The St. George Independence Day parade was held a day before July 4 this year and included 73 entries with the theme "'Where Liberty dwells, there is my country' - Ben Franklin."
The parade began on Tabernacle Street and 200 West with Stephen Wade and the St. George Marine Corp leading the procession. The community gathered along the sidewalks and streets where candy and water guns were aimed from the parade vehicles at the crowds.
“The parade was beautiful. It was awesome to see everybody out here and being patriotic,” Parade-goer Robin White said. White enjoyed seeing the Adaptive Ops which is an organization that works to prevent human trafficking.
Firetrucks, law enforcement vehicles and ambulances received standing ovations and applause from parade attendees throughout the parade.
“Betsy”, the largest flag ever flown, appeared with several members of the Boy Scouts carrying the 400-pound American Flag. “Betsy” was part of the St. George 4 of July celebration at Town Square Park that started at 5:30 p.m. Did you see that flag? Holy Moly! Soo cool!
Charles Dowding\470K subscribers\Small residues of this persistent product are now present in many composts, even "organic" ones. I show how to check for their presence by growing bean and pea seedlings.\Testing like this is called a bio-assay, and is more effective than laboratory testing, partly because the amounts of active compounds are so tiny. Many lab tests show as "negative", when poison is there and causing damage. 7/9/21 Friday, Hello BMX, The above Youtube summary/video is almost a relief to see. I typed in “Compost Herbicide” and discovered a ~score of people who have documented the same issues I had with my potted seedlings and compost this spring. I am not unique. A whole bunch of others have discovered this same issue/problem. How interesting. Who would imagine that compost, even labeled organic in the store!, could be contaminated? Amazing! Charles Dowding lives and gardens in England. But this video was fantastic, especially at double, 2x, speed. :)
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Tuesday, 7/13/21 Good morning BMX, Kent Perkins is my EQ president. He visited with me on Friday night to let me know what he knew about my assignment to check on Jeff Whipple all week. July 11-17. He flattered me at the end by saying not only was I willing but I was performing this duty with such an exemplary attitude. I thanked him for being our EQ figurehead. He teased me by saying he wasn’t sure how he felt about me labeling him that. Ever since I have been trying to figure out a better name for what he does. I have decided the best I can do is to call him our EQ stationmaster. I looked up depot and terminus and terminal, all of which sort of describe how assignments go in and assignments go out. In construction the person in charge of the job site is called the superintendent. Anyway, in our busy ward our RS & EQ presidents end up being spiritual station masters. :) Kent mentioned how they helped Johnsons and Cranes move in with in a week of each other and sure enough Ryan Johnson was there to help with Cranes! @@ Something I can do to help lift people is to compliment them.
Sunday · 4:12 PM
K
I 💘 loved your first two questions.
What do we hope to find in the church?
What do we have to offer as saints?
I felt for your struggle with technology hurdles!
The quorum was calm as you worked to eventually get it up and running. I think we must be getting accustomed to those technology issues.
What a sweet spirit of brotherhood your lesson brought to the quorum today.
Magnificently done. What a sweet tone your voice, questions, and admiration (tom lamb) brought to the room.
Thank you for sharing this gift with us.
V
Sunday · 5:49 PM
👍😀
Monday · 3:52 PM
Vern. Brother Gibbs is in the hospital with covid. Not sure if he can have visitors but his room is 268.
