Alumni Sandstorm ~ 03/15/15 ~ BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 Bombers sent stuff: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56), Leoma COLES ('63) Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64), David RIVERS ('65) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron HOLEMAN ('56) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Roy BALLARD ('63) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Barbara SMITH ('64) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Terry GANZ ('68) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jessica AVANT ('95) BOMBER ANNIVERSARY Today: Dave COCHRAN & Nadine REYNOLDS ('61) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Diane AVEDOVECH ('56) To: Maren Re: Iditarod I recently read an article about a blind dog helping musher Kelly Maixner. His dog is a 50 lb sled dog named Laura and is mostly blind, but will run any position in the sled race except the lead and helped cross the Iditarod finish line. You may already know about this but I thought it was pretty remarkable, even though he scratched from the competition late in the race. [Had not heard this. Interesting. Kelly is #9 this year and is currently out of Huslia. I'll add him to my list of "watching". -Maren] -Diane AVEDOVECH ('56) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Leoma COLES ('63) Re: Retirement So today is my first day of retiring again!! I retired 3 years ago after 40 years in retail to my place at the Oregon Coast and found myself working again soon after. I have been doing housekeeping at a resort and really loved it! It has been hard work and it has been taking a toll on my body, and I realizes that I will be 70 this year!!... hard to believe... Now I am going into business with my daughter in Lincoln City, OR and we are starting a clothing resale store. My son thinks I'm nuts, but I enjoy being busy... and excited to be part of this new venture. Maybe I really will retire in a few years, and travel more. Paris is on my bucket list! *LOL* -Leoma COLES ('63) ~ Gleneden Beach, OR **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) Re: 2015 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race http://www.iditarod.com/ - Official Iditarod Site Re: Lance Mackey Update Re: brother Jason Lance is "...cuttin' the cord... he's gotta go... It was an easy decision. He didn't hesitate to change his game plan to try to come help me... he's been a great help bootying... I'm never gonna feel good about this if he could have done better and didn't because of me. He's goin' and I'm stayin' [in Huslia]... Oh, I'll make it [to Nome}... I might be a month behind him, but I'll make it." In Tanana they were #62/#63 In Galena (24 hours later): #22/#23 today out of Huslia (24 hours later): Jason is #24 and Lance is @30 Submitted to SS by: Gale WALDKOETTER Skaugstad ('72) Lance video DeeDee video IN KALTAG (346 MILES TO NOME - 85 miles to Unalakleet) Kaltag Pop: 234 - Check-in is at Rich Burnham's house, but the official checkpoint and gathering spot is the octagonal log community building about a block away. 1 Aaron Burmeister/#60 OUT OF NULATO (393 MILES TO NOME - 47 miles to Kaltag) 2 Jeff King/#59 3 Dallas Seavey/#46 IN NULATO (393 MILES TO NOME - 47 miles to Kaltag) Nulato Pop: 359 - Checkpoint is the community hall 4 Aliy Zirkle/#32 5 Jessie Royer/#3 OUT OF KOYUKUK (415 MILES TO NOME - 22 miles to Nulalto)5 6 Mitch Seavey/#18 IN KOYUKUK (415 MILES TO NOME - 22 miles to Nulalto) Koyukuk Pop: 98 8 Joar Leifseth/#16 10 Tommy Waerner(r)/#8 12 Hugh Neff/#24 OUT OF HUSLIA (501 MILES TO NOME - 86 miles to Koyukuk) 14 John Baker/#78 15 Kelly Maisner/#9 18 Paul Gebhart/#28 22 Ray Redington/#34 23 Martin Buser/#4 24 Jason Mackey/#72 30 Lance Mackey/#30 32 Linwood Fiedler/#27 36 DeeDee Jonrowe/#29 - with some fingers frostbitten 37 Anna Berrington/#39 38 Kristy Berrington/#11 IN HUSLIA ((501 MILES TO NOME - 86 miles to Koyukuk) 44 Allen Moore/#57 47 Scott Janssen/#20 54 Jim Lanier/#13 OUT OF GALENA (583 MILES TO NOME - 82 miles to Huslia - 1/2 way) 58 Rohn Buser/#31 Red LANTERN (still in Ruby) 73 Ellen Halverson/#35 Two more scratched SCRATCHED/DISQUALIFIED (5) 1 Brent Sass/#71 2 Zoya DeNure/#79 3 Gwen Bogart/#14 4 Christine Roalofs/#62 5 Gerald Sousa/#44 Bomber Cheers, -Maren SMYTH ('63 & '64) ~ Gretna, LA ~ 65° at midnight **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: David RIVERS ('65) Re: It's beginning to feel... a lot like summer... yee ha and I'm lovin' it... been wearin' shorts and a t-shirt for the last two days... oh yeah I know it won't last... I think it's spozed ta rain mid-week but I'm enjoyin' it while I can... as I said the other day when I misspelled Carole SLEDGE's ('63) first name, the class a '63 is on a roll... won't be many b-days left if it keeps goin' like this by the time the Class 70th rolls around... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Roy BALLARD ('63) and Thea WALLACE ('63-RIP) on your special day, March 15, 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -David RIVERS ('65) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ****************************************************************