About Town

By Ida Lessenden

June 27, 2003

The Eads Senior Citizens met Wednesday, June l8th at noon for a lovely pot luck dinner and business meeting with 41 present. Thanks to Shalyn Laird of the Prairie Queen 4-H Club who made the dinner rolls. She was assisted by Jennifer Negley. Pansy Foxworthy showed a video that is a new home business for her Kansas City family. They make videos for people on their family history and genealogy. Jane Winslow talked about a new program that helps people who qualify to make home repairs at about a 1% loan. For more information contact Faye Barber or someone at the Center. The next meal will be a supper on July 3^rd at 6:00 p.m. and the noon dinner on July 16^th that will be picnic foods.

Betty Jacobs spent several days in Oklahoma City visiting her daughter, Kas Davisson. Three of her granddaughters accompanied her, Melanie Walther and son, Lance of Burlington, Michelle Wolf, of Littleton, and Leah Beth Fischer, Arkansas City, Kansas. On Saturday they visited the museum to view the display of artifacts retrieved from the Titanic. It was amazing how well preserved everything is, leather, jewelry, suitcases, even pen and ink writing on some things. The display will be there until July 6^th when it will be moved elsewhere.

Sis (Louise) Howard of Eads and Marcy Ricke of Cheyenne Wells left early Wednesday morning to pick up Mona Appel in Lamar and headed for Oklahoma City where ladies from all over the nation converged last week. This was the site of the National Lutheran Women’s Missionary League Convention. Sis was looking forward to spending the week with her daughter, Dr. Angela Howard, at the convention. These Colorado ladies are officers of the Eastern Plains Zone LWML.

Our most sincere sympathy goes to Alice Weil whose son, Rob Weil, lost his life suddenly last week on his way home from work. His wife, Marsha, passed away two and a half months ago. Our heartfelt prayers and concern are with Alice and her families. His graveside service was to be held Thursday, June 26^th at Eads.

Robin Musgrave and Doris had a good time shopping in Lamar. They went to the eye doctor and also went to two ball games in Eads last week. Robin and her family helped her sister, Sue Musgrave, move to Unity Village in Eads.

Kyla Matthews of Colorado Springs visited me Tuesday afternoon before going to spend the evening with her friend, Lacy Law, who lives in Lamar.

With the coming of the end of June many of the youth are having their last baseball games. It has really been fun to watch them from our car as they come and go because the youth always are so eager to play. It is such a nice family time plus it really brings out the extended family of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, baby sitters, Sunday school teachers and neighbors who come to see the kids play.

Another interesting sight has been to see the local high school girls play ball. Unlike the boys they mostly wear a uniform with shorts or stretch pants. Last week our girls lost their first game this season to a quite experienced Stratton team. But they were still going to play another game that night.

Virgil and Wanda Lessenden, Glenda Stoker and children were over from Haswell to see Dylan Dixon and his team play T-ball. Some of those youngsters look so tiny, but what fun they have really running. They don’t appear to keep score, just have fun and isn’t that the way it should be? Monday night of this week, it was great to see all the extended families that came to see children play their last game. Some families that come to mind are: Uhland, Wollert, Weeks, Randel, Buck, Grasmick, Watts, Miller, Baxter, Spady,, Mitchell, White, Hammond, Coen, Saffer, Niemann, Koch, Gooden, Kraft,Philpy, Fox, Richardson, and many others.

Mountain men and women and their families met for the annual Rendezvous up on Big Sandy Creek southeast of Kit Carson. The people, who participate stay in Indian Teepees, wear "old time" clothing, cook out, camp out, and compete in games and skills of that period of time. James Deverman and Doris ventured out across the trail roads to see the site. She was so amazed by the abundance and beauty of the prairie flowers in the creek bed.

We were so delighted Wednesday evening to have Virgyln and Kristi Hirsch and children drive in from Manhattan, Kansas for a couple of days to visit us and to see cousin, Jacob’s , baseball game. I hadn’t seen the children since Christmas and they do grow so fast. Dwight dropped by to fix the wheels on my cart so they had a little visit too. That afternoon, Glenda Stoker and her children came over to visit. They love to paint pictures with their Aunt Doris and to help around the house. The boys picked up a lot of green apples but Doris didn’t know there were mulberries in the back yard too. Oh what a mess on the newly vacuumed and mopped floors!!

The FCE Progressive Club met at the Senior Citizen Center Thursday. 4-H members Tara Spady, Jennifer Negley, and Chevaun Glover gave talks and showed their Creative Cook table settings.

Pastor Don Lott and Tony Jensen, Youth Leader, took teenagers to Cedar Edge to the ten camp last week. That is a long trip over there, but worth all those miles.

Melissa Peterson’s reports about the Plains Art Gallery are so interesting. Readers enjoy reading about local artists. A "tip of the hat" to Kim (Philpy) Barlow who is gifted with so much talent and does marvelous works of art that have won some pretty grand prizes in shows the last few years. Melissa featured Kim in the Kiowa Press last week.

Harvey and Sandie Kelley are glad to have their granddaughter, Molly, here this week from Northglenn as are Lyle and Judy Beeson to have their granddaughter, Abbi, from, Lamar.

Millicent Spady, Brian James, and Megan Fickenscher were 4-H delegates to the State 4-H Conference on the Colorado State University campus in Fort Collins last week. They were accompanied by adult leader, Bonnie Lessenden and agents Kaye Kasza and Bruce Fickenscher.

Pastor Gary and Pastor DeEtta Geottel, Areta and Shalyn Laird were the representatives from the Eads-Haswell United Methodist Churches to the Annual Conference which was held on the campus of the University of Wyoming in Laramie last week.

Becca Specht and cousin, Erin Specht of Sheridan Lake and Towner and Andrew Adams of Rocky Ford have been the teen missionaries this week for the 5-Day Club we held in our home. They are trained by the Child Evangelism Fellowship leaders. These high school students are splendid storytellers, singers, and leaders. We are blessed to watch many children and youth come to our home this week to hear God’s word.

Ilene Eder, Faye Barber, Lacy Adamson, and Mary Anne Hulteen were the guests and worship leaders at the Haswell and Eads United Methodist Churches last Sunday. Mary Anne told about her trip to Israel and some of the work that her daughter, Liz, is doing in that country. Lacy blew the ram’s horn as people do in the Holy Land. This is a difficult feat for many people.