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Richland Bombers Calendar website
Funeral Notices website
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/01/16
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Marilynn WORKING ('54), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66), Tedd CADD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol TYNER ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy CARAWAY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Maggie GILSTRAP ('74)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Tedd CADD & Pam HUNT ('66)
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>>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54)
Re: Our 80th birthday celebration
To: 1954 Classmates
A thought to ponder... would you rather have our 80th birthday
celebration on the weekend of Club 40, which is September 9th
and 10th, 2016?? Was just thinking that maybe you didn't want
to make 2 trips here this year. Please let me know and I will
be looking for a place for us to meet. I thought if you did,
we could have a lunch on Sunday the 11th before you headed
home.
I have had a few suggestions and comments and it seems we are
worried about the weather if we decided to have a picnic. It
can be too chilly, so many thought it would be better to meet
in a restaurant. That way, too, the food would be paid for
"Dutch", rather than catered.
Think about these ideas, and e-mail me your thoughts...
Appreciate you all!!
-Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Pasco where we are
warming up a little!!
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
I did some research in the 1952 Columbian. I found that
today's birthday Bomber Babe and I did in fact have something
in common. We were both in Thespians. I guess we weren't in
any productions together, which is why I don't remember her.
She was, after all, a senior and I just a lowly soph.
Still doesn't mean I can't tip the ol' propeller beanie and
say "Happy Birthday!" to Carol TYNER ('52). So I will. Hope
her current husband doesn't make her practice the uke today,
or bake her own birthday cake.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the weather has been nice for the weekend, so look out!
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Santino FONTANA ('00)
"Santino FONTANA ('00) has joined the cast of 'Shades Of
Blue', NBC's straight-to-series drama directed by Barry
Levinson. He plays Stuart Saperstein."
"FONTANA voiced Hans in the Disney megahit Frozen, and
other recent credits include Mozart In The Jungle and
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Repped by UTA, Brookside
Artist Management, he next appears in the features Fade
To White and Sisters."
"Shades Of Blue stars Jennifer Lopez, and it is a 13-
episode series which follows police officers who are
effective at keeping the streets safe, but also corrupt
when it comes to lining their pockets and protecting
their own."
Four episodes have already aired.
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland where my crocuses
and quince are blooming.
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Today (February 1st) marks our 47th wedding anniversary.
Pam HUNT Cadd ('66) and I were married in the middle of one of
the worst snow storms the state has seen. The Bride, Groom,
Best Man (Gary BUSH), and Maid of Honor (Peg WELLMAN) were all
attending school in Pullman and almost didn't make it to the
wedding. We decided to travel together to the Tri-Cities for
the wedding. Leaving Friday mid-afternoon, we were stuck in
Pullman with all the roads closed... we found ourselves
waiting in our car for the roads to open because of the big
snow storm that came through that day.
We got to Richland about 3am on that Saturday, rehearsed at
noon and married at 7. Our honeymoon in Spokane was cancelled
(roads still closed) so we ended up at the Red Lion in Pasco.
Despite the cold beginning (Pam had to walk around the church
in the snow to make her entrance), it's been a great run. I
wouldn't have any other woman!
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/02/16 ~ GROUND HOG DAY
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5 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Barbara SESLAR ('60), Helen CROSS ('62)
Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68), John RANLETT ('71)
Mike DALEN ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob ECKERT ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sherri WARD ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn BRASFIELD ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Len REDISKE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patricia BERLAND ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Norman WOODLEY ('72)
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>>From: Barbara SESLAR Brackenbush ('60)
Re: Class of 1960 Bomber Luncheon
DATE: Saturday, February 6
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: 3 Margaritas (downtown near Lee Blvd.)
Spouses and friends are also welcome! Please join us first
Saturday of each month. Turn right inside the restaurant and
you'll find us at the corner table. No reservations needed.
-Barbara SESLAR Brackenbush ('60)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I just sent a photo taken on the Columbia River Bike Trail
that I took off Facebook; Sue ELLIOTT Homan ('62) originally
posted it from where; I'm not sure the photo was taken by
Sammi Thorton, age 14. from Richland, (so a future Bomber);
I think it is one of the best photos from the Tri-Cities I
have ever seen.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/160202-Columbia.jpg
Thank you, Sammi, for sharing it, so we can enjoy more of
God's wonder in our difficult world.
Just thought more Bombers would like to enjoy it.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ back in Hope, IN After a fun 10
days in the warmer south of Hilton Head, SC and north
Florida; but it's almost 50° outside now, and was as
warm over our week-end, plus we missed the huge snow
last month, so I can't complain.
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
Re: CADD - HUNT wedding - 1969
Just a note to say I loved reading Tedd CADD's ('66) re-
reporting of the wedding that almost didn't happen because
of the snow! You are blessed to have had 47 anniversaries
already. I pray that God will grant you many more.
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
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>>From: John RANLETT ('71)
Re: Dead Cow Floating
There is a legend about some idiot jumping off a bridge over
the Yakima River and passing through a dead bloated cow
floating along peacefully below. This is likely an urban
legend. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this story?
Does anyone know who may have desecrated this sorry bovine?
-John RANLETT ('71)
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>>From: Mike DALEN ('72)
Re: Strange Bomber Coincidence #4,937:
I live in Huntsville, Alabama, way up near the Tennessee
border... and the Jack Daniels Distillery. There's a few Seattle
Boeing transplants around, but no Richland Bombers except
me... Or so I've thought for the past 30 years. Saturday I
went hiking with a longtime acquaintance, Scott Stevens. We've
road biked hundreds of miles together, and he's a professional
mapping geek who's helped our local land trust chart 7,000
acres of properties.
Finally asked him where he was from: "Spokane". I told him I
was from Richland. His response: "My wife is from Richland."
A Bomber? Yep, a Bomber, Class of '71. (I'm a '72er.) Still
haven't met her yet, but I plan to real soon. Her name is
Suzanne WEIGGANDS ('71). And she lives in Huntsville, Alabama.
-Mike DALEN ('72)
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Bomber Memorial
>>Beulah "Boots" FAIN McCulley ~ Class of 1952 ~ 1934 - 2015
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/03/16 ~ THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED - 1959
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10 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Shirley SHERWOOD ('62), Earl BENNETT ('63)
David RIVERS ('65), Lee BUSH ('68)
Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68), Mike FRANCO ('70)
Bill AYOTTE ('71), Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gail DAWSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Glenda LATTIN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Suzanne COWAN ('71)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
First off, I will deny that I persuaded the Junior Gyrene ('65)
to tip a cow into the Yakima. I was forty miles away, robbing a
bank, and I've got witnesses to prove it.
If you are in the Portland metro area this weekend and looking
for something to do; you might want to consider the 40 minute
drive to Mount Angel on either Saturday or Sunday. Wurstfest
is taking place in the Community Festhalle starting about 11am
each day. Admission is $5.00, unless you want the souvenir
stein which will cost 5 bucks more. All sorts of food and
entertainment.
Since the good Sisters have shut down their mustard business,
there might be a few bottles left for sale. It is really good
stuff and I don't know what I'm going to do when my supply runs
our. It is called Monastery Mustard and comes in several
flavours.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where we
wonder how long can the sunshine last.
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: Columbia River Bike and Walking Trails
Bostonians say that their circuitous street pattern simply
follows ye olde cow paths of the 18th century. Something like
that also accounts for the existence of the very popular
Columbia River bike and walking trails. Here's my myopic view
of how this trail came about.
Back in 1965 two Col-Hi 1962 graduates took a summer job
with the Ben-Franklin (Counties) Planning Commission. The
Commission was housed in the original fire house just south of
the old library, together with a Girl Scouts office and the
Port of Pasco. The summer interns were me and Gary TABASINSKE,
both of us architecture students, me at UW and Gary at WSU.
The summer assignment was to prepare a regional parks plan
under a new state law and possible funding source. (The
Commission had three other employees, all also with weird
names: including secretary Fran Postma, senior planner Tom
Pickerel who later saved much of Kittitas County (Ellensburg)
from open range bulldozers, and director George Plescher, a
mellow pipe-smoking arborist by education.)
The park plan menu ran all the way from an inventory of
neighborhood teeter-totters, to school yards, to what, to
maybe something grandly "regional(?)". Permanent preservation
of the de facto Columbia Park between the "Y" and the Pasco-
Kennewick bridge seemed daring enough. But late one afternoon
the notion arose: why not break out a fresh set of colored
pencils and run that green riverfront swath all the way up
past the Yakima River bridge and then Howard Amon Park, and
then past all of Richland clear up to the Hanford south
boundary barricade! For want of an eraser, a linear mega-park
became part of the vision.
The report and map were routinely adopted by the county
commissioners. And, maybe it was from this colored pencil
exercise that one thing led to another. But I'm still
nostalgic for the more primitive shoreline and ducks of the
late 1950s.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Shirley SHERWOOD Milani ('62)
I remember a cow floating thru the Flume next to me one time.
Don't remember who I was with but several of us used to do
this. We were always jumping off the RR Bridge into the Yakima
River too. My mom wanted me to clean house everyday during
Summer break. When I was done a bunch of us girls would pile
in a car & drive to the river, pile out & run like hell down
the dock & dive in. Best part of everyday. I can remember some
of the girls (Linda RAWLINS McCleary ('62) sticks in my head).
She was so quiet & yet could be so funny.
-Shirley SHERWOOD Milani ('62)
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>>From: Earl BENNETT ('63)
Re: Sandstorm 1/26 - David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ where our
swimming pool temperature is stuck at 64°, and I am not a
polar bear, although I did go swimming in the Columbia once.
While stationed on Crete in the Air Force '66-'69, I took SCUBA
lessons. After a Mediterranean Sea dive by the class, someone
knew of a large, fresh-water pool a bit inland where the city
of Iraklion gets its fresh water supply, and there were
supposed to be relics of German hardware and uniform parts at
the mouth of the spring about 60-80 feet down.
