Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/10/05
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7 Bombers sent stuff: 
Patti Mathis ('60), Walt Bailey ('60)
Roger Gress ('61), Vicky Fitzgerald ('61)
Donna Nelson ('63), Earl Bennett ('63)
Maren Smyth ('63 & '64)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barb O'Malley ('70)

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Patti Mathis Wheeler ('60)

In case Sandi Snyder reads this, I don't have your e mail, 
and would like to chat.

-Patti Mathis Wheeler ('60)
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>>From: Walt Bailey ('60)

To: Patty Jones Ahrens ('60)
 
Patty, could you please provide me with more information 
about the 45th reunion for the class of '60?
 
-Walt Bailey ('60) ~ Virginia, USA
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>>From: Roger Gress (Classic Class of '61)
 
Brad Upton ('74) will be at the Clover Island Inn this Friday.
 
-Roger Gress (Classic Class of '61)
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>>From: Vicky Fitzgerald Dwight ('61)

    Happy Anniversary Leonard and Mary Mike. Hope all is going 
well with you both. Congrats 

-Vicky Fitzgerald Dwight ('61)
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>>From: Donna Nelson ('63)

    I thought maybe I'd see someone from the Yakima area comment on 
Mt. St. Helens ash falling around them. I haven't seen the news yet 
this am but saw it was coming that direction.

    Also, I just spent $37 to send a 14 lb. package to my daughter in
law in Baghdad. I think mailing to soldiers should be free as long as 
they're there doing the job. Does anyone know a cheaper way to mail 
other than US?

-Donna Nelson ('63)
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>>From: Earl Bennett (Gold Medal Class of '63)

    Does all this gymnasium destruction chatter mean that those of us 
who contributed to the "Get Floored" campaign will soon receive the
floorboard piece we were promised oh so long ago? I haven't seen any
references to the project or mail from the leaders for a very long time,
but I must admit I've read less than half of the Sandstorms over the last
10 to 12 months. Still have them, just haven't read them.
    If any emails have been sent since September '04, they would not have
reached me at the address I had when I contributed, as that ISP went out
of the ISP business - I can now be reached at the address above. Still
live at the same place though.
    It would be real nice to get it soon, as my wife and I are installing 
an oak floor in the addition to our house within the next couple of 
months. We plan to get some decorative pieces to add to the stock red oak 
we purchased, and I will get the right router bits to custom fit the
decorative elements, so it should be easy to work in a piece of the old
floor for a long-term memento. Might even inscribe it appropriately for
future generations in central Virginia to wonder about the "Bombers" out
there in the wild, wild west. Should be fun explaining it to our 6-year-
old granddaughter.
	Regards, ecb3

-Earl Bennett (Gold Medal Class of '63)
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>>From: Maren Smyth ('63 & '64)

Re: Iditarod Update
  www.iditarod.com/ and/or www.cabelasiditarod.com/
            www.buserdog.com/buserdog/
    11 teams have departed Checkpoint #13 (of 27) - Ophir for Iditarod

At the beginning of the Iditarod, teams depart Anchorage in 2 minute 
intervals. The starting differential is adjusted during each team's 24 
mandatory hour stop. It is the musher's responsibility to remain for the 
entire 24 hour period plus starting differential. The Iditarod Trail 
Committee gives each musher the required time information prior to 
leaving the starting line. 

An early front pack has emerged, but its composition will change as the
race wears on. In the "front pack" is: Sørlie (2003 winner), Buser (4-time
winner, Ramy Brooks, King (3-time winner), Jonrowe, Zirkle, Mitch Seavey
(2004 winner), Swingley (4-time winner), Rick Swenson (5-time winner) and
John Baker.

Anyone in the "middle pack" can catch/pass and those include: Bjønar
Andersen, Jason Barron, Paul Gebhardt and Jessica Hendricks, Tyrell
Seavey, Aaron Burmeister, Ed Iten, Lance Mackey, Charlie Boulding, Jessie
Royer, Melanie Gould, Hugh Neff, Cim Smyth and Ramey Smyth... all strong
teams this year.

Some of the early confusion will clear up as the teams take their
mandatory 24-hour lay over. Mushers must take a 24-hour break at one
checkpoint along the trail. They usually go 350 to 550 miles before
making the pit stop.

The team in front now can change in a heartbeat.
Stay tuned...

Bomber Cheers,
-Maren Smyth ('64 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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