Alumni Sandstorm ~ 10/06/14
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9 Bombers sent stuff: 
Mike CLOWES ('54), Larry MATTINGLY ('60)
Margaret EHRIG ('61), David DOUGLAS ('62)
Jim HAMILTON ('63), Linda REINING ('64)
Pat DORISS ('65), Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Betti AVANT ('69)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary COLLINS ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Harvey IRBY ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Willie MITCHELL ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam PYLE ('69)

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

Boy! Did I miss one? I'm probably now on the proverbial list,
maybe even worse. I forget Gina WILLIAMS' ('54) birthday [10/5]
yesterday. Oh, the shame, the horror, the humanity. And I can't
blame the ol' propeller beanie for this good. I could, but we all
know it can't read. I could even say that I lost the "stickie",
but I don't use them, so there you are. A belated birthday
greeting for this Bomber Babe, fellow classmate and fellow worker
(for a time) at the North Star.

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR  where the 
      weather guessers are calling for "nice" weather through next
      weekend. By "nice", they mean no rain. 
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>>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60) 

Re: The Great Pumpkin Caper

At Entertainment Fireworks our business is fireworks displays for
a huge variety of reasons. While July 4th is over 50% of our
business the rest of the year we never know what the phone may
ring for. But client's request comes first (safely of course).

Last Wednesday the 1st of October Jackie and I left the house at
5:45am headed to an undisclosed location near LaCenter, WA where
we were to blow up as many as 50 pumpkins in front of very
expensive professional level high speed cameras. The results were
to be used in a "Pumpkin Busting Sale" promotion, including a TV
campaign.

We drove up to a crowd, Make-up lady doing the face of the
actress, a full movie-set crew running cables and lights and
screens to filter the sunlight. A director was viewing the scene
and setting camera positions. They wanted to do all of the actress
work first. But I suggested a test shot so they would know what to
expect. So the client says "OK pop a pumpkin".

I had tested several shots a couple of days before so I would look
as if I knew what I was doing in front of cameras. I pushed the
button and the pumpkin went bang and the pieces flew in perfect
formation for high speed photography. Everybody cheered, and got
down to business.

After we shot about 15 shots the client says "that's a wrap" and
turned to us and said "you have so totally satisfied our needs
that we have more then enough film that is perfect in all
respects". "Mark your calendar as we will do this again next
year". "E-mail us your invoice and we will cut the check
immediately". "This was a very satisfying experience" and he 
shook my hand.

Everybody tuned to and helped pick up the pieces. The worst part
was what someone called "pumpkin snot" was sticky, slimy, smelly,
goo caused by the explosives and was scattered all over the area. 

Our client is confidential until they are ready to break it out.
But it will be on U-tube sometime on the 14th of Oct and the TV
campaign will begin shortly after that.

You can see a sample of what we did on Jackie's blog. Click on the
URL below.

  http://www.travelpod.com/z/jackies-world/133/1412558802 

"Happiness is popping pumpkins" 
-J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60) ~ from Home south of Tacoma on a very 
      nice sunny day.
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>>From: Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
      Judy WILLOX ('61)
   	Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)

Re: All Bomber Lunch ~ aka Patti's All Bomber Lunch

To: All Richland/Col-Hi Bombers

It is time to start raking leaves. Football has started and it is
almost time for the pumpkins to be carved. Grab some friends and
come join us at the All Bomber Lunch held the second Saturday of
each month.

WHEN: Saturday, October  11, 2014 (always 2nd Saturday)
TIME: We gather about noon or 12:30
WHERE: JD DINER, 3790 West Van Giesen, West Richland
       (Second building on the right after crossing the 
        Yakima River Bridge.)

-Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
-Judy WILLOX (Classic Class of '61) ~ Richland
-Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)

On this day in 1998, Patty BEZZIO ('63-RIP), my first genuine
love, left behind the ethnic folk music she enjoyed to join a
celestial choir.

I was Patty's first date and first boyfriend. Our first date was
to our German class Christmas party at the Army Officers' Club in
North Richland. When I asked her to go with me, she screamed, and
we had to come in after school to write 200 times, "I am a menace
to the good of society," in German. A few nights before the date 
I dreamed that when I went to pick her up for the party, she was
wearing blue jeans. I called her the next day and she assured me
she was going to wear a lavender dress. 

I was about to leave to pick her up the night of the party when
her mother called. Patty was sick and couldn't go. I told her if
Patty couldn't go I didn't want to go either. About a half hour
later her mother called again to say Patty was feeling better and
would like to go, if I still wanted to. I said I'd come get her.
She was indeed wearing a dress and I managed to pin her orchid
corsage on without drawing blood. We got to the party after
everyone had finished eating, but they had saved some food for us.
I ate mine, but Patty took a few bites and spent the remainder of
the evening in the restroom throwing up. 

When Christmas vacation was over I asked her to go to a basketball
game with me. She didn't scream or throw up that time. Later she
admitted she was so nervous on our first date that she made
herself sick. In spite of that, she became my steady date until
shortly after I graduated. 

Patty was also the first girl I asked to kiss good night. She said,
"Yes, but please do it before we get to my house."

