Hello, oh, happy day!
Okay, I will admit it — sometimes our winter news is not as exciting as our happy summer news when our friends and relatives return for a heavenly vacation when the weather is perfect and the fishing couldn’t be better. But I have a solution. I came across some clever little quips that will hopefully put a smile on your faces.
Q: Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
A: At the bottom of the page.
Q:If “pro” is the opposite of “con,” then is the opposite of progress, Congress?
A: This is a stimulator to get you “going.”
Our little hamlet is small, but evidently pretty interesting to a variety of people. I am speaking of the attention being given to our elementary school and students. The Dolores Star featured them a couple or three weeks ago and the last two weeks, the Telluride “Watch” newspaper carried features of the children and the school, pictures and all.
The Dew South restaurant and the Enterprise Cafe hosted Super Bowl parties and it was great fun. Our neighbor, Benn Vernadakis is from the Boston area and has had the Patriots flag flying mightily from his rooftop for years. I don’t know if he has fully recovered from the ordeal or not.
Some time back, during Summer Bible School at our little Community Church, the teacher asked her class if anyone knew of the country named Columbia. Two little girls raised their hands! The Hagan girls, of course! Their family takes off every couple of years or so and sail the high seas. Parents Mary and Mike home schools the girls and their brother Noah. An example of their day’s schedule (which I am guessing) is to dive for sponges and play in the water, or fish in the morning and in the afternoon do their school work. What a beautiful life. The family came home this fall in time to enroll in school.
Olivia Gass, daughter of Christine and Gary Gass, and a college graduate, will be teaching in Japan the next couple of years. She has worked hard all these years and deserves to be able to do something special like this experience.
Jenny Nunley has returned from vacationing in southeast Asia — Cambodia to be exact. She stated that of all the people she has encountered in her travels, the Cambodian people are the most kind.
Marlene Hazen has lived in Rico for two decades. An active member of the community, she participates in organizations such as the Rico Women’s Club and Rico Historical Society.