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Show Changing seasons The leaves are changing, the temperatures are getting cold. I sat on the porch and watched the dusk fade the colored leaves to gray. Evening, just before it gets dark, is the favorite part of my day. The J j j chill reminds me of years past: memories of my dad float i through my i 1 head k e shadows on a wall : j j ! I car wasnt good for you either. Even when we finally got something we couldn t do without. a car with an air conditioner, it wasnt Everything seemed so much used Other people use calendars to count the months, but my dad marked time by weather and temperatures. When it was windy - it was spring. When it was hot - it was summer. When it was cold - it was winter. When it was cool - it was fall. Back then time was different, now we keep track with digital watches accurate j I ' s ' time. When you worked with my dad, the day didnt end until the sun went down or the job was finished. It was hell when he had fresh supplies and twelve hours of daylight. Nothing brought me more joy than to passing byGaryTorres Living in Monticello it seemed that we spent all fall getting ready for winter. j Government jobs end on Damnit! I guess we are going to have to go home early so we can get to the store before it closes. Of course, we only quit early if we ran out of reminds me of my dad. j length of the shadows. I hated going to work on the fence with him. Maybe that is why I took a job with the government. hear him cuss, cars. Of all the seasons, fall most I the time of the day by the to milli-second- s. He told time differently. He wore a watch, but he marked more rhythmic back then. In the fall, we hauled wood and hunted. In the spring, we went to see Cosmes lambs. The summer was filled with work (whenever he could catch me). I spent every waking moment figuring out how to go fishing. Winter time we just hunkered down and kept the fire going. Every morning I had to have chips ready to jfrotn tlje (Past 60 A years ago letter from former San Juan High School Coach LaRay Alexander requests the school paper be sent to him in North Africa. He said the people there still use oxen. He saw a span of 16 pulling a plow. He traveled by train 400 miles in 55 hours in a 1916 model. He has experienced about every method of travel except the submarine and hopes to get that opportunity too. 50 : ; , . - years ago Sgt. Harold Frost of the Marine Transport Division, Camp Pendleton, CA, is now released and is at home with his wife in the old Arch Bronson house. Sgt. Frost served in Korea before The four-da- y his marriage to Erline Perkins of Blanding. official opening of the Riley Drug Store of Monticello is brought to a close. Walgreen products were sold at bargain prices and every lady that entered the store was given an orchid. i ; j 40 years ago A total of 351 persons receive a glaucoma eye examination at Blue the free clinic sponsored by the Monticello Lions Club. Mountain American Legion Color Guard led the Monticello homecoming parade. It is composed of Glen Jones, Nash Gonzalez, Ross French and Silas Barton. 30 . . s j years ago Andrea Perkins is San Juan High School Homecoming Queen, attended by Lynette Lyman, Alison Binam and Becky Palmer. The first substantial snow of the year in Monticello found trees bowed under the weight and slush on the highway east of town. By afternoon the roads were dry. s I I J I I J J i i J day I had to haul ashes out. I had to haul wood in every day. This repeated itself daily from November to March. I hated it then. But, I often wish I could make my kids do these same chores. For some reason, now it seems like it taught me something more than how to keep a fire going. For 20 years, my parents house was heated by a wood stove. There was no furnace switch to turn on. Besides, my dad projected from the headlights the of ; start the fire with. Every other 20 years ago San Juan County Commissioner Calvin Black advises the San Juan County Development Board and Monticello area residents to actively promote development of a road network in the Needles section of Canyonlands. Failure to promote such development will mean that tourism in the Monticello area will be set back for years. 10 years ago A new repository, which will allow Indian artifacts unearthed in southeastern Utah to remain in the state, will be dedicated at Edge of the Cedars State Park. Without the repository, the artifacts would go to the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colorado. San Juan County Sheriff deputies find marijuana mari-- , being cultivated on La Sal property. Other stashes of dis- juana and paraphernalia used to smoke marijuana were covered and were confiscated. hated the dry air; said it wasnt good for you. Of course he said the air conditioner in the much. I couldnt see why he would worry since he smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, but I was just a kid and sometimes things just were. Maybe it was the same reasoning that my mom yelled at me for not sitting too close to the TV. Eschuchar! Mi Hijo - Dont sit too close to that TV, youll go blind. They also used to warn me about listening to my stereo too loud. Yer gonna be deaf when ya get older. Which is funny, because they were right. I dont know if the cause was right, but the older I get the more blind and deaf I am. Most of the time my parents talked to me in Spanglish, that odd mixture where half the sentence is in English and half in Spanish. My kids only get English. It is sad, that I keep track of time with a is clock that digital ridiculously accurate but meaningless to life and that I only speak English to