Our Cubmaster Dawnell Greene, directed Cub Scout Day Camp
recently held at Aspen Ridge Camp. Mink
Creek leaders were Johnny Iverson, Avery
Gomez and Phee Crosland with some junior help from Cole Jepsen, Rico Crosland,
Mikel Beardall and James Baird. The
Greene family, boys and girl, was there
in force with Chad Greene manning a station. Kalee Jensen Bair was on call for
medical details. Several teenage men of our community came along as assistants.
It was a day of adventure for our miniature
men in T-shirts emblazoned with a Shield of Honor. They enjoyed an obstacle course, took aim at
the rifle range, catapulted water balloons, learned some basic First Aid. Real knights were at the camp to teach them
about heraldry and the Knights of the Round Table. The boys participated in historic battle with
armored helmets of mail and shields for protection. Knot tying challenged their nimble fingers
and they were rewarded with the finished product when they learned about
cooking pies, choosing either apple or cherry.
It was a full day for everyone involved.
The Cubs attending were: Dallin
Baird, David and Michael Hawkes, Stetson Ostler, Challis Jensen, Keenan Janke,
David Seamons, Charles Iverson, Ty Jepsen, Talon Johnson, Mark Andra, Austin Corbett,
Andrew Iverson, Calvin Henderson, Isaiah Merrill, and Brackin Chrsitensen.
Wednesday Sports Night in Mink
Creek featured fun, as usual. There were stacks of hotcakes with plenty of
syrup, jam and butter to keep energy levels up.
Kids between the ages of 2 and 18 kept the swing set busy. Dust was stirred up on the softball
diamond. One could hear the “clink,
clank” as the tossed horseshoes came somewhere near the intended peg.
Robert and Phee Crosland made a
trip to the northwest recently. They
were delivering their daughter Arianna and Ben Hofstetter, plus children, to Baker City, OR,
where Ben has a summer internship. Just
prior to this trip the whole Crosland family, and some extensions, had attended
the Bill Cosby concert in Rexburg.
There is a new family renting
the home of Hugh and Bonnie Hansen Wes and Beverly Harding come to us from Bear Lake County, over the mountains around Georgetown.
We hope they are enjoying the nearness of the Bear
River in their backyard.
It may be
only June, just past the first day of summer, but it is certainly fire season
in our neck of the woods. The first one
was on June 22, near mile posts 11,12 , just a few miles west of the beginning
of the Caribou National Forest. A guy (who shall go unnamed) had been
evidently attempting to burn off some weeds along Highway 36, where he
regularly parks a camper.
It was a windy morning and Kim Christensen, who lives
nearby, smelled smoke. On checking it out she saw clouds of it arising, along with
hungry tongues of flame, and called the
county fire department.
This was at 9:28 am , by the time
the first truck made the drive up from Preston
the barrow pit and the hillside, filled with brush and trees, were fired up and
orange flames were moving whichever way the wind decided to blow. The police set up road blocks to let one line
of vehicles through at a time. Flames were next to the road and smoke from juniper, sage and cedar, along
with wild grasses, was thick. The air
was scented like a huge aromatic bonfire.
In the meantime Ms Christensen was
watering down her propane tanks and setting her hoses to douse her
orchard. She had a front row seat for
all the unwanted excitement, and was probably wondering if she should stay or
go.
Firefighters battled the rapidly
spreading burn all day long. Those
juniper and cedar would be a rich dark green
one moment and a ball of shooting flames the next. The winds took things north and ended up
covering a huge area. By the end of the
long day firefighters considered it “contained.” Fire trucks and weary men came back out of the canyon
around nine o’clock that night.