It was reputed to be 45°, which I thought was not too much
worse than the Columbia in mid-spring, which was about the
earliest I'd ever dipped into it. I figured, what is it, maybe
3-4 hours away from being melted snow by the time it flows past
Richland? Only later did it occur to me that the DISTANCE from
melting snow to Richland has to be well over a hundred miles,
traversing non-frozen ground at speeds much lower than the
Columbia's flow, and not following a straight path.
Being hot and still salty from the dive (but with no air left
in my tank) and under 25 at the time, with the usual "I'm
invincible" outlook of that age group, I was the first to dive
in (note, no reference to dipping my toe in first). The others
were still putting on their wet suits and tanks.
I managed not to gasp in a lung full of water, but it was
really attention-getting, and I was out fairly quickly.
Regards, ecb3 - from moderate-though-damp temperatures
in central Virginia where the 24" + snowfall of 11 days
ago is rapidly melting, but still very evident where
plows did their work.
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: The music never dies
Look up in the sky, up towards the north
There are three new stars, brightly shining forth
They're shining oh-so bright from heaven above
Gee, we're gonna miss you, everybody sends their love
Ritchie, you were just starting to realize your dreams
Everyone calls me a kid, but you were only seventeen
Now Almighty God has called you, from oh-so far away
Maybe it's to save some boy or girl
Who might have gone astray
And with your star shining through the dark and lonely night
To light the path and show the way, the way that's right
Gee, we're gonna miss you, everybody sends their love
Buddy, I can still see you, with that shy grin on your face
Seems like your hair was always a little messed up
And kinda outa place
Now, not many people actually knew you or
Understood how you felt
But just a song, just a song from you
Could make the coldest heart melt
Well you're singing for God now, in his chorus in the sky
Buddy Holly, I'll always remember you with tears in my eyes
Gee, we're gonna miss you, everybody sends their love
I see a stout man, the Big Bopper's your name
God called you to heaven, maybe for new fortune and fame
Keep wearing that big Stetson hat and ramble up to the mike
And don't forget those wonderful words, "you know what I like"
Look up in the sky, up towards the north
There are three new stars, brightly shining forth
They're shining oh-so bright from heaven above
Gee, we're gonna miss you, everybody sends their love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSrfF79I1Rg
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Lee BUSH ('68)
To: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/160202-Columbia.jpg
Upon looking at the photo, it appears to me to have been taken
from Bushwhacker Rd., in the Richland Wye Area, behind the
offices of 'Ben-Franklin Transit' 1000 Columbia Park Trail
(the old Columbia Drive SE). Bushwhacker Rd. is a dirt road
that runs parallel between the dike (to the south) and SR
240/The Causeway (to the west/northwest) and the Yakima River
delta between Bateman Island (to the east) and Columbia Point
(to the north).
-Lee BUSH ('68)
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
To: John RANLETT ('71)
Re: Dead Cow Floating
That much believed (and therefore clearly true!) tale of the
Bomber through the cow off the Yakima River Bridge involved
none other than the truly legendary Garry O'ROURKE ('66). He
also once rode a motorcycle into Mac Hall!
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)
I heard the dead cow story from 4 - 5 different Bomber peers,
none that I trust. It was always the Yakima River RR bridge.
I got so sick of Iowa caucus coverage I changed channels to
Hogan's Heroes. Highly under rated WWII epic. General
Berkhalter tremendous leader!
-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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>>From: Bill AYOTTE ('71)
Re: Re: Dead Cow Floating
Yes indeed I do remember the legend of the dead cow floating.
In fact I've repeated the story several times in the past 45
years, however I couldn't tell you who the lucky jumper was!
Too bad Vic MARSHALL ('71-RIP) isn't still with us. He'd have
a name for sure. I do know that we spent many fun filled days
in that area, jumping off the bridge and catching bullheads.
-Bill AYOTTE ('71)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Birthday and cows
Happy Birthday to Suzanne COWAN ('71) on the 3rd. Hope it's a
good one.
To: John RANLETT ('71)
Re: ah, the infamous dead cow story
Having spent many a day during the summers jumping off the
train bridge (15 feet to the water off the concrete footings,
35 feet from the black walls, 65 feet from the top of the
bridge) the dead cow story was rampant. I heard it was a
WINGFIELD ('67) who did it. Having a name with the story only
added credibility. It was plausible, as during the late summer
large masses of slimy moss would break loose from the bottom
of the river and float down stream under the bridge. They made
great targets to jump on. Timing was everything. I've told the
story to my boys as they grew up in an effort to make sure
they knew what they were jumping into in these opaque Texas
waters. 95% sure it is an urban legend.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in Plano, TX where it was 70 today but
dropping to 50 on the 3rd.
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Bomber Memorial
>>Sue RAY Woodard ~ Class of 1966 ~ 1947 - 2015
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/04/16
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4 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Annette HALL ('62)
John ADKINS ('62), Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon ANDERSON ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Randy BUCHANAN ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John BAILEY ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom CRIGLER ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Merilyn SMITH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry CROUCH ('71)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Ooooppppssss!!!
The dates I mentioned in yesterday's edition are incorrect.
Wurstfest happens this Friday and Saturday (Feb. 5 & 6) from
10 AM to 10 PM (both days). It is the Mount Angel version of
Mardi Gras or Carnival; in Germany it would be Fasching, at
least in the southern parts.
If you are feeling particularly athletic, there is a 5/10 K
Walk/Run beginning at 9:30 AM.
Sorry for any confusion.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the monsoons have returned, but weather guesser promise
a dry weekend.
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>>From: Annette HALL Bundrant ('62)
Re: Cow in Yakima River
Maren, I don't know about the cow from the later '60s, but I do
know that my brother, Stuart ('62), and I found one... upper
river because of the flooding from the Yakima area. We did not
go near it... the stink was bad enough. This was probably in
the later '50s. I never did go off the railroad bridge. Someone
told me that a guy dove off and broke his neck. That did it for
me. The irrigation canal was bad enough (but fun). The river
was a refuse for the summertime. Will never forget it and the
good times.
-Annette HALL Bundrant ('62)
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>>From: John ADKINS ('62)
Re: Stretching English
I thought a few items of "English insanity might be just what
this language discussion needs - - -
https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/English_hard_2learn.html
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible,
but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?
Re: About the word UP
http://www.proofreadnow.com/blog/bid/48170/Most-Confusing-Two-Letter-Word
-John ADKINS ('62) ~ Richland
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Happy Birthday to Larry Dale CROUCH ('71), one of my long time
Bomber Buds. We met in Soph P.E. and remain good friends to
this day. Hope you have a good one.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in sunny but cool Plano, TX
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Bomber Memorial
>>Jim MEIGS ~ Class of 1958 ~ 1940 - 2015
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/05/16
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1 Bomber sent stuff today:
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Anthony King, aka Corey MORRIS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David MERRILL ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary DAVIS ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Travis STREGE ('96)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Lyman
POWELL ('65) had a quadruple by-pass earlier this week.
According to Cecilia BENNETT ('65) he seems to be doing well:
"Lyman is awake and talking. Cheeks are rosy. He said
he had surgery Tuesday, not yesterday, but he's a
little groggy, might have lost some time, conversation
was a little rambling... He was getting a couple
arterial lines discontinued, so all must be stable. He
was out of bed walking in the hall earlier today. Still
has oxygen on, but Vital signs on the monitor looked
good. Says he wouldn't mind taking ballroom dancing
lessons, needs to get a little exercise hahaha...I will
remind him of that."
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/06/16
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
David RIVERS ('65)
Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Becky SKARSHAUG ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John COLE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary BENNETT ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike FRANCO ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lisa RICCOBUONO ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lori RAEKES ('81)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Erin HASKINS ('86)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: Nikolai Buser
Nikolai, age 27, eldest son of 4-time Iditarod Champion, Martin
Buser, has been in ICU at Harborview since (I think) January
22nd. Car wreck in the Seattle area... Martin, wife Kathy
Chapoton, and their other son, Rohn, are staying very close by
in a "long term" waiting room at Harborview. Kathy updates
CaringBridge.org several times a day so we all know how Nikolai
is doing. If anybody wants to get into the CaringBridge.org
account, let me know.
In the meantime, there are people at the Buser's Happy Trails
Kennel in Big Lake, AK taking care of the dogs and getting
stuff ready for 2016 Iditarod... stuff like feeding/training
dogs and preparing "drop bags" that will be (already have
been?) sent ahead to various check points along the Iditarod
trail. Both Martin and Rohn are signed up to run the 2016 race
which starts on March 5th this year.
I saw a note on the CaringBridge.org space from Buser's neighbor
in Big Lake, our own Maggie GILSTRAP O'Hara ('74).
Somebody (probably Kathy) continues to update "Martin Buser's
Happy Trails Kennel" Facebook account, too.
This kid has literally THOUSANDS of people praying for him...
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 38° at midnight
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Cows 'n' B-days
Well I know I have often said how much I admire and am grateful
for the friendship of the b-day Bomber, but have I ever
mentioned cows? I don't think so... the first time I heard
about the floating cow was from Gary SNOW's ('65) older brother
who was a local Cop back inna day... we were all swimming in
the canal and he dropped the dead cow story on us... it worked
and out we came... then, of course there was the "Sandman"...
I never believed it till one time I was parked with... well
Gentlemen never tell... and I heard a scratching at one of the
side windows... I started the car and took outa those bushes
like a bat outa... well really fast... when we got to Zip's
there was a claw stuck in the top of the window of the car...
hey I don't make this stuff up... well ok maybe some of it...
