Alumni Sandstorm ~ 12/02/19
	Mondays are the potholes in the road of life. 
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1 Bomber, 1 honorary Bomber, and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Grover SHEGRUD ('56)
Gary BREHM ('64 Lion/HB)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
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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.
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>>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)
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>>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!
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>>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)
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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