Caribou County Caribou County, Idaho
June 20, 2024 | Vol. 1 No. 20
4th of July Parade Grand Marshal Linda Anderson
The rotary club of Soda Springs announced that it had named Linda Anderson as this year’s 4th of July Parade. Linda has been a lifelong Idaho native living in Lund, Bancroft, Grace, and Pocatello until finally settling in Soda Springs in 1958 with her husband Dewey to manage her family’s store, Sanders Furniture. Linda and Dewey were married March 28, 1958. When Linda and Dewey met, he was working as a tire recapper in Pocatello while Linda was working at a music store. Linda was supposed to have a date with someone else, but Dewey had other plans. He showed up to get her instead, and the rest is history. Dewey and Linda were happily married for 58 years until Dewey’s passing on October 14, 2016. They have a long legacy of love with six children plus one, thirty-four grandchildren and an amazing seventy-one and a half great grandchildren. Linda is an avid read-
er and loves going to the library. She and Dewey loved taking long Sunday drives and traveling to rodeos all over the country. She lights up when she talks about traveling around to the rodeos with a mattress in the back of their van, stopping for the night wherever they could find a tree to park under. She has been a tremendous asset to out community by being involved in many, many organizations over the years including Rotary, Chamber of Commerce, Red Hats, Booster Club, and Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She’s an avid sports fan and is often seen at high school sporting events cheering on the kids. She loved being on stage and participated in the community theater every year and was always willing to sing at funerals and play the piano at church along with many other callings. She says some of her favorite things about living in Soda Springs are that there are different things going on all the time, the people here, and the many friends
Linda Anderson, this year's Parade Grand Marshal
she has made at the store over the years. Thank you, Linda and her family, for your years
of dedication and service to our community. It’s people like you that make small town Idaho so great!
low income families and also providing college scholarships for high school graduates. These charitable benefits are funded through generous donations and proceeds from the car show.” As the history suggests, the event began as something of an outsider event but has evolved into a featured spot on the city’s calendar. Again, in the words of Carpenter: “The car show has evolved from a bunch of early 20 somethings, with some generous adult supervision and help, to now the kids of that young group being actively involved with a hope of continuing well into the future. The car show started with participants paying an entry fee and is now a sponsored show, with participants being free to enter. Sponsors are able to award a trophy to the car they have selected. By making a free show, it has encouraged people to not only try this show, but to keep coming back, year after year.” Over time, the scope of the show has evolved as well, as more and more people and local volunteers and businesses have become involved. The show started as a way to memorialize Matt, but has now added two additional memorial awards for individuals who were integral in the success of this show, brothers Travis Hopkins and Tysen Hopkins. Food and entertainment have also changed over time. “In the beginning CAR SHOW On Page 2
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George Strait breaks concert record set by the Dead
Surgeon General calls for warnings on Social Media
with Ryan Carpenter however, who is a core member of the car show team. He offered some insight into how it came about, and what it means to the community. In terms of how the show started, it began with humbler roots in the Lallatin’s parking lot. As Carpenter tells it: “In 1997 Matthew “Pizza” Lindsay passed away in an auto accident, at the age of 20. Matt was a friend to many. A group of his friends got together in a celebration of his life, drove hot rods and gathered in the Lallatins’ grocery store parking lot. After a couple of years of these gatherings (that started to get a little rowdy with encouragement from law enforcement), a number of them decided to legitimize things and hold an official car show. The first car show was held in 1999 with around 50 cars. From those humble beginnings, the car show has expanded to well over 100 cars each year with more than 2,000 spectators gathering to enjoy the show. The Main Street Cruisers car club was formed, and through the years has branched out to include the Caribou While the lines never really got any shorter over the County Angel Tree afternoon, the taste was worth it at the Main Street at Christmas time for Cruisers grill.
NEWS IN BRIEF (CNN) The country music star performed at Kyle Field at Texas A&M in College Station, Texas over the weekend and set a new record for the largest US ticketed show in history. The crowd topped at 110,905 people, which broke an all-time attendance record set by the Grateful Dead at New Jersey’s Raceway Park in 1977. A little over 107,000 concertgoers were in attendance at that Dead show. According to Billboard, Straight told the crowd, “We got some Aggie’s out there? Oh yeah! I’m ashamed to say this, but this is my first time to ever be in Kyle Field… damn. Just invite me back, I’ll come!”
26th annual Pizza Run Car Show hits town over the weekend Last weekend, one of the city of Soda Springs’ most anticipated events of the summer for many people took place in its traditional spot in the City Park. Over the course of a Saturday that saw fantastic weather, the Pizza Run Car Show brought in thousands of people to view over a hundred cars from Model A’s to modern marvels, eat a range of food, participate in fun, games, and raffles, and spend time together in a tradition that now spans over a quarter century. As one of the event organizers Jennifer Squires explained, there have been and are countless people responsible for putting the show together and running it, so we can’t cover them all here. The Enterprise was able to catch up
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(AP) The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. In a Monday opinion piece in The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contributing factor in the mental health crisis among young people. “It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents. A surgeon general’s warning label, which requires congressional action, would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe,” Murthy said. “Evidence from tobacco studies show that warning labels can increase awareness and change behavior.” Murthy said that the use of just a warning label wouldn’t make social media safe for young people, but would be a part of the steps needed. Social media use is prevalent among young people, with up to 95% of youth ages 13 to 17 saying that they use a social media platform, and more than a third saying that they use social media “almost constantly,” according to 2022 data from the Pew Research Center.
Grizzly shot in Island Park
On the night of June 6, an Island Park resident shot and killed a yearling male grizzly as it charged the man’s girlfriend in front of their home near Last Chance. The man said he and his girlfriend were exiting their vehicle and heading into the house when she screamed, drawing his attention to a bear running in her direction. The man was removing items from the vehicle, which included a shotgun that he was able to raise and fire toward the bear, causing it to turn and run away. Idaho Department of Fish and Game responded to the scene upon receiving a call about a dead bear near the roadway. After a thorough investigation, it was determined that the homeowner acted in defense-of-life during a surprise encounter with the bear from a short distance. Grizzly bears are protected under state and federal law, and Fish and Game would like to remind people that grizzly bears may be encountered in the Greater Yellowstone area as well as in north Idaho.