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Margaret Wellman

Around Park City
By Margaret Margaret
Last Updated: October 04, 2001

Hi there! This has been one busy week for me, getting ready for the garage sale. I’m wondering if it was really worth it or not. Our grandkids made more than we did, and we did most of the work. But I guess it was because we enjoyed visiting with all the people that came by to look and we did sell a few things. But we had so much stuff, guess we’ll have to have another one next spring and see how much more we can get rid of before the kids have to. Maybe we can make enough to go fishing again.

Last Friday, Sept. 28, we went to the Senior Center for lunch, and when we got there there was smoke rolling off the patio. So I went and checked it out only to find that Mayor Emil Bergquist was having a barbecue for the employees’ appreciation day, and boy, did it ever smell good. They invited me to eat with them, but I had already made reservations for the birthday lunch through the Good Neighbor Nutrition program, which was having mushroom steak and gravy with parslied potatoes. Now, that was a very hard decision to make! I decided to eat the steak.

But in the meantime, I got in on the awards that Mayor Bergquist presented. The service awards went to Chief George Capps for 15 years, and to clerk Judy Ferguson, J.B. Brashear, Eric Miller, Randy Berry and Dennis Rader, all for 10 years. Congratulations to all of you, and to the rest of the city workers. Without you to pick on, I wouldn’t have much to write about. All kidding aside, you are the backbone of Park City and we are very proud of you. Keep up the good work, and while we are on the subject of the city crews…

Thanks go to Bruce Helberg and his crew for getting the trees in at the Senior Center. We have waited for four years to see them, and now they really look pretty along with the new bushes. It finally is looking like a memorial park should. And if you haven’t walked around the center, you really should do so. Thanks again. But you best look out next week, ’cause my typewriter is just getting warmed up, and with pen in hand, I’m ready.

The circus will be in town this weekend. Chisholm Trail Seniors will be ushering Friday night. You don’t have to be a senior to usher, just 18. So if you are interested, give Wilma Talbut a call at 838-3167 to get your name on the list. They do some hockey games and other events, and you can see it all for free!

Call me at 744-2907 with your news.

Saturday is the dance at the Senior Center with Yesterday’s Playboys, and it also is Agnes Dry’s birthday free dance. That is the same evening the book review, “Shane” by Jack Shaefer, will be presented at the Park City library by Janet Juhnke. That will be a good one to go and hear. So if you don’t dance, go to the library and get in on the discussion. But then you still can come over and see us at the dance.

Happy birthday this week goes to Nadine Leidy, Don Ellis and Agnes Dry, and happy anniversary to Ernie and Nadine Clark. And many more to all who had their day this week.

Congratulations to Rev. Ernie and Nadine Clark on their new adventure in Spanish. Now I won’t be able to understand them ’cause I know very little Spanish.

Foot care is available at the Senior Center on the first and third Fridays of the month. Appointments can be made by calling 689-5700 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays.

Happy late birthday to Dee Stuart. My, it’s amazing how fast these birthdays come around after you reach that certain age. Hope it was a good one.

Park City Ring of Clowns is starting classes about how to be a clown and be able to put on your own makeup and whatever else goes with it. I know whenever Troubles calls me, he just makes me feel good all over.

It’s a joy to talk to him, and he is the one you can call to get in on the classes at 744-0310. These will be held at 7 p.m. Oct. 8 and 22 and Nov. 12 and 26 at the Pride Center.

He really would love to see you there if you want to learn how to make people feel good, and we really do need that now. Hope you are interested, and call Troubles.

Wayne and I learned something the 26th that was a good thing, but the way it happened was funny. We were parked off Broadway, just north of 77th on the old strip of highway that still is there, and we were watching the fireworks--which, by the way, were very pretty. Thanks to those who furnished them for us.

After it was over and I was turning around, a state trooper turned off 77th going north up to the highway patrol station. He turned around right in the middle of Broadway and came in behind me with his lights a flashing.

Well, we hadn’t done anything wrong so we were wondering why. Of course, I stopped and sat there while they came up and wanted to know if we were all right and what we were doing driving out in the field. Surprised me, ’cause I wasn’t in any field. So we explained we were just watching the fireworks and one of the officers said “that was neat, just as long as you are OK.”

They probably thought we were a young couple, and when they found out we were a couple of old folks just watching the fireworks, it was OK. So now I know that we are too old to park anymore. What a disappointment! It was fun while it lasted, though. I thanked them for being concerned and we all went our way.

I found out that chocolate is a vegetable! Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. “BEAN” = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar cane or sugar beets. Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable! So they say eat your vegetables every day. Now I can do that, and you can put “eat chocolate” at the top of your list of things to do every day. That way, at least you’ll get one thing done.

God bless!