The Young Men and Young Women groups are meeting for a combined New Beginnings session at the home of Kurt and Margret Iverson. It will be breakfast and making plan for the coming year’s activities for those in the community from ages 12 to 18.
Two young ladies have graduated from Primary and are now members of the Young Women program in the LDS Ward. They are Kate Rasmussen, daughter of April and Trevor Rasmussen, and Greenlee Christensen, daughter of Lacey and Kerry Christensen. They have plunged right in and are having fun with the older girls.
Kent and ReNae Egley attended the funeral of Paul Tate. He is Kent’s uncle and grew up in Riverdale.
A Mink Creek old-timer passed away on January 9th. William (Bill) Ernest Crane (89) was the youngest of eight children in the family of William and Jemina Crane and wasraised on the farm on the banks of Birch Creek. He had been living in Kanab, UT, with his wife, Betty, and daughter Lynette. Bill was a navy veteran of the Korean War. He worked for the BLM or the National Forest Service and moved with the job. They lived in Paris, ID, Cheyenne, WY, and Las Vegas, NV. He was buried in Kanab.
Jonathan Seamons, at 160 pounds, continues to do well in the various wrestling tournaments where the Preston High School participates. He comes from a family o f brothers, all of whom have been in the wrestling program at the school, as was his father, Jeff Seamons.
The southern sides of our slopes are pretty bare of snow, with only patches. Fields still look white, but the turkeys are scratching through the snow to gobble any feed beneath. Above a livestock feedlot in the south end of our valley the small winter birds line up on the overhead power lines, waiting for those critters to fill their stomachs so the winged ones can snack on the scattered leftovers.
Around here the groundhog certainly saw his shadow, hopefully that is encouraging. I guess it depends on a person's perspective. We are hoping for more real winter to avoid a parched growing season.
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