Sisters tour Oregon in August

Memphis resident Ruth Bryant (left) and her sister, Frances Stark of Atlanta, spent 10 days touring Oregon in August. The siblings drove along the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic area to Mt. Hood National Forest where they lunched at the Timberland Lodge; visited the Internal Rose test garden in Portland and enjoyed their drive south along the Oregon coastline.  They are pictured at Crater Lake National Park in Crater Lake, OR.

Last trip to Ireland, daughter returning to Memphis

White Station High School and Christian Brothers University graduate Onika Huggins (right), treated her mother, Dolores Townsend, to a birthday trip to Ireland in late August. In addition to kissing the Blarney Stone, the two traveled extensively throughout both northern Ireland and the central and southeastern sections of the Republic of Ireland. This was Townsend’s second trip to visit Huggins. Huggins is a manager in the Pfast Global Operations at Pfizer Inc. After almost six and a half years, Huggins’ project in Ireland ended and she is scheduled to return to Memphis in early November. The two are pictured near Glandore, County Cork, Ireland at the Drombeg stone circle also known as The Druid’s Altar.

From the South Rim to the North Rim in two days

(Top) Hikers Paul ‘Spunky’ Ireland (from left), Dennis Detrick, Dorothy Criswell, Van Criswell, John Bookas, Shan Criswell, Kellye Worthington, Teresa Morris, Don Morris and Henry Boyd are pictured before beginning their trek from the South to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. (Center) Kathy Detrick (from left), Kathy Connell and Debi Bookas dropped off 10 hikers at the South Rim then drove two vehicles nearly 215 miles to pick them up. (Below) Bartlett residents and hikers (from left) Henry Boyd, Van Criswell, Shan Criswell, Paul “Spunky” Ireland, Dorothy Criswell, John Bookas, Kellye Worthington, Teresa Morris (Senetobia), Dennis Detrick (Greenwood, IN) and Don Morris (Senetobia) returned from the South Rim Sept. 19. The group hiked about 10 miles at 7,000 feet above sea level down the Bright Angel Trail, then crossed the Colorado River to the Phantom Ranch cabins at 2,500 feet where they spent two nights. Afterwards they hiked 14 miles along the north Kaibab Trail to the North Rim, about 8,000 feet above sea level. The group was dropped off at the South Rim Sept. 17 by Kathy Detrick, Kathy Connell and Debi Bookas who then drove two vehicles nearly 215 miles to meet them at the North Rim.

(Seated from left)  Teresa Morris, Don Morris, Kellye Worthington; (standing) Henry Boyd, John Bookas, Dennis Detrick, Shan Criswell, Paul Ireland, Dorothy Criswell and Van Criswell are pictured in front of the cabin they resided in at the Phantom Ranch in the bottom of the canyon.

(Above) Experienced hiker Paul ‘Spunky’ Ireland tackles the trail with ease. (Below) Ireland is pictured in the canyon.