I know I never saw a cow in the Flume... but I do remember Joe
CASTLEBERRY's ('63) experience... but I guess that just shows
how invincible we all thought we were, cuz we were right back
doing the same ol stuff! Also, as I recall, the year before
Stump ('66) rode his bike thru Mac Hall, Allan GREEN ('65-RIP)
did the same thing... Well, now it is time for me to wish a
good friend and guy I think the world of HAPPY BIRTHDAY, John
COLE ('66) on your special day, February 6, 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
PS Lyman ('65) may be more accessible by phone now
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Birthday boy
Happy Birthday to Mike FRANCO ('70), the leader of the high
school skits. Probably at Eastern as well. The Legend
continues.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in cold but clear Plano, TX
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/07/16
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3 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim WATTS ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jerry RICE ('71)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
I hope this makes it in time. I wouldn't want today's birthday
Bomber to think I was slacking or something of the sort. I
mean, he knows people to know people, sort of friends of
friends. Hey, not that he's "connected", but there is always
the off chance. It is quite possible that his lovely wife ('55)
could get mad at me. Sort of like M.L. ('63) and Ellen ('63)
are with Tooter ('65), and I wouldn't want that.
Enough, already! A tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a "Happy
Birthday!" shout are in store for Jim WATTS ('54). Keep goin'
and maybe we'll speak at the birthday party.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
Wurstfest has wound down and the weather warms up.
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: the "Sandman"
Now, there's a website entry capable of generating a long
thread!
David RIVERS ('65) writes of the "Sandman," that in 1965 or so
"I heard a scratching at one of the side windows... I
started the car and took outa those bushes like a bat
outa... well really fast... when we got to Zip's there
was a claw stuck in the top of the window of the car."
On January 5, 1975 the Tri-City Herald carried a generous half-
page article subtitled "Bigfoot in West Richland?" reporting on
a strange sighting at about the same time.
"[...] A 27-year old Richland man swears he and two
others saw such a creature ["nine-foot, 700 pound"] in
a West Richland gravel quarry during the fall of 1964..."
In Western Washington, on September 20, 1969, two local
teenagers at an intersection in Fife (near Tacoma) saw "a huge,
hair-covered figure" dash across the road and hit its hand
against a road sign, "leaving it vibrating - and the sign was
fully eight feet above the ground." The heavy steel sign was
bent and scratched [claws!], and removed a month later. A
continuous record of custody is not clearly evident, but photos
of a bent and scratched sign show up in a publication popular
with Sasquatch enthusiasts (the long-time Indian name).
Long before our time, there's the newspaper account of a
captured adolescent Sasquatch (4'7" and 127 pounds) that later
got away (British Columbia Colonist, July 3, 1884), reprinted
in other BC papers, but this wreaks of a neat hoax. On the
other hand, there's anthropologist Dr. Grover Krantz (RIP) of
WSU who filled an entire storage room with hundreds of plaster
flat-footed footprint casts of all sizes, collected from the
1930s forward, from everywhere between Stockton, CA to northern
British Columbia. Some hoax... these prints are not plywood;
they evidence an internal bone structure distinctly unlike ours
- and the impressions vary with the uneven ground under foot
(in one case a crippled right foot). Krantz's book is "Bigfoot
Sasquatch: Evidence - the Anthropologist Speaks Out, Hancock
House, 1999; 348 pages and many photos. He makes the plea,
simply, for systematic research by the skeptical Scientific
Establishment. About five years ago I read of a credibly
supported effort launched in the Olympic Mountains, including
airborne heat sensors and other such high-tech applications.
Documentaries sometimes indicate forthcoming DNA tests on hair
strands, but then again, the awaited results never seem to
merit news coverage. So, David, if you have that claw hanging
around your neck as a souvenir, maybe you can shave off a piece
and deliver it to a credible DNA lab. Maybe a bear, but maybe
something strange...
The English writer G.K. Chesterton suggests that if we modern
folk were not so jaded, then EVERYTHING around us would look
beautifully new and wonderfully strange, as is truly the case.
And, we would not be so easily bored; no need then for mind-
numbing video games.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Birthday Boy
Happy Birthday Jerry RICE ('71), fellow Bomber and Coug. Keep
on running!
-Brad WEAR ('71)
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>>Jerry KOEPP ~ Class of 1967 ~ 1949 - 2015
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/08/16
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2 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Frank DeVINCENTIS ('56)
Dennis HAMMER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janice PIERCE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Christy WATSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: MaryAnne GRENINGER ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cathy LEMLER ('74)
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>>From: Frank DeVINCENTIS ('56)
Re: Jim's WATTS' ('54) birthday on 2/7
Hey Jim,
Happy belated birthday. Hope this finds you in good health
and you had a great day on your special day.
All the best.
-Frank DeVINCENTIS ('56)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Bigfoot
I remember reading about a Bigfoot siting in the gravel pit
at just about the time of the January 5, 1975, Tri-City Herald
article. It seems to me that what I read was not that long,
and that it was in a little booklet: so I am either remembering
wrong or it was also written about somewhere else.
I worked with someone who was driving one of those lonely two-
lane highways we have in Eastern Washington one night and saw
movement at the side of the road. He stopped and just sat there
in the road for awhile watching it move around, thinking he
might be seeing a bigfoot, or maybe it is a bear! He didn't
know but he was afraid to even move. After a while he
maneuvered his car around so the headlights were on it, and
all it was, was a big ole tumbleweed hanging on a fence post
blowing around in the wind.
But we do know they are real because there is a place in
Livingston, Montana called, "Sasquatch Taxidermy."
http://archive.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/sasquatch0531a.jpg
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Kennewick where it is still getting
below freezing at night, but the weeds are starting to
grow--well they are growing like weeds.
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>>Gary WHITING ~ Class of 1955 ~ 1937 - 2015
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/09/16
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Roy BALLARD ('63), Bob MATTSON ('63/'64)
David RIVERS ('65), Duncan SINCLAIR ('65)
Pat DORISS ('65), Betti AVANT ('69)
Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cheryl WEIHERMILLER ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gayle DUNN ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim PATTON ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karen MOORE ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Yvonne LING ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rob HAUSENBUILLER ('93)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY: Carl DVORAK ('58) & Shirley ARMSTRONG ('61)
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>>From: Roy BALLARD ('63)
ToO: Janice PIERCE ('63)
Happy Birthday (on 2/8) to such a wonderful LADY,
Love, Roy and Nancy
-Roy BALLARD ('63) & Nancy ERLANDSON Ballard ('67) ~ Richland
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>>From: Bob MATTSON ('63/'64)
Re: Big foot
I live in the foothills of the Cascades, prime territory for
the TV show awaiting the block busting capture or taped
sighting of the creature. I'm sure the footage they shot was
as unconvinced as their viewers were. There is nothing south
from my home down to sunny California but trees. But the
bigfoot painted van roamed the forest roads around here
relentlessly for several years... then my guess is that the
show finally ran out of backers for the fuel, flats and food.
But don't think that's where the legend ends. As soon as the
snows stop, I will keep an eye open for the van anyway, keeping
the creature on it's toes.
Later,
-Tuna Bob MATTSON ('63/'64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: how bout those cubbies
I am on my way to another good year... If this gets to Maren
('63 and '64) I will be one down with three to go... almost
sounds like football talk don't it... got ready fer the big
game... chips, dip, sparkling water... nice comfy chair and
then I remembered I had something more important to do... so
I went out and cut back a dying bush (big tees won't give it
sunlight)... checked sprinkler lines and then because I didn't
know what time the game was over I took time to jump inna lake,
swallow a snake and come up with a belly ache... when I checked
with the B-day Bomber's sis ('63) and ML ('63), sounded like
it still wasn't over so I took out the trash... How bout those
half time ads... uh huh uh huh... that's OK... several guys
will be sending them around for the next week... oh wait...
half time show... the ads run through out the game... silly me!
Well, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Cheryl WEIHERMILLER ('60) and to Shorty
WATKINS (ML's Mom-RIP) on your special day, February 9, 2016!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Duncan SINCLAIR ('65)
Re: Lyman POWELL ('65)
Wishing Lyman a successful recovery.
Lyman & I were part of the Stevens Street gang along with
Bob HOGUE ('65, Mike TONER ('65-RIP), the Kennedy girls,
Mike QUANE ('63), Randy HINSON ('65), and others. We learned
our sportsmanship and pranks at the Sacagawea fields and carp
fish pond. We honed our tackle football skills there. Lyman's
house was great for Oreo cookies and I didn't have to share
with my brothers. We were no longer considered a gang when we
went to CK. We were Cops for a while as Patrol Boys. Wish I
hadn't put the flag upside down one time.
Get well soon, buddy.
-Duncan SINCLAIR ('65)
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>>From: Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
WHAT: '65 Ladies' February Lunch
WHEN: Friday, February 12th, 2016
TIME: Noon to 2pm
WHERE: Frost Me Sweet Bistro & Bakery, 719 the Parkway
The Classy Ladies of '65 will be getting together for lunch
this Friday to celebrate Valentine's Day (a few days early) and
enjoy each other's company as we catch up on what's occurred
this past month.
So, if you're a "Lady of '65" and haven't joined us in quite a
while, or if you've never been to one of our lunches and would
like to come, please contact me so I can add you to our
reservation!
See you Friday!
-Pat DORISS Trimble ('65) ~ West Richland
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>>From: betti AVANT ('69)
Judy WILLOX ('61)
Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
Re: All Bomber Lunch ~ aka Patti's All Bomber Lunch
Now that the first month of the year is history and we're
looking at Valentine's day on Sunday, how about coming to
the All Bomber lunch on Saturday, 13February2016. Come and
join some friends or make some new ones and have some good
conversation. Most come around noon time, some earlier, some
a little later. You can have a delicious meal and sit back
and relax. JD Diner, in West Richland on Saturday is the
place to be.
WHEN: Saturday, 13February2016 (always 2nd Saturday)
TIME: We gather about noon or 12:30
WHERE: JD DINER, 3790 West Van Giesen, West Richland
(Second building on the right after crossing the
Yakima River Bridge.)
-Betti AVANT ('69)
-Judy WILLOX ('61)
-Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
-Pat DORISS Trimble ('65)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Birthday Boy
Happy Birthday to Jim PATTON ('71). Who'd a thunk in high
school Jim would end up a retired Naval Officer? Hope you have
a good one.
