The End of Summer event for the Mink Creek community was a night themed around cowboys and the agricultural way of life. It took place at the Mink Creek Ballpark, there were plenty of western hats, cowboy boots and shirts with a western cut in evidence. Corrine Larsen had decorated the stage area with Cowboy posters, hay bales and saddles. Items on the menu were Tri-tip beef and chicken, Dutch-oven potatoes and BBQ beans, rolls, with a bit of rice pilaf if desired. Choice of beverages were lemonade, chokecherry lemonade and Mink Creek water. Traditional ice cream sandwiches were dessert. The reported fixing committee was Clare Christensen, Stuart Ostler, Jody Rasmussen and Terrie McKay, with the rolls from an outside source, Gerry Crookston of Preston.
After the feast the program commenced featuring Johnny Iverson with some cowboy poetry, then Billy Wall of Morgan, UT, with guitar and western songs and the main event being Kristine Lloyd, a multi-talented young lady—guitar, songs, gun spinning, roping exhibition and some bullwhip cracking. Her background was a mix of Bear Lake country and Heber Valley, UT, and she related well to her audience of about a hundred people.
The Young Women enjoyed an old-fashioned tea-party at the home of Claudia and Bob Erickson. The objective was to become acquainted with Claudia’s vintage hat collection as part of the ‘way things were, back when,’ and after trying on a few chapeaus, each chose one to wear while partaking of a plate of cucumber sandwiches, English scones and a fresh fruit salad, sipping from dainty crystal cups filled with a fruit punch. Emma Rasmussen had chosen this occasion and her mother, April Rasmussen, and leaders Jody Rasmussen and Amy Baldwin provided the refreshments.
Robert and Elizabeth Hawkes are announcing the birth of a grandson. He made his entry into this world on August 28. He is the first son of Lauryn and Zach Robb, of Gooding, ID, and is named Owen Levi Robb.
Members of the Jimmie and Anna Beth Olson family gathered in Meridian, ID, to enjoy remarks by their grandson, Charles James Peterson, the son of Charles and Dana Olson Peterson. C.J. will shortly be leaving Idaho to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in North Carolina.
It has been a somber week with another funeral, this time for Kent Egley, a gentleman much esteemed throughout this corner of our state. The enemy was pancreatic cancer. More will be said in a column to come, but his passing is so on all of our minds that I could not postpone mentioning it is this post. It was a beautiful service, tears and all.
The community survived another LoToJa bike race. As the riders rode through this year it was cold, with some cross winds and rain. I am always amazed at their dedication to complete this challenge, most of them riding simply to beat their own time record from a previous performance.
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