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Show Page 5 The Garfield County Insider July 9, 2009 IN OUR TOWN FYI PANGUITCH What a great Independence Day! It started with the fire fighters shooting 24 salutes off at 6am to wake up the town. Then the Lions had their 4th of July breakfast with quite a few of the town in attendance, they have bacon to die for and even Mickey Mouse pancakes for the kids. Next there was the 4th kids parade down Main Street, which is always fun to watch. There was a sidewalk sale on main, with the businesses in town putting out their good deals for the locals. The Old Fire House antique store, is now selling ice cream cones and doing real well with 14 flavors. With the sidewalk sale comes the rain, so far they are two for two on the rain bit. Escalante also benefited from this storm, it sure has been a wet summer so far, don’t ya just love it? The farmers from what I hear got their hay up in between the storms. The Junior Class hosted a lunch at the fair building, with a lot of parent help. Cheryl Church. Main Street manager, has started the entertainment on Main Street again. Cheryl was the first performer, if she would share some of her good looks and talent with some of us no talent people, she wouldn’t have to work so hard. Cheryl still hasn’t caught up on her sleep, after spending two months working on the Balloon Fest. She saw her son off at the MTC on Wed and is welcoming another one home, so for the whinny motel owner, Cheryl does a whole lot more than water the flower pots, so get a life and for once do something positive for Panguitch. The Fire Fighters finished off a great day, with a spectacular fire works display. David Dodds and Russell Bulkley, the Chief and his Assistant, have assembled a top notch group of young men to defend Panguitch against any disaster, I would put them up against any department in the State. They fired off the rockets and picked up the launch tubes in 30 minutes, they are some kind of workers. Did you like the flags on Main Street? Pat never stops finding me work to By: Mack Oetting do! The boy scouts, the city workers and the flags from the cemetery added a real patriotic feel to the city. Thanks to all our armed forces for keeping our nation free. Noelle Perkins won Miss Congeniality at the Utah High School Rodeo Pageant. She is going to be a sophomore this next school year and is a wonderful award for Noelle, way to go. While walking my daughter’s dog Tink, I passed Allen and Joann Miller house and it looked liked the whole town was there for a big 4th lunch, with some of Wayne’s famous Dutch oven cooking, it looked like a fun time. My Granddaughter, Teah, got back from Mexico after being there for 6 months to learn Spanish. She was home for a week, but had to go up north to get back in the college swing. She has been volunteering at the free clinic, in SLC for a couple of years, where most of the patients speak Spanish, one of them ask her whereabouts in Mexico she was from, made her whole six months well worth while! We have a City election coming up in November, Mayor and two Council positions are open. Get involved, sign up, you have until July 15th. The City government is the only branch, that you actually can do some good for your own city. Once you get beyond that, you have to sell your soul to the highest bidder and it’s not worth it, believe me, I’m not for sell. My four years on the City Council were some of the best in my life, the members of that Council only had the best interest in mind for the people of Panguitch, all worked very hard to make this a great place to live. However my four years on the school board were another thing, where some members thought somehow green grass is more important than books, it became very frustrating. This Saturday there will be a family gathering out at Widtsoe for a memorial for Jon Hatch, all are welcome. Jon’s wife, Judy, suffered a severe stroke about three years ago and wasn’t expected to live. Jon wouldn’t have any of this and quit his job as a truck driver and dedicated his life to nursing Judy back to health. At the family reunion in Widtsoe, last summer, Judy was there and showed very little effects from her stroke. Jon had worked a miracle. Pat’s brother, Junior, passed away in May, his ashes will be buried on Sunday at 2:00 pm. Next week, on Thursday and Friday, the fiddlers will be in town, this is a fun evening and the cost is free, with contributions accepted. They really put on a great show and the Lions Club will also host a fiddler’s breakfast on Saturday and hopefully we will have some old time fiddle music to go with the breakfast. Get your floats, old cars, tractors, dancing shoes and kazoos ready the 24th it will be here before you know it. Tracy Armstrong will be the Grand Marshall this year. This is always an exciting parade, with candy for everyone, fire engines squirting water and the Scouts put on the breakfast and the Fire Fighters will have their deep pit barbecue again at lunch. Keep the good news coming. Mack O. Dr. Barnett’s MOBILE ORTHODONTICS Call us for Complimentary Orthodontic Consultations tHe lAuGhiNg pOiNt!! CHANGE OF ADDRESS I had just moved from an apartment to a house in the same small town. One day at the grocery store, I finally used the last of my personalized checks bearing my old address. The cashier examined the document and asked if everything on it was correct. I assured her that it was, and she started to put the check in the cash drawer. But then she inquired again if everything was accurate. “Why do you ask?” I