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Show IN OUR TOWN FYI PANGUITCH Oh where has the summer gone? School starts way too soon, oh well we still have four more months of good weather to look forward to. School starting it’s time to buy your season sports passes; they are good for volleyball, girls and boys basketball, that’s a lot of entertainment for a real cheap price. We had a near disaster happen in our family. My granddaughter Teah was on her way to SLC, when she rolled her mother’s car on Highway 89. She was distracted for a sec., over corrected and rolled the car 4 times and then into the river. Seatbelts were on and airbags went off and every inch of the car wrecked. Luckily her passenger, Cesar age 14, a member of her host family in Mexico where she went to volunteer to teach English was not badly injured as well. The EMTs and Fire Fighters were there so quick she said it was very comforting knowing so many of them. Both of them are ok, with a lot of aches and sore muscles. New cars with all of the safety devices are worth their weight in gold. We were truly blessed that they weren’t injured. We live in a great town, Panguitch, were the EMS respond so quickly and they are truly friends helping friends, thank you Highway Patrol, County Sheriff Dept, Fire Fighters, Doctors and hospital staff, as well as you concerned citizens for all you do for our community and those traveling through. My most interesting observations are that regardless of who you are we all get the same treatment we all get the same treatment, the best! Speaking of wrecks the government started a program to get gas guzzlers off the road. Giving up to $4,500 for older cars. Most of the cars do bring $3500, By: Mack Oetting on a purchase of a new vehicle. The government set a side $1 billion dollars to purchase 250,000 cars, this was gone in one week, they are now trying to get $2 billion more. This is the best thing that’s happened in along time towards helping the auto industry. I have always felt that American built cars, are made to last, my Ford Explorer has 285,000 miles on it, my 15 year old Ford pickup only has 120,000 miles and both are going strong. But to trade them in I would get nothing for them. I think with the slowing of the economy in the last three years, people are finding they don’t have to trade their cars in every couple of years, which has a catch 22, the older they are they are not worth anything when you do trade them in. Tired of paying a lot for gas? Look into something that will save you plenty at the pump, now might a good time. At the Panguitch Invitational Rodeo, which involves some of the best riders in west, some of Panguitch’ finest student did really well. Paxton Cooper 6th in team roping, Katelyn Peterson 5th in pole bending, Kamrie Orton 3rd in barrel racing and Noelle Perkins 2nd in barrel racing and 9th in pole bending. These kids are model students, I think if you can find something for your children to do, that they enjoy that is half of the battle in raising them. Tim Marshall, a nurse at GMH, has taken a job at Utah Valley Hospital. He going to further his education and will become a Nurse Practitioner. He and his family will be missed and I hope that when he reaches his goal he will come back home. Tim has that Marshall jockey blood in him and had been exercising horses with Brady Eyre, until he incurred an Every1Counts What Can I Learn from This? By Cynthia Kimball Humphreys You know, I would have thought this recession would have passed by now. I would have thought things would have been pretty much back to normal, whatever that is. But, when I think about it, even though many are experiencing tough times, is there really any need to complain? I mean, we are alive, right? And besides, will complaining make the recession stop or go away? I’m pretty sure that would be a no. I was in a class recently where there was mention of a couple who lost a child right after her birth. Then they lost another child after his little heart was operated on. Then this man lost his wife several years later. Apparently he said, “Not once did I complain,” even though he was sorrowful and missed their presence. Instead he asked something to the effect, “What can I learn from this?” Page 5 The Garfield County Insider August 6, 2009 I guess that is a good question for many of us especially when things come our way that aren’t necessarily pleasant or even in our plans. When we are diagnosed with a disease, as I once was with cancer, we could ask, “What can I learn from this?” For me, I learned that I could find opportunity in cancer (i.e. my family created a cancer foundation, we serve on cancer boards and participate in cancer relays, and I am writing a book about cancer and