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Show Panguitch News By Mamie Talbot 801-676-8084 At the height of the blizzard this past week while I was watching the news on television, the screen showed large pine trees blown down in the Salt Lake City area. At the same time, I was staring hard at my large blue spruce tree and willing it not to blow down. Since Panguitch Pan-guitch has a wide sweep for wind, it is not funneled through a canyon, so we don't get a lot of trees blown down. Thank, goodness ! The blizzard interfered with many things. Verd Worthen's funeral fu-neral was being held and many folks in town were not able to attend. at-tend. Verd's brother LaMar Worthen couldn't get here, but Faye was fortunate to have her kids here. Faye, we send our love to you and regrets that we were not able to be with you physically, but very much were with you mentally and spiritually. spiritu-ally. Bear Valley road was closed and a number of people with appointments appoint-ments in Cedar City had to cancel them. Many local roads are still slick and snowpacked and it's hard to get even the driveways clear. It's best to stay home unless it's a real emergency. Merle Stowell made it home this week from her two month stay with her three families in Oregon. She said it was a constant mess of rain there, but none of them had trouble with floods around their homes. In the Panguitch LDS First Ward Sacrament meeting, Tex and Charlene Ancira and son Konrad were the principal speakers. Brent McKee, son of the Norm McKees, and Sid Fullmer, son of the Bruce Fullmers were the youth speakers. Peggy Bagnell was called as Relief Society homemaking specialist. The baby daughter of Jose and Amy Noriega was blessed and given the name Elizabeth by Bishop Evan Boshell. Mark Trent and Tracy Jo Henderson and their son were welcomed wel-comed as members of the ward. They live in Fay Lynn's old house. Grace Sandberg announced that classes on how to use the new ancestry an-cestry file at the Family History Center will be held on Sunday at 8 p.m., Thursday at 1 p.m., and Satni-Hav at 8 am. We understand this is a great new method of looking up our ancestors. Beth Wouden was baptized into the LDS First Ward. She is a daughter of the Willy Wouden's. There was a large number of family members here from out of town for the important occasion. Susie Julander went to Las Vegas for several days, but had to start home because of the road closures clo-sures between Cedar City and St. George. She spent the night in St. George with aunt Shanna Goulding. Elder Paul Morgan of Circleville reported his Canada Halifax mission in the LDS Third Ward meeting. He is a son of Afton and Marilyn Foy Morgan, who were here with him. Grandparents Vee and Mary Myers were also here to support him. Mom Marilyn, a Panguitch native, expressed her love of her hometown people and said that Paul is the third out of four sons to serve a mission. Their fourth son is now in the mission field. Stephanie Williams was the youth speaker, and Dave Dodds and Dean Englestead were called to work with the Cub Scouts. Kale Hatch was ordained a deacon. Colby Davis has been called to serve a mission in the North Carolina, Charlotte mission. mis-sion. Boyd and Ranee Owens, Ardith Davis, Art and Beverly Crosby and Ned and Melva Owens spent some time with the Gene Griffin family in Mesquite. Ranee said it wasn't much warmer than Panguitch. Two of the ladies kept medical appointments appoint-ments in St. George. Dolly Henrie's daughter Alice Priest called from Washington to report that they arrived safely home with the loads of furniture and stuff they wanted. Shirley Bulkley said to thank all the folks here for all their help and caring before and after Dolly's death. Alice dearly loves people here and their love helped so much at a very difficult time. Alice lost her mother, her husband and a dear friend all within a very short time. We wish her the best of health and happiness. Joe and Leniece Fischer's house has a beautiful new coat of cream colored siding. Ruby Worthen said she feels like she and husband Orson have a new house since they covered theirs with siding. I remember re-member when just a coat of paint was a cause for great rejoicing. Earl and Evelyn Roe received a call from their son Doug soon after the flooding at Yosemite National Park made the media news. He wanted to let them know their family fam-ily was okay. Their housing area occupied one of the few high and dry areas in the park. Their oldest daughter Wendy and one of her friends were invited to come and live with a family in Mariposa, so that they could attend high school, but the younger children had a vacation: vaca-tion: the elementary school had closed because not enough students could get to school. Doug said the park itself was really beautiful during all this with more waterfalls than you could shake a stick at. Well, it is the middle of January, so surely it's time to start planning summer gardens, lawns and farm crops... isn't it? Looks like we will have water for the summer, we hope. Johanson Construction Con-struction is working right through the snow, cold and wind. The deadline for completion of the sewer is coming up fast and the frost has not gone down very far into the ground. That large machinery seems able to chew up the soil with no effort. Happy summer planning folks, or are we getting ahead of ourselves? |