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Richland Bombers Calendar website
Funeral Notices website
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/01/20
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Keith ARNDT ('60), Helen CROSS ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Elwin BOYLE ('64_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Charlie BURKE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Suzie O'MALLEY ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Anna DURBIN ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pat HAMMOND ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patricia INGHRAM ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sheri LUKINS ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Deana SHIPMAN ('77)
Richland Bombers on Facebook
MAREN's MALARKEY:
Get ahead of yourself. Send Sandstorm Stuff early.
Please put the "save for" date in the subject line...
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>>From: Keith ARNDT ('60)
Re: Iditarod Air Force (IAF) video
Maren, Great video on IAF. Does a lot to describe the
magnitude of the event.
-Keith ARNDT ('60)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: Iditarod
Thank you, Maren for all the information on the Iditarod.
While I would love to see it, I appreciate the YouTube site,
as the odds and wisdom of an 80 something year old grandma
taking her grandkids to see it (if I wait till they are at
least 5) are probably not good.
[And really if you aren't IN the race, all you
get to see is the Ceremonial start on Saturday,
maybe the Official Re-start on Sunday, and then
the end in Nome. You wouldn't be able to go to
all twenty something checkpoints. -Maren]
Re: Mardi Gras
Also I found your information about the Mardi Gras celebration
interesting. I had no idea they had several parades versus
just one main one.
[SEVERAL parades - many are night parades -- DAILY
beginning 2 weeks before Mardi Gras Tuesday and
they throw a LOTTA "crap" from every float in every
parade. There are several "main" ones even on Mardi
Gras Day: Zulu (pretty much a "black" parade) steps
off on Mardi Gras Day at 8am (if memory serves)
and also Pete Fountain's Half-Fast (say that fast)
Marching Club at 8am. There are parades all over
the city on Mardi Gras Day... you can find the route
and start time of each parade in the newspaper --
and now with the internet, you can get that info
online. AND there's a formal ball for most (if
not all) Krewes. Comus and Rex (means King in Latin
I think) are really the two biggies... and their
balls are Mardi Gras night.. The whole shebang
ends at the balls of Comus and Rex when the King
and Queen of those two krewes meet at midnight.
That's it. Done. Now time for lent!! This is a
religious celebration! - New Orleans style!! And
don't get me started on the King Cake and the
doubloons - every krewe has their own doubloons.
Made with cheap aluminum... they throw from
the floats. -Maren]
I may make that one next year, as we just found out that our
former exchange student from Spain, Jaime Saez, will be in the
US next school year, attending Tulane University!! Life seems
to be moving on at a tremendous pace anymore.
Re: Divorce
I can't think of one family I knew where the parents were
divorced. My dad had an older sister who lived in Oregon with
no children, who had "been divorced", but that is all that was
ever said about that.
But there were a lot of subjects that weren't discussed back
in the '50s and early '60s.
Love keeping touch with Richland and the past in the Sandstorm.
To: David DOUGLAS ('62)
I'm glad you are enjoying your pool more, David.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in SE Indiana where we are fortunate
to have had a mild winter, so far. Had just less than an
inch of snow with sunshine these last 2 days. The little
lake isn't frozen.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('65)
Re: Coming of age
You mention that Navy hero Jack Lucas was underage and lied
when he joined the Navy, and now is the youngest sailor ever
to receive the Medal of Honor. Try this...
After the July 1969 recovery in the Pacific of the first lunar
astronauts there was a big shipside ceremony in Pearl Harbor.
The Apollo XI lunar capsule and the first moon walk astronauts
(by now a few days into their three weeks in the Mobile
Quarantine Facility-the "moon germ" precaution) were being
offloaded for a flatbed ride to Hickam Field and then the
final flight by cargo plane to the Houston space center.
The lead speaker was a wiry old and still-in-uniform naval
higher-up by the name of Admiral McCain, Sr, Commander in
Chief Pacific Command (CINCPAC). Adding to his gaunt look was
the fact that his son, John McCain, III, was still in solitary
confinement in the Hanoi Hilton.
During his very vernacular remarks, McCain spoke directly to
the lowest among us, all in uniformed dress-white rows and
columns. He barked that decades earlier, he too (!!!) had lied
about his age to get into the Navy. And now he was a full
Admiral. His salty invitation: "get on with it." He wanted at
least a few to "re-up" for another tour-of-duty.
And now a side note about McCain and one of our early
classmates-
In 1965 McCain led the invasion of the Dominican Republic. The
radioman for that action was one very slight Paul Schwendiman,
member of the 1956 sixth grade class at Lewis & Clark
Elementary School (Kennewick class of 1962). Known to be a
very expert Army radioman (in high school he already had been
head engineer at two Tri-City radio stations), he happened
to be at Fort Bragg when a master sergeant busted into the
barracks and spotted him on his bunk. "Hey, are you 'the
radio guy'? Get your gear together! We're deploying in thirty
minutes. You're now a Green Beret! Here's your cover (hat)!"
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/01/20
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Idit/March.jpg
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
6 days before the Ceremonial start on 3/7/20
5 days before the Official re-start on 3/8/20
Re: trail Markers
Trail markers are usually lath with bright (reflector) pink
ribbon tied to the top of the lath. Volunteers add them just
before the start of the race trail every year... I'm thinking
about every mile or so?? Snow machines take them out to the
trail with the lath..
I think the Trail Sweep volunteers are a different crew of
volunteers with different machinery. They clear a path for the
mushers. Often times the weather obliterates what the Trail
Sweeps have done before the mushers get there.
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
Re: Iditarod Air Force (IAF) (9:31)
In case you missed this...
Many pictures of the IAF with pilot's name and the kind of
plane. Lots of pictures at different checkpoints and there's
cool music while you look at pictures.. with text on many
pictures telling all KINDS of stuff. like ow many bales of
hay, how much HEET. Pilot Diana Moroney has run 10 Iditarods
but I guess now she's a pilot with the IAF...
Re: Just for Fun - Mood Toilet Ring
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 57° at 2am
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/02/20
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debbie HOLDEN ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John ADKINS ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Edye ISAACS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam DYKEMAN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roger TRUE ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Stan KAVECKIS ('67)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Another month already. Just in time to wish Debbie HOLDEN ('54)
a "Happy Birthday!"
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Gail DAWSON Howe ('66) and her husband, Tim
GREAT NEWS!!!
Gail and Tim fly home to Richland TODAY, March 2!!
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/03/20
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52), Steve CARSON ('58)
Helen CROSS ('62), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
"JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol HODGSON ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Monique MANGOLD ('80)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steven PIIPPO ('09)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Trevor HAY ('09)
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
I'm usually 6 or 7 days behind in reading the Sandstorm, so
my post may be old news.
Re: Divorce
When my daughter, Keri Hubbard, was in 1st or second grade
at Marcus Whitman, she was the only one in her class with
divorced parents. I felt so badly for her. It was such a sad
reality but there was nothing I could do about it. Maybe about
3 or 4 years into our marriage, he told me, "I will never
bruise you where it will show." Over the years, he did things
to me that were painful and terrifying but I kept thinking I
could turn into the kind of wife he wanted. Along the way we
had some good, happy times and then, when I was 8-1/2 months
pregnant with our 3rd child he did bruise me where it showed.
During the first month or 2 of our separation, when I thought
we were trying to reconcile, he came to my small rented 1
bedroom prefab and told me I wasn't good enough to s**t on.
He stepped toward me and repeated himself in a louder tone.
I was scared half to death but was so proud of myself for not
stepping back from him. I took my rings off and threw them
across the living room. I said, "If I'm not good enough to
s**t on, I'm certainly not good enough to wear your rings." It
was a very sad time! for all of us. A year later we divorced
(had to be Washington citizens and we had been living in CA).
His 2nd wife got her divorce the same day, in the same Court
House, just minutes after ours. As sad as I felt for my
daughter, I knew it was the right decision. Years later she
told me she was glad I had done it.
Sorry if this is depressing to any Bombers out there.
Especially the ones who have had similar experiences.
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ in pleasant Richland where my
daffodils are almost finished blooming, my decorative
Japanese tree has lovely pink blossoms, and I need to
get the anti-worm stuff for the apple tree.
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>>From: Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
To: Keith ARNDT ('60)
Re: Iditarod Air Force (IAF) video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzcuFGRzO_k
Keith, Thanks for the video and music.
-Steve CARSON (Championship Class of '58)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
You raised more real reasons why I will probably never attend
the Iditarod race, but only view it from afar.
Fellow '62 grad, Pete BEAULIEU always relates interesting
stories relevant to what's happening or been going on.
Oh, and Happy Birthday to fellow 1962 grad, John Adkins on
3/2.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in SE Indiana where I am happy we
have rain and 50° most of the week. Above freezing is
so much easier to deal with than are freezing cold
snow and ice.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/03/20
MARCH
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
4 days before the Ceremonial start on 3/7/20
5 days before the Official re-start on 3/8/20
Re: Trail Markers
Roughly 15k trail markers.
Re: Volunteers
Over 2000 volunteers
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
Re: All Volunteer Iditarod Air Force (IAF) (9:31)
In case you missed this...
Re: Mandatory gear:
There's a new item on the list of mandatory gear mushers must
carry with them: insulated dog coats for each dog in the team,
for use when needed while running or resting.
? Proper cold weather sleeping bag weighing a minimum
of 5 pounds;
? Ax, head to weigh a minimum of 1 3/4 pounds, handle
at least 22 inches long;
? One operational pair of snowshoes with bindings, each
snowshoe to be at least 252 square inches in size;
? Any promotional material provided by the ITC;
? Eight booties for each dog in the sled or in use;
? One operational cooker and pot capable of boiling
at least three gallons of water at one time;
? Veterinarian notebook, to be presented to the
veterinarian at each checkpoint;
? An adequate amount of fuel to bring three gallons
of water to a boil;
? Functional non-chafing harness for each dog in team
and a functional neckline.
In addition, mushers are required to carry an adequate
amount of emergency dog food in addition to what they carry
for routine feeding and snacking.
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 70° at midnight
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>>From: "JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84)
Re: Teachers in Richland with last name of Clayton
I read in the 2/29 Sandstorm (in a wayback snippet from the
2009 Sandstorm archives) about a Carmichael teacher named Mr.
Clayton. Does anybody know if his wife was also a teacher?
I attended kindergarten for the 1970-71 school year at
Sacajawea (spelled with a 'j' - I see now that they have
changed that to a 'g' - do they need to change everything?)
Elementary, which was taught by a white-haired Mrs. Clayton
until she retired mid-year, being replaced by a much younger
Miss (or Mrs.?) Green. I have tried internet digging on Mrs.
Clayton but have come up with zip.
I do also have a booklet that presumably used to belong to
Mrs. Clayton (which came to me somehow as kid via a Christ the
King rummage sale I think - maybe from her estate) which has
individual pictures of her students that same class year
(future CHS/RHS class of 1983) and the names which I would
love to find a new home for, if anybody is interested. Or if
there is one of the websites to upload the information to, I
could scan the pictures and do that so more people could find
it (Or if somebody is already set up to do scans I can mail it
to you - my awesome Epson flatbed scanner is so old it only
works on my desktop Windows XP machine and I haven't used it
for several years.)
One funny story from when I was in class with Mrs. Green:
during show and tell one day, I specifically remember asking
her: "Mrs. Green, how come yesterday your hair was brown and
today it is black?" And I don't even remember what her answer
was, but I was fascinated that somebody's hair color could
change overnight!
-John Paul "JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/04/20
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Tedd CADD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ruth PATTY ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Vicki GILL ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy BISHOP ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim WINGFIELD ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda DEVINE ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rich FLEMING ('73_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Brad UPTON ('74)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/04/20
MARCH
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
3 days before the Ceremonial start on 3/7/20
4 days before the Official re-start on 3/8/20
Re: Trail Markers
Roughly 15k trail markers - picture looks like maybe 10 or 20
trail markers -- ready to mark the trail for the mushers.
Re: 2018 Berington Twins' bibs
Re: Some Food for Checkpoint volunteers
Re: TOMORROW (Thursday) Night Drawing for Bib number
The number that the mushers draw for their bib number is also
their starting position
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
Re: Volunteers Making Paw Ointment
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 72° at midnight
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
To: John Paul "JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84)
Re: Scanning
I can do that if you'd send it to me: PO Box 4343, West
Richland, WA 99353
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/05/20
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Don LYALL ('52), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Donna NELSON ('63), Leoma COLES ('63)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64), Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
"JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pat O'BRYAN ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: June PERKINS ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tom MATTIS ('66)
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>>From: Don LYALL ('52)
Re: Alaska
Your yearly entries of the IDITAROD brings fond memories...
While playing BB at C Wash in 1954, we were the first team
from the States to go to Alaska to play... beat both college
teams but lost to two AF teams, they had players from big
colleges. While there several dog teams gave us all a ride all
over. Loved it. Then in late '60s, I flew out of Eilison AFB,
took off one night at 62 below zero.
-Don LYALL ('52)
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
This will only take a moment. Here's a "Happy Birthday!"
(without emojis) for Pat O'BRYAN ('54).
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)
Maren, No more Alaska Airlines support for Iditarod according
to Seattle news yesterday. Said they have done it for 40 years
and decided to stop. Guess they provided free transportation
for vets (assuming its vet doctors) to come help.
[So time for me to stop flying Alaska Airlines...
AND I will sure tell them why, too! -Maren]
-Donna NELSON ('63)
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Leoma COLES ('63)
Happy day late Birthday to Brad UPTON ('74) on 3/4! If you've
never seen his comedy show, he is the best ever! I have seen
him twice, first in Lincoln City at Chinook Winds Casino. And
the second time on a Holland Cruise ship in Alaska! I enjoyed
his fun-loving everyday situation humor!!
Hope all are well out there in Bomber land, with all the virus
talk going on... heading to Southern California April 1st,
and I hope that this doesn't get any worse than it already is!!
-Leoma COLES ('63) ~ in sunny Lincoln City, OR
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: CoronaVirus
Geez, people! CALM DOWN... Look at these stats.
CoronaVirus stats compared...
Maren's Malarkey for 3/05/20
March
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
2 days before the Ceremonial start on 3/7/20
3 days before the Official re-start on 3/8/20
Re: 4 time Winner Jeff King Withdraws
Jeff underwent emergency surgery for "perforated intestine
(along with an incarcerated hernia)" on either 3/2 or 3/3. So
he's not racing, but rookie, Sean Underwood has been allowed
to replace Jeff and race Jeff's team. Sean has been working
with Jeff's dogs since 2016.
Re: Thursday Night Drawing for Bib number
Position list in Friday's Sandstorm
Re: Iditarod Trail Invitational
BIKE - FOOT - SKI ~ starts 3/1/20... last report I saw is
that the leaders are at checkpoint #3 Finger Lake... Mountain
Bikers on the Iditarod Trail.
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 58° at midnight
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)
Re: Gail DAWSON Howe ('66) and her husband, Tim Howe
Thankfully Gail and Tim arrived safely home!
-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland
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>>From: "JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84)
To: Tedd CADD ('66)
Hi Tedd,
Thanks much for the offer on the scanning; I'll box this
booklet up and send it your way.
-John Paul "JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/07/20
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Dale ENNOR ('59), Helen CROSS ('62)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64), Bill SCOTT ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Melanie LAWSON ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ray FISHER ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rod JOCHEN ('80)
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>>From: Dale ENNOR ('59)
Re: Bomber help
Needing some Bomber assistance to settle a minor familial
flap. Question relates to a trip back east which was taken in
either 1952 or 1953. It was the summer KORD took to the air in
Pasco. I contend it was 1 August 1953... confirmation, please!
-Dale ENNOR ('59)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: Iditarod
I can't help rooting for the brave 79 year old man who will be
doing the Iditarod. He has courage to enter at his age. I'm
not sure I even want to be a spectator at my age and I'm not
79 yet.
Happy Lent, Happy Spring, Happy March!! Love to see my plants
starting to re-emerge and come to new life as our winter ends.
Even when we've been. Blessed with a very mild winter, I find
myself looking forward to warmer weather.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in the house by the little lake
where I think a pair of Canadian geese are nesting.
Look forward to seeing their little ones around as they
grow up; but we are happy when they fly away too!!
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/07/20
March
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Ceremonial start is TODAY
Official re-start on 3/8/20 is TOMORROW
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
WILLOW (WIL) - 42 miles to YS / miles to Nome: 922
Tams depart Willow on Sunday beginning at 5pm (central time)
with one team departing every two minutes until all teams have
departed. The position numbers on Saturday will not change
from the Ceremonial start to to orricial re-start on Sunday.
Campbell Airstrip (90 minutes to Willow by car)
Willow Pop: 1,700
All teams leave ANCHORAGE and travel 11 miles to Campbell Airstrip
Mushers I'm watching:
Position
3.Tim Pappas/Bib #3 ~ age 30; racing Martin Buser's "A" team
4.Kristy Berington/Bib #4 ~ age 36; too pretty not to follow
5.Ramey Smyth/Bib #5 ~ age 44; best finish: #2 2011; consistant
top ten finisher
7.Wade Marrs/Bib #7 ~ age 28; best finish: 4th 2016; won
fastesst Safety to Nome with Nic Petit's sled last year
8.Linwood Fiedler/Bib #8 ~ age 66, best finish: 2nd 2001;
9.Pete Kaiser/Bib #9 ~ age 21; won last year
12.Lance Mackey/Bib #12 ~ age 49; the only 4-in-a-r0w winner
18.Anna Berington/Bib #18 ~ age 36, too pretty not to follow
21.Nic Petit/Bib #21 ~ age 38, best finish: #2 in 2018;
23.Aliy Zirkle/Bib #23 ~ age 50; best finish: #2 in '12,'13,&'14
26.Martin Buser/Bib #26 age 61; 4 time champ
27.Mitch Seavey/Bib #27 ~ age 60; 3 time champ
28.Robert Redington/Bib #28 ~ age 31; youngestt g-son of
Iditarod founder Joe Redington, Sr.
29.Matthew Failor/Bib #29 ~ age 37; best finish: 13th in 2018
31,Jessie Royer/Bib #31, age 43; her best finish #3 in 2019;
consistant top 10 finisher
34.Jessie Holmes/Bib #34 ~ age 38, he best finish: #7 and
rookie of the year in 2018
35.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/Bib #35 ~ age 33; Top 10 finisher in
every race he's run and won in 2018
37.Ryan Redington/Bib #37 ~ age 37; best finish: 14th in 2017;
g-son of Joe Redington , Sr.
44.Brent Sass/Bib #44 ~ Rookie of the year in 2012; 2 time
winner of the 1000 mile Yukon Quest race.
46.Sean Underwood bib #46 ~ age 28; rookie racing Jeff King's dogs.
55.Jim Lanier/Bib #55 ~ age 79; best finish: 18th 2004; M.D.
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 55° at 1:30am
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: New Novel
For my feverish fans: A new novel is underway! It doesn't
have a title yet, but I can tell you it starts in Southern
California in 1929, and features a 14-year old runaway girl,
feuding Irish clans, vintage aircraft, WWII, and time travel.
It'll feature my usual strong female protagonist and plenty of
action. Stay tuned!
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/08/20 ~ SPRING FORWARD at 2am
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Mary ROSE ('60), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Carol CONVERSE ('64), Betti AVANT ('69)
Jerry LEWIS ('73)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Eddy CHARETTE ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim ADAIR ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marcus REILLY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Susan SHEPARD ('67)
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>>From: Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
Re: Seeking Bill Becker
To: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
This is difficult. I may have the wrong name!!! But if this
guy lived on Williams close to Spalding, it is him. I do not
remember knowing or seeing the one I am talking about after
grade school!! Junior high and growing up was very traumatic
for me though, I remember very little, include high school in
that too!!
