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Show jlVL Danny Allen Allen earns Eagle award Danny Allen, son of David and Ann Allen, received his Eagle Scout Award on Saturday, Dec. 2. Allen is a member of Troop 229, Macser 3rd Ward, under the leadership leader-ship of Clayton Taylor. His Eagle project was the construction of utilization uti-lization cages for the BLM. Danny is 16 years old and a junior ju-nior at Uintah High School. He loves rodeo and riding bulls. Evans earns highest honor Amy Michelle Evans, daughter of Robert and Cindy Evans, received the Young Womanhood Recognition Award on Tuesday, Dec. 12, during the Davis 4th Ward Young Women in Excellence program. pro-gram. TL' - A . 1 ' . 1 . 1 . . (f mis is me nignesi awara given 10 1 young women of the Church of 1 Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in recognition of their efforts to develop devel-op desirable qualities, talents, and be an exemplary young woman. ' In order to receive this award, the young women are required to complete com-plete four projects. The projects must total 40 to 60 hours. Two of the projects must consist of service to others. VMiss Evans chose to help in the classroom of school age children at 'Ashley" Elementary, develop her Elder Jeremy Raulinaitis Raulinaitis returns from Sacramento Elder Jeremy Raulinaitis, son of Will and Brenda Durant of Vernal, and Jerry and Susan Raulinaitis of Sacramento, Calif., will return from two years of service to the Missouri, St. Louis mission on Dec. 22. He will speak at 4:45 p.m. on Dec. 24 at the Glines 4th Ward at the Maeser Chapel on 2745 W. 1000 N. Amy Michelle Evans personal talents through music, chalk art and cross-stitch. She also spent many hours organizing,, preparing and conducting a church program. For her Stake Girls Camp, she helped plan, organize, distribute and prepare the food for the entire Stake. r St. James Cathode Church 138 N. 100 W. Vernal, Utah Fr. Michael Winterer, Pastor Ml parishioners of St. James Catholic Church ' wish all in Vernal a very happy and holy Christmas and may Christ, the Light of Christmas, bless your new year of 1996. -Mass Schedule for Christmas- Christmas Eve Family Mass 6:30 p.m. Christmas Vigil Midnight Mass 12 Midnight Christmas Day Masses 8 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. v. In the Holiday Tradition... We're taking this time to say 'Thanks" for doing business with us. We're pleased to have you as customers and proud to call you our friends. Have a merry Christmas! 575 W. Main St., Vernal . Community Calendar December 23 The Uintah Recreation Association will be sponsoring "Breakfast with Santa" on Saturday morning at Western Park from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Boys and girls ages four to seven will have an opportunity to have a breakfast snack with Santa Clause, give him their Christmas list, and have their picture taken tak-en with him. Cost for the morning of songs, activities and fun is $5 per child. Space for this special event Is limited to the first forty children, and they must be preregistered through the Uintah Recreation Association Office. For more Information, or to register, please stop by the Recreation Office, located on the third floor of the StateCounty Building or call 781-5486. To place items of public interest on the community calendar, mail to, or call the Vernal Express at 789-3511 . Materials subject to edit. Deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Vernal Express Wednesday, December 20, 1995 15 News from Manila by Clara Robinson 784-3463 Foundation sefl for new health center The Health Center now has a foundation. The builder has come and made the necessary repairs on the inside. The electricity is connected con-nected and the water is being connected. con-nected. Minor details are to be taken tak-en care of like the ramp, steps, and railings. It is hoped it will be ready for use the first of the year. The M&L Homemakers Club met at the home of Mrs. Donna Lloyd on the Willow Springs Ranch at 5:30 on Dec. 14. Following the ham dinner, members gathered around the Christmas tree and a few of the members exchanged Christmas gifts. Then the hamper with all the gifts from everyone in it was given away. Fern Ferrero received re-ceived it this year. In all the years it has been given away she has never received it before now. Election was called, but the last year officers were retained. They are Fon Slagowski, president; Clara Robinson, vice-president; and Barbara Potter, secretarytreasurer. The local aging board met after the regular Wednesday meal on Dec. 13. Vice-president Don Christensen, called the meeting to order. In the new business, meals on wheels were discussed. These meals are to be paid for if possible. If there is anyone in the household who can prepare meals, they will not be delivered meals on wheels. Before meals can start to be delivered, deliv-ered, the person to receive them has to be claimed through UBAG. Other items discussed were the purchase of a new cover for the pool table. Back money owed the town from UBAG has been received re-ceived except for $2000. Mayor Scott told the Board she did not know who the doctor nor the dentist den-tist at the new health center would be, as that was between the county and. the health department. The Manila boys played against Farson at Farson, Wyo., on Tuesday, Dec. 12. The junior varsity varsi-ty lost in a very close game. The varsity did very well during the first half, but fell behind in the last half. Manila boys and girls teams played against the Salt Lake Lutherans in Manila on Friday, Dec. 15. Games started at 3 p.m. Manila won all three games. The boys varsity won against the Lutherans 56-34, the boys varsity won their second game, 69-54. the Manila girls varsity won by 42-37. Daggett schools will close for the