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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNewsletter City_March 2018Mayor’s Message M AR K YO U R C AL E N D AR M A R C H 2 0 1 8 City Council Meeting March 7th & 21st @ 6:30 pm in the council chambers. City Council Meeting April 4th & 18th @ 6:30 pm in the Council chambers. You can now park on City streets, beginning March 1st. Blood drive on March 20th in Council Chambers from 10:30AM-3:15PM call customer service for an appointment Happy St.Patricks Day Happy March Everyone! This is an exciting time of the year here in Rexburg. We have the beginnings of March Madness in a lot of different ways besides basketball. Our Madison High Wrestling team had a great year, producing our first State Champion (Tyrel Clark) in quite a few years as well as 2nd and 3rd place finish- ers. We look for great things from the Wrestlers in years to come. Our Girls’ Basketball team represented us well through their season and the Debate team won the District and is sending 11 squad members to the National Tournament in June. The Cheer Squad qualified for State in all four categories and the Boys’ Basket- ball team won the district (against all odds) and is headed for Boise as I write this. Best of luck to both teams and the Fans as we vie for another Sportsmanship trophy!! Another thing for us to be even more proud of…. both the Boys Basketball team and the Cheer Squad won the State Academic Championship. Congratulations to all the team members and Coaches for your successes, and thank you for representing our community so well! We have so many exceptional students … I hope I didn’t leave anyone out. If so, let me know and I will brag about them next month! Last night I attended the Rexburg Tabernacle Orchestra’s winter concert. Wow… that was pretty amazing. We have some very talented people here! Rick Hansen was the Guest Conductor which was very fitting to honor him for all the wonderful work he has done with our children in the Madison Orchestra program. His son, Dallin was the featured Violinist and 2 more of his boys were also in the Orchestra. We are so lucky to have such a talented family as well as all of the Orchestra Members and Arts Council people who make such great performances available to us. Thank you all, it really does lift my spirit to listen to such wonderful mu- sic. If you missed the concert, please go to my Facebook page (the one with the Green Bay Packers parapher- nalia) and check out the clip that is there. The next concert will be held May 2nd. You’ll be well rewarded if you attend! Speaking of concerts, I was also able to attend the Madison High School Choir and Orchestra concert with George Dyer, a professional entertainer from Branson, Missouri. That was awesome!! It was so great to see our students do so well and get that experience of performing with a professional. He sang with accompani- ment from our kids and sang a couple duets with John Zenger and Haley Hansen that literally brought tears to my eyes, so powerful! It was a marvelous evening. A big THANK YOU to Council Member and Ass’t. Princi- pal Jordan Busby for organizing and working his tail off to make that happen every year. Yes, a bunch of exciting things this month. One thing for me that was a shock and not so exciting, was that I got the news that one of my Ricks College classmates had a heart attack and passed away recently. My wife and I attended his funeral in Willard, Utah. Barney Barnett was a wonderful person who made everyone feel as though they were his best friend and he was always interested in what was going on your life. He is an inspiration to me to try and be better every day. One of the experiences related was that he felt bad because he and his friends teased another boy in his scout troop when he was a young teenager. I’m sure many of us can relate to that. To this day, it still anguished his soul, so he made a conscious decision to always give any- one his full attention and respect, no matter how different or strange or weird or normal they may seem to be. He made a wooden plaque that hung above the doorway of his nursery business there in Willard. It reads, “Our greatest blessing is to receive God’s love …. Our greatest privilege is to give it away to others!” I hope each of us can take that saying to heart. I think that is one of the best things we can do to prevent such horrible things from happening as happened in Parkland, FL recently. Let’s make Rexburg a safe haven and show love and respect to everyone. Thank you! Mayor Jerry L. Merrill 35 N 1st E Rexburg, Idaho 83440 208.359.3020 / fax 208.359.3022 customerservices@rexburg.org Monday-Thursday 7:30am-5:30pm Friday 7:30am-12:30pm The Museum of Rexburg is looking for volunteers Our volunteers’ time and talents are vital to the success of the museum. If you are age 16 or older, have some free time during a week day or weekend day, and are looking for a re- warding, enriching experience, then volunteering at the Mu- seum may be for you. Museum volunteers bring skills, life-experience, and energy to supporting the Museum's mission and the work of our staff as they donate their time. The weekly hourly commit- ment varies per position, but most volunteers commit an average of two hours per week. For more information please contact our Museum Curator, Jackie Rawlins at jackie.rawlins@rexburg.org MARCH March 1st, 2nd & 3rd - Round 1 of Rexburg's Got Talent 7 pm $5- Romance theater March 10th - Miss Rexburg - Romance theater March 14th / 15th - RCT's Auditions Joseph and The Tech- nicolor Dream Coat - Romance Theater March 16th - Semi-Finals Rexburg's Got Talent 7 pm $5 - Romance theater March 17th - Movie Night - Darby O'Gill and the Little People 7 pm $1.50 - Romance Theater March 23rd - Finals Rexburg's Got Talent 7 pm $5— Ro- mance Theater March 24th - Michael Barrows & The Tourist/ Cinders / Harpers more info coming—Romance Theater March 17th - RCT's Auditions Joseph and The Technicolor Dream Coat— Tabernacle EASTER EGG HUNT  Saturday, March 31, 2018  9:00 am  Porter Park  We are looking for donations to help with the purchase of candy to fill 18,415 eggs. We also are looking for donations of a bike for lucky egg winners. Last year we had 31 bikes for lucky kids. WalMart helps with the purchase of the bike giving a 20% dis- count. If you are interested in helping out this year, please contact Jana Bishoff at208-970-0061 or 208-356-3653.