May 23, 2012

The youth of Mink Creek have been out cleaning up the roadsides along Highway 36.

Filled orange plastic bags could be found, waiting for pick up, the length of our community as a result of their efforts.  The weather was lovely the evening when the service project took place.  All gathered at the LDS Ward for refreshments after things were tidied up.

Spring visitors recently have been Jim and Debbie Harrison, up from St. George,  Bruce and Shauna Crane from Logan, and Karl and Marion Haws from Santa Barbara, CA.  Karl and Marion will be with us for an extended visit and are expecting more Haws family members to arrive as summer rolls in.

Two young men in the LDS Ward were ordained to priesthood offices recently.  Walter Iverson, son of Kurt and Margret  just graduated from Primary.  He earned his Faith in God award and was ordained a deacon.  Joshua Greene, son of Chad and Dawnell, is now sixteen years old and was ordained a priest.

Lorraine Christensen has been taking her role as a grandmother seriously.  She has spent two weeks with her daughter Carrie Ann and Ken Melton in Lafayette, IN.  It sounds like she thoroughly enjoyed little Kenny and several sightseeing ventures while there.

            Kim and Dianna Keller relished some family moments when their son Josh and wife Noel Keller brought their new baby boy here to be named and blessed.  The name chosen is Journey Thunder Keller.  The young Keller family live in Brigham City.  Vernon and Sallee Keller are the great grandparents and Noel’s grandfather and aunt came up from California.

This is an invitation for all Mink Creek School Alumni.  The annual reunion will be held June 16, 2012, at noon at the LDS Church recreation hall.  For food assignments and other details check out the reunion site on Facebook.  The Westerberg family is in charge this year.

            George and Judy Rasmussen are on a family tour.  They have been in Durango, Co, visiting relatives, came home for a few days to unpack and repack.  The next direction on their travel itinerary  is Utah.

Mink Creek’s preschool, taught by Dawnell Greene, has been preparing a closing program for this year.  It was held at the home of Kerry and Melina Jepsen and featured songs and nursery rhyme skits.  The audience consisted of parents, siblings, and grandparents of the participants.  The children in the school this year have been:  Jonathan and Jacob Seamons, Hazen Baird, Tia Hatch, Sophia and Cooper Janke, Isabelle Wood, and Ella Jepsen.  Everyone enjoyed cookies and soda after the production.

Cherise Olson and three of her children drove from Franklin for a visit with her father, John Warburton.

Daniel and Heather Baird and their children, of Rexburg, were here for Mothers’ Day.  His mother is Lana McCracken and Lana and her husband Ivan enjoyed some grandparenting time.  A bit later a daughter, Annette Batchelor, now in Albuquerque, NM, collected her daughter Morgan in Provo and came up for a stay with her parents.