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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 3, Is. 34 March
7, 2014
From the
Editor
As I look around at tidiness
of the house I realize that “step by step” the house is slowly starting to be
put back into order. This is a long,
slow process that is controlled to a great extent by the larger events, such as
receiving the new office furniture, that must happen before the final
reshuffling of contents that are currently still scattered all around the
house. The new washer and dryer are
scheduled for delivery tomorrow and the office furniture for Thursday. I would like to think that I can get the
office back together before the weekend is over, but a lot depends on how early
the furniture arrives on Thursday as Friday is almost totally consumed with
doctor’s appointments. I have my regular
4 month appointment with one of my ophthalmologists on Friday morning and must
go to
As you know from Carolyn’s
addition to my editorial last week, my whole “surgery thing” was turned upside
down last Wednesday when we were given additional options for dealing with this
melanoma. I must admit that it was
unsettling when we found that what we had planned and expected to be over on
Wednesday would eventually be shoved down the road. I know we made the right decision to opt for
the dye test, which couldn’t be done, if the melanoma was removed first. As Carolyn said, “Since you are a worrier, we
have no choice but to wait and be as certain as possible that the melanoma has
not spread--and if it has have the option to remove the affected lymph
nodes.” I must admit that I’m a little
concerned over the scarring that may happen if all the lymph nodes in the neck
must be removed and more importantly how well the repair will work out on my
face being in such proximity to my only good eye. We just have to have confidence in the
surgeon and know that his hands will be guided by God to do this important
work. Oh, don’t get me wrong I do
understand the importance of getting this out of my body over the cosmetic
outcome.
We were told last week by
the doctor that he was optimistic that we could get the surgery scheduled in
the next month--which didn’t sound soon enough for me. After talking to the scheduler last Friday it
became apparent that the doctor only does surgery on Mondays. We then quickly decided that March 10 wasn’t
too bad a date. After looking at what we
had scheduled for this week, we decided that March 10 was really the most
realistic date to allow our lives to go on in a semi normal fashion. By the time I sit down to write my next
editorial it should be all over other than waiting for the final
pathology. I know that many of you have
kept us in your thoughts and prayers during this time. For that we are very thankful. Please continue to keep us close until this
is over.
mlm
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I
hope that Mike is right and he is able to get the office back together before
the weekend is over. Three weeks without
our desktop computers and my desk is a long time. Mike is the one who takes care of the
computers. I will help by setting up the
files for him. I find putting the
newsletter together on my laptop is not the easiest. I definitely have issues keeping the bookwork
done without a desk with all the papers I need.
I just hope I haven’t missed anything important during this time. I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of the
furniture tomorrow as I know the desktop space I am going to have is going to
be great. I should be able to accomplish
all of those things I have been putting off because I used the excuse I didn’t
have space to work on it. Only time will
tell if I get that next recipe book done as well as several other things I
think I should do.
cnm
Content
Contributors for the Week
Lloyd
Newton, Class of 1951
Gary
Wax
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
LET US HELP YOU PACK
FYI in case you have not
seen this from a woman who lives on a small horse
ranch in Western Colorado & who is married to a former US Marine.
Her son was a US Marine who survived Desert Storm & there are other
US Marine + one USAF grandson in her family tree, but evidently she is the only
singer. This lady has a really good
voice, and she's using it... and a really good idea!
The latest
http://www.youtube.com/embed/x2G3wGVAnlQ
Alumni Website
We have renewed the account that Wanda
Jackson had set up at the photo sharing website, picturetrail.com for the
Roosevelt Alumni: http://www.picturetrail.com/rooseveltalumni. She had posted many pictures from past
reunions, class panels, and old schools buildings along with write ups about
them. We thought you might find these
interesting if you haven’t visited this site in the past.
Cooperton Valley Picture Trail
The “
Interesting
Tidbits
It’s Just
Paper
By Canadian paper artist, Calvin
Nicholls.
There is nothing simple or
ordinary about his paper art.
Where we would simply use a
piece of paper and a pair of scissors, Calvin uses everything you could
possibly think of to carve, cut and rip perfect details onto his creations.
The motifs are all wildlife,
and that must be one of the hardest categories of things to make with paper
since there are sometimes impossible details on animals.
These details are amazing!
I can't even fathom the time
it must have taken to create these masterpieces of art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayIGMfax_f4
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Narrow Escape
This is an awesome video well worth watching!
This is unbelievable filming. What an adventure in nature!! NO idea how it was filmed, but it's sure
great to Watch !!!!
https://www.youtube.com/v/XBEyCr5AoIs
News
The
Roosevelt Senior Citizens has reopened from the summer break. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00
p.m. Lunch for Seniors is $4 and for the
younger generation is $5.
