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September 26, 2013 I The Lovell Chronicle I 15
DAVID PECK
Bernie Lowe brought his humongous cabbage into the
Chronicle office Monday. We say it's a humdinger!
Man produces
enormous cabbage
BY DAVID PECK
Bernie Lowe of Lovell harvested a large cabbage Mon-
day, well, really a huge cabbage, or better said, a humongous
cabbage.
Lowe, 79, pulled the 13.64-pound cabbage out of his garden
on Sixth Street in Lovell. A widower, Lowe has lived in Lovell
for four years.
"It's the biggest one I've ever grown," he said. "I have anoth-
er one about the same size and a couple more large ones."
Lowe hqp a special ability to grow large vegetables, it seems.
In 2009, when he lived in Kemmerer, he grew a five pound, 15
ounce turnip. He's been gardening for about 74 years, he figures,
growing up in Baggs and living in Kemmerer for 32 years before
moving to Lovell.
Lowe also grows carrots, onions, radishes, lettuce, beets,
corn, squash, tomatoes, peppers, peas, beans and cucumbers.
Asked about his secret to growing large vegetables, Lowe re-
plied, "I don't know. I just grow 'em. I've been raising a garden
since I was about 5 years old.
"I just put a little manure in, not much. I just water it. I've
been raising a garden for a long time. I tried to keep up with my
dad, Ronald, who was born in Cowley."
And what will Bernie do with his large vegetable?
"I'm going to take it down (to the senior center) and share it
with the seniors, give it to them," he said.
Benefit for Collins
tonight at RMHS
A special benefit for Josh
Collins, a teacher who has in-
curred extraordinary medical
expenses recently, will be held
tonight (Thursday) during the
football game at Rocky Moun-
tain High School.
A dinner of pulled pork
sandwiches, chips and brown-
ies will be sold starting at
6:30 p.m., with proceeds bene-
fiting Collins. Concessions sold
at the game will also benefit
Collins.
Adopt a property and
make Lovell beautiful
BY PATTI CARPENTER
Nick Lewis is calling on all
citizens, groups, agencies and
churches to take part in a com-
munity effort to make Lovell
beautiful. Lewis will have a
booth at the health fair on Sat-
urday with information about a
new adopt-a-property program
he is hoping to generate interest
in, where he and other concerned
citizens will join forces to beau-
tify the town one property at a
time.
"While driving around Lovell
looking at yards and vacant lots,
a solution to some of our weed
problem came to me," said Lew-
is. "We have all seen the adopt-
a-highway signs along the road-
way, so why can't we as citizens
of Lovell adopt-a-property with,
of course, the permission of the
landowner."
Lewis, who is spearheading
the program as a private citizen,
not as chief of police, envisions
the group as a purely volunteer
effort fueled by community pride.
He said the group will not be part
of any other group or town agen-
cy. It will just be people wanting
to make a positive difference in
the community.
He said the group will mow
weeds, trim trees and weed eat
• every other week, using their own
equipment.
"By my estimate it would only
take us about an 1 to 1 ½ hours
every other week for probably
a total of three hours a month,"
said Lewis. "We can all donate
that small amount of time to
help keep Lovell a great place to
live and a place we can be proud
of when people drive through or
come to visit."
Lewis noted that oftentimes
there is a reason that a property
is unkempt, such as the physical
' inability of a property owner due
to a handicap or age or an absent
property owner.
Visit Lewis at the health fair
on Saturday for more informa-
tion or to sign up to be a part of
the effort, which Lewis said will
help make Lovell a better place
to live.
Cowley news
New community members welcomed
BY DRUE TEBBS-MEEK
548-6901
Last Thursday, the lights
went out in Cowley and Deaver
for quite a long time. It was
8:30 p.m. when it happened
and the electricity finally
came on around 1:30 a.m. I re-
member that because my tele-
vision started and it woke
me. That was quite an experi-
ence and made us all scramble
for our flashlights and candles.
We all went to bed early.
I tried to read with my flash-
light for a while, but I gave up
and turned around and went to
sleep. It makes a person think
about how dependent we real-
ly are on electricity. But it all
turned out fine and we slept
through most of the crisis.
