I read where Bruce Beal got hurt while hauling hay, but now he is on the mend. I knew he would, as he as dealt with pain before and tough it out.

When I read about Bruce Beal breaking some ribs and hurting his lungs, I knew he would eventually heal. If you don't know Bruce, he has always been as tough as nails, going back to high school, when he was the Quarterback for the Juab High Football team. We didn't do a lot of winning, but Bruce had the winning mentality, and the striated muscles to endure pain. Perhaps that is what helped make him an excellent Nephi City Police Officer. Take a look at the 1964 year book shot of Bruce. Would you really want to take him on! I don't think so, and neither should a farm implement, even today, so Bruce will heal. We also threw in the whole football team with Bruce being Number Nine.

Yesterday I put a blog in about the Harvest Ball Queen of the Mt. Nebo Chapter of the FFA, from the 1950's. In the same historical box I found another one from 1963.

Sometimes it is just luck of the draw. After finding the Harvest Ball Co-Queens from the 1950's, I found another article from 1963, and courtesy of The Times News, I will submit that. It shows the Sweetheart as Joni Jackson, with other members of the royalty being Katy Sutorius, Jenny Worwood, Cassie Carter, and Angelica Vorhies.

Although there is no connection between the Harvest Ball and the patient list at the Juab County Hospital List, we thought we would make sure everybody knew the patients were properly cared for back then, which included Chloe Anderson, Bessie Johnson, Margaret, Michael and Thomas Wllbaum, Brenda Sue and Clair Dalton, Allan Steele, Michael Royce, Joseph Overson, Mrs. R. Dee Hughes, Karrie Lynn Davies, Charles Painter, Mrs. Della Tunbridge, Susan Howard, Eldon Sherwood, Craig Hardy, James McNeil, Wayne Morgan then there was one Joseph Smith.

Like mother like daughter....that is the beauty of Bernice Royce and her daughter Jean, who was the 1954 Co-Queen of the Mt. Chapter of the FFA.

This is the partial story of the Juab County Royce family. Once we get security clearance, we can write of  three generations of the male portion of the Royce family. For now, we will write of the female beauty of the Royce family. Bernice Royce passed away at the age of 87, but from the get go, she was pretty as a Peacock! That was a name on her mothers side, but she did have the natural beauty, from deep inside to her charming smile on the outside. She was raised during the depression, and lost her father when she was just ten, but always demonstrated a happy and gleeful spirit. She enjoyed her family foremost, but loved her work as a dietitian at the Juab County Hospital and for the Juab School Lunch program. She and husband Don loved their four kids, of which one is the beauty queen shown. Although the Tribune article didn't get it quite right-saying it was the "Richfield Ball", they did hit the nail on the head when they wrote "three pretty coeds", being Jean Royce (Lee); Ranae Westring and Iona McPherson.

Okay, just one more posting for this Pioneer day, with a show and tell of what it was like in 1847 via a drawing and article from the Salt Lake Tribune of 1934

In a few moments I will say good night to this year's Pioneer Day celebrations. I will eat the rest of that large pot pie I partly ate earlier, then a dap of cheesecake from the fridge. It takes about three minutes in the micro-wave. I will then shut off the TV; turn the A/C a little cooler, turn the soft music on with my remote control and drift off in slumber on that perfect cozy bed. As I do that, I will gaze once more at the copy of the drawing that was done for the Salt Lake Tribune in 1934, which depicts what it was like for the Mormon Pioneers coming to Utah. I pay tribute to those forefathers who came before us to help settle the lands. I didn't mind sleeping outside as a kid, but not sure I would be up for the task our pioneers went through. As a good night, I pay them respect.

This is a love story...a real one, eventhough Hollywood may not pick it up as a blockbuster.

Three of my favorite movies are love stories, but only one made enough money for the world to remember it. That was "Titanic", but to me, "The Notebook" and "Somewhere In Time" showed the real love between people who were destined for each other. Diane Ludlow and Vard White fell in love in 1965. At the time, some folks in Nephi had difficulty adjusting to that, thinking they were too young to know and understand what unconditional love was. Vard and Diane knew it and that was the most important thing. Some of us that were friends of Vard also knew it. On one occasion Diane came up and had a chat with me. She told me I better like her, as even though Vard and I were friends, she was going to be with him forever and I better get used to it. I did and liked her like I did Vard. When Vard wrote in my yearbook in 1965, guess who was right next to him who also wrote in the yearbook. Just before his passing, I visited with them, and it was clear they were still in love with each other, best friends forever; that it was real, not just a phrase. They were; are now, and always be in love, with mutual respect and devotion to each other. Three cheers for that. The last photo was added on June 6, 2016 when I locate it. It is Vard's car when he, Jerry Mangelson and I were taking a little high school graduation tour and that shot is in front of the Brigham Young home in Southern Utah, meeting one of Bro. Brig's granddaughter.

On this Pioneer Day, we once again express thanks to all those in Juab County who contributed to get the new Fourth Ward LDS Chapel completed.

Yes, it is true, it takes a lot of donated monies and work to complete a new chapel. It will be quite an adjustment for those of us that were used to going to the old North Ward, but Nephi is growing so that was the reason for going to four wards in Nephi. It was no small fete to get Henry D. Moyle of the Council of Twelve here to offer the dedicatory prayer, but he did it and with nobility yet with prayerful consideration.

As it is Pioneer Day in Utah, we wanted to pay tribute to those who helped build our new Juab Stake Seminary building.

All Juab County residents can feel safe now, as the high school students no longer have to take their life's in their own hands by darting across the busy highway from the high school to the Seminary building west of main. Local Attorney Udell Jensen will purchase the old building and see his clients there. We have finally got the new Seminary building built and its right next to the high school. Unofficially, we would like to give thanks to all who built this new structure.