Community News

Hello everyone, hope your week has been a good one. Mae Garrison stopped by for a visit this past week.

Hope that everyone had a good week. Monday turned out to be a nice day. In the afternoon I went out and weed eat the yards. My niece Vickie called talked with Tammie and myself. Her and her husband Gary live in Indiana. She has her Garden planted. Larry has tilled my garden. I don’t have all of my garden planted yet.

I spent Saturday at the Diamond City Country Club helping with a golf tournament for the Valley Springs Foundation. The Valley Springs Foundation works to raise money for the school and community for special projects, thus far in the ten years we’ve been at it, we’ve raised over $100,000. Some of our projects have been expanding Wi-Fi over the entire school campus, supporting the Imagination Library, installing lights at the Valley Springs Park and given scholarships to regular college bound students and students enrolling in a trade school. The most interesting part of the whole weekend was meeting Sharlene Hudson who was from Snowball!

News is a little slim this week, not a lot going on. Seems we missed the heavy rains that others around us got.

Hello again. I do believe summertime is almost here. We got a good rain Wednesday night and Thursday and just waiting for it to get dry enough to get back into the garden to plant the okra and peas and work out the things we have out.

Sorry for no news last week. My weeks have been very time consuming. Mother’s Day weekend we very much enjoyed our company. Kim came in on Saturday and Don took us out to eat at Brittany’s Bake Shop for Mother’s Day. Naturally, it was so good, and we couldn’t resist taking home a piece of her delicious moist chocolate layer cake. We even shared a bite or two with Don being careful not to give him too much because he isn’t supposed to eat sweets.

It’s hard to believe that June is almost here! And for all you Snowball boys and girls, the Snowball School reunion is fast approaching! It will be held on Saturday, June 10th at the Snowball Pavilion. Bring your favorite stories, your favorite covered dish and come out. This year is the 50th reunion of the Class of 1973! The graduates that year were Eugene Chandler, Rita Horton, and Pat Casey.

We had some good rain this week. I did manage to get my tomato plants, eggplant and cucumbers planted.

Patti Jackson pulled a bonehead by dropping her glasses into the lake. I went with her to Conway for new glasses. It was worth it because now she can see again. The girl at the glasses place suggested a floating piece that goes around the neck and connects to the earpiece. Or just glue a bobber on them.

Sunday, May 21: Well, what a week. It has been a good week in many ways. Ray and I have managed to get by pretty good. We mostly stayed home and I was just a little lazy. Ray has worked in the gardens a little and they sure look good right now. He has them plowed and weeded and then it rained on them and they just shine. His tomatoes look really pretty and he has some of the prettiest green beans you’ve ever seen. All his garden stuff looks good.