5 YEARS AGO (2019)

Pictured in The Idaho Enterprise is the new bishopric for the Malad St. John Ward. From left to right, front row: Second Counselor Justin Edwards, Bishop Austin Tubbs, First counselor Nathan Adams: back row, Ward Clerk Kevin Degn, Ward Executive Secretary Kade Price.

The third annual Spirit of Christmas Light Parade was held on Saturday night, November 30, and was a huge success!

Twenty-five entries in the parade lined up in front of the Oneida County Library to start the parade, following a route through downtown Malad. The procession went past the Nell J. Redfield Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home so that residents could enjoy the parade too. To add to the festivities, the Christmas lights on the trees on Main Street, the lighted wreaths on the poles and the decorations in the Co-op and Museum windows made it seem like a Christmas wonderland!

After the parade, hot chocolate was enjoyed at the Malad Fire Station, followed by an amazing fireworks show, all sponsored by the Malad Volunteer Fire Department.

The annual Thanksgiving Day Turkey Basketball Tournament was held on thanksgiving evening, November 28. There were four teams competing in the tournament this year.

The tournament was won by the team of Tyrell Hubbard, Brody Hubbard, Nishon Neal, Joshua Jensen, Zack Jeppsen, Carson Hoskins and Joe Sohler.

Also in the Championship game was the team of Steve Atkinson, Wacey Jones, Layne Moeller, Michael Corbridge, Logan Alder, Tyler Baker, Brett Panting and Jess Blaisdell.

Six members of the Malad High School Dragonettes were delighted to perform in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with Spirit of America Productions. Seven girls were scheduled to participate, but unfortunately, Alyssa Blaisdell was injured. Even though she couldn’t perform during the parade, she was still able to make the trip and cheer her teammates at the sidelines!

Attending were Dragonettes, McKinna Owens, Rebekah Smith, Bailey Timothy, Sydney Carey, Alexis Shaw, Rayleigh Barnes and Alyssa Blaisdell, their coach Callie Werk, and friends and family members.

10 YEARS AGO (2014)

Malad Mayor Spence Horsley has announced his retirement as of Wednesday, December 11, 2011, after 19 years of service to Malad City. Horsley served for about a year as a member of the Malad City Counsel before he was elected mayor in November of 1996. He took office on January 10, 1996, replacing former Mayor Terrill Schwartz.

Shyanne Cherry’s name was chosen from 158 other perfect attendance achievers from Malad Elementary as the winner of the school’s Perfect Attendance Contest. Pictured in The Idaho Enterprise, she is shown beside Principal Robert Hannah with her brand new, lime green bicycle.

Parker Peterson is the winner of an Apple iPad Mini in the Malad High School Perfect Attendance contest. Principal John Cockett at Malad High School handed out the iPad during the drawing which included all the names of the high school students with perfect attendance.

15 YEARS AGO (2009)

Elder Michael Williams has accepted a call to serve a two-year mission in the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will enter the Missionary Training Center on December 2. He is the son of Mike and Tami Williams.

Chase Beecher is pleased and honored to be coming back to his home town, Malad to perform comedy at the Iron Door Playhouse.

Ten members of the Malad High School Chapter of the FFA received Greenhand Degrees. Nine of the degree recipients were first year FFA members.

Those earning degrees were Carrie Christiansen, Shannon Williams, Nicole Hubbard, Natalie Felter, Kyle Daniels, Clint John, Chance Boyer, Quinn Eliason, Braxton Eliason and Hunter Clark.

Malad High School Football players claimed many spots on the All-Conference team for the 2A Fifth District. Earning the honors were Bubba Crump, Jordan Schwartz, Riker Carter, Kaden Goddard, Caleb Bennett, Tallen Boyer, Tyrell Hubbard, Jason Gilgen, Braden Bennett, Cody Hess, Bracken Gibbs, Jeremy McClellan, Jordan Hansen, Lance Roe, Donovan Hollis and Buddy Southwick.

