April 10, 2013

Easter Sunday in our part of Franklin County was a beautiful day, full of sunshine and blue skies.  The weekend brought several out-of-town visitors.  Those that are currently at a university brought plenty of studies since final exams are looming on the horizon in just a few days.

Hannah Singleton and her children have been here entertaining her parents, Cecelie and Wynn Costley.  Hannah and her family live in El Dorado, AR, but she manages to come home every so often for grandparenting fun.

Thane and Angelie Winward brought their youngsters up for the weekend. They surely livened things up at the home of her parents, Kim and Wally Christensen.  It is nice having Garland, UT, their home base, not too far away.

The home of Vickie and Richard Free has been a busy one of late.  Jacob and ReNette Free and little boy came from Rexburg for a weekend visit.  The following weekend their daughter Heidi and her husband, Brenan Brown drove up from Logan.

Two of the Bob/Claudia Erickson grandchildren made a quick trip from Rexburg for a family Easter.  Bailey Collins and Sam McKague are both at BYU/I.  Sam will be leaving for a LDS mission to Brazil in May. Call this a farewell visit with the Erickson and Jody Janke families prior to his departure.

The Robert Hawkes family had an important day for two of their sons.  David Hawkes  was ordained to the office of a Deacon and received his certificate of Advancement from Primary.  Nicholas Hawkes was presented with the Duty of God award as a Deacon and he was ordained to the office of a Teacher.

The community has recently participated in a Desert Industries Drive, orchestrated by Camille Knudson.  Boy Scouts worked on the Scouting for Food effort, delivering empty bags to homes of residents early in the week, then picking up filled bags, bright and early, on Saturday morning.  The food was donated to the county food pantry.

            We had a spring blizzard last night and woke up to a white world---again.  Just when we thought spring had arrived and the mud was drying up,  snow covered all outdoors.  Residents heading out to work needed their ice scrapers for the covered windshields. A cold temperature accompanied the white stuff most of the day and only towards late afternoon did the grass become green again.