation of Bear Lake.

Also, your greatly appreciated donation can be mailed to: PO Box 88, Garden City, UT 84028.

Anytime you order online on Amazon if you choose Foundation of Bear Lake, Amazon Smiles contributes 1 penny for every dollar you spend to the Foundation.

Bess Huefner-Director

435-881-3223

Website: www.givebearlake.com

Pastel Winter

Photo by Jason Wade Matthews, Garden City

Ellen Louisa Sundquist Cornia 1935 -2019

Heaven gained a special angel. Ellen Louisa Sundquist Cornia, 84, of Woodruff, Utah passed away peacefully at her home on November 25th, 2019 surrounded by family. She was born to Vaner and Jessie Birch Sundquist on January 23rd, 1935 in Park City, Utah. They resided there until 1938 at which time they moved to Wahsatch, Utah just outside of Evanston, Wyoming. While there she met and later married Orson Cornia on February 21st, 1948 in Elko, Nevada. They spent nearly 70 happy years together. They were sealed for time and all eternity and to their children on March 20th, 1973 in the Ogden, Utah temple. They were blessed with six children – Barbara, Ors, Allen, Linda, Lisa and Jeni.

Louisa spent her life in service to her family and the community. In 1967 she became the Assistant Post Master to Elaine Cox for the U.S. Postal Service. She had 4 years of previous experience working for her mom who was Post Master in the Wahsatch Post Office. In April of 1990 she became the Head Post Master at the Woodruff U.S. Post Office. In 2003 she retired from that position after 39 years of service.

Louisa was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, where she served in many different callings. Her favorite was serving as Relief Society Work director. She loved finding crafts and activities, along with food storage and emergency preparedness.

Louisa & Orson loved going to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas for over 25 years, and also sneaking away to Wendover for a quick little weekend vacation.

Louisa is survived by her children—Barbara (Dale) Windley, Randee Cornia Webb, Allen (Darlene), Linda (Hardy) Downing, Lisa (Justin) Webb, Jeni (Jared) Davis, 23 grandkids, 54 great-grandkids, and 5 great-great-grandkids. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Orson, her son Ors, Jr., her sister Sue, and her great-grandchildren Carlee and Carson Herbert.

A viewing will be held on Friday, November 29th, 2019 from 6-8 p.m. at the Woodruff LDS Church. A viewing will also be held on Saturday, November 30th, 2019 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. with the Funeral beginning at 12:00 Noon. Interment will be in the Woodruff City Cemetery.

To send flowers to Ellen Louisa Sundquist Cornia's family, please visit our floral section.

Fire Board

GCFD Fire Board Opening

The Garden City Fire District is requesting applications for the Fire Board.  Applicants must be at least twenty-one years old and live within the district. 

This is a four year appointment and requires the board members to attend the monthly meeting held at 6:00PM on the first Wednesday of each month at the Fire Station.  The members must attend at least 7 of the 12 annual meetings and complete an on-line Local District Board Member Training session.  It would be desirable that the applicant have previous board or team experience, but it is not a mandatory requirement.

Written applications can be dropped off at the Fire Station, with a board member or emailed to Randall Knight at mumknight374@gmail.com.  The position will remain open until an acceptable candidate is selected.  Randall Knight can be contacted to answer any questions or concerns.

Randall Knight

GCFD Board Chairman

801-602-1752

Rich Middle School Honors for November

Correction from last weeks RCTonline.  Rich School District not Logan.


Academic Students of the Month for November

Carly England

Carter Scott

Kamree Call

Ethan Earl

Jack Bell

Haydee Pugmire

Citizen of the Month for November

Hailey Romesser

Kade Nelson

Johnny Johnson

Jazmyn Erickson

 Taylor Walker

                                                            Rylee Moldenhauer                                                                                  

State's Wildland Urban Interface Award Goes to Rich County Commissioner

Salt Lake City - Rich County Commissioner, Bill Cox was awarded the 2019 Annual Wildland Urban Interface Award on November 5th. The award, given by the by the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire & State Lands, recognizes Cox for his efforts to protect Rich County residents, their homes and the county's natural resources from the threat of wildfire. His work has made Rich County and its communities more fire-adapted.

Commissioner Cox's work as an organizer and leader has brought many of the county's Community Wildfire Preparedness Plan elements to reality. His leadership has led to expedited efforts in Rich County to reduce wildfire dangers in several communities.  These efforts included fuel breaks, roadside thinning and chipping, as well as improved wildfire engine access. His direct involvement in wildfire incidents, such as the North Eden Wildfire of 2018, has been a critical connection between wildfire managers and county interests.

He has shown that through recognizing and acting upon opportunities for county resources to improve fire safety, multiple benefits would extend to homeowners and seasonal visitors. In addition, being fire-adapted would also improve opportunities for recreation-based businesses that benefit from having safe and scenic travel routes in the outstandingly remarkable landscape setting of the Bear Lake region.

Good Stuff!

