Alumni Sandstorm ~ 04/18/15
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5 Bombers sent stuff and Memorial INFO today: 
Betty BELL ('51), Bonnie STEEBER ('57)
Floyd MELTON ('57), Helen CROSS ('62)
Betti AVANT ('69)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jane WALKER ('62)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Debbie CONE ('71) 
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gene SWIFT ('71)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Gilbert BLANKENSHIP ('81)

BOMBER LUNCH: Puget Sound area, 11:30, Scott's Bar and Grill
BOMBER LUNCH: Portland/Vancouver, 11:20 Beaches Rest, Vancouver

04/18 TODAY IN HISTORY:
  Listen, my children, and you shall hear
  Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
  On the EIGHTEENTH OF APRIL, in '75;
  Hardly a man is now alive 
  Who remembers that famous day and year....
     http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/
     Paul Revere's Ride
     -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Betty BELL Norton ('51)

Re: Class of 1951 65 Year reunion in 2016

Attention: Class of 1951

Our 65 year class reunion year will be in 2016! (How can we 
be that old!?) What do we want to do about it? Anything? or
Nothing? If you are interested in working on it, please e-mail
or snail-mail me and we can start discussing it! Would we want
it with Club 40 with a separate dinner perhaps? What other
things would you be interested in?

Contact me! Hope to hear from you!

-Betty BELL Norton ('51) ~ Richland   
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>>From: Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57)

Re: Bomber's Las Vegas lunch (4/9/15)

Sorry I missed the luncheon. I flew into Vegas to do a MS walk
with my daughter on Saturday, April 11, and just missed the
luncheon. But enjoyed the pictures even though I didn't know
any of the attendees! Now I'm house/cat-sitting for my daughter
and son-in-law while they have been vacationing and will fly
home (north of Tucson) on Tuesday.

To: Marilyn "Em" DeVINE ('52)

If you're still reading the Sandstorm, please send me your new
(at least to me) address and phone number. I'm planning on
being in Richland the second week in May and would like to at
least say hello if you're around.

Thanks, Maren, without the Sandstorm it would be hard to keep
in touch with friends we don't see very often. I enjoy reading
everyone's entries even though I rarely write in.

-Bonnie STEEBER Frasca ('57)
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>>From: Floyd MELTON ('57)

Re: FBI

I worked at Hanford for 36 years... had a Q clearance all but
the last few years when they decided finance people did not
need them and lived in Richland 56 years and never once saw an
FBI agent that I would have recognized. I was in the Federal
building 30 of those years, guess I was in a cloud or
something.

I have never met David RIVERS ('65) but I do enjoy his comments
even though I do not connect with 99% of the people he knows or
talks about. Keep up the commentary there, David ,it goes good
for a morning read.

-Floyd MELTON ('57)
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)

Re: My grandbaby, Warren Aden Kirk, V

I am happy to announce the birth of my 2nd grandson, my first
grandbaby, as my first was 5 years old when he joined our
family.

He was big - 9 pounds - mama and baby had a bit of a hard time,
and will be here in hospital a few days, but, praise the Lord,
both are fine.

He reminds me of my son born in '77 who was premature and
hooked up to tubes, except my grandbaby is a big boy, about
twice the size his dad was when he was born.

Happiness is being a grandmother!

(Maren, I can't figure out how to add the photo now that I
addresses this to the right place - the only way I can send a
photo is by messages, I guess)

-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)  
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)

Re: asked but got no answers

I made the comment when I was diagnosed with breast cancer 2+
years ago about exposure to whatever due to being raised in
Richland but never actually worked out in the area. I also was
a Radiographic Technologist for over 30 years so who knows
since I had no family history of cancer (or at least breast). 
I decided it must have been God trying to tell me something,
still to this day I'm not sure what but I am doing very well.

-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ from sunny and warmer Richland   
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NOT a Bomber Memorial - only INFO today

Re: Joe ESCHBACH ('72-RIP)

A funeral mass will be held at Saint Nicholas Catholic Church 
in Los Altos, CA on Monday, April 20 at 10 am.
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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