Frank and Cora Weinand are
parents of a new baby boy. The
young man weighed 9 pounds,
5 ounces. Cora is a small boned
woman, so that baby is huge. His
name is Canyon Eli Weinand
and he joins his big sister Daizy,
who is 2 ½ years old.
Daizy has suffered kid-
ney cancer and has been hav-
ing chemo for months. Frank
said Daizy's last chemo ses-
sion is in a week. She is beauti-
ful and seems to accept all that
she and her family have suf-
fered. We pray for her health
to return, so she can enjoy good
health again. She's been a troop-
er and she loves her little broth-
er. Grandparents are Julie and
the late Mike Weinand and Dale
and Robbie Ricks of Pocatel-
lo. How exciting for the whole
Weinand and Ricks family.
Jack and Barbara Croft
Marchant and son Guy Watts
moved into their beautiful modu-
lar this week. It is located by the
Pat Wambeke family and Bish-
op Elray and Ann Bridges. They
are all exhausted from the move
from one home in Lovell to their
new place, but are glad to be in
Cowley again. It's nice to have
them near and we wish them
well as they live their lives in
our town.
My new neighbors are begin-
ning to move into the home be-
hind my house. David and Anne
Brumwell bought the home from
Mrs. Nadine Larson, and I'm
glad to report that they have a
cat and a dog so they will not be
offended by my menagarie of fe-
lines. David and Anne have three
children, Davin, Darren and Bri-
anna. Davin is currently on a
mission in Arizona. The home
they are moving into is quite
a beauty. The yard is finished,
they have trees and plants and
we hope they will be happy in
the neighborhood.
The Brumwells have been
in our area for a few years and
leased Jay and Carol Welch's
home for quite some time. The
house used to be my ra.nd-
father James S. Tebbs and
Grandmother Mary Alice Meeks
Tebbs' home, and when I was
growing up I thought it was a
mansion. My granddad ordered
the home from Sears and there
is a picture of him standing out-
side while they were putting the
building together while he still
had his leg.
When he was 57 he was in
a construction accident in Ther-
mopolis and had to have his leg
amputated above his knee. He
used a cork leg and later a wood-
en leg and suffered a great deal
because of his infections where
the leg fit above his knee. No
one noticed it so much because
he was so strong and tough and
we as his grandkids never knew
him without his amputation. He
worked every day, drove trac-
tors, farmed and never let the
pain stop him. He was a strong
pioneer man.
Granddad trailed two bands
of sheep from Tebbsdale, Utah,
close to Panguitch, Utah, to de-
liver to Jesse Crosby when he
was just 20 or 21 and arrived in
Cowley in 1901. His pay for this
year long trip with the sheep-
herders was one third of the
lamb crop and he went through
three lambings and that is how
he became a prominent sheep-
man in our area. He supervised
a group of men who construct-
ed a road to Tebbs Hollow be-
yond the Schow sawmill on Pryor
Mountain. He was a construction
contractor with the Taggarts, a
farmer, a school trustee, a mem-
ber of the city council and mayor
of Cowley and a sheepman. He
was a wonderful, strong grandfa-
ther who cursed quite a bit and
tried not to swear in front of his
granddaughters, but I learned so
many swear words by the time I
was 5, and felt that was the way
to talk. When I went to school
I had to learn an almost new
language.
My grandmother was born
in Parowan, Utah, and came to
Cowley on a train to live with
her sister, Sadie Crosby, who was
married to Jesse Crosby. She met
my granddad and they were mar-
ried on Thanksgiving Day, Nov.
26, 1903. They had six children
who all survived and lived full
lives. My grandmother was small
boned, petite and very beauti-
ful. When she was in her 40s she
suffered rheumatoid arthritis
and was confined to a wheelchair
until she passed away at 64 in
1949. She suffered terribly and
her body was frozen, but she was
always glad to see her grandchil-
dren and her whole family lived
in Cowley and Lovell.
She had my granddad in-
stall a bay window so she could
see her beautiful yard. She had
help from young girls from the
town and was so cheerful and
never complained of her dreadful
pain. I was 10 when she died and
her face and example are just as
clear now as when I was a young
girl. My grandparents were ex-
amples to all they knew as they
helped establish the town and
make it what it is now. Our fam-
ily loved them deeply.
