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Show Ballard Telintha Rasmussen Phone 722-4875 Carol Noll returns from Alaskan trip Carol Noll went to Alaska for 7 weeks and traveled by ferry, bus, car and plane. Highlight of the vacation was flying a Piper Plane over Glacier Bay National Monument and seeing glaciers, ice fields, seals, sealions and beautiful mountains. Judy Cook who graduated from Utah State University last spring, is teaching in the elementary school in Altamont this year. Last Sunday, Aug. 24, Dorothy Kettle's missionary farewell was held in Sacrament meeting in South Ballard. She is going to the Albuquerque, New Mexico LDS mission and will leave Sept. 3 for the Mission Training Center in Provo. Special guests who came from out of the Basin for the occasion were Mr. and Mrs. Alton and Artis Kettle; Mr. and Mrs. Ed and Ethel Pitts; Edward Dury; Ina and Gus Petterson; Juarella Long and Mrs. and Mrs. John T. Williams, all from Salt Lake City. Five girls graduated from Primary and received their certificates ,.. in. Sacrament meeting last Sunday in Ballard Ward. They were Betty Mitchell, Mit-chell, Leslie Schisler. Jonni Collins, Larae Workman and Teresa Daniels. Three boys were advanced in the Priesthood last Sunday in Ballard Ward. They were Bradley Rasmussen and Bradley Michael Bolton to teacher and Mark Miller to Priest. Mr. and Mrs. Karl Shisler and daughter Leslie were in Provo to be with daughter Lenore as she was set apart for an LDS mission to North Carolina. Last Saturday Elain Shisler, daughter Leslie and sister, Joan Robbins of Vernal attended a Thomas and Harriet Todd reunion at the Charleston Park near Heber. Thomas and Harriet lived near Heber before moving their family to Jensen and later to what is now Ballard, when the area was opened to homesteading in the 1900's. . Dr. Wendell and Norma Johnson from Ogden were visitors in North Ballard ward sacrament meeting last Sunday. They had Norma's mother with them, Mrs. Fannie Todd. The Johnsons and Mrs. Todd used to live here. Leslie Grover from Alaska has been here visiting his brothers and families, Leon and Rpland. The Grovers were raised in Alaska. Mr. Grover was here to attend the World Conference on Records. Mr. Grover was the Francis Hester's Stake President in Alaska before they moved to Gusher to live. Beatrice Lundberg attended the BYU Educational Week at Provo last week. She met two of her sisters from Reno, Nev., who were also attending the meeting. A family reunion for the Sam and Julia Kettle descendants was held at the park in Roosevelt last week. About 40 people were there. A business meeting was held. They all had dinner together and prizes were awarded to the oldest and the youngest, the one who traveled the farthest, etc. Visitors at the Max Todd home last weekend was Bob and Linda Mendoza from Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Swarts visited briefly at the Telintha Rasmussen home. Mrs. Swarts is the former Ruth Sprouce who lived here in Ballard for many years. Mrs. BY. Whitmore took her daughter, Zelda Molton, to a Salt Lake hospital where she remained for two days. They are now back home. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Knight and two sons from Kirkville, Miss., were here visiting at her mother's home, the Hilda Arnolds, for two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hesters have been to Texas searching for genealogy. They found what they were seeking. Traveling through Texas they said they saw millions of acres of crops and grasslands that had burned up from the drought. When the Hesters moved here from Alaska last spring, they brought some mellon seeds with them They planted the seeds and now have mellons weighing from 50 to 100 pounds. Kathy, daughter of Delia Dahlberg and John D., son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Brennan of Reno. Nev., will be married Sept. 6 at the Uintah Basin Vocational Center in Roosevelt. Kathy is a nurse at the Duchesne County Hospital. Mr. Brennan is a trooper with the Utah Highway Patrol. They will be making their home in Ogden. A garden shower was hosted for Kathy last Tuesday by Mrs. Orlo Spencer and others at the Spencer home on Whiterocks Road. |