my kids. The cool evening brought on sad nostalgia and I decided that I needed to spend more time laughing and less time worrying, more time loving my family and less time hating my neighbors, more time reading and less time cleaning my garage. So now, I go out on my deck in the morning and eat my cereal and watch the leaves change colors. beautiful. They are We should all do that more often - at least from My Cave and My View. We should feel the nip in the air, smell the sagebrush when it is wet, see the colors painted on the mountain, and cuddle up next to someone you love and let the evening wrap around Maybe you like a blanket. that would help us all - I like to think so. Hole in One Dave Schultz, of Sheridan, MT, recently hit a hole in one at the Hideout Golf Club in Monticello. Hitting a 7 iron on the blue tees, Schultz knocked the ball in the hole on a single shot on the 17th hole. Kevin Schultz is a witness. THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - Rage 13 Familiar faces on the road When Keith and I went to Salt Lake City for medical checkups, it was amazing who and what we saw along the way. On our way to SLC we met Felicita Vigil and her mother, Mary Garcia at Walkers in Wellington. They were on their way to Ogden. On our way home from SLC, we met Dodie Saltzman and Ray serving five months at the Wyoming Handcart Historic Site, often called Martins Cove, near Casper, Wyoming. They plan to stick around for a month unless it cools off too much and their home in Surprise, AZ beckons. Whats Newby Mary Lou Vernon and Marlene (Shaw) Hines visited friends and took care of business reValdez at Walkers. cently. They enby Mary Lou Dodies car was dejoyed a meal at the Hoggard molished in SLC Monticello Senior and Ray came to Center and seeing her rescue. friends that Marlene and the to Enroute the University late Ordell made while living for an appointment, here in the past. Hospital we encountered a lady driving Brett and Jenny Hellewell next to us with a road map welcomed their second daughfolded across her steering ter Tepaynga, who was born wheel. As she drove along she September 29, 2003 in Moses would glance down at the map Lake, WA. She is the grandand then glance around at her daughter of Kim and Cindy surroundings, looking for her Burtenshaw and Vern and destination. A truck and horse Gail Hellewell. Great grandtrailer with the heads of three parents are Devon and Anna horses sticking out the sides Lee Burtenshaw, E.P. (Bud) taking in the beautiful autumn and Barbara Corbin and the colors in Spanish Fork CanDan Shoemaker. late yon. A cute little girl sticking Grandma Cindy is in Washingher tongue out at each passton assisting with the care of the new one. ing car. As we came across Dry ValLogan Hoggard has been I ley, was so thankful to be called to serve in the Mexico home. I remember Cecil Jones City South Mission of the and Angeline (Gerd) Westcott Church of Jesus Christ of LatterSaints. His parents making the comment that they -day beto leave Dry Valley hated are Steven and Mary Hoggard cause it was like leaving home. ofllyrum. Grandparents Sid It must be old age, I am havand Ruth Ervine and Keith the same feelings! How and Mary Lou are equally ing about you? happy over what Logan has acJuan and LouAnn Hansen complished so far in life. While on our medical trip, traveled to St. David, AZ to attend the missionary farewell we visited son Rick and of their granddaughter JesMarsha and family in sica. She has been called to Taylorsville, Michael and Cec serve a mission in Uruguay for and Wm. in Mesquite, visited the Church of Jesus Christ of with Clytie Barber by phone Latter-daSaints. She is the and she sends her love to all daughter of Kelli and the late her friends here. We attended the wedding reception of Brian Boyd Hansen. A dinner was held afterward, with lots of visand Tycie Coombs in St. iting. George and had a good visit George Jurasich spent an with Keiths brother and Tycies grandpa, W.E. Hoggard enjoyable 14 days in southeastern Pennsylvania visiting and wife Nancy from Fallon. Tycie is the daughter of Kent family and friends. He attended the 90th birthday of his and Elaine Hurst of Tennesoldest sister Danita Peyak, see. Russell and Traci (Hoggard) along with two other sisters at Redds home was the gatherthe Pottsville Country Club. On August 10, 2003 Devin ing place for all family memLee and Ivy May Smith were bers while we visited and ate. born in Price, Utah to Trina Jack and Dorothy (Harvey) Smith. The grandparents are Burns visited her mother La Mack and Cindy Smith and Veda Demerest from their great grandma is Mary Jane home in Kirtland, WA. Jan Thies. Grandma Cindy and and Donna Vigil also visited the twins older sister Aireonna LaVeda while her sister Dorhave been assisting with their othy was there. Jan and Donna were enroute home care. Blaine and Yvonne Rose are from the Coombs wedding renow settled in at 710 E. Elva ception in St. George. Donna 1 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. is the grandma of Tycie. I will close with condolences Yvonne needed to be closer to family after her broken hip, to the Jim Lacy family. It but they sure hated to leave seems that whenever an illthis part of the country. ness or death happens, we Barbara Moreno visited her rush right in, which is very sister Barbara Palarame and nice and appropriate. But it brother Robert Martinez, is afterwards that the family along with Celerino and Jenny needs more comfort, so please Montano and family. She lives dont forget them too soon. in Englewood and Pueblo, CO. E.P. (Bud) and Barbara Corbin were released from y their church mission after |