About Town
By Doris Lessenden
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another”. Proverbs 27:17 The Lord allows our rough edges to be smoothed over through the sandpaper of life.
We welcome Pastor Mark and Deb Imel to Eads and their pastorate at the First Christian Church. They moved here last week from northern Kansas. Sunday afternoon they led the chapel service at the Weisbrod ECU and what delightful people they are with great singing voices too!
It is so wonderful to see young people be successful in their occupations and careers. One example is Brandon Hoffman who went to DeVry University in Kansas City and worked there several years. He married Angela, a registered nurse. They decided to bring up their two little boys in his home town, Eads. Together they designed and constructed a tall metal shop behind their home. I saw this shop after John Courkamp of the NAPA shop referred me to Brandon, the Machinist, who saved me a ton of money by crafting my steering wheel tri-pod so it wouldn’t honk my horn at unexpected times. He also helps his parents, Tom and Lana, at their country home and farm in the Prairie Queen Community.
Teri Castle hosted a Fashion Show at Weisbrod ECU Friday afternoon with Auxiliary ladies, Madonna Pollreis and Doris Lessenden and helper, Colby Stoker. The models were: Justin and Jessylynn Johnson, Katherine, Hailee, Zoey, and Macy Trosper, Will Elam, Knox Sheridan, Jordyn Turcotte, and Nash Galloway, and Brooklyn Lenox. Ms Castle served huge flag and star cookies decorated in patriotic colors and designs by the Lamar Daylight Donut shop. Marge Davis’ granddaughter, Emily Singer, played soft sing-a-long music on the piano after the show.
Barry Koch told us that their son, Dr. Drew Koch, is in the San Joaquin Valley of California for a year’s internship with another Veterinary. Drew likes his experience but hopes to settle in Colorado.
Derek Epper has graduated from the Job Corp in Roswell, New Mexico. He plans to continue working in the food service field. His fiancé, Ciana, is visiting in Eads.
Last Wednesday evening, Tim and Sylvia Weeks, June Blooding, Areta Blooding-Laird, and Ebonee Moyers took off to the Potawatomi Tribal Pow Wow in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Jason and Shelby (Weeks) Bennett and children of Evans, CO also made the trip. June, in her 90’s, did well on their long trip because she enjoys this annual meeting to see her brother and family.
This Sunday, July 3rd is the long awaited day to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Haswell United Methodist Church at 11:00 a.m. The Eads sister congregation plans attend the Haswell worship and have lunch with other guests at the Community Building.
Last Friday evening when we returned from the movie, all a sudden the house lights didn’t come on. When Colby and I looked around the town was in total darkness. So we cruised for a while. The only lights in town besides Weisbrod and Prairie Pines who have generators, was the one on the Veterans Memorial Flag at the Road Side Park. What a beautiful sight! No doubt people appreciate their electricity more. I am going to buy more LED flashlights and battery powered candles from my local HealthMart.
Last week several 4-H’ers and leaders were on the CSU campus in Fort Collins to attend the annual Conference. Recently, I found a 1949 black and white photo of Raymond Wissel and me at our first 4-H Conference. Then I found one from the 1950’s of our square dancing and judging teams. Those were such fun and great times in our live. Many of us remember Bruce and Letha Whitmore who was our extension agent and 4-H Leader. We lovingly remember, Lee and Maxine (Peck) Blooding, who we regarded as the best Prairie Queen 4-H leaders ever.
Many people have been enjoying the use of the Eads Swimming Pool. What a blessing that pool is. When I watched them Friday, the three life guards were Brittanie Newman, and Savanna and Emily Guyrman.
Tanaia Hansen is working her fourth summer at Katie Kopasz’s Blue Roof Tomato Farm. One can buy these delicious fruits in a variety of colors: red, purple, yellow, and orange in the Crows Grocery or at the farm on Parker Road.
The county Senior Citizen’s picnic has been re-scheduled to Wednesday, August 17th in the Eads Court House Park.
When I was dining in the Lamar Hickory House, I met one of my former students, Virginia “Bush” Miller. She has been a waitress there for 22 years. She graduated in 1967 so I reminded her to come to the 2017 School Reunion. This reminds me to make a plea for more volunteers to help us organize the reunion. Won’t some of you Readers, please offer to help Kim Crow Richards, Nancy McCracken, and Verna Ebright with addresses or mailing invitations?
Most every day or evening, there are many bicyclists pedaling about town. Most are looking for a camping place in a park or food. This is a chance for Eadsites to be more friendly and hospitable. They are always such interesting people and many of them are from other countries. Like Friday, there was a swarm of bikers from Australia in the Haswell Propane Station. I like to shop in Glenda’s Antique Shop there.
Robin Musgrave accompanied me to the 80th birthday dinner of David (Mona) Appel at the Lamar Lutheran Church the 25th. In the afternoon we went to the wedding of the late Winifred Wilson’s granddaughter, Kaley Braaton. It was special to see all the Gibbs sisters there for their brother, Victor (Doris) Gibbs eldest granddaughter. We saw many other people from Kit Carson, Eads, and other towns there. What was great for us was to get to sit at a table at both parties with Park and Bonnie Wood, now of Lamar. Joe Harbert, former Eads Industrial Arts teacher was the photographer. The groom’s father baked “from scratch” and decorated the wedding cake. It was his first and was so very good and moist.
Frank and Doug Heins are glad that their sister, Faye, came from Denver to spend the month of July to run the house and meals during harvest up north of Kit Carson. She was at the Appel party and family reunion in Lamar.
Jeanne Sorensen and Chris Sorensen (when he comes down from Denver on the week-ends), have been remodeling the Kiowa Press office. Roland has been helping move display cases from one building to another. The plan is to operate the Plains Network Services and the Kiowa County Press under one roof. Soon they will have more office and electronic supplies on display. It looks spacious and blends the new with the “historic”.