-Brad WEAR ('71)
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>>Rick SOUTHAM ~ Class of 1980 ~ 1962 - 2015
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/10/16
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1 Bomber sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Harold KENITZER ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda WOODS ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Diane HUFF ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy FOSTER ('66)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
This should be somewhat boring. And... even somewhat boring.
Bear with me. First off, I know his wife ('55) is still
somewhat ticked at him for kissing Pat DUFFY ('54) twice; once
at the Homecoming Assembly where she was crowned Homecoming
Queen, and then again at half-time of the Homecoming game. And
that was many, many, many, many moons ago. But he made it up to
his wife by just recently buying a ranch house on Cottonwood
(I think). Still thoroughly confused, hang on, it will not
become any clearer as I progress. Suffice to say that he is a
fellow classmate, and a friend that I see once a year at Club
40 (where is on his best behavior).
Enough of this fol-de-rol, let me tip the ol' propeller beanie
and say "Happy Birthday!" to Harold KENITZER ('54) on this day.
If you count them up, you might say he is getting old; if it
weren't for the soup strainer on his upper lip he is.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the weather guessers are promising rain for Valentine's
Day weekend. There is also one of the congressionally
mandated Monday holidays involved [Presidents' Day].
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>>James Alder ~ Class of 1983 ~ 1964 - 2015
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NO entries for a REAL Alumni Sandstorm.
We do, however, have birthdays today:
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peggy JOHNSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda CARTER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: John and Paul WAGGONER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim HAUN ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Drew COUGHREN ('86)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/12/16
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2 Bombers sent stuff today:
David DOUGLAS ('62)
David RIVERS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol HAYNES ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pat CALDWELL ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shanon LAYBOURN ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: James Hodge ('71NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janeen THORNTON ('73)
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)
I was pleased that Richland (or at least Hanford) was mentioned
on the news as one of the two facilities detecting gravity
waves for the first time. I'll even forgive Fox News Channel
for spelling it 'Hanaford.' Nice to know we're still in the
forefront of scientific endeavors.
Our swimming pool is up to 68°, thanks to a week of sunny
weather. If the sun cooperates we should be able to swim
again in a couple of weeks.
-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: big day for Bombers
Here we are streaming along thru February at break neck speed..
the weather here is creeping into very nice and now I have a
list of stuff to get finished before it gets HOT... spent the
day under cars getting them ready for "show" season so I can
just grab one and take off... it never fails I say I've gotta
wait till I don't have to wear a heavy coat and then I say
"why did I wait so long!!!!" Beyond that not much coming to
this pea brain of mine... I hate it when that happens... just
spent several minutes on the phone boring dear Rosalie ('63)
filling her in on my "adventures"... funny I said I have plenty
of adventure in my life to keep me busy and wonder how we
survived our yute, when every five minutes was real adventure
and much of it pretty dangerous... we survived somehow... well
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Freddie SCHAFER ('63-RIP), Pat CALDWELL ('65)
and Shanon LAYBOURN ('65) on your special day, February 12,
2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/13/16
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1 Bomber1 sent stuff:
Helen CROSS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeff CURTIS ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kenny WRIGHT ('63)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Wayne WALLACE & Elva McGHAN ('50)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I agree with my fellow '62 classmate, David DOUGLAS. It was
nice to see Hanford as the site of some cutting edge scientific
news. I recognized Hanaford as Hanford too.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN where we happily didn't
get another dusting of expected snow last night, and the
current temperature of 28 has already beat the frigid
high we had yesterday.
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/14/16 ~ HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), David RIVERS ('65)
Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65), Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill GRIFFIN ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill ROE ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vicki MOSLEY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Esther "Deon" HOLLIS ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Val GHIRARDO ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Diane CARPENTER ('72)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Clarence FULCHER ('51) & Gloria ADAMS ('54)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
According to an item on the news the other night; something
like 11,000 babies are conceived on Valentine's Day. Makes ya
wanna stop and think.
Regardless of the above; this is the day that Skippy ('54) and
Clarence ('51) got married and they are still together. Guess
the phrase "for better or worse" applied to the first days of
their marriage by living in a trailer in North Richland. Might
have even been worse if they lived in the trailer park at the
foot of the original Pasco-Kennewick bridge (on the Kennewick
side). As they say: "Keep on keeping on."
And then there is the birthday boy. Way back when, he was a
baseball player; even made it to the Bigs. Played for the
Houston Colt 45s (that's what they were before becoming
Astros); and I don't think they were named for pistols. Since
then, he has somewhat settled down and become a rancher near
Sisters, OR. OK, so he has a pickup with a rifle rack in the
back window and some cow patties in the bed. That qualifies
him in the eyes of some Californians as a real rancher.
Therefore, a tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a shout of
"Happy Birthday!" is in order for Billy GRIFFIN ('54). If he's
lucky, his wife will get him a heart shaped pizza from Papa
Murphy's.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the monsoons have returned but the snow level remains
above 5,000 feet.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Happy Birthday/Valentine's day!
Hear yee Hear yee let it be known that on February 13, 2016,
this Bomber officially started wearing shorts and t-shirts for
the year... I can't believe it... I think I may have started
last year in March... I'm not sure... but then I have a
confession about two of the b-days today as well so it could
very well be that every year for the past twenty or more I
started wearing shorts in February... Now as it is Valentine's
day, one might expect that I would be thinking "Oh cool...
it's so and so's b-day cuz it's V-day"... well that wasn't the
case... Instead I said "Wow... I didn't know so and so's b-day
was on Valentine's day!!!" Now I've only been doing these
b-days since... oh... Sandstorm started... and I just realized
these b-days fell on Valentines day!?... now I could go back to
each Valentine's day and see if I say this every year but if I
did and in fact I did... I might begin to question some of the
stories I've told and then I might start to question other
things about my life and then I could wonder if I'm really a
Bomber and if not why do I have these Bomber tattoos on my legs
and am I really a Marine or do I just like pain cuz I got
Marine tattoos on my arms... I decided to call Mom and Pop but
I'm a Or-fan... and speaking of Or-fans is my daughter really
a Duck... is she really my daughter... oh man things can get
complicated real fast when ya live in my brain... I think I'd
better just do the b-days and go take a nap... HAPPY BIRTHDAY,
Bill ROE ('59), Val GHIRARDO ('72... do I know what Spudnuts
are?) and Vicki MOSLEY ('66) on your special day, February 14,
2016, and a HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY to all the Bomber-babes in
Bomberville (except Cathy MOUTON ('65) cuz she doesn't like
being called a bomber-babe... who knew?)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
Re: Bomber Mom's Birthday
Come help celebrate Bomber Mom, Mary Heidlebaugh's 90th birthday.
DATE: February 20, 2016
TIME: 2:00- 4:00 PM
PLACE: Crosspointe Baptist Church 9810 NE 76th Street
Vancouver, WA. 98662
Cake, and ice cream. No Gifts.
-Lola ('60) Jim ('65) Jo ('74)
-Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Dragon making waves in gaming world - 2/13/16 Herald
Grant D. Williams ('02 HHS), CEO of Red Level Games in
Richland, is finding success with the company's open world
computer game called Dragon: The Game. A Kickstarter campaign
to enhance the game ends Feb. 14.
Wishing all a very Happy Valentine's Day .
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/15/16 ~ HOLIDAY ~ PRESIDENTS' Day
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3 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Dan HAGGARD ('57)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Ken STALEY ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Abby PERRYMAN ('15)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betty Jo ROSE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Erin OWENS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patt WELCH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Alastair COCHRANE ('72)
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>>From: Dan HAGGARD ('57)
I just received some sad news from Sharon CHAPMAN ('57)
concerning one of our class mates, Pat FOLEY ('57). Pat has
stage four lung cancer which has metastasized to other parts of
his body. The cancer is too widespread for treatment. He is at
home in Kennewick. For those who would like to send him a card
or note contact me for his address.
Thanks..
-Dan HAGGARD ('57)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: Nikolai Buser
Nikolai, age 27, eldest son of 4-time Iditarod Champion, Martin
Buser, has been moved to the rehab floor (4th) at Harborview.
It won't be long before he is released from the hospital and
will be in full rehab at Harborview.
Word is that Martin and his younger son, Rohn, will both run
the 2016 Iditarod as planned.
Re: Are you ready?
Final 20-Dog Selection Due March 2 by 5pm
Q. Does everyone start at the same time? Does every musher have
a number?
A. The mushers draw starting numbers at the Musher's Banquet on
the Thursday before the race (3/3 this year). This becomes
their bib number and they keep it throughout the race. The
first starting position is ceremonial, with no musher, and is
used to honor people who have contributed to the race or to
mushing. Mushers leave the starting line every two minutes,
with every fifth musher waiting three minutes for a television
commercial.
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 62° at midnight
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>>From: Ken STALEY ('68)
Re: Valentines Memories
Her name is locked away in my memories... and I'll leave it at
that. The local corner drug store - Densow's - carried heart
shaped boxes of chocolate, every Valentine's Day. My heart
was SET on getting her a "big box" of chocolate. Never mind
that I'd already given her my fanciest, home made with red
construction paper, a fancy paper doily and lace Valentine's
card for her cupid decorated shoe box on the window sill of
our Spalding classroom. Never mind that I was 10. My heart
was set (and lost!) and nothing else would do.
Densow's had a 'special shelf'... a shelf I recognize now as a
discount shelf... OLD merchandise... and there was a PERFECT
box. The red seemed a bit pastel to me... more towards the
pinkish side than the red side.. Of course, looking back it was
dust covered and faded with sun/age and probably a hold-over
from years past. That mattered not in the least to a smitten
10 year old boy. It was within my budget range AND it was a
box of chocolates.
I can't remember now if I put a card on the box or not. Perhaps
Doug would remember... he was my confidant and co-conspirator
at the time. We walked those few blocks up Swift Ave. and I
was SURE she (or someone in her family... perhaps her older
brother) would see me. I don't think I had an alternate plan...
or even a decent escape route should I be discovered.
