This weekend's events won't all be about the internal combustion engine as it turns out. Mormon Station Historic State Park will be hosting the Sierra Nevada Mormon Pioneers on Saturday. Those folks will be doing all sorts of things the first settlers of this Valley did using human power, including corn husk doll-making, rope making, fire starting (with flint and steel), leather working and period cooking.
Genoan Frank C. Saunders died Tuesday at the age of 85. He moved to Genoa in 1988 and was appointed to the Town Board not long after. Saunders was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and was a manufacturer's representative for a sheet metal firm.
He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Rosalie, daughter Rosalee Jo Saunders of Alameda, Calif.; daughter and son-in-law Robyn Jo Saunders and Patrick Sweeny of Gardnerville; and granddaughter Cori Schmitt and her husband, Henry, of San Leandro, Calif.
The Nevada Highway Patrol was investigating an injury accident at Buchannan and Kingsbury Grade around 10 p.m. on Thursday night. We don't have any other information about it. At present our information about an accident at the roundabout last weekend is limited to it was a woman driving a Mercury, according to the rumor mill, which could be installed in the middle of the roundabout and run by a large fan.
The weather is so nice it's boring. High's supposed to be 87 today, climbing into the 90s this weekend. Minden weather watcher Stan Kapler said the low got down to 38 on Tuesday. Joanne Skelly of the Cooperative Extension said the first frost is Sept. 15, still plenty of time to say farewell to those homegrown tomatoes.
