Date: Fri 23-Oct-1998

Publication: Bee

Author: CURT

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GENNEWS / LIBRARY

MOUNTAIN for 10/23

The staff at the tax collector's office in Edmond Town Hall had a party for

David Merrill on Tuesday with a cake that bore a message thanking him for "a

job well done." David has nearly finished painting the last section of the

mural in the upstairs hallway and everyone is going to miss him - he's been

almost fixture at town hall since beginning the mural project in 1984.

I kept checking the mural this week before he packed up his paints for good to

see if he was going to commemorate any black cats - namely me - on the walls

of fame at the town hall, but not one could be found. I guess they're planning

to hang my portrait somewhere by itself... say in the kitchen cupboards off

the Alexandria Room where I can keep the mice at bay.

Remember the story I told a couple of weeks ago about Norma Hayes white male

guinea pig, Frosty, who overcame his machismo long enough to give birth to a

little black guinea pig? Norma says so many people have been asking her what

she named this miracle pig that she wants me to publicize the name so she can

stop answering the question. The newborn's name is now officially Chocolate

Chip, I guess as in "chip off the old block."

Cecily Tynan ran in the Chicago Marathon last weekend. Out of 20,063

participants, she finished 56th among the 5,340 women runners - 13th in her

age group - 574th overall. She, therefore, qualified for the Boston marathon.

Emily Williams, a 1989 grad of Newtown High School who now teaches in New

York, is running in the New York Marathon on November 1 for the Leukemia

Foundation. Emily is also training for the Boston Marathon.

Saturday is United Nations Day and members of Boy Scout Troop 270 will be

raising the UN flag in front of Edmond Town Hall that morning. The ceremony

begins at 10:30 am. This is the 50th anniversary of the UN's adoption of the

universal declaration of human rights.

Blue & Gold Club President Mike Kelley was hospitalized late last week after

feeling dizzy and short of breath Friday night. Tests revealed nothing serious

and Mike came home on Monday. Mike was feeling better on Saturday, but was

unable to attend Saturday's Newtown High football game in Southbury. Instead,

Mike's wife, Mary, called him from her cell phone every time the Nighthawks

scored. The Kelley's son, Pat, is a junior on the team.

Fred Hurley has all his bases covered just in case Newtown residents decide

they don't like the new shade of gray on the Town Hall South exterior. The

public works director said he has all the color charts locked away in a vault

with the fingerprints of those who chose the colors on them.

It's time to start looking in your closets for the ski equipment you put away

last spring. The Winterset Ski Club will be collecting equipment on the next

two Saturdays for its annual sale on November 7. Bring equipment that you want

to sell to the back of the Newtown General Store on Saturday between 9 am and

noon. The equipment will be stored there until the sale in the gym at Edmond

Town Hall.

High school students in the Back Door Cafe program are using their skills to

help the FAITH Food Pantry. They've been baking cakes that volunteers from the

food pantry are selling in bake sales outside Stop & Shop at Sand Hill Plaza

on Saturday mornings. So if you see the volunteers at Stop & Shop, stop and

buy a cake to help the food pantry.

Joe Humeston had a good day on the Newtown Country Club golf course recently

when he shot a hole-in-one on the 140-yard, par-three sixth hole. Joe used a

seven iron. He was playing with Ken Hume, Joe Lombardi and Bob Woodies.

Dan Riccio is just back from London, England, where he attended the silver

anniversary of Salon International, the United Kingdom's legendary

professional hair show. Dan reports that bangs will be coming back really

strong this coming year and haircoloring will be cooler, without as many gold

tones. In clothing, gray is in, along with silver and purple, paired with

black. Makeup will accent the eyes, not the lips, for fall.

With cats, eyes have always been the attraction, year in, year out. You never

hear anyone raving about a cat's lips. And if you're wondering what fashion

tips and other advice I'll be writing about next week, my lips are sealed.

You're just going to have to...

Read me again.