Alumni Sandstorm ~ 05/24/05
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6 Bombers sent stuff: 
Betty Hiser ('49), Char Dossett ('51)
Tom Verellen ('60), Gary Behymer ('64)
Chuck Crawley ('67), Betti Avant ('69)
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>>From: Betty Hiser Gulley ('49)

Re: The Greenway
    There was a picture in the Tri-City yesterday about tearing down
the Greenway and making the Parkway (can you believe it has been 50
years?). I almost cried when they tore up the Greenway just to make
room for cars. Is Progress really worth it? I sat in the benches on
the Greenway for the beautiful shade.

-Betty Hiser Gulley '49er - south/government Richland - nice weather.
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>>From: Char Dossett Holden ('51)

To: Ruth Richardson (Bomber Mom)
    Happy Birthday Ruth. I think of you and when I am in Richland I 
will call you. I usually come for a class reunion about every 5 years.
    All of my family have left the area. Sam Jr. died, a couple years
ago and his Mother, Eileen and husband moved to Phoenix to be near
Charlotte (I used to call her little Charlotte but she is about 6 feet
tall, so now I call her niece Charlotte. Heaven forbid that I call her
young Charlotte and she call me old Charlotte.) Take care. Char

-Char Dossett Holden ('51)
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>>From: Tom Verellen ('60)

    To my way of thinking cherries are pretty good, but "wild"
blackberries score a lot higher. These are not just blackberries that
grow on their own but the smaller variety that grow on low creeping
vines and have finer seeds than the regular blackberries that grow
everywhere on the wet side of the mountains. I have a few small
patches staked out. Few ever make it out of the patch without being
eaten and they aren't ripe on the vine very long which makes them all
the sweeter. They would go well with peaches if any ever made it home
especially in a cobbler. Now admit it, aren't you cherry eaters
drooling about now? Case closed.

-Tom Verellen ('60 - A class that ends in zero.)
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>>From: Gary Behymer ('64)

Re: Click for eBay item: Atomic Bomb, Salt & Pepper Shakers, RARE, WWII, vintage
     You gotta love it! 

-Gary Behymer ('64)
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>>From: Chuck Crawley ('67)

Re: Old gym
  http://richlandbombers.com/Xtra05/050515-Behymer.jpg 
    If somebody mentioned this in a previous edition, I'm sorry I 
missed it. I couldn't see it in the pictures nor have I read anything 
about finding a swimming pool hidden under the wood floor? I remember 
the story was told that the floor in the old gym was so springy 
because it was originally a roll-away floor covering an indoor 
swimming pool. Sounds like myth busted.

-Chuck Crawley ('67)
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>>From: Betti Avant ('69)

   Bing cherries--yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was a house next to Jason
Lee that was always loaded at the end of the school year. My great
nephew a couple of summers ago when he was 3 just loved them. He would
eat them--put the whole thing in his mouth and knew to get rid of the
pit and stem. His grandmother dried lots of them, too, for later. In
Kansas you could get them, but if they weren't from Colorado they were
imported from somewhere in South America I believe. They were pretty
pricey, too, if imported. I'll have to check the store this weekend
when I go shopping.

-Betti Avant ('69) ~ Eugene, OR  where it is supposed to be in the 
               80s this week
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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