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Show It raffiiftftACTim ami j) By Harriet Priska 826-4810 Most irrigation water in and out of town was turned off for a week and just in time. The monsoon season sea-son started bringing varying amounts of rain to the area. This recalls the old story of a man who left his double-barreled shot gun leaning against a fence just before a rain. The next day he went out to find only one barrel rusted! Such is the fickleness of our weather patterns pat-terns here. The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Pio-neers held their convention here for the first time in more than 20 years. There were 60-65 in attendance and Larita Spencer presided and welcomed wel-comed state officers from Salt Lake City. The program included the playing of an original song written by Hal Shurtz, "Down Where The Escalante Flows" on guitar. A report re-port was given by Sheila Woolley on the economic history of this area with special emphasis on the wool industry. Corsages were presented to long time members Rilla Cowles and Leonora Griffin. The Escalante Chapter continues to sell their cookbook in an effort to raise funds to reprint the "Escalante Story." Dawn Griffin is starting to use her injured Finger and plans to play the piano to get it back in shape. She and Bill enjoyed a visit from Jeanette Brailhwaite of Sunset. Al and Loni Barlow were delighted de-lighted to have daughter and son-in-law, Pam and Kenn Thayer from Temecula, Calif, here for a visit. Betty Alvey went to Salt Lake City where she was joined by daughters Linda Stokes and Irene Tate. They flew in to Sacramento, Calif, to visit Betty's brother and sister-in-law, Jerry and Sherie Roundy. They all enjoyed a trip up to Sutter's Mill where gold was discovered. dis-covered. Irene and Greg Tate brought 18 people down from Salt Lake City to go camping at Posey Lake. They all descended on Betty Alvey one morning for breakfast. Aren't moms great! Arlis and Melba Brooks recently completed a tour of the northwest, driving first to Missoula, Mont, to see Arlis' son and daughter-in-law, Earl and Angela Brooks and grandson grand-son Terry. Then they went over to Portland, Ore. to see grandson Barry and his wife Jenny Brooks and to admire the saddles Barry makes. They toured northern California Cali-fornia around Red Bluff and then went on to Elko, Nev. to see Mel-ba's Mel-ba's three great-grandchildren born to David and Chrisie Owen. Sheila Woolley and Van and Bill Munroe, Holliday, will be the featured artists for the month of July at the Escalante Art Center. Sheila taught art at Hillside Intermediate Inter-mediate School in Holliday and then at Irving Junior High in Sugar-house Sugar-house before retiring to her family home in Escalante. Sheila faithfully faith-fully oil paints the magnificent scenery here and also manages to ride her horse regularly. She has exhibited in many shows and her work in on display at First Security Bank. Bill Munroe was an architect in Salt Lake City and he and his wife spend the winter in St. George where they do landscape water-colors. water-colors. The Art Center hours are Tuesday through Friday 2-6 p.m. and Saturday 10-2 p.m. Happy 4th of July everyone. Have a safe time wiik.the fireworks and be sure to remember the patriots patri-ots of 1776 by flying your American Ameri-can flag. |