The
menu for next week is as follows:
Tuesday,
Mar. 11: Spaghetti w/meat sauce, Green
Beans, Garlic Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert
Thursday,
Mar. 13: Chicken Strip, Mashed Potatoes
w/gravy, English Peas, Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert
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Engagement
Announcement
David and Galeen Chain,
Krista’s paternal
grandparents are Cleta Chain, Hobart and the late Garland Chain. Her maternal
grandparents are the late Robert and Gatha Irvin. Krista is a 2009 graduate of
Greg’s
paternal grandparents are
Wanda Britton, Sentinel and the late Dwayne “Red” Britton. His paternal
great-grandmother is Lola Smith, Sentinel. His maternal grandparents are the
late Howard P. Lewis Sr. and the late Lamont & Rosetta Britton. Greg is a
2006 graduate of
The couple plans to marry in
August, 2014.
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The
The drawing will be held
Saturday, April 19 during the Museum's annual Easter Bake Sale in front of the
Museum.
You do not have to be
present to win. Your support of the Museum is greatly appreciated!
The
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The Kiowa County
Genealogical Society will meet at 6:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 11, 2014 in
the Jake Slaner Room at the Jane Phelan Library in
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It’s A Spring Thing
The Southern Kiowa Chamber
will hold its 2014 It’s A Spring Thing at the
Vendor Fair from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m.
Decorated Bike Parade at 11
a.m.
Dog Parade at noon
Easter Egg Hunt at 2:30 p.m.
The Easter Bunny will be there for pictures.
Bring your camera.
Concessions are available
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
There will be picture opps
available with various cartoon characters, moon bounces, live entertainment,
and bingo.
Mark your calendar and plan
to attend.
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:
March 7 – Mesa Thompson
March 8 – Chassity Miller
March 8 – Lois Jean (Sheets) Faulk, Class of 1945
March 8 – Candace (May) Thurmond
March 11 – Autumn Johnson
March 11 – Vonda Miller Binghom, Class of 1980
March 12 – Kathryn (Farris) Shoop
March 13 – Nell Buchanan Jennings, Class of 1977
Happy Anniversary To:
March 10 – Jerry &
Sherry Downen, Class of 1979
March 13 – Dustin & Shanda Jackson, Class of 1992
Humor
Church Ladies with Typewriters
They're Back! Those wonderful Church
Bulletins! Thank God for church ladies
with typewriters. These sentences (with
all the BLOOPERS) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in
church services:
The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
The sermon this morning:
'Jesus Walks on the Water.' The sermon
tonight: 'Searching for Jesus.'
Ladies, don't forget the
rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid
of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
Remember in prayer the many
who are sick of our community. Smile at
someone who is hard to love. Say 'Hell'
to someone who doesn't care much about you.
Don't let worry kill you off
- let the Church help.
Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I
will not pass this way again,' giving obvious pleasure to the
congregation.
For those of you who have
children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
Next Thursday there will be
tryouts for the choir. They need all the
help they can get.
Irving Benson and Jessie
Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their
school days.
A bean supper will be held
on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music
will follow.
At the evening service
tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice.
Eight new choir robes are
currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the
deterioration of some older ones.
Scouts are saving aluminum
cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
Please place your donation
in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
The church will host an
evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
Potluck supper Sunday at
5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
The ladies of the Church
have cast off clothing of every kind. They
may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
This evening at 7 PM there
will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
Ladies Bible Study will be
held Thursday morning at 10 AM. All
ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. Is done.
The pastor would appreciate
it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for
the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
Low Self Esteem Support Group
will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use
the back door.
The eighth-graders will be
presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this
tragedy.
Weight Watchers will meet at
7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please
use large double door at the side entrance.
The Associate Minister
unveiled the church's new campaign slogan last Sunday: 'I Upped My Pledge - Up
Yours.
Food for
Thought
$100 Bill
It's a slow day in the small
town of
A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a
$100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one
for the night.
As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next door
to pay his debt to the butcher.
(Stay with this..... and pay
attention)
The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig
farmer.
The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier,
the Co-op.
The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local
prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her
"services" on credit.
The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel Owner.
The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler
will not suspect anything.
At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are
not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.
No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town now
thinks that they are out of debt and there is a false atmosphere of optimism
and glee.
And that, my friends, is how a "stimulus package"
works!
Obituaries
Useful
Links:
Becker
Funeral Home of Snyder, OK
http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder
Peoples
Cooperative Funeral
http://www.peoplescooperativefuneralhome.com/who-we-are/history
Ray
and Martha’s Funeral Home of Hobart,
http://www.234enterprises.com/Roosevelt%20Cemetery%20Layout.htm
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2176228
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?=cr&CRid=99577&CScn=Springhill+Cemetery&CScntry=4&CSst=38&
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