Grade School Pictures

Kindergarden	Teacher: Ms. Pickslay Top Row 1: X, X, X, X, X, X Row 2: Stephen Cocks, X, Steve Parker, X, X, X, X Row 3: X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X John Edison, Jay Engstrom, Gregory Jantz, Daniel Mahnke, Steven Parker, Shawn Turnboo, Donald Walsh, Shane Worthington, Susan Baker, Patricia Buchanan, Sandra Carroll, Jeanine Hoffman, Karen Huntsman, Katherine Lancaster, Rebecca Meeks, Carmen Netto, Dina Russo, Michelle Tombs, Dawn Webber
First Grade	Teacher: Mrs. Anderson Top Row 1: X, X, X, X, Peter Koszalka, X Row 2: X, Steve Parker, X, X, X, X, Eric Baker Row 3: X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X Shawn, Susan, Denise, Mark, Kathryn, Valerie, Roy, Tammy, Jimmy, Diane, Karen, Amy, Anne, Robert, Arlene, Kathleen, Laurie
Second Grade	Teacher: Mrs. Hines Top Row 1: Don, John H, Dale, Peter Koszalka, Mark, Monty, Kevin Carmody Row 2: David Harper, Eric Baker, Aryn, Kathrine, Kathleen, Wendy, Lori M, Michelle, Steve Parker, Stephen Cocks Row 3: Lena, Debra, Valerie, Anne, Kristle, Alson, Tami, Ruth Rush
Third Grade	Teacher: Mrs. Gillogly Top Row 1: Kevin Carmody, Monte, Stephan Cocks, Mark, Jesse, Tim Row 2: Dwane, Steve Parker, Anne, Karen, Susan, Windi, Doug, Eric Baker Row 3: Patty, Lena, Tami, Alison, Aryn, Anna, Chris, Debra, Dinelle
Fifth Grade	Teacher: Mrs. Ervin Top Row 1: X, X, Steve Parker, X, Peter Koszalka, David Harper Row 2: X, Colin, X, Kevin Carmody, X, Max Sidley, David Henley Row 3: X, X, X, X, X Row 4: X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X
Sixth Grade	Teacher: Mr. Easley Top Row 1: Stephan Cox, Eric Baker?, Steve Parker, Peter Koszalka, X, Scott Erwin Row 2: X, Jim Amstutz, X, X, X, Eric Larusson, X Row 3: X, X, X, X, X, David Henley, X, X Row 4: X, X, X, X, X, X, X, Trina Stahl, X
Seventh Grade	Teacher: Mr. Chappell Top Row 1: X, Stephan Cox, David Harper, Jens Koch, John McGowan, X, X, X, X Row 2: X, X, Peter Koszalka, X, X, Steve Parker, X, X Row 3: X, X, X, Eric Larusson, X, Jim Amstutz, X, X, Cathy Piazza
Eighth Grade	Teachers: Mr. McGowan Top Row 1: Jens Koch, Aaron Davis, David Harper, David Scalzi, Sue Ricks, Tracy Lees, Lanora Morse, Vicky O’Neal, Kathy Nevins, Tom McKinney, Mark Duncan, John McGowan, Daryl Herren, Rob Torres, Rusty Herren Row 2: Stephan Cocks, Paul Scarry, Eric Baker, Doug Bell, Scott Ervin, Danny Marks, Debbie Andis, Carl Harmon Row 3: Nick, Mark Lane, Pat Pineda, James Hennings, Brian Atkinson, Lewis Barringer, Gary Gabrielson, Charmae Bartlet, Leslie Perera, Anna Milligan, Peter Koszalka, Cathryn Callahan, Jim Amstutz, Jim Peitz, Sharon Turnboo Row 4: Kolin Sorbello, Dawn Vanbebber, Steve Thomas, Max Sidley, Kevin Carmody, Phillip Pettyjohn, Debie Wilson, Dave Henley, Mary Stepp, Trina Walker, Karen McKenzie, Steve Parker Row 5 (not sitting): Mike Lapacek, Cathy Piazza, Betty Laird, Eric Larusson, Tami Scarrow, Lori, Christine Montalbano, Tammy Larsen, Lisa Leguire Sitters: Steve Nunley, Tammy Tramposh, Tim Borem

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Now that I have your attention, my brother got married today to a wonderful young woman.

Scott and Candice Parker

Scott married into the “Knotts” family from Spanish Fork, UT, and Candice married into the Parker family from Pollock Pines, CA.

Scott’s entire “extended family” headed for American Fork, Utah, with only two exceptions: Kelsey, who’s on her mission in England right now, and Chris, who’s busily studying for the California Bar Exam. We missed them both! We took over one end of a floor of the new Springhill Suites in Lehi, UT (nice place, by the way, and Ashley was invaluable in our planning).

The wedding was held at the American Forks Temple, with a luncheon at Maglesby’s, followed by a reception at the Bungalow.

I’ve posted a temporary gallery of pictures at http://www.parkerpress.com/Misc/Parkers. Be aware that the location of that gallery and it’s content will be changing. I’ll be updating this post soon, but wanted to get it up on the web ASAP.

Tags: Candice,Parker,Scott,Utah,Wedding
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Title: The Year that Chip Wasn’t
When: February 6-9, 2009
Who: Chip, Jamie, Steve, Mark M, and Drew
Where: Summit County, Colorado (Copper Mountain and Breckenridge).

PreFlight:

This year was quite unplanned compared to our usual trips. With both Chip and I wondering what the job market would bring us, we didn’t really want to go too far.

