Alumni Sandstorm ~ 06/23/15
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8 Bombers sent stuff: 
Helen CROSS ('62), Duane LEE ('63)
Earl BENNETT ('63), Jim HAMILTON ('63)
Mike QUANE ('63), Gary BEHYMER ('64)
David RIVERS ('65), Shirley COLLINGS ('66)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ronnie Lewis ARMSTRONG ('56)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Steve CARSON ('58)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Peg SHEERAN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Diane MURPHY ('65)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jan MOULTHROP ('66)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Petra ILLIG ('71)

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
    Click the event you want to know more about.
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>>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62)

To: Tim SMYTH ('62)

Hopefully those bad guys are long gone from your neck of the woods.

-Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN   here we have rain almost 
      every day in June, (I think today is the first day with 
      no rain), but thankfully lower temperature have come with
      the rain, a blessing as we have been without AC all 
      month.  supposedly by Friday, it will be fixed 
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>>From: Duane LEE ('63)

There were several Bombers working the peas in summer of '63
but we were at Waitsburg working in the cannery for Green
Giant. Worked from 6pm to 6am, seven days a week and no
overtime. We were young and just having fun. Stayed in the
company bunkhouse close to cannery. About half the guys were
from the Southern states cause the wages were so much better up
here.

-Duane LEE ('63)
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>>From: Earl BENNETT ('63)

Re: Tim SMYTH ('62)

You mentioned Libby's, my experience was with Birds Eye and
Green Giant: Twelve hour night shifts in the pea fields, and
general labor in the processing plant. I wasn't with the group
of '63 classmates you listed, but rented a room in a large
house where Donna BOWERS' ('63) younger brother, Dale ('65)
also stayed.

Re: senior discounts

I was told by the establishment that at least one of the
entries on the old list from a couple of years ago was
nonsense, they had no such discount; believe it was Food Lion.
We've found it never hurts to ask, and occasionally we find
discounts where we'd not heard about it before.

      Regards, ecb3 - from what's started as a VERY hot and
      humid summer in central Virginia; the last two nights
      did not get down to a comfortable sleeping temperature,
      and everything I touch sticks to me.

-Earl BENNETT ('63)
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>>From: Jim HAMILTON ('63)

To: Ski Bus Alumni
http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Ham/150623-Tollgate_Sale.jpg

Time for all you Ski Bus Alumni to dig up the soup cans in your
backyard and start cooking Chili.
			 -jimbeaux

-Jim HAMILTON ('63)
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>>From:  Mike QUANE ('63)

Re: Tim SMYTH's ('62) pea cannery memories 

A few additional names that come to mind include, Rob HILLS
('63), the SHARPE brothers, Tony ('63) and Paul ('64), Bill
REDMOND ('63), Buel GAMMILL ('63), Scott HOUSTON ('63) and
unnamed numerous others. It seem like a dozen "Bombers" stayed
in the same house. 

After working 12 hour (hard labor) shifts and a 14 day work
week it all became blurry. The line between a dream and reality
faded. It seems we dammed up the creek (for a waterfall) and
flooded the basements up-stream, and hot bunking with 3 to a
bed was the norm, and their was the misconception that the
drinking age in Walla Walla taverns was 18. 

The pea harvest ended, we all survived with cash in our pockets
and nebulous memories.

-Mike QUANE ('63)
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>>From: Gary BEHYMER ('64)

Re: Canning Peas in Walla Walla/Tim SMYTH ('62)

Libbey's, Walla Walla Cannery, aka Rogers Walla Walla, with the
already talked about Little Chief Twice Nice, and Green Giant
were the area pea processors. I'm familiar with Rogers after
working there 3 or was it 4 summers? They did asparagus, peas,
carrots, peas & carrots, corn and spinach. Aside from 30 or so
full time workers, they hired ±240 summer help. Needless to
say, they put a lot of folk through college.

Their products were shipped all over the county. Much of it
into New Jersey & New York. By the mid-'70s, peas were being
raised all over the U.S. and the Walla Walla area processors
were struggling to keep the doors open. The real killer for
canned vegetables was 'salad bars'. Folk stopped eating veggies
and headed to the lettuce and tomatoes.

I loved the several jobs I did at Rogers. (Depalletizing empty
cans to be filled with product & radio control + I was a scab
during a strike in 1968 right before I got married.) I was
working 12 hours/day 7 days per week at a rate more than
$10/hour + overtime. When the strikers came back to work my 
$ dropped to $3.40 or so.

My thanks to Larry Oldridge and Al LItzenberger who were the
operations managers at Rogers during the period I worked.

-Gary BEHYMER ('64)
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>>From: David RIVERS ('65)

Re: CDNs and more trubel in the NW

Well it's the second leg of the month of mayhem for those two
'65er Bomber-babes... I've heard reports from news casts from
Gold Beach, CA all the way to Forks, WA and these two have 
yet to land in the pokey... time will tell... with 15 more
celebration days to go we can expect pretty much anything...
word has it that things will really get more excitement today
so lock your doors and keep your pets inside... little children
should not be allowed to stay out beyond the time the street
lights go on and when the traffic lights start flashing stay
off the road...

On another note... we also have a fine Bomber-babe from the
Gold metal class celebrating at the same time... word has it
that she's gonna help her sis ('61) at branding time but that
may just be a rumor... 

Finally ATTENTION all Bombers... we finally have a spot for the
Saturday night party after CDNs on Saturday, June 27th... Myra 
WEIHERMILLER ('67) has ignored her sister's ('63) advise and
has agreed to host the party at her new digs... Mary Lou
WATKINS ('63) will be missing because she has to appear on
"Housewives of Orange County" or something like that... it is
supposed to be @ 108 Saturday so we prolly won't start till
around 6:30 or 7 or so... I'll be in town on Thursday night
around 7:30 or so down at the DQ and in town all weekend if you
need the address... call me at 702 375-6961 if we don't hook
up... Friday night will be a special event at Cecilia's on
GWWay before we watch the cars... very special... be there...
for both nights it will be bring your own beverage... food is
welcome both nights as we are sure to get hungry... see you all
at Spuddies on Saturday or at the pancake breakfast... '65ers
are back in town for good times! Thanks Myra!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Diane MURPHY ('65) and Peg SHEERAN ('63) on
your special day, June 23, 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-David RIVERS ('65)
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>>From: Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66)

Re: Grad names new lichen for Dolly Parton ~ 6/22/15 Herald 

      "Singer Dolly Parton is an American icon, with dozens
      of hit songs, the Dollywood Theme Park in her home
      state of Tennessee and numerous philanthropic
      endeavors.

      Most recently, she's the namesake of a newly discovered
      Appalachian lichen, found and named by Richland High
      School graduate Jessica Allen.

      Allen, who graduated from Richland in 2006, discovered
      "Japewiella dollypartoniana" while conducting research
      on Hangover Mountain in North Carolina."

-Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66) ~ Richland    where our
      temperature will be 100+ beginning this weekend just in 
      time for Cool Desert Nights!   
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