Snellings attend festival at Baldwin
By TOOTSIE SNELLING
Marion County Park & Lake reporter
Dale and I traveled to Overbrook early Saturday morning where we met my sisters, Virginia Gettinger, who lives there and Regina Prothman who came from Missouri. From there we went on to Baldwin for the Maple Leaf Festival. The parade started at 11 a.m. and there must have been 15 bands in it. We toured the arts and craft booths, found something to eat, then went to the quilt show. Gosh, there was a big crowd, we stood in line for food for an hour. You could hardly walk down the sidewalks but things started clearing out by the time we were ready to come home around 4 p.m. It is a two-day affair, running both Saturday and Sunday. It was such a beautiful day that everyone around decided to come. We returned home early Saturday evening.
The Midwest Polka Club rented the hall on Saturday for their yearly hog roast and dance. They had a big crowd. My other sister, Eleanor and Paul Silhan from Salina, came down for that but we missed seeing them because we were gone. The Gayers had the hall on Sunday for their family reunion and several of them from out of state camped here.
It was such a nice weekend, weather-wise, that there were lots of fishermen and people out to enjoy the days. One boat fisherman reported catching a 17-pound flathead, a five-pound wiper, and several smaller bass. Several channel cat were taken off of the heated dock and a few crappie too.
We also had some skiers and a couple of jet skis out on Sunday. They all said the air was warm but the water was, how did they say, "refreshing." I would have to say it was probably, "breath-takingly cold."
Dale has been trying to hull and wash some walnuts that we have picked up, but the squirrels are giving him a time. They are carrying them off just about as fast as he can hull them and, of course they take the hulled ones instead of the ones with hulls on. So last week he built a cage out of wire for them to dry in and the squirrels can't get the hulled and washed ones now.
The new lake directories are out and really nice, thanks to Dwight and Helen Beckham for their time and efforts to make them.
