About Town
By Doris Lessenden
“Happy New Year, Readers: Betty Shotton taught me one of my favorite songs, “Gentle Shepherd, come and lead us, for we need You to help us find our way”…”come to feed us…help us face another day”. Those words are my prayerful and hopeful prayer for 2017.
Lance and Taya Jagers took their children, Cassidy and Corbin, to the Arizona Annual Goat Show at the Arizona State Fair Grounds last week where they both place in the top four in the Show.
Sue Fox and her sons, Tyler and Jake, spent some time in Sun City-West, Arizona with her mother and other family members over the holidays.
It was good to have Betty Crow back in Eads for the holidays before she returned to sunny Arizona.
Marilyn White of Kit Carson-Hugo celebrated another birthday for which she is so grateful. She is glad she taught her daughter, Melody Mitchell, to be a good cook because she had over forty or more foster kids and families in her home last week. They have also been celebrating the marriage of her daughter, Natalie, to Luis Garcia of Holly.
Sharon Johnson celebrated her 70th birthday with her children, J.D. and Jennifer, and their families at a lovely evening dinner last week.
Sean Wyatt has been keeping his father’s friends posted about his father, Larry Wyatt’s health who has been critically ill with a virus. Prayers would be appreciated for Larry and his family.
After Evelyn Garner’s funeral, a big man with a leather-bound Bible said to me, “You probably don’t remember me, I am Joe Brenton”. He is Evelyn’s nephew of the EHS class of 1968. Promptly I asked him if he “still made fly fish lures?” He said, “Oh yes, my wife and I make and sell thousands a year. I remembered that was his science fair topic when he was in my Freshman General Science class. That is one of the satisfying things about being an educator when you hear the success of your students. Joe, like some of my other student’s interests were peaked by doing experiments as freshmen and turned into an occupation or hobby.
Keegan Donovan is one of the friendly Sand Creek Park Rangers. He says Eads is the largest town he has lived in his years of work with the National Park Service. I learned that he worked at Capulin, New Mexico, Death Valley in California, and on the east coast. After hours, he is taking EMT lessons from Eunice Weber to learn about Colorado’s methods. He was studying while eating in Love’s Subway Thursday evening before class.
That evening there was a man who said he had been observing people in the Subway for about two hours. He asked me, “How many people live in this town? They are so friendly; everyone seems to know everyone”. I told him that even though a lot of people had come and gone that I didn’t know, we are a friendly people so we always just greet one another and this is a good place to live. He was a truck driver on the way to Dallas.
Glaida Craven and I had lunch together at the Kit Carson Trading Post Sunday after church. It was good to visit with Denis and Theresa Weber and Jerry Weber and Quinton Weber of Sheridan Lake who had been to Mass in Kit Carson. They were having lunch with their daughter and sister, Connie, before she went on to Denver. What gracious people the Weber’s are.
Roger and Marsha Mousel of Aurora stopped by to say “Hi” to Glaida and brought to the Lutheran Church before going on to Eads to visit Orville and Rita Mousel of Eads who were entertaining relatives Sunday.
Cardon and Joyce Berry entertained their three Brandt grandsons and other relatives before Christmas. Then they spent other days with their son, Jim and Megan, who are getting settled in their new country home near Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Saturday, January 7, Eagle fans can watch a Middle School Basketball Tournament in Holly, and the High School Basketball games beginning at 4:00 p.m. in Eads, or the Wrestling team in Lamar.
Some other meetings are events Readers may like to attend are: Coffee Hour every Thursday morning at 9:00 am at the Weisbrod ECU and Coffee Hour every Friday at 2:00 p.m. at the Prairie Pines. Tuesday, Jan. 10th at 12:00 noon meet with the Weisbrod Hospital Auxiliary at JJ’s Ranch House and then at 1:30 p.m. go to the Weisbrod ECU to help residents play Bingo and enjoy treats too. Each week-end we have middle school and high school basketball and wrestling meets. Movies are shown in the Plains Theatre on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Sunday at 6:00 p.m. The Ice Cream Maine Scoop is opened on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Fridays to Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Sundays, they are open at 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. The Shoppe also has cookies, and warm and cold drinks.
