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Show By Marlene Haws 826-4859 My appologies for not having news in the Escalante column last week. I was galavanting again. The senior citizen group went on a four day trip and I went along to help drive the bus. There were four bus loads. One from Iron County, two from Kane County and one from Garfield County. Those riding the Garfield County bus were: Arnold and Deon Alvey, Velma Boulter, Vernon and Hazel Griffin, Marlene Haws and Dudley and Hazel Spencer, all of Escalante, and Ruth Barnes, Bar-nes, Betty Cooper, Dorothy Pin-gree Pin-gree and Marilyn Veater all of Panguitch. We went through Monument Valley and stayed in Cortez, Colo, the first night, then on to Durango, Colo, where we rode the train to Silverton during the day and enjoyed a barbeque and entertainment by the Bar D Wranglers the second night. We then went back down through to Farmington, New Mexico where we stayed the third night and back home the fourth day. We had trouble with the Panguitch bus both going out and coming back but we arranged to get back home safely and it was nice get- (See Escalante News On Page 5-A) r Escalante News From Page 2-A ting to see all' the pretty country again. Freeda Woodard, Hurricane, spent a week in town visiting with her sister and brother-in-law, Jan and Stan Liston. The Liston's are busy giving their little white house, on the corner, a whole new face lift inside and out. Kim Mecham, Las Vegas, Nev., brought his scout troop to spend a few days at Posey Lake. His father, Ron Mecham, and brother Darren came along to spend some time with Starns and Fon Mecham. The ten scouts and four adults got their shirttails wet at Posey while Ron had a gcod visit with his parents. Jim Alvey also accompanied a group of seven scouts and five adult leaders from Mapleton on a camping trip to Wide Hollow Re-sevoir. Re-sevoir. Jim stayed at the home of his mother, Fay Alvey, at night. Ira Allen is bringing his parents par-ents old home back to life with all new siding. It looks like a family team effort. Elaine Lott and Elwood Carter of Orem were married in the St. George LDS Temple on June 14, then left to go on a cruise shortly thereafter. After attending the wedding, Jim and Janet Spencer accompanied Ruby Griffin to her home here to mow, water, trim and dust the house out. Ruby says it takes her longer to rest now than it does to get tired! Arnold and Deon Alvey went to the Singletree campground on Boulder Mountain to join with the families of Jim Alvey, LaVee Wiscombe and their own daugh- ters Janeen Duncan and Raylene Whitefield and others who will be joining them off and on for a few days of camping. Fay Alvey will spend some time with them during dur-ing the day. Friends, relatives and coworkers co-workers were saddened by the sudden death of Clella Woolsey, on Tuesday. She collapsed while attending a forest service party, was taken to the hospital, in Pan-guitch, Pan-guitch, by ambulance, but didn't make it. Our condolences to her family. Lois Spencer and Garneal Smith have been in Mesquite, Nev. babysitting for Theron and Chris Jensen while they went on a trip to Disneyland. Gary and Judilyn Christensen came from St. George to pick up their boys after they had spent the week here with grandpa and grandma Christensen, Norman and Ardis. Bill and Clorene Vidrine and Betty R. Alvey went to Riverton for the graduation of their grandchildren. grand-children. Tyson Vidrine, son of Marty and Debbie Vidrine and Jill Stokes, daughter of Jay and Linda Stokes both graduated from the same high school. Brandon Haws left for a week to attend boys state in Ogden. Lewis and Jean Griffin had their son Gary and his wife Pear-lene Pear-lene Griffin here for a few days from St. Joseph, Missouri. Gary is a real handyman and worked on their bathroom, painted and helped build a carport while he was here. It's nice to have visitors visi-tors like that, isn't it? Lewis and Jean also spent some time in Provo getting ready for and attending at-tending the wedding of their daughter Jolene and Neal Durrant, who is also from Provo. Eldon and Angie Griffin left on June 5 and went to California. While there they attended the wedding of Angie' s nephew, Marcel Mar-cel and Kristin Ware in San Bernardino. Ber-nardino. They also visited in Long Beach and San Pedro and attended a shower for the baby of Angie's son and daughter in-law, Frank and Lisa Ramirez. From there, they went to Riverton, Wyo. where they stayed overnight with Howard and Sally Davidson. They are doing well and said to tell all their friends in Escalante "Hello." Then the Griffins went on to Billings, Mont, where they picked up Eldon' s twin daughters, Susan and Sarah and brought them home for vacation. They got back on Father's Day and Eldon El-don said that was a good enough gift for him! Vernon Spencer, Doyle and Thelma Cottam and the families of Myron Cottam, Brent Cottam and the Sherrill Ott family of Tropic all went to Logan to attend the wedding of Jeff and Melanie Chatterton. Jeff is a son of Jerry and Janeal Spencer Chatterton. The cattlemen have been busy getting their cattle driven to the mountain. It is surprising how many tourists stop to take pictures - whole bus loads. One man said that was the best sight he had seen since leaving his home in Nevada. So not everyone hates the sight of cattle on the range only the eccentrics! |
