Not quite April Fool's

I think last week turned out to be April Fool's prank, unintentionally.  Sorry, I'll try to do better.

Aaron Wilde, son of David and Judy Wilde, spoke at a recent LDS Ward meeting.  Family an friends attended, welcoming him home after his service in the Family History Center in Salt Lake City.  His great aunts, dubbed the Wilde Girls, were here.  Dottie Casperson, Dixie Bennett, and June Austin  all spent their own growing up years in Mink Creek.

A sure sign that spring is coming to some may be the arrival of robins.  In Mink Creek a sure sign is the arrival of Bryce Stromberg.  He is here getting the Stromberg home ready of occupancy for the warmer season.  The Strombergs winter in California.

Although it hasn’t been overly warm we have had a string of sun filled days.  Nearly all of the snow on lawns has disappeared.  Even our mountaintops are losing their halo of white.  Mud season is still with us, but there is hope and things are drying out.  It is not yet time to work the fields, but it is a time of equipment repair.

The Max Haws family is here for spring break from California schools.  His wife grew up in the Boise area and loves returning to Idaho.

Eldon and Danita Wilcox have been on the road quite a bit recently.  They are following the Idaho State University track team and the progress of their daughter, MaKenzie Wilcox Gunter.  MaKenzie participates in more than one event and is doing very well.

Clara Christensen Jepsen has passed away, at age 93.   Her funeral was held in Mink Creek this past Thursday.  Her love of music was very evident in the program chosen by her family, with enough grandsons and great-grandsons to make up a nineteen voice men’s choir.  All of her living children and their families were home:  Eileen Anderson, Kay Dawn Cole, Sannette Lowe, Debra McCloy and Darrel Jepsen.  Once raised in Mink Creek is it “home” not matter where a person lives.

I apologize to you readers for last week.  I got caught up in life, etc. and totally spaced adding to the regular column that made the paper.  As a result you got nothing, if this is your only source of MC news. 

The Mink Creek Missionary Newsletter was published this last week.  We have eight young elders and  a sister serving, plus two senior couples.  They are scattered across the globe and Bishop Kent Egley felt this would be a way for our community to be more aware of their activities, their lives, wherever that may be.  So far the effort seems  to be very well received.

The young set has been off for spring break the past week and the weather has been nicer than the last several years during the annual vacation.  Parents could even let them go outside to play without too much mud being tracked back into the house.  The sunshine has made for smiling faces on all ages.   Our snow is on the run, backing off at a speedy pace.  Even the mountaintops have only wisps of white here and there.  Farming is starting in earnest.