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Show 1 I 'f I HE tang of Autumn in the air - School in session, - hunting season come and gone - the out-station schools being visited regularly, - hospital patients cared for here or transferred to places for better care - services at all chapels, Confirmation . .. . I B IUT, begin at the beginning. Summer workers have come and gone, leaving behind them fond memories of happy times, carrying with them equally fond memories of happy times, sores on hands and maybe elsewher e ! but most of them are already clamoring to come back again next year. They leave with us permanent reminders of t heir visit, in the form of a flagstone f loor in the Common Room, flagstones in the patio; the old storeroom in the west wing has been converted to additional toilet and bath, so that we now have, believe it or not, a TUB ! an additional sept ic tank, and many minor repairs testify to their efficient work. Besides this, there was time for a side trip to Grand Canyon and to, Mesa Verde, in addition to the regular out-station trips to Montezuma Creek, Olj eto and the remote Navaho Mountain area. I 0 I VER the Labor Day week-end we were fortunate to have a group of 27 boys and their advisers from the Oakland, California, YMCA; we had planned to have them put a roof on one building, but a tremendous flash flood of cloud-burst proportions, with hail the size of hens' eggs, made it necessary to use their muscles in other ways. It was a spectacular week-end! Much flood damage was averted by their willing and rapid r esponse. All our r oofs suffered, but most of them have been patched ; the church roof however, has to be complet ely recover ed, as the hailstones went right through, and as we type this we can see the stars from inside the building ! . We would welcome special gifts for this purpose at this time. I D lURING August Fr. Brown and Fr. Liebler took two weeks each of the Episcopal Church Camp at Brighton, in the hills east of Salt Lake City. It helped in many ways to integrate our Mission with the other work of the Church in Utah, and won many new f riends for the Mission. |