December 11. 2019

        I hope you gave a few moments of thought to Dec 7 and World War II, what that day meant to the world as a whole.  May we appreciate the sacrifices made that day.
         Pedro and Avery Gomez have returned from a trip to Chile, Pedro's home. He has been in the US for 18 years, a long time to be absent from family. He grew up in Pueblo Cisnes and was welcomed warmly. Avery's parents, Doug and Beverly Bruderer accompanied them. It was a time of family reunion, of sight-seeing, introducing his American family to his Chilean family. Just imagine the reunion after 18 years.

           Kent and ReNae Egley went to Las Vegas, NV, the last part of November to cheer their racing son, Matt. He was competing at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Both his family and his crew were geared up for this event in the weeks prior.The results were that Matt placed fourteenth, has done a great job this past season and improves each year as he learns the ropes of his dream. Now Matt and the crew will start making plans, repairing, for the season to come.

          Our community has experienced another funeral, the third within a few weeks. LaDawn Hampton Jensen passed away, after struggling with poor health for a long time. Her husband, Richard (Dick) passed away not long ago. The Jensens lived in Mink Creek all their married life, Dick was raised here and LaDawn came from Franklin, high school sweethearts. They are the parents of Sherrie Ogden, Sid Jensen, Shelley Bell, Shawn Jensen(deceased) and Shirley Ahrens.

           Devlyn Nathaneal Currie was ordained a deacon in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is the son of Wendy and Clayton Currie.

           Jeff and Julie Workmen of Stansbury Park, UT, spent several days at their Mink Creek home with their children and grandchildren. It is the perfect place for holiday celebrations, with snowy hillsides for atmosphere. Included in this celebration were Julie's parents.

           The parade of harvested Christmas trees has been going down our highways. Pickups, trailers, trees tied atop cars, whatever would carry the greenery. Over the holiday weekend it was a nearly constant stream. There had to be some slogging through snow to obtain the desired tree with the storms that descended at that time, where just the week before it had been nearly dry.

          We have happy people in the snowmobile set with the recent snowfall making it possible to make their first ride of the season. The big parking lots in our canyons: Birch Creek, Strawberry Summit, Copenhagen, etc. tend to fill up pretty early in the day over the weekends once we have an enduring layer of snow.

           December nights are beautiful when we have a full moon lighting up out snow covered slopes. It is even prettier to see the outdoor Christmas lights on our homes as a person drives through the community.