Thanks so much for the info, Stephanie!!
-Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/08/20
March
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
TODAY is the Official re-start. As soon as teams depart the
Willow checkpoint THE RACE IS ON!!
Okay NOW I'm excited!!
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
WILLOW - 42 miles to YS / miles to Nome: 922
Teams depart Willow beginning at 2pm (Alaska time) with one
team departing every two minutes until all teams have departed.
Mushers I'm watching:
Position
3.Tim Pappas/Bib #3 ~ age 30; racing Martin Buser's "A" team
4.Kristy Berington/Bib #4 ~ age 36; too pretty not to follow
5.Ramey Smyth/Bib #5 ~ age 44; best finish: #2 2011; consistent
top ten finisher
7.Wade Marrs/Bib #7 ~ age 28; best finish: 4th 2016; won
fastest Safety to Nome with Nic Petit's sled last year
8.Linwood Fiedler/Bib #8 ~ age 66, best finish: 2nd 2001;
9.Pete Kaiser/Bib #9 ~ age 21; won last year
12.Lance Mackey/Bib #12 ~ age 49; the only 4-in-a-row winner
18.Anna Berington/Bib #18 ~ age 36, too pretty not to follow
21.Nic Petit/Bib #21 ~ age 38, best finish: #2 in 2018;
23.Aliy Zirkle/Bib #23 ~ age 50; best finish: #2 in '12,'13,&'14
26.Martin Buser/Bib #26 age 61; 4 time champ
27.Mitch Seavey/Bib #27 ~ age 60; 3 time champ
28.Robert Redington/Bib #28 ~ age 31; youngest g-son of
Iditarod founder Joe Redington, Sr.
29.Matthew Failor/Bib #29 ~ age 37; best finish: 13th in 2018
31,Jessie Royer/Bib #31, age 43; her best finish #3 in 2019;
consistent top 10 finisher
34.Jessie Holmes/Bib #34 ~ age 38, he best finish: #7 and
rookie of the year in 2018
35.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/Bib #35 ~ age 33; Top 10 finisher in
every race he's run and won in 2018
37.Ryan Redington/Bib #37 ~ age 37; best finish: 14th in 2017;
g-son of Joe Redington , Sr.
44.Brent Sass/Bib #44 ~ Rookie of the year in 2012; 2 time
winner of the 1000 mile Yukon Quest race.
46.Sean Underwood bib #46 ~ age 28; rookie racing Jeff King's dogs.
55.Jim Lanier/Bib #55 ~ age 79; best finish: 18th 2004; M.D.
Iditarod Insider commentator had Jeff King on the phone from
his hospital bed as his replacement, Sean Underwood/#37,
headed down front street in Anchorage. Jeff sounded great.
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 56° at midnight
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Bill SCOTT ('64)
So happy that you are starting a new book! All of them have
been really good from start to finish. Keep us in the loop as
to what's happening to the runaway girl.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick where
we've been having a nice sunny spring up until today...
windy, cloudy and rainy.
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: All Bomber lunch
It's that time again for the All Bomber lunch. It will be
Saturday, 14 March 2020 at noon at JD Diner.
Come join us for some great food, memories, and conversation.
-Betti AVANT ('69)
-Margaret EHRIG Dunn ('61)
-Patsy DORISS Trimble ('65)
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>>From: Jerry LEWIS ('73)
To: Dale ENNOR ('59)
Re: KORD
According to Wikipedia, KORD-FM went on the air in 1965. I
don't see a date for KORD-AM (assuming there was such a thing)
and the FCC database isn't working for me.
{HAS to be KORD-AM. I recall KORD being my
favorite station and we moved to Louisiana
the summer of 1964. I think Dale's 1953 date
HAS to be closer than 1965. -Maren]
-Jerry LEWIS ('73)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/09/20
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3 Bombers sent stuff:
Duane LEE ('63)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rich HUSKE ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim STECKLINE ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam PANTHER ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Craig WYSS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary ROLPH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bob JACOBS ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janet OLSON ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jean ALBAUGH ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Petra GIANGRANDE ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rob PEUTZ ('73)
03/09/96 Wendy Remembered
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>>From: Duane LEE ('63)
To: Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
Re: Looking or Bill BECKER
Dee Becker was a classmate in the class of '63. Her older
brother was Bill Becker. I assume that this is the Bill Becker
whom you are seeking. Contact Dee for more Becker history.
-Duane LEE ('63) ~ Richland
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/09/20
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
OUT OF YENTNA - 30 miles to SKW / miles to Nome: 892
1.Pete Kaiser/Bib #9
3.Ramey Smyth/Bib #5
4.Tim Pappas/Bib #3
6.Linwood Fiedler/Bib #8
9.Matthew Failor/Bib #29
13.Robert Redington/Bib #28
15,Jessie Royer/Bib #31
16.Aliy Zirkle/Bib #23
17.Jessie Holmes/Bib #34
19.Mitch Seavey/Bib #27
22.Martin Buser/Bib #26
23.Brent Sass/Bib #44
INTO YENTNA STATION (YS) - mile 53
Pop: 8 - CheckPoint at the home of the Dan & Jean Gabryzack
25.Lance Mackey/Bib #12
26.Kristy Berington/Bib #4
27.Wade Marrs/Bib #7
30.Anna Berington/Bib #18
31.Nic Petit/Bib #21
35.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/Bib #35
36.Ryan Redington/Bib #37
41.Sean Underwood bib #46
OUT OF WILLOW - 42 miles to YS / miles to Nome: 922
54.Jim Lanier/Bib #55
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 62° at 12:30am
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>>From: Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
Re: belated Birthday Wishes
Belated Birthday wishes for my brother Jim ADAIR ('66). Hope
he, Kathy, and the pup shared some cake.
-Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/10/20
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1 Bomber (ME!):
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Diane DAVENPORT ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barb O'MALLEY ('70)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/10/20
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
INTO ROHN (RHN) - mile 188
RHN Pop: 0 - actual Rohn Roadhouse is gone,
CheckPoint is a cabin built in the 1930s.
No facilities for visitors.
1. Aaron Burmeister/Bib #25
OUT OF RP - 35 miles to RHN / miles to Nome: 787
2.Rich Diehl/Bib #16
3.Pete Kaiser/Bib #9
4.Lance Mackey/Bib #12
5.Brent Sass/Bib #44
7.Wade Marrs/Bib #7
8.Nic Petit/Bib #21
11.Jessie Holmes/Bib #34
12.Ramey Smyth/Bib #5
13.Kristy Berington/Bib #4
14.Anna Berington/Bib #18
INTO RAINY PASS (RP) - mile 153
RP Pop: 2 (Steve & Denise Perrins)
RP Lodge is open for food, fuel & lodging throughout the winter.
http://www.theperrinsrainypasslodge.com/
15.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/Bib #35
17.Jessie Royer/Bib #31
19.Mitch Seavey/Bib #27
22.Aliy Zirkle/Bib #23
24.Robert Redington/Bib #28
25.Linwood Fiedler/Bib #8
27.Ryan Redington/Bib #37
28.Matthew Failor/Bib #29
29.Tim Pappas/Bib #3
INTO FINGER LAKE (FL) - mile 123
FL Pop: 2 - CheckPoint is at Winter Lake Lodge
41.Sean Underwood bib #46
44.Jim Lanier/Bib #55
48.Martin Buser/Bib #26
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 67° at midnight
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/11/20
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2 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jay McCUE ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bill HERIFORD ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mandy HOLMES ('97)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike AUSTEN ('99)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
I was so busy sneezing into my sleeve and washing my hands
that I forgot to acknowledge what would have been the 75th
birthday of Dick PLOWS ('63-RIP), "The King of Cool".
Silver teeth, skinny belts with two buckles, and peanuts in
your Pepsi were cool. But they paled to what Dick embodied
with his Elvis curled lip sneer.
Miss you to the Windbreak behind Adams and back, great place
to fire up an Old Gold.
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: Covid-19 - CALM DOWN, PEOPLE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWY0oZV51VY
Maren's Malarkey for 3/11/20
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
TAKOTNA Pop: 51 - Town has a store and a restaurant.
One of the smallest towns with one of the biggest
welcomes - famous for pies & homemade food for mushers
OUT OF McG - 18 miles to TAKOTNA / miles to Nome: 646
1.Jessie Royer/Bib #31
2.Rich Diehl/Bib #16
3.Aaron Burmeisterr/Bib #25
INTO McGRATH (McG) - mile 311
McG Pop: 479 - Two stores, a bar and a restaurant.
Last av gas (except Galena) till you get to Unalakleet
Lodging is available with advance booking.
4.Wade Marrs/Bib #7
6.Lance Mackey/Bib #12
7.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/Bib #35
OUT OF NIK - 48 miles to McG / miles to Nome: 664
9.Pete Kaiser/Bib #9 issue: females in heat
11.Brent Sass/Bib #44
12.Ryan Redington/Bib #37
14.Matthew Failor/Bib #29
15.Mitch Seavey/Bib #27
16.Jessie Holmes/Bib #34
INTO NIKOLAI (NIK) - mile 263
NIK Pop: 125 - Village store, an airstrip & limited
lodging w/advance booking. CheckPoint in Community Hall
It is said the winner is in the first 15 into Nikolai.
17.Ramey Smyth/Bib #5
19.Tim Pappas/Bib #3
21.Aliy Zirkle/Bib #23
25.Linwood Fiedler/Bib #8
26.Kristy Berington/Bib #4
27.Anna Berington/Bib #18
31.Nic Petit/Bib #21
33.Robert Redington/Bib #28
OUT OF ROHN - 75 miles to NIK / miles to Nome: 712
38.Sean Underwood bib #46
49.Martin Buser/Bib #26
IN RAINY PASS (RP) - mile 153
Jim Lanier/Bib #55 the 79 year old scratched in Rainy Pass
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 66° at 1:30am
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/12/20
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1 Bombers (ME!)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ralph KEPPEON ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeanie WALSH ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue BENNETT ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kathryn SANT ('79)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: COVID-19 - CALM DOWN, PEOPLE! (worth a repeat)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/11/20
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
Nobody has completed their mandatory 24 hour rest yet. We
won't know who is in the lead till AFTER all have taken that
rest. This is when everything "evens out". Teams departed
Anchorage every two minutes... the last team out of the start
must wait 24 hours... the 2nd to last team waits 24 hours AND
TWO MINUTES.. so it all evens out...
OUT OF CRP - 70 miles to RUB / 550 miles to Nome
INTO CRIPPLE - mile 425
CRP Pop: 0 - CheckPoint: official halfway point
Re: Cripple Creek CheckPoint Drive Thru
First team to arrive prize: $3,000 in gold nuggets
1.Brent Sass/Bib #44
OUT OF OPH - 73 miles to CPL / miles to Nome: 550
2.Lance Mackey/Bib #12
3.Michelle Phillips/Bib #33
4.Paige Dronby/Bib #58 (last out)
5.Mitch Seavey/Bib #27
7.Aliy Zirkle/Bib #23
INTO OPHIR (OPH) - mile 352
OPH Pop: 0 - CheckPoint: Dick & Audra Forsgren's cabin
OUT OF TAKOTNA - 23 miles to OPH / miles to Nome: 623
INTO TAKOTNA (TAK) - mile 329
TAKOTNA Pop: 51 - Town has a store and a restaurant.
One of the smallest towns with one of the biggest
welcomes - famous for pies & homemade food for mushers
10.Jessie Royer/Bib #31
11.Rich Diehl/Bib #16
13.Aaron Burmeisterr/Bib #25
14.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/Bib #35
15.Ryan Redington/Bib #37
16.Pete Kaiser/Bib #9 issue: females in heat
17.Jessie Holmes/Bib #34
18.Matthew Failor/Bib #29
20.Ramey Smyth/Bib #5
21.Tim Pappas/Bib #3
24.Linwood Fiedler/Bib #8
26.Kristy Berington/Bib #4
27.Anna Berington/Bib #18
29.Sean Underwood bib #46
OUT OF McG - 18 miles to TAKOTNA / miles to Nome: 646
INTO McGRATH (McG) - mile 311
35.Wade Marrs/Bib #7
37.Robert Redington/Bib #28
45.Martin Buser/Bib #26
OUT OF NIK - 48 miles to McG / miles to Nome: 664
INTO NIKOLAI (NIK) - mile 263
50.Nic Petit/Bib #21
RED LANTERN
56.Alan Eischens/Bib #49
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 68° at 1am
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/13/20
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1 Bomber (ME!):
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary HINKLE ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carole SLEDGE ('63)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: Covid-19 - CALM DOWN, PEOPLE! (worth a repeat)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/13/20
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
LOTS of teams have taken their mandatory 24 hour rest..
OUT OF RUBY - 50 miles to GALENA / 480 miles to Nome
Nobody here
INTO RUBY (RUB) - mile 495
RUB Pop: 187 - CheckPoint in the community hall
Nobody here
OUT OF CRIPPLE - 70 miles to RUBY / 550 miles to Nome
1.Jessie Royer/#31
2.Rich Diehl/#16
4.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/#35
5.Aaron Burmeisterr/#25
6.Ryan Redington/#37
7.Brent Sass/#44
8.Pete Kaiser/#9
INTO CRIPPLE - mile 425
13.Michelle Phillips/Bib #33
14.Lance Mackey/Bib #12
15.Paige Dronby/Bib #58
16.Mitch Seavey/Bib #27
18.Aliy Zirkle/Bib #23
19.Jessie Holmes/#34
21.Matthew Failor/#29
22.Ramey Smyth/Bib #5
25.Tim Pappas/Bib #3
24.Linwood Fiedler/Bib #8
26.Nic Petit/#21
OUT OF OPHIR - 73 miles to CRIPPLE / miles to Nome: 550
30.Anna Berington/#18
31.Kristy Berington/#4
28.Robert Redington/#28
36.Sean Underwood/#46
INTO OPHIR - mile 352
43.Martin Buser/Bib #26
OUT OF TAKOTNA - 23 miles to OPHIR / miles to Nome: 623
Nobody here
INTO TAKOTNA - mile 329
Nobody here
OUT OF McGRATH - 18 miles to TAKOTNA / miles to Nome: 646
Nobody here
RED LANTERN
INTO McGRATH - mile 311
55.Alan Eischens/#49
Another scratch: Jeremy Keller/Bib #47
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 70° at 5:30am
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/14/20 ~ HAPPY PI DAY (3.14 Yadda Yadda Yadda)
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64), Tedd CADD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Diane DVORAK ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna ADAMS ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary SCHULZ ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karen PIERCE ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary HORTON ('75)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim MILLBAUER ('77)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Come on, folks! Let's not leave the burden of filling these
pages to Maren. Granted, the Iditarod is far more interesting
that what I write, but that's the way it goes. Do your bit;
and remember, you can't get the coronavirus from a computer
(the screen, maybe).
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Seattle situation report
Since Iditarod is the only Sandstorm entry in two days, I'll
do my part to take up space. So, here's a flare from the
Seattle area which is Ground-Zero for the coronavirus in
Washington State and the United States. . .
As of Sunday afternoon well over 200 cases in King County and
most of the state's 29 fatalities (and nearly all of these
associated with the vulnerable age group in ONE nursing home
in Kirkland northeast of Lake Washington).
Schools closed indefinitely, and the freeways are strangely
unclogged during rush hour. Trump is considering a travel
ban to Washington and California. And, in my Mr. Rogers'
Neighborhood, some excitement at stores with folks stocking
up. Yesterday, at Fred Meyer all the TP and paper goods
shelves were completely stripped from the front of the store
to the back, and top to bottom. In another aisle I was able
to snag the two very last small jars of Adams natural chunky
peanut butter (to me, by comparison all the other brands taste
like lard).
Epidemiologists report that the coronavirus cases are
increasing EXPONENTIALLY, doubling every six days. To date the
relevant numbers are foggy since so many cases are undiagnosed
and just go on with their lives without symptoms. But now it's
classified by the World Health Organization as a pandemic with
125,000 cases worldwide and 4,600 deaths. (For comparison,
the Spanish flu of 1918 tallied 500,000 deaths in the United
States alone and 70 million worldwide.) My still- young
grandfather woke up one morning with his hair turned white
and standing straight up, for the rest of his life.
Part of me is still reminded of an unfulfilled Navy story(!!!)
from late April 1969. . .
North Korea shot down a large American electronic surveillance
plane (EC-121) in international waters, with the loss of all
31 American lives. The selected American response was a "show
of force" with the largest Navy task force since the Korean
War. President Nixon was ticked at the menu of options, and
the delayed notice to him. Ships were assembled on the run
from all over-Viet Nam's Tonkin Gulf, the Philippines and
Japan, and including the battleship New Jersey rerouted mid-
course from its home bound trip to Long Beach.
Here's the link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_EC-121_shootdown_incident
On board my carrier the USS Hornet, and like today, lots of
hype at the time. The Pentagon War Room prognosticated a fifty
percent chance of a North Korean tactical nuclear attack
within 24 hours. No one wants to be a footnote in an unread
high school text book.
As a juicy target, my ship was the most expendable carrier,
and therefore took the head of the formation as Guinea Pig.
But, as far as I can recall, nothing exciting happened. So,
now, as for the coronavirus exponential numbers at least in
each local area, we shall see.
"Reporting to you live from Seattle", as the media talking
heads say. As for the daily routine, yesterday I mowed the
lawn and watched a DVD episode of Tour of Duty.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA, a very quiet Seattle
suburb
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: COVID-19 - CALM DOWN, PEOPLE! (worth a repeat)
This is a different URL.k When we clicked on the one in
yesterday's Sandstorm, it said: "Video unavailable, this
video is private. -- so here's the new link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu3US8Y7UJc
Maren's Malarkey for 3/14/20
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
ALL teams have taken their mandatory 24 hour rest..
GEEZ, Stewpit COVID-19. They've postponed indefinably the
awards banquet that usually happens the Sunday after the
winner crosses under the burled arch in Nome. We usually have
a winner either Tuesday or Wednesday... Maybe we'll have a St.
Patrick's day winner this year..
However, currently we have
OUT OF GALENA - 37 miles to NULALTO / 430 miles to Nome
1.Brent Sass/#44
2.Jessie Royer/#31
3.Rich Diehl/#16
4.Wade Marrs/#7
INTO GALENA - mile 545
GAL Pop: 527 - CheckPoint "old" community hall
5.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/#35
6.Ryan Redington/#37
7.Pete Kaiser/#9
8.Paige Dronby/Bib #58
9.Thomas Waerner/#40
10.Aaron Burmeisterr/#25
11.Lance Mackey/Bib #12
12.Michelle Phillips/Bib #33
13.Mitch Seavey/Bib #27
14.Travis Beals/#20
OUT OF RUBY - 50 miles to GALENA / 480 miles to Nome
15.Jessie Holmes/#34
19.Aliy Zirkle/Bib #23
20.Ramey Smyth/Bib #5
INTO RUBY - mile 495
RUB Pop: 187 - CheckPoint in the community hall
22.Linwood Fiedler/Bib #8
23.Nic Petit/#21
26.Tim Pappas/Bib #3
27.Matthew Failor/#29
OUT OF CRIPPLE - 70 miles to RUB / 550 miles to Nome
31.Robert Redington/#28
32.Kristy Berington/#4
33.Anna Berington/#18
26.Sean Underwood/#46
INTO CRIPPLE - mile 425
46.Martin Buser/Bib #26
RED LANTERN
OUT OF OPHIR - 73 miles to CRIPPLE / miles to Nome: 550
53.Quince Mountain/#50
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 69° at 5:00am
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Stan Myers
I was wondering if anybody else was acquainted with Stan
Myers? It would be in the early to middle 1950s. He lived at
96 Cullum (1BR Prefab) for a while and then at 422 Duane (2BR
Prefab, Goethals, now) until he left town 1957-1958.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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4 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Linda REINING ('64)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron HOLEMAN ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roy BALLARD ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara SMITH ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jessica AVANT ('95)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today:
Dave COCHRAN & Nadine REYNOLDS ('61)
BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
A parting thought for pi Day. Regardless of what you were
taught in geometry class: pi are round; cornbread are square.
