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Show Panguitch (lews i By Earl Roe 676-2376 I had almost forgotten the eerie feeling of driving down Main Street in total darkness gives to a person when you know there should be lights here and there: This feeling came back to me Tuesday night during our brief experience with our "California Type" problem. Our older residents will recall that this was quite a common occurrence when Telluride Power was our energy en-ergy source with some of the power being generated at our own power plant about two miles up the canyon' can-yon' West of town. Power outages were so common then that every home was prepared for them. My own children thought it was really fun when I would get out the Coleman lantern and stove to prepare pre-pare something to eat. When I was young, wood furnished the power for everything but lights so power outages were not much of an inconvenience in-convenience except that we could not listen to our favorite radio programs, pro-grams, (television was years in the future) The blackout we experienced was due to some downed transmission transmis-sion poles (high winds) near Joseph and linemen from Salt Lake City to Cedar City and cities in between spent the night repairing the damage dam-age and restoring power. Greg Payne, our Panguitch supervisor, was one who got to spend his night out and it was his birthday. (What a present!) It is times like this that should make us appreciate what individuals in these jobs do for us at any and all hours and in any and all weather, and we should express this appreciation to them instead of complaining about the minor inconvenience in-convenience we experience. If I can use our Lions Club early morning breakfast as a hallmark, hall-mark, I would say that our annual Quilt Walk Festival was a success. Some of the interesting demonstrate demonstra-te PANGUITCH on page 4-A) PANGUITCH From Page 3-A tions were not visited as much as hoped, but different planning for future festivals will probably correct cor-rect this. I want to remind everyone of the upcoming Balloon Festival. This will be the first fully organized and planned event of this kind for Pan-guitch Pan-guitch and I would like to see it grow each year. Evalyn and I attended at-tended the Festival in Albuquerque, (See PANGUITCH on page 5-A) PANGUITCH From Page 4-A NM last year and it was really "a sight to see" for both young and old. I hope our weather cooperates. One lady in town got an early start on the "balloon rides". Jamie Cooper was playing on one of the large inflatable toys by the bank and a whirlwind (dust devil) picked her up and carried her above the trees where she fell out and fell into a tree. Fortunately, she grabbed a limb which prevented a fall to the ground but it took three people to finally get her down. Her sister said that after she got over the shock and could talk about it, her. comment was, "I had a good view." Fortunately Jamie came through all this with only scratches and bruises, but this was quite an experience expe-rience for a seven-year-old girl. Kay and Neiline Heywood and their daughter, Annette, have been to Fallon, Nev. to visit their son, Bruce, and his family and to attend the high school graduation of their granddaughter, Holly. Bruce retired from the Navy at Fallon after serving serv-ing at the Naval Air Station there. (I always thought the middle of a Nevada desert was an odd place for a Navy Base). Bruce is currently employed by the LDS Church as facilities manager for three different stakes. When he retires from his present job, he plans on returning to Panguitch to spend his "golden years". Although he plans on buying buy-ing the "family home", he is keep- ing his own home as a rental. Our new game warden will be moving into it in a week or two. Ray and Caryl Englestead have another great-grandchild to add to their lineage. Wade and Pepper (Hatch) Gale were blessed with a baby girl whom they will name Taby. Caryl's daughter Jan Maglcby and her husband, Doug, have also been visiting with them while they are in the area doing some survey work in the Glendale area. Both Doug and Jan are surveyors; Jan working for BLM and Doug has his own business. Those of you who remember my father will also remember that he was one of the better gardeners in Panguitch. Someone was always asking him about planting time. I remember two of his pieces of advise. ad-vise. "Don't try to outguess the weather, you will either get a good garden or you will get some good cow feed"; and "You can generally plan on a killing frost around June 14." It looks like we have had our frost from the looks of my neighbor's neigh-bor's tomato plants. Lets hope that we can now have a long warm growing season so that we can harvest har-vest what survived. |