Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/02/17 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 Bombers sent stuff and heard about 3 Bomber deaths today: Marilynn WORKING ('54), Mike CLOWES ('54) Wayne MYERS ('62), Earl BENNETT ('63) David RIVERS ('65) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Keith ARNDT ('60) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kent MADSEN ('65) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patti SNIDER ('65) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Randy RICE ('73) BOMBER LUNCH: Class of '60, 11:30, 3 Margaritas (1st Sat) 12/02 23 days till Christmas CINNAMON BEAR - Listen to "The Inkaboos" (Episode #4) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) Re: Glenn OLSON ('54-RIP) With sorrow is am letting our classmates know of the passing of one of our dear friends, Glenn OLSON! Glenn, 81, passed away after a three month fight against lymphoma of the brain. Glenn is survived by his wife of 61 years, Beverly EDWARDS Olson ('56), son Kyle and daughter Serene Mathews, granddaughter Natasha Blockoff and great grandson Archer Blockoff. Bev has let me know that there will be no service, but the family will get together in the Spring to honor Glenn's memory! His obituary is in the Willapa Harbor Herald, Raymond, WA. We will miss Glenn so much and send condolences to all of his family and friends who loved him. Glenn and Beverly live in Vancouver, Wa and I am so happy they came to Club 40 in 2016 to celebrate our classmates' 80th birthday! Rest Easy, Glenn! -Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Enjoying NO snow right now in Pasco!! We have been so lucky with the super weather in the Tri-Cities, even tho it is in 30s at night! ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) I guess I had a "senior moment" on Thursday. I was supposed to acknowledge the birthday of a fellow classmate. I certainly hope I'm not pulling a McKEOWN (Jim '53) here, because I did look at the calendar, and the list in the other computer. So, I must have "spaced" out. A tip of the propeller beanie and a belated "Happy Birthday!" to Pat NORDMAN ('54) yesterday. Please don't send Pete after me cuz I forgotted. -Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where Hazelnutfest closes today ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Wayne MYERS ('62) Re: Cinnamon Bear (CB) To: Mike FRANCO ('70) Mike, My family in Richland was probably average in owning our first TV set in about 1955. Before that we listend to the radio for indoor entertainment. Cinnamon Bear was to we of Class of '62 as Sesame Street was to our children and YouTube is to my grandchildren. CB was a serialized radio program that was aired every afternoon between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The bear had amazing, fantastical adventures that we dared not miss as plot and suspense built from day-to-day. My wife, Lyndy WHEELER (also '62) bought the cassette tapes of CB for our granddaughters, but they wouldn't sit still for it. Different times, children take different imaginary journeys. Obviously the CB had passed into oblivion and was no longer on the air when you were a young pup. -Wayne MYERS ('62) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [I put a YouTube link a the top of the SS every day with the name of that day's episode. Today's is "The Inkaboos"... and I'll "have" to listen to it before I put it in the SS... gotta make sure it's the right link. Granddughters (ages 15 n 13) won't sit still for it. Grandson (9) will, but likes to binge listen and catch up. -Maren] ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Earl BENNETT ('63) Re: Cinnamon Bear To: Mike FRANCO ('70) Mike: Maren may have a lot of responses to handle tonight! You should have been old enough to hear it. Back in the '50s, not sure exactly when, there was a radio program that was broadcast on one of the Tri-Cities' stations (?KALE, KORD?) every year starting on Nov 29. Two of my sisters and I, and maybe a third one before it stopped being aired, would listen every week day at about 4 or 5 for the half hour episode. Evil witch [Wintergreen Witch. -Maren] comes out of a picture on the wall and steals the [silver] star off the Christmas tree, so the children go into the picture to chase after it and try to retrieve it, but there are numerous bad characters who keep getting in the way, so it takes until Christmas Eve for the story to resolve. At least, that's what I remember of the basic plot, could be minor discrepancies. I acquired the audio cassette tapes a few years ago, and I keep telling myself to let the grandchildren experience it, but I never get around to it. If it was broadcast only on weekdays instead of every day, as I seem to remember, then I could get it started this weekend and still have them finish it by Christmas Eve. However, they're an hour away, and I'm not sure I can make it happen this year, again. Paddy O'Cinnamon (the Cinnamon Bear) has a great Irish accent and is deeply involved in the children's attempts to foil the bad actors, get help from the good ones, and retrieve the star. Other Bombers who didn't listen to radio in that era could easily be as clueless as you have been - I'm not even sure how many years it ran. I believe it was 10 to 15 years ago that the recordings became available, but it may have been longer. I'm pretty sure Maren puts links in the Alumni Sandstorm for the daily episodes, just as if it were being broadcast again as it was back then. I have listened to a couple of episodes in recent years, and am still able to regenerate the child's excitement over the adventures that I experienced back then; not sure if that would apply for an adult hearing it for the first time, unless you're really into children's fantasy. Great good fun! Regards, ecb3 - from a phenomenally pleasant week of great weather in central Virginia that is allowing us to get some siding work done on a second house that we're putting on the market Monday. -Earl BENNETT ('63) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [It was the Crazy Quilt Dragon who first took the star from somewhere in the attic where all the ornaments sere stored. Paddy O'Cinnamon, the 4" high Cinnamon Bear, teaches the twins how to DEgrow so they can go thru the picture on the wall to "Maybe Land" where they have all sorts of adventures trying to retrieve the silver star that belongs on top of their Christmas tree There's the Root Beer Ocean and a plane that uses soda pop for gas. Yes, there is a daily link in the "stuff at the top" of the SS with a link to that day's episode on YouTube. -Maren] ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: David RIVERS ('65) Re: Boyz n girlz Gotsa couplea long time friends to celebrate today... Now I'm pretty darned sure that I hooked up with the B-day Bomber guy in around kinnygarden... korse I could be wrong cuz we did a bitta traveling in my earlier school dayz but I'm almost possitive we wuz in class with Marsha GOSLIN ('65) and Kandie GRUBB ('65) inna halloween picture with all of us in costume... gee remember when we could pick costumes without offending anybody... I think I was a cat which I think is OK even today... the Bomber-babe might have been in 6th grade when I was kinda involuntarily moved from Spalding to Jason Lee... not that it turned out to be a bad thing... I hadda ball with a whole new groupa kids to have fun with... anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Patti SNIDER ('65) and Kent MADSEN ('65) on your special day, December 2, 2017!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -David RIVERS ('65) ************************************************************* ********************** HEARD ABOUT ************************** ************************************************************* Heard about this Bomber death today: Murvelle BAKER Moreman ('51-RIP) ~ 12/?1/33 - 11/28/17 ************************************************************* ********************** HEARD ABOUT ************************** ************************************************************* Heard about this Bomber death today: Randy HINSON ('65-RIP) ~ 1/14/47 - 11/26/17 ************************************************************* ********************** HEARD ABOUT ************************** ************************************************************* Heard about this Bomber death today: >>Glenn E. Olson ('54-RIP) ~ 3/30/36 - 11/25/17 See entry today from Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ************************************************************ ************************************************************* That's it for today. Please send more. *************************************************************