Thankfully, the view on Eighmy Road as I write today does NOT include snow! Those flakes arrived way too early last week, and we’re delighted they did not stick around too long. (Does anyone know if this was a record snowfall for our area?) We could not believe those little piles of snow around the field as the football game was being played at Penn State last Saturday!
Sisters Nettie Else and Judy Warnott of Calkins Road enjoyed a little autumn getaway from September 14-18. Nettie and Judy took a bus trip to Massachusetts which included stops at Cape Cod and Boston. Nettie reports that she and Judy appreciated being able to get away and had a great time!
Visiting us from September 29 – October 1 were Glenn’s nephew Doug Moser and his wife Sheri of Crofton, Nebraska. They drove from Crofton via Interstate 90 and made a stop at Niagara Falls before arriving here for two days. They took in Pennsylvania sights of Hershey and Gettysburg en route back home to Nebraska.
Madeline and Finnegan Sheard, children of Thad and Jill Sheard of Connecticut, spent last weekend with their grandparents Garry and Irma Sheard .
On Sunday, October 18, Howard and Sherry Welsh of Frederick, Maryland, paid a visit to Doris Bryant. Howard, son of the late Kenneth and Helen Welsh, is Doris’s nephew. Doris, Howard, and Sherry went to the Beach Lake Fire Department’s breakfast on Sunday morning. All reported having had a great meal!
Unfortunately, we have just learned that longtime Calkins neighbor Jennie Taraschuck has passed away. Jennie was a kind and cheerful lady who will be greatly missed. I remember Jennie particularly for her love of cats – something we had in common. I recall also that Jennie often invited my nephews to fish in the Taraschuck pond – an activity they enjoyed and will remember. Our sympathies to her son Pat Taraschuck and daughter Nancy Garing.
Glenn and I participated in the Northeast Pennsylvania Alzheimer’s Association’s Memory Walk in Blakely on October 3. Happily, our local team, “Alma’s Allies” far exceed its goal, bringing in over $2500 for the cause! Thanks again to everyone who participated and contributed.
News from the Calkins Baptist Church – a permit from the state of Pennsylvania has recently been received, enabling the church to move forward with its excavating. Also, practice has begun for this year’s Christmas Cantata. The choir consists of thirty voices! Those of us who have attended the cantata in the past anticipate another wonderful and inspiring evening in December.
The Calkins Ladies Aide will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, November 5.
Happy Halloween to everyone! Rumor has it that plans are “brewing” for a Halloween party somewhere on Calkins Road .(Stay tuned for more on this in the next “Calkins Chronicles”.) I love the way in which poet Marge Piercy has written of the Halloween season in her work entitled “ Of pumpkins and ghosts I sing”; she writes of the season as “A chance to be somebody else / before cabin fever turns you inside out . . . “ So, quickly, put on your costume and pretend, before the winter comes again!
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Thankfully, the view on Eighmy Road as I write today does NOT include snow! Those flakes arrived way too early last week, and we’re delighted they did not stick around too long. (Does anyone know if this was a record snowfall for our area?) We could not believe those little piles of snow around the field as the football game was being played at Penn State last Saturday!
Sisters Nettie Else and Judy Warnott of Calkins Road enjoyed a little autumn getaway from September 14-18. Nettie and Judy took a bus trip to Massachusetts which included stops at Cape Cod and Boston. Nettie reports that she and Judy appreciated being able to get away and had a great time!
Visiting us from September 29 – October 1 were Glenn’s nephew Doug Moser and his wife Sheri of Crofton, Nebraska. They drove from Crofton via Interstate 90 and made a stop at Niagara Falls before arriving here for two days. They took in Pennsylvania sights of Hershey and Gettysburg en route back home to Nebraska.
Madeline and Finnegan Sheard, children of Thad and Jill Sheard of Connecticut, spent last weekend with their grandparents Garry and Irma Sheard .
On Sunday, October 18, Howard and Sherry Welsh of Frederick, Maryland, paid a visit to Doris Bryant. Howard, son of the late Kenneth and Helen Welsh, is Doris’s nephew. Doris, Howard, and Sherry went to the Beach Lake Fire Department’s breakfast on Sunday morning. All reported having had a great meal!
Unfortunately, we have just learned that longtime Calkins neighbor Jennie Taraschuck has passed away. Jennie was a kind and cheerful lady who will be greatly missed. I remember Jennie particularly for her love of cats – something we had in common. I recall also that Jennie often invited my nephews to fish in the Taraschuck pond – an activity they enjoyed and will remember. Our sympathies to her son Pat Taraschuck and daughter Nancy Garing.
Glenn and I participated in the Northeast Pennsylvania Alzheimer’s Association’s Memory Walk in Blakely on October 3. Happily, our local team, “Alma’s Allies” far exceed its goal, bringing in over $2500 for the cause! Thanks again to everyone who participated and contributed.
News from the Calkins Baptist Church – a permit from the state of Pennsylvania has recently been received, enabling the church to move forward with its excavating. Also, practice has begun for this year’s Christmas Cantata. The choir consists of thirty voices! Those of us who have attended the cantata in the past anticipate another wonderful and inspiring evening in December.
The Calkins Ladies Aide will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, November 5.
Happy Halloween to everyone! Rumor has it that plans are “brewing” for a Halloween party somewhere on Calkins Road .(Stay tuned for more on this in the next “Calkins Chronicles”.) I love the way in which poet Marge Piercy has written of the Halloween season in her work entitled “ Of pumpkins and ghosts I sing”; she writes of the season as “A chance to be somebody else / before cabin fever turns you inside out . . . “ So, quickly, put on your costume and pretend, before the winter comes again!
