With August a five-Wednesday-month, it ….
With August a five-Wednesday-month, it seemed like forever to end. Now we are into the first of the “ber” months, in fact a day or so past the first week’s TRG. Hopefully there are more nice days ahead and then we’ll be into Octo-ber which should bring our first frost and colorful fall colors.
Next will be Novem-ber with the end of Daylight Savings Time and Thanksgiving followed by Decem-ber, the shortest day of the year and Christmas.
Starting a new calendar brings us two “uary” months, lots of cold weather and then into March and spring. Hopefully it will slip by fast.
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The 2022 Corn Fest is now history and I think people watching the parade got the idea that Loyal has plenty of corn pickers, shiny cars and lots of big trucks.
Too bad rain had to dampen some of the festival and I would suggest a bit of a change in the program. For years the Corn Festival began with a Community Church Service. Then the queen coronation got put ahead of it, and hardly enough time for people to take in the coronation and attend the Corn Festival Church services which moved to one of the local churches.
With all the flooding, drought and bad weather in other parts of the nation we should have been giving thanks for the beautiful weather we had all summer and ask His blessings on our Festival.
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Kris Knack Noeldner has a terrific collection of old photos. Almost every day she has something on Facebook. Today she had one of herself working at the TRG in her high school days. Donna Hills Geiger had to add her two cents worth and Scott Schultz had an old, but true story to tell.
Seems we were getting at the end of one type of typesetting equipment and ready for a new kind. So he and I left one morning on a journey. Our first stop was at Osseo where we visited the Osseo newspaper. It was getting close to lunch and I suggested to Mrs. Jensen, co-publisher of the Osseo paper, that probably a visit to the Norske Nook would be in order. She kind of chuckled and wished us well. This was in the days before the new building. We got there and had a choice. We could wait for a table, or share one with someone. We chose the latter. Then as we were getting ready to leave a line had developed way out into the street.
Lying on the floor by the cash register was a gentleman banging his hand on the floor and calling out, “Just bring me my pie right here.”
That was Scott’s first visit to the Norske Nook.
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Last week’s TRG had a picture of John and Gladys Olsen on their 75th wedding anniversary. Quite an occasion and congratulations. I believe John is also one of, or the oldest, World War II Veteran in the community.
The Medford Star-News newspaper had a picture and story that tops about anything I have read. Seems two sisters, Eileen and Rosemary Marzynski graduated from the Stratford High School. Eileen in 1951 and Rosemary in 1952.
Graduating in 1950 were Roger Kaiser and Larry Spaeth, also from Stratford. On August 22, Roger and Eileen celebrated their 71st anniversary and on the 13th, Larry and Rosemary celebrated their 70th.
Now get this. Both couples had 12 children and Roger and Eileen 37 grandchildren and 50 great grandchildren. Larry and Rosemary have 36 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren. They say there are more on the way.
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I am having a problem. I want to write about someone old, but suddenly remember they probably aren’t as old as I am. Should I say a younger older person, or someone getting close to my age?
Should I set an old person as someone over 75? That’s getting pretty close to one of my sons-in-laws in a few years. If I want someone to help with something I sure wouldn’t want to ask an old man.
For sure some days I don’t feel as old as I claim to be. I give credit to the Clark County Living Center. They sure make it is easy to stay young.
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The closer we get to the November election the more confused I become. Part of it I’ll blame on the television networks. They put the small printing under the ad to identify the sponsor in small white ink.
Secondly it all happens so fast you couldn’t read it all if you wanted to. Then the real killer comes from the topic of the ad. Normally you would think the ad is for the people or businesses sponsoring the ad. Not so. It is just an attack on one of the other candidates. Then you add to the confusion of just what a candidate wants. A candidate running for governor wants people to vote for him and claims to be against public education. How could we in the rural area be against public education? We wait patiently to learn what our state aids will be each year and set the annual budget by what we expect it to be. Is he telling us, if elected, there will be no state aid for public school? According to some of the yard signs out there, an awful lot of people think he’s the man for the job. The fact is he has had no governmental experience. After four years with a President with the same qualifications, I get a little nervous.