[Not if you cook the cornbread in a cast iron
skillet... then it's ROUND, -Maren]
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: COVID-19 - CALM DOWN, PEOPLE! (worth a repeat)
This is a different URL. When we clicked on the one in
yesterday's Sandstorm, it said: "Video unavailable, this
video is private." -- so here's the new link for the same
video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu3US8Y7UJc
They've cancelled many schools in Louisiana. Both g-daughters
will be working from home on their ChromeBooks. G-son's school
is still going... for now...
Maren's Malarkey for 3/15/20
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
ALL teams have taken their mandatory 24 hour rest..
GEEZ, Stewpit COVID-19. They've also changed the Shaktoolik
CheckPoint... more about that later.
In the meantime, currently we have
OUT OF KALTAG - 85 miles to UNALAKLEET/ 346 miles to Nome
1.Thomas Waerner/#40
INTO KALTAG - mile 652/629
Pop: 234 - Check-in: Rich Burnham's house,
official CheckPoint/gathering spot: octagonal log
community building about a block away.
2.Jessie Royer/#31
3.Brent Sass/#44
4.Pete Kaiser/#9
5.Aaron Burmeisterr/#25
6.Wade Marrs/#7
7.Ryan Redington/#37
8.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/#35
OUT OF NULATO - 47 miles to KALTAG / 383 miles to Nome
9.Paige Dronby/#58
10.Mitch Seavey/#27
11.Travis Beals/#20
12.Michelle Phillips/#33
13.Rich Diehl/#16
15.Lance Mackey/#12
INTO NULATO - mile 582
Pop: 359 - CheckPoint: community hall
17.Jessie Holmes/#34
19.Aliy Zirkle/#23
20.Ramey Smyth/#5 Happy Birthday 3/15, Ramey!!
21.Nic Petit/#21
OUT OF GALENA - 37 miles to NULATO / 430 miles to Nome
24.Tim Pappas/#3
25.Matthew Failor/#29 One of Matt's dogs got a twisted gut
in Ruby. He said the trail vet saved her life. She was
medivaced to Anchorage and is now resting comfortably,
but he lost a lot of time...
28.Robert Redington/#28
INTO GALENA - mile 545
29.Linwood Fiedler/#8
OUT OF RUBY - 50 miles to GALENA / 480 miles to Nome
30.Kristy Berington/#4
31.Anna Berington/#18
36.Sean Underwood/#46
42.Martin Buser/Bib #26
INTO RUBY - mile 495
43.Monica Zappa/#13
RED LANTERN
OUT OF CRIPPLE - 70 miles to RUBY / 550 miles to Nome
53.Quince Mountain/#50
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 70° at 1:30am
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Re: Task Force 71 -- Korea
I was in Subic Bay, Philippine aboard the heavy cruiser USS
Saint Paul CA-73 on my way to Vietnam when I saw a message
come through saying that North Korea had shot down that EC-
121. Got off watch and went to sleep. Woke up the next morning
and found that we were getting ready to go to Korea instead of
Vietnam.
We did have some bad weather while off Korea. One time I was
sent down to the compartment to wake up the oncoming watch so
they could have lunch. All at once we started getting some
very heavy rolls. Our living compartment was one deck below
the mess decks and you could hear trays, silverware, cups and
whatever rattling across the deck, smash on the bulkhead, then
back to the other bulkhead then back and forth. I managed to
stay on my feet, don't think I grabbed something to hold onto,
if I did I didn't keep hold if it the full time because I was
in our compartment when it started and was in the compartment
on the other side of the ship when it stopped. They had to
secure the mess decks for cleaning before they could continue
serving; don't know in the oncoming watch got to eat or not,
but we all had a big clean-up, organize, and fix it job. Those
heavy rolls have been brought up a number of times after I got
off the ship. About 3 or 4 years ago I was put in touch with a
Marine who now lives in Montana. I was trying to get help in
identifying Marines in the photos I took off Iwo Jima when
they had a memorial service. He asked me if I remembered those
heavy rolls. I said I don't think anyone who was aboard at
that time will ever forget them. It was even brought up at our
10 year class of 1964 reunion. Sunday morning there was a
breakfast in the park and my wife and I were sitting at a park
table with Harry SCHMIDT ('64), who was a Shipfitter aboard at
the same time, I think his wife Donna WOODS Schmidt ('64) was
there, and Mike HARRIS ('64-RIP) who had I think had 3 or 4
kids. One kid was climbing on the table and knocked a can of
pop off with his foot. I reached over, grabbed that can in
mid-air and set it back on the table without spilling a drop.
(bet I couldn't do that today) Harry said something like, "I
see you have had experience at this, do you remember those 41
degree rolls?" The word going round at the time was 41
degrees, only in the last 3 or 4 years have I read in the
"Roving Saint" (The Saint Paul Association's newsletter) it
was a little less than that, something like 37 or 38, but I
have thought is was 41 for so long that now I can never
remember the real number.
I have attached four of the photos I took during that little
side trip. We did not normally carry a helicopter, but we did
while we were off Korea.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/200315_00.htm
Re: Viet Nam or Vietnam?
I used two words back in the day, but somehow switched to one,
don't know which is really proper.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Two days ago I mowed the lawn, I
already had at least five dandelions blooming; and
last night it snowed.
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Coronavirus
Maybe I'm being very naïve or incredibly stupid, but I don't
understand all the hype/hysteria over this flu---people are
going crazy, buying up ALL the toilet paper they can (weren't
they using it, BEFORE this????); all the hand sanitizer
(weren't they washing their hands???????) and they are also
stocking up on foods---heck, I can't even find my favorite
flavor/brand of yogurt, the dairy section of my grocery store
is almost completely empty!!!!! I understand there have been
many deaths, but it's also been reported that it is mainly
those with compromised health conditions and/or the very
young, who don't have the immunities to fight off this flu---
it's a flu, not the "black plaque" for pete's sake!!!!!!!!
Using common sense would seem to me, to be the most logical
way of dealing with this!
I have not changed any of my "goings on"-am still shopping,
just as much as I always have and I have NO plans of canceling
any travel plans-we have tickets to the Reba/Brooks & Dunn
concert, in Las Vegas, in April and also a trip to CA, in May,
for a grandson's wedding---I will still be going to both of
those---not flying, as I am absolutely terrified of flying,
just driving in the car, stopping for gas, food, drinks and
enjoying the trip.
-Linda REINING ('64) ~ Kuna, ID
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Food / Paper and Johnny Carson
To: All Bombers
In 1974 I was a cook working for Fancy Dan's Restaurant in
Baker, Oregon. (I know its called Baker City now but I'm too
stubborn to refer to it as that, personal reasons)
Since I was still in school then I worked the dinner shift
most evenings. I never liked early shifts on the weekends,
breakfast cooking is much faster paced than lunch or dinner.
One evening near closing I answered the phone, it was the
Forest Service and they needed 500 sack lunches the next
morning. I informed the manager of the request and he told me
we didn't have enough stock to complete the order.
In that year there was a supposed sugar shortage and folks
went off the deep end buying what could be found. So we stroll
in and buy bread, meat, apples, oranges, candy bars in large
quantities. Arriving at check out the woman in front of us
exclaimed "I've heard of hoarding food, but this is
ridicules!" The cashier, who knew us, didn't miss a beat,
"Ma'am this man just gave up sex for food." "Well I never!"
She replied. "I'll bet you have" said my boss.
That memory came back while shopping at Fred Meyer and WalMart
I was stunned by the empty shelves and no paper products to be
had. I would doubt something was given up in lieu of what was
no longer on the shelves. Where did this sudden want for paper
come from? Could it have something to do with Johnny Carson?
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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7 Bombers sent stuff:
Helen CROSS ('62), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Tim SMYTH ('62), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Carol CONVERSE ('64), Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Nancy ERLANDSON ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Hazel MORGAN ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Judy GREEN ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debra Anne CRANE ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tami LYONS ('76)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rhonda MILLER ('78)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
First, in response to Tedd CADD ('66) request about a Stan
Myers.
Well, my first response was in '57-'58 I was 13-14 years old,
and I barely remember my next door neighbor's last name, so
I don't have any idea where I might have run into this Stan
Myers. Secondly, you are younger than I am, Tedd, so I'm
impressed you remember him clearly, in that you remember 2
of his Richland addresses. Hope you find him.
Next to Pete BEAULIEU (a fellow class of '62 graduate), though
I'm not sure we actually had any classes together at Col-Hi
back in the day (when we were "active Bombers".
I always enjoy your recollections and marvel at your memory
and ability to tell whatever it is you are informing us about.
My husband (not a Bomber, a Bear from Brewster, WA which I had
never heard of till we met at WSU, was planning to fly to
Wash. Next week, but via Spokane. But we will keep our ears
peaked for more information about a travel ban; and being well
over 65, we question the wisdom of our coming in contact with
anyone else, let alone traveling to the west coast. Things are
starting to bloom a little bit back here in our part of the
Midwest, where we were fortunate enough to have had rain, and
not snow yesterday, and I have daffodils blooming in my yard,
with hyacinths and tulips looking ready to bloom soon too,
(expect something is chewing off my tulips I noticed when
I looked at them today. So glad the first week of daylight
savings time is over. I always have such a hard time adjusting
to it for some reason, could it be that I stay up far too
late for a lady my age?
Still enjoying your sharing what's happening with the
Iditarod, Maren.
Our local Y just called to inform me all senior group classes
are suspended for right now at the Y, but the pool is still
open, so I have to call my water aerobics partner and decide
if we will brave it tomorrow or not.
Keep safe, fellow Bombers,
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in the house by the little lake in
SE Indiana
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Thanks for the very rare photos of Navy Task Force 71. I might
as well comment here on Wikipedia's toned down and euphemistic
link (see March 14). It says that Washington D.C. had poor
communication and contact with the American forces. . .
Translation: Task Force 71 was operating under total "radio
blackout"-no transmissions-long before any Tom Clancy novel.
No GPS tracking yet. Any unlikely satellite coverage was
irrelevant because of dense cloud cover. The Task Force
dropped off the grid for a full week, only to be discovered by
a searching Japanese photo/news plane that then misidentified
my carrier (USS Hornet) as the nuclear super-carrier USS
Enterprise.
More on "poor communications" with the President: One has to
go to Kissinger's White House Years to get this part of the
story. It seems that Nixon's staff didn't notify him of the
shot-down surveillance plane for about a day. Wait, what??!
Nixon, it is written, suffered from diarrhetic nervousness
before press conferences, and a conference was coming up. So,
by the time he was informed, "the moment" had passed and the
military response options were limited mostly to a "show of
force," with possible attack and counterattack.
I cannot resist the rest (mea culpa): Consider the situation.
Yours truly was one of two qualified Officers of the Deck
(OOD) who at midnight took over the bridge. A "dark and stormy
night." On the radar scope were some 42 ships (more than the
Wikipedia list), all disorganized and moving slowly but
randomly. A panorama of close-in visible masthead lights. Our
immediate formation was a "screen" of six destroyers spaced
equally in a surrounding ring with a three-quarter mile radius
(1,500 yards). Sounds like a lot on land, but on water this is
tight.
Much of the officer crew was gone (flown off days before
because we were supposed to be going home); the Admiral was
gone (we were a flag ship); and the Captain was flat in sick
bay: "do not disturb unless under direct attack." So, we're
down to two junior officers and, aside from possible attack,
now a complex danger of one collision or another.
The other OOD (an Arkansas razorback) turns to me and says:
"Help me out here, I don't know what to do." So, of the 42
blips on the screen, I conjectured that the one ahead might be
the USS Enterprise (a chance in 35). So, worst case scenario?
-a nighttime collision and maybe even between two carriers...
A carrier covers three football fields. Needs time and room to
turn. Using red-filtered signal lights (a rarity, but no radio
transmissions), yours truly turned our carrier and its three-
mile-diameter screen through a path due west-and toward the
only open water. From my backup: "I sure hope you know what
you're doin'!" On the scope, the suspect blip starts drifting
clear. In the early morning haze the starboard aft lookout
reports a silhouette: "Holy $%#@, sir, it's the Enterprise,
starboard side and drifting astern at 4,000 yards (clear of
the screen). Our finest hour! Sometimes the best thing that
can happen is what doesn't happen.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA. Ever since Lewis & Clark
and books about sailing ships; had this thing about
going to sea.
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>>From: Tim SMYTH ('62)
Re: Maren says "Calm Down"
I haven't always agreed with my sister. But I do on this one.
Don't we have anything else to think or talk about? Debby and
I are snowbirding in Florida and are living as usual. This
thing is being way overhyped. Back to upstate NY in April and
continue to live as normal as possible.
-Tim SMYTH ('62)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: COVID-19 - CALM DOWN, PEOPLE! (worth a repeat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu3US8Y7UJc
A little humor sent by Darlene NAPORA Shuley ('69)
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Nap/200316_Family_Savings.jpg
Maren's Malarkey for 3/16/20
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
ALL teams have taken their mandatory 24 hour rest.. and most
have taken the mandatory 8 hour rest somewhere on the Yukon
River.
So, with the dropping of the official Shaktoolik CheckPoint,
they must have moved all the vets to the Unaklakeet
CheckPoint. Each vet has a red leg or arm band... and they
seem to be all over every team I saw come into the Unalakleet
CheckPoint... checking each dog; listening with stethoscope;
feeling fur (checking for hydration?); lifting tail (looking
for evidence of diarrhea?); checking each wrist...
This is quite the operation for the musher... he/she goes down
the line of dogs and first lays down straw for each dog...
dogs wait for the straw and then lay (lie?) down; then musher
goes thru and removes all the booties (4x12=48 booties at each
CheckPoint - wash and re-use); musher prepares food; puts down
container for each dog and fills with food; I watched as one
dog ate nothing while his neighbor stands up and cleans out
his bowl; musher then brings something different (I'm
guessing) because the first dog is now standing up/eating...
Currently we have:
OUT OF KOYUK - 48 miles to ELM / 95 miles to Nome
INTO KOYUK - mile 804
Pop: 258 - CheckPoint the City Rec. Ctr
7 teams on their way to Koyuk
SHAKTOOLIK - 50 miles to KOYUK - mile 754
Pop: 199 - CheckPoint cancelled for 2020 -- Still have
straw, food, and heet for mushers, but no facilities.
1.Thomas Waerner/#40
OUT OF UNALAKLEET- 40 miles to SHKROOLIK
2.Jessie Royer/#31
3.Aaron Burmeisterr/#25
4.Wade Marrs/#7
5.Mitch Seavey/#27
6.Brent Sass/#44
7.Ryan Redington/#37
INTO UNALAKLEET - mile 714
Pop 882 - 2 stores, 2 restaurants, limited
lodging by advance booking. CheckPoint in front
of AC store. Unalakleet means "Wind from the East
1st to arrive in 'Kleet Prize: $1,500 in gold nuggets
8.Paige Dronby/#58
9.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/#35
10.Travis Beals/#20
OUT OF KALTAG - 85 miles to UNALAKLEET/ 346 miles to Nome
12.Michelle Phillips/#33
13.Jessie Holmes/#34
14.Lance Mackey/#12
15.Ramey Smyth/#5
16.Nic Petit/#21
18.Pete Kaiser/#9
19.Rich Diehl/#16
20.Aliy Zirkle/#23
25.Tim Pappas/#3
26.Matthew Failor/#29
27.Robert Redington/#28
INTO KALTAG - mile 652/629
30.Kristy Berington/#4
31.Anna Berington/#18
OUT OF NULATO - 47 miles to KALTAG / 383 miles to Nome.
nobody right now
INTO NULATO - mile 582
33.Sean Underwood/#46
39.Martin Buser/Bib #26
OUT OF GALENA - 37 miles to NULATO / 430 miles to Nome
nobody right now
INTO GALENA - mile 545
42.Monica Zappa/#13
OUT OF RUBY - 50 miles to GALENA / 480 miles to Nome
nobody right now
RED LANTERN
INTO RUBY - mile 495
53.Quince Mountain/#50
Scratched::
Linwood Fiedler/#8
Martin Massicotte/#2
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 71° at 2am
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
Re: Flu
To: Linda REINING ('64)
The Corona-19 is NOT a flu. Perhaps Idaho isn't as bad as most
other states with it. It is really bad in WA. Do you watch the
news at all? Seems you would have a different opinion if you
did. Last I heard, they may not be letting anyone into CA. Of
course, by driving, you may have a different option. So far,
the Tri-Cities doesn't have any persons with it.
[Did you watch this, Carol? -Maren]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu3US8Y7UJc
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick where
we are all taking precautions.
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Grocery Shortages
I went to the store yesterday because I needed a half gallon
of milk and a dozen eggs (no problem). One empty aisle I
noticed was the Campbell's soups. There was still a goodly
supply of Progresso. People are funny (didn't Arthur Godfey
note that in the '50s?).
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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>>From: Nancy ERLANDSON Ballard ('67)
Re: Flu
Yes I agree with Linda REINING ('64) that people have gone a
little over board. They have gone to extremes and must believe
that this is going to last for months.
People need to calm down and leave the panic to the media that
always seems to make news worse than it is.
[So I shouldn't have waited till 2 days before
St. Patrick's day to get corned beef & cabbage...
went to my regular grocery store and they didn't
have any!! While I was there I noticed they were
completely out of eggs, and bread, and water...
CrAzY!!! -Maren]
-Nancy ERLANDSON Ballard ('67)
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7 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Norma LOESCHER ('53), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Helen CROSS ('62), Earl BENNETT ('63)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Linda REINING ('64), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Richard ROBERTS ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pat BADGER ('53)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patricia LEIBEL ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sharon TEMPLEMAN ('55)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary JACKSON ('66_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda LANG ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lisa LYSHER ('79)
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: Sharing a Timely Poem
"Pandemic" by Lynn Unger
What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath -
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now,
on trying to make the world
different than it is.
Sing. Pray. Touch only those
to whom you commit your life.
Center down.
And when your body has become still,
reach out with your heart.
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives
are in one another's hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Do not reach out your hands.
Reach out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Reach out all the tendrils
of compassion that move, invisibly,
where we cannot touch.
Promise this world your love -
for better or for worse.
in sickness and in health,
so long as we all shall live.
Bomber cheers,
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ Richland
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
And a "Happy Saint Paddy's Day!" to youse all.
Also a "Happy Birthday!" to the following:
Richard ROBERTS ('49)
Patti BADGER ('53)
Pat LEIBEL ('54)
Sharon TEMPLEMAN ('55)
They all might be honorary Irishmen on this day; but,
then everyone is.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
to panic or not, that is the question? Whether tis nobeler...
can't remember the rest, and it really doesn't apply.