Doug waited for me behind the giant blue spruce while I, in
stealth, crept up to her front door, deposited my treasured
heart (real and chocolate filled.), rang the doorbell... and
RAN LIKE HELL. We hid, Doug and I, until SHE came to the door
and picked it up. She looked around, briefly, and carried my
heart inside with her... where it remains to this day.
I don't know if she ever knew who gave that heart to her or
not. Perhaps at our 50 year reunion... I'll confess.
-Ken STALEY ('68) ~ in a balmy Pasco where temps approached 60!
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>>Jim SCHIRADO ~ Class of 1970 ~ 1951 - 2015
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3 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Barbara POWELL ('58)
Bill SCOTT ('64)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim CLATWORTHY ('46)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Toby HUFF ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Esther DAWSON ('73)
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>>From: Barbara POWELL Beaudry ('58)
Mike MILLS ('57) and I thought that we should give our thanks
to the Sandstorm for bringing us together.
I lost my husband of 54 years 3-1/2 years ago. Mike lost his
wife two years ago. Mike called to ask me to lunch, only to
be there for someone else trying to plow through the grieving
process. We went to lunch and something clicked and Mike and
I have committed for the rest of our lives. We have given up
loneliness for loving, caring and sharing.
-Barbara POWELL Beaudry ('58)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: Valentine Memories
Ken STALEY's ('68) touching and very well-written Valentine
memory in yesterday's Sandstorm nearly brought a tear to my
eye. The tale, with its uncomplicated and straightforward
childhood emotion, sounds like something right out of "A
Christmas Story", like something Ralphie would have done.
It brought to my mind a somewhat similar, though less
successful and long-buried childhood memory of my own. When I
was around 14 and 15, I had a horse and used to spend a lot of
time at the Richland Riding Academy. There was a girl who
frequented the place, and oh, was I sweet on her. One day I
decided I would buy her a present. So I bought an inexpensive
bracelet (or maybe a necklace; can't recall). It had the look
of silver, but was probably just chromed metal of some kind. It
consisted of small plates strung on a chain, with some sort of
purple stones set on the plates. When I went to ride, I would
take the bracelet with me. It was in a box too big to fit in a
pocket, so I stuffed it into my cowboy boot. Now, in those days
I was painfully shy (something I would later overcome), and
whenever she was there, I tried to work up the nerve to pull
the bracelet out of my boot and give it to her. Days went by,
and in the heat of summer, the box became distorted and sweat-
stained. One of the stones fell off, and I glued it back on,
probably with good ol' DuCo cement. But I never worked up the
nerve to give her the bracelet, and eventually I threw it away.
Ah, the agony of childhood.
To: Maren ('63 & '64)
What's this I read? Louisiana is in such bad financial shape
the LSU Tigers might not even field a football team next year?
Holy Moley, surely the apocalypse is upon us.
[Seems to me I heard that, too... Some were even
upset because of the story... don't wanna be
trying to scare the football players1!! -Maren]
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Legacy of Angels
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The Rail Queen
See profiles and excerpts of all these books and read my blog.
"The great tragedy of life is that most people are buried with
their best music still inside them."
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: "50-year love story begins in Afghanistan" ~ 2/14/16 Herald
"Stephanie DAWSON ('60) and George Janicek said 'I do'
twice in 11 days"
"Where does love begin? For one West Richland couple,
it began more than 50 years ago in a most unlikely
place.
"When I went to Afghanistan, probably 90 percent of the
people had never heard of it," Stephanie DAWSON Janicek
('60) said as she recalled her Peace Corps service as
an English teacher in Kabul. "Now, it's so different."
"But in 1964, the country was a land of promise, a
place where George Janicek could help develop the
Department of Engineering at Kabul University through
the U.S. Agency for International Development. Already
an instructor for the University of Notre Dame, his
alma mater, he went as its representative and found a
warm welcome."
"What this New Yorker also discovered was a young woman
from Richland who caught his eye. At Peace Corps
parties, the two occasionally danced together, but then
an invitation brought George and Stephanie a step
closer."
Re: Business owner dies after struck by car ~ 2/14/16 Herald
"The man who owned Ray's Golden Lion was in critical
condition at Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland
Saturday after being hit by a car Friday in Richland.
"Ray Chin, 83, apparently was returning home from a
walk at 5:35 p.m., said Officer Calvin Nash of the
Richland Police Department. "
Update: Ray passed away at 4:25 pm on Sunday, February 14. My
mother, Dottie Collings, worked as a waitress for over 40 years
and last worked for Ray at Ray's Golden Lion. I knew Ray very
well and am deeply saddened to hear of his tragic accident and
death. There is a campaign to help out the Chin Family at
gofundme.com
Please pray for comfort for the family in this very difficult
time. Any contributions to help the family financially at this
time would be greatly appreciated.
Re: RHS Boys Basketball ~ 2/14/16 Tri City Herald
"RICHLAND 74, WALLA WALLA 56: Steven Beo scored 37
points, Landon Radliff added eight points, six
rebounds, seven assists and five steals, and the
Bombers completed their MCC district run with a win
over the Blue Devils in the title game.
Cole Northrop added 11 points and Gabe Smith 10 for
Richland (18-3), which will host Central Valley at 6
p.m. Friday in the MCC/GSL sub-regional.
"We played them once this year; we lost by 12,"
Richland coach Earl Streufert said. "We'll have to play
better than we did the last time."
Noah Porter scored 14 points for Wa-Hi (14-8), which
hosts a loser-out game Tuesday against Lewis & Clark."
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>Roger CLARK ~ Class of 1964 ~ 1945 - 2015
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/17/16
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Ken NEAL ('57), Pat HARTNETT ('59)
David DOUGLAS ('62), Helen CROSS ('62)
David RIVERS ('65), Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
Lynn-Marie HATCHER ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Curt DONAHUE ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Floyd MELTON ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Chuck MEYER ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Holley ANDERSON ('64)
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>>From: Ken NEAL ('57)
To: Mike MILLS ('57)
Best wishes for a long and happy life with Barbara.
-Ken NEAL ('57)
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>>From: Pat HARTNETT ('59)
Really enjoyed the article about Stephanie DAWSON and her
experience in the Peace Corps, and it got me wondering about
how many Columbia High/Richland High grads went on to experience
this unique opportunity.
In 1971 my wife, 3 year old daughter, and I joined the Corps
on their 10th anniversary. We were assigned to E.C.10 Eastern
Caribbean on the island of Grenada, I was supposed to help
manage the government's Handicraft Development Centre. The
government abandoned the project and I found and accepted a
position teaching English at Anglican Girls' Secondary School.
Taught "O" and "A" levels English and Literature. I also taught
Art, Health Science (read the syllabus), and coached the track
team. My wife, Sandy, and I had a second child, and completed
service in 1973. I retired from the LAUSD in 2006... what a
great ride it has been!
Any RPCs, l would love to hear from you.
-Pat HARTNETT ('59)
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)
Speaking of Valentine memories:
I'm sometimes amazed at the trivia my mind has chosen to
remember from the distant past. For example, I still remember
the Valentine cards my girlfriend Patty BEZZIO ('63-RIP) and I
exchanged in 1962. I gave Patty a card that said on the front,
"To a special Valentine," and on the inside, "who lights up my
life." There were pictures of candles. The card she gave me had
a Teddy bear on the front hugging a heart with the inside
saying, "A Valentine Hug for Someone Special." I guess she
wanted one that was affectionate without being gushy. I liked
it. I also gave her a present with my card, a 45rpm record of
Lolita's Seemann, with German lyrics. It became 'our song,'
commemorating the fact that we met in German class. Of all the
Valentines I gave and received over the years, those are the
only ones I remember.
There are some memories I wish I had. I had three Tolo dates my
senior year. Diane ZELLEY ('63) took me to the assembly, and I
remember clearly her sitting next to me. She was my prettiest
girlfriend and I enjoyed looking at her. I also remember the
date with Sherry McLAUGHLIN ('63-RIP) to a drive-in movie,
because it was the worst date I ever had (and that includes
the first date I had with Patty, who spent most of it in the
restroom throwing up, thanks to a nervous stomach). Sherry still
holds that record. She obviously didn't want to be there. I
guess she got the short straw. Patty took me to the Tolo dance,
but I do not have a single memory of that. I wish I could
remember it. I'd gladly exchange the drive-in movie memory for
that.
Although I seldom have anything to write about, I read the
Alumni Sandstorm every day, including the memorials. I'm
saddened when I read about the passing of alumni younger than I
am, but encouraged when I learn there are still many who have
lived longer than my 72 years.
-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ where our pool is up to 75° -
maybe in another two weeks we can swim again, if the sunny
weather continues. It would be less time than that if the
temperatures didn't get down into the 50s at night.
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Interesting stories of young love from Bombers in and around
Bomberland, aka: Richland, or even Washington to this Bomber
who has lived most of my adult life far from Richland.
To: Barbara POWELL Beaudry ('58)
Are you Judy POWELL Free's ('61) older sister?
Now there is a love story that was born and grew in Bomberland
and still survives last I knew; if Judy POWELL ('61) and Ken
FREE ('59) want to share it; I only have known bits and pieces
of the story over the years from occasional conversations with
Jerry FREE ('62), Ken's brother.
Belated Valentine wishes to all Bombers wherever they are in
their individual stories of romance, love and marriage.
My husband totally surprised me this year with flowers and lunch
out. Never say never as I always have known and try to remember.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN where we survived a big
snowfall on Valentine's Day and are heading for record
warmth in the sixties by this coming weekend. We have
not had that tough of a winter by Midwest standards,
thank Heaven.
