Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/18/14
   7 days till Christmas
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4 Bombers sent stuff: 
Betty BELL ('51), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Greg ALLEY ('73)
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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.
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>>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)
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>>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
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>>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)
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>>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
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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