We had our ups and downs, but I learned much about love from her
and have many happy and poignant memories. Thank you, Patty. Rest
in peace.

  http://alumnisandstorm.com/Obits/pics/RIP63BezzioPatty00mem.htm

-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)

Re: Buon Compleanno

I've waiting to receive my Poor Work Slip from my Rosetta Stone
Italian program. Back when the forever young and always lovely
Miss Nancy ('65) and I were living in the Bel Paese (not the
cheese), I fancied myself as being pretty damn good when it came
to whippin' my Italian on the locals. I've now decided that I must
have sounded like an untuned accordion and that my Señor Maruca
taught Spanish (what I remembered) was not the great base for
communication I imagined. When I took Vietnamese on Uncle Sugar's
dime at DLISW, I reached a "Me Tarzan You Jane" level of
proficiency in only about 10 weeks, you might say I do have a
gift. So forty some years later and with an extended trip back to
Italy in the works for next May, I've decided to "refresh" my
abilities. My "Learning Mode" bus missed my stop some time back,
so I'm kind'a having to walk my way and it's a good thing too,
because it's a long ways, but I have seven months to get there.

I digress. The Birthday Day girl, was and is, one of the South
End's finest and never ceases to make me smile. I found this
picture of our fifth grade class 

   http://rhs63.tripod.com/63LC5th-Brinkman.html

and it gave me pause, because at least eight of our class members
have left us. I can remember nearly all the names and there are
memories when I look into each face. I can see that Jerry KERN was
clean shaven that day, Chico has on his teepee creepers and I sure
hope that's a poorly placed rabbit's foot hanging from Bobby
Chipmunk's belt. I expect I'll get a call about 8:32am, giving me
Hell and telling me that I've ruined her birthday, again. Then
when we muster in Olympia on December 6th at 10:00am for the
GMC63MCCS Christmas Gala (see how I deftly worked in a plug),
she'll pick up where she left off.

Happy Birthday to Mary Margaret COLLINS ('63) one of the Atkins
Street Beauties. They just don't make them like her any more, and
it's a shame.
			-jimbeaux

-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)

Been a long time since I have written into the Sandstorm... been
a busy few months. My son-in-law took a job in Idaho, so he moved
to Meridian the end of May... my daughter, their two kids and I
were all in Bakersfield, til the house sold... we moved up here
the end of September. they bought a home in Kuna... small town
outside of Meridian... we are in the Boise area... think we are
about 20 miles from Boise, if that much. am LOVING this weather...
70s and 80s during the day, 60s at night. can't wait for Winter
and SNOW... been over 40 years since I have lived where it
snowed... everyone says this area doesn't get a lot of snow, but
we are only about 45 minutes from Bogus Basin and it is the place
where they all go for snow sports and playing in the snow... can't
wait... course, this blasted arthritic knees and hips might keep
me from actually making snow angels, but won't be from a lack of
trying. *grin* another "plus" is that I am only about 4 hours from
Richland, so will be close enough to go "home" and visit family
and friends who are still in the area.

My youngest daughter and her son are still in Bakersfield, which
is only a 13 hour drive, so we will be making plenty of trips back
down there, too... and they are both coming here for Christmas...
can't wait... she is an elementary school teacher, so has two
weeks off, so they will spend that time, here... am excited for
that, too. 

-Linda REINING ('64) ~ Kuna, ID   
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>>From: Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)

Re: George BARNETT ('63-RIP)

I just received a phone call from my friend and classmate, Beth
BARNETT Vickstrom ('65). She asked me to submit an entry to the
Sandstorm notifying Bombers that her brother, George, passed away
in his sleep early this morning (October 5th) at his summer cabin
in Pinetop, AZ.

Tentatively, services will be held Thursday (October 9th) in
Tucson, AZ (location and time TBD) with burial on Friday (October
10th) at the National Cemetery in Sierra Vista, AZ. Beth will
provide more information/details when she has it.

If you'd like to contact Beth, I can give you her email address
and cell phone number..

Rest in Peace, George!

-Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)

Re: John FANKHAUSER ('80), front lines of Ebola crisis in Liberia
  10/5/14 Tri-City Herald  

      "As a young man growing up in Richland, FANKHAUSER, now
      52, would talk about becoming a doctor and working in a
      developing country. ‘He's always had a real heart for
      missions. I've always looked up to him for that,' said
      his younger brother, Don, a teacher in Kennewick. ‘He
      didn't go into (medicine) to make a lot of money. He
      wanted to help people.' FANKHAUSER works with Serving
      in Mission, or SIM, an international Christian mission
      organization, at a hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. "

-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland   where our weather is
      in the 80s again for a few days
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)

Re: Badger Mountain

I conquered Badger Mountain again on Saturday for breast cancer
awareness. I had to stop more times than I could count but came
back with all 10 toenails this year. I did bandage the one I lost
last year as it has just come back totally after 10 1/2 months
when I was told it would take a year. I see both cancer doctors
on Friday, a 4-month follow-up (had been every 3 up until this 
one). 

Have a great week Bombers everywhere. 

-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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