So… Summit county it was. We rented a nice condo in the “Bill’s Ranch” area of Frisco, that would allow us get to many different ski areas, and bring Drew (Chip’s son) with us this year.

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Tags: Breckenridge,Colorado,Copper Mountain,Frisco,Skiapalooza,Skiing
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Sunset 29

We had a cold front come through town today, and the clouds lined up nicely for a spectacular sunset.It was windy enough that I had to anchor the tripod by hanging the backpack on it, and it got pretty chilly very quickly, but all in all, it was worth it as usual!

See the rest of the images below the break.

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Tags: Broomfield,CO,Colorado,Sunset
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53-Walking on the Thompson

After quite a bit of time not shooting, I had to make sure the camera still worked, and that I knew how to use it. When my friend Gregg mentioned that he wanted to take a trip up to Rocky Mountain National Park, to shoot landscape and the elk herds, I thought it’d be fun to go. Especially since it was supposed to be cold and snowy at home.

We headed up towards Estes Park, and saw some breaks in the clouds, which made us hopeful for good lighting. As we drove in, the weather got progressively worse. We stopped at the Fern Lake Trailhead, put on the Sorrel’s and started walking towards Fern Lake, shooting whatever we found. Lots of opportunity, and a LOT of white light out there. After the snow melts next spring, somebody is going to find a nice pair of gunmetal grey Bolle’s sitting on the ground between Cub Lake and the Fern Lake Trailhead. I searched and searched, but couldn’t find them. And I knew within about 30 meters of where I lost them. Bummer….

After a couple hours shooting along the creek, we headed up towards Bear Lake, and the snow got MUCH worse. Not much to shoot there. Far too much snow to get anything useful.

418-Elk in Horseshoe Meadow

Leaving there, we decided to head for Horseshoe meadows, since the elk tend to congregate there. But on the way, got distracted in by the heavy snow and some of the trees in the mist/fog/snow. I’ve brightened this up a little since it was so gray outside, but I like the look of the tree with the ridge-line obscured in the background. We must have spend an hour walking around in the heavy snow, with people driving by looking at us like we were strange. It’s funny how two guys shooting trees, bushes, pine-cones and landscapes in a snowstorm causes mutiple cars to stop and try to find the elk we’re taking pictures of. It was pretty funny.

A few of the many pictures I took can be seen in the gallery below the break.


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Panels from the North East

I finally made the decision to jump into some home improvements, one of which is putting a Solar PV array (Photo-voltaic) on the roof. I’m not home enough to benefit from solar heating, but I thought it would be interesting to see if I can end up with zero electricity bills at the end of each year.

Ali, a friend of mine, works at Conergy (a world-wide solar wholesale/distributor) and recommended that I talk to Bella Energy, an local installer who they work with often. I contacted Bella, and ended up purchasing a system from them (contact me for a reference if you’re interested).

For an east-facing roof (mine faces due east), I should expect to get about 77% of the efficiency of a south facing roof, which really surprised me. Apparently the panels work much better when cold (in the morning) than when warm (west-facing in the afternoon).

The market is getting a little crazy, what with rebates from the local electric company, and the recently changed law that gives you a 30% tax credit (of course, you pay income tax on the tax credit) so it’s really more like a 20% credit. The net cost to the consumer, after the rebate and the credit, is only about 30% of the price of the system. Given my “history” of electricity usage, I should be able to pay for the system in about 8-10 years, and that’s if the price of electricity doesn’t change at all (yeah, right).

The installers came out and had the whole thing installed in under 3 days, but won’t actually “hook it up” until after the first of the year, so that I can get the new tax credit (it went from a $2,000 credit to a 30% credit). The city will be doing their inspection soon, Xcelenergy will come install a “reversable electric meter”, and then we’ll fire up the whole thing in January. Below the break are some pictures of what it looks like, and a more detailed description of “what” was installed.

[edited on 11/24/2008] - I added some photos from the neighbors roof today.

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Tags: bella energy,conergy,photo-voltaic,pv,solar,solar array
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Talk about a unique talent. Check out some of the pix below the break and then the artists site at http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm .

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Tags: chalk,Julian Beever,street art
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George W. Eaton

While doing genealogical research, Mom ran across an old, hand-colored tin-type of George W. Eaton in her grandmothers archives. George is not related to us, but if he’s related to you, let us know and we’ll get the picture on it’s way to you ASAP.

This is a picture of George Eaton who was born in Missouri about 1840 and came across the plains to California. He lived in Paskenta, Tehama, California. He married Louisa Matilda Holland about 1860. He died 7 Oct 1920.

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Categories: Genealogy
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A while back, my Mom wrote a book called The Pollock Pines Epic that contained the local history about the town I grew up in (and where my parent’s still live today). The first edition of the book was published in 1988, and was followed by revision 2 in 1995.

This book has been out of print since then, and Mom has finally sold all the copies she printed. Rather than update it and do another print run, we discussed putting the content on the web.

While we’re not relinquishing the Copyright on the book, we did want to make it available to others for reading. So… being the “geek” I am, I created a website at http://www.thepollockpinesepic.com/ to host the uploaded book. I’ll be adding the embedded photos soon, as well as a photo album for pictures that weren’t originally associated with the book itself.

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Mom was doing research and found the following picture that somebody out there must be interested in. The picture was taken March 25, 1915 in Montana, probably Lincoln County. On the back, in pencil, were the following names:

Let us know if you’re interested in the original picture. This was in the possession of my great-grandmother, Elisabeth Smith, who lived in Eureka Montana during this time period.

We don’t have any other related information other than the photograph itself.

Steve

Tags: Genealogy,Grave Creek Band
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