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January 29, 20151 The. Lovell Chronicle
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Janet Greenhalgh, a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, invited former music teacher George Preis
of Lovell to be her special guest at a rehearsal with the choir held on Dec. 18 in Salt Lake City.
Music student and teacher reunite
BY PATFI CARPENTER
Janet Greenhalgh said
she was thrilled to see her
former music instructor,
George Preis, once again
when he traveled to Utah
to sing with the Mormon
Tabernacle Choir during
a practice session held on
Dec. 18.
Greenhalgh, a member
of the choir, invited Preis
to be her special guest at
the rehearsal. Preis was
her music instructor from
fifth grade through high
school. The two had not
seen each other for more
than 30 years.
"He is the one who in-
spired me to love music,
and it was payback time
for me," said Greenhal-
gh. "It was such /a treat
to meet him in Salt Lake
and to enjoy a wonderful
evening. We enjoyed a lot
of catching up, good food
and the Christmas glow of
Temple Square.
"Seeing him in the loft,
which still had the mag-
ic of the decorated stage
from our Christmas Con-
cert with the Sesame
Street Muppets, while sing-
ing Christmas music with
the choir, was a memo-
rable experience. The di-
rector that evening, Ryan
Murphy, commented on
his great bass voice when
he introduced him. He
was so appreciative and
thrilled to be there."
Greenhalgh grew up
in Lovell, graduating from
Lovell High School in
1977. She is the daugh-
ter of Royal and Ruth Bi-
schoff. She now lives in
Utah.
Amanda Walker
Walker joins staff at LHS
BY PATTI CARPENTER
Amanda Walker has joined
the staff at Lovell High School
as an English teacher. Walker is
a graduate of the University of
Wyoming. She is originally from
Cowley, graduating from Rocky
Mountain High School in 2005.
This is her third teaching po-
sition since graduating from col-
lege. She taught for one year at
Wind River High School and for
one year at Hanna-Elk Mountain
High School.
"I love to read and write, and
English was always my favorite
subject in school," she said. "I
had great teachers at Rocky who
taught me to love the subject and
who showed me what a great job
teaching could be."
Walker said she is thrilled to'
be back "home" and living near
her family and friends again.
She is the daughter of Willie and
Jodie Bridges.
Walker is married with two
children, Alex, 4, and Gabe, 1.
Her husband, Brian, is also a
teacher.
"I love this community and
the kids here are just amazing,"
she said. "There's a lot of commu-
nity interest. Parents take educa-
tion ' very seriously here and they
want to help out."
Byron news
Old man winter sends another chill
BY PAMELA COZZENS
HOPKINSON
307-548-2471
pamhopkinson@gmail.com
We are proud of our young people
who work to develop a talent to share,
whether it is in sports, music, art,
FFA or other endeavors. Afton George
and Jamie Kite returned last Thurs-
day from two musically packed days
in Sheridan where they practiced
several hours on Monday and Tues-
day before performing at a concert on
Tuesday evening.
The two had been chosen follow-
ing tryouts, which took place in No-
vember. They were sent music to
work on for weeks before two days of
intense choir practices, which includ-
ed the familiar music as well as new
songs. The 180-voice choir was cho-
sen from music students across the
state. Also performing was the fifth
grade group from Lovell Elementary
School, which included Chance Abra-
ham and Kane Ferguson from Byron.
Congratulations.
On Friday there seemed to be a
change in the weather and the crisp-
ness in the air seemed to be return-
ing. I thought I could hear Old Man
Winter laughing as he sent the chill.
"Ha! You thought you were going
to get by with a mild winter," he said.
A mild winter in Wyoming is
when it gets up to a sunny 30 degrees
and you can run out to the car with-
out the final outer layer and feel OK
about it. I still hold out hope that this
icy snow will melt and I'm a little jeal-
ous of the warm Chinook wind that
Cody gets.
I hope we can be done with winter
weather soon. That hope is not based
on any weather forecasts or almanac
reading; it is just me looking at gar-
dening catalogues and thinking of the
great gardens that Bert and Nora,
Alan Bair, Joyce Zarate and others
are going to plant this spring.
I had a taste of my ineptness in
the world of "the cloud" during the
past few days. My son-in-law, Adam,
suggested I update my iPhone, so I
agreed. He suggested I discontinue
email on my phone since I was taking
up space with something like 16,000
of them. Who has time to go through
and put that in order? So going for-
ward I went to look up something
in my notes on my phone and it was
empty, no notes. The blood drained
from my head as I thought of all of
the important little prompts I had so
carefully kept that were gone out into
emptiness. Then, to add to that, my
contacts disappeared. Now I was real-
ly feeling faint.
My "life" had disappeared before
with a number and no name. It was
like there was a bad elf in my phone
and it was picking on me. I called
Adam and he came over and, after a
flourish of this and that, it was all bet-
ter. It was like waking up from a bad
dream. Everything was back to nor-
mal. Then there was the relief and
gratitude I felt and how I felt like I
must now be the slave to the guru for
life because he saved my information,
but I got over that and made him some
homemade soup instead. The problem
had something to do with the pass-
word, username, email, cloud, down-
load...those are the words but really
who knows. It's magic.