20 YEARS AGO (2004)

Ten-year old Brooklyn Richardson is pictured standing by the Huffy 20-inch bicycle that will be given away at the Malad Merchants’ Coloring contest Drawing. She was last year’s Grand Prize winner.  The Grand Prize bicycle is being furnished by Dr. Steve and Sherrie Johnson of Malad Valley Clinic.

While there’s snow on the ground outside, most of the snowmen are in the Pioneer Museum Window. This display belongs to Debra Clark. She has been collecting snowmen for at least 15 years, maybe even longer.  She doesn’t know for sure how many snowmen there are but she knows there are a lot, and what’s more, they’re not all in the museum window.

The Malad High School boys’ basketball team had the chance to open their season in the Delta Center and winning their opening game playing against American Falls. Playing for the team in Salt Lake were Jake Sorensen, Danny Hess, Wacey Jones, Shae Neal, Steve Atkinson, Skylar Richins, Tyler Baker, Michael Corbridge, Bobby Hannah, Trevor Ward and Chris Semrad. Also, the Dragonettes performed their competition kick routine to the large local crowd attending the Malad Basketball game.

Pictured in The Idaho Enterprise are the All-District Football team. Those on the First Team are Matt Thomas, Jeremy Showell, Bryan Jones, Tyler Baker and Josh Corbridge. The Second-Team selections are Patrick Bennett, Parker Allen, Challis Sweeten, Levi Christiansen, Brady Robbins, Skylar Richins, Daniel Wilcock and Kevin Cudney.

30 YEARS AGO (1994)

Con and Roma Jean Alder, Jerry and Dixie Bush, Don and Carol Eliason and Gene and Wanda Edwards left of November 12 for a one-week cruise aboard the “Love Boat”. Along the way they encountered Hurricane Gordon and some pretty rough seas, but Con still managed to get into the act on the evening dinner show, and Dixie and Jerry won the dance contest. They had stops in Montego Bay in Jamaica, as well as Cozumel, Mexico.

Ernest Palmer, son of Tom and Edna Palmer and graduate of Malad High School, is a 1994 Alumni Award of Excellence recipient at the University of Idaho.

FFA members of the Malad Chapter enjoyed a trip to the National FFA Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. Those attending are Tyrell Thomas, Travis White, Dixie Scott, Trissten Asay, Phillip Atkinson, Clayton Showell, Riley Jones, Austin Tubbs, Bryson Nalder, Dale Davis and Seth Sweeten.

Lowell D. Castleton, a magistrate judge in Preston, Idaho and former Malad resident, has been named winner of the prestigious Donna J. Stone award, given annually by the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse.

Brandy Lyon, Tanya Ward and Crystal Anderson of the Malad Chapter of Future Homemakers of America (FHA/HERO) recently participated in a weekend leadership training conference held in Denver, Colorado.

40 YEARS AGO (1984)

Melvin and Bertha Hess announced that they have been called to serve a six-month Leadership Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Ohio, Cleveland Mission.

Stella Budge (Mrs. Lawrence Budge) has been busy playing Santa’s helper. Stella has spent many hours selecting materials for dresses, aprons, leggings and bloomers. Not only does she make Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls for Christmas presents but she makes toy elephants, quilts, pillows, bookmarkers and kitchen hanging towels to mention a few. 

50 YEARS AGO (1974)

The local Presbyterian Church will celebrate its 90th anniversary on Saturday, December 14 at
the church.

Stan’s IGA is celebrating their 25th anniversary in their supermarket here. Stan Thomas has been in the grocery business since 1939. Eight of the 11-member staff is shown in a photograph in The Idaho Enterprise. Those pictured in the photo are Rik Villegas, Stan Thomas, Tim Thomas, Mark Price, Marvin Thomas, Genevie Colton, Bud Waldron and Pat Hawkins. Missing from the photo is Wanda Goddard, who has been employed in the store since the new store opened in 1961.

