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Show Opinions Thursday, July 27, 2006 The Gunnison Valley Gazette Page 2 Cherry and Norma Pistachio Pink Ripple Just A Thought By MARK HENLINE Last Sunday at church, I was supposed to be teaching a lesson to the 14 and 15 year-olds but for some reason or another, none of them showed up. So instead of sitting and playing hangman by myself, which isn't very challenging, I decided to walk to the other side of the building and join in with another class. On my way, I stuck my head in the library and had a little chat with Cherry Patterson and Norma Roundy. Cherry said that work was going well and that she enjoyed a recent article in the paper. Norma told me her combination 63rd wedding anniversary and Raymond's 85th birthday party' went well. She said they had lots of guests from the area drop by. She said one of her sons-in-law is a mortician and had been to a funeral up north. On his way back home he stopped by Raymond and Norma's to wish them well. He parked his hearse in the driveway and went into the house. Norma said it wasn't too much lon- ger that Lynn Pickett, the ward High Priest Group Leader, came to the door to see if Raymond has departed this earth. According to Norma, everyone had a good laugh. To top the party off, Raymond got a tour around town in the front seat of the hearse. Raymond said it's a much better place to be than the alternative. After Norma's story, Cherry asked me how I have been doing. That was just the invite I needed. I told her that this heat has been driving me absolutely crazy. I'm impatient, irritable, don't sleep well, and have had a headache for a week. Also, I have five teenagers in the house right now and they act so goofy, I can hardly stand it. And to top it all off, my back has been killing me. To this, Cherry started laughing ,and said, "I have something you might be able to use." She then reached into her purse and pulled out an old newspaper clipping, handed it to me and said, "Read this." It was from an Ann Landers column and it is entitled A Prayer for Later Years. I really enjoyed it and thought I would share it with you. Lord, Thou knowest that I am growing older. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and particularly keep me from falling into the tiresome habit of expressing an opinion on every subject. Release me from the craving to straighten out everybody's affairs. Give me grace, Dear Lord, to listen to others describe their aches and pains. Help me endure the boredom with patience, and keep my lips sealed, for my own aches and pains are increasing in number and intensity, and the pleasure of discussing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by. Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally, I might be mistaken, Keep me reasonably sweet. I do no.t wish to be a saint (saints are so hard to live with), but a sour old person is the work of the devil. Make me thoughtful, but not moody; helpful, but not pushy; independent, yet able to accept with graciousness favors that others wish to bestow on me. Free me of the notion that simply because I have lived a long time, I am wiser than those who have not lived so long. If I do not approve of some of the changes that have taken place in recent years, give me the wisdom to keep my mouth shut. Lord knows that when the end comes, I would like to have a friend or two left. Author Unknown. I thanked Cherry for the prayer. I told her I don't think I am in my later years but I think I can really put it's lessons to use. Maybe there is some wisdom for all of us. Senior Lunch Menu ThurJuIy27 Hot Turkey Sandwich with Whipped Potatoes & Gravy Yams Cherry Pie Bread & Butter Fri July 28 Baked Ham Cheesy Potatoes Peas & Carrots Jello with Fruit Roll & Butter Tue Auaust 1 Fish Fillets & Tarter Sauce Tator Tots Coleslaw Fruit Crisp Bread & Butter Wed Auaust 2 Meatloaf Yummy Potatoes Green Beans Bread & Butter Monday, August 7 - Trip to Cove Fort and Cheese Factory in Beaver. We will leave the center at 9:30 am. Bring a sack lunch. Call if you need a ride. . Wednesday, August 9 - Shopping tip to Richfield. The bu&will leave the center at 1 pm.Please call if you need a ride. RED CROSS Continued from Page 1 your blood? Your generous gift is used in surgeries and emergency procedures too numerous to list. One donation from a single person can save up to three lives. Most major surgeries require blood transfusions to insure success. Cardiac bypass sur- geries and heart transplants typically require two units of blood, while some surgeries such as liver transplants require blood in excess of ten units. The need for blood is steadily rising. Your blood will save lives. Every year the number of blood transfusions in the US rises by nine percent, but only five percent of eligible donors donate. Blood is badly needed and is one thing that cannot be. manufactured or synthesized. It must come from you. So please, take the time to donate and save a life or three. Let's show the Red Cross that we are dedicated to saving lives this Friday. A goal of 60-80 pints has been set for this drive. Let's work together to help them exceed this goal. and just cried her eyes out right there. She got to sobbing so hard it was difficult to hear the song, and we were sitting right next to the stage in the handicapped section. All of our ladies know what happened, and it is sad. Pearl's husband was an ice cream salesman who traveled around all over. By HARRIET with ice cream and other BAUMGARTNER frozen stuff in a truck. He had customers in every Our members would like town and he knew when to thank those individuals the women would be home who have been so generous from work, and sometimes in their donations to help he'd go to the places they us with our travel expenses. worked at, it didn't matter. You know who you are and Nobody worried about the so do we. When Ethel, who ice cream man. And neither is the club treasurer, showed did Pearl until one time afus what had come we felt ter her