Proverbs 3: 5 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”

Last year, Mrs. Shannon Ellenberger’s Future Business Leaders of America students hosted an entertaining volleyball tournament, but this year it was even bigger and better, with 10 teams of teens vying against some accomplished adults. When I went, I learned I had just missed the Haase team of Jay, Duff, Zach, Joe and Maggie and two of Zach’s university friends from Nebraska. The report was that they were entertaining to watch. Lauren Spady, who coaches Las Animas Trojan girls, had a team there also. It was good to see the Lane sisters, Kailey and Kailyn, on a team with Kailey’s brother-in-law, who is a banker in Las Animas now. Ernie and Karen Vigil’s son, Tyson, was a really powerful player on that team also. I was surprised to not see that Artie and Tonya there to watch their daughters. Then I remembered they were vacationing on a warm island for Tonya’s 50^th birthday. The FBLA members had a large bake sale too. 

When I wrote last week that Pete Koch made a speedy trip to Burlington to buy a key for the “flagman” Bud Bennett. I assumed that he called Vince Schreivogel of the classy GMC dealership. Pete said, “yes, it was Vince,” when I asked him at the brunch. Vince told me one time that he went to grade school in Eads. His mother was Oscarena Dunlap. Vince said he surely does like to read the Eads newspapers. We liked his patriotic pickup that he drove in the Kiowa County parade!

Colorado Mills had three employees who manned their vendor booth at the Kiowa County fair. It was an impressive and educational booth showing their sunflower cooking oil and new skin care items. Plus, they gave people caps and other nice gifts. The employees told me that they liked their jobs and they get good pay and benefits. The lady said we get a lot of corn from Kiowa County, especially from the Uhland families.

Gilbert Brown’s funeral in the Chivington Friends Church was attended by a huge number of family and many friends who also came to the Eads Cemetery. His brother, Don Brown of Idaho, officiated. It was so good to see Gilbert’s brothers and their spouses and the extended families. Gilbert was our schoolmate in the class of 1955.

Fall Bazaars: Saturday, October 26, at Haswell, and at Eads November 23. These are important dates to mark on your calendar. Readers may contact Michelle Nelson or Linda Trosper, the respective Chairwomen, if you want to be a bazaar vendor.

Senior citizens in Eads who went to the senior brunch last Wednesday enjoyed visiting around cheery yellow and orange tables. Joyce Berry and Gail Voss gave good news about the progress on construction of our new center. Some men asked if we have a pool table. There is a room for a pool table, so if there is someone who wants to donate a pool or billiard table to our future center for adults and teens to enjoy the game, we are certainly interested.

Again, we thank the children of Merle and Dorothy Frazee for the beautiful black marble bench they had set in front of our future new building. We signed a birthday card for Opal Miner, whom we miss a lot since she moved to Amarillo, Texas.

Several ladies who were in the Hebrew class last spring had a lunch hosted by Deborah Gooden last week to say, “happy birthday” and “thank you” to our teacher, Ms. Liz Hulteen, who is returning to Alma, Missouri, for a few months.

This is homecoming week at Eads High School, with “dress days” and the pep rally on the football field at 6:30 p.m. Friday. Saturday, the football game is at 1:00 p.m. with Cheyenne Wells. This will be followed at 3:00 p.m. with middle school volleyball, then 4:00 p.m. with middle school football and then high school volleyball. The night will be climaxed with the homecoming dance.

Debbie (James) Barton’s memorial service was held at Praise Community Church Saturday morning. I have fond memories of her as my country neighbor who loved to sew clothes and cared for her younger brother before and after their mother passed.

Over the weekend a number of people went to see the movie, “Overcomer” at the Plains Theatre. To many of us, it was such an incredible story about people, with a story line of teenagers, a coach’s family, an ill father, and school setting. It was good to see a pleasant, clean movie that had its share of emotion and drama.

Harvest trucks are beginning to roll into the elevators in the county.

Fall is in the air; leaves are beginning to turn in Colorado. Families and loyal Eagle fans have been at the Eads High School field and gym two or three nights the last several weeks.

One of the best employers I observed last week (and every week) is Jeanne Sorensen, who is my computer tech. I really do depend on her expertise.

Antelope (pronghorn) hunting opened this weekend in eastern Colorado. We saw a number of hunters come and go from the Hometown Gas and Grill and JJ’s Restaurant over the weekend.

Have you, or your family, or place of business, bought a brick for the sidewalk outside the Plains Theatre and the Maine Scoop Ice Cream Shoppe? This is a great opportunity to honor family members, deceased loved ones, former businesses, or current ones, too. One can simply have their name engraved, or add comments or slogans, and pick from a number of designs on the ordering site. Some people are adding their livestock brands to the bricks. Won’t this marvelous to read these hundreds of years from now, 2019?