Palomino is newest Youngtown resident
By MARGARET IRELAND
Youngtown correspondent
(620) 382-2713
I met the newest member of our community Sunday afternoon. His name is Doc and he is a Palomino stud colt, owned by the Gaschlers. They are getting the Youngtown church ready for their home. Cindy Gaschler and Layne Nienstedt were grazing Doc on the church lawn when I came home from Wichita, so I stopped to visit. This is one pretty young animal and is spending his week in Ken and Margie Nienstedt's corral. He is six months old and well behaved, not afraid of my car. I have raised a couple Palomino colts and think they are my favorite horse color. It will be fun watching him grow.
Donna Jost Ames was surprised Friday night at the Hyatt Hotel in Wichita with a 60th birthday party. She had planned her own party for Saturday so Skip and Eileen Sieger, Patty and Dick McLinden, Bud and Tressie Kelsey, Deanna Klenda, and Sharon and Gerald Kelsey went to her home following the Hyatt party and enjoyed the food she had prepared for Saturday.
Eileen Sieger attended a meeting Sunday of the Girl Scout Council self-evaluation task group. She met with a national staff person and national volunteer to complete the council performance assessment.
Our weather has been so pretty and the flowers have been the prettiest I can remember. Vicki Smolik called me this past week to come for pears. I enjoyed seeing her flowers. She had a red rose that was chest-high on me and it had three blooms the size of saucers. Her dahlias were plate size. She said her mother had raised dahlias, so she carried on the tradition. Mums, begonias, and so many tiny zinnias — anyway, beautiful doesn't describe her flowers.
Kristine Bateman was home this weekend and visited Saturday with Alvina Skibbe in Newton.
Helen Maxine Cunningham of Nebraska visited Sunday and overnight with Jeannine Bateman. She returned home Monday morning.
David and Shirley Bowers accompanied the Hillsboro Seniors Friday through Sunday on a trip to Branson.
Jackie Magie from Colorado was here this week visiting family. She visited Dorothy Hayen at Marion Manor. Leon and Cate Hayen and Marilyn Geis were in Branson Tuesday through Friday.
Jackie Hett attended the fourth birthday party Saturday afternoon for her great-granddaughter, Emily Schafer at the home of her parents, Kelly and Travis Schafer.
Cy and L.Dena Goertz had dinner Sunday with Dianna and Clint Jost. Dianna and L.Dena attended a bridal shower at Burdick United Methodist Church honoring Tory Hecht and John Jost. They are to be married Jan. 3, 2004, in Manhattan, where they are students.
Mary Beth and Greg Bowers watched Steven Sunday afternoon participate in the four-wheel races at Green Acres Raceway.
Roseva McLinden took Richard and Patty McLinden to Kingfisher's Inn Wednesday evening to celebrate Richard's birthday. Patty served breakfast Sunday to Chuck and Lori, Lauren and Jarret and Roseva to celebrate Richard's birthday.
Roseva McLinden and Gerti Mahoney went to Hays Monday to attend the KAFC conference. The dinner speaker was Heloise and the motivation speaker was Bill Peterson of Herington. Bill was born and raised in Burdick. Roseva and Gerti got bread baking lessons from the wheat commission on white and red wheat. They came home with the recipe for the biscuits that we buy frozen. Roseva will bring the recipe to us.
Rosalie and Leonard Klassen met Cora Sorenson Tuesday evening in McPherson for supper. Joining them were Tammy VanCampon of Victoria and Jonathan, who she baby-sits, and Kelly Sorenson of McPherson. Leonard and Rosalie attended the 65th wedding anniversary party Sunday afternoon at Eastmoor United Methodist Church honoring Lois and June Jost. Ivan Lee and Mary Ann Timms and Leonard and Rosalie had dinner Wednesday in Cassidy to celebrate Rosalie's birthday. They all took the scenic drive to Council Grove and had supper together.
I was in Wichita Saturday to stay with Ethan Johnson while Joe was helping to make funeral arrangements for his dad, I.C. Johnson, who died Friday. Marj drove to Texas to get Emily for the services. When Joe could get Ethan, I returned home and will go Tuesday to Wichita for services.
