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Show Manila Clara kebinson Phone 784-3463 Manila girls at senior citizens The Manila LDS MIA girls entertained the senior citizens after dinner Wednesday afternoon. The girls participating in the program were Lisa Briggs, Marcie Briggs, Raylene Olson, Judy Reed and Wendi Long. Numbers included instrumentals on violin, base clarinet, piano, guitar with vocals, plus a black-out with goony birds by Lisa and Marcie Briggs. Nancy Nelson was accompanist for the base clarinet solo. The girls leader, Mrs. Tom Jackson, accompanied them to the center. Guest, besides a good crowd of seniors, was Mrs. Davidson from the Social Services in Vernal. The M&L Homemakers held their annual picnic at the Palisades Picnic area on Sheep Creek at noon on Thursday. For some time now this picnic has been called the children's picnic and members bring their children. Twenty-one adults and thirty children were in attendance. Each member brought a pot luck dish and the club furnished chicken, hot dogs and punch. "It" packages were won by Linda Beckstead, Lorene Briggs and Mabel Potter. Hostesses for the picnic were Aleta Ellsworth, Linda Palmer and Jeralynn Smith. The next meeting will be in July and the 4-H girls will present a pre-fair fashion show. Mrs. Donald Wisenbarger and children are visiting from California. Don will join them on Sunday. On the way home they play to visit for several days in Las Vegas, Nev. Mrs. Glen Hill of Green River, Wyo., spent Monday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Iverson., Mrs. Minerva Butler, her sister, Eleanor, and Ross Evans of Salt Lake City, visited at the William Robinson home on Friday. On Wednesday, June 23, the Manila Ward will have a dinner.' T's is sponsored by the Relief Society. Each Relief Society member is to bring her favorite dish. A talent show will be presented by the Primary. There will be no charge. Wednesday, June 23 a cancer clinic for pap test and breast examinations will be held at the County Courthouse in Manila. Dr. Larry Wilcken was in Manila on Tuesday where he saw patients at the Daggett County Courthouse. Senior Citizens may see him when he makes these trips to Manila free of charge. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Jensen and children were in Manila this weekend. They are living in Leota at present. Mr. and Mrs. George Olson and children of Mapleton, Utah, are back on the Olson Ranch for the summer. People were glad to hear Sunday that Eunice Ellison would be coming home from the Vernal hospital on Tuesday. Mrs. Clody Reed was called to Brigham City on Sunday due to the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. Clff Christensen. Word was received in Manila the later part of the week that the son of former Manila residents, Mr. and Mrs. Vent Slaugh, was killed in a bicycle accident Thursday evening. The boy was the great grandson of Mrs. Curtis Slaugh of Manila. Natalie Radosevich was chosen as queen for the Cow Country Rodeo to be held in Manila at the county corrals on July 17-18. She was chosen at try-outs held at the county corrals on June 7. Judges were Melanie Son, Brent Larson and Bill Scott. Miss Radosevich will reign over the two-day rodeo and the Queen's Dance which will be held on Saturday (the first day of the rodeo) at the Manila High School gymnasium. Natalie has been a resident of the county all her life. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Radosevich. She lives on a ranch with her parents and her sister and brothers on Spring Creek north of Dutch John. She is an honor student at Manila High School where she will be a senior this coming fall. The Cow Country Rodeo is sponsored each year by the Daggett County Lions Club as is the Queen's Dance. People from all over the U.S. come to see it. Sometimes people from foreign countries come, too. |