Snowstorm still tops news in Youngtown area
By MARGARET IRELAND
Youngtown correspondent
The news this week is the snow storm. We had eight plus inches drop from the sky on us and the rest was blown around by the wind until we were snowed in, unless we had equipment to plow ourselves out.
Rosalie Klassen called Friday afternoon to see how I was and I told her I was snowed in so she sent Leonard to plow me out. The pile of snow on the east side of Yarrow in front of my house reminds me of when I was a kid and the snow plow had moved the snow off the roads. The piled-up snow always was higher than our heads as we walked to school and this snow is taller than a third or fourth grade kid, for sure.
Eileen and Skip Sieger attended the Community Theater play, "The Last Gladiator," directed by Rose Davidson Sunday afternoon at the city building. She said it was a good comedy.
Katrina Griffin, Kandace and Kassidy from Emporia, Kathy and Paul Swan and Tim and Becky Makovec, Morgan and Tyler had Saturday dinner with Vicki Smolik and then spent the afternoon sledding. The cave in Vicki's yard made a perfect hill for the kids to slide down. What great memories the great-grandchildren will have of Grandmother Vicki's farm home.
David and Shirley Bowers drove to Newton Sunday to help celebrate Jonathan Paden's 10th birthday. It doesn't seem possible that it has been 10 years since he was born in Nepal. Wilma Christensen and I quilted his baby quilt that Shirley had made for him and we did it in one afternoon. That is the only quilt we ever quilted that fast, but Shirley was late getting it ready and it needed to be in the mail. Everything just fell into place.
Diana and Clint Jost visited L.Dena and Cy Goertz Thursday. John Jost came Sunday and had dinner with Cy and L.Dena.
Margie Nienstedt called Monday evening to tell me that Ken's mother, Marjorie Nienstedt, had died. Her funeral services were Saturday at the Christian church. Bill Meyer wrote a wonderful tribute to her in the paper on the editorial page. She will be missed and our sympathy goes to Margie, Ken, and family.
I didn't do a thing this past week away from home. I have a big quilt in the frames and a couple of good books and that has kept me happy during this storm.
