It's a good thing that most of the Easter egg hunts in town took place last weekend since the mid-week winter storm laid down a blanket of snow that would make finding chickens hard, much less their eggs.
Itâs a good thing that most of the Easter egg hunts in town took place last weekend since the mid-week winter storm laid down a blanket of snow that would make finding chickens hard, much less their eggs.
The great Eggstravaganza sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department last Saturday drew a large and enthusiastic crowd to Treadwell Park. Mary Ann Viestro, who happens to know the Easter Bunny inside and out, said the EB himself wanted to especially thank a little girl named Gabrielle who drew a picture for the Easter Bunny and presented it to him. A drawing beats an egg any day.
I think Bee reporter Dottie Evans had enough of winter even before this weekâs storm. She had a run-in with a snow and ice-filled parking lot in Steamboat Springs, Colo., a week ago Friday. Having traveled west to visit relatives, Dottie headed off to buy toothpaste at the local Safeway (irony alert!) when she slipped on a patch of ice buried beneath two inches of fresh powder. (They donât plow every time it snows in Colorado because itâs always snowing.) She broke her fall with her left hand ââ which also broke her wrist.
When Dottie arrived at work on Tuesday in a cast, she could not resist embellishing the story a bit. âI was doing a 360 in the half pipe headed for the rail when I caught an edgeâ¦etcâ¦etc.â Come on, Dottie. Youâre a reporter. Stick to the facts here. You were just walking across that parking lot not paying any attention when BAM! you went down hard on your hinder ââ which is Minnesotaspeak for a very ungraceful, very unglamorous fall. And you werenât even near to any ski slope.
Donât forget that the library has rescheduled the Trish Chambers program on âUnderground Quiltsâ for next Monday, March 28, at 4 and 7:30 pm. It was canceled in February due to snow, and we trust that after this week March will behave itself and go out like a lamb so this time we can hear all about it. Ms Chambers will tell how the slaves fled north 150 years ago ââ and what role the colorful quilts of the time might have played in helping them along their way.
Newtown Ambulance Service Emergency Medical Technician instructor Debbie Aubin should be very proud of herself and her fall and winter class. Six of the nine high school students who took the 130-hour class have passed both the practical and written state exams. Three of the students are still awaiting the results of the testing. New state certified EMTs are Katie Rose Crevier, Sarah Gutbrod, Dana Happel, Jimmy Mayer, Nick Paproski, and Nick Varga.
The family of Army First Lieutenant Rob Anders has learned that he has left Afghanistan and should be in Hawaii by now. Rob has been serving as an infantry platoon leader with the Second Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, part of the Second Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division, in Afghanistan and parts of the journal that he has been keeping were published in The Bee last year. Before Rob left, Major General Eric Olson, the division commander, presented him with a Bronze Star. Then Robâs group handed off its mission to the 10th Mountain Division and was shipped to an airbase in Krygstan for several days, before heading to Hawaii. He hopes to be celebrating Easter in Newtown.
While at the townâs new offices at 31 Peckâs Lane this week, I happened to visit the cafeteria that does business at that address. The property is an industrial site with an operating factory that contains many hungry workers. Town employees lucked out when they moved to 31 Peckâs Lane in early February. They can now sit down to a hot meal in a spacious dining area. When they were located in office space in Canaan House at Fairfield Hills from 1997 until early February, the best dining that was available was a couple of vending machines plus a makeshift kitchenette.
I understand from the Edmond Town Hall Board of Managers that movie theaterâs box office was incredibly busy for the recent run of the animated film The Incredibles. Nothing packs âem in like full-length animated features. Maybe if they ran all cartoons all the time at Edmond Town Hall, the Board of Managers could afford to hire a modern-day Michelangelo (David Merrill, are you reading this?) to paint the blank domed ceiling in the theater. Itâs just a thought.
The newest addition to the official contingent of office dogs here at The Bee is settling into the workday routine. Rosie, a golden retriever puppy, is still trying to figure out what to do with all her extra skin and her big feet, but the other office dogs, Starr and Deeke, are training her well. She has already christened the carpet in the bossâs office, which usually takes our canine rookies two or three weeks to master.
Fortunately, there will only ever be one celebrated cat here at The Bee, so long as you always remember toâ¦
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