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: trubel
Just before I started this, I read about a "standoff" on
Cottonwood... all I could think of was that "crime" in my school
days amounted to breaking into Chief Jo, eating candy and taking
a few jerseys... of course the fact that everyone was wearing
the jerseys all around town may have been a dead give away...
then there were the two brothers at Jason Lee who got into the
night deposit box at the bank in the uptown and started
spreading twenties around the next day at school... seems like
times have changed in our little berg... an exchange between two
guys from the class of '61 got me thinking... I have always been
adamant that I went to Col-Hi and never went to Richland Hi...
one of the guys got a new "Bring back mad dog" Ts and showed it
on face book... it has the standard R in the cloud... the other
guy commented that maybe it should be a C instead of an R...
made me realize just how internally inconsistent my own rant
about the school name is... I mean I chanted "RHS" just like
everyone else... and I still think "RHS" when I think about the
school, but if someone asks the name of my school I always say
"Col-Hi"... guess I should back off a little... well some...
but I still ain't wearin' no shirt that says "Richland High
School"!!!!!!!!!!!... well it is time to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY,
Floyd MELTON ('57) on your special day, February 17, 2016...
from some of our conversations and those I've had with Gus
KEENEY ('57) and others... sounds like no matter what year you
grageated... Richland was Richland back inna day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Written for Nostalgia Magazine by Richard McCLELLAND ('66)
The January 30 Sandstorm edition had an entry from Garrin
Hertel, the editor of Nostalgia Magazine, mentioning that
Richard McCLELLAND ('66) had written an article about growing up
in Richland and his favorite teacher, Mrs. Julia Davis (high
school English) which would be published in the February-March,
2016, Snake River Edition. As I received a copy of the edition,
I scanned the cover and the four pages of Richard's article and
have provided these links:
Nostalgia Magazine Cover ~~~ Page 1 ~ Page 2 ~ Page 3 ~ Page 4
Enjoy ~
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
To: Barbara POWELL Beaudry ('58) and Michael MILLS ('57)
I am so happy for the joy that you have found together. Thank
you for sharing.
I particularly appreciate your story, as it was the Sandstorm
that brought me and my late husband, Thomas PEASHKA ('68)
together in 2001. We committed to one another in 2002, and
married in 2004. As a widow (Thomas passed on 8/12/2015), I love
your sentence "We have given up loneliness for loving, caring
and sharing."
I, too, appreciated Ken STALEY's ('68) Valentine story (2/15/16
Sandstorm). In 4th grade (I was 9) I received my first "fancy"
Valentine - from Doug FEHRENBACHER ('68). I still have it. :-)
Then my mind revisits my favorite Valentine gift ever. It was
from my not-yet-husband, Thomas PEASHKA ('68-RIP) in 2003. He
& "our" son excitedly handed me, one by one, my first Leatherman
tool, some lovely prayer beads, chocolates, & then a box of
long-stemmed red roses. We were standing up - I thought it was
odd that they insisted on that. Afterward I understood why.
Because when they put the box of roses in my arms, I nearly fell
forward, much to their glee. You see, the box also contained my
very own, very first shotgun.
Blessings of love to all my fellow Bombers,
-Lynn-Marie HATCHER Peashka ('68)
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Margaret EHRIG ('61), Helen CROSS ('62)
Carol CONVERSE ('64), Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rich GREENHALGH ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David BELLISTON ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ellen THORNTON ('74)
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>>From: Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
Re: Judy KEPLINGER ('61-RIP)
We have lost another great Bomber. Judy - who was the long time
leader of the Class of '61 - lost her year long fight with
cancer on Valentine's Day.
There will be a Celebration of Life at the Sunset memorial Event
Center on Friday, March 4th from 3 to 5pm. Everyone is invited
to come remember her and all she did for our class as well as
remember that she enjoyed a good time whenever she had a party.
We will miss her smile, her leadership and friendship.
-Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
To: David DOUGLAS ('62)
David, you have often written interesting things into the
Sandstorm over the years.
I am still wondering how it has worked out to live so close to
one Of your kids and their family. Also you spoke of writing a
novel, how is that going? I have some ideas for novels, but
can't seem to get beyond that.
Our temperature keeps going up. it's going to be wonderfully
warm for the middle of winter.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Thank you so much for adding the article by Richard McCLELLAND
('66) [in the 2/17/16 Sandstorm]. His article just shows what
great teachers, schools and all around great city Richland was
and still is. I'm just so thankful to be living in this time and
place.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Prep basketball ~ 2-16-16 Tri-City Herald
"Richland girls oust University; Wa-Hi boys done"
"On one hand, the Richland Bombers beat University 58-
48 in a Class 4A girls basketball sub-regional loser-
out game Tuesday night at Art Dawald Gym.
On the other hand, the Bombers will face top-ranked
Central Valley (22-0) on the Bears' home court at 6
p.m. Friday.
Central Valley beat Richland 63-38 in late December,
but that result doesn't faze Richland coach Cindy
McCoy."
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland where we are
enjoying our Spring weather
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5 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Norma LOESCHER ('53), Dolores MOODY ('60)
David DOUGLAS ('62), David RIVERS ('65)
Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joretta "Sue" GARRISON ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peter CROWLEY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lynn NOBLE ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Brian BIDDLE ('80)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Katie and Diana POWELL ('02)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Mike HUSKE & Carol HARSHMAN ('64)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Bill WEDBERG & Barb O'MALLEY ('70)
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: Comedy Juggler
Those of us over 50 will recognize some of the people in the
front row. (From Norma, courtesy of Phil and Patti Gant) NOTE:
You don't have to be over 50 to enjoy it!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/n6mbW-jMtrY?rel=0
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ Richland
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>>From: Dolores MOODY Stewart ('60)
To: Barbara POWELL Beaudry ('58) and Mike MILLS ('57)
Congratulations... So happy you two found each other here in
suuny Arizona!
To: Floyd MELTON ('57)
Happy Birthday [on 2/17], Floyd!
-Dolores MOODY Stewart ('60)
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>>From: David DOUGLAS ('62)
To: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
On living close to our children: We have two children, son
Rodger Yoshio and daughter Emiko Sheralyn (their mother is
American of Japanese Ancestry (AJA) from Hawaii). We live very
close to our son - or rather he lives with us. When we came to
Arizona in 2000 we kept our house in Hawaii, thinking we would
return there when I retired in 2010. Our son ran the computer
system for a non-profit organization. When we left our son moved
into the attached apartment and we rented out the house. When my
wife decided she wanted to stay in Arizona we went back in 2010
to sell the house. It hadn't had much maintenance while we were
gone, so we had it completely renovated. While we were there,
our son was laid off due to the economy - most of the non-profit
org's income was from the state social services department, and
the state instituted many cutbacks. He got a part-time job
running computers for a doctor's office. When we sold the house,
my son couldn't afford to stay in Hawaii due to the high cost of
living, so he came with us back to Arizona. He wasn't happy
about that.
Back in Arizona, we looked at lots of houses. There was one
identical in floor plan to my daughter's in sight of her house.
I was willing to live close, but not that close to her. We
bought a house about 15 minutes away by freeway, in east Mesa.
My daughter works part time, and we go pick up the kids from
school on those days. My daughter's family goes to a church near
us, so they have dinner with us most Sundays - we alternate who
fixes it. It works okay. However, I did quit the Toastmasters
club my daughter started. After she said something to my wife
about one of my speeches, I decided we didn't need to be in the
same club. Also, it's been getting harder to memorize my
speeches.
We've been putting our son through the last two years of college
to get his BS in computer science, which has been a drain on our
investment account. However, he is having serious health
problems related to liver failure. He was hospitalized three
times last year and so far one time this year. He only has two
more courses to finish (through Univ of Phoenix On-Line) his
degree, but I don't know if he'll be able to work once he has
his degree.
So - it's nice to live close to children and grandchildren, but
not TOO close!
I finished my novel, The Trouble with Kisses - all 104,000 words
of it - but it needs considerable revision. Several of the
events are based on my relationship with Patty, but told from
her point of view. You'll hear more about that on her birthday
in July. Now I'm writing a science fiction short story I began
decades ago (handwritten on yellowed notebook paper). The
working title is "Steel Town", is set on the moon, and was
inspired by the movie Exodus. I know how I want the story to
end, but am just now figuring out how to get there. It keeps me
busy.
Sorry, Helen - that's probably more than you wanted to read.
Hopefully, this lets me off the hook to write anything for
several months.
-David DOUGLAS ('62) ~ Mesa, AZ
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)
Re: Richland will always be Richland
I swear we must all have Valentine's day stories... mine is a
bit long for this particular post... maybe next year... kinda
like dedications on the radio in the '50s and early '60s... I
was saddened by the untimely death of Justice Scalia... now
before you think I'm gonna go strict Constitutionalist on ya...
just hold up a second... I never had the pleasure to appear
before him... in fact I've only "appeared" before the Court
once... I was sworn in during the Tarkanian arguments... We
had represented Jerry up to the Supremes in a losing battle...
because we had never become admitted, my former Sr. Partner had
to step in and we were admitted during the argument (well not
during during... "Oh by the way, if it please the Court lemme
take a minute to have these two guys sworn in"... )... but that
was not the appearance... I also represented my former Partner
in an admissions case (Lawyer was denied admission to practice
in Nevada)... never got to argue as the Court granted my motion
for dismissal... it was a rather harrowing experience tho...
Instead of responding I decided the Appeal was improvident and
did an alternative motion to the Court... upon filing I got a
most nasty call from some Havaad or Yalie Clerk raking me
over the coals for having the audacity to file an alternative
motion... I then had to take some harassing from my client and
several other former partners at my old La te daa firm... BUT,
when the Supremes' entered the dismissal they began the Opinion
with: "As the Respondent has correctly argued... " made my
day... I may still have the Order tucked away somewhere... I'm
sure my little story made yer day too... .so I've been called
away for several days and am doing another group hug... now I
really don't like to do these as I hate to take away from any
single b-day... but I also wasn't quite up to doing a whole
bunch of individual posts that would be too short and not sweet
enough... sooo HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Katie and Diana POWELL ('02...
tell your Pop ('65) Hi for me) on 2/19; Ann COFFMAN ('66) on 2/20;
Kippy Lou BRINKMAN ('62) on 2/21; Doug LONGMORE ('61) on 2/22;
Carol CONVERSE ('64) and the ever young and lovely Miss Nancy
WICK ('65) both on 2/24; Marilynn WORKING ('54) on 2/27: and
Lola HEIDLEBAUH ('60) and Larry GROSS ('65) both on 2/28 on your
special days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: Iconic Marine Corps Anniversary
To all of my Marine Corps, and Navy Corpsmen brothers and
sisters: 19Feb1945 the Marines stormed the beaches of Iwo Jima.
