Utopia High School’s girls’ golf team includes (left to right) Kinsley Cox, Riley McCutcheon, Lizzie Hryniszak, Danika McCarty, and Morgan Rhodes.
Utopia High School’s golf teams had sweeping wins March 17 at the Utopia Invitational Tournament at Golf Utopia. Cooper Wernette led the boys with the winning score while Lawson Leavelle placed fourth and Jett Smothers followed in fifth. Ransom Harthcock and Brayden Long rounded out the team.
Kinsley Cox turned in the winning score card for the ladies. Danika McCarty placed second, Lizzie Hryniszak placed third and Riley McCutcheon placed fourth to dominate the division. Morgan Rhodes is the newest member of the team.
Congratulations to the young golfers and their coaches Jaci McCarty and Marisa Hathorn.
Utopia High School’s boys’ golf team includes (left to right) Ransom Harthcock, Jett Smothers, Cooper Wernette, Brayden Long, and Lawson Leavelle.
Book Fair
The Book Fair at Utopia School starts Monday, March 24. Following it is a special grandparents lunch on Wednesday, March 26, and family afternoon on Thursday, March 27, scheduled to end at 6 p.m. This fair will feature great reads for young folks to foster a love of books and perhaps even inspire children to get wrapped up in a mystery that can’t be solved with the phone in their hand.
Auction
The annual Community Auction will be held April 5 in the Town Square. Volunteers will be available during that week to assist anyone needing help in loading large items. Donations may be brought to the Community Center on April 3. This fun auction benefits the local EMS, fire department and our beautiful park.
Many years ago area ranchers would bring live animals to sell. Perhaps a goat or lamb, puppies, kittens, baby chicks, or even a tame turkey. Fun-loving men would purchase the animals and gift them to their friends’ children, often resulting in lots of laughter and retaliation. But that was a different time and animals are no longer allowed at the auction. I wonder why? Maybe the wrong person ended up with a pet turkey.
There are still fun items, however, and some friendly rivalry in heated bidding always makes the auction a very lively small town activity.
Around Town
March is the month when I shed some winter stress with lots of good dirt therapy. Dirt therapy means you get out and dig in the dirt to plant a few things in the garden and repot what few plants survived the winter and get your hands really dirty.
A trip to the wonderful Utopia Organic Gardens resulted in the purchase of a few tomatoes, including my favorite heirloom Black Krim, and some peppers. It’s hard, however, to plant much when the wind is howling and dust is blowing in your eyes and your receive word that your neighbor’s well just went dry.
I remember my grandpa saying that a windy year is a dry year. Well it seems that it’s a dry year regardless of whether the wind is blowing or not, but we definitely have had our share.
I remember when April would bring a bank of black clouds across the north which would then result in thunder, lightning and an inch or two of rain watering the canyon. Perhaps this is the spring that April will show us some of those clouds again.
Until then my small garden will remain covered in cardboard boxes, anchored in place by logs to protect my plants from total wind-blown destruction. As of right now I still have water when I turn on the faucet, which I suppose is a really good thing.