graditute, etc.) and educate others about cancer genetics. When we fail a test we could ask, “What can I learn from this?” Perhaps it would be to not procrastinate, to seek out a tutor or to study harder. When our car breaks down we can ask, “What can I learn from this?” It could be that we need to be more consistent with the service of our car, change our oil or get new tires. injury. Tim you are very good at what you do, good luck. Speaking of Marshall’s, another Marshall, Eva, had her 99th birthday on July 31. Happy Birthday! Eva has years of quilting experience behind her and many more to come! “The Movie in the Park” is back on and starts at dusk, on Fridays. There will be a Disney movie tomorrow night, so get the kids and come on out. The County Fair starts on Wednesday so get your show items shined up and get them on display so the whole town can see what talent you have. Saturday there is the Commissioners lunch, hamburgers, hot dogs, corn on the cob and watermelon, the Panguitch Lions will be doing the cooking and serving and it’s all FREE. The following Saturday, August 22, the Lions will be putting on their 5th annual Demolition Derby, get your cars ready, for information and entry blanks, call me at 676-2418. We have a new family in town, Brant Bennion, his wife and one year old child. Brant is the new Manager at the Royal Express automotive and transmission and is from SLC area, welcome to Panguitch. I forgot to mention the C-stop pizza restaurant, it has a new sign and they are remodeling of the inside of the store as well. Panguitch gets better every day. Maryann has the best pizza and Italian food in Southern Utah. Keep the good news coming, Mack O. Hale Art Gallery Open for season Great prices on original art. Good selection of Lynn Griffin's work When we lose our temper we can ask, “What can I learn from this?” Maybe to learn to count to ten before we speak, realize that we need to listen better, not make mountains out of molehills, reprimand constructively, seek out counseling or enroll in an anger management class. When we lose a loved one as I did with my grandparents, a good friend and a couple who were like parents, we can ask, “What can I learn from this?” Perhaps it is to reevaluate what they taught us and continue their good legacy. “When someone treats us unfairly we can ask, “What can I learn from this?” Psychologists Dr. Gary and Ruth Namie did. They ended up not only founding The Bullying Institute, but writing “The Bully at Work” after Ruth was bullied in a psychology practice she worked at in California. Their work alone has not only educated millions on bullying prevention, but has provided invaluable resources especially for the victims or targets of bullies. When we are unemployed we can ask, “What can I learn from this?” It could be to use our networking resources and network within our sphere of influence, to tHe lAuGhiNg pOiNt!! Break Up A daughter broke-up with her boyfriend. She asked for her Mother’s advice about returning the gifts he’d given her. Without a pause, her Mother replied, “Send back the stuffed animals and letters, but keep the jewelry for sentimental reasons.” Campaign Funding Can you believe a candidate dropped out of the race because of a lack of campaign funds? Anyone who stops spending just because he’s out of money doesn’t belong in Washington anyway! Two Words My English teacher announced to the class; “There are two words I don’t allow in my class. One is gross and the other is cool.” From the back of the room a voice called out, “So, what are the words?” DR. BARNETT’S MOBILE ORTHODONTICS Call us for Complimentary Orthodontic Consultations Call 896-4930 sell or barter things that we own or to take a job that isn’t our dream job so that we can pay bills and put food on the table. And although we may feel like Winston Churchill when he said, “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught,” I think we all can benefit by asking ourselves when the good, bad and ugly come our way, “What can I learn from this?” After all, according to James Russell Miller, “If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however, adverse your circumstances may seem to be.” For information on coaching, consulting, speaking or training contact: Cynthia Kimball Humphreys, Vice President, Every1Counts, P.O. Box 574, Hatch, UT 84735. Ph: 435.632.1489, Fax: 435.735.4222 or Email: kimball@every1counts.net. Website: www. every1counts.net. Connect with Cynthia Kimball Humphreys on Facebook, Twitter, Plaxo, LinkedIn, and Echo Loops (Invite Code: BH239932). © 2008 Every1Counts, LLC. All rights reserved. 