Monday, Apr 19 · 12:08 PM [bmx, you may remember this first part from before. -v]
Dear Tom, I have been wondering for weeks why half my plants died when I put them in pots and then why they were stunted and didn't progress. Saturday I think I finally figured it out. City Compost! I have even replanted the pots where the seedlings died with big fresh healthy seed. Only one tough germination out of 40! That city compost kills or stunts everything! (After pondering for weeks that is the best I can come up with.) I am so sad. There is probably poisonous oleander in it or something. So it makes a great weed suppressant but a terrible potting mix. Putting it on the surface of my garden beds would be great. And maybe next year, after it has lost some of its potency it would be good to mulch it in. @ I used 50% garden soil and 50% city compost for my little pricking out pots. ☹️ I thought I was so smart and saving so much money. Over and over I have examples of stunted and dead. ARGH! And row after row I used it as an absorbent mulch, not even mixing it in, under my rows. Live and learn. PS. So if only 2 of your 6 cukes germinated and then those 2 stay stunted. . . don't fret, it isn't your fault. Next, I gave Sister Kunzler, who spoke in sacrament meeting yesterday, a new little chocolate cherry tomato plant. She said she attended a sacrament meeting in the RS room because she did not want to report on the stunted plant I gifted her. So sad. Well thanks for experimenting with me. Love you. Vern
Sunday · 3:58 PM [as you can see by the time, this is the first one I wrote Sunday afternoon. I don’t usually do this but I felt inspired/ motivated. Wouldn’t the world be a better place if more of us did stuff like this? -v]
Dear Tom!
Kent taught EQ today from Elder Gong’s conference talk. There was a brotherhood feeling there. He did a magnificent, spiritual job.
I asked Greg Brailsford who he was referring to near the end of the lesson, that would sometimes call him at 8 am about a construction need this ministering sister has. At other times he calls at 7 pm at night for something similar. . ." can you meet me over there? "
He showed on this hand how bent over this brother was and then asked what motivated someone to do things like this?
Love of God, and love of fellow man was the answer we arrived at .
Greg helped me figure out it was you!
I don't know why you didn't come to mind.
The next time you study Elder Gong's talk, which was my favorite of all, consider that you are that Samaritan in Kent's mind.
So sweet.
V
Sunday · 9:48 PM
Thanks for the info. I am sorry I wasn't there. Kent is a good man. By the way my cucumber plants have made it. They have some buds on them so I might get some fruit.
Hello Bmx, Wouldn’t you like it if you wanted to know who to choose and a beam of light shone on their head? Sister Connie Schroath had her husband pass away 2 years ago and I reach out and support and complement her when it is convenient. She carries around an oxygen pump and tubes go up her nose. She played the organ on July 4th, Sunday since Heidi C was out of town and we don’t have anyone else who plays right now.
1. Oh say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thru the night that our flag was still there.
Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?2. On the shore, dimly seen thru the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream;
’Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!3. Oh, thus be it ever, when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave! We sang My Country Tis of Thee to sing at the end of the meeting :) @ I have not been exercising at all and waving my arm to lead the music got tiring that day. Well it looks like Connie may be helping out in the future. And she asked if I would send her the list of hymns for the next 3 months. I used to keep it a secret that I had the whole year already done! But since I have been in for over a decade I guess I can let the secret out. I sent her the rest of the year. :) Here is our exchange:Hello Wonderful Connie!\I love to tell stories. Here comes one.
I am so so grateful you felt inspired to suggest my name to the bishop all those years ago. I was quite intimidated by the new calling. And yet it fits me perfectly.
One. I love recognition and I get recognized every single week!
Two. I love to sing and I can sing loud. Now I can encourage others from up front and not in back.
Three. I get to see everyone. And sitting on the stand doesn't leave any of my family members sitting alone in the audience.
Four. Mitch Six teased me into wearing a sports coat every week when he was our HCouncilman.
Five. I got to practice leading music.
Next. I asked Hal Stead for his list of music that first year. I have continued using his format ever since. There may even be some songs that are the same. When I have had the courage and interest I have put in my own choices.
As Heidi and I were visiting a couple of months ago I invited her to make suggestions again. She took me up on it. Sometimes I have chosen hymns that were way too hard to play and so having her input is so welcome.
Just like I have sent you the rest of the year's schedule below. . . I sent her a copy so she could modify it in any way she wished.
The reason I tell you that is, these may change. Either of you may make adjustments of course!
ok. Story over. I love you. God bless you!
It truly was inspiration when I did that! There was a beam of light over your head as we sat in Sunday School! Thanks for the list. I'll let you know if I have any suggestions!
