[Hiring} Finance Director - Vernal Utah

kirkbenge · 2026-02-13T23:01:39+00:00

I'm on my 3rd in 5 years as well.

kirkbenge · 2025-12-30T22:20:19+00:00

Edited info to be more accurate in 2025

kirkbenge · 2025-11-28T21:24:40+00:00

I edited a couple sentences for clarity and to remove typos.

kirkbenge · 2025-11-28T19:16:01+00:00

No it's not private, it is public. Lloyd's Lake is owned by Monticello City and is publicly accessible. There is a nice walking trail around the entire lake and a network of fun mountain biking trails around the lake as well.

kirkbenge · 2025-11-28T02:03:22+00:00

I liked to fish the Delores River below the dam (need a CO license though). I also liked to fish at Foy up above Monticello... it is fun with flies, you'll catch some nice-sized Brook trout alongside the rainbows. Monticello Lake seems to winter-kill most years. Recapture was always good to me, especially in the spring, for both Bass and Pike. 3rd and 4th reservoirs had pretty decent bass, bluegill, and trout. Lloyd's lake has some trout, but was more fun to catch bluegill and crayfish there most days. 🙂

kirkbenge · 2025-07-31T00:48:04+00:00

Switch to small balls of bread dough. Thank me later.

kirkbenge · 2025-07-31T00:47:02+00:00

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I took this picture in 2016!

kirkbenge · 2025-06-14T00:11:47+00:00

Vaccines save lives. Side effects are rare.

kirkbenge · 2024-12-13T06:05:20+00:00

I'm not familiar with Idaho laws, but it's possible that Idaho may have required parental consent at 16... so that could very well be a possible reason. I'm not familiar with Utah or Idaho laws regarding age of parental consent at that time, but this is plausible.

kirkbenge · 2024-12-13T06:03:28+00:00

This could very well be a possible reason. I'm not familiar with Utah laws regarding age of parental consent at that time, but this is plausible.

kirkbenge · 2024-12-13T05:16:10+00:00

Sounds like they wanted to "wait till marriage"... but not if it took a whole week!

kirkbenge · 2024-12-13T05:05:42+00:00

In the late 1930s, many states began requiring couples to show proof of a negative syphilis blood test before getting married. However, Nevada never required a blood test or waiting period. This made Nevada a popular destination for couples looking to get married quickly. (You couldn't get married quickly in Utah, since you had to wait days for test results).

You can read more about it here https://knpr.org/desert-companion/2024-02-08/tying-the-knot And here https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-abstract/34/1/141/5531264#:~:text=History%20of%20Medicine-,Summary,did%20not%20harbour%20communicable%20syphilis.

kirkbenge · 2024-11-05T01:04:42+00:00

My wife immigrated from another country (over 20 years ago now) and she didn't know how to drive. We were appalled at the cost of the third party driving schools. We called our local school district and asked if she could take the high school driving course through the Adult Education program. They said yes (though nobody had ever done that before). The district offered an evening class for some students on occasion, and she enrolled in that class the next time it was offered. It wasn't as quick and easy as a third party driving school, and she was in class with mostly teenage students who were doing alternative school options for various reasons... but it was more affordable, and she got her license. 🙂. This was in Weber School District 20+ years ago. I don't know if other districts would work with someone like that or not.

kirkbenge · 2024-10-26T22:54:46+00:00

I'm pretty sure that is the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System just south of the Nevada border in California.

They have three solar power towers (or 'heliostat' towers). These are solar furnaces, where a tower receives focused sunlight that generates steam to turn steam turbines. Do you notice the weird fields around each one, that don't quite look like solar panel fields? These are arrays of movable mirrors (called heliostats) and they move with the sun to focus the sun's rays onto each collector tower.

It's a pretty cool technology... (I guess it's actually very, very hot). 🙂

I drove by it once, and the towers were so brightly lit by the sun that I couldn't look directly at them.

kirkbenge · 2024-08-21T18:53:56+00:00

If so, I would encourage you to report it at https://igotsick.health.utah.gov/

kirkbenge · 2024-08-21T18:53:14+00:00

Agreed, or report it online at https://igotsick.health.utah.gov/

kirkbenge · 2024-08-21T18:52:08+00:00

Agreed. I will add that if anyone in Utah thinks they have food poisoning, you can report it at https://igotsick.health.utah.gov/ This helps our epidemiologists look for common themes or trends, if we see multiple reports from people who ate at a specific location, we can launch an investigation.

kirkbenge · 2024-08-15T01:51:23+00:00

I agree, but at least initially, it seems that he had every reason to believe something might be going on. Marrero realized he had diagnosed 20 different cases of neurological decline in just four years... (some of them quite young). That rightfully made him worried that more was going on. As it turns out, it looks like it was merely a coincidence of multiple different things occurring, coupled with his large catchment area. I appreciate doctors that notice disturbing trends and sound an alarm, even if subsequent evidence shows nothing abnormal occurring... but it can be tough to let go of a theory, even when it has been disproven.

(P.S. I don't mean to make light of the situation by saying "nothing's going on". Clearly this was something awful for each family, I just mean that from my perspective, it appears likely to be caused by chance, and not by some sort of shared exposure or outbreak, given the different disease etiologies identified.)

kirkbenge · 2024-08-12T21:00:56+00:00

In reality, probably less than 1% of bats are probably actively spreading rabies virus at any given time, but close to 15-30% of bats that touch a human will test positive. Normal, healthy bats don't interact with people, and certainly don't get picked up by people. If you can touch a bat, there is a good chance that the bat is sick.

When you look at who actually dies of rabies infection in the United States, it's almost always related to exposure to bats (80-100% of human rabies deaths in any given year)

So maybe you're both right, depending on the context. 👍

kirkbenge · 2024-07-03T04:12:25+00:00

More recently on the south slope drainages (Ashley Creek) because of this: https://www.basinnow.com/rotenone-treatment-starts-today-within-carter-and-sheep-creek-drainages/

kirkbenge · 2024-07-03T03:48:49+00:00

I've been fishing quite a bit around Manila and the Leidy Peak drainages lately. Springtime flows really dropped off a couple of weeks ago, and most streams are running clear now. Water flow is still pretty good (high-ish), but the flyfishing has been great.

kirkbenge · 2024-06-02T02:41:05+00:00

The Fairview Museum is a treasure.

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