May 15, 2018

           There has been some changes in the Bishopric of the Mink Creek LDS Ward. President Richard Swainston of the Preston North Stake presided over the releasing of Lin McKay, 1^st counselor, Jessie Wilcox as ward clerk, and Trevor Rasmussen as executive secretary. Sustained to these callings were Kerry Jepsen as 1^st counselor, Robert Crosland as ward clerk and Miles Erickson as executive secretary.

           Other major changes were in the Young Men's organization with Bret Rasmussen now the president, Kent Egley his 1^st counselor, Trevor Rasmussen 2^nd counselor, Lin McKay as Priest's adviser, Jessie Wilcox Teacher's adviser and Mario Crosland Deacon's adviser. The men released from those positions were Terry Westerberg, Kerry Christensen, Robert Crosland, Jared Egley, Kerry Jepsen, Jeff Seamons, Kim Rasmussen and Mario Crosland..

          Terry and Hayes Carr and their family drove up from Centerville, UT, to spend the weekend with her parents, Mary Jean and Larry Rasmussen. Kevin and Nancy Alder were also up from their Utah home, getting their Mink Creek home ready for more frequent occupancy with the warmer weather.

          The new baby boy of Natalie and Jamie Forbush was given a name and blessing in the LDS Ward. He is Trent Gregory Forbush, and warmly welcomed by siblings Shayleigh and Kalel. The LDS chapel was filled with family members of the Merritt, Robbins and Forbush clans and friends from near and far that had arrived to get acquainted with this tiny newcomer to the Forbush family.

            After a struggle with several heart attacks and poor health, Elmer Eugene Oliverson passed away and has come home to his native Mink Creek, resting on our lovely hillside cemetery.

           More of the fruit trees are filling with blossoms: the apple, the pie cherry, a peach tree or two, the chokecherries, both wild and tame. There are a lot of nice fragrances floating on the airwaves, unless a person is allergic to those very things.

           These spring rains have turned us into a valley of green. Some of the fierce winds that have swept through have brought down a few of our trees, with no damage reported thus far.

           The sound of lawn mowers in action is almost as constant as that of the roaring water as it makes its way to the Bear River in one tributary or another. All this rain has made us very green, but it has also accelerated growth. It seems like there is only one day in between the need to mow those lawns, yet again. No complaints, we are pleased to be receiving the moisture.

            We have a new committed reader of this Mink Creek blog.  I say committed because I know some people who read it, but do not subscribe. Welcome, the plan is for it to be online at the same time as the Preston Citizen newspaper arrives in mailboxes since the first paragraphs are part of the published column in that paper.  The timing  is not guaranteed, but it isn't too often that it doesn't show up sometime on a fairly weekly basis. The original blog started when the editor at that time limited the rural columns to 300 words and I was prone to have more to say.  That condition has been removed. Another purpose has been to make the Mink Creek hometown news available to ex-creekers, or those temporarily cast adrift, though they may not be subscribing to the paper.  Now the paper has gone to digital, but the blog still works .