Don and Carol Eliason, Leo and Leora Brown, Nolan and Iris Blaisdell, Foster and Kathy Ipsen of Malad and Florence Bowman, Rexburg, left for a vacation in Hawaii. Meeting them there will be the Eliasons’ daughter, Judy, who is returning from an LDS Mission in Japan.

Kim Hess was winner of the trap shoot sponsored here on November 29 by the Aaronic Priesthood and Young Women’s Youth program. He was awarded a turkey.

Three FFA members have received loans under the Farmers Home Administration Youth
Loan program.

Colen Sweeten is using his loan to finance a wheat project and Kelly Fuhriman and Greg McCartney are financing beef projects.

60 YEARS AGO (1964)

To start off the Thanksgiving weekend, the Junior class presented a Thanksgiving play, which featured a feud between the “Mush Mouses and the Punkin Pusses”.

Various talent numbers were presented by each side. Carol Dawn Ward did a modern dance; Kristi Champneys sang; Jill Jones gave a humorous reading; Lugene Jones played a piano solo and Annette Davis sang. The play ended with the feudin’ families joining together at a Thanksgiving feast.

How does Oneida County’s heart disease problem, including the incidents of strokes among the local population, compare with the situation in other communities? They show that 53.8 percent of all deaths locally, over the course of a year, are due to some form of
heart disease. 

Throughout the United States as a whole, the proportion of 56.3 percent and, in the Mountain States, 47.2 percent. The ratio in the State of Idaho is 52.8 percent.

70 YEARS AGO (1954)

New pledges from Malad are now attending meetings in a national fraternity at Utah State Agricultural College. They are Terry Conley and Ned Baker, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. During fall quarter rush, the men accepted bids in traditional “down-the-hill” ceremonies. Terry the son of Mr. and Mrs. U. H. Conley, is a freshman majoring in physical education. Ned is a junior business administration major. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Baker.

AMERICAN FALLS – Farmers in Idaho’s Arbon Valley have organized a 24-member vigilante group to halt thefts of cattle and other property.

“These vigilantes,” said Sheriff Rulon Neal, “mean business and I mean to stand behind them with every force of the law.”

“It would be wise for persons with bad intentions to stay out of the valley, for we are out
after them.”

The sheriff said the vigilante organization was set up because law enforcement agencies lack sufficient personnel to patrol the isolated valley effectively.

W. W. Thomas, advancement chairman for the Scouts, announces that a cooking school for all Scouts interested in passing tests for cooking will be held at the First Ward L.D.S.  Park. All boy scouts are invited to attend and are requested to bring their own cooking utensils.

The MHS Class of 1955 held the annual Senior Ball, Wednesday night. Class president, DeVon Tippets, crowned Queen Rula Isaacson and presented corsages to the queen and her two attendants, Margaret Jones and Billie Ann Thorpe. Janice Ward sang the theme song, “Tree in the Meadow.”

Approximately 100 attended the one-act play, “Monkey’s Paw”, a fantasy by W. W. Jacobs. The play cast consisted of David Grover, Erma Jean Dorius, Eric Jones, Blair Gleed and Gordon Simpson. Mark Vaughan represented their Stage Manager and Master of Ceremonies.

Lynn Isaacson has recently been called to the Western States Mission stationed at Denver, Colorado.  Elder Isaacson will leave January 6 for the mission home.

80 YEARS AGO (1944)

Pvt. Wallace N. Facer has been assigned to the supply section of the largest air service command in Britain helping to rush high priority equipment to our advanced airfields on the continent. He is the son of Willard D. Facer of Malad.

Mr. and Mrs. Morgan T. Jones received a telegram Monday from their son, Flight Officer Morgan H. Jones who has been in England, stating that he had arrived at Jackson, Mississippi, where he is in the hospital for treatment for injuries of his arm received overseas. He is a glider pilot and participated in D-Day and Southern France invasions.