Who put May in the cooler? You wouldn't think June was just over a week away when nighttime temperatures have been dipping into the 40s. The sweater weather has had one side benefit, however. Spring has slowed to a crawl, and all the daffodils and
Who put May in the cooler? You wouldnât think June was just over a week away when nighttime temperatures have been dipping into the 40s. The sweater weather has had one side benefit, however. Spring has slowed to a crawl, and all the daffodils and magnolias hung on to their blossoms a lot longer this year. It has also drawn out the spring planting season â a welcome result for procrastinating gardeners who usually find themselves way behind schedule at this time of year.
Itâs a good thing the Horticulture Club of Newtown has not yet launched its annual spring planting project of impatiens in front of the Newtown Meeting House. Cool weather aside, the immediate environment was not exactly friendly on Monday afternoon when two SUVs collided behind the flagpole. One car hit a sycamore tree in front of the Meeting House and spun around, its windshield shattered. Meeting House Administrator Sherry Paisley is still picking the shards out of last yearâs mulch.
âIâm glad no one was badly hurt, and weâre lucky the cars didnât go over the curb. But there is glass everywhere in the stone and on the sidewalk ââ even in the lawn. Iâm thinking about vacuuming, and I will have to talk to the yard people about what we can do,â said Sherry. Meanwhile, the horticulture club gardeners had better locate some heavy work gloves.
Members of the Newtown Womanâs Club really shone at the recent state convention of the General Federation of Womanâs Clubs. Liz Arneth won the state literature prize for both poetry and short stories and will go on to compete in the national competition.
Mary Antey won the Epsilon Sigma Award at the state convention for reading 243 books. First-place awards in the arts and crafts competition went to Mary Elander, Flo Caron, Marianne Scanlon, Marilyn Alexander, Peg Forbell, Ruth Campbell, and Betty Dotty. Coke Cramer, Pat Denlinger, and Marilyn Alexander took second place, and third place ribbons went to Evelyn Spera and Marion Thompson.
Barbara Covey Williams emailed me that Al Cashmanâs whereabouts have been discovered. Barbara is working for the Carolina Opry, one of the beach attractions at Myrtle Beach, S.C., taking reservations, and was surprised to find Al on the other end of the line. She says Al apparently has been living in Myrtle Beach for several years and has a new business going. âLooks like more of Newtown is moving south to avoid all that snow,â she said. âSmall world.â
Librarian Marie Walker is all smiles this week over the birth of her grandson, Adam Walker Uhde, the first child of daughter Linda and her husband Steve Uhde who live in Sandy Hook. Adam was born last Sunday at Danbury Hospital, weighs 7 pounds 1 ounce, and is 19 inches long.
Terry Sheron, one of The Beeâs advertising representatives, was feeling pretty good about owning her 2000 Toyota Echo free and clear after making her final car payment this month. The good feeling didnât last long, however. Her car was hit on Wednesday as she waited to enter traffic on South Main Street by another car swerving off the road after another collision. Terry wasnât hurt, but her little car was looking pretty old and bruised after the crash.
Newtown runners Karen McKnight, Tom Murtha, Tracy VanBuskirk, and Jack Weber are putting extra mileage on their sneakers this spring and summer as they prepare to take part in the Reach the Beach Relay in September. As part of a 12-person team, they will run 200 miles in 24 hours, from Bretton Woods, N.H., to Hampton Beach, N.H. It might be a good time to buy stock in gauze and moleskin with all the blisters that will be popping up.
Matt Kastner and Karen Pinto are eagerly awaiting the return of their son, Paul. He is a student at Wooster Polytechnic Institute, but this isnât the usual summer reunion. Paul has been in Namibia, Africa, since early March as part of a study program working in conjunction with the Department of Infrastructure, Water and Technical Services of the City of Windhoek there to develop a comprehensive water policy addressing the issues of water pricing and subsidization. For R&R, he hoped to fit in a safari before returning to the states; hope he saw some big cats.
For R&R, I take naps, which is what Iâm going to do right now. But Iâll be back next week, so be sure toâ¦
Read me again.