Alumni Sandstorm ~ 06/23/15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** 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. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>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 *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>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) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>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) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>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) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>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) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>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) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>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) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>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! *************************************************************** *************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ***************************************************************