March 15, 2017

         Relatives of Tawni Hall gathered round to celebrate her marriage to Tayson Reid recently. Tawni is the daughter of Kristi and Bret Hall. Her brothers, Bridger and Tyson were able to give some brotherly advice to Tayson. Tawni's gradfathers were both there, Vernon Keller of Mink Creek and Dallas Hall of Wellsville, UT. Kristi's siblings drove up; Kelton Keller and family from Alpine, UT. Chris and Karla Jensen and Karma Wood from Logan., Jeff and Kay Hill of West Jordan, UT, Clay and Nancy Torfin of Fairview, ID. Doug and Shelley Keller, Bret's sister, live in Preston.. Other out of town relatives were Rob and Kamee Summers and Brian and Cindy Gardner, all of Wellsville, and Steven and Lorene Lieshman of Logan. Tawni and Tayson will be settling into life as Mr. and Mrs. Reid in Richmond, UT.

            After making the decision to go for citizenship in the United States Mink Creek resident Pedro Gomez has spent months studying, getting ready to take the required test. This past week he and his wife, Avery, drove to Boise where the test is administered. We are happy to report that Pedro passed and those giving the test had no question as to whether or not he could speak English, since he was conversing easily with them in the language. Congratulations are in order for Pedro and his family, Later this spring there will be an official ceremony in honor of those who have achieved this goal.

             There has been a great deal of activity in our canyons at the beginning of this week while a lengthy search was being conducted by the Franklin County Search and Rescue unit and other volunteers. The young man, Kacey Hebdon, had been lost while snowmobiling with friends in the Copenhagen Basin area. A fierce winter storm moved in and he ended up spending the night and then some in the midst of snow and wind. The whole county celebrated when he was finally found and, though chilled to the bone, in relatively good shape.

              The annual Blue and Gold Banquet for the Cub Scouts was well attended. Cubmaster Sharla McKay used the theme of STEM for the evenings activities. STEM stands for S-science, T-technology, E- engineering, M- math, all areas that need strengthening in our world of today. For their feast those attending enjoyed a potato bar with all the trimmings, salads and a tasty chocolate dessert. Leaders of each den provided activities. The Bear leaders, Liesa Baird and Margret Iverson, dealt with Legos. Layne and Karen Erickson had a Weblos erupting volcano. Avery Gomez and Phee Crosland had created robotic bugs.

             It has been “that kind” of a week again and this is late. We have had a most welcome change in the weather and enjoyed several sunny, drying days. Normally this would not be worthy of report, but with the excess moisture that this winter has presented, drying is much desired for right now. Of course, before too much time passes we will be complaining about the dust. For now we are dealing in mud and reminding ourselves that winter most likely is not over.,

              Farm auctions throughout southeastern Idaho are underway, right on schedule. My guess is that the auctioneers feel fortunate when they can locate a place large enough, and dry enough, to hold their auctions and provide parking for their customers.

            Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Dust off your Irish genealogy and put on a bit o' green.