march 24, 2021

 

Lin and Sharla McKay have been having family in and out at their home. Their son Josh and Sarah Newby and their three boys were up from Spanish Fork, UT, for a weekend. After those busy days, daughter River and Hunter Morgan spent a few days helping her parents prepare for River and Hunter’s open house, that was put on hold when they married during the early months of the COVID restrictions. That date is coming up on March 27. For now the Morgans live in Mill Creek, UT, but are soon changing their location to Centerville. They are lucky to have Lin and Sharla helping them with the moving procedures.

Steve and Amy Baldwin enjoyed a visit from their daughter Erin and Nate Lundburg. The Lundburgs live in Logan.

The young men of the village enjoyed participating in the Preston North Stake basketball tournament. This sort of event is so welcomed after so many month of limited activities. Ryan Buttars of the Oxford Ward was in charge of organizing the tournament. Win, lose, or draw, it was fun!!

After having been canceled last summer due to the pandemic, the effort to have the yearly Mink Creek School Reunion is making plans for a June gathering this year. It is no longer called the School Reunion, since it has been a good many years since anyone attended any school within our boundaries. The reunion is to be known as Mink Creek Originals, people whose roots reach back to Mink Creek soil in one way or another. The person in charge this year is Karen Olson Tribett, who grew up here, the daughter of John and Edith Olson. In an effort to circumvent some of the COVID limitations it will be an outing at the Mink Creek Ballpark with plenty of room. Instead of a potluck affair box lunches will be provided. The welcome mat is planned to be rolled out at 11 am on June 19^th, a Saturday. There will be a reminder closer to the official date.

Days have gotten warmer so some of the ice dangers have melted away. It all depends on location, the north sides of buildings, or places in the shade may still offer a slippery surface for a few more days.

Green shoots of desirable plants are poking up through the soil that , only a few days ago was covered with snow. Weeds are already proclaiming their presence. Somehow they are always wanting more than their share of attention. It feels good to think that the real spring is unfolding. We aren’t suffering from warmth, in fact had another day of snow flurries in the past week, but the air is feeling promising all the same.