I have a problem knowing that
my important details are in a cloud.
If everyone has their stuff in a cloud,
what about when those clouds start
moving around bumping into each
other and all of our stuff gets mixed
together and there is a rainstorm of
data?
I think I might be a dinosaur in
this new world. I like hard copies and
a paper I can get my hands on with-
out calling in the digital troops. The
worst is that it then happened again
that very day with my laptop. I had
indeed suffered the agony and the ec-
stasy of the tech world. It's all better
now and I really do love the technol-
ogy that I can actually use and sort
of understand. It's like the weather
Senior Chatter
New class offered
at Senior Center
BY PHYLLIS BRONKEMA
The North Big Horn Senior Center will be hosting a
new quilting class taught by Verna Hawkins. The class
begins on Monday, Feb. 2, at 1 p.m. in the quilting room
at the Center.
The group will be making a sampler-pieced block
quilt. It will be a 12-week class, with one block being
taught each week. Each participant will finish a quilt,
and also make one patriotic block for a future quilt ofval-
or, which will be put together at the Center. Materials re-
quired for the class will be listed in the February newslet-
ter.
Also beginning in February will be free blood pres-
sure checks offered by the Big Horn County public health
nurse. The free checks will take place each Thursday of
February, during the noon meal.
The February birthday party will be on Wednesday,
Feb. 18, and will include roast pork, the fixins and a wide
variety of cupcakes made by volunteers.
The Center has decided to offer one craft class a
month, led by various volunteers. The angel tree orna-
ment class was held on Jan. 26. The February class is still
in the works and more information will be announced as
it becomes"available.
When the Newcomer's Club met for cards last week,
the high score in bridge was won by Sheila Hansen, and
in pinochle, Sharie Loegering won the top score.
DeFuentes joins Navy
BY PATI'I CARPENTER
At 21, Saughn DeFuen-
tes has joined the U.S.
Navy, following in the foot-
steps of .his father, Tim, a
20-year U.S. Navy veter-
sic training in Illinois, he
will complete six addition-
al weeks of training in Pen-
sacola, Fla.
A 2013 Lovell High
School graduate, DeFuen-
an.
ship out on Feb. 3 for ba-
sic training in Great Lakes,
Ill., said he is excited about
all the possibilities the
U.S. Navy has to offer. Fol-
lowing eight weeks of ba-
Saughn DeFuentes
DeFuentes, who will tes has already earned his
diesel mechanics certificate
from Casper College, but
said he will most likely be-
gin his Naval career fueling
jets on an aircraft carrier as
part of the "grapes" crew.
"Grapes" is a nickname
for purple shirts the crew
wears when fueling jets.
"My dad was in the
Navy for 20 years and I
thought it would be a good
way to get out there and ex-
plore the world," said De-
Fuentes. "My dad said he
got to do a lot of things he
couldn't do otherwise and I
want to take advantage of
that opportunity, too."
DeFuentes said he es-
pecially looks forward to
traveling and hopes to be
stationed in Europe at
some point in his career.
DUP news
Members welcome 2015
BY DONNA M. SMffH
307-254-3303
White was the color of the day when members and
guests of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers met on
Jan. 12 and were greeted by Vice President Dorothy
Winterholler.
Thoughts about the value of work were shared by
Shirley Busteed. Savanna Nash talked about the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier before leading the group in the
Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. An artifact, a 50-year-
old ceramic pair of ice skates belonging to Savanna Nash,
was shown.
A pioneer history given by Sheraldean Jones began
with her great-great grandfather, John Jones. Many mis-
sionaries are numbered in his posterity. The family en-
dured many hardships before going to Utah in 1861. They
settled in Coalville, Utah, for two years before moving to
Utah's Dixie. It was from there that Sheraldean's grand-
father answered the call to come to the Big Horn Basin.
"Stories from the'Museum" was the subject of guest
speaker Sandy Messick. Thousands of histories are
housed in the DUP Museum in Salt Lake City and a few
of these were shared.
Rebecca Winters died of cholera while crossing the
plains on the way to Utah and was buried in Nebraska.
Her grave was discovered in 1899 when the railroad was
being built and her remains had to be moved. Her new
tomb was made a national historic site in Nebraska by
the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Another remarkable history was told about Ruth May
Fox. She was born in 1853 in England. Her mother died
in 1855. She was brought to America in 1865. She mar-
ried, taking over the care of 12 children when she was 20.
She learned to type, was active in politics and wrote the
song "Carry On." She became active in the LDS Church's
MIA program and acted as General President until age
84. She remained active until her death in April of 1958
at the age of 104.
A touch of Mexican refreshments were served by the
hostess committee of Chris Petrich and May Emmett.
Along with tortilla filled rolls and chips was a sauce using
meat from a moose killed by Chris herself.
Announcement was made of the next meeting to be
held Feb. 9 in the Lovell Annex at 1 p.m.
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