husband got home our prayers had been an- from being out on the road swered. For people to share for a few days she was doin good times is wonderful, ing the wash and there was but to show charity when a note in his pants pocket times are bad and there are with a name on it. I'm not so many struggling is some- sure but I think it was Lila thing we don't see everyday. or Lilly or something like You wonderful souls should that. It started with the letknow that because of your ter L, Fm sure of that. Anygenerosity, we have been way, Pearl never thought able to plan our outings and anything about it because don't have to sit at home. ladies called the house all Edgar was so grateful when the time making special orwe told him what had come ders for the stuff he carried in the mail that his eyes got on his truck. misty and he made some Well, Pearl let it go and excuse about having to do then one day the phone rang something outside. and it was a woman asking So, without further ado, for the Ice Cream Man*. let us report our most recent Pearl said there was someouting. We went down to thing funny about how she Panguitch to see those big said Ice Cream Man'. Anyballoons floating in the air. way, like any wife would, she It was just beautiful! They started getting a little sushave built a huge building picious. Her husband, Burt, north of town and they have started to be on the road a had famous people there little longer each week, and who make records and go the phone calls from that all over the country doing woman kept coining. Pearl concerts. We got tickets and said the woman wouldn't the man was some country give her name, and finally singer who wrote all his own after a long time, she told songs. It was just delightful Pearl to tell her husband listening to him sing. But to contact the lady whom then something unforeseen liked Pistachio Pink Ripple. came along. He sang this That was the dumbest thing one tune about how his wife the woman could have said. caught him with another Pearl knew Burt's product woman and how it made his line better than he did, and whole world fall apart, and ' she was well aware that Pisthat's when it got too much tachio Pink Ripple had been for Pearl. She broke down discontinued 17 months Club News r i •Subscribe to the Gazette Only * 2 5 * per year!. Name I- Address_ P.O. Box City • State • * Outside Sanpete County *30 per year. P.O.Box 143 Gunnison, Ut 84634 424 South Main • Gunnison 435-528-7446 • 1-866-838-SIGN fcte Lane Henderson, Publisher Mark Henline, Editor & Advertising Jodi Henline, Office Manager Call: (435) 528-5178 for subscription, news or advertising. FAX: (435) 528-5179 E-mail gazelte@gtclco.net The Gunnison Valley Gazette is published each Thursday by Gunnison Valley Gazette. L.L.C., 194 South Main Suite 101, P.O. Box 143 Gunnison, Utah 84634. Bulk rate postage (permit No. 11) is paid at Gunnison, Utah. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Gunnison Valley Gazette, P.O. Box 143 Gunnison, Utah 84634 Deadlines: News and advertising, close of business, Friday prior to publication. Subscription prices: One year, $25 in Sanpete County, one year, $30 outside Sanpctc County. Single copy price 50 cents. Advertising rates available upon request. All articles and photographs submitted for publication arc subject to editing and only will be used if the editor deems them newsworthy. The editor reserves the right to hold submitted news items for space reasons. Copyright Gunnison Valley Gazette, Gunnison, Utah 2005. All rights reserved. Reproduction, reuse or transmiltal of all matter herein is prohibited without prior written permission by the publisher or editor. .Zip. VALLEY Same Faces - NewName Jennifer Catmull Dawna Hamblin GUNNISON VA LLEY earlier. She had the goods on him. She confronted Burt and he admitted everything. Well it seems like every time Pearl hears a song like the one that guy was singing she just has afloodof tears, poor thing. We finally got her settled down, which was a good thing because she was carrying on so much other people were having a hard time hearing the song. Myrtle said she doesn't want to go to any more music programs if Pearl is with us. We can do without Myrtle making comments like that. If we had left her out of everything when she was having hot flashes years ago, she would be more sensitive to Pearl's plight. We decided to grab a bite to eat before we left Panguitch, but there were so many motorcycles parked around the food places that we told Edgar not to worry about it. On the way home, some sort of animal ran across the road right in front of us just south of the Big Rock Candy Mountain. Edgar said he thought it was a coyote but it moved too fast to tell for sure. When Edgar pushed the brake it woke Blanch up and she asked where we were and when Edgar told her, she started to sing Burl Ives' song about the Big Rock Candy Mountain. A lot of the younger folks don't remember Burl Ives', but I still listen to his records when Fm dusting at home. I think his weight brought on an early death in his case. We stopped at Wendy's in Richfield and ordered ice cream at the drive up window. I don't know what we were thinking. When the girl handed the cones through the window, Pearl started up again and cried all the way to the Sigurd exit. Sometimes you can't win. Adele wanted me to mention that the Social Security office has a new number if anyone has any questions about their checks. WEATHER Thursday 94/62 Mostly Sunny Friday 96/62 Mostly Sunny Saturday 92/60 Isolated Thunder Storms Sunday 85/58 PM Thunder Storms Gunnison's Weather brought to you by Gunnison . Telephone Co. NOW PLAYING dt 3fa ^^^H it; x . ' Steve Jfkatoe CLICK hi Playing: July 8tb through August 3r4 VAT) AH S A tfXPL I 11 CUCK Rated PG-13 Staring: Adam Sandier, Kate Beckinsale & Christopher Walken New Summer Time hours! Mon-Thurs = 7:30 pm nightly Fri&Sat=7pm&9pm Tuesday is Bargain Night - All Seats are $3.50 Ticket Prices $5.00 - Adults *$S0 - Children under \2 $ Senior Citizens |
