VIEW from the
BRIDGE
By Muncie
3/30/16
LONG DISTANCE
I received three
phone calls last week from Arizona , Utah ,
and Ohio
BUTTS
A visitor to Fort
Benton Old
Bridge
When I checked it
out, it looked as though someone had emptied their ashtray directly in front of
the bridge planter. Perhaps the wind blew the butts into the grass or else
someone is taking a smoking break there often. They are disposing of their
butts in the grass. I suspect that might be the case because there are many
butts on the other side of the Fire House also. It is very unsightly and with
our Visitor season almost upon us it is not a pretty sight.
I remember a few
years ago when the 6th Graders from the Elementary School picked up
butts along the sidewalk on Front St. I do not expect any children to do that
gross job and neither would you parents. Perhaps when the grass cutting begins,
the mower will chop those butts up.
So please, if you
are the culprit, do not spoil the landscape by throwing butts anywhere along
the Levee Walking Trail. Please do not empty your ashtrays by the curbs. Do it at your own home so you are the only
one who can see them.
C.C.P.A.
After you return
home from Loma Days, you can get ready to go to the Ag Center for a very
entertaining Pub night. Check the River Press for details. There will be one
more C.C.P.A. evening for the season at the end of April. Where does the time
go?
LOMA DAYS
Next Saturday is
the time to make a trip to Loma. Bring along all of your family and friends. I
hope the weather cooperates and have your selves a great time. See you there.
T-SHIRTS
There have been
several knocks on my door with t-shirts in hand and I have all but two of the
t-shirts that are needed for the Summer Celebration quilt to be raffled off. It
was especially exciting to get the “River Runs Through It,” shirt because it
was from 1995. The only shirt we still need is 1993 WILD WILD WEST and 2014 THE
YEAR OF THE MT WOMAN. There must be one out there that someone would give up
for this worthy cause.
I was never able
to find if there were t-shirts before that time 1993. I appreciate all those
who donated t-shirts and I would like to say thank you to Toots, Joanne, Dr.
Bylund and Vi at Sadie’s Thrift Shop. You can be proud to look at the quilt and
know that your shirt is on it. To my thinking, that is very special.
??????
A couple of weeks
ago I received a phone call from a woman who asks if I needed a certain
t-shirt. I told her that I would check the list and call her back. That was the
time when my land phones decided that were not going to service me any longer.
It took me a couple of weeks to get new ones. I do not remember who she was and
I lost her phone number when the land phones no longer worked. I apologize and
hopefully you read this notice and call me back.
ORGANIZATIONS
I have contacted
all the organizations and the schools to ask them to write articles about what
events are going on. Once a month reports from organizations would be
welcomed.
I am so enthused
to see so many of the reports and I started to name them. There are too many
and it would be easier to name those who do not report. However, I do not want to do that (remember I
am in enough hot water,) and perhaps this request may have them rethink their
reasons. The only way I know what is going about town is by reading our local
newspaper. Go River Press!
Encourage your
organization to participate and let us know what is being planned and when. If
you let me know I would be happy to put it in the View. It doesn’t hurt to be
in two places.
NOTEBOOKS
At the Visitor’s Information
Center Fort
Benton High
School
I am starting two
new notebooks with the Business of the Week and the Student of the Week that are
in the River Press weekly. It is sponsored by Jim Taylor. I will have the
notebooks at the Visitors
Center
VETS PHOTO
PROGRAM
I have had no
response to this new project. I need some volunteer carpenters and I know I did
not explain exactly what I had planned.
The photos on the
walls at the Sunrise Bluffs are crooked. People complain to Karla and to me
about that situation. Karla tells those who mention it that if they would like
to straighten them, they are welcome.
My solution to
that problem would be to build picture shelves. I have them in my home and the
design eliminates nails. The frames are placed on shelves so they are straight.
Another advantage would be the photos would be in alphabetical order. People also complain that they cannot find
their loved ones photo and the shelves would be the answer.
So I will ask one
more time for some volunteers and if I do not hear from anyone, I will forget
about it. Joellyn is still working on scanning and typing bios to finalize the
program. I am making phone calls and framing. It is slow going because I made a
dozen phone calls for bios and only had two calls back.
I love this
project because it has been such a great time seeing all the photos and reading
the bios. For almost my entire long lifetime our country has been at war. I
truly appreciate all of those Service men and women. Those of us who went
through those years must pass our knowledge to the younger generation. This was
my way of doing that and I could not have done it with all the help I got. Bless
you all.
OBSERVATION
You can survive
without eating for weeks, but you will only live 11 days without sleep.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
