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Wayne D Eckman, and his 9 lives!  He will be 85 this September 18th, and on September 24th we will have been married 60 years.  I want to record our latest adventure with my husband Wayne D Eckman, and add updates often.   He started radiation for esophageal cancer just yesterday, and had a treatment again today, and also today will have a dialysis treatment.  This entry below was only the 3rd entry I put in my new blog, which I started Nov. 14, 2013.  Then I will add some recent history. ------------------ Wayne and Blaine were born  identical twins on September 18, 1930 in Murray, Utah.  I was born October 6, 1934, in St. George, Utah.  The twins were not expected to live the night and so were given a name and a special Priesthood blessing that night.  They were blessed then to live a mature life, and fulfill their missions on this earth.  Blaine fulfilled his and has passed on to a better place.  Wayne has had open heart sur...

This is something we all should be aware of, and educate ourselves on how to help combat this growing evil.  Yes, the conference will be here in St. George, and many live far from here.  I may not be able to go, but I'll try and be able to put some notes about it in future columns after it happens. Southern Utah Conference on Protecting Families from Pornography and Harmful Media By Geoff Steurer, MS, LMFT  · August 27, 2015 If you’ve ever struggled to know how to talk with your children about pornography, harmful media, body image, and other difficult topics, you are not alone. In fact, many parents wonder how they can talk about these unsavory issues with their children without harming their children or creating unhealthy curiosity. As much as we’d all like to protect our children from the daily tsunami of trash flowing out of screens small and large, we must develop better approaches to navigate these rising waters. Instead of wringing our hand...

They Call It 1000 Islands Just Take a Look What is There Aerial view showing some of the many islands of the Thousand Islands. The Thousand Islands is an archipelago consisting of exactly 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada-U.S. border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. They stretch for about 80 km on St. Lawrence Seaway, but the largest clustering of islands falls between Cape Vincent and Alexandria Bay in the United States and Kingston and Rockport in Canada. The islands range in size from over 40 square miles to smaller islands occupied by a single residence, to even smaller uninhabited outcroppings of rocks that are home to migratory waterfowl. The number of islands was determined using the criteria that any island must be above water level all year round, have an area greater than 1 square foot, and support at least one living tree. The largest of these islands is Wolfe Island which is about 29 km long and 9...

I was at this ground-breaking, sitting in the warm sun at 8:30 a.m.!   I was at this groundbreaking, sitting in the warm sun at 8:30 a.m.!   It is exciting and I have been training to be a volunteer there.  I want to keep up on the latest technology, if it is at all possible.  I was starting there, and we found this week that my husband, Wayne, has esophogeal cancer, and we don't know yet what kind of treatment, or no treatment, (at age 85 in September) will be in our future.   Our 60th wedding anniversary will be on September 24, 2015 -- married September 24, 1955.  LDS Church breaks ground for first-of-its-kind St. George FamilySearch Library By  R. Scott Lloyd ,  Church News staff writer Published: Saturday, Aug. 15 2015 3:00 p.m. MDT Updated: Monday, Aug. 17 2015 12:25 p.m. MDT View 5 photos » Elder Allan F. Packer of the LDS First Quorum of the Seventy speaks to attendees at the groundbreaking ceremony fo...