911 Dispatcher Part of my job as a 9-1-1 dispatcher is to interrogate callers who are in various states of panic so I can send the appropriate emergency equipment. One day a woman called to say that a family member had fallen and needed to go to a hospital. After finding out where she lived and assuring her that the paramedics would arrive shortly, I asked her, “Do you know what caused the fall?” “No,” the woman nervously replied. “What?” Witty Waiter The head waiter of a five-star, elegant restaurant recoiled in disgust as a man in muddy hip wader boots, frayed and torn jeans, dirty leather jacket, long stringy dirty hair and a beard with flecks of long-ago food marched right towards him. The man said, “Yo, bucko, where’s the bathroom?” The head waiter calmly replied, “Go down the hall and turn left. When you see the sign marked ‘Gentlemen’, pay absolutely no attention to it and go right inside.” At the Grocer A young boy stopped by the corner grocery store and read his list to the clerk: “10 pounds if sugar at $1.25 a pound; 4 pounds of coffee at $1.50 a pound; 2 pounds of butter at $1.10 a pound and 2 bars of soap at 83 cents each. How much does that come to?” “Twenty-two dollars and thirty-six cents,” replied the clerk. “If I gave you three ten dollar bills, how much change would I get?” “Seven dollars and sixty-four cents.” “Thanks! That’s my arithmetic homework for tomorrow.” It Makes Sense...By Veda Hale What is confectioners sugar? It is just sugar ground up fine, usually ground 10 times. It is called powdered sugar and is used in icings and to dust cakes and candy and hotcakes or waffles. The kind you buy in the grocery store has 3% corn starch in it to keep it from clumping up. If you don’t have any on hand and a recipe needs it, grind it yourself in a blender. It is less expensive this way. Keep it in a dry container. I used to make icing by using a cube of butter, a raw egg and a little vanilla and adding powdered sugar until I had it spreadable. We never got sick and eggnogs were in common use, too; but now days they warn against using raw eggs. Interesting fact of life. Many more things out there that can “get you”, or so it seems. Well, better be safe. Maybe the way eggs are handled now is dirtier than in years gone by with home-grown eggs. Seems hard to believe when I remember how we used to sandpaper off the visible “stuff” from the eggs we gathered every evening. My brother the chiropractor says living with some dirt is good, that kids with fussy moms are often more liable to get sick that kids let to their own dirt level. Certainly it seems kids have more allergies now days. At our family reunion we about killed one kid with a cookie that contained peanut butter. It was scary. And another had to be rushed to the hospital because of allergy reaction to the horses. Never heard of that happening in the “old” days. Maybe the afflicted ones died young. I just don’t know. In the elite magazine COWBOYS AND INDIANS magazine recently I saw a suggestion form an old timer. He said he got rid of a terrible persistant caugh by soaking a thin cotton undershirt with salt water, letting it dry and then wearing it with another shirt over it, of course. He swore he never had colds or flu, because he’d use this treat when threatened. Hummmm. It wouldn’t hurt to collect a few of these kinds of “old-time’ ideas....just in case. Even if it is a plecebo effect from the doing, that is as good as something from a drug. I thought of my old garlic and olive oil with which I used to freak out my kids when they had a chest cold. Garlic is supposed to keep away vampires and the black plague. The smell, most would say, but what about those yellow tree frogs I heard about recently that when threatened emit a garlic smell? Does that mean that germs, too, don’t like the smell and would stay away? If you annalyze most old remedies, they often seems foolish. Just the same I’m going to keep looking for the instructions for the “cold-sheet treatment” that supposedly saved many in the 1918 flu epidemic, just in case the swine flu sacre is real. As I remember one was to soak in a hot tub drinking camimile tea, (with someone close by in case fainting happened), then all hot and relaxed wrap in a cold sheet and put on the feet wool stockings filled with garlic. Flu is coaxed out. (I can’t remember if the stockings needed to be wool, and I can’t remember what herb was put in the bath water.) I did this one time about 30 years ago and it worked. I had been very sick with several relapes in 1957 when the Asian flu was bad and didn’t want to go through that again and was willing to try such a funny-soundiing treatment. Please, someone, tell me what you know of remedies that might be good to have in our “crazy” bag of tricks, things that might sound silly but certainly wouldn’t kill you. Send suggestions to Veda Hale, PO Bos 596 or email vedahale@hotmail.com |