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Show gjgj BEAVER BUZZIN'S Gail Webster 438-2233 zarth 105, Brad waters 115, Paul Crook 122, Ricky Jar. vis 145, and Cullen Carter 185. Ricky Jarvis took 1st : place and the other boys placed second. Coach Alan Raddon was well pleased -win his boys, all who took 3rdor above. Mr. Don Tuft took his Am-erican Am-erican Problems and his Psychology classes by bus to the American Fork Training Train-ing School last Tuesday. Many Valentine parties were held on February 14th. The Beaver Stake Aaronlc Priesthood Activity Night Board held a stake meeting where plans were continued concerning the Heritage Arts Festival to be held this Tues. day evening and the Regional Youth Conference that Mil-ford Mil-ford will be hosting March 28, 29, and 30. Saturday night Louis Les. i sing was surprised by i ! birthday -retirement part)' given in his honor by his family at the Beaver Com-! munity Center. Myrl, his wife, provided all the food for ! the dinner. Louis' chlldrei; ! . Dale, Paul, Hal and hisiife i from Salt Lake City, Lana, attending the UofU, and Sandy : who resides at home, putto-gether putto-gether the evening which Included In-cluded tributes to Louis and musical numbers by Ms ; friends and family. It has been a busy week for Beaver County and our town of Beaver in particular. Most everyone enjoyed the Monday holiday although. I think many still wonder what day we are celebrating now that the vacation day falls on neither President's birthday. birth-day. Tuesday night was the Beaver Stake Heritage Arts Festival which was held in the Second Ward Chapel. Several wards had spent many hours preparing for this andhad, In fact, had Heritage Her-itage Arts Festivals in their own wards. Kelly Bradshaw, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Nor-man Bradshaw, was Master of Ceremonies for the evening eve-ning , doing a fine job on short notice. Beaver Second Ward put on the first presentation pre-sentation which was a capsule cap-sule form of the life of Mae White, Beaver County's oldest old-est living resident. Mrs. White was born in 1880 and it was most Interesting to learn of her many activities and interests. She is still active at 95, living by herself her-self in her own home making mak-ing quilts, rugs and keeping abreast of the happenings In her family and the community commu-nity around her. Beaver Third Ward next presented "Roots". The many different differ-ent origins of the members of Beaver's Third Ward were revealed in a variety of ways. Kent Hofheins narrated the original script while all of City, Piute, South Rich, South Sevier, South Summit, Wayne, Green River, Pangultch, Pan-gultch, and Tabiona. Friday's Fri-day's weather was rather hostile, but wrestling fans ignored it and came in droves to see the matches. Two matches were going at a time and it was exciting. Rounds were held Friday night at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. None of Beaver's wrestlers made it to the championships although all should be complimented for their valiant efforts. The tournament appeared to run quite smoothly and all Beaver Beav-er residents should be proud to have hosted this event. The final results were close Monticello won with 74-12 points, followed by North Summit in 2nd place with 74 points. Following the tournament tour-nament a dance was held at Belknap School sponsored by the cheerleaders. The music was provided by Justice. Also . Saturday night was the Cattlemen's Association banquet held at the Ponder -osa Inn. Fifty -three people from Beaver County were in attendance for both the banquet ban-quet and following business meeting. Mr. Monroe from Scipio was the speaker. Last year's officers were reelected re-elected by both the Cattlemen Cattle-men and the Cowbelles. For the men, Ralph Pearson will lead as President, Fred Harris Har-ris as Vice-President, and Grant Esplin as Sec.-Treas. Elizabeth Yardley will serve as President for the Cow-belles. Cow-belles. Joe Kessler was elected as a new member of the Board of Directors. (Too late for last week) Beaver's last home basketball bas-ketball game was Thursday night when Bryce Valley came to our town. Beaver won both the Junior Varsity 50-39, and the Varsity 81-58. 81-58. The nine Senior B-Steps did a solo routine and the Senior B -Steps and Senior Cheerleaders each received a red rose and a trophy. The remaining B-Steps preceed-ed preceed-ed this with a routine of their own. Miss Brenda Mac-Naughton, Mac-Naughton, their advisor, was presented with a dozen red roses. Friday and Saturday were the Region 8 wrestling matches at Delta. Beaver's team ended up second overall over-all with the top four schools being Parowan 112-12, Beaver 74, Piute 68, and Mil-ford Mil-ford 60-12, with a total of 11 schools participating in 1-A and 2-A. Wrestlers from Beaver who will be In the state tourney are Scott Bo - r"" the young people and some adults from the ward put on dances and songs depicting depict-ing the countries involved. Minersville Ward told us the history of their town. Ber-nice Ber-nice Gllllns, as the spirit of the nearby mountain, nar- ; rated the sequence of events which Included naming the town Minersville instead of Grundyville, the discovery of the ore, the building of the LDS chapel and subsequent fire that burned it down and concluded with slides showing show-ing the progress of the new LDS chapel, which is now being be-ing built. The two Mllford Wards combined to give the heritage of our various art forms with examples of each form as found in the Milford area. Two members of the Aaronlc1 Priesthood Activity Night general board, Sisters Engar and Keepee, from Salt Lake City, came down to view the evening. They will report to the board and if any of the groups from Beaver Stake are what is needed for June Conference, those groups will be notified. Wednesday night was the Beaver Seminary Banquet honoring the seniors. It was held In the Second Ward Chapel at 7 p.m. The seniors and their parents were there plus the Beaver Stake leaders lead-ers and several guests who . have been helpful in the sem- inary program through the years. A lovely roast beef dinner was served by the MIA Maids of the three Beaver wards. Brother Bill Williams, Wil-liams, Seminary Principal, was in charge of the evening. After the meal a program was presented in the chapel. Laurie Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Crook, accompanied the singing, which was led by Lesa Lee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Lee. Joseph Wood, PhD., professor of history at Brigham Young University, Univer-sity, was the featured speaker speak-er outlining three important attributes for the graduating seniors to make a part of themselves. These are humility, hu-mility, dependability and the ability to lend a helping hand. Following this, personal testimonies tes-timonies were born by 34 of the young people in attendance. attend-ance. It was a most spiritual meeting and all who attended attend-ed were pleased to have been there. The final basketball game was played by the Beaver Beavers at Piute on Thursday. Thurs-day. The JV's lost their game but the Varsity swooped in for a win. A rooter bus was able to go and cheer the boys on in their last game of the season. The team will participate par-ticipate in the regional tournament tour-nament this weekend at St. George. The games will be played on February 27th 28th and March 1st. Friday at 1 p.m. was the first round of the State Class A Wrestling. Tournament, which was held in Beaver's new gym. A record crowd was there from all over the state. Schools represented were Altamont, Beaver Duchesne, Du-chesne, East Carbon, Gunnison, Gun-nison, Kanab, Mllford, Monticello, Mon-ticello, North Sevier, North Summit, Parowan, Park v |