Alumni Sandstorm - AGAIN ~ 11/09/21
	So Happy It's Tuesday
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6 Bombers sent stuff: 
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Annie PARKER ('57)
John BEAULIEU ('62)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Terry DAVIS ('65)
Dick PIERCE ('67)
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

Re: 11/7 Sandstorm Entry

Here's a another one for the record book: Today is Marilyn
"Em" DeVINE's birthday. If you see her hanging about
somewhere, join me in wishing her a "Happy Birthday!"

Bob (Mike Clowes) Carlson '54 - at Mount Angel, OR, where the
Fall monsoons are working well.

Re: 11/8 Sandstorm Entry

What with all the travails of the asinine time change, I
almost didn't get to this. Well, there was a disputer with a
stubborn computer (not this one) which didn't help.

I will now take the moment to wish Dona McCLEARY ('54) at
"Happy Birthday!" I know that if I hadn't done this she would
sic her biker/boy toy ('57) husband on me.

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Annie PARKER Hoyle ('57)

Re: Gene HORNE ('57) and Carol BISHOP Horne ('57)

Gene's sister Velda Ridgeway passed recently and Tracey HORNE
Scadden (Gene and Carol's daughter) is taking them on a road
trip to Richland for Velda's funeral. Tracey says that anyone
in the Richland area that would like to visit with them to
stop by the Marriott Courtyard in Richland on November 10
and/or 12.

Request of Tracey HORNE Scadden sent by Annie PARKER Hoyle ('57)

-Annie PARKER Hoyle ('57)
Sent from my iPad
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>>From: John BEAULIEU ('62)

Tumbleweeds are also gluten free and fully vegan. Quite
filling, too, sort of like popcorn. Of this I can attest
having been brutalized and buried by the tumbleweed infusion
of 1955.

-John BEAULIEU ('62)
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

For: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

Bob writes: "Here we are on All Hallows (Saints) Day; the
pumpkins are smashed, out-houses have been tipped and many
things have been T.P.ed. ..." (on Nov. 1).

Regarding out-houses, I recommend to all the WSU Cougar pack
the roadside display along SR-26 eastbound on the way to
Pullman. Thereat, on the right side of the road, is the
shrinking and still proud hamlet of Washtucna (pop. 195), and
its town-history museum display behind a protective chain link
fence. So many visitors trying to get in!

The three relics are, FIRST, on the left a small bunch of ye
olde farm equipment; SECOND, and dead center the original
sheriff's office and jail ("188?" and barred window, even!)
which both together measure maybe seven or eight feet square;
and THIRD, an original and untipped-over outhouse with
crescent-moon window in the door.

The only other item possibly worthy of note is to be found in
a small clump of scraggy and dead trees a few steps closer to
the highway. Lacking an explanatory, museum-class panel are
the remains of a Great Blue Herron-which in Native American
lore is the symbol of self-reliance and determination. In the
scorching sun it must have sought shelter and water,
unsuccessfully.

Heading east from the Tri-Cities I once took the alternative
route passing first through the also-shrinking town of
Kahlotus (pop. 190). The fishing lake of the 1950s had long
since dried up. Likewise, the town. My impression of main
street is that it belonged in some kind of science fiction
flick, like the discovery in the desert of those five WWII
Flight-19 torpedo planes lost in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945
(lead-in to "Strange Encounters of the Third Kind"). In
Kahlotus activity was in such a fossilized state that no one
had even bothered to smash the windows in the long-deserted
store fronts. But a more recent and probably inhabited trailer
park at the south end.

A weird experience, that, fitting in well with remains of the
Great Missoula Floods of 20- to 40,000 years ago which are
especially visible in the surrounding Scablands (see NOVA:
"Mystery of the Megaflood"). This eastern Washington landscape
was the stand-in backdrop for the movie "Always," as also was
the Ephrata airport (cast as Flatrock, Colorado).

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA where the recent lockdown 
	sometimes was showtime, but liking better the big sky 
	country east of the Cascades and far from the madding 
	crowd.
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)

	I'm over here in Algona, Iowa, shooting a WWII movie 
about the German P0W camp that was here during the war. 

	True story.

	About 10,000 prisoners went through this camp between 
1944 and 1946.

	The camp is still here as a museum.

	The prisoners ended up saving the local economy by
harvesting the crops in the absence of American farm laborers,
who were off fighting the war.

	As a tribute to the townspeople, who had treated them
very well--even paying wages for their labor--the prisoners
erected a shrine that still stands today.

	The movie is titled "SILENT NIGHT IN ALGONA."

	And I'm the sheriff. 🙂

http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Dav/211109-Algona_Sheriff.jpg

TDK '65

-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Dick PIERCE ('67)

Hi Maren,

I am so happy you made it through your life changing ordeal,
Maren.

I am back in Saipan on Day 2 of my 5-day COVID (China Virus)
quarantine. I looked out my hotel window this morning and
spotted 10 MSC preposition ships offshore. There are only 17
total in three locations (Diego Garcia, the Mediterranean and
Saipan).These ships carry enough equipment, supplies and
ammunition to support a Marine Air-Ground Task Force for 30
days. Check out the little speck in the water above the
prominent iron wood tree. That's a semi-submerged U.S. WWII
tank's gun turret from the U.S. invasion during the Battle of
Saipan from June 15 to July 9, 1944. Operation Forager, or
Pacific D-Day.

http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/211109-Ships_Offshore.jpg

I also attached a promotional video for the upcoming Northern
Marianas Pacific Mini Games

http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Pie/211109-Promo_Video.mp4

-Dick PIERCE ('67)
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