May 22, 2019

       Our farmers have been busy preparing ground and planting. Follow that with the hope of a good harvest that is what keeps them loving what they do, year in year out. The rock picking 'parties', and rolling of the lumpy fields has all been done and it won't be long before irrigation will begin.

         River McKay,daughter of Lin and Sharla McKay is on the move. She has been a student at Utah State University and part of their Outdoor Product Development Program. As a result she has the opportunity to begin work with Backcountry.com, an outdoor product internet distribution company. She will be their new technical designer. The company is located in Park City. River has been working 3 jobs while a student and has a 4.0 GPA. She will finish her degree online, living in Salt Lake City, commuting to Park City.

         Mink Creek has had two young people graduate from college, USU this spring. Nick Christensen, son of Wally and Kim Christensen, majored in computer science. Morgan McKay Curtis, daughter of Paul and Terrie McKay, studied in the field of graphic design.

          Challis Jensen has been enduring the results of a serious injury. He met with an accident while riding his motor bike at the shell pits near Dayton, slicing into a foot. He has had. three surgeries since that time, each one requiring some recovery time. It has been hard being relatively still for a young man who is accustomed to lots pf activity.

           It is time for graduation from high school. This year we have two young ladies, Tara Jepsen and Hayden Egley, and four young men, Walter Iverson, Izac Greene, Jacobi Johnson and Carson Christensen. Best wishes for their futures.

          Jonathan Seamons, son of Jeff and Jennifer Seamons, was recently ordained to the office of a teacher in the Mink Creek Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Both sets of Jonathan's grandparents are Mink Creek residents: Scot and Cathy Seamons and Joe and Kathy Jarvis.

           Mothers' Day was recognized in the LDS Ward. The program was tributes to mothers, written by the young men that are serving as missionaries, and of course particularly their own mothers. Elder Samuel Seamons is serving in the Philippines, Legazpi, Mission. Elder Noah Daines, in the Michigan, Lansing, Mission, Elder Matthan Daines, the Georgia, Alabama, Mission, and Elder Walter Iverson, soon to be in the Dominican Republic Mission. Treats of Alvey's candy bars were distributed to all the women within Mink Creek boundaries to celebrate the day. Phones were busy in the afternoon and evening as distant children called home to talk to “Mom.” The sunshine and blue sky smiled from above, a lovely day.

          It has been a soggy few days. When the weatherman told us we would have a week of storms, this time he was spot on. Rain and hail, wind to match. Our network of creeks were settling down but with the recent storms they are back to roaring as they make their way first to Mink Creek, which carries the accumulated waters into the Bear River. This excludes Station Creek which dumps into the Bear on its own.