Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. What do these Valley folks have in common? Clyde Price Jr., Ben Van Zandt, Catherine Nobles (Sinott), Donna Cox (Reilly), Dick McAbee, Johnnie Pinoli, Berna McAbee (Walker), Eileen Brown (Pronsolino), Wes Smoot, Marian McAbee (Crosby), Gloria Ornbaun (Abbott), Pat Hulbert, Eva Pardini [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. How about a great bit of news? Over $5K was made in profits from the recent crab feed to benefit the AV Senior Center! Given the price of crab ($5 a pound), this is an exceptional total and goes to show that [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably I shall begin. And while it is a little late, I’m sure the sentiments still apply when I pass on the best wishes for many happy returns on the Birthdays of these Valley folks, who all will enjoy their special day in January: Shirley Hulbert, Jim [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. And what better place to start than with the startling news that has been reverberating around the Valley over the past few days: ”All that Good Stuff,” the Valley’s one-stop-shop for so many needs, for so many years, is apparently under threat [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. ‘Gone but not forgotten’ — the following Valley Folk have passed in the last 15 months or so. They are fondly remembered by many. James ‘Jim’ Gowan, Arthur Knight, Chad Ewing, Michael Bowman, Mildred Gowan (née Hulbert), Austin Hulbert (born in April [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Well that’s Christmas/Whatever-you-call-it ‘done and dusted’ and now on to Act 2 — New Year’s Eve! Try to enjoy yourselves and if someone is behaving badly just smile and walk away. You know it makes sense. With all the excesses of the [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Never let it be said that a Turkey Vulture is not a noble creature, particularly when it comes to admitting one’s mistakes. I recently wrote that the School Board members received health insurance through the school and that this surprised the few [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. Unusually, let’s start off this week with our 3-Dot regular, The Old Buzzard, as he shares with us another in his insightful series, ‘Signs of The Approach of the Apocalypse.’ Buzzard reports, I attended several Holiday/Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzai parties over the past week and [...]
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. While many of you will have seen me there, others would perhaps like to know that I spent a lovely evening in the company of the Independent Career Women at their Holiday Party held last week at Wellspring, or “River’s Bend” as [...]
Greetings one and all – if you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin… Talking of ‘sitting comfortably’, that was something not at all easy to do after the vast amount of food that I devoured on Thanksgiving. You too, eh? The Turkey Coma was in full effect for about four hours and I really [...]
