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Show Escalante News By Marlene Haws 826859 At last, a reprieve! After living in a dust bowl all winter the rains finally came. Now if the weather will only stay cool so the fruit trees won't get nipped in the bud, maybe we will be all right! Darlene Edmiston, Kathy Leibenguth, Trinady Leibenguth and Sheila Wooley made a trip to Richfield. Darlene brought her little granddaughter back to stay for a few days; Kathy and Trinady shopped and Sheila went on to Idaho with family members. Sheila attended funeral services in Preston, Ida. for her sister Enid Woolsey Johnston. Enid was a talented pianist and, for years, played in church, for funerals and programs of all kinds. It was her daughter, Anna Gray, who brought her family here last spring to do a private conceit for Sheila. Sheila and Enid are daughters of Parley Woolsey, a brother of Earl Woolsey. It was their mother who wrote the words to the old familiar song "Springtime In The Rockies." Karen Peterson was on her way to Ruby's Inn for a singing engagement when she had a car wreck at the foot of the "Blues". She was taken to the hospital in Panguitch to be checked out and is home again to let the bruises and cuts heal. The Garfield County senior citizen coordinators, directors, cooks, etc. all joined together and traveled to St. George for Five , County meetings on aging. Deon Alvey, Velma Boulter, Marlene Haws, Ardis Christensen, Betty P. Alvey and Darlene Edmiston went from here, Zetta Kinter and Kathryn Neilson from Henricville, and Faye Worthen, Ruth Barnes and Maxine Crosby from Panguitch. Deon and Maxine both received appreciation plaques, Deon's for ongoing support to the aging and elderly of Garfield County and Maxine for her . years of volunteer service. And I'll bet you have already guessed that the group visited Wal Mart, but they also took in a movie and ate at the new Chuck-A-Rama. Betty P. Alvey received word that her son, Sam of Richfield, had been in a head-on collision on his way to work. He suffered a broken nose and arm, and a concussion and had to be taken to the Utah Valley Medical Center in Provo, but he is doing all right now. Sadly, Betty also received word that her mother Elise Porter Ott, . died in Panguitch Hospital. Our condolences to the family. Dave and Raylene Whitefield, Las Vegas, Nev. were here for the long weekend. Dave would probably move to Utah at the drop of a hat. He loves to roam the hills around here on his four-wheeler. Yukon Norman's kids have been giving her kitchen a whole new face lift, complete with picture window. Janalee Young supplied the materials and Lana Roberts and Becky Castleman, Redmond, came in time to get in on the action. LaRae and Marion Allen, LaVerkin, were also visitors at the Norman home and Shirley Stevens brought 16-year-old Machelle Norman from Clifton, Colo, to see her father, Larry Norman, who is very ill. The new restaurant at the Prospector Inn is nearing completion and will probably be open for business this summer. Speakers in the LDS 2nd Ward Sacrament meeting were Earl Slack and his son Russell of Tropic, along with local youth speakers Afton Venuti and Tracey Simpson. Also in the second ward, the baby daughter of Rick and Sunia Howell was blessed and given the name Trystin Anne by her grandfather Karl Spencer, Keams Canyon, Ariz.. Sunia's mother Anne and sister Helena Spencer were also here for the occasion. In the First Ward the special speakers in Sacrament meeting were Vard and Mary Jane Coombs of Boulder. Norm and Ardis Christensen had daughters Jo Ellen Danklef, Cedar City and Mary Blauser, Tooele, for the long weekend. Gary Gledhill, son of Dean and Janis Gledhill, gave Jody Danklef, daughter of Jo Ellen Danklef, a diamond ring for Valentines Day. An exact wedding date has not been set yet, but maybe in July. Kelly Griffin, daughter of Lynn and Judy Griffin, also got a diamond ring for Valentine's Day. She and Brandon Stubbs, Cedar City, are planning a June wedding. The grandmothers are already dragging out the quilt pieces again! Wonder how many this will make for Twila Mclnelly? Mario and Christa Schow, Salt Lake City, spent a week in town. They visited friends and relatives, joined with the senior citizens and the Sons of the Pioneers a couple of nights for dinner, then had to return home in lime for a wedding. Melvin Alvey has a big. shiner biggest black eye you ever saw. We accused him of talking back to his wife, but he says a board threw him out of the back of his truck while he was pruning trees? We told him he needed to slow down, but he says if you don't keep trying you don't learn anything! |