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Show (( nftMttMnrc urn )l By Harriet Priska 8264810 Not so suddenly spring! Irrigated Irri-gated fields are green; apricot and flowering plum are in full bloom, and the streets and sidewalks are really re-ally torn up. Thanks to all for their patience during this time of transition; transi-tion; it will really be lovely when it is finished. "Quilt Heritage Discovery Day" will be Thursday, May 6. There will be a potluck dinner at 11 a.m. in the old high school home ec room, followed by the documentation documenta-tion of quilts made in Utah before 1950 from noon to 5 p.m. by the Utah Quilter's Guild. There will be no charge, but polaroids will be for sale. There will be a drawing for a quilt at the end of the day. Please bring any quilts and quilt tops, regardless re-gardless of condition. A book will be compiled of photographs of many of the quilts, their makers and their stories and will be published for the Utah statehood Centennial in 1996. Please contact Ruth Ann Oliver if you can help with the potluck at 826-4923. Fay Alvey and Eva Dean Liston share a number of sons and daugh-ter-in-Iaws. Visiting them recently were: Jim and Lola Alvey and Steve and LaVee Wiscombe, Mapleton; and Dot and Anthony Coombs. Dot teaches in Manilla. Michael Stowe came from his construction job in Denver, Colo, to see his parents, Marlene and Stanley Stowe. High school students Karin Venuti and Don Griffin attended the drug and alcohol seminar last weekend week-end in the Salt Palace. The team from Holy Cross Breast Care Services thanks all who participated in the recent mobile mammography screening. They always look forward to coming into this area and will be here again next year. The Southwest Utah Public Health people also had a full schedule sched-ule for their cancer screening and the public health nurse will be in the area for another cancer screening in June. Contact Lori Bcebe at 826-4397. About 1 50 people of all ages enjoyed en-joyed a nice potluck reception for ex-BYU football player and Heis-man Heis-man trophy winner, Ty Detmer, who now play for the Green Bay Packers. The audience enjoyed hearing stories form both Ty and his wife, Kim and asked lots of questions. Ty encouraged the students stu-dents to stay away from drugs and alcohol, finish high school, and go on to get a trade or college education educa-tion first. His life motto is "set goals and be the best you can." David Munson was the proud winner win-ner of the autographed football. The Sons of the Pioneers went down to Spooky Gulch for their first outing of the year. Some came back with some hardy sun burns. The May over nighter is a trip to paradise. Sounds fun. Everyone Ev-eryone is welcome. Contact Clem Griffin for details. On Easter Sunday, Clem Griffin was installed as the new bishop of the Escalante LDS Second Ward. Don Coleman is his first counselor, Eric Woolsey the second counselor, Jim Bowman executive secretary and Dean Thomson ward clerk. Reed Munson was thanked for his five years of service as bishop, as were his counselors Quinn Griffin and Dal Liston. Vclma Boulter reports a very good fireside was held at the Escalante Stake Center. One hundred hun-dred thirty-five people came to hear Patriarch of the LDS Church, El-dred El-dred Gee Smith and his wife, Hort-ensc, Hort-ensc, speak on Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. Punch and cookies were served. The next fireside fire-side will be held in August. Six high school students went on a Future Farmers of America (FFA) outing with vocational agricultural agri-cultural teacher and FFA advisor Dan DeGraffenreid. Brent and Shelly Thomson, Wayne Jackson and Spencer Christenscn, of Escalante and Jarcd Lyman and Jimmy Catmull, Boulder, enjoyed a two-day trip with an overnight in Salina. They toured the Chappell Cheese factory in Loa, a hog farm in Moroni, and a turkey farm and meat processing plant to gain a better bet-ter understanding of agricultural opportunities op-portunities in that area. |