I just finished walking around a soon-to-be-demolished high
school, as my water aerobics partner said that they really
don't want people over 65 at the "Y".
Then my husband heard on TV that small children are often
carriers of the virus and that he didn't advise grandparents
in their 70s to care for them at this time.
Well, my son finds out today if he will be working the next 2
weeks or not, as I have babysit their 2 kids at least a day a
week ever since they were born. I hope he has off, so we have
a few weeks to evaluate this virus situation.
Should we panic and buy all the toilet paper on the shelf (no,
or it will soon be rationed), but after watching a program on
the spread of the Spanish flu in 1918, it emerges that our
health advisors learned from it to limit all large gatherings
of people as much as possible. So it looks to me like they are
sharing advise based on solid evidence.
So we will keep trying to avoid crowds, and washing our hands,
and counters, as much as possible.
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Where do you live where you talked about snow and mowing your
yard. I haven't seen (or heard) of anyone around here mowing
their lawn around here yet, and I live by about 6 lawn mowing
Fanatics.
[Dennis lives in Kennewick, Helen. -Maren]
Stay safe Bombers,
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ in SE Indiana where sitting in my
car waiting for the library to open, so I can stock up
on some good books before it too closes, I realized I
need to sanitize my steering wheel, too!!
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Earl BENNETT (Gold Medal Class of '63)
Re: Skillet Cornbread
But you can - and I often do - still cut square/rectangular
pieces from cornbread cooked in a skillet. Pie-shaped cuts of
cornbread tend to be larger than I prefer, though of course
the cutting can be adjusted if one thinks about it more
carefully than seems natural
Re: Lie vs Lay
Maren:
"Lay" is what a person does to an object, "lie" is what a
person does for him/herself (or in the other sense, saying
something that is not true, our President's forté). So the
dogs "lie" on the straw. Although you could say they "lay
themselves down on the straw," but that's unnecessarily
complex and doesn't feel natural.
Regards, ecb3
[...can't begin to tell you how many people
have TRIED to get me to understand the
difference. When I get there in a sentence,
I just don't remember. People lie, things
lay. Still wasn't sure on that one.. is a
dog a thing? So I shoulda said lay?? -Maren]
-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: COVID-19 - CALM DOWN, PEOPLE! (worth a repeat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu3US8Y7UJc
A little humor sent by Darlene NAPORA Shuley ('69)
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Nap/200316_Family_Savings.jpg
Maren's Malarkey for 3/17/20
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
Re: Shaktoolik CheckPoint
Concerns over the COVID-19 virus earlier this week and a
decision was made by the community... the CheckPoint would act
as a supply station only. People from the small coastal
village cleared and set up a cabin outside of the village for
making sure mushers were able to be comfortable and have a
place to get warm and dry.
I saw pictures on Facebook... the place started out with snow
INSIDE the shelter... they shoveled the snow out, added a
stove... I think I saw an outhouse, too! It takes a village...
Currently we have
OUT OF ELIM - 46 miles to White Mt. / 95 miles to Nome
1.Thomas Waerner/#40
INTO ELIM - mile 852
Pop: 281 - CheckPoint: usually the fire hall
Nobody right now
OUT OF KOYUK - 48 miles to ELIM / 95 miles to Nome
2.Mitch Seavey/#27
3.Jessie Royer/#31
4.Aaron Burmeisterr/#25
5.Brent Sass/#44
6.Wade Marrs/#7
7.Ryan Redington/#37
8.Paige Dronby/#58
INTO KOYUK - mile 804n
Pop: 258 - CheckPoint the City Rec. Ctr
9.Michelle Phillips/#33
10.Jessie Holmes/#34
11.Ramey Smyth/#5
OUT OF SHAKTOOLIK- 50 miles to KOYUK - mile 754
12.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/#35
13.Travis Beals/#20
14.Pete Kaiser/#9
15.Nic Petit/#21
16.Lance Mackey/#12
20.Aliy Zirkle/#23
INTO SHAKTOOLIK
Pop: 199 - CheckPoint cancelled for 2020
23.Tim Pappas/#3
OUT OF UNALAKLEET- 40 miles to SHKROOLIK
25.Robert Redington/#28
27.Matthew Failor/#29
INTO UNALAKLEET - mile 714
30.Kristy Berington/#4
31.Anna Berington/#18
32.Sean Underwood/#46
OUT OF KALTAG - 85 miles to UNALAKLEET/ 346 miles to Nome
37.Martin Buser/Bib #26
40.Monica Zappa/#13
INTO KALTAG - mile 652/629
nobody right now
OUT OF NULATO - 47 miles to KALTAG / 383 miles to Nome.
nobody right now
INTO NULATO - mile 582
nobody right now
RED LANTERN
OUT OF GALENA - 37 miles to NULATO / 430 miles to Nome
49.Quince Mountain/#50
Two more scratched::
Rich Diehl/#16
Aaron Peck/#36
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 72° at 3am
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: All I need to know
Top of the mornin' (er . . . evening) to you.
Going through my (and my parents') junk that I have collected
over the years. This was sent to my mother by the realtors
that sold her house. I would save it for the Sandstorm, but I
would probably forget it by the next time St. Patrick's Day
rolls around, so I thought I would just send it to you. I
don't suppose you are far enough out to put it in the hopper
for March 17, 2020.
About a month ago I saw your address and, on a whim decided to
look it up on Google Maps street view. Now I remembered pretty
much how your house looked when you posted pictures after a
hurricane, but I just wondered what the area looked like. WOW
what a yard, I bet you have to drive a tractor to mow your
yard!!!! But what I was wondering is... is that you standing
out in your yard??? Did the Google car get a photo of you???
Can't zoom in and really tell.
[I think it must be me. -Maren]
Dennis ('64)
All You Need to Know About Life You Can Learn From a Leprechaun!
Life is too short for long faces.
When you're happy sing. When you're sad, sing louder!
If you can't find a rainbow, paint your own.
The word impossible is not an Irish word.
Never walk so tall that you can't see the "wee folk."
If you're feeling blue, wear lots of green and think hopeful
thoughts.
No one ever outgrows the need for warm hugs, special dreams,
or a wee bit of mischief.
Quit trying to catch a Leprechaun, and just BE one!
Have a Happy-Go-Lucky Day!
Re: A Brief History of Toilet Paper
The History Guy has a timely video on YouTube he added this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVTRpTHPs3o
One thing I thought he was going to say when he mentioned
hotels, but did not. I saw on TV some years ago that what
really got sales of TP going was the plumbing of hotels. They
got tired of having to call in plumbers to clear the plugged
up pipes so some smart salesman talked them into providing the
TP in the rooms. People found they liked it so started buying
it for themselves.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
To: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
Re: your comment about "do you watch the news"?
Yes, I watch the news
{I turned off my TV a couple of years ago.
So I do NOT watch tv, Linda!! -Maren}
Idaho has a few cases of the CoronaVirus, but there is
absolutely NO reason for the all the panic! I also listen to
what doctors are saying---this IS A FLU, it's attacking the
lungs, that's why so many with compromised health issues are
getting very sick and, yes, some are dieing, but there is
still NO reason to stop living! And, yes, we are taking
precautions, but we are also not going to stop enjoying life
and going about our daily living.
-Linda REINING ('64)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Clean hands and other things
To: All Bombers
So back to my earlier post comment on Johnny Carson and toilet
paper. In 1973 shortages seemed to be the only thing we
weren't short on. An article I found while looking for other
information I ran across this bit of info on this web site,
https://priceonomics.com/the-great-toilet-paper-scare-of-1973/
One quote from the article, When Johnny Carson cracked
a joke about toilet paper on his television talk show, things
got serious. "You know, we've got all sorts of shortages these
days," he told 20 million viewers. "But have you heard the
latest? I'm not kidding. I saw it in the papers. There's a
shortage of toilet paper!" After reading it a few parallels
come to mind on our current state of affairs.
I was in the store again tonight looking for a few things and
came up short a bit. No eggs or boneless skinless chicken
thighs in sight so I wondered what will restocked first, the
chicken or the eggs?? One last quote from that web page I
can't help but end with, "If people wouldn't hoard and get so
excited about this, everything would be okay,"
Keep your hands clean!
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Ken HEMINGER ('56), Stephanie DAWSON ('60)
Marie RUPPERT ('63), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Bill SCOTT ('64), Terry DAVIS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol BRADY ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Paul KIRZ ('66)
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>>From: Ken HEMINGER ('56)
Re: You don't Know Me
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Hem/200318-Password.mp4
[I hope everyone can see this. It's a big file.
If you have trouble, let me know and I'll attach
the file to an email for you to view. -Maren]
-Ken HEMINGER ('56)
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: TP
Great entries about toilet paper! As a child, I was amazed to
learn that my mom used catalog pages in their outhouse on the
farm in Olympia. It was the first I had heard about outhouses,
let alone "unconventional" toilet paper. She was such a lady
that I couldn't imagine it. And she was the valedictorian of
the Olympia High School Class of '33.
I am reminded of a saying by Will Rogers. It goes something
like this: "All I need to know I read in the papers." Well
folks, all I need to know I read in the Sandstorm. Maren, you
do us all a great public service, whether by your own entries
or by providing the best-ever medium for news and editorials!
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Last night I returned from a 10 day visit in Arizona to watch
my grandson, Cameron JENKINS ('16), play in a college baseball
tournament for the University of Jamestown (ND) in Tucson.. I
stayed with my brother, John and sister-in-law, Elaine ROBERTS
Ruppert (both '67) in Mesa, AZ while Cameron's mom and dad and
other grandmom stayed in Tucson near the team. Cameron was a
relief pitcher, so we were taking a chance on knowing when
we could get down to watch him play. The day no games were
scheduled and the Tucson group were to come to Mesa, the coach
decided to hold a special practice, but they were able to make
a quick run up the next night. When the Mesa group was to go
to Tucson to watch the games, a nasty thunderstorm hit the
whole area and flooded the fields so no games that day.
Finally, on Saturday (14th) we were able to make it to Tucson,
but the coach only played the senior pitchers. His team won
both games. As it turned out the whole spring season for
sports has been cancelled so the seniors ended their college
careers. While we were all bummed, we understood the reasoning
and hopefully next year will be better.
My granddaughter, Sydney JENKINS ('19), flew to Tucson for her
spring break from Kansas the 13th. As she was getting ready to
go to the airport in Kansas City, she was informed that her
college (Baker University in Baldwin City, KS) is closing and
holding classes on-line and she needed to take all of her
books with her and she had to leave her dorm and go home for
at least 3 weeks. Luckily, the airline didn't charge her for
her suitcase being too heavy. She was already going to fly
home with us on the 15th, so we all took some of her items in
our luggage to make hers lighter for the trip to Pasco. Now my
daughter, Christy (NAB), is scrambling to change her flight
back to Kansas for whenever that might be. Meanwhile, we are
waiting to learn if Cameron will be sent home from ND also.
He's already on a one week delay.
Today, my neighbor volunteered to shop for me anytime I didn't
feel comfortable going to the stores. I thanked her, but chose
to venture out this morning to 2 grocery stores. My staples
are in good shape, but I needed fresh items and since I'd
stocked the fridge for my husband, Lance ( '60), before I left
and he'd not replenished anything, I had to go out. I was able
to get most things, but the selection was pretty sparse. I had
to substitute many items with brands I don't usually buy, but
I was able to get milk, bread, eggs, and some produce. I'll
have to get more in about a week, but that's normal. What's
not normal is the empty shelves! I can't see why all of the
paper goods are gone, especially the toilet paper! This virus
is an influenza that affects the respiratory system, not the
gut! I don't need months of TP stock piled to weather this
virus and neither does anyone else! Hoarding something is
plain un-American! Wash your hands, cover your cough, stay
away from crowds, use common sense if ill, and this, too,
shall pass!
While I was away, a cold snap put snow on the ground (it's
gone here now), but Rattlesnake mountain and some of the hills
are covered in white. I left in spring and return to find
winter letting us know it's not done. Was 25º when I got up
this morning - a big difference from AZ where I picked oranges
off John's tree for breakfast every morning.
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in chilly, sunny Richland
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/18/20
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
INTO NOME 3/17/20 12:37:47 (Alaska Time)
1.Thomas Waerner/#40 in 9:10:37:47 with 10 dogs
OUT OF SAFETY - 22 miles to Nome
2.Mitch Seavey/#27
INTO SAFETY (SFY) - mile 953
~ Re: Notes about Safety
~ Nome Kennel Club's Fastest Time: Safety to Nome
(must be in the top 20): $500.00 prize
3.Jessie Royer/#31
OUT OF WHITE MT - 55 miles to SFY / 77 miles to Nome
4.Brent Sass/#44
5.Aaron Burmeisterr/#25
INTO WHITE MOUNTAIN - mile 898
mandatory 8 hour rest here
Pop: 209 - CheckPoint: community hall
building up the hill from the store
I love the street names in White Mountain:
~ High School Road
~ Cemetery Road runs into
~ Parsonage St which turns into
~ Church Road
~ The obligatory Main Street which turns into
~ Healthy Blvd which turns into
~ Elementary School Road which runs into
~ Elementary Bend
~ Airport Road
~ Store Road
~ Post Office Road
6.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/#35
7.Paige Dronby/#58
8.Ryan Redington/#37
9.Wade Marrs/#7
10.Travis Beals/#20
11.Jessie Holmes/#34
12.Ramey Smyth/#5
13.Michelle Phillips/#33
14.Pete Kaiser/#9
15.Mille Porsild?/#32 (will prolly be Rookie of the Year)
OUT OF ELIM - 46 miles to White Mt. / 95 miles to Nome
18.Aliy Zirkle/#23
INTO ELIM - mile 852
20.Lance Mackey/#12
OUT OF KOYUK - 48 miles to ELIM / 95 miles to Nome
22.Nic Petit/#21
23.Robert Redington/#28
24.Tim Pappas/#3
INTO KOYUK - mile 804n
27.Sean Underwood/#46
28.Matthew Failor/#29
OUT OF SHAKTOOLIK- 50 miles to KOYUK - mile 754
32.Martin Buser/Bib #26
INTO SHAKTOOLIK
OUT OF UNALAKLEET- 40 miles to SHKROOLIK
36.Monica Zappa/#13
INTO UNALAKLEET - mile 714
RED LANTERN
OUT OF KALTAG - 85 miles to UNALAKLEET/ 346 miles to Nome
46.Quince Mountain/#50
Three more scratched::
Larry Daugherty/#45
Kristy Berington/#4
Anna Berington/#18
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 70° at 4am (Central)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Heaven knows we could use a little more humor in our lives in
these trying times, so here's my contribution:
First, a limerick for you, Maren, and for all you do (to be
recited to the pace of "There was an old man from Nantucket").
Through the South the virus was ragin',
'Til it met its match in a Cajun.
The fire in his sauce
Gave the virus a toss,
said he, "It even preserves me from agin'!"
My other little bit of wisdom is this: As we grow older, we
hear a lot of talk about the need for regular exercise, to get
that heart rate elevated each day. Well, I've found that the
older I get, the less exercise it takes to get my heart rate
elevated. I figure in a couple of years I won't need to
exercise at all.
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Hi there!
With everything abruptly turned upside down, there's
still a little something to celebrate here in Richland.
Cecilia BENNETT ('65) pulled it off. She called the city
and went down and met with the city and called the city some
more, and then she met with the nice lady from the city
yesterday morning and handed over your money.
And David RIVERS has his bench.
You paid for it. Jim HAMILTON ('63) showed us how to do
it. And Cecilia got it done.
One of the last benches that will ever be sold will now
be right there in front of the Spudnut Shoppe with David's
name on it. Soon. Done deal.
Jim will compose the inscription.
Thank you, everyone.
TDK '65'
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Norma LOESCHER ('53), Mary RAY ('61)
Jim ARMSTRONG ('63), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Tedd CADD ('66),
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: 03/19 Don PANTHER ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cheryl RAEKES ('74)
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: David RIVERS' ('65-RIP) Bench
Thanks, Terry DAVIS ('65) and Cecilia BENNETT ('65), for
converting my $25 and many others' contributions into a
Memorial Bench for David RIVERS. I didn't know David
personally, but I met Terry recently at one of his plays.
Terry-and-David's friendship is one-in-a-million!
Re: Thanks To Maren
Maren, I truly appreciate you, your Iditarod news, and
everything you do for your readers and contributors. Bless
you!
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ in sunny Richland, wishing
you a Happy Spring!
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>>From: Mary RAY Henslee ('61)
Re: Virus Crisis/Economic Crisis
I went to the grocery store Sunday to pick up a few things and
a few things was about all there was to pick up. I had heard
all the stories about the panic buying, but it really didn't
set in until I saw the empty shelves for myself. Not one roll
of tissue paper, box of Kleenex, package of napkins, or roll
of paper towels to be found. No meat, no bread, no pasta, no
rice, no frozen vegetables, no dairy products, no peanut
butter, hardly any can goods, and the list goes on. The
Kicker! While people were emptying the shelves on one side of
the street, people were gathering for some entertainment by
a radio station in the parking lot on the other side of the
street. What does that tell you? Tells me that people are more
afraid of how governments are reacting to the virus than they
are of the virus itself.
You can color me someone who just doesn't get it because I
don't! I do not understand why government and private leaders
are doing things to cause drastic long lasting economic damage
to individuals and our country over a virus that only severely
affects a select group of people. People who can either on
their own or with help isolate and protect themselves from
the virus. Unlike in many other countries where multiple
generations live under one roof, most of the senior citizens
in our country live under their own roof so isolating is not a
big problem. As for employees susceptible to complications,
how about employers give them paid leave rather than close
their doors all together? Economically that would make more
sense to me.
While we are busy making jokes about toilet paper, some
leaders are busy thinking up ways to shut everything down in
an effort to keep the numbers down. Does it really matter how
many people catch something if it doesn't harm them? Can't we
protect the people who it can harm without shutting everything
down and collapsing the world economy? I just got through
listening to a guest CEO on CNBC suggest we close down the
whole country for 30 days. Yikes!
I say, enough already! We may very well end up with more
people being hospitalized from heart attacks and strokes after
seeing their life savings wiped out than from the virus.
Let's hope history doesn't end up repeating itself when it
comes to zero interest rates.
I'm out of milk and there is no milk on the shelf. Am I going
to get some compensation for my crumbling bones? It would be
nice if all grocery stores were required to give senior
citizens first crack at their shelves for one hour each
morning so that we didn't have to go to a bunch of different
germy stores to find what we need.
-Mary RAY Henslee ('61)
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>>From: Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
Re: Cheap effective disinfectant
Re: Pi
Pi r square. No, pie are round!
