About Town
By Doris Lessenden
Difficult Times: Sometimes life is hard to understand. We face challenges and obstacles that were never in our plans. Yet we can trust nothing a surprise to God. Zondervan Bible Society.
Oktoberfest on October 15th at the Fairgrounds….it was amazing, surprising, and great!! I didn’t get to go all of it because my duty was to be at the Haswell Bazaar. Tina Adamson and her daughters and friends presented such a professional looking affair. I know that some of them did not sleep the night before. The Maze turned out to be an artistic design of hay bales, to its right were at least three sheriff’s deputies helping lively children to climb “The Wall”, and in the Concession Stand was Karen Jones and Teresa Witte who had a long menu plus their homemade Bierocks and Reuben Sandwiches, German Chocolate Cake, and other entrée s. Inside the building there were all sorts of tables set up for games, art, and children’s activities. The Beer Garden was under the former livestock canopy where the volunteers had hung thousands of twinkling lights. I really wanted to see the catapult of pumpkins in the arena but missed that fun. Tina told me that Brandon Hoffman and J.D. VanCampen made the catapult machine just for this event! I missed the blind–driver (in a golf cart) contest too. I heard that one team was the Commissioners Cindy McLoud and Donald Oswald. Thank you to Don and Cindy for always being so helpful and ready to attend so many meetings, events, and happenings to represent and to help the people. The other commissioner, Richard Scott, and his family were in the race track computing scores on all the different contests in evening. I did see the beautiful “Best German Dressed Family” who was Sean and Mei Lan Lening. She was gorgeous and had the three men in her family in suspender-lederhosen shorts, shirts and handsome felt hats with three dents…and probably a feather, but I was looking at his pretty wife! We were thrilled to hear the concert of Rhett Uhland, a senior from Eads and Jared Weeks, a junior from Kit Carson. These two young men took to the stage like young professionals that they are growing to be. Jared played the guitar accompaniment for all the songs and sometimes Rhett played the drums for Jared. Both boys sang some songs that they had composed. By the applauding, I think songs by Garth Brooks are the favorite with the audience. Terry Riley, CLCEC Manager, and his son had the white stage in the Arena where they spotlighted the young singers in various colors. When the full moon came up from behind that stage it was such an awesome sight!! We loved it! I do commend Tina Adamson and her volunteer family and friends for organizing such a major happening for Kiowa County. She is saving her notes and plans if the future county planner they hire wants to do this next year.
The funeral for Emily Bush was at the Brown Funeral Home in Eads last Thursday afternoon. Her son, Joe and wife Janie, live north of Chivington and were glad to have their pastor from Lamar give such an inspirational message and to have Cheryl Wyatt play the piano. Emily Bush’s second funeral will be in Groesbeck, Texas, where she will be buried. Joe and Janie will be there on October 18th. Their son, Joe Andrew, works in San Antonio, TX. Afterwards friends met for refreshments in the Cobble Stone Inn hospitality room.
Delores Eikenberg of Haswell flew with her son, Sparky and wife, Cindy, to Louisiana and went to Mississippi and other southern sights but especially to see that her brother. Delores is celebrating her 79th birthday this month.
It was good to see Marilyn Fell White of Hugo at the Down East Boys concert in Eads. Earlier in the year she was very ill but now she has recovered well enough to visit her two sisters, in Wiley and Lamar and her brother, Dr. Richard Fell, of Holly. Richard and Judy Fell were the Marshalls of the Holly Fair Parade in September.
The Crow-Luther CLCEC group will meet this week to firm up more of their plans for the Christmas Show on December 4th, the movie play list, and will have financial up-dates from Kim Richards and Cindy McLoud. The Maine Street Scoop also has some new foods for sale like root beer floats, milk shakes, and some warm drinks. Saturday, October 29th there will be a “scary’ movie at 10:00 p.m.
There have been some happy hunters around Kiowa County after they have shot their antelope or deer. Some hunters are planning trips to the mountains for elk or bear too; although, the Schwan’s man was excited about hunting for an elk near Las Animas.
This week, we are celebrating the birthdays of four of my nieces, Dreama Buck, Shannon Dixon, Celena Clark, and Colby Stoker, plus my good friends, Robin Musgrave, Melissa Peterson, Suzanne Proctor, and Rhonda Griswould.
Some local FFA members will travel this week to the National Convention which is always a real highlight to students to get to see another part of the world. The Book Fair at school will end, Friday, October 22nd. Family’s, local citizens may come to look or buy during school hours until about 4:30 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room. This is a good place to do Holiday shopping.
The Haswell Community Fall Bazaar was super under the organization of Mayor Michelle Nelson. Other Committee people I saw were Michelle Wyckoff, Delton and Marlynn Eikenberg, and P.J. Lessenden. There were probably many others, but two men who were busy scurrying in and out were the cooks, Shane Lessenden and his son-in-law, Moe Maurice Sagner. They cooked the meal in cream cans over flames and ladies of the community brought good desserts and Shane’s mother’s rolls were the best.
The Eads Eagles will be traveling to Cheyenne Wells for middle school and high school volleyball and football games Friday, October 21st.
Alysha (Uhland) and Kyle Morlan’s little boy, Carter Bell Morlan was born this month. I saw a precious photo of Muriel Davis Wiser holding her 41st grandchild. What a joy for her!
The pain of the loss of a child lingers for years. For many family and friends around here the pain is remembering the loss of Landa Eikner in 1987 in an auto accident.
The public is invited to the “Chamber After Hours” for speakers on two important topics at 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. about Historic Buildings tax credit and information on the building of apartments and housing in Eads. The public is invited to come at 5:30 p.m. for snacks $2.00 at the Prairie Pines Retirement Community.
