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Show By Harriet Priska 826810 Harbingers of Spring! At least five flocks of geese were seen flying fly-ing north Feb. 15. What a wonderful won-derful sight to see those "V" formations forma-tions throbbing over toward Boulder mountain. Further update on the "mud." Gerald Barney also says that nine miles of city streets will be paved or repaved this summer and that the drainage off Main street will be done when the street is widened. It may be a mess for a while, but definitely def-initely worth it in the end. We went to Tropic last Saturday to get our dog's shot at the veterinary veteri-nary clinic since we missed the one here in town. Dr. Verland King, from Torrey, was kind enough to come over and do the clinic and all proceeds went to Dr. Christy's family. Dr. King will be in the ' Boulder-Escalante area on the first and third Wednesdays. I had a nice phone call from Pat Woller in Covina, Calif, the other day. His father, Bill Woller, has been taking cancer treatments at the Ken North Medical Hospital at the University of Southern California. Bill is convalescing well and gaining gain-ing weight and sends sincerest thanks to everyone in town for all their kindnesses and for watching over his property. He had been given a very poor prognosis by doctors doc-tors in Salt Lake City, Pat says, so his recovery is "a miracle." Son Steve plans to bring Bill home as soon as the weather turns nicer. Bill has cabin fever with all that rain they've been having in California Califor-nia and is anxious to return. Pat reports they had to drive around flooded areas in the Los Angeles area, but had no problems where they live. Don and Sue Mosier recently returned re-turned from a trip to see Sue's brother, Steve Sorensen in Santa Ana, Calif, and she attended the National Na-tional Needle Work Convention in Anaheim. She is excited to receive all the things she ordered. They drove down in the rain but enjoyed several sunny days there. James and Millie Mclnelly celebrated cele-brated their 50th wedding anniversary anniver-sary with 109 guests at their open house recently. James is the only one of nine children to reach this ' momentous occasion. Son and daughter-in-law, Vern and Kathy Mclnelly made all the arrangements. arrange-ments. James and Millie want to thank everyone who came out in the snow storm and made their day so special. Rudger and Laura Shurtz, Hurricane, were honored guests at the family dinner held earlier ear-lier in the day. In attendance were sisters Vida Harrison, Twin Falls, Ida. and Orabell Weitel, St George; James' sister Edna Anderegg and niece and her husband Shirley and Jim Ramsey, Green River. Others who attended were Gwyn and Randal Ran-dal Lyman, Escalante; Dick and Mary Lyman, Bountiful; Deanna and Jim Greer, Tremonton and Rosemary Lyman Merril, Salem. Bill and Dawn Griffin have returned re-turned from their month in St. George. Ge-orge. They enjoyed the warmer weather there and golfing and swimming. They had visits with numerous friends and family and generally had a good time. They are home even though the wire is across their driveway because of the mud. Geneal and Hal Shurtz are here for a week from St. George to get ready for eight of their children who will celebrate their brother Kerry's recent wedding. Geneal is getting her Spring house cleaning done early for guests to arrive this weekend. week-end. Only one daughter, who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, will not join them. The houseful includes Stephanie and Shawn Jack, Logan; Kay and Micki Shurtz, Sandy; Mike and Brenda Harper, Pleasant Grove; Brent and Juleen Nielson, Richfield; Valerie and Stan Huntington, Hunt-ington, Cedar City; Kenneth and Tracy Shurtz, St. George; Kim and Vicki Nelson, St. George and, of course, the newlyweds, Kerry and Jennifer Shurtz from Pleasant Grove. They both have jobs in Pleasant Grove and he plans to attend at-tend Utah Valley Community College Col-lege this fall to become an optometrist op-tometrist Jennifer also plans to return re-turn to school. Sharon Dale Marsh reports that our precipitation so far since Oct. 1, 1991 is very good. A weather forecaster on television even reports that the whole southwestern part of the state is above normal. We received .43" so far in October, .98" in November; .92" in December; 1.25" in January; 1.47" so far in February; totaling 5.05 thus far. Normal for the twelve month period is 10" and rain is expected through March and again in July and August. Peter Goetzinger, of the U.S. Forest Service said he recently was up to his chest in snow at Upper Valley and he is at least 6' tall. Irrigation water for this year looks promising according to the recent meeting held here. Mud there may be for some who can hardly drive out of their property, but all in all we are very thankful. George Miller is in the Dixie Medical Center in St. George. His wife, Kay, took him in on Feb. 18 and he is expected to be there another week. Beth Burr is recuperating at home after therapy in the northern part of the state. Escalante folks are happy to see her back. i i |