The battle that ensured that the Marines would be around for
another 500 years, the 71st anniversary of one of the most
famous of all Marine Corps battles in history.
As an aside to this, Walla Walla has one of the largest
populations of surviving Iwo Jima veterans in the US. Pappy
SWAN ('59), Tom MATTIS ('66), and I have had the pleasure of
meeting them at numerous Marine Corps birthday celebrations.
-Brad WEAR ('71), Captain USMC, 1 ea. in Sunny Plano, TX where
it will be 80 degrees today.
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>>Gwen MOORE Bray ~ Class of 1953 ~ 1935 - 2016
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/20/16
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2 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Jeanie WALSH ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy PIERCE ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann COFFMAN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Glenda GRAY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilyn HERIFORD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David BISHOP ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Don DASCENZO ('69)
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
To: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: Comedy Juggler
https://www.youtube.com/embed/n6mbW-jMtrY?rel=0
I've seen this video before and laughed as hard as I did the
first time. I've always been amazed that the President of the
United States could be so vulnerable in the historic Ford
Theater with this act on stage so close by.
Thank you for sharing,
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: Barbra Williamson, aka Jeanie WALSH ('63)
Re: David RIVERS' ('65) entry on 2/18/16
David,
I read with interest your comments on the Supreme Count and the
passing of Justice Scalia. I had the privilege of being in the
audience when the court heard City of Simi Valley vs MUEHLER ET
AL. v. MENA. Respondent Mena and others were detained in
handcuffs during a search of the premises they occupied.
Petitioners were lead members of a police detachment executing a
search warrant of these premises for, inter alia, deadly weapons
and evidence of gang membership. Mena sued the officers under
42 U.S.C. §1983, and the District Court found in her favor. The
Ninth Circuit affirmed, holding that the use of handcuffs to
detain Mena during the search violated the Fourth Amendment and
that the officers' questioning of Mena about her immigration
status during the detention constituted an independent Fourth
Amendment violation.
To watch and listen to the Justices discuss their views and ask
questions was fascinating to say the least.
The City won by the way...
-Barbra Williamson, aka Jeanie WALSH (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Simi Valley, Home of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Where is was 84 today.. very toasty for sure
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>>Dave LAWSON ~ Class of 1971 ~ 1952 - 2016
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/21/16
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1 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim WATTS ('54)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kippy Lou BRINKMAN ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susan SCHIER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue SHIPMAN ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gil GILSTRAP ('79)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debbie VINING ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: David KELLER ('82)
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>>From: Jim WATTS ('54)
Re: Jim WILLIAMSON, class of 1953
Jim passed away 2/15/16. He was 81.
-Jim WATTS ('54)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Swetha SHUTTHANANDAN ('16) Wins Cash Prize ~ 2/20/16 Herald
"A Richland High School senior who has won a number of
science awards has received another, earning money for
herself and her school. Swetha SHUTTHANANDAN was
recently named a semi-finalist in the Intel Science
Talent Search competition."
Re: Richland Basketball
Both Richland teams were eliminated tonight [2/20]. The boys
lost 70 to 54, and the girls lost 67 to 57.The boys lost to
Central Valley on Friday night 82 - 75 in overtime. They will
play in Spokane against Gonzaga Prep Saturday night for the No.
3 seed to State Regionals.
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/22/16
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5 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Norma LOESCHER ('53), Jimmie MEFFORD ('54)
Mike CLOWES ('54), JoAnn DRESSER ('61)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Darlene PICKLES ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dan NOBLE ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joe CHOATE ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Doug LONGMORE ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dave SIMPSON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lynn BERRY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve GALLOWAY ('74)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dennis LYNCH ('75)
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: Jim WILLIAMSON ('53-RIP)
Jim will be interred at a 1:30 pm graveside service at
Einan's Sunset Memorial Gardens on February 27. He died
from Alzheimer's on February 15, 2016. He was a beautiful
soul, loved by every classmate who knew him.
Re: Bomber Hoops
Richland Bomber boys and girls were eliminated from state
play-offs in their games away from home. Boys: Gonzaga Prep
70, Richland 54... Girls: Chiawana 67, Richland 57. Steven Beo
was held to 10 points (season low). Landon Radliff scored 20.
Gia Sorn (she's 6' 2") hit most effectively for the girls.
Illness affected both Bomber teams.
Re: Bomber Granddaughter
Cierra Jo McKeown (granddaughter of Tom McKEOWN ('53-RIP) and
the great-niece of Jim McKEOWN ('53)) led Touchet with 22
points as they defeated Oakesdale 66-35. Now Touchet goes into
the regional round of state... I was going to talk about
college teams but guess you have been following them (as well
as pro sports)... and undoubtedly know much more than I do!
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ Richland
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>>From: Jimmie MEFFORD ('54)
Re: class of '54
On February 19th the following '54 guys (& Pete) had a
meeting at Bob's Burgers and Brew in Kennewick: Don RAY,
Lefty KUNKLER, Pete HOLLICK ('55), Lloyd KENT, Jim WATTS,
and myself. This group was the quiet and polite group all
thru high school.
We will have another meeting at the same place on March 18th
at 11:30am.
-Jim MEFFORD ('54)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Let me add, publicly, to the many thousands of congratulatory
cards, letters and e-mails pouring in for today's Bomber
Babe's birthday. This would be the big 2 - 1 for her, not that
she's counting. I think I knew her back in the day; her name
is certainly familiar to me, although I haven't seen her since
graduation. Perhaps she will make it to the "big" birthday
party whenever that may be.
Consequently, a tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a shout of
"Happy Birthday!" is in order for Darlene PICKLES ('54). And
may you have many more.
Sorry to hear of the passing of Jim WILLIAMSON ('53-RIP).
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the daffodils are blooming and the tulip leaves have
poked through.
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>>From: Tracy Reavis for JoAnn DRESSER Nai-che ('61)
harley-t@peoplepc.com
Joann is trying to get in contact with Blythe NICHOLS ('61).
If anyone has a telephone number or address, would you be so
kind as to send it to me. I am Joann's friend and Power of
Attorney. Since she cannot see well enough to use the
computer I am sending this for her.
Sincerely, Tracy Reavis
-for JoAnn DRESSER Nai-che ('61)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Another Win for Lisa Bratton ~ 2/21/16 Herald
"Texas A & M sophomore Lisa Bratton (Richland) , won
the women's 200-yeard backstroke to conclude her SEC
Swimming & Diving Championships in Columbia, MO with
three titles and a runner-up finish."
[Lisa was home schooled and swam with class of '13 for RHS]
Lisa's bio: https://swimswam.com/bio/lisa-bratton/
Re: Richland basketball ~ 2/21/16 Tri-City Herald
Chiawana girls move to regionals, beating Richland 67-57
Richland boys season ends in loss to Gonzaga Prep 70-54
Re: Shades of Blue TV Series and Santino FONTANA ('00)
Santino FONTANA ('00) plays Saperstein on this TV series of
crime and drama. On the last episode Ray Liota (Lt. Bill
Wozniak) killed FONTANA (Saperstein) as Saperstein had a story
to tell which implicated the FBI task force. Sorry to give the
sad news!
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>Jackie SHEARD Cross ~ Class of 1961 ~ 1943 - 2016
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/23/16
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Norma LOESCHER ('53)
Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Myrna BRANUM ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom SOMMER ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barb COLLINGS ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jane BROWN ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandy STANFIELD ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jil LYTLE ('82)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Jack MORROW ('52) & Pat ACKLEY ('53)
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: Ike's Air Force One -- We almost lost it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ehwvZXVKmPU
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ Richland
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Re: The Birthday Trifecta and more.
Happy Birthday to three women I've known for a loooooong time.
Two of them since Chief Jo days, and one since Col-Hi, and
WSU. Happy Birthday to Barb COLLINGS, Sandy STANFIELD, and
Jane BROWN Hedges all '71 babes. Hope you have a great day.
An additional Happy Birthday to my twin nephews Kris and
Nic Miller ('95-WAB).
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in rainy Plano, TX
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/24/16
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Brad WEAR ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dorothy CAMERON ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Frank HAGGARD ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol CONVERSE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy WICK ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joan MORRIS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ann Marie NICKLASON ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron BRUNKE ('71)
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>>From:Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: 2016 Iditarod starts in 10 days
Nikolai Buser, eldest son of 4-time Iditarod Champion, Martin
Buser, has been moved to Harborview's full rehab.
Martin will head for Alaska soon to run the 2016 Iditarod ...
Martin's other son, Rohn, has withdrawn from the 2016 race and
they have another musher running Martin's "B" team this year.
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 53° at 2am
P.S. Hsppy 70th, Carol!!
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>>From: Brad WEAR ('71)
Happy Birthday to two more of my Chief Jo and Col-Hi cohorts.
Happy Birthday to Ann NICKLASON ('71) and Ron BRUNKE ('71) on
your special day. Hope you have a good one.
-Brad WEAR ('71) ~ in cold, rainy, Plano, TX
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/25/16
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Karen COLE ('55), Tony HARRAH ('65)
Tedd CADD ('66), Greg ALLEY ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sandy MITCHELL ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rochelle SEHOLM ('97)
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
I'm posting a plea for Make-A-Wish (MAW) volunteers that are
desperately needed in the Tri-Cities, Yakima and Walla Walla
areas. I've been a wish grantor for several years, and I can
personally tell you it is a thrilling experience to witness the
excitement when telling a seriously ill child, that his wish
will be granted. The wishes are so varied and challenging,
some want to travel, to be super heroes, to meet a celebrity,
to having a shopping spree, etc. These are children with grave
illnesses, who have gone through so much. To bring joy into
their lives is truly a blessing. The Tri-City area is
overwhelmed with children waiting for a wish volunteer to
brighten their lives. Being a volunteer isn't difficult. Three
people are involved in a wish, two volunteers and a wish
coordinator. Please, won't you consider being a volunteer?
