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Show Page 5 The Garfield County Insider June 4, 2009 IN OUR TOWN ANNIVERSARY FYI PANGUITCH By: Mack Oetting I don’t know about anyone else, but having Memorial Day on May 25, sure has me messed up. Schools out early, and May seemed to the longest month ever. This spring has been the best that I can remember, ever weather wise, with no freezing to kill off the blooms. I remember Pat taking the young women out to Tropic Reservoir, in the middle of June, on a camp out, and it snowed about eight inches. Pat’s comment when we came out to rescue them (Pat hates camping with a passion) was, who said Heavenly Father doesn’t answer prayers. tainers. Quilt Walk Festival Update: * Quilt Classes still available— www. QuiltWalk. com * One of the best kept secret of the festival is the Trunk show. It is delightful entertainment … centered around a quilt theme. Free. 12:15pm. PHS auditorium *Lunch is served daily for $8.00. at the Trunk ShowHS Auditorium. Reservations encouraged. *The Chocolate Fest is a night of chocolate indulgent and entertainment. Need donated Chocolate treats and silent auction items. All money raised goes to the 7 At the Panguitch Lion Club, Bob Smith was honored for his 25 years of dedicated service. Bob who was born and raised in Panguitch, retired from Hill Air Force Base, where he was an engineer, working on radar systems. He and his wife Juanita retired to Panguitch and opened up a nursery. Many of the trees you see around town are from his business. Bob served as President and was secretary- treasure during my six years as President. Bob is also in the American Legion and he can always be counted on to help out at the military funerals. He has lost a little weight and when he holds the flag on a windy day it is really something, we are working on a way to puts some lead weights in his pockets. Bob is usually one of first ones there at our Lions breakfast and the last to leave. He always shows up at our highway clean up, when he didn’t make it last year, I called to see if he was alright, he told me he just turned 80 and he was too old. I said that was a pretty lame excuse and he hasn’t missed a clean up since. Bob has served the town of Panguitch very honorable for these past 25 years, when you see him give him a big roar. Speaking of Lions pancake breakfast, our first one will be on Saturday June 13, during the Quilt Walk. It will be held at Zion’s Bank, and it is all you can eat for $6.00, kids 6 to 10 $3.00, and 5 and under free. The Care and Share has been giving the OK and we are moving everything from the old jail over to our new place. I figured it would take about 4 days to move. With the help of Rob Veater and Jeramy Henrie and his good friends, we got most of the stuff moved in one day. Thank you Rob and Jeramy you were great! Kelly Anderson the manager says, that the Care and Share will be opened for business on June 18, 19, and 20. Please bring your own food con- Quilt Walk Men statue fund. Call Kelly @ 690-9140 for information. Wednesday, Old HS Gym, 6-8 pm *Friday and Saturday at the old HS from 10—4 pm is the Art /Photography Show. We encourage all to enter their amateur or professional work. Call Steve @ 676-2244 or Roxanne @676-8398. *Quilt Show @ the PHS Gym is still encouraging quilts to display. The show is non-judged. This is an appreciation of skills and creativity quilt show. Good opportunity to see what is new in the quilting world and old in the historical past. Call Annette @ 6768523 to display quilts. *Dinner theater and Play still a highlight of the Quilt Festival. . The director has added new music and cast additions as well as the old favorites. Three nights, Thur, Fri and Sat. 7:00 pm; Social Hall. Reservations are encouraged. Call Lacey @ 676-2651 -Horizon Motel for reservations $15.00 for dinner and play. Play only, $5.00 and starts at 7:45pm *Farmers Market / Craft Fair on center street next to Zions Bank. 10- 4 pm Saturday. Call Suzanne for a booth @ 676-2823 *Heritage Fair – All welcome! Come experience the old pioneer crafts: Candle making Quilting, Tin Punch Art, Corn Husk dolls, Butter churning, Pottery, Story Telling and more. Come taste the boiled wheat that drove the 7 Quilt Walk Pioneers to Parowan, 10 am-2 pm. Zions Bank Park. The cost is free the experience is priceless. Don’t miss this opportunity to appreciate and learn from the skills of our pioneer heritage. Look for the pioneer village and tents on Center Street. *Petting Zoo, Let the children enjoy the barnyard animals. Free *On Main Street, Saturday @ 2:00 pm come see the “Tractor Parade”. Better still, enter and show off your tractor. First 15 entries get a “free T-shirt”. View tractors @ Joe’s Main Street Market before Parade. Call Jane @ 676-8079 *Following the Tractor Parade is the infamous Quilt Walk Race. Entries needed. Seven people make a team. Practice quilts available. Expect prizes, fun and exercise. Call Pat @ 676-2418. Youth group’s who need to earn money, get a team, practice, win! *The Pioneer Home Tours will begin at 3:00 pm-6:00 pm. Saturday, a Sub-for Santa event. $5:00 / person. Homes include the Kenny & Randy Miller’s, Mack & Pat Oetting’s, Jason & Jane Hoyt (Ruby Myers’ old home), Chris & Tricia (old Ted Chidester home), Debbie Beuhner (old Daly home – this home is owned by Ardath Davis’ daughter). Tickets available at homes or at the Social Hall on Saturday. Call Mandy Soper @ 676-2261 for more information. *The 5K Quilt Walk Run has been postponed until next year. The HS Cross Country Team will host the event. It is time to start practicing so you can participate next year. Danny Yardley and Jen Houston, team coaches, expect full participation from all you walkers and runners. Don’t disappoint them. *Claudia Crump, Elaine Baldwin and Pat Oetting wish to express TO ALL the Quilt Walk Festival VOLUNTEERS their appreciation for the many years of dedicated service to this event; some volunteers have participated the full 12 years. