Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/18/14 7 days till Christmas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 Bombers sent stuff: Betty BELL ('51), Mike CLOWES ('54) Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Greg ALLEY ('73) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathryn JENSEN (53wb) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carole CLARK ('54) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dawn O'NEAL ('66) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susan NELSON ('67) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kay NORTON ('73) 12/18 CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "Flying Hat" Today http://www.radiolovers.com/pages/cinnamonbear.htm BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Betty BELL Norton ('51) The Richland Seniors Association's December dance will be Friday, December 19th from 1:00 - 3:45 at the Richland Community Center, 500 Amon Park Drive. The EASY SWING BAND plays great danceable music to about 50 happy dancers each month! The cost is only $6 at the door, good snacks are available and a nice door prize is given away each dance! Come and join us! I also want to wish my daughter, Kay NORTON Hass ('73) a happy 60th birthday on the 18th! Love you, honey! -Betty BELL Norton ('51) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) Holy Cow! It is the birthday of another Bomber Babe of my acquaintance. This one I actually knew back in the day. We were both detainees in Home Room 321 for the first two years. In the third year it was decreed that "home room" would be what ever class you were in for first period. She was one of the smartest Bomber Babes I knew back then. At any rate, it is good seeing her at the occasional Club 40 Annual Meetings. I will now tip the ol' propeller beanie, and hope you will join in the "Happy Birthday!" cheer for Carole CLARK ('54). I do hope she has a pleasant 20th birthday. -Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where weather guessers are bemoaning the lack of snow on Mount Hood **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62) Re: Gasoline prices I'm informed by a knowledgable friend in the oil refinery business on why the bottom has fallen out of gas prices, now beginning to resemble the inflation-adjusted price of the 1960s. Think Saudi Arabia... Until recently the Saudis controlled slightly over half the global supply and market for oil. Now they control slightly less than half, given the development of new oil supplies such as oil shale deposits ("fracking") in the United States. (The United States has become a net exporter of oil.) Unlike other producers, Saudi Arabia does not adjust supply to meet demand. Instead, they adjust their output ever upward--and the worldwide oil supply--to ensure a level national oil income for itself. Less profit per gallon induces more Saudi pumping, and global oversupply. Prices drop. Due to its higher extraction costs, oil shale will close down at some rock bottom price (so to speak), said to be $50 or $60/barrel, where we are now. More turbulence. Any other theories out there? -Pete BEAULIEU ('62) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Greg ALLEY ('73) Re: Bomber Bowl. The landscape of the Bomber athletic areas are sure changing in this cold weather. The old press box and bleachers on the original home field side are torn down and there will be all new seating and press boxes. It was indeed time as the building was in bad shape. I went to a game this past October and the bathrooms were really in bad shape. Also the old green building below the high school is now a newer building with roll up doors probably being used for storage. That building was used when I was young for summer activities. I was in the summer basketball leagues and you could also check out ping pong, shuffleboard, and other equipment in the summer months. -Greg ALLEY ('73) ~ in cold gray Richland looking towards spring **************************************************************** **************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ****************************************************************