10/1 - Where Was I? Clue #2. The oo's were ooze not ohs.

9/30 - If organization is the key to success the men of the United Methodist church in Stephenson are up there with the best. They put on a spaghetti dinner Thurs. night for over 150 people. When they ran out of spaghetti sauce they had to go to the local convenience store to try to buy some so the l8 workers could eat!

The men had a printed schedule of assignments and work start times. Master Chef Loren Hulsizer started the sauce at 8 a.m. Bert Peterson and Tom Quarnstrom came in at 2 to prepare the salad . Jim Voss had total responsibility for the breadsticks and started at 3 p.m. Pete Getzen and Ken Poisson watched the pasta kettle closely from 3 p.m. to the 5 o'clock serving time. John Schoen and Erv Wessel were in charge of beverages and desserts. There were itemized lists of duties for the set-up and clean-up crews and Norman Gruenstern and Vic Gerue manned the cashier and ticket taker desk. The money raised will be used to help support missions.

9/28 -The bus from the Senior Center in Peshtigo stopped at a candy shop on the way to a show in Appleton Tuesday. A few of us with low resistance to chocolate stayed on the bus. The driver, Larry Ciseuski, originally from Steven Point, WI but now living in Marinette, and I got into a discussion of misconceptions about the meaning of local terminology. Larry said when he saw a sign advertising goose blinds he thought it was something to put over the eyes of a goose. He had never heard of brush blankets, which are made here and shipped south and used for winter decoration on graves. One of my Calif. relatives thought 'brats' was only used to describe mean little kids and had never tasted bratwurst. When I returned to the area after a 20-year absence I thought deer apples were similar to cow pies and couldn't understand why anyone would want to buy them.

9/27 - Where was I? Can you guess? Here is a clue: I sat for l0 minutes watching a group of about 30 practice their oo's. (To be continued.)

9/26 - About l00 members of the Bethlehem Covenant Church 'family' (it's more than just a congregation) gathered Sunday night to say goodbye to pastor Robert Huse and his wife Yvonne who are retiring and moving to Canada. The Huses probably could not forget this group even if they tried. Besides the usual thank yous for their five years of service in the Palestine area east of Stephenson Dennis Morton put on quite a show. Dressed as an elderly woman admirer of pastor Huse he/she presented him with gifts of dingy long underwear, warm gloves and a hat with fur earflaps. Bruce Fellion, who acted as master of ceremonies, noted that the pastor was now dressed for Canadian summer but 'what will he do in the winter?" The mostly ad-lib ed conversation went on until they were sure everyone would leave with a warm happy feeling.

9/26 - Darin Pearson (7th grade) and Nathan Pearson (10th grade) gave me some of the "awesome" details of two football games played in Stephenson on Saturday. Our 8th graders beat Crandon 38 to 6 and our 7th graders beat theirs 32 to 8, according to the Pearsons. They said the most awesome plays were an interception by Steve Grinsteiner and the "multiple touchdowns" by Brandon Grinsteiner.

9/26 - If you know there are deer in the area it is alright to shoot into the woods when you see something brown. True or False? By the time the 60 students left the all-day Hunter Safety Program put on by the DNR Sunday they knew the right answer. DNR officers Terry Short and Jason Niemi covered the subject of safety at a level that even the youngest (l2 years) participant would understand. The majority of the students were from Menominee. A few, like Chris LaForest and his son Terry were from Marinette. Some of the parents sat in on the session and may not have been surprised to learn that hunters who had to drag a deer one or two miles out of the woods often think the DNR's scales are wrong. Records show that most of the year-old deer only weigh 90 to ll0 pounds. By the time they reach the l50 pound range they are several years old.

9/25 - Kevin and Sherry Newlin and their family (Amanda, Sarah, Heather, Kristin and Violet) and Heather and Jason Hubbard and their mom Karen met at the Stephenson C-Store at 8 a.m. to put on their gloves and orange vests before starting out to collect trash for the local P.T.O. sponsored Adopt-a-Highway project. Volunteers cover U.S. 4l from the C-Store to Corey's in Ingalls. They say they have found everything from tires to drugs during these three-times-a-year sessions which take about and hour.