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You know who you are, we know who you are, and we could never do it without you. *Just in case you did not know, the reason for the Quilt Walk Festival is 4 fold: honoring our ancestors, teaching Panguitch pioneer history to our children, new residents, and tourists, an excuse for an celebration, and to raise money for a Quilt Walk Statue of the 7 Quilt Walkers. Last year Zions Bank committed to building a Quilt Walk Park located at the bank. The park area has been designed, as the economy improves, Zions bank will start construction on the park. Our commitment is to provide the statue for the park and remove it as the bank feels necessary should the land be needed for future bank growth. A portion of the Quilt Walk Festival revenue is set aside yearly for this purpose. Your generous contributions are put to good use. Thank you. Donations are always welcome. The flower pots on Main and Center add a summer feel to the city. They are beautiful and last most of the season. Thank you business owners and Main Street Committee. The Quilt Walk Festival, Balloon Festival, and Panguitch Fish banners are up and make for a festive feel. Thanks to our city workers! The Quilt Walk Volunteers have added their touch to the city as well. Quilts, Flower carts, and a Pioneer Village, Helps to draw attention to the annual festival. Some of our summer residents are beginning to come home. Welcome back! Keep the good news coming Mack O. 676-2418 Collettes Celebrate 50th Gene and Bernice Collette celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Panguitch with family and friends. All but four of the Collette’s posterity--six children, 34 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren--were present to honor them at a dinner held in their honor, Saturday, May 23, 2009. The Collettes moved to Panguitch in 2001 after serving two missions for the LDS church in Ukraine and Nevada. Their posterity lives in Utah and four other Western states, and enjoy coming to Panguitch to visit “Grandma and Grandpa Collette.” Congratulations Gene and Bernice! Every1Counts Persistence No Matter What By Cynthia Kimball Humphreys Tomorrow I am the key- 100%. note speaker at Mountain Second, I will tell them Springs Preparatory Acade- to look for opportunity in my in Cedar City, Utah, for every/anyone and any/evtheir graduation ceremony erywhere. at Southern Utah UniverThat opportunity isn’t sity. always found in the ways What will I tell them? we are taught. Sometimes After all, the world’s a lot there are staring us in the different today than a year face through a huge probago. lem, conflict, dilemma, disAt least they’re not grad- ease, and yes, even a finanuating from college. But, cial crisis. I will tell them don’t worry if that’s you. to search for that opporYou see, there are opportu- tunity, find it, and use it to nities out there. You’ve just better themselves and their got to be persistent. And, situation. I will tell them look, look, look. Not once, that life can’t always be not twice, but persistent un- cake, ice-cream and cooktil you land a job. Even if ies. That sometimes it’s that job ends up not being pig ears and cows tongue. your dream job. (I’m still working on seeing Sophia Loren said, “Get- opportunities in the latter ting ahead in a difficult pro- although my former Hisfession requires avid faith panic students tell me that in yourself. That is why cows tongue’s a delicacy in some people with mediocre Mexico). talent, but with great inner Third, I will also tell them drive, go much further than to know where they stand people with vastly supe- on issues so that when cirrior talent.” (Maybe there’s cumstances present themhope for me after all). selves they won’t have to I will tell those soon-to- decide. For instance, where be graduates five things: do they stand on clothing? 1. You/I Matter. What kind of clothes will 2. Look for opportunity. they wear? Modest ones’ 3. Know where you stand. or a piece of dental floss? 4. Good or useful? Will they refrain from al5. Persistence. cohol, drugs or promiscuFirst, I will tell them ity? Will they be loyal to that the “you” in you mat- people and assume the best ter refers to others. That in others? Will they forgive they must work to make people who wronged them other people feel impor- even if there was intent or tant and special whether not? So many decisions. that’s through remembering Choices, depending upon someone’s name, sending what they make, will ima thank you note, giving a pact their lives forever. I compliment or best yet, for- will emphasize for them to giving. That they will find choose now how they will themselves by helping oth- react to what life throws at ers. them. The good, bad and Along with you matter ugly. That by thinking way is the “I” matter. I will tell ahead of time, how they’ll them that, no matter what, react, could even save their they must always know that life or the life of another. they matter. That they are Not to forget a lot of heart the “I”. That they must be- and headache. lieve in themselves. That Fourth, I will tell them they must have faith in to always ask themselves themselves. That they must regarding their thoughts, love themselves. No matter words and actions, “Is this what. That some of the hap- good or useful?” For expiest and most successful ample, if they want to say to people are that way because someone or are even thinkthey believe in themselves, ing, “That is the stupidest idea I have ever heard!” to first ask themselves, “Is this good or useful?” Since, by doing so, they can prevent strained relationships, hurt feelings, possible bullying, setting a poor example, and even not feeling good themselves. Last, I will tell them, like the college graduates above, to be persistent no matter what and that “There is no failure except in no longer trying,” (Hubbard, E). I will tell them to stand out and make a difference in the world no matter the odds. And that, according to Dale Carnegie, “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. I will tell them to say, “Yes, I am” if someone says they’re not qualified. I will tell them to say, “I can do this” when someone says you’re not talented. I will tell them to reach for the stars and that nothing’s impossible when someone says there’s no way something can be done. How about you? Will you practice the five points? 1. You/I Matter. 2. Look for opportunity. 3. Know where you stand. 4. Good or useful? 5. Persistence. Well, I’m home now. The graduation ceremony ended and it went well. Now just be on the lookout for more good and enthusiastic college-bound students out in the world making it better. 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. |