The China Study
By John Brown

T. Colin Campbell grew up on a dairy farm, loved milk, loved meat, and started his career as a nutrition scientist thinking the cornerstone of good nutrition was high-quality animal protein—meat, milk, and eggs.

One of his first projects was for MIT, trying to help the chicken industry. Millions of chickens were dying each year from something toxic in their feed. What was the mystery killer? Campbell was responsible for isolating and determining the structure of the chemical. Through his work, he helped discover dioxin, one of the most toxic chemicals ever found.

After helping with that, he began work helping malnourished children in the Philippines. He wanted to find ways to help them get more protein in their diets, because, again, protein was supposed to be the cornerstone of health. Part of the project was remedying an unusually high incidence of liver cancer in children, which is normally an adult disease. At the time, they thought a lack of protein was leaving the children vulnerable to aflatoxin in their diet.

But as they began their scientific investigation, Campbell discovered the kids who ate the most protein had the highest rates of liver cancer.
But that just couldn’t be right.

And then he came across a study of rats and aflatoxin. The scientists in the study administered the cancer-causing aflatoxin to all of the animals. Half of the animals were then fed a diet with 5% protein. The other half were fed a diet with 20% protein. All of the animals fed a diet with 20% protein developed liver cancer. None of the animals fed a diet with 5% protein developed the cancer.

Again, that couldn’t be right. Protein was good for you. A respected colleague suggested the researchers must have mislabeled the animal cages. Campbell decided to run his own studies and find out. Back at Cornell, he and his research assistants ran the experiment multiple times and in various ways. And all of the experiments confirmed that protein promoted cancer growth. In fact, they could turn cancer growth on and off by the amount of protein they fed the animals.

But it wasn’t all protein. It was animal-based protein. The plant-based protein didn’t promote cancer growth.

Campbell was astounded. The findings rocked his world, but he was determined to follow the facts wherever they led. This began decades of research into diet and nutrition. The culmination was what’s called The China Study.

It is the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted. And what all of his decades of research demonstrated was that “People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease. Even relatively small intakes of animal-based food were associated with adverse effects. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease.”

Campbell didn’t rest there. He sought out the findings of other researchers and clinicians. And what he found all demonstrates that “The same diet that is good for the prevention of cancer is also good for the prevention of heart disease, as well as obesity, diabetes, cataracts, macular degeneration, Alzheimer’s, cognitive dysfunction, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis and other diseases.”

What was the diet that showed such important results? A whole food plant-based diet. It’s a diet rich in legumes, whole grains, vegetables, and fruits with little or no meat, milk, and eggs.

Campbell has written a book for lay people like you and me that explains the science and findings called The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition. It’s sold over two million copies.

The book is a fascinating masterwork of clarity. In it, he not only explains the research but also how and why various groups have tried to suppress and discredit the information.

Campbell is not some crazy quack. He isn’t someone selling pills and supplement drinks on the internet. He has no financial interest in you believing him. He is one of the foremost researchers on nutrition, a renowned scientist at Cornell University, who has worked as a senior science adviser to the American Institute for Cancer Research, sat on government nutrition panels, and is on the advisory board of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. 

If you or someone you love are worried about any of the following:
• Heart disease
• Cancer (breast, prostate, colon, liver, and others)
• Type 1 Diabetes
• Type 2 Diabetes
• Erectile dysfunction
• Multiple sclerosis
• Cataracts
• Macular degeneration
• Osteoporosis
• Alzheimer’s
I think you will be interested in hearing what he has to report. Of course, you’ll have to make up your own mind about the evidence he provides. But I think you owe it to yourself to hear what he has to say.

Rabbits Turning Snowy

Photo by Sharon Heiner, Garden City

Youth Council to be elected in December

Anita Weston, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

GARDEN CITY, Utah. November 21, 2019.  Mayor Leonhardt wants to  create a Youth Council.  It will give Juniors and Seniors an opportunity to find out how a city government works.  There are currently ten youth in Garden City who have indicated that they would be interested in such an organization.

There will be an election held in the first part of December for these students.  A Student Mayor will be elected.  Other students will be elected to work on the board.  They will come to the City Council Meeting in January to see how things are conducted.  At that time, they will also be given responsibilities to handle certain items in town.  This will give these young people a good opportunity to learn how a city government works.

Update on UDOT plans for Garden City

Anita Weston, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  November 21, 2019.  Mayor Mike Leonhardt reported that UDOT will be starting to spend the $8.3 million this coming spring.  They are going to add a turning lane into the Marina. There will be another lane from the south to the north.  It will act like a line-up-lane for cars wanting to turn into the Marina.

They will also be adding a turning lane into Harbor Village, a turning lane on to Third West, and another turning lane at the Mike’s Market/ACE Hardware area.  They will do as much as they can with the money they have.

The four-way stop light at the intersection at Logan Road and Bear Lake Blvd. will be completed by May of this next year.

A runaway truck lane is going to also be completed by May.  It will have 6 or 7 nets (wire).  Usually, a big truck going 60 MPH can be stopped in one of these lanes by the 4th net.  There will be concrete barriers on both sides of the lane.