Regards
-Jim "Pitts" ARMSTRONG ('63)
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>>From:Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
38 years ago today: My LAST final divorce '82
Maren's Malarkey for 3/19/20 ~ Northern Lights
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
Currently we have
INTO NOME 975
1.Thomas Waerner/#40
2.Mitch Seavey/#27
3.Jessie Royer/#31
4.Brent Sass/#44
5.Aaron Burmeisterr/#25
6.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/#35
7.Paige Dronby/#58
8.Ryan Redington/#37
9.Travis Beals/#20
10.Jessie Holmes/#34
11.Ramey Smyth/#5
12.Wade Marrs/#7
13.Michelle Phillips/#33
14.Pete Kaiser/#9
15.Mille Porsild?/#32 (Rookie of the Year)
16.Jeff Deeter/#24
17.Kelly Maixner/#22
18.Aliy Zirkle/#23
SAFETY - 22 miles to Nome / mile 953
19.Tom Frode Johansen/#39
WHITE MT - 55 miles to SAFETY / 77 miles to Nome / mile 898
22.Lance Mackey/#12
23.Tim Pappas/#3
ELIM - 46 miles to White Mt. / 95 miles to Nome / mile 852
25.Nic Petit/#21
26.Matthew Failor/#29
27.Sean Underwood/#46
KOYUK - 48 miles to ELIM / 95 miles to Nome / mile 804
31.Martin Buser/Bib #26
34.Monica Zappa/#13
RED LANTERN
SHAKTOOLIK- 50 miles to KOYUK / mile 754
40.Kaci Murringer/#57
Six more scratched:
Quince Mountain/#50
Robert Redington/#28
Karin Hendrickson /#15
John Schandelmeier/#42
Meridith Mapes/#13
Gabe Dunham/#17
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 73° at 2:30am
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
To: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Bill, can we share your poetry on FB (with appropriate
attribution, of course)?
Maren, all I got when I went to Ken HEMINGER's link was a
404 error.
[It's an .mp4 (video) file). and it's hilarious.
I've attached it to a few emails if people asked.
That works. Lemme know if you wanna a look. -Maren]
Re: DoD resources and testing
Re: Corona virus war
The Department of Defense has stepped up with 5 million N-95
masks and 2,000 ventilators. This link also explains some of
the difficulty of calling out the military's medical
resources.
And one more: How VA and Tricare Users Can Get Tested for
Coronavirus
Re: Limericks
When it comes to limericks, this is my all-time favorite. I
don't know who came up with it but it took some smarts to do
it.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cad/200319-Limerick.jpg
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Jim McKEOWN ('53), Rex HUNT ('53)
Diane AVEDOVECH ('56), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Leah COLLINS ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Joanna FAULKNER ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sherri DAUGHERTY ('67)
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>>From: Jim McKEOWN ('53)
Re: New Email address
Please note my new email address.
Bomber cheers,
-Jim McKEOWN ('53)
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Limericks!
When I had my heart attack some years back, my rehab nurse
was a real cutie! she always had a great tan so I wrote her
a lime rick for her own.
There was a young lady named Nam,
who like to read while getting a tan.
once while improving her mind
she bared her behind
now Nan has no tan line!
...just another wasted moment in my life! of which there
have been plenty!
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from the ghost town of Hanford, CA where
everyone has crawled in a hole and pulled it behind them
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>>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
Re: perspective on the COVID-19 epidemic
(Note to Maren: I've tried to narrow this down, but you will
probably better edit it than me. I tried to leave the politics
out of this which are many, but this is an important piece
about a public health issue we are all feeling the impact, and
I wanted to share my perspective from a scientific viewpoint.)
Regarding the COVID-1 epidemic:
As some of you know I am a retired Ph.D. microbiologist of 30+
years. During that time I spent some time at CDC taking course
work in Virology laboratory techniques. I also spent some
time with the Alaska Public Health laboratory in the virology
section in Fairbanks learning the ins and outs of the virology
lab. The reason I am mentioning this is because in our daily
Sandstorm letter there has been a video of a doctor who I
think is misleading people about the severity of the threat
to the health of people regarding the Coronavirus epidemic.
He has a point that there are far more cases of influenza
than COVID-19. However he intimates that one shouldn't be as
disturbed by this virus as compared to the flu virus and
blames the "News" as making a mountain out of a molehill.
However flue has been around for a long time and we have
vaccines available for it which either lessen or protect us
from full blown disease. On the other hand this coronavirus is
new and there is no medical vaccine developed at this time nor
immunity from previous exposures and the communicableness is
just now being understood. I suspect it may be a year or more
before a workable vaccine can be found, tested, and produced
in large numbers for world wide distribution.
Italy has been the hardest hit country with the Coronavirus
and should be a wake up call to us and other nations of the
rapidity of the infection rate and the potential to be fatal.
Italy reports 475 new coronavirus deaths, lifting total death
toll to 2,978
2 hrs ago
ROME, March 18 (Reuters) - The death toll from an outbreak of
coronavirus in Italy has surged in the last 24 hours by 475 to
2,978, an increase of 19%, the biggest jump in numerical terms
since the contagion came to light last month, officials said
on Wednesday.
The total number of cases in Italy, the European country
hardest hit by the virus, rose to 35,713 from a previous
31,506, up 13.35%, the Civil Protection Agency said.
Of those originally infected, 4,025 had fully recovered
compared to 2,941 the day before. Some 2,257 people were
in intensive care against a previous 2,060.
(Reporting by Crispian Balmer, editing by Gavin Jones)
The COVID-19 situation is changing rapidly. Since this disease
is caused by a new virus, people do not have immunity to it,
and a vaccine may be many months away. Doctors and scientists
are working on estimating the mortality rate of COVID-19, but
at present, it is thought to be higher than that of most
strains of the flu.
*This information comes from the Coronavirus COVID-19 Global
Cases map developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems
Science and Engineering.
I just read of a study regarding the life span of COVID-19 on
surfaces:
Airborne via coughing or sneezes: highly communicable
for 30 minutes and up to 3 hours.
Cardboard: 24 hours
Hard surfaces:
Stainless steel - 2 days
Plastic - 3 days
While both the flu and COVID-19 may be transmitted in similar
ways), there is also a possible difference: COVID-19 might be
spread through the airborne route, meaning that tiny droplets
remaining in the air could cause disease in others even after
the ill person is no longer near.
The influenza virus has three major strains A, B & C. B&C are
the ones most commonly involved with human disease as well as
some animals. However there are vaccines now for flue diseases
which can either eliminate or allow milder disease symptoms.
The probability is that it will take many months to develop a
vaccine for COVID-19. There is some evidence coming from China
that there are more than one strain of COVID-19 and that one
is more virulent than another which may have an impact on
whether a single vaccine will be enough or like the flu, there
will be multiple vaccines because of the changeability to
sensitivity to a vaccine.
This is just a quick synopsis of the current epidemic we are
facing at the moment. I strongly suggest you pay attention
to the CDC guidelines to keep your family, loved ones and
yourself safe as best you can and do not think this is an
easy thing to avoid. Do not be careless.
My best wishes to all alumni reading this.
-Diane AVEDOVECH ('56)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: COVID-19
~ CoronaVirus Blues - Flatten That Curve
~ Cajun Hand Sanitizer
~ Calm Down People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu3US8Y7UJc
Maren's Malarkey for 3/20/20 Northern Lights
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Iditarod Northern Route (even years)
FINISHERS INTO NOME 975
1.Thomas Waerner/#40
2.Mitch Seavey/#27
3.Jessie Royer/#31
4.Brent Sass/#44
5.Aaron Burmeisterr/#25
6.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/#35
7.Paige Dronby/#58
8.Ryan Redington/#37
9.Travis Beals/#20
10.Jessie Holmes/#34
11.Ramey Smyth/#5
12.Wade Marrs/#7
13.Michelle Phillips/#33
14.Pete Kaiser/#9
15.Mille Porsild?/#32 (Rookie of the Year)
16.Jeff Deeter/#24
17.Kelly Maixner/#22
18.Aliy Zirkle/#23
19.Tom Frode Johansen/#39
2o.Tim Pappas/#3
21.The incredible Lance Mackey/#12
22.Jessica Klejka/#41
23.Lev Shvarts/#10
SAFETY - 22 miles to Nome / mile 953
Fastest from Safety to Nome (must be in the top 20) this
year is last year's winner, Pete Kaiser in 2:47
Record Safety to Nome is 2:04 by Cim Smyth in '07.
Still 15 teams on the trail as follows: 3 in White Mountain
taking their mandatory 8 hour rest and 12 either IN Elim or
mushing into Elim.
INTO WHITE MT - 55 miles to SAFETY / 77 miles to Nome
24.Sean Underwood/#46
25.Tom Knolmayer/#30
26.Matthew Failor/#29
ELIM - 46 miles to White Mt. / 95 miles to Nome / mile 852
27.Riley Dyche/#48 OUT
28.Deke Naaktgeboren?#14 IN
29.Martin Buser/#26
30.Laura Neese?#11
31.Magnus Kaltenborn/#38
32.Monica Zappa/#13
33.Grayson Bruton/#51
34.Dennis Kananowicz/#53
35.Fabio Berlusconi/#6
KOYUK - 48 miles to ELIM / 95 miles to Nome / mile 804
36.Damon Ramaker/#52
37.Kaci Murringer/#57 (RED LANTERN)
TWO more scratched:
Nic Petit/#21
Jason Campeau/#19
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 75° at 1am
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Allan AVERY ('54), Mary RAY ('61)
Ed WOOD ('62), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Tedd CADD ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gini MILLER ('49)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Donna McGREGOR ('57)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marji BREWDER ('69)
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>>From: Allan AVERY ('54)
Thanks to Diane AVEDOVECH ('56) for her commentary about
COVID-19 yesterday (3/19). At this stage, references to past
epidemics to deemphasize the urgency of this one are unwise,
Period.
-Allan AVERY ('54)
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>>From: Mary RAY Henslee ('61)
Re: Virus Crisis/Economic Crisis
You've seen the "Got Milk" line in ads promoting milk. Well,
today I got milk, but it took going out into the rain on a
cold day so that I could be at the store when the milk truck
drove up. It's hard not to question the rationale behind
cities and states closing everything down except essential
services, such as grocery stores. Do they not think that we
can become infected while utilizing our essential services in
numbers each day? Hello!
Yesterday, I almost started crying in the grocery store out of
frustration, anger, and fear at the site of the empty dairy
shelves. Later on in the day while I was scanning the
headlines on Yahoo, I read about a video going viral of a
women crying in Wal*Mart over not being able to find diapers
for her baby. I highly suspect we are about to see many more
people crying in the stores or throwing up their hands and
screaming, "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT
ANYMORE"!
I'm yet to see the death toll numbers being substantiated. How
old was each person? What were the circumstances surrounding
each death? Were any of them terminal before the virus? Why
are we seeing people without any symptoms test positive, such
as the cruise ship passenger on the news yesterday? Are we
getting some false positives or are some people possibly
harboring traces of the Coronavirus from past strains? Could
sheltering in place be hurting healthy people more than it is
helping them by preventing them from possibly developing an
immunity against strains of the Coronavirus? Things we need
to know from the media more than a daily test kit tally.
Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying!
-Mary RAY Henslee ('61)
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>>From: Ed WOOD ('62)
Re: Wuhan virus
Thank you Diane AVEDOVECH ('56) for your clear and sober
description of why the Wuhan virus is something to be
concerned about.
Based on what we are seeing, this is unlike the infamous
Swine Flu fiasco of 1976.
Since so many diseases are named for the region where they
began (Hong Kong Flu, Spanish Flu, Asian Flu, Lyme disease
etc), why doesn't the current pandemic follow that tradition?
-Ed WOOD ('62) ~ Staying safe in Tucson
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/21/20 Northern Lights
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
FINISHERS INTO NOME
1.Thomas Waerner/#40
2.Mitch Seavey/#27
3.Jessie Royer/#31
4.Brent Sass/#44
5.Aaron Burmeisterr/#25
6.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/#35
7.Paige Dronby/#58
8.Ryan Redington/#37
9.Travis Beals/#20
10.Jessie Holmes/#34
11.Ramey Smyth/#5
12.Wade Marrs/#7
13.Michelle Phillips/#33
14.Pete Kaiser/#9
15.Mille Porsild?/#32 (Rookie of the Year)
16.Jeff Deeter/#24
17.Kelly Maixner/#22
18.Aliy Zirkle/#23
19.Tom Frode Johansen/#39
2o.Tim Pappas/#3
21.The incredible Lance Mackey/#12
22.Jessica Klejka/#41
23.Lev Shvarts/#10
SAFETY - 22 miles to Nome / mile 953
WHITE MT - 55 miles to SAFETY / 77 miles to Nome
ELIM - 46 miles to White Mt. / 95 miles to Nome / mile 852
24.Riley Dyche/#48 OUT
25.Deke Naaktgeboren?#14 IN
26.Martin Buser/#26
27.Laura Neese?#11
28.Magnus Kaltenborn/#38
29.Monica Zappa/#13
30.Grayson Bruton/#51
31.Dennis Kananowicz/#53
32.Fabio Berlusconi/#6
33.Damon Ramaker/#52
34.Kaci Murringer/#57 (RED LANTERN)
Very high winds and warm temperatures created a deep overflow
of water on a section of the Iditarod trail near Safety. The
race teams of Sean Underwood/#46, Tom Knolmayer/#30, and
Matthew Failor/#29 encountered the deteriorated conditions
and as a result, activated their emergency beacons at
approximately 9am on 3/20/20.
In coordination with the Alaska State Troopers, Nome Search
and Rescue and Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, all teams
were safely rescued from the area and transported to Nome. The
mushers, who were transported back to Nome by helicopter, were
evaluated for precautionary measures and are being discharged
from the local hospital. All sled dogs are reportedly in good
health and are en route to Nome.
Because of these rescue efforts, all three mushers did scratch
from Iditarod XLVIII.
The Iditarod is reworking this section of the trail so that
the remaining 11 teams can safely proceed on to Nome.
Three more scratched:
Sean Underwood/#46
Tom Knolmayer/#30
Matthew Failor/#29
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 70° at 1:30am
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: Calm down people video
It is not helpful to show a video that was made before we
really knew anything about the reality of this particular
virus. There were voices telling the truth back in late
February, early February even. These weren't them.
4 new cases. Sounds very tiny and it was. You need to know
there were
189 new cases in Washington yesterday and 8 more people died.
And that is only because we tested a measly 3,607 more people.
In a state of 7.17 million we've only tested 20,712.
Virtually all of those tests have been because people were
symptomatic.
We have utterly no clue as to how many carriers there are.
Compare it to the flu if you'd like. For those of use from the
'60s and before, we've had our flu shots.
But this stuff hasn't a vaccine yet and us older folk are far
less protected than from the flu.
I'm not freaking out. We're calm. But it is serious. And we're
taking precautions.
[Tedd, I watched Dr. Drew's video again after
reading entry from Diane AVEDOCH ('56).
Basically what he said last week still holds
true even tho the numbers are different now.
He's telling THE MEDIA to shut up and let
doctors and the CDC report. And for people
to take precautions, wash hands, get flu shot,
social distance. But for media to SHUT UP
until the CDC tells us to worry and THEN
report. -Maren]
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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3 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Tedd CADD ('66), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike RICE ('60)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeanie CRIGLER ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kenny PETERSON ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nina JONES ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gordie McMASTER ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Janet ELL ('72)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/22/20 Northern Lights
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
FINISHERS INTO NOME
1.Thomas Waerner/#40
2.Mitch Seavey/#27
3.Jessie Royer/#31
4.Brent Sass/#44
5.Aaron Burmeisterr/#25
6.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/#35
7.Paige Dronby/#58
8.Ryan Redington/#37
9.Travis Beals/#20
10.Jessie Holmes/#34
11.Ramey Smyth/#5
12.Wade Marrs/#7
13.Michelle Phillips/#33
14.Pete Kaiser/#9
15.Mille Porsild?/#32 (Rookie of the Year)
16.Jeff Deeter/#24
17.Kelly Maixner/#22
18.Aliy Zirkle/#23
19.Tom Frode Johansen/#39
2o.Tim Pappas/#3
21.The incredible Lance Mackey/#12
22.Jessica Klejka/#41
23.Lev Shvarts/#10
SAFETY - 22 miles to Nome / mile 953
WHITE MT - 55 miles to SAFETY / 77 miles to Nome
24.Grayson Bruton/#51
25.Martin Buser/#26
26.Magnus Kaltenborn/#38
27.Riley Dyche/#48 OUT
28.Deke Naaktgeboren?#14 IN
29.Fabio Berlusconi/#6
30.Monica Zappa/#13
31.Damon Ramaker/#52
32.Dennis Kananowicz/#53
33.Laura Neese?#11
34.Kaci Murringer/#57 (RED LANTERN)
The "Elim 11" teams (above) are in White Mountain (finally)
resting. Teams dealt with extremely high winds and storms.
They are all working as a team to make sure they all get to
Nome. They will be leaving around midnight tonight, and expect
all to finish between mid morning and early afternoon Sunday
(Alaska Time).
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 66° at midnight
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: A Journal of the Coronavirus Year
The subject line is a play on Daniel Defoe's book "A Journal
of the Plague Year" which I have not read, but have read his
more famous "Robinson Crusoe." Just occurred to me that maybe
I should write a more current version--nah, I don't think so.
Thursday my daughter and I went to WinCo and bought $50 worth
food and a bag of cat litter. Then it was either Friday or I
think Saturday she brought her computer in and showed me video
of WinCo shoppers filling up the store, then the next day of
them lining up outside Costco before it opened. Monday I had
to take a nephew to the Pasco Wal*Mart and saw all the empty
spaces on the shelves. The paper products aisle was completely
empty and they were directing people who wanted TP to go down
that aisle then get in line in the next aisle which came back
to where we were standing and they were there with pallet
jacks opening up the boxes and handing them out. I did not
want to take the time because my nephew was not buying much
and did not know how long it was going to take. There was a
young guy not too far with a 70" Television laying flat on his
shopping cart so I went over to him and said, "Well, if we
have to shelter in place I see that you have your priorities
right!" He, and his wife (I presume) thought that was funny.
This is like if Y2K fell on Black Friday.
Went out early a couple times and no TP or soap. I like that
soft soap that I use to refill the little pumpers. I do have
some TP left and I could go back to using bar soap because for
some reason my wife thinks when we stay in a hotel room she
has to keep all the stuff they leave out every day. Lady at
Wal*Mart said I had to be there when the store opened then
head to the warehouse door where they were handing out the
TP--if they had gotten any in. Or, (since I am an old guy) I
could come Tuesday one hour before their scheduled opening and
maybe have a chance. Then early afternoon my daughter said she
saw on facebook that WinCo and Costco had toilet paper, but
that was about 20 minutes ago. Said I would probably not get
there in time. I didn't. Last night I saw on the tube (that is
a word us old timers sometimes call a television even though
they don't have tubes any more) that the Lewiston paper mill
was ramping up their production of TP and paper towels and
were letting their employees take home free a package of TP
and paper towels. I said a-ha that's a solution to the
problem, get a job in a pulp mill.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Tedd CADD ('66)
Re: COVID-19 numbers
Those numbers I posted yesterday (19th?) are from the
Washington State Department of Health site.
They post daily updates around 3pm each day. They break it
down by county, negative vs positive of tests performed, age
group with percent of cases and deaths, gender with percent
of cases and deaths.
Snohomish, Pierce and King counties account for about 83% of
the cases and 92% of the deaths.
As I've tracked it from their numbers, it looks like this
(the figures are cumulative)
March 15, 10,220 tested, 769 positive
March 16, 12,486 tested, 904 positive
March 17, 14,129 tested, 1,012 positive
March 18, 17,105 tested, 1,187 positive
March 19, 20,712 tested, 1,376 positive
March 20, 23,243 tested, 1,524 positive
I assume that the testing is being done on people who are
symptomatic or known to have been exposed.
On the 15th, 7.52% of those tested were positive. It's been
dropping gradually. So on the 20th, about 6.56% of those
tested were positive. I have no idea why and I don't want
to speculate.
There are too many unknowns to take either alarm or comfort
by these numbers.
But when you graph the number of cases, it isn't an
exponential curve, it is a steady slope that is relatively
flat.