You can contact me or Volunteer manager Juli (206) 623-5350 at
Juli@northwestwishes.org
P.S. I can personally tell you how much these wishes mean. Our
grandson had a stage four brain tumor at five years old. MAW
granted his wish to go to Disney World. To go to such a place,
away from all the scary medical procedures and pain, was
unbelievable. He is now in college in the teaching program.
-Karen COLE Correll ('55)
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>>From: Tony HARRAH ('65)
I just saw a story in the Seattle Times about the Garfield
Bulldogs, who are aiming for their third straight state
basketball championship this year, and I thought back to 1979,
the last time the Bombers won a championship. I walked down
from my place on Queen Anne to what was then called the Seattle
Coliseum (now Key Arena) and was a little late to the semifinal
game against Garfield, arriving just before tip off. I parked
myself on the Garfield side of the stands until there was a
chance to walk around to the Richland side. All year long the
Garfield team had been using a full-court press on defense
throughout their games, running players in and out and
frustrating every opponent - teams had trouble even getting the
ball over the half court line. Garfield, as I remember, was the
odds on favorite to win the championship. So there I sat on the
Garfield side as the game started, near a group of guys who
obviously had a close connection with their team, including a
parent or two. Things didn't go as planned for them. Instead of
trying to dribble through defenders, the Bombers used crisp
passes to go over and around the press, often ending up with
layups. I could feel the consternation around me, and finally
one guy who'd had enough said in a deep bass voice, "Damn,
these guys are GOOD." And they were - I think that year's team
was one of the best high school teams I've ever seen. They went
on to win 74-61 and beat Pasco (for the fourth time that year)
72-59 for the championship. I think Brian KELLERMAN ('79) went
on to play for Idaho and Bob KENNEDY ('79) for Seattle U.
-Tony HARRAH ('65)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: '66 Stuff
I'm curious about the Class of '66 reunion this summer. Could
we do some sort of bio on each member (or have each attending
member submit such)?
I'm thinking that there is an interesting opportunity to see
how life has gone for our fellow graduates following
graduation. Perhaps we could make some sort of book (PDF?)
with the stories of what our classmates have found meaningful
in their lives and what/where they've been in life.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Greg ALLEY ('73)
Re: New Bridge
Looks like someday there will be a bridge over the Yakima
connecting Duportail streets in town and up on the hill in the
new over crowded area with lots of traffic. One step was the
road Stevens Drive from Lee around to Wellsian Way newly paved
and ready for the next step. They will have to figure out how
to go up the hill to Thayer. There will be a roundabout at
Wright and Duportail. It may be complete in my time, but not
soon.
Also wanted to remember my wife who passed away 2 years ago.
Kathy Ann FEASTER Alley ('75-RIP). Kathy was a Bomber
cheerleader, Bomber gymnast, a great wife, and was great with
young kids running her Science Education programs for Battelle.
Just keeping her memory alive for those who knew her.
-Greg ALLEY ('73) ~ in spring like Richland enjoying a great
mild winter and ready for spring.
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1 Bomber today:
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Betsy COFFMAN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debbie LUKINS ('78)
WEEKLY BOMBER LUNCH: Mostly '52ers, Noon, Sterling's GWWay (Fridays)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: 2016 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
8 days till the start on 3/5/16.
Mushers will draw for their starting number at the Mushers'
Banquet the Thursday before the Start... this year that date is
3/3.
Martin Buser has already left his son's side at Harborview
Rehab Center to do some pre-race preparation.
There are 86 teams this year... most are either already in
Anchorage or they will head that way very soon. Most teams have
20 dogs chosen and they will make their final selection of 16
by 3/5 -- the day of the Ceremonial start in Anchorage.
Stay tuned...
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 53° at midnight
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/27/16
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2 Bombers sent stuff today:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shannon CRAIG ('50)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marilynn WORKING ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Grant RICHARDSON ('67)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Dick ROBERTS ('49) & Carol TYNER ('52)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Let me take this time to congratulate some friends of mine on
their wedding anniversary. On this date, way back when, Richard
ROBERTS ('49) and Carol TYNER ('52) got married, and they have
been ever since. Maybe we can do lunch again at the
Glockenspiel when you come through.
On the other hand, it is also the birthday of a Bomber Babe I
know. Went to school with her, and, yes, even graduated on the
very same day. I wouldn't want her current position as
President of Club 40 to go to her head, so we will not be
playing "Hail to the Chief".
I will, however, tip the ol' propeller beanie and shout "Happy
Birthday!" to Marilynn WORKING ('54). More than likely, I will
see her at the Big Birthday Bash, whenever and where ever that
may be.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the rains have returned and the snow levels are supposed
to be lowering to the 3,000 foot level.
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Nick CONNORS ('12) - Swimming ~ 2/25/16 Tri-City Herald
"During the first day of the WAC Swimming & Diving
Championships in Houston, Nick CONNORS ('12) and Will
Wertz (Hanford) teamed with Morgan Montemayor and
Mitchell Crossen to clock the fifth-fastest time in
Seattle University history in the men's 800-yard
freestyle relay. CONNORS, Montemayor, Wertz and Crossen
finished seventh with a time of 6 minutes, 47.11
seconds."
I had the privilege of meeting Nick when he was in kindergarten
at Christ the King School. I was a para-educator in
kindergarten. Nick was a handsome, intelligent guy even back
then.
Congratulations, Nick!!!
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland where temperatures
are reaching the high 50s and low 60s
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/28/16
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3 Bombers sent stuff and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Tim SMYTH ('62)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lola HEIDLEBAUGH ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Larry GROSS ('65)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Before this goes to press; gotta get this in the cue. This is
for one of the younger Bomber Babes of my acquaintance. I
didn't meet her until well after we both graduated. See her
mostly at the Portland lunches.
Enough said, now for the tip of the ol' propeller beanie and a
"Happy Birthday!" shout for Lola HEIDLEBAUGH ('60). Keep on
having them.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where
the sound of lawn mowers fills the afternoon air.
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>>From: Tim SMYTH ('62)
My Lady, Debby, and I are in southern Florida (Anna Maria
Island, FL) for the winter from New York. Anna Maria Island
is just a little south of St. Petersburg. Any Bombers in the
area? Shoot us an email or ask Maren for a phone number.
-Tim SMYTH ('62)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Nick CONNORS ('12) / Swimming ~ 2/27/16 Tri-City Herald
Seattle University senior Nick CONNORS ('12) finished second in
the "C" final and 18th overall in the men's 500-yard freestyle
Thursday at the WAC Swimming & Diving Championships in Houston.
CONNORS was timed in 4 minutes, 38.28 seconds, nine-hundredths
of a second behind "C" final winner Bryant Fascio of Cal State
Bakersfield.
Re: Picture of Nick in kindergarten at Christ the King School
http://richlandbombers.1966.tripod.com/misc/12ConnorsNick00.jpg
Re: Jefferson Elementary School ~ 2/27/16 Tri-City Herald
"Demolition could be future of old Jefferson Elementary
School. It looks like a wrecking ball rather than a
renovation crew could be the future of Richland's
Jefferson Elementary School.
The new Jefferson isn't expected to open until 2018,
and students will continue to attend classes in the
current building until construction is complete.
The new school, to be built on open ground on the same
property, could look like the two-story structures that
have replaced the old Sacajawea and Lewis & Clark
elementary schools, though the school board has yet to
vote on a final design."
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>Susan WILDENBORG Stafford ~ Class of 1965 ~ 1945 - 2016
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/29/16 ~ LEAP YEAR
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1 Bomber today and 1 Bomber Memorial today:
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
LEAP YEAR BABIES
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Don STORMS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon CHAMBERS ('70)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: 2016 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
5 days till the Iditarod Ceremonial start on 3/5/16.
Mushers draw for their starting number at the Mushers' Banquet
the Thursday, March 3, 2016.
Ceremonial start on 4th Street in Anchorage on 3/5/16.
86 teams this year... 16 dogs per team = 1,376 dogs.
All running thru the streets of Anchorage on 3/5/16
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Idit/AnchorageRte.jpg
The very first commemorative race left Anchorage March 3, 1973.
Won by Dick Wilmarth in just over 20 days.
Re: 39th JUNIOR Iditarod - 10 mushers
Vet check happened last Friday for the 10 young (14 to 17 year
olds) mushers - all from Alaska. They departed 2/27/16 from Knik
Lake and arrived at the half way mark (Yentna). They rest/camp
for 10 hours and come back the next day (2/28/16). Scholarships
are awarded for the top three mushers as well as winners of the
sportsmanship and humanitarian awards.
This year's JUNIOR Iditarod 10 mushers:
1. Kevin Harper/bib# 7 - M (Wasilla) Vet
2. Andrew Nolan/bib# 5 - M (Wasilla) Vet
3. Bailey Schaeffer/bib# 2 - F (Willow) Rookie
4. Dakota Schlosser/bib# 10 - M (Willow) Vet
5. Chandler Wappett/bib# 8 - M (Fairbanks) Rookie
6. Joan Klejka/bib# 11 - F (Bethel) Vet
7. Denver Kay Evans/bib# 6 - F (Skagway) Rookie
8. Rose Capistrant/bib# 9 - M (Healy) Vet
9. Marianna Mallory/bib# 3 - F (Chugiak) Vet
10.Ksenia Deits/bib# 4 - F (Anchorage) Vet
Watch future Iditarods for these kids!!!
Stay tuned...
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 59° at midnight
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Bomber Memorial
>>Keith KRISHER ~ Class of 1977 ~ 1959 - 2016
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That's it for the month. Please send more.
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January, 2016 ~ March, 2016