Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/02/19 Mondays are the potholes in the road of life. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1 Bomber, 1 honorary Bomber, and Don Sorenson sent stuff: Grover SHEGRUD ('56) Gary BREHM ('64 Lion/HB) Don Sorenson (NAB) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Keith ARNDT ('60) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kent MADSEN ('65) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patti SNIDER ('65) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Randy RICE ('73) 12/02 ~ 23 days till Christmas CINNAMON BEAR- Listen to "The Inkaboos" (Episode #4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-mf32PL7CU BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Grover SHEGRUD ('56) To: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) Sorry to read about your fall... bad news but us Bombers is tough!! I will throw in my most embarrassing fall yet. It was in the first week in a new job some years back I was a young 75 years old, I was walking out to my car after work with my boss when I tripped on a railroad track and went face down (no damage except to my self esteem) -Grover SHEGRUD ('56) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Gary BREHM ('64 Lion/Honorary Bomber) To: All Bombers and Friends After losing Marsha GOSLIN Brehm ('65-RIP) last year to brain cancer (Glioblastoma), I thought being made an "Honorary Bomber" I wanted to let everyone know of a situation I just went through over the Thanksgiving holiday. I left home on Tuesday morning and flew to Los Angeles to spend Thanksgiving with my sister and family. That night I had gone to bed and at 10:30 received a phone call from my son in Spokane telling me his fiancé (she had had a bad fall in the shower two weeks prior) had passed away. She had just turned 40 on November 1st and she spent two weeks in bed or on the couch from her injuries. Her fall left her with an injured knee and fracture of the tailbone. My son took her in for a scheduled CT scan and it showed the seriousness of her injuries. He took her home after the tests and 10 minutes after getting there she started to have breathing difficulties. My son didn't know if it was a heart thing or maybe a reaction to the Dilaudid they gave her in the ER. An ambulance was called and they prepared her to be transported and she began to show signs of the breathing difficulties. They began CPR in the ambulance. By the time or shortly after arriving at the ER, she was pronounced dead after considerable work to revive her. She had just turned 40 November 1st and died from a blood clot that broke loose from the knee injury and went to her heart. She died in the ambulance of a heart attack. I had flown to Los Angeles to spend Thanksgiving with my sister and family, but got a call at 10:30 that night and so 20 hours after arriving in L.A. I flew out for Spokane to be with my son. Before I left on Saturday to come home to Richland, they got the autopsy results and it was indeed the blood clot (from her knee injury) that had gone to her heart and was fatal. It's snowing here in the Tri-Cities and in the 20s. I decided to write this to all Sandstorm readers as most of us are now at an age where falling can become part of our everyday life. I want to tell everyone to please be careful and if you do fall be sure to be checked out by a doctor that can identify any possible injuries. My son's fiancé had seen three different docs and they all failed to diagnose her injuries and were very reluctant in prescribing any pain medication. I guess she was in severe pain at times until the evening she passed away. If any of us who are of older age now, we need to be aware of this type of injuries that can occur and be fatal. Please be careful and if you do have a fall, be checked out and tests run to make sure there is no injury that could cause fatal problems like my son just went through with his fiancé!! Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays, which ever you prefer. I will be spending Christmas in Vancouver, WA and Spokane with my daughter and her family and then my son, who is alone like his Dad (me) at this holiday season. This year is a little easier for me since it's been 14 months since Marsha passed away, but you never really completely put your loss of a mate to the side, close to the holidays especially. All Bombers and friends in the area and around the world wherever you may be since graduating many years ago. If you're in a warm climate, you're lucky as it's been cold here in the Tri-Cities and snowing today (Saturday) which will make travel home for a lot of people, not a fun experience. Merry Christmas to all, -Gary BREHM ('64 Lion/Honorary Bomber) ~ Richland, where it's snowing and in the 20s! ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>From: Don Sorenson (NAB) Re: Old Richland Villagers http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/191202_00.htm To All Bombers, A few weeks ago I was given a number of Richland Villagers by the Hanford History folks. All of them early '60s, full of articles on and about the Atomic City and its denizens. I didn't photograph everything, only those photos of old Richland Bombers from Columbia High School, land mark buildings and articles with names of Bomber mothers & fathers. I've attached a few from January 13th, 1961. If anyone would like a copy of them just email and I'll send them along. -Don L. Sorenson (NAB) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* That's it for today. Please send more. *************************************************************