I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of the virus. Take
precautions. 20 seconds, hand sanitizer (I have one on my desk
and one in the car with alcohol wipes. We are lying low,
except for critical (and abbreviated) "missions." 6 feet.
For example, As the paymaster for my organization, I went to
three banks yesterday. I had my deposits made out before hand,
hand sanitizer in my shirt pocket, and even used the drive
through where I could, wiping down the little pneumatic tube
thing before and after sending it-and asking the teller how
often it was being cleaned ("Every time", he said). One bank's
waiting line had tape on the floor marking 6 foot intervals
and sanitizer at each station. At another, the tellers were
all wearing surgical gloves.
And, then there's this: Today is a friend's birthday and his
wife is throwing a party. I expect there will be 20 or more
attending. We are to drive by his house and honk our horn and
we will get an ice cream bar.
And have you seen the "Where's Waldo, Social Distancing
Edition?" If you haven't seen the memes, let your imagination
take you there.
-Tedd CADD ('66)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: What I've noticed
To: All Bombers
With everything that's transpired in our lives I have noticed
a few good things over the past few days in my neighborhood.
There are more walkers than usual especially parents with
children. Someone has taken the trouble to place numbered
paper shamrocks on street corner sidewalks, stop sign & light
poles and few other sundry places. A small sign was on the
mailbox asking folks to find all 70 shamrocks. Young children
and moms were getting quite a delight with each discovery.
As I'm working in the yard drivers are waving as they pass.
Grocery shoppers for the most part were keeping a distance
from one another and I would have to believe the carts haven't
been this clean since they were new! One of my fave hardware
store closes early to restock and do a deeper clean. One other
I find really interesting I have yet to hear coughing or
sneezing, funny what you notice when you pay attention.
And since there are no sports being played at the moment I've
attached a photo of a little leaguer with writing on the back
someone might recognize (taken by Lee Edgar).
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200322_00.htm
Oh by the way they stocked the eggs 1st.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB) ~ Keep your hands clean.
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5 Bombers and Don Sorenson (NAB), sent stuff:
Marian "Martie" WADE ('57), Mary ROSE ('60)
Mary RAY ('61), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda EATON ('66_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary MULROY ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Skip FOWLER ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pete HEDGES ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim WADE ('76)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Michaela GONZALES ('11)
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>>From: Marian "Martie" WADE Jenkins ('57)
Re: Divorce
Maren, I think we just gave up. Not worth the hassle. My Last
FINAL Divorce was October 1988. will be 32 years. No dates -
didn't want to take the chance I might like the guy in a
romantic way.
[I didn't give up on MEN... just MARRIAGE. -Maren]
-Marian "Martie" WADE Jenkins ('57)
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>>From: Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
Re: Don Sorensen's post
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200322_00.htm
If that is Doyle Ehl, he was class of 1959, and one of my
former husband's best friends! Long time ago!!
-Mary ROSE Tansy ('60)
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>>From: Mary RAY Henslee ('61)
Re: Virus Crisis/Economic Crisis
I agree with Don Sorenson (nab). Interesting glimpses into
human behavior can be found amid all of the chaos if you pay
attention. The full shelves in the grocery store are as
interesting as the empty shelves are disturbing. I don't
particularly like frozen peas and it turns out I'm not alone.
Who knew? Most striking is the almost untouched Potato Chip
and Dorito aisle amongst all of the empty shelves. Soft drinks
and fancy crackers aren't doing too well either. Go figure!
The only way that the hoarding is going to stop and the stock
market is going to stop going down is for leaders to lift the
shelter-in-place orders and promise never to do such a thing
again, which I personally think they should do. Shutting
everything down may sound good in theory, but it isn't
practical because it isn't sustainable. Some experts are
recommending that they just let the virus run its course
because a bunch of undetected asymptomatic people running
around make the virus impossible to effectively contain. They
may be right. Who knows? Until scientists figure out why some
people are asymptomatic it's hard to know what the right thing
to do is. It also might help to know what gene the three
people who died in one family had in common that made them
predisposed? So many questions; so few answers.
As for me, I'm going immerse myself in a project that I
started before all of this began and someone can wake me when
it's over.
-Mary RAY Henslee ('61)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/23/20 Northern Lights
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
34 FINISHERS IN NOME
1.Thomas Waerner/#40 9d:10h:37m:47s
2.Mitch Seavey/#27
3.Jessie Royer/#31
4.Brent Sass/#44
5.Aaron Burmeisterr/#25
6.Joar Leifseth Ulsom/#35
7.Paige Dronby/#58
8.Ryan Redington/#37
9.Travis Beals/#20
10.Jessie Holmes/#34
11.Ramey Smyth/#5
12.Wade Marrs/#7
13.Michelle Phillips/#33
14.Pete Kaiser/#9
15.Mille Porsild?/#32 (Rookie of the Year)
16.Jeff Deeter/#24
17.Kelly Maixner/#22
18.Aliy Zirkle/#23
19.Tom Frode Johansen/#39
2o.Tim Pappas/#3
21.The incredible Lance Mackey/#12
22.Jessica Klejka/#41
23.Lev Shvarts/#10
24.Grayson Bruton/#51
25.Martin Buser/#26
26.Riley Dyche/#48
27.Magnus Kaltenborn/#38
28.Deke Naaktgeboren?#14
29.Dennis Kananowicz/#53
30.Fabio Berlusconi/#6
31.Monica Zappa/#13
32.Laura Neese?#11
33.Damon Ramaker/#52
34.Kaci Murringer/#57 (RED LANTERN) 13d;22h:29m:45s
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 72° at 3:30am
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Seems Like The World Is Out Of Toilet Paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJZuZzU2Vsg
Humorous song by a couple guys calling themselves "The Moron
Brothers." I don't believe it for a minute, they are certainly
not morons. A did watch another one of their videos about
themselves traveling down a river in a shanty on a raft they
labeled Hillbilly Houseboat. They seem to have over 50 YouTube
videos and at the end of that one they have advertisements of
their facebook page and stuff they are selling which leaves me
to suspect that when they are done with their video shoots,
they get in their Mercedes and go to a nice home. Probably got
more in common with the Beverly Hillbillies.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: All Bombers
Staying home has some advantages: lower gas expenditures,
cleaner cars, clean & orderly garages, greener lawns, well
prepped flower gardens and to top it off clean garbage cans.
When I was younger this seemed to be my fathers favorite
chore, for me specifically. You remember a little over/under 3
feet tall, round heavy galvanized steel, with a lid that was
hard to lift back then. "Donald Lee, I need you to scrub the
garbage cans... be sure to get all the grease out". I often
wondered why? They are just going to be dirty again so why
waste time I would ask. Short answer "Here's the scrub brush".
A complete job was required so a trip to the silverware
drawer, grab a butter knife to remove the grease in that grove
between the bottom and the wall of the can. The next closest
"fun" chore was using hand clippers to trim the grass. One of
my happiest days as far as chores, my dad bought a grass
catcher for the push mower. What was your favorite chore?
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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4 Bombers sent stuff:
Shirley SHERWOOD ('62), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Linda REINING ('64), Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Lloyd MOORE ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Sue THOMAS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mike CUMMINS ('67)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patsy KOLB ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Cindy LUST ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Rick DAHLIN ('72_)
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>>From: Shirley SHERWOOD Milani ('62)
Re: Favorite Chore
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Isn't that an Oxymoron?
-Shirley SHERWOOD Milani ('62)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/24/20 Northern Lights
Did everyone realize all the daily Northern Lights pictures
have been DIFFERENT??
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Coronavirus caused the cancellation of the Awards Banquet...
not sure how that's gonna be handled.
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 74° at 2am
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>>From: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Favorite Chore
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
When we lived in the ranch house on Elm, my mom had venetian
blinds on the front windows and once a month she insisted they
be taken down, taken outside, laid on the lawn, get out the
scrub brush, tub of hot soapy water and wash all those slats,
on both sides, then hose off the soapy water and dry every
one of those slats, then back into the house and rehang
them!!!!!!!!! I hated those blasted things and swore I'd
never have them! When I bought my house, what were on ALL the
windows?????????? Yep, BLINDS!!!!!!!!!!! And they were even
worse to clean, cause the slats were smaller!!!!!!!!!!!
-Linda REINING ('64)
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>>From: Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
Re: Happy Birthday Sue
Happy Birthday wishes to Sue Thomas Lesh ('65) Enjoy your day,
and stay well.
-Jim HEIDLEBAUGH ('65)
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6 Bombers sent stuff:
Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52), Jack GARDINER ('61)
Donna NELSON ('63), Carol CONVERSE ('64)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Lori SIMPSON ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Frank DeVINCENTIS ('56_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy BEARDSLEY ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karen DAVIS ('76)
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>>From: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)
To: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
I always find your posts interesting as well as entertaining.
When we went to Costco last week, there was a huge white board
outside at the entrance listing all the things that were sold
out The list was very long. What surprised me most was that
employees were outside sanitizing the handles of the carts. We
had to go all the way in to get a cleaned one. I have not seen
that at any other store except that Wal*Mart had a prominent
stand of 2 kinds of hand sanitizers at the entrances. This is
certainly a mysterious situation. Unlike flu season, there
have been relatively few deaths. Maybe that's because we are
ordered to be so cautious. Maybe not. We will never know but
I'm sure some people will declare that it is.
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Your posts are always interesting, too. Around here, we've
been working in the garage, putting up more shelves to tidy up
the congestion on the floor, deeper than usual house cleaning
(just one example: shampooing the carpets), putting seedlings
in the garden. Taking Belle for walks. Things like that. Lots
of folks walking. The hardest thing for me is missing friends.
To: Maren
Yeah--not swearing off men, just marriage!! Terry SHEGRUD
('56) and I are doing very well. He developed a cold a few
days ago so I'm keeping track of his temperature and airing
out the bedroom in particular and the house in general. He
spends much of his time working in his "Train Room", a Tuff
Shed he had built in the back yard. It is only 12 by 16 so he
can't put all of his trains up but he has 4 tracks to play
with, plus the town scenes. Some day it will be tidied up
enough to have an Open House in there.
-Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ~ in warming, although windy, Richland
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>>From: Jack GARDINER ('61)
We have two major issues confronting our nation at this time.
A falling Economy and the Coronavirus. In my opinion which one
should have priority is a easy choice. The Economy eventfully
will bounce back, if you or someone you know dies there is no
bouncing back.
-Jack GARDINER ('61)
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>>From: Donna NELSON ('63)
Re: Saturday Chores...
...and not really favorites or a choice but after we were
done Jan ('60) and I got a quarter to go to the Uptown movie
theater and had a nickel left to buy a pack of Charms out of
the machine. (I remember pink perfume machines in the Uptown
women's bathroom). My chores were vacuuming up the stairs in
our "F" house to the landing holding onto the vacuum as I
cleaned. Then I vacuumed upstairs hall and bedrooms and
bathroom and then scrubbed sink and tub and cleaned the
bathroom window and blinds!!! I put the blinds in the tub to
clean. Looking out our bathroom window I could see Chitty's
pool after it was put in. Jan cleaned the downstairs and Suz
('67-RIP) never did have chores.
The old vacuum was made into a lamp and Debbie ('77) has it
-Donna NELSON ('63)
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>>From: Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64)
To: Linda REINING ('64)
Re: Favorite Chore
My house also has blinds in every window. The windows
themselves seem pretty small so we took down the blinds from
the living room and my craft room. The bedroom blinds I just
dust. Much easier.
-Carol CONVERSE Maurer (Magic Class of '64) ~ Kennewick where
we are diffidently into spring
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Re: Maren's Malarkey--Northern Lights
I did notice that the pictures of the Aurora Borealis were
different every day. Did you do that just to test us?
[Truth be told, I had planned to put a new
picture on my phone during the Iditarod and I
went looking for the best one... didn't do
that and then had all those pictures... will
put them on a page of thumbnails later. -Maren]
I sure would like to see the Northern Lights again. I saw them
once in the little town of Athena, OR in about 1956 or 1957.
They were fantastic, it seems like they curled around covering
the entire sky. Must have been in the summer because I stayed
out in the back yard watching them for hours. When my dad got
home from swing shift he woke me up and had me come out to
the back yard. I didn't know why, but he wanted me to see the
Northern Lights. Got outside and half asleep mumbled, "Oh, I
already saw that." They still covered the sky, but were not
nearly as bright or as colorful.
Only other time I saw them was about thirty years later while
driving back from Portland with my wife, daughter, mother-in-
law, and, I think a sister-in-law and her son. I saw what was
just a wisp of them that looked like they were hanging over
the Columbia River although you knew they were actually a long
way off. I kept trying to get their attention and point it out
to them, but they kept yakking and yakking so I gave up. Three
times in the last few years there was the possibility of
seeing them in the Tri-City area. I went looking but no luck.
It is hard to find a place around the Tri-City area where you
don't have a lot of light pollution and I didn't want to drive
to someplace like, say, near Starbuck on what was just a slim
chance anyway.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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* Bombers sent stuff:
Stephanie DAWSON ('60), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Tom HEMPHILL ('62), Bill SCOTT ('64)
Dennis HAMMER ('64), Mina Jo GERRY ('68)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim MILLER ('52)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jon McDOUGAL ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Dale and Gale GUNTER ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jeffrey SUCHLAND ('90)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/26/20 Northern Lights
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>>From: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Re: Aurora Borealis AKA Northern Lights
I saw the same display of Northern Lights in Richland that
Dennis HAMMER ('64) saw in Athena, Oregon. I agree that it was
a summer no later than 1957, because we moved to a different
neighborhood early in 1958. And yes, they curled around the
horizon and covered the whole sky. All the kids were out in
the yards and streets that night and saw the whole thing. Many
of us had no idea about Northern Lights and wondered if maybe
the Russians had sent a bomb. The colors were magnificent.
None of my 3 Bomber kids got to see the Northern Lights until
the late 1990s or early 2000s, when I was able to share a
late summer night with Josh JANICEK ('93) for a pretty great
variety of colors that lasted for more than an hour. And
several months later in November (I know, that's a rare month
for seeing them), I got to share them with daughter Jennifer
JANICEK ('90); not as many colors, but she was pretty
impressed anyway. Do not know if son Jeff JANICEK '88 has
ever seen them.
Re: Chores
I hated ironing bedsheets! The wrinkles never came out of the
old heavy cotton sheets, and they always draped on the floor
and picked up lint or whatever my brothers, Jeff DAWSON( '62)
and Gaynor DAWSON ('65) had tracked into the laundry room on
their way to the freezer.
My Mom was skilled in the sewing arts and she used to mend my
Dad's socks. I thought that was crazy when we owned Dawson-
Richards and could easily just replace them. I would have
hated to mend those socks, but I hated all sewing, and Mom
knew she wasn't going to get much cooperation from me. When
the socks finally were beyond her skills, she made them into
braided rugs (I think that started during WWII). Colorful and
unique!
-Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56), Ed WOOD ('62),
Mary RAY Henslee ('61), Tedd CADD ('66),
and Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Coronavirus-19
Wait, what? Unlike almost anywhere else, a civil discourse
with contrasting points of view, right hear on the very pages
of Sandstorm! Without discounting anything said, here's my
additional take as of last evening. A view through one
knothole. I see the MEDIA TALKING HEADS on PBS:
Are summarizing that only a "majority" of cases are not
critical (rather than, what, 98%);
Are, just for spin, making gratuitous comparisons to highly
contentious and politicized "global warming" (versus the more
inquisitive "climate change") to push the agreed no-brainer
that early prevention is good;
Are unwilling to report that states might well have different
timelines for curve-flattening, based on initial infection
dates (therefore rather than a totally blunt instrument, a
more differentiated national response?);
Confine their remarks about (untested, but available) malaria
and Ebola medicines to the anecdote that one critical patient
(who was self-medicating and likely overdosed?) didn't make
it, omitting that another (not self-medicating) fully
recovered in New York-the point here being that in terminal
cases, as in cancer treatment, experimental meds will not be
withheld and might even constitute a crash field-test of
sorts, in much less than a standard year-long protocol-what
might this real-time application do to projected exponential
fatalities?).
And then there's the name thingy (Ed WOOD subtle comment), as
in Spanish flu but not now with Chinese flu? In all the chaos,
this just might be our "war" with incubator China-an
unintended/serendipity happenstance of, in effect, ABC warfare
(biological, rather than atomic or chemical), with looming
long-term economic and geopolitical consequences. Just
wondering why twitter-time Trump actually uses this heavy word
"war" (incomprehensible to our knee-jerk, 24-hour market-
share, newsroom tutors).
So, now, in response to one somewhat defensible blunt
instrument (LOCKDOWN) the President pins an equally blunt
single date on the wall to UNLOCK "the economy", meaning a bit
more than abstract statistics (some credibly project rising
suicide numbers).
In the view through my knothole, the GENERIC ISSUE is not
confined to the novel/catastrophic epidemiology of exponential
projections amplified by undetectable carriers ("sleeper
cells!"), but instead is the FIT between (a) this science, on
the one hand, and on the other (b) the range of debatable
public policy options. An engaging set of questions (yes?),
but the "Soviet of Seattle" even debates a citywide 20-
mile/hour speed limit to reduce jaywalking (etc.) pedestrian
fatalities to, what, zero!
So, possibly in step with our Sandstorm civil discourse on the
bug and what to do about it, maybe the teleprompter hand
puppets of the mainstream media can just bug off.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ just hangin' out with my keyboard in
Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Tom HEMPHILL ('62)
Re: Social distancing
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Hem/200326_Social_Distance.jpg
Just thinking of ways to keep active and avoid crowds.
-Tommy HEMPHILL ('62)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)
Re: THE VIRUS CHRONICLES, Edition 1:
This morning I drove to the ocean, but the ocean was closed.
Never thought anyone could do that, but they did here. Access
to the beachfront parking lot was blocked off. You can't even
sit in your car and look at the waves. Heaven help anyone who
wants to jog or walk on the beach. So with tears in our eyes
we drove south to Tillamook for a grocery run. Very light
traffic on highway. Got in, got our stuff (which is suddenly
more expensive), got out. Then, with all the restaurants
closed, went for breakfast to the McDonald's drive-up window
(the only thing I'll go to McDonalds for) and ate breakfast in
the car. Then we drove home. Sad state of affairs.
Re: New novel update
"Reach for the Sky" is in the final stages of refinement. I
expect to send it to the formatter in April. Still not sure
who the publisher's going to be. Yesterday the cover artist I
hired in England began working on the cover art. I should see
his/her first effort in the first week of April.
Stay healthy, Bombers
-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: Iwo Jima 75 years ago
The battle of Iwo Jima was from Feb 19, 1945 to March 26,
1945. The two flags that were raised on Mt. Suribachi
were scheduled to be on display at the National Museum of the
Marine Corps in Triangle, VA near Washington DC from Feb 19
to Mar 29. Due to COVID-19 the museum was closed March 14,
however, the museum's website says, "Extended! The flags of
Iwo Jima will be on display when we reopen!" They didn't say
for how long, but if someone lives in that area or is going
to be there, you might want to look into it.
