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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 1, Is. 22 Dec.
16, 2011
From the
Editor
I thought about putting this
in the “Remembering” section and titling it “Remembering Jerry Hayslip” but was
fearful that some of you might misunderstand and think that Jerry had passed. I am pleased to announce that he is “alive
and well” and living in
Jerry went through all
twelve years of school at
Jerry is now the owner of a
successful Limousine service in
I’ve just learned over the
last few months--and especially the last couple weeks that Jerry has another
talent that I didn’t know about. He is
apparently a candy maker extraordinaire--especially in the area of peanut
brittle and peanut patties. I don’t know
if you make peanut brittle or not, but we have several recipes and we never
know whether it’s going to turn out or not--too sticky, too hard, too burnt,
etc. It is sensitive to humidity and
over cooking or under cooking. If it “ain’t right” when you finish cooking, it’s not going to
improve with age, so you just as well throw it out and start over. Sources say that he has peanut brittle “down
to a science.” It appears that ones who
have had his peanut brittle keep it hidden from all on comers. Apparently, one of the biggest hoarders of
Jerry’s peanut brittle was his niece Carolyn Martin’s late husband Jimmie. Jimmie liked the “stuff” so much that Jerry
decided to place a bag in his casket prior to closing the lid for the last
time. Jerry thought that would please
Jimmie. Yes, it’s apparently a treat
that, if you possess, you don’t share or as in Jimmie’s case you “take it with
you.” The good news is,
I’ve learned over the last few days that Jerry makes his “USA Famous Peanut
Brittle” and offers it for sale. You can
be the proud owner of 1 gallon of brittle for $20, plus shipping. I turned my order in on Monday and understand
that it’s already in the mail. I am so
looking forward to receiving it. If you
have interest, contact Jerry directly at jerhay777@yahoo.com,
or on Facebook. I know he has a giant order for next week so yours may not get
to you until after Christmas. Do
yourself and everybody else a favor by giving him enough orders to keep him in
the kitchen and “off the streets” through Christmas.
mlm
Content
Contributors for the Week
Junior
Curtis, Class of 1965
Bonnie
(Pollard) Phillips, Class of 1964
Kate
(Roberts)
Jack
Whitson, Class of 1953
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Christmas
At this special
season of the year, it is refreshing to receive messages with special Christmas
meaning. We are including some of the
messages with links to songs and pictures we have received. We believe if you listen to the music, view
the pictures, read the stories you will have a more joyous Christmas
season. Enjoy! cnm
A New Christmas Song – Where’s the Line to See Jesus
About the Song by Becky
Kelley
While at the mall a couple
of years ago, my then four year old nephew, Spencer, saw kids lined up to see
Santa Claus. Having been taught as a
toddler that Christmas is the holiday that Christians celebrate the birth of
Jesus, he asked his mom, "Where's the line to see Jesus"?
My sister mentioned this to
my dad, who immediately became inspired and jotted words down to a song in just
a few minutes. After putting music to
the words, and doing a quick recording at home, he received a great response
from friends. He sent the song off to
Then 2 weeks before Christmas last year, my cousins Greg and Robbie decided to
do a video to see what we could accomplish on YouTube. The first day we had
3000 hits and it soared from there. We received e-mails, phone calls, Facebook
messages from people all over asking for the music, CD's, iTunes, anything...
we had nothing. After a couple of meetings with Chris following the amazing
response, we got serious. We headed back into the studio this past spring... this
time with guitars, drums, bass, pianos, choirs... the real deal.... and here we
are today.
Getting iTunes set up, a website put together, and loving that thousands upon
thousands of Christians have come together... remembering the true meaning of
Christmas.
Out of the mouths of babes come profound truths that many adults can not
understand. Hopefully Spencer's observation will cause people all over to
reflect on the love of Jesus, and that one day we will all stand in line to see
Him. We are most thankful to our Heavenly Father to have this chance to
share our music with you. Merry Christmas everyone.
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
OFFICIAL
MUSIC
VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=OExXItDyWEY&vq=medium
This may be one of the best Christmas songs we have
heard in a long time. We hope you enjoy
it as much as we did. It is available
for purchase on ITunes if you have an IPod and are interested. cnm
********
Christmas Trees
As we celebrate the Christmas season, beautifully
decorated trees play in big role. The
following link provides pictures of trees around the world.
