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Show Panguitch Ffcws By Earl Roe 676-2376 Hope everyone had a happy and "filling" Thanksgiving this year. Getting a little concerned about the way Thanksgiving is being treated. In the past, it was treated as one of the major holidays with the stores and markets displaying all kinds of decorations symbolic of Thanksgiving. Thanks-giving. Now it seems that we move from Halloween into the Christmas season and Thanksgiving is just a day that comes somewhere in between. When we read, see, and hear of the happenings that are going go-ing on throughout the world and our own country, we might be inclined in-clined to think that there is very little lit-tle to be thankful for. This is not true. When we take a close look at the things we have to make life enjoyable en-joyable and compare our standard of living, even among our poor, to the way millions of others throughout the world are forced to live; we will realize we are a blessed people and we should not downplay that one special day our forefathers set aside for the express purpose of giving thanks to our Creator. Stan and Elva Liston, Escalante; Wight and Peggy Thomas, Weiser, Ida.; Frieda Woodard, Hurricane and Ike Sevy, Escalante were here to spend a few days with their brother and sister-in-law, Max and Loa Sevy. The first Craft Fair (to be an annual an-nual event) held in Panguitch was a whopping success. It was estimated esti-mated that well over a thousand people attended. Among those who had display booths, other than individuals indi-viduals from Panguitch, were folks from Kanab, Orderville, Antimony, Circleville and Parowan. Larry and Dawna Bamey had their son, Ronald and wife Rosie Lea and family spend several days with them during the deer and elk hunts. (We certainly have good hunting in our area, but for many the hunting season is more of an excuse to get back to Panguitch to visit family and friends than it is to hunt!) Hilma Excell has been busy the past few weeks visiting with her children, sometimes to stay with grandchildren while mom and dad had to be away from home for a day or so. She reports that son, Evan and his family are moving to the Salt Lake City area. Evan is the executive director of the Utah High School Athletic Association! ; We welcome Alia Qrjon. and Carolyn Cowles Hall home follow- ing their extended stays in Salt Lake City where they have been receiving re-ceiving medical treatment. We hope they are both recovering properly prop-erly and feeling well. A huge welcome home to Sheldon Proctor following his bout with surgery in Salt Lake City. He says that he is feeling fine and his doctor reported that everything was taken care of. Sheldon hasn't lost his sense of humor in spite of all he has been through. Mala Henrie reports that her mother, Ann Reynoids, is now out of intensive care and is feeling pretty good. Actually, just having the tubes and needles removed makes one feel 100 percent better. Ann will have to remain in the hospital a while longer but we wish her a complete and speedy recovery and will be happy to have her home again. There is certainly a lot of LDS missionary activity in our small community. Several young men have returned home recently as reported in the paper, and there are several more leaving in the next month or so. Andrea Howard just entered the LDS Missionary Training Center in Provo to prepare for her mission to Warsaw, Poland and Rhett Veater just reported his mission to South Africa in the Panguitch LDS 2nd Ward which resulted in another overflow congregation, not common in the 2nd Ward. Among those who came to hear Rhett's report was a former roommate at Dixie College, Royce Covington, accompanied by his two brothers and grandparents, the Bradshaws from Hurricane. Bruce and Verna Owens had all six of their children here and it looked like most of their grandchildren grandchil-dren were present Panguitch has always been on the butt end of cold weather jokes such as the one summer when the trees didn't leaf out. Wouldn't it be awful if this was the first year the lake didn't freeze over! No ice fishing! fish-ing! Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving! "His tenor voice; she thought divine; di-vine; till whiskers scratched; sweet Adeline." Burma Shave. |