I thought today would be a good time to re-post some of the
photos I posted in the Nov 10, 2006 Sandstorm. April 6, 1969
my ship, the heavy cruiser USS Saint Paul, passed near the
island of Iwo Jima and the Marine detachment held a memorial
service.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/200326-00.htm
The USS Saint Paul association has a room to display our
artifacts aboard the museum ship USS Massachusetts in
Battleship Cove at Fall River, Mass. Some of these photographs
were included in a display devoted to the Marine detachment we
had on board. A photo of the chaplain ready to toss the wreath
was also published in the association's 2016 calendar, cropped
square and put in one of the small squares for the dates that
was not used. A neighbor of his saw the picture and contacted
the association offering a donation in return for a large
print to give to the chaplain, saying that he had Parkinson's
disease. I larger print was sent to him, but he has since
passed away.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68)
To: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Chores
I had several chores growing, depending on age and height, but
my least favorite was cleaning the bathroom. Mom insisted that
all the water in the toilet had to be removed. Her method was
to take a plastic cup, dip it into the waster and pour it into
the tub. Then I had to scrub the inside with cleanser (we used
Comet). After a final flush, the toilet was clean enough to
drink out of.
-Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68) ~ in Richland where I am still
cleaning the same bathroom in our Ranch House since
the kids are grown and gone.
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5 Bombers sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53), Helen CROSS ('62)
Ron WALLACE ('62), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Char DOSSETT ('51)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Nancy MALLORY ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Georgia RUSHWORTH ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pam GRAYBEAL ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mark McCLANAHAN ('72)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gayla ARMSTRONG ('74)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/27/20 Northern Lights
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
Re: Cures!
Back in 1939/1941 I lived with my maternal grandmother! She
would doctor me with WHITE CLOVE SALVE! Looked just like
Vaseline with a stink. She used it on every thing. Skin
scrapes to broken bones. Think she even put some on rocks she
had in her Rock Garden.
Don't know what ever happened to White Clove, but if my
grandmother were alive she would be treating Coronavirus with
it.
Personally I think cheap margarine would do as a substitute.
Perhaps stir in some Castor Oil. Gotta beat what they are
using for treatment now.
Stay Well and keep a Hankie close.
-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from Hanford, CA where the sun is shining
and no cases of Coronavirus locally. But heard that the
Corcoran Prison # 2 has a case. in which case it should
spread like wild fire in tumble weeds. (most prisoners
there are young drug users, abusers).
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I don't know what's wrong; I've tried to send in about 3
entries that haven't appeared. Sure it is my lack of computer
skills, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
[I believe it's a series of typos, Helen.
You need to get sandstorm@richlandbombers.com
IN your phone so you don't have to actually
TYPE it... just ONE typo in an email address
will send an email into cyber space. -Maren]
I'm using this time at home to finally (after years of putting
it off) get into my junk room; going through lots of boxes,
I've found my old report cards, old photos, lots of things.
And before I'm done I'm sure I'll uncover many more
interesting things.
I had to laugh at Mina Jo GERRY Payson's ('68) entry about
cleaning the toilet. All I can say is I hope you scrubbed out
the bathtub after you got the toilet water out of it, and I
hope you aren't using the same method to clean your toilets now.
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
I'll have to reread your comments to try to see if I really
understand them; but as Maren (our esteemed editor), doesn't
allow political comments in the Sandstorm, I don't think I
could really comment honestly anyway.
Stay safe and socially distanced, fellow Bombers; I keep
hoping the critical weeks are over, and we can resume
something of our normal lives, and I can see my grandkids
again.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ from the house by the little lake
in SE Indiana where at 67° it's feeling like spring is
in the air.
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>>From: Ron WALLACE ('62)
Re: Iditarod Rescue
When I was at NASA, 1990-99, I was heavily involved with the
international satellite system (COSPAS-SARSAT) that made this
rescue possible.
23020 Iditarod Rescue
{That rescue was the last three mushers to
scratch. One was Sean Underwood - who took
Jeff King's dogs to the race when Jeff underwent
emergency surgery just days before the start of
the race. -Maren]
-Ron WALLACE ('62)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52) ---- Maren Smyth ('63 & '64)
Re: Marriage/Divorce
Giving up on marriage after only two marriages each!!!
[3 for me, Dennis... and 3 divorces. Don't
know about Em. -Maren]
Few months ago I watched an old TV program on the Gabor
sisters; The three on them got married 28 times, that averages
9 1/3 husbands for each one of them. I never knew much about
them but did know Eva called Zsa Zsa "the housekeeper of the
family--every time she got divorced she kept the house." Then
again, maybe you guys wised up before the Gabors. One of them,
don't remember which, drove an ambulance in the early days of
WWII. Because they had a Jewish background the whole family
came to the United States, but individually, not as a family.
Em--I would like to see an Open House of the "Train Room"
Re: The Quest for Toilet Paper
Finally got some of that stuff that is more illusive than
finding a leprechaun and his pot of gold. Lady at Wal*Mart
said I had to be there when they opened, then head straight
back to the warehouse door into the grocery section where they
would be handing it out--if they had any. Suggested getting
there one hour before opening time on Tuesdays they were
letting seniors in early. I got there about 5:40 am and got in
a line that wasn't bad. The line was by the grocery door but
on the side where they brought the carts back in. By 6:00 am
the line looped around and around several times. Worst part
was the wind was blowing and it was cold. I wasn't desperate
yet, but was getting low. There are several stores opening
early for seniors or those with other conditions, here is an
article with more details.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
Re: Memories
To: Stephanie DAWSON Janicek ('60)
Thank you, Stephanie, I thought my mother, Ruth McLaughlin,
was the only one crazy enough to iron sheets. I had to take
her place with that chore one summer when she was recovering
from a surgery on her leg. She also darned Dad's socks.
Remember how much fun it was when we were children to play
under the "tents" made my those sheets when they were drying
on the clothesline?
And, Maren, I know exactly where that picture of the Northern
Lights was taken that you published on the 25th.
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Smy/200325_N.Lights.jpg
That is Cap Trinite on the Saguenay Fjord in Quebec. Kathy
DICKEMAN ('65) and I cruised by there in 2018. Traveling down
the St. Lawrence is a wonderful trip.
-Patti McLAUGHLIN ('65)
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9 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Dick WIGHT ('52), Mike CLOWES ('54)
Karen COLE ('55), Helen CROSS ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Marie RUPPERT ('63)
Terry DAVIS ('65), Mina Jo GERRY ('68)
Betti AVANT ('69), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Twins: Bill & Judy ALLEN ('54)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Karen HOPFINGER ('76)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/28/20 Northern Lights
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>>From: Dick WIGHT ('52)
Re: travelling
Ruth and I left home o/a Feb. 23rd, RVd down the coast as far
as Lompoc, CA, then inland to Tucson. We are now in the Sun
City area west of Phoenix 20 miles or so. It has been an
interesting journey as the COVID19 pandemic spread. While
staying at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, we and other retirees
using their RV park were notified that we might consider
departing. If there were cases of COVID19 on base, the
commander was considering "closing the gates" and requiring
us to stay there, confined to our RVs, until further notice.
Hmmmm!!!! We were planning to leave anyhow, and did the next
day (that was 1 week ago).
We are now in a large RV resort that also includes permanent
residents in RVs, various permanent manufactured homes, etc.
Nearly all its facilities are closed - restaurant, swimming
pool, activities inside and outside, library, etc., etc. I
think I saw golfers on their golf course. But it remains
open to coming RVers. Arizona is going through the typical
scenario - restaurants closed to inside dining, shopping malls
shut down, as well as any other entertainment type venue,
including municipal parks, etc. "Essentials" services are open
- grocery stores, gas stations, etc. We got our dog groomed -
delivered her curbside to a groomer, picked her up same way.
I visited an orthopedic doctor in a large medical building
yesterday - more or less business as usual, but my wife could
not go into the examining/treatment room with me.
Big shortages exist in grocery store. Toilet tissue (or
inexplicable reasons... a buying panic that started in Seattle
area, which tells a story!)... canned beans, ramen noodles,
canned tomatoes and spaghetti sauce, dried pasta of all kinds.
Go figure!!!!
Ruth really wanted to "sprint for home". But we have decided
to hunker down for awhile, reevaluating things each week. We
are concerned about the availability of RV parks and other
services enroute. We understand, for instance, that Washington
State has closed all campgrounds/RV parks in the state.
Canadians can re-enter Canada but are directed to go straight
home once inside the country, with no stops - even for fuel!
Doesn't affect us, but maybe some states might be doing - or
start doing - the same thing, and it is difficult to keep pace
with current restrictions.
We have a son, daughter-in-law and grown grandkids here so we
have family support. One grand daughter is a paramedic on the
Peoria, AZ fire dept. so has good insight on things local. All
is well, but we would rather be home in our own "digs" in
Richland...
Keep well and safe, Bombers!!!!
-Dick WIGHT ('52) ~ in sunny Phoenix area...
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Well, so much for chores; except to will Bill and Judy ALLEN
(both '54) a "Happy Birthday!"
I'd use an emoji or two at this point, but Maren's format only
accepts "!" in great huge bunches.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Re: Cloverine & Rex HUNT ('53wb)
I had to laugh when I read your entry today. When I was about
nine, I desperately wanted a bicycle. I saw an ad on the back
of a comic book, showing all the things I could buy with money
I earned selling Cloverine salve. I ordered it, without my
parent's knowledge. The salve arrived while they were at work,
and I went to all the neighbors trying to sell them salve. It
got boring, and I went home and forgot about it. Months went
by and Dad came to me asking about Cloverine salve. It seems
I received a notice that I was being sent to collections.
Dad paid for the salve. You must remember those times in the
forties there were no age restrictions for this type of thing.
The end of this story: When Dad passed away in 1989, while we
were cleaning out the parent's house, we came upon a lot of
cans of Cloverine salve. Yes, I have fairly clear memories of
this time. I don't think I could sit down for a week.
I finally did get a bicycle. My husband bought it for me when
I was 37 years old.
-Karen COLE Correll ('55) ~ Nine Mile Falls, WA looking
outside the windows of our self imposed cell... it
is a cloudy day. Stay safe.
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
I am sending in the photo today. Looking outside, it's all
windy and raining quite hard... not yesterday's lovely spring
weather.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/200328_Little_Lake.jpg
Love the pictures of the northern lights. I haven't really
seen them myself yet; on my bucket list to do so.
Reading the article About the rescue of the mushers on the
Iditarod was interesting too. Thanks, Ron WALLACE ('62) for
sharing that information. Also Tom HEMPHILL's ('62) photo of
social isolation was one I could never attempt.
I have to add, my mom and mother-in-law also ironed sheets
(and my m-i-l ironed underwear which I have refused to do
ever.) I also have never ironed sheets, for that matter.
We have been contacted by a few friends we rarely hear from
like Carole JOHNSTON Berg ('62) who says they are all OK in
the Renton-Seattle area.
I plan to call a few people myself today like Warren's aunt
who lives in Milton, WA at an assisted living facility to
check on her.
Stay safe, Bomber Cheers,
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ waiting for the curve of new
infections to flatten out... from SE Indiana
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
To: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Re: Risk Management and Coronavirus
Helen, you write: "... as Maren (our esteemed editor), doesn't
allow political comments in the Sandstorm, I don't think I
could really comment honestly anyway."
I have not made myself clear (This happens sometimes!).
First, we should all "comment honestly;" that's the point.
The GENERIC issue of translating science into policy is
illustrated many times each day. Take for example, the
honesty-in-advertising health risk of mercury consumption by
eating too much tuna. The recommended intake is a limited
number of ounces per week for 70 years, which then would
result in not more than three-fatalities-per-one-million-
population. This is the kind of judgement offered routinely
by federal agencies.
But, why three rather than, say, ten, or zero? In a wide range
of environmental regulations, in this illustration, this kind
of judgment is the FIT between science and policy. Such
judgments are partly "political"-but in the best sense of
informed public discourse to serve the common good (as
Aristotle would insist-today too often a lost art as when the
media filters (OR the Oval Office!) compete with one-liners
for ratings or 24-hour market share).
The best response(s) to our accelerating coronavirus pandemic?
Why is universal "social distancing" a matter of only six
feet, rather than say ten? Or groups limited to ten rather
than six or only one? What is an "essential" and exempt
economic activity? And, as for the 50 states, possibly at
different dates of initial exposure and different end-dates,
is it true that, in real-time lockdown, one size fits all?
Does the exponentially rising fatality risk to the vulnerable
age group come with an equally exponential collapse in the
real-world livelihoods of the entire population? Branded as
"the economy"-in tens of millions of household wages needed
to better afford, say, a whole universe of personal medicinal
needs, not to mention Cheerios and clothes for the kids (and
weekly doses of canned Tuna!). Trade-offs within "reasonable"
limits? Why do we carry only one spare tire (or only a donut!)
rather than, say, two? Given so many auto fatalities each
year, why are different (!) speed limits what they are, rather
than something lower, say, zero?
So, back to our shared question, yes, in a society not
deprived of civil politics (in Aristotle's sense) all of us
would be expected to say, without risk, things deemed honestly
political. And-politically honest. Across the board.
As for "Maren, our esteemed editor," in this dance she remains
esteemed for good reason.
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
My granddaughter, Sydney JENKINS ('19), is finally home from
her college (Baker U.) in Kansas.
She had flown back here with us after our Arizona trip to
watch her brother, Cameron ('16), play in a baseball tournament
in Tucson. She was scheduled to fly back to school this week,
but learned that the campus was closing and she had to clear
out of her dorm by today, 27th. Mom, Christy (NAB), got their
tickets to fly out on the 25th. Later that day, Delta called
to say the KS airport was to close on that day and they
obtained a flight on Alaska on the 23rd for them. At the same
time the college informed them that they had to clear the dorm
by the 24th. They arrived at the college mid-day on the 23rd,
loaded everything that they could into her little truck and
headed for here. They arrived here on the 25th after traveling
most of that day in snow that was dumping on western Montana
and Idaho. Had to replace windshield wipers in Butte as one
flew off in the wind. They had wanted to drive through
Yellowstone, but it was closed, but they did get to see Mt.
Rushmore. Her classes are to be online and she and Christy,
who is working from home, have had some issues with getting
knocked offline.
She had been accepted for an internship outside of Boston for
the summer, but that will probably not happen now. She hasn't
heard from them on that yet.
Grandson, Cameron ('16), is still at Jamestown in ND. His
college has moved classes online, but has kept the campus open
for students who wish to stay. He's in student housing off
campus, but still gets meals. He's doing fine and while
official practices are cancelled, he still goes out to throw a
baseball to keep his arm in shape (he's a pitcher). With the
NAIA cancelling the baseball season, he could become a 6 year
student athlete and graduate with 3 majors (and more debt!).
That is all still up in the air.
Lance ('60) and I are doing well and so far have been able to
obtain whatever we need, but shopping is taking several more
stops than usual due to shortages of items on my list. Thank
goodness for Amazon! Now we are staying home (except for
some senior shopping times) and tackling jobs on the 'to do
sometime' list. Spring is arriving, so yard work is beckoning
and getting outside is a blessing.
-Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63) ~ in cloudy Richland
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Re: Watch "Still Life with Animated Dogs" on YouTube
Hiya,
This animated, true story took the artist 20 years to
complete. There is nothing else like it anywhere. I enjoy
sending it to friends who, like myself, love or like or at
least tolerate a dog or two in their lives. It's only 15
minutes long, but you won't ever forget it. I promise.
https://youtu.be/YkvI2Qwfd04
TDK'65'
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68)
To: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Yes, I did clean the tub next, with Comet. My method for
cleaning the bathroom was to start at the sink, go on to the
toilet and finish with the tub. I dropped the dipping method
when I got out on my own and discovered cleaning products
specifically for toilets! Mom took a lot of teasing from her
friends about her dipping method when they found out. One of
them even asked me, after I was married, if I still dipped the
toilet. My answer was a resounding "NO"!
-Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68)
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
Re: still searching
I'm still searching for the elusive TP. You see I have 2 1/2
baths but in one I use the flushable wipes that I haven't been
able to find either. I decided to buy just 1 pack of TP for it
until I can find the wipes once again. I went to my local Fred
Meyers yesterday to do my weekly shopping. I got there about
10 minutes after opening and alas the TP aisle was totally
"wiped" out. I noticed several people had a pack of TP and
paper towels in their carts so guessing they were the first
through the doors. I ended up with a package of baby wipes
that aren't flushable but will work for now. My lesser used
bathrooms for now have TP packages in them, had gotten that
before the hoarding began and now limits on what one can buy
at one time. This too will pass and I hope sooner rather than
later.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: All Bombers
Let's go back 76 years to Stagg Field a few months short of
two years after Fermi and his team proved the theory of
fission. The pile had been dismantled then repurposed as CP-2
used to irradiate uranium. That metal was dissolved in what
was described to me as 55 gallon drums and studies were
carried out to determine decontamination rates of Plutonium.
Funny to say decontaminate something radioactive but it's the
only simple way to describe it.
One swing shift, at Stagg, two technicians were having a bit
of fun with two bare pieces of Uranium metal. They were
amazed with each successive clang the sparks this metal
would deliver. Fortunately this bit of fun and games was,
thankfully, quickly extinguished. Afterwards controls were
put in place to prevent unauthorized access.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/29/20 ~ VIETNAM VETERANS' DAY
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7 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Norma LOESCHER ('53), Ken HEMINGER ('56)
Michael WAGGONER ('60), Helen CROSS ('62)
Tim SMYTH ('62), Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Anita FRAVALA ('73), Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Pattie CRIGLER ('59)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Anne JOCHEN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Carol WISE ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary CARPENTER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Bonnie BRISTOL ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Brian JOHNSON ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gary CROW ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tracy WEAVER ('89)
TODAY IS VIETNAM VETERANS' DAY
Maren's Malarkey for 3/29/20 Northern Lights
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>>From: Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53)
Re: Childhood Chores
My favorite childhood chore was to dig carrots out of the
sandy soil in my parents' small vegetable garden and deliver
them to the kitchen. Never have I deep-cleaned any toilets,
bathtubs or window blinds, nor did I ever see my parents doing
those things. (At that time we had a shower but no bathtub,
and curtains but no window blinds.) I helped vacuum floors, of
course. That was a necessity in 1944 Richland, because Dad,
Mom, my brother Ray (RIP '57) and I experienced constant dust
storms that battered our prefab on 409 Thayer Drive. Oh yes, I
also collected black widow spiders in a glass jar. I thought
they were unusual and pretty. As you no doubt guessed, I was
not allowed to keep them.
Re: COVID-19
The Tri-City Herald published new numbers yesterday. The U.S.
is the first nation to reach 100,000 COVID-19 cases.
Worldwide, there were more than 586,000 confirmed cases and
26,865 deaths. In the Tri-Cities, confirmed cases doubled
overnight to 76, with 5 deaths. I'm staying home except for
one trip to the bank and for groceries. I've ordered food
delivered from favorite local restaurants. Stay safe,
everyone!
Bomber cheers,
-Norma LOESCHER Boswell ('53) ~ in cloudy, warming Richland
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>>From: Ken HEMINGER ('56)
Re: E-4B Nightwatch
The E-4B Nightwatch is considered the Doomsday Plane.
I thought it would be interesting viewing for some in the
Sandstorm.
Plus it shows a couple shots of our General MATTIS ('68) in
action...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWsYpac2D6M
-Ken HEMINGER ('56)
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>>From: Mike WAGGONER ('60)
Re: Northern Lights
I later read that the northern lights we saw in the late
1950s may have been due to nuclear tests above he atmosphere.
Wikipedia has a list of U.S. nuclear tests, and some were at
high altitudes in the late 1950s. Other nations may have had
high altitude nuclear tests around that time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States%27_nuclear_weapons_tests
-Michael WAGGONER ('60) ~ Boulder, CO
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Thanks for further explaining your views so I can understand
them.