Byron news
Some must push and some must pull weeds for Byron cleanup
BY PAMELA COZZENS
HOPKINSON
548-2471
pamhopk inson@gmail.com
Weeding is happening
around town, as the community
gets ready to button down for
the next season. The work going
on has made a nice difference
around our yards and pastures.
The rains we have enjoyed have
really given a boost to any stray
weeds that find themselves a
friendly patch to thrive. Efforts
continue since the town clean-up
day in May to beautify.
Next spring there is plan-
ning in the works to partner
with the county to get an ear-
ly jump-start on the noxious
weeds that spread from yard to
yard. The town is planning to
have weed spray available and
a suggested schedule for keep-
ing ahead of the problem. We
have several in town with large
yards that work all summer to
keep them weed free. We hope
these "experts" will share their
methods with the rest of us and
help us reach our long-term goal
of ridding our community of nox-
ious weeds and trees.
There is a tree program that
will be available for any in town
to order through the county at
a greatly reduced price. These
trees can take the place of any
tree on the noxious tree list that
is removed.
If we work together we can
make great strides. It won't hap-
pen overnight, but a little at a
time can bring about big chang-
es. Notice your neighbor's yards,
and if they have made an effort
to improve the surroundings,
give them a pat on the back. En-
couragement is always welcome.
Towards the end of Septem-
ber in 1906, the Byron News
published in the Cowley Prog-
ress reported wet weather in-
terfering with the grain har-
vest. There was also talk of the
late developing gardens into the
end of October. It seems the
current gardeners in town are
at a loss to find enough tak-
ers for their bumper crops of
tomatoes. There's nothing better
than a fresh grown tomato, but
at this point after canning sal-
sa, spaghetti sauce and toma-
toes, it seems like there is a
never ending supply. Come De-
cember we will be longing for
that fresh tomato with a sprin-
kling of salt. Everywhere I turn
friends are offering their latest
picking. What a wonderful boun-
ty we have been blessed with.
In reading the old "Cowley
Progress" I found a report under
Byron News that referred to the
LDS Church's quarterly general
conference and a visit by George
Albert Smith. He spoke about
the evils of faultfinding, prop-
er training of children and also
spoke to those "young ladies
who are foolish and unwise enuf
(sic) to wear peek-a-boo shirt-
waists (dresses)." Wow, some
things never change. I was a lit-
tle surprised to imagine there
were actually peek-a-boo shirt-
waist dresses in 1906.
Tying this all together, there
are some who think it is no one
else's business whether a per-
son has weeds in their yard or
not. That could be true if such
a person were able to keep the
weeds from going to seed and
hopping on the first gust of wind
to land in a friendly neighbor's
yard across town. Or having birds
eat the thistle seed and then de-
liver it around town with no dis-
cretion about where to drop it.
Faultfinding, gossip and
weeds have so much m com-
mon. Such little tiny bits of in-
formation carried so quietly and
delivered to a neighbor can take
on a life of their own and spread
and grow and take on new gar-
dens and yards to thrive in.
Such was the case I heard
about just this week. A false-
hood gleaned from a letter writ-
ten to discredit another's reputa-
tion was shared quietly among
friends on Sunday morning and
had caught the wind and trav-
eled to California, to Oklahoma,
to Utah and back to Byron before
the Sabbath day was done. Now it
can continue to grow and spread
and dig its roots deeper or it can
be uprooted and done away with
leaving room for flowers to share
among one other. I know it all
sounds a little preachy, but it is
true, it is sad and there is weed-
in' that needs to be done.
IVW/r
The Eagle Nest diners are
now meeting for lunch every
Monday at noon at the town hall
boardroom. There are always
fun memories to share and some
good laughs. Join us next Mon-
day. If any seniors are interested
in taking the recreation bus to
Cody to go to the Heart Moun-
tain Museum, let us know and
we will add you to the growing
list. Time and date will be an-
nounced at a future date.
The Recreation Dept. is get-
ting busier now that it is getting
dark earlier. There are spac-
es to rent for birthday parties
and movies. Contact our Recre-
ation Director Jeanie Petrich at
307-272-3043.
Watch for new hours for
open gym posted on the sign out
front. Check Facebook for Zum-
ba. The new schedule will be in
the upcoming water bills.
