Last one for August, 2013

The community had a closing social at the ballpark.  A favored activity, the water slide down tarps on the southwestern hill, was in full operation.  The kids paused to eat, but kept at it till nearly dark.  There was a feeling of summer folding up for the year as grownups visited in the pavilion.  Food?  Of course there was food, hamburgers, hot dogs and the appropriate condiments, potato chips, punch and cookies.  Clare and Linda Christensen did most of the cooking, including the whole wheat cookies.

Jimmie and Anna Beth Olson spoke in the LDS services. They have spent the last eighteen months serving a mission, living in Hull, on the northeast coast of England. Their family gathered in great numbers:  Olson siblings, Stocks siblings, and Olson children and grandchildren.  That the welcome mat was rolled out was very evident. 

            Austin Corbett, son of Shane and Sherrie Corbett, was ordained to the office of deacon.

His grandparents,   Sherrie’s parents, Craig and Vicki  Golightly of Preston were here to witness the event.

Todd and Julie Kunz and their children spent a weekend with her parents, Karen and Layne Erickson.  They live in Idaho Falls, where Todd is an anchorman for KIDKTV.

Another new family has moved into Mink Creek.  Thomas and Donna Nichols are living at the point of the upper intersection with Highway 36.  The home belongs to Lynn and Cathy Mason, who now live in Wellsville, UT.  The Nicols family has lived in Franklin previously.

It will be nice having them here, closer to their daughter, Shoni Henderson, and her family.

A group of men took on the towering Tetons in Wyoming recently.  It was a short, exhausting trip, hiking all one night and into the next day., no easy jaunt.  Paul McKay was the only one from Mink Creek, his companions were Tom Lucia, Tony Hale and Lewis Palmer.

            The Easter Idaho State Fair gets started over Labor Day weekend in Blackfoot.  Anyone in our community who qualified to show at the fair have been busy getting things ready, including themselves if their presence is required.  One more little bit of excitement.

             We have had a heavy rain storm this past week, sufficient to put the last crop of hay harvest on hold, at whatever stage it might have been when the moisture fell.  It has been so very dry, it was all welcome.

            Families have reported that the last two of Mink Creek Ward’s LDS missionaries have reached their field of labor.  Elder Spencer Wilde is in Williston, ND and Sister Tiffany Longhurst has barely gotten to California, the Anaheim area, and is awaiting her assignment.