Of course, that is the question of what is best for mankind in
each given situation. It was interesting you chose tuna fish
as an example, as having to stay home we are having it about
once a week as I happened to pick some cans up as all this
hype was starting. I have another week before we need to start
looking for TP, as I decided not hoard when this all started.
To: Mina Jo GERRY Payson ('68)
Glad to learn you did clean the tub, I said that sort of
tongue in cheek, as with your mom's strict rules I'm was quite
sure you would be cleaning the tub.
Stay safe, Bombers; and I have heard from minds more
scientific than mine that our social distancing needs to be
much greater to really be effective, but who knows. May God
get us through this. If we made it through WWI and WWII, I
feel we will rebound from this.
And I keep hoping we will start seeing a slow down in the
number of new cases and deaths.
Stay safe, stay sane, thankfully we have the Sandstorm to help
us do that. Thanks again for putting up with all us, Maren.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ where I saw a man wearing a Reds
shirt (for our baseball team) Like he was honoring that
next week would usually be opening day complete with the
parade here, usually a big day in Cincinnati.
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Tim SMYTH ('62)
Re: Virus thing
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Smy/200329_0767.mov
Debby and I are in Florida and are handling this darn virus
thing quite well. Will go back home to upstate NY in a few
days. In the meantime sunny and 80° every day. Check out the
short video
-Tim SMYTH ('62)
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>>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64)
To: Pete BEAULIEU ('62) & Marie RUPPERT Hartman ('63)
Re: Spare tires & Windshield wipers
I know it was just used as an example, but I can partly answer
why "we carry only one spare tire (or only a donut!) rather
than, say, two?" Back in the early days of the automobile the
roads were not as good as today, basically just old wagon
trails and with those old high-pressure tires you had to
expect to fix flat tires quite often. I have a Ford tire pump
that came with a new model "T" my grandfather bought. Some of
the old pictures show two spares mounted on the back of the
car, but not on the wood spoke wheel. I think they were
already mounted on a rim, so you would have to take the wheel
off, then unbolt the rim and bolt the spare on to the wheel,
then put it back on the car. Then with better roads and better
tires they started having the tire mounted on a wheel with it
either mounted in a well in the front fender or on the back of
the car. If you payed for it you could get, or on high-end
cars, one spare mounted in each front fender, called dual
side-mounts. I have seen a 1932 Chevy with three spare tires,
dual side-mounts and one on the back. Owner explained to me
that those were sold mainly to people in places like Wyoming
where there were long distances between towns.
As for why the donut--I haven't got a clue!!! One of the worst
ideas the auto industry or government regulators came up with.
Picture this, you're driving from Kennewick to Seattle to
spend a few days with your wife and daughter and a rear tire
goes. So you get out and pile a trunk full of luggage into the
car, get the donut out, and change the tire. Now. . . . Where
do you put the tire you took off? Diameter wise it will fit in
the well in the trunk, if you leave out the jack and that
Styrofoam piece but it sticks up about 3 inches. What you do
is move half the junk in the trunk to the back seat. Good
thing I didn't have two people in the back seat or they would
have been holding suitcases. Then, at reduced speed you
proceed to the very next town and buy a tire. Tire men don't
think much of them either. Recently my wife and I drove to
Umatilla, OR to eat at that little drive-in that was probably
built in the '50s; we've been going there from time to time
since the '60s little changed except they added on a dining
room so you no longer eat in your car. After eating we came
out and a tire was flat. So I changed it (I think those tires
are getting heaver than they used to be), and since I had
three tires that needed replaced anyway I drove to Wal*Mart in
Hermiston, OR and used my credit card to buy four new tires.
The guys doing the work said they were backed up and may not
be able to get to me, but then the manager of the auto section
came out and said, I see you have a donut on your car, I don't
want to see you leave this store with that donut on. Looks
like they got a little overtime, but I got my tires and as an
added bonus didn't have to pay sales tax.
Windshield wipers, that is another thing I have a problem
with, but think I may have found a solution for. Used to be if
you wanted to change wipers, all you had to buy was the blade.
All you needed to know was the length and it would work on any
car from a Ford to a Cadillac, to a Hudson, and they would
last a long time. Then one day I went in for some blades and
they wanted to sell me the holder, said the springs get week.
I told him that every time I bought a car that had non
original holders I had to go to junk yards and get factory
ones because the after market ones never worked as well. I had
a set on my Olds Toronado that had 260,000 miles on them, then
bought a Cadillac El Dorado (both cars were built on the same
body). The dealer had replaced the windshield but the work was
done by idiots who couldn't do as good job as I could. (I have
replaced a windshield myself once) One of several things
they did wrong was bend the arm of the wiper in front of the
driver. It was OK driving in town, but driving at highway
speeds it would lift off the windshield and go back and forth
doing nothing to help the driver see. So I took them, arm and
all and moved them from the Toronado to the El Dorado and used
them for another 100,000 miles. Then I bought a 1985 rear
wheel drive Oldsmobile which literally was a "little old
lady's car." People at the auto insurance agency couldn't
believe that a 20 year old car looked almost brand new. Well,
it had after marked blade holders. The arms were different
but the blade holders were the same so I took them off the
Cadillac and put them on the Olds and drove it another 100,000
miles or so. So those blade holders lasted about 400,000 miles
and wore out three cars.
Now days they only sell them to you with the blade holders,
and they don't last any time at all. I put a set of el-cheepo
(which were not cheep) made in Vietnam blades on and they only
lasted a year. Replaced them with brand-name wipers and they
didn't even last that long. So I went back to the el-cheepo,
looked up on AutoZone's website, but I had to ask for them
because I guess they wanted you to spend more for the ones on
display.
Now for the possible solution. One of the guys I like to watch
on YouTube is a mechanic named Scotty Kilmer. He says use
silicone wiper blades. They claim to last 2 times longer, not
on this video, but I think on another Scotty says that is
"false advertising, they last ten times longer!" Said he ask
the parts store why they did not carry silicone wiper blades
and was told "we make a lot of money selling wiper blades." I
did not have time to order from Amazon but did find them
there--didn't want to take the chance of scratching up my
windshield while I waited. I have since found them at the
Kennewick Wal*Mart, but they were on the end of an aisle, not
with their main display of wiper blades. Guess they would
rather you buy the ones that don't last too. Well, I figure,
in about nine months I better get me some silicone wiper
blades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpdgahDp2Wg
Something else I learned from Scotty Kilmer, and am glad I
found out about it. Do not jump-start a car the way we used to
do it. With all the electronics on these new cars leave the
car that needs the jump turned off. Connect the jumper cables
and let it charge for ten minutes, then disconnect the jumper
cables and try to start the car. You do not want two
alternators running at the same time or it might get very
expensive replacing electronics. I had to be jump started a
few years ago and did not know this, but had no problem. Last
fall I needed a jump and followed these instructions exactly.
After that I went to Harbor Freight and bought one of those
meters that puts a load on the battery and tells you how good
the battery is.
-Dennis HAMMER ('64)
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>>From: Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
Re: Traveling during the pandemic
To: Dick WIGHT ('52)
After reading your entry today, I wanted to ease your mind
about a few things.
We winter in an RV park in eastern Southern California (or the
SoCal as they call it). After Governor Newsom put California
in lockdown, and everything in our park was shut down, we
decided to head home to Washington a few weeks early. Since we
were in an RV, we were self-contained and did not have to try
and find restaurants or deal with drive-thru fast food places
or hotels. All privately owned RV parks are open (i.e., we
always stay at Premier RV Resorts up I-5). They have closed
their offices and deal with reservations as if you are
checking in after hours.
We get our fuel at Love's Truck Plazas. They were extremely
clean and had lots of packaged breakfast and snack type food
(even though we didn't need it since I had prepared food
before we left). Our RV uses diesel so I only go in once to
pay (my Love's card is set up just like the truckers and I
can swipe it at the pumps to get started pumping) and I only
came into contact with one person. I always wore nitrile
gloves.
About a third of our park are Canadians. They left when we did
only because their insurance companies advised them their out-
of-country medical insurance was going to be canceled due to
the coronavirus. They were given 10 days to get home. Once
they got back into their country they were allowed to get
groceries and fuel and then had to quarantine themselves for
14 days. They aren't able to come back into the U.S. until
this is over.
-Anita FRAVALA Griffin ('73)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Chicago to Oak Ridge
To All Bombers,
Sometime after March of '44, can't remember exactly, Glenn
Seaborg realized Plutonium was going to be produced in
kilogram quantities and the tremendous health risk that it
would pose to workers. Protocols were put into play in the
Chicago laboratories to control personnel skin contamination
and more importantly internal contamination. Separate shoes to
be worn in the laboratory, no eating or drinking in the lab,
use of gloves while working with higher concentration Pu
solutions. A few scientists were given the responsibility to
institute these changes and develop other protective measures.
One of them was transferred to Oak Ridge to study how
plutonium "moves" inside enclosures.
Reporting to building 205 the support laboratory for the
semi-works located backside of X-10, an air cooled reactor, to
analyze Plutonium separated by the Bismuth Phosphate process.
The laboratory had stainless steel enclosures and wood
benches. To deduce Pu movement he took smears in the same
locations every shift, tables, hoods and floors. Everything
was tracked including concentrations of Pu solutions worked
inside the enclosures. The conclusion was contamination was
heaviest on the bottom of the enclosures. All this experience
would come in handy for his next assignment at the Isolation
Building at Hanford.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/30/20
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6 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Mike CLOWES ('54), Helen CROSS ('62)
Jim HAMILTON ('63), Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Bruce STRAND ('69), Mike FRANCO ('70)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Patsy McGREGOR ('54_)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda BELLISTON ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: John BIXLER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Linda EDGAR ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Philip REITAN ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Craig PERKINS ('69)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Glenn GOLDBERG ('88)
BOMBER ANNIVERSARY
Larry GROSS ('65) & Sandi SZENDRE ('67)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Re: Sheet ironing
My mother had a ironing machine called a "Mangle". The nice
thing about it was, one got to sit down while ironing. Did a
great job putting creases in shirts and pants. Kind of
unwieldy to use with sheets, but it worked.
[Mrs. Gostnell (Naomi) had a mangle. The night
before ironing day, we would sprinkle the
clothes and roll them and then place them in
a plastic bag. Mom would take the bag of damp
clothes to Mrs. Gostnell's and "borrow" her
mangle to iron all our clothes. -Maren]
On a brighter note; here's a "Happy Birthday!" shout out to
Patsy McGREGOR ('54_).
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)
Read the from Dennis HAMMER ('64)
Re: auto mechanics knowledge in newer cars.
-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ West Harrison, IN
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Happy Birthday to Linda BELLISTON Boehning, the Heart and Soul
of the Gold Medal Class of '63. "Ain't nothin' gonna get done
if we don't have Linda".
She also adds a touch of dignity to what would otherwise be
totally devoid of elegance.
Andrà Tutto Bene
-jimbeaux
-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/30/20 Northern Lights
As soon as I show them all on 4/3, I'll put them in a file of
thumbnails on 4/4
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Humanitarian Award
Aliy Zirkle has been awarded the 2020 Leonhard Seppala
Humanitarian Award, designated to a musher whose team
demonstrates outstanding care of their race team while
remaining competitive.
The winner of this award is determined by a combinations of
votes from trail veterinarians and independent scoring of the
teams by the three veterinarians in Nome. Each volunteer trail
veterinarian is asked to submit their first, second, and third
choices, with specific point values assigned for each choice
based on the musher's care at checkpoints. For scoring, each
athlete within teams placing in the top 20 is then
independently evaluated in Nome by three veterinarians. Dogs
are assessed on hydration, attitude, body weight, and gait.
Aliy has won this award six times. She will receive an
engraved trophy and paid entry for the 2021 race. Due to the
postponement of the Nome Banquet because of COVID-19, the
award will be formally presented to Aliy at a later date.
More information on this award will be provided soon at
www.iditarod.com - Please note that other awards given out at
our Nome Banquet will be announced as the information becomes
available.
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 71° at 4:30am
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>>From: Bruce STRAND ('69)
Re: Clarence A Stand - 05/17/1927 - 03/13/2020
Our beloved father, Clarence Strand, recently passed away in
Richland. He was the father of Bombers - Bruce Allen STRAND
('69), Karen Ann STRAND Winslow ('70), Douglas Andrew STRAND
('74) and Marlene Marie STRAND Brennan ('76). Dad's passing
was very surreal during this time with his (non-)funeral being
the first virtual-funeral at Sunset Gardens, Richland.
He will be forever in our thoughts and heart. As I told him
many of times during these final weeks, he is The Best Dad!
for us.
https://www.sunsetgardenstricities.com/obituary/2020/03/clarence-strand/
-Bruce STRAND ('69) ~ Sheltered in place in Tempe, AZ
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>>From: Mike FRANCO ('70)
Re: Birthday Wishes
Sending birthday wishes to one of the true Bomber legends:
Gary CROW ('65) on 3/29.
Crowe earned near legend status, particularly with earlier
classic rock associations at KISW, KXRX, KMTT, and, of course,
KZOK. Crow, the king of the psychedelic '60s who's worked
three of the state's radio markets plus current internet
broadcasts, worked with, or been a part of, some of Seattle's
hottest on-air deejay duos.
It all started the summer of the country's biggest rock
festival. That summer of '69, Gary Crow started radio at KALE-
AM in his home town of Richland. In 1970 he was hired by Steve
West at Tacoma's new rocker KTAC, then moved to KGHO in
Hoquiam before his Seattle radio debut at KOL in 1972.
In 1973 Crow began a four-year stint at KZOK. Crow then
switched to KISW. Van Halen was invited to stop by the station
to help 99.9 celebrate its 10th on-air birthday. That's just
what happened when the band reached Seattle during its Fair
Warning Tour. Van Halen's entourage was in full party mode
with motorcycle escort for four limos carrying David Lee Roth,
Eddie Van Halen and other members of the band, a surprise
birthday cake, plus a couple of strippers doing their thing on
the control room console while Gary Crow was trying to do his
afternoon show. It was a three-hour party.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Fra/200329-Crow-Stripper.jpg
-Mike FRANCO ('70)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
To: All Bombers
Re: Lush & Green to Sand & Sage Brush
I would bet his arrival to South Eastern Washington was a
stark contrast to his native Pennsylvania and definitely dryer
than Tennessee. Like many transfers to Hanford they reported
to the Transient Quarters for an overview then a road tour
of Hanford. It was October, the Isolation Building was still
under construction, processing equipment, laboratory hoods and
tables were still arriving. It's worth mentioning B Reactor
was overcoming its early difficulties and T Plant was close to
beginning its cold runs, so no pressure. His responsibility
was to create procedures to control contamination so for
success working closely with construction forces was key. Kind
of a side note, 4 co-workers from X-10 oversaw installation
and knowing his end goal was key.
A major consideration in contamination control is looking for
all possible routes of exposure from equipment to people. The
best design only goes so far, actual operation brings out
flaws so whatever rules needed to discover or control
contamination have to be strenuous. Operators were instructed
to be slow in their approach when loading solution into the
process cells and use of wet towels when doing so. Surveying
hands and work area were key to success. When contamination
is discovered it was important to remember what you touched
last. And to keep from touching your face and your protective
coveralls. We called them SWPs short for Special Work Permit.
Ya, I know it doesn't make sense there is no mention of
coveralls but its Hanford. Contamination control for
maintenance was a whole different animal. Layers of protection
were required to deal with contamination levels in excess of
millions of disintegrations per minute. The lessons learned
would be incorporated for the next time and bring new
developments for future contamination control. Two photos of
one process cell and two of the clothing required for
maintenance of them.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200330_00.htm
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/31/20
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2 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Jeanie WALSH ('63)
Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Tonya DAY ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Anita KOLB ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Teri BOYER ('64)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Byrne HASKINS ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Mary HASKINS ('70)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Kellie WALSH ('77)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Marianne GALE ('93)
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>>From: Barbra Williamson, aka Jeanie WALSH (GMC '63)
Re: St. Elsewhere
Watching a very young Bomber tonight on HULU... Terence Knox,
aka Terry DAVIS ('65).
Bomber Cheers,
-Jeanie WALSH (Gold Medal Class of '63) ~ Simi Valley, CA -
home of the Ronald Reagan presidential library where
it was a beautiful day today
Sent from my iPhone
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>>From:Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64)
Maren's Malarkey for 3/31/20 Northern Lights
As soon as I show them all on 4/4, I'll put them in a file of
thumbnails on 4/5
Re: 2020 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site
Re: Kaiser to receive the Fastest from Safety to Nome Award
2019 Winner, Pete Kaiser, had the fastest time between Safety
CheckPoint and Nome (22 miles): 2 hours 47 minutes.
I've heard it said that the person who wins this award has
probably been RUNNING alongside their sled for the entire 22
miles. I've also heard that those Smyth brothers (Ramey has 7
wins and Cim has 4 with the record of 2h:04m in '07)... one of
them changes into tennis shoes in Safety. Don't know if that's
true, but it's a good story.
Presented by the Nome Kennel Club since 1973, this award goes
to the top 20 finishing musher with the fastest time from the
Safety checkpoint to the finish in Nome [].
Pete will receive $500 for winning this award.
Please note that other awards given out at our Nome Banquet
will be announced as the information becomes available.
-Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 77° at 3am
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
Re: Similarities
To: All Bombers
I'm sure a few of you read Ted Van Arsdol's book" The Big
Secret". One of the chapters contains Yvette Berry's
recollections of working as a Laboratorian, paraphrasing one
sentence "I felt like Lady Macbeth, I clean and clean stuff
that looked clean already. I've washed my hands so many times
with purple solution to remove something I can't see, smell or
taste". Based on Yvette's description she worked in T or B
Plants support laboratory. Laboratorians did most sample
analysis bare handed on open bench tops. Those samples were
from the 221 Building containing mixed fission products.
What's important about those particular samples, mixed fission
contamination doesn't move about quite like Pu so you can get
away with using bare hands you just have to be very careful.
While I've never worked with radioactive solutions on the
bench tops I have in open faced hoods with negative airflow
and I can tell you the first time I did it was tedious and
somewhat nerve wracking. You keep the idea at the forefront of
not spilling or dropping anything to contaminate the
surroundings when that happens you get to stop and clean and
clean and clean well you get the point. After a while you can
perform the tasks cleanly. One Laboratorian, Marge Nordman
DeGooyer (RIP), said she got pretty good at pipetting and
keeping her hands clean. Marge lamented the day they made them
use gloves on the bench tops, she felt it reduced her
dexterity. Oh I should point out samples (from 224 buildings)
containing higher Pu concentrations, those analysis were
performed in hoods and presumably without gloves.
You might be wondering why stories about early Manhattan
Project employees well it's the virus it behaves a lot like
Pu, especially in dry form. When it's out, if you're infected,
in the open simple air movements, sneezing, quickly renders it
air borne and a hazard to the lungs. When it's on surfaces the
risk of getting skin contamination is much greater so you need
to be aware of likely spots i.e. door knobs. So surveying,
cleaning, those areas is important. But more importantly keep
it from getting there, stay home, in the first place. Back in
the day we used a rubber hose and saline solution to irrigate
just inside your nostrils, "up your nose with a rubber hose"
an old saying we used to say. I never had the pleasure myself.
However I did share 234-5s decon room with a former Bomber in
the late '80s. I was clean, but the Bombers cheek wasn't so
lucky. The one above the shoulder, in case you're wondering.
Attached are a few photos of what I've described.
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Sor/200331_00.htm
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
P.S. Randy BUCHANAN ('57) knows who I'm talking about.
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February, 2020 ~ April, 2020