responded. “Because,” she replied, “my husband and I moved to this apartment yesterday, and I don’t remember seeing you at breakfast.” HEIRLOOM I noticed a hand-painted gold and burgundy brandy snifter at my in-laws where we were celebrating their wedding anniversary. My father-inlaw explained that it had been a wedding gift from Ireland that they had received 50 years earlier. My brother-in-law picked it up and passed it around the dinner table. My heart was in my mouth as it went from one person to another because my in-laws seemed to habitually drop things. Finally it reached me and I put it back on the display case. “How had this fragile keepsake lasted so long in this family?” I wondered aloud. “It’s the last of a set of eight,” my father-in-law replied. SUNDAY SCHOOL The Kindergarten Sunday School class was discussing prayer and the children seemed aware that the way you end a prayer was with the word “Amen.” “Does anyone know what ‘Amen’ means?” the teacher asked. There was a long silence. Then one little boy piped up, with appropriate, computer-age gestures, and said, “Well, I think it means, like, ‘Send’.” AT THE BAR I was meeting a friend in a bar and as I went in, I noticed two pretty girls looking at me. “Nine,” I heard one whisper as I passed. Feeling pleased with myself, I swaggered over to my buddy and told him a girl had just rated me a nine out of ten. “I don’t want to ruin it for you,” he said, “but when I walked in, they were speaking German.” It Makes Sense...By Veda Hale Some hints that might be worth thinking about: Don’t wear your contacts all day, especially when not feeling well. Eyes need a rest, too. Ill health often affects the eyes ability to see normally. Floss your teeth. Being a “gummer” doesn’t add to old-age happiness one bit! Get enough sleep....But that doesn’t mean that more is better. Too much sleep can be as much of a problem as too little. Again listen to the body. Most of us need 7 to 9 hours. A few people seem to get along with less. Often they are people who have learned the value of power naps during the day. However, they are also people, it seems to me, who like to brag about not needing sleep. It might be they think it points to them being superior to the rest of us. Well, I don’t know about that. Could be. Certainly, they are likely to get more done. And it is true that metabolisms are different. As said, it makes sense to pay attention to your own body and adjust your life accordingly. Sleep seems to be needed to reboot the body, like a computer often needing rebooting. (Interesting word “rebooting”. Sounds like one has taken off their boots and needs to put them on again for another day of cowboying. ) Lift weights -- even us women need to do that. Fill a gallon milk bottle with water and lift twenty or so times with each arm is about what that means. Yes, some way to make the legs do the same is wise, too. I like one of those elastic exercise things. It is the resistance that does the good. Here’s one I better pay attention to....Listening to my ipod too loud. Perhaps I have already hurt my hearing. Something sure has. But the advice is to try to listen below what you think you would like. We all know loud noise can harm hearing, and it makes sense to think a prolonged dose of it is worse. Don’t forget tops of ears, feet, back of necks when applying sunscreen. Most of us are in too much of a hurry to do a good job. Talk to anyone who has had skin cancers removed and see where they occurred in a majority of times. Send suggestions to Veda Hale, box 956 Panguitch, Utah 84759 or email vedahale@hotmail.com Call 896-4930 to schedule an appointment for you or your family A LESSON IN POLITICS I recently asked my friend’s little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be president some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, “If you were president what would be the first thing you would do? “She replied, “I’d give food and houses to all the home-less people. “Her parents beamed. “Wow... what a worthy goal.” I told her, “But you don’t have to wait until you’re president to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I’ll pay you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where homeless guys hang out, and you can give them the $50, you earned, to use toward food and a new house.” She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, “Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?” I said, “Welcome to the Republican Party.” (Her parents still aren’t speaking to me.) A Well-Planned Retirement From The London Times: Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England , there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses. It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars 1 (about $1.40) and coaches 5 (about $7). This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years. Then, one day, he just didn’t turn up for work. “Oh well”, said Bristol Zoo Management - “we’d better phone up the City Council and get them to send a newparking attendant . . . “ “Err . . . no”, said the Council, “that parking lot is your responsibility.” “Err . . . no”, said Bristol Zoo Management, “the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn’t he?” “Err . . . no!” insisted the Council. Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (presumably), is a man who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at 400 (about $560) per day at the Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over 3.6 million, $7 million - or $280,000 every year... for 25 years! And no one even knows his name. |