Remembering…More 4-H Club
I enjoyed
reading the memories of being in the 4-H Club. I, too, remember the tiny stitches on the
handkerchief and finally making a dress.
I didn’t really enjoy sewing that much as putting in zippers was too
much of a challenge since they had to be perfect, or so I thought.
I remember the
year I gave my Timely Topic at
My sisters
became excellent seamstresses whereas I didn’t.
My Mom enjoyed sewing, canning and baking as she was in the Pleasant
Valley Home Demonstration Club. For her
birthday, I usually gave her material for a dress which she always made for the
County Fair in
Thinking about
the Fair, I also enjoyed seeing those blue ribbons. My sister and I would sit up late in the
night working on our Record Books. We
raised
I think the
lessons we learned by being in 4-H were well worth the time involved and hope
many students still participate in it.
Kate (Roberts)
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
The Story of
Teddy
This story first
appeared in 1974 in the HomeLife magazine, a Baptist
family publication. It was a work of
fiction penned by Elizabeth Silance Ballard even
though Ballard based some of the details on experiences in her life. Over the years it has been circulated as a
true story, sometimes using the name Teddy Stoddard, or Teddy Stoddart, or Teddy Stallard. So even though a work of fiction, the message
that one can make a lasting difference in the life of a child or an adult for
that matter is one we can all take to heart and hopefully remember as we
interact with those around us.
http://www.flickspire.com/m/LSHPP/MakeADifference
Alumni Website
We have renewed the account that
News
Cooperton Dance Celebrates 20 Years
Over the past months I have seen posts from Facebook
friends about plans to attend the Saturday night dance or posts saying how much
fun the Saturday night dance was. First
I wondered where the dance was. Then
someone mentioned Cooperton so I knew where.
I still tried to imagine what kind of dance would be taking place in
Cooperton. Well, Saturday night,
December 10 marked the 20th anniversary for the dance. Zeke Campfield
wrote the following article (in bold) about the Cooperton dance which appeared
in the “The
COOPERTON—Where else but Cooperton would you expect a
fringe movement to persist?
Folks from as far as 100 miles away have been
checking in at the former farming town’s community center every weekend to do
some old-fashioned country dancing city boys only wish they could try.
It’s Occupy Cooperton, and tonight the congregation
of folks from nearly everywhere but there will celebrate their 20th
anniversary with the band that’s been there all along—
“We were still playing in
Usually dancers – and observers, of which there are
many because country dancing is as much about movement of jaw as it is feet –
pay six bucks at the door, but tonight the dance is free.
The club is in an old bus barn, deeded to the town
when the school closed in the late 1960’s.
The community renovated it and operated it as a square dance hall for
several years, but after that didn’t catch on Kenneth Boyd, who farms nearby,
decided to bring in a live band.
Now with a maple floor, quality air conditioning and
a buffalo mount on the wall, the center is about all you need to get a good
two-step going, Boyd said.
“It had an old dirt floor and three rock walls, a
leaky roof and it was full of pigeons. So we had to scare the pigeons out, and then
we went from there,” he said.
Boyd is 82 years old and graduated from high school
at Cooperton. He remembers when he was 4
or 5 years old visiting the home of a neighbor for Saturday night dances.
Communal dances were one of the few ways in which
farming families entertained themselves, he said. That changed when people started buying TV’s,
he said, which for his family was 1948-49.
“Before we didn’t have anything like that, and people
just liked to get together and socialize,” he said.
As farms consolidated and the rural population
dissipated, country dances grew more extinct.
Boyd and his wife would drive to
Boyd said they saw them perform at the county
fairgrounds, and afterwards he approached Walbrick
about playing a regular gig in Cooperton.
Walbrick and a rotating lineup that includes
Joe Helzer, Jim Wroge and
David Brignola play for a mostly senior crowd in
Cooperton, but, interestingly, it is one that has grown over the years instead
of declined.
“A lot of them passed away, but there’s always
somebody else to start coming, and we keep the same crowd all the time – maybe
about 80 to 100 people,” Walbrick said.
The retired
We make a little but we don’t make anything extra. It just about pays our expenses and stuff,”
he said. “Why do we do it? Because we like it, we like to play.”
