Bonita chats with our classmates at home show

Recycling booth renders
passion, shame, amazement

Hi Stan,

I had a great weekend at the KXRA Homeshow. Or as Patty Wicken calls it, the big "Stop and Chat" of the year. I had an information booth on recycling and all of the other wonderful things that go along with saving the earth. Am I getting a bit jaded after talking about this subject for 18 years? Probably, but I do believe in it and am constantly amazed at the people who stop by and are absolutely impassioned about it. They often put me to shame with their enthusiasm.

Classmates I was able to visit with (that I can remember) were Bev Korkowski, John Seim, Ellen VanKempen and honorary class mate Patty Wicken. So fun to see them. I'm sure there were more but with the mobs of people I talked to I can't recall them all.

I was curious as to why the same little group of children were in the pictures that Tom Obert recently sent in to the blog. John Seim explained to me that their moms had all had babies about the same time and became good friends, thus the pictures.

Bev Korkowski is still dealing with insurance issues after the big storm damaged their house and really looking forward to summer at the lake so they can forget it all and just relax.

Good grandma
Ellen VanKempen I saw at church Saturday night with her kids and grandbabies. She was going to be sleeping on a bunk bed with little Tye (at his request). What we don't do for those little ones. But nevertheless, what a good grandma! CUTE grands!

And of course, the person with the most beautiful, soothing voice that I know, honorary class of 65er, Patty Wicken. I wish she would write a book about Alex. Her memory is phenomenal!! She's so fun.

I also talked to the Oprah Winfrey star, Diane Hoffman. She has a few stories to tell about THAT experience. Very interesting. Come on Diane. Tell us all about it.

By the way, I don't know if cub reporter Tom Obert knows that Cardinal hockey player Matt Dregor is the grandson of Dick and Kay Block and if you saw him you would think he's Dick's clone. Dick doesn't miss a game. His granddaughter, Sara, is on the hockey girls Junior Varsity (as is our Brittney).

Don't let it die
Small world, right? The reason I'm writing this is I love the Blog and it's up to all of us to keep it going. I check it weekly at the least and I bet a lot of other people do too, but if none of us contribute, it could die. Let's not let it.

Bonita Olson Gilbertson