Opinion

May is here! The tulips have sprouted in my front flower bed and in many of the yards around mine. The graduation announcements have started rolling in and I just opened one this morning and for the first time I caught myself thinking “Already? I remember when she was born.” I guess I’ve entered that phase of life.

Gayle McConnell has returned from her Mesa winter home to her home in rural Drayton. On April 15, Saralee Hoselton celebrated her 84th birthday with lunch at Hastings Landing.

The Theodore Roosevelt presidential library near Medora is scheduled to be completed in 2025. I hope it includes his famous, but not necessarily so publicized trip to the Amazon jungle in Brazil in 19131914.

I have memories of the very first time we celebrated Earth Day at Drayton Public School. I do not remember for sure what year it was but I do know that it was my freshman, junior, or senior year as we decorated Mr. Watson’s classroom as part of our effort and those were the three years that I took his class.

My job is mom first. If you read my column regularly, you’d know that I am a mother of two girls.

Dear Editor: Earth Day is a day to celebrate achievements made to better the environment and sustain the goal of leaving the Earth better than it was, for the next generation. Today’s farmers and ranchers are true conservationists.

I teach Sunday school for fourth grade students at my church. I do one week on and then one week off with another teacher.

Just cruising… The opening line of this column is literally the truth, amongst other things, one of our focuses this coming summer will be cruising. Since shortly after I got my first car in 1973 I have loved to cruise. Before my parents forced me to get my drivers license at the age of seventeen, again in 1973, I wanted nothing to do with cars. I found them interesting enough but I figured as long as I had my bicycle and the school buses were running I did not need a car, or license, of my own.

This past weekend I seeded my second wave of spring plants that I hope will make it into the garden this spring. It always seems that right around the beginning of March I get bit by the spring fever bug.

On Thursday, Saralee Hoselton had lunch at Hastings Landing with Lynette Restemayer of Cavalier and John Restemayer of Grand Forks. Lynette spent the afternoon visiting Saralee at her Tisdale Manor apartment.