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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday June 17, 1998 - Page 9 !10jmEM!lEJ!EMBLQ Aftermath of the Bluff seige Serving San Juan County Since 1957 r by Freda Aron No one, ever again, will say to me or any other You live Bluffite, WHERE?? Bluffs Four days in June tumult is over, but the nation has made our acquaintance! But is it really over? Everyones back home, rather subdued and wondering, because the rumors never end. Licensed Electrical Contractor Retail Sales We have a large stock of 7 electrical materials Call us for prompt & efficient service Toll Free Blanding 435-678-24- Saturday evening at the Bluff Community Center, there was a Take Back Our 15 Community Bluff-199-8 Buckaroo Rendezvous BUCKAROO RENDEZVOUS w D O N 6 p.m. Friday, July 17 MHS Cafeteria C 0) oc o 2 CO o MHS D - 1998 invited that week: Major event Monticello LDS Temple Open House July Classes from 1928 15-1- 8 w D o N D TJ c Sponsored by Monticello High School Alumni Association Clayson Lyman 1 954 - President Phil Houghton 1956 - Vice President Glenice Mantz 1 957 - Secretary Loyce Edwards 1 960 - T reasurer Memice Odette 1 957 - Historian oc o ow 435-587-- 0 u 3 CO RSVP in Monticello CO 1 4 Alumni Association open to anyone who attended MHS from 1928 to 1998. If you have not joined, send name, address, phone number, class year and $10 annual fee to: MHS Alumni Association, clo Loyce Edwards, P.O. Box 1055, Monticello, Utah 84535 Note: We are collecting year books 1928 to 1998 - please send to Bill Boyle Publisher-Editor, San Juan Record, P.O. Box 879, Monticello, Utah 84535 Note: -- Buckaroo Rendezvous fugitives were in hiding and then would be coming out in disguise so that we would not even know them. What is more pertinent is that we have become the rumor center of tlje country ... ans. Never can my daughter and I forget the many kindnesses shown us ... the waitress in Monticello who invited us to share her home if the expense of hotel living was too much for us; the friends we met at breakfast in Blanding, who offered us their home; the young man I met for the first time in Monticello who asked if I needed money, because my daughter and I both left the house with our checkbooks, and each book had only one check in it. People can be so magnanimous! And sometimes very funny. As I left my hotel room one afternoon, a woman and her husband anything and everything goes into I heard Besides the gossip there were some real happenings during the siege of Bluff. Pat and David Bond left town to stay in Farmington with their daughter, and because all the roads were closed, they went by way of Kayenta, which brought pre-evacuati- (1) T3 Police Chief from Seattle, Washington, felt the two (one of the said Bluff visiting guests k pot-lucof center the was the world) at which memories of the four days were rethem into Farmington hashed. The camaraderie seven and a half hours of the days later. However, when they was back, and it all seemed stopped in Kayenta for a bite so far away, with the excepto eat, Pats purse with $300 tion of continued rumors. cash, all her credit cards Gossip is that the fugitives and her license was stolen were thought to have broken and has not been found to into one of the homes on the this date. On the humorous side, Navajo Reservation and stolen a truck, only re- during the siege of Bluff, cently. Also it is said that a when the town was over-ru- n Navajo Medicine Man in- with the masculine pressists they are not gone from ence, an unmarried female the area, and again its said member of the community that a cache of food and sup- stepped into the Command plies have been found that Post at the elementary the fugitives used only school and left quickly, say- lately on the other side of the river. Again ... a hollowed out log was found floating down the river, another hide-out- ? A visiting retired get-togeth- er Buckaroo Rendezvous pot-luc- k ing, The air was so heavy with testosterone, I was afraid .to breathe, for fear that I might get pregnant." And the Navajo resident who said that FBI really meant Full Blooded Indi- Buckaroo Rendezvous were coming along the street. She flung her arms around me and hugged me so tight, I could hardly breathe. Oh you poor thing, you poor thing ... are you from Bluff? I had to catch my breath before I could answer I had no faintly, yees. idea who she was or how she knew I was from Bluff. She pointed down the block and said, We live there, come to us if you need us, and that also was nice. Thank you, Maam, whoever you are, vherever you are! Local graduates from E.N.M.U. AFTER THE SIEGE SALE Robin Starritt, from the Monticello area, is among the 432 spring graduate candidates at Eastern New Mexico University. Starritt will receive a bachelor of science degree in Unhappily, what hasnt come back to normal is tourism and the loss of income for the community. The worst thing though, is our lost trust. We now lock houses and cars, an unheard of thing in Bluff prior to this. 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