Happy Martin Van Buren Day!

Middletown Journal

Today's Middletown Journal has two articles you might be interested in:

"When Roosevelt falls, memories will remain"

"Volunteer's seeds planted by parents"

1) They're tearing down Roosevelt School.

2) Ginger Lolli Bruggeman was honored by the Middletown Community Foundation for all her volunteer work.

yermom

Ruth Maus

Our friend Ruth Maus died Wednesday. She had battled ovarian cancer for a long time and seemed to be doing well when Dorothy and I saw them a month ago. Then it suddenly went downhill. She had just entered hospice and she died peacefully. Our friendship started at Armco

25 years ago. I'll miss her.

On a brighter note, my Middfest guests are here. I have Basil Mills from South Africa (with a crocodile and a South African porcupine); also a woman from Indianapolis who is part of a troupe doing reenactments of the "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" books on Botswana; and three musicians from Philadelphia. Middfest goes till tomorrow evening.

Dorothy achieved a coup this week. She notified the Journal that Milton's Donuts would be celebrating 50 years in business, so the paper wrote up a nice article. The irony is that when we went to buy doughnuts on the big day, Friday, they had closed early because they were sold out. It was all Dorothy's fault.

Someone at the church unearthed a box of Irv Emmons' sermons, so on World Communion Day tomorrow Tim Doty is going to preach one of them. I gave him a copy of Irv's benediction that I have on the wall here, and I think Tim will use that too.

Love, Mother

1300 Girard

Today Dorothy and I went to the ribbon-cutting for Hope House's new shelter for women and children. They have gutted the building and are making dorm rooms on the first and second floors. The kitchen and common room are on the lower level. It will house up to 50 people, presumably for up to 90 days, although the staff told me that will be flexible. "We" now own the lot next door that used to have an apartment building (a cat house, I heard). Now it is a parking lot and there is a yard and playground. They've done a lot to fix it up and it looks pretty good. I'm pleased with what they are doing and I'm sure Dad would be too. It didn't turn out to be the retirement next egg that we hoped for, but we did all right and the building is now being put to a good use.

If you want to see the article in today's paper, it's at Middletownjournal.com, and I had to ask for Homeless facility.

Love, Mother

REVISED: My travel plans for Dorothy's graduation

Saturday, May 8, 2010

United Airlines 7291
Depart: 10:17am Albany, NY Albany International (ALB)
Arrive: 11:44am Washington, DC Washington Dulles Intl (IAD)

United Airlines 6967

Depart: 12:29pm Washington, DC Washington Dulles Intl (IAD)
Arrive: 1:58pm Dayton, OH James Cox Dayton Intl (DAY)

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Delta Airlines 2808
Depart: 6:45 pm Cincinnati (CVG)
Arrive: 8:47pm New York, NY, LaGuardia (LGA)

Memorial for Frank Lolli

I sent a contribution to Fenwick High School in memory of Frank Lolli. Here