Smoking and drinking are prohibited at the Cooperton
dances, and Boyd said it attracts a crowd that wants to enjoy a Saturday night
out without the fracas of traffic and the bar scene. It doesn’t matter that it’s in the middle of
nowhere, he said. If anything, that’s
what makes it an attraction.
“At five-fifteen they’ll start coming in, getting
their seats where they’d like to sit and they’ll visit two hours before the
music even starts,” he said. “It’s just
getting together and having a good time – there’s nothing else like it in
Tonight’s anniversary show runs from 7-10:30 p.m. at
the Cooperton community center, just a block west of Oklahoma 54 about 17 miles
north of U.S. 62. Participants are
encouraged to bring a covered dish to share.
********
Eva (Allard)
On
Friday, December 16, Eva (Allard)
Birthdays and
Anniversaries
We
have compiled all of the birthday and anniversary information we could from
Wanda’s files. We are sure we are
missing some. Please send us the
birthdays and anniversaries for your family and friends so that we can have as
complete as list as possible. We are
going to start with what we have from Wanda’s files so if we miss you, please
send us the information so we have it for the news next year. In addition, should any of the birthdays we
list be wrong, also please let us know.
Happy Birthday
To:
December 16 – Eva Sparks,
101 years young
December 16 – Billy Glenn Pitts, Class of 1956
December 16 – Ken Heskett
December 17 – Alaysha Nicole O’Neal
December 17 – Lisa (McCollom) Liles, Class of
1975
December 18 – Betty Callen
December 18 – Joe Balderas
December 18 – Alice (Rudkins) Newman, Class of
1979
December 19 – Christy Pina
December 19 – Jason Green
December 19 – Monty Lapar
December 19 – Joe Don Nash, Class of 1960
December 20 – Dwight Skinner
December 20 – Doyle Krieger
December 20 – Helena (Robbins) Cooper
December 21 – Pat Sanders
December 22 – Mike Montgomery
Happy
Anniversary To:
December
18 – Nick & Rachel Ambruso
Humor
My Favorite
Animal
Our teacher asked what my favorite animal was, and I said, "Fried
chicken."
She said I wasn't funny, but she couldn't have been right, because everyone
else laughed.
My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken is my favorite animal.
I told my dad what happened, and he said my teacher
was probably a member of PETA. He said
they love animals very much.
I do, too, especially chicken, pork and
beef. Anyway, my teacher sent me to the
principal's office. I told him what happened, and he laughed, too. Then he told me not to do it again.
The next day in class my teacher asked me what my favorite live animal was. I
told her it was chicken. She asked me
why, so I told her it was because you could make them into fried chicken. She sent me back to the principal's office.
He laughed, and told me not to do it again.
I don't understand. My parents taught me to be honest, but my teacher doesn't
like it when I am.
Today, my teacher asked us to tell her what famous person we admire most.
I told her, "Colonel Sanders." Guess
where I am now?
From the Email
“Bag”
December
9, 2011
Mike,
You and Carolyn
might appreciate this poem to all our friends from Kaye and I
from
We send our
appreciation and thanks for your work on the Weekly News Letter. It truly
must be a labor of love!!
Eric C.
Jackson/M. Kaye Jackson
Nakawa
House
Port
MERRY CHRISTMAS
We
hope our yearly poem brings hope and cheer
As the anxiously awaited Christmas Day grows near.
Again
we will be away for the fun Christmas holidays,
But
recognize countless blessings in so many ways.
Our
White Christmas will be replaced by a day of sun
Instead of turkey and dressing, a hot dog and a bun.
Instead
of watching grandchildren opening presents,
Singing
carols with missionaries will be the occurrence.
And
their enthusiasm for the gospel is quite contagious
Benefitting all the investigators as well as the two of us.
And
best of all we get to watch changes in lives of them
Who
feel the Spirit and are baptized just to follow Him.
He,
who himself was baptized and gave His life for us,
Was
born in a lowly stable exhibiting His humbleness
To
the Virgin Mary, the wife of Joseph the carpenter,
And was laid in swaddling clothes in a hay-filled manger.
At
Christmastime it is His birth that we happily celebrate
Knowing
His amazing sacrifice is the key to Heaven’s gate.
He
is the only begotten son, Jesus Christ, the Savior for us.
Just
knowing this allows all to have a Very Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!! With love, President and
Sister Jackson
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