January 23, 2024

 This is the Mink Creek rural news column that should be in this week's Preston Citizen--but it won't be. Difficulties in the assembling of the paper this week and nothing turned out right.  So I am still going to post it on this blog, because next week it will be old stuff.

In spite of the combined winter snow storm and winds presenting whiteout conditions, filling roads and driveways with 2-3 feet of snow, the members of the Mink Creek LDS Ward were able to hold their Sunday meeting this past week. Early that morning volunteers arrived to clear the sidewalks and the parking lot. Residents who have snowplows on their pickups went about opening up the side roads to connect with the main roads. Driveways were up to the individual households. Attendance was a bit limited for this reason, but the congregation welcomed three stake visitors, Tom Madsen and Jay and Nancy Jensen, who have recently returned from a Senior mission to Georgia.

Candy Longhyrst and ReNae Egley enjoyed a few warm days in the St. George area with friends. Fun activities and a break from the ice and snow that has descended in this month of January.

Three young men of the Mink Creek ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were ordained to various priesthood offices this month. Issac Cheney was ordained to the office of a deacon, his brother, Jared Cheney, to the office of a teacher. Both are the sons of Jacob and Christy Cheney. Morgan Keller, son of Jared and Hollie Keller, was ordained a priest.

The Primary organization honored Issac Cheney, Annie Rasmussen and Kassidy Christensen as they graduated from Primary to become part of the Young Men and Young Women programs. Annie is the daughter of Trevor and April Rasmussen and Kassidy is the daughter of Lacey and Kerry Christensen.

Jeff and Julie Workman of Stansbury Park, UT, have been here for a good sized visit and were able to be part of the community and being able to meet the challenges of winter in our mountains.

The closure of the highway 36 over to Bear Lake on several days has done much to limit the traffic passing through. It makes us realize how much this road is traveled from our neighboring county and across the border into Wyoming.

If you want to read the  column "Out of Our Past for January 24, 2024" it won't be in the paper version of the Citizen, but it will be on the Citizen Facebook site.  The same applies for the Development column, historical info---this week's is about the early days of owning and driving one of those new-fangled contraptions called an automobile after being dependent on a team of horses for every move.  There were no service stations and a tire for an auto was completely different from that for a carriage or farm wagon.