Christmas holidays after lunch on Dec. 22. Catholic Diocese 1995 Christmas Message Bishop George H. Niederauer Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City The celebration of Christmas combines the long-awaited and the unexpected. Children - and the child in each grownup - look forward for-ward to the decorations, the music, the family gathering, the brightly wrapped gifts. But there is also the unexpected: what is inside that box, underneath that bow? Will the friends and relatives come home changed, with new stories to tell? The one whose birth we celebrate at Christmas, Jesus Christ our Lord, was also long-awaited and unexpected. unex-pected. For centuries, the prophets foretold the coming of the Messiah: Isaiah described the redeemer king; Daniel counted the time until his coming; John the Baptizer proclaimed pro-claimed his cousin and the Lord to the world. But Jesus was also unexpected. As people imagine him, he wasn't supposed to be poor or humble or homeless. If he was a king, he should look like a king and act like a king! So the innkeeper turned Mary and Joseph away. Herod hunted him down to kill him. And life in the Roman Empire went on much as usual. Nearly twenty centuries later the Roman Empire is long gone, and we now date our calendars and tell time from the birthday of that infant in-fant who grew up to die for our sins on a cross and to be raised to the eternal life we can share. But Jesus Christ is still long-awaited and un expected, so many people long for the meaning and die love which only on-ly he can bring them. And so many of us still miss him when he comes into our lives, as he said he would. In the poor, the troubled, the strangers, the homeless, the unborn infant, the folks on the margins of our well organized lives. This is my first Christmas as a Utah Catholic. It was unexpected, but it has been a gift. You are a gift from God to me. My Christmas prayer for all of us is that we will long for and find Jesus in the Eucharist, in our homes, in prayer, in our parish communities, in one another, and that we will expect and look for him in the least promising, least likely of our human family, where he most surely is. May you be so blessed in the new year, that when next Christmas comes, you will have grown and changed in the life of Christ, and you will have new stories to tell of his love for you, and for others through you. Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year! We are the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod WE STILL BELIEVE, TEACH AND CONFESS The Virgin Birth ' Complete Atonement in Christ Inerrancy of the Holy Bible Salvation by Grace through Faith in CHRIST, not in works of man Our Savior fr Lutheran Worship with us 789-1421 Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship Services 1 1 a.m. Looking No room at the inn Pastor Carl Koons, retired Church of the Nazarene Dr. Luke tells us of the birth of the Christ child in the second chapter chap-ter of Luke, and verse seven says, "She gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn." As we read this most wonderful story, we are reminded re-minded that over 2000 years ago, the coming of Christ was known, and yet there was no preparation made for his birth. I remember when our son Kevin was born. We knew he was coming, the doctor knew he was coming, but preparation was not made until the very last minute. The hospital in which he was born was a small hospital with only one delivery room, and there was already an expectant ex-pectant mother in there who had been in labor for a number of hours. When it came time for our son to be born, a sterile pack containing con-taining the sterile linens and instruments instru-ments were rushed into the room in which my wife was, and preparation prepara-tion quickly made for his arrival. There was no room for him in the delivery room, just as there was no room for the Christ child to be born in the inn. Word had come down from the Prophet Isaiah saying, "Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel" (Ish. 7:14), and in Isaiah 9:6, he said, "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mightly God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." Just 700 years later, the Christ Child was born, but not in a hospital hospi-tal like most of our children were, with its shinny clean floors and clean smell, and modern equipment found in all hospitals. Nor was he born in a home as many before our time were, with the clean sheets and fresh blankets ready to receive him. For him, there wasn't even room in the inn which Joseph had sought for the birth of the Christ Child. Now, nearly 2,000 years have passed. The Christ Child has come, grown, spent three busy years in the ministry and now sits at the right hand of the Throne of God, but not much has changed in all this time. For just as there was "No Room" at the inn then, there is still in the hearts of millions today, "No Room" for they are too busy doing their own thing. Oh, that we might make room in our life for Christ at this Christmas time. If we would look beyond the Christmas tree, the gifts and all the fancy foods and parties that seem to be a part of Christmas, and see Jesus Christ, whose birthday we celebrate and let Him have first place in our life, how much greater the joy could be at this Christmas time. May you have a blessed and wonderful Christmas as you look at life this Christmas season. 1 I to You and Yours from Us and Ours Wendy's and Maeser Elementary "Partners in Education" 990 Vajue Menu Limited time offer 1120 West Highway 40 L nAfflSUftQflKo. J 88 "Wendy's is always FRESH not frozen." Vernal, Utah 781-2222 Dr. Kim Jones, DPM Uintah Basin's Only Full-time Foot and Ankle Surgeon and Office Staff would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas df 75 North 200 West Vernal 789-2062 |