Opinion

She says she is coming home Saturday so I guess I better gas up my car and make room for her, Mel, and the cats. If I don’t show up at the airport when their plane lands I may just be in a bit of hot water.

Saralee Hoselton, Merv and Phyllis Holter were among those who attended the retirement party lunch Monday for Stacie Metelmann, the “footcare lady” at the Sugar Bowl Senior Citizen’s Center. They also were able to meet Denice Hanson, her replacement.

In my column in the March 21, issue of Valley News and Views, I was waxing poetic about an upcoming spring turkey hunting adventure. I had never been turkey hunting before and in a way I guess you could say it was on my “bucket list,” but since my first ever hunt on April 24, I hope to have many more turkey hunts before I head up to the happy hunting grounds in the sky.

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.