“With God nothing is impossible.” Luke 1:37

Praise Community Church in Eads hosted the Baccalaureate Service Sunday evening with all the graduates attending. They are: Karsten Buller, Tailee Weeks-Johnson, Connor Lynch, Eric Murdock, Jaden Self, Lexi Shotton, Johnathan Vasquez, Kara Wilson, and Shaine Winder. We have learned to like and love the girls from visiting with them as they work and visit here at Weisbrod. It was so pleasant to visit with the young men and women when they visited us last week. They told us about their future plans for college or work. It was interesting to hear about their good memories from high school. At Baccalaureate, Deborah Gooden shared some of the students’ favorite Bible scriptures. They were given their choice of one of many types of Bibles on the table and a carnation. Other lovely parts of the service were the incredibly beautiful piano music played by Jimmy Brown in the prelude time and for the hymns sung by the congregation and the Gooden family boys’ quartet and their mother. The graduates and audience heard moving messages from Pastor Mark Imel and Pastor Lane Gooden before enjoying refreshments in the fellowship hall.

Louise Downing, a former resident of Lamar who lives here, was feted with a large birthday party Saturday afternoon at Weisbrod. The courtyard was filled with relatives including her four children. Many of us watched from the balcony. Her two daughters helped our Brenda Leon to serve the birthday cake and punch.

My heart, our hearts, were so sad to hear or read about the sudden death of our former student, 4-H member, and friend, David Ellicott, of Eads. Next, we think of the grief of his parents, George and Dorothy Ellicott, who have lost all four of their adult children to death. They are in Nebraska and live near their granddaughter.

Plainview School, on the east end of the county, has so many fine and educational travel experiences for their students. Ruth Fees often has two pages of colored photo stories in the Kiowa County Press which we enjoy. It is a good thing that the Plainview graduation is Saturday morning, May 23, since their superintendent lives near Eads and has a son, Karsten Buller, who is graduating from Eads High School at 2:00 p.m. that same Saturday.

Stephanie Framel’s photo inside the Adams State University Alumni magazine was so pleasing to see. She is such a wonderful young lady who won a scholarship there. She helped us with our community Vacation Bible School in Kit Carson for several summers, just as her brother did for many years at the Lutheran church.

We had such a joyful Walk and Roll time last week when the Weisbrod Health employees pushed our wheelchairs to the elementary school, where the third grade students, our adopted grandchildren, walked down Maine Street with us. We stopped for a “photo shoot” in front of the future library. As we walked or rolled, we shook our little instruments or blew horns. We said goodbye outside Weisbrod, and the students walked happily on with their teacher, Charlene Gifford.

That day we made poster board signs for the students to give to the teams to take to the state track and state golf tournaments. There is something just so exciting about the Eads High School team send offs - to be outside Weisbrod waving to the teams as the fire trucks’ sirens were blaring, as well as the sheriff’s trucks were screeching! Coach Justin McLoud drove his winning girls golf team down Maine and around in his classy, red enclosed golf cart. When they came to Weisbrod, the girls jumped out, took our signs, and ran up on the balcony where the ladies were waving and watching. Grandmothers Lucy Barnett and Betty Crow received extra hugs from their granddaughters, Reece Barnett and Jordynn Turcotte, respectively. Their team competes May 18 and 19.

The Eads baseball team — from the reports I read — played all or most of their games. They qualified for regionals, where they met the number one team in the ranking and lost. However, they had a good year and are building back strength. They have two sisters on the team, Savana and Cheyenne Brown.

Do watch for deer and other wildlife crossing the roads when you are driving. We have nurses who come from many directions like Kansas, Lamar, Las Animas, La Junta, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Denver. Recently, one of our former Eads girls who lives in Pueblo was driving to Weisbrod about 4:30 a.m. when a deer ran into her. It totaled her car. Thankfully her son loaned her his car until she can get a car. We do need her and appreciate her nursing skills so much!

Many of our schoolchildren have had entertaining and educational field trips to city areas this year. One student told me that they were going to the “NASA” tower southeast of Haswell.

John Negley often does so much kindness for older citizens by driving them to medical appointments in the cities or around here. Lately, he has brought my sister-in-law, Wanda, to visit me. Sandie Kelley likes to shop at the Dollar Store, and Pat Benner surely likes pie at JJ’s Restaurant.

Gail Voss, Jodi Stolenberger, and Molly Rosler drove to Boise City, Oklahoma, last Saturday to attend the baby shower of Gail’s grandson and wife, Ty and Raylee Micheal, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, at her home church in Oklahoma.