Brevort
By Lois Movalson 292-5581

Friday night, January 26, found Dave and I partaking of the wonderful variety of soups at LaSalle High School before the game with the Cheboygan Chiefs. It was a great evening, with our appetite satisfied, and sitting with our fellow Saints fans of the top row. It was a barn burner of a game, with the Saints victorious. What a team they're proving to be, as each player steps up to the job and gets it done in fine style. The fans in the bleachers seemed especially fired up, the cheerleaders in top form, the band could have played on and on, and the dancers executed their routines for our enjoyment. The Chiefs proved formidable, but our guys were more so. Congratulations, Saints.

Trinity Lutheran Church sponsored its annual progressive dinner Saturday, January 27, with about 40 friends and neighbors attending. The salad course was served at the fellowship hall, after which the main course of ample appetizers was served. We then gathered at the home of Thora and Jack Shepard for dessert. As always, it was a big success.

Events still happening at Trinity include Bible study Tuesday afternoons at 2 p.m. Lunches will start Wednesday, January 31, at noon. Chief chef Pega Kennedy will be cooking up all sorts of good stuff to eat.

Happy birthday to Melissa Foster January 29, Debbie Berry January 30, and Jerri Rose February 10.

Please keep Reg Pennington in your prayers as he fights cancer. Reg is the husband of former Brevort resident Bev Gustafson, and the son-in-law of Minnie Gustafson, also formerly of Brevort.

Sally Conklin underwent knee replacement surgery and now has to have a procedure known as a manipulation. We wish you well and pray for a successful result.

Sharon Chalmers motored to Sault Ste. Marie to lunch with friends Monday.

Randy Haas has been promoted to assistant warden in the Michigan Department of Corrections. Randy will begin his new job in Macomb County Sunday, February 11. Randy and his wife, Helen, have been associated with the prison at Kinross for a few years and have a condominium in Brevort. Congratulations on your new job, Randy.

Margaret "Margie" Flora has been visiting her father, Bob Flora, of Wildwood Lane. She has been in India working in an ashram, helping the poor and involved with building schools and hospitals. Margie will be living near Oakland, California, and will begin a job in special education in the school system.

Betty Giordani is looking for a solution to prevent the birds from flying into her big picture window. She has chickadees and purple finches at her feeders.

Owen and Barb Jorgensen traveled to Grand Rapids last week to visit friends. They met daughter-inlaw, Melanie Jorgensen, who was attending a music conference. En route on a four-lane, very busy highway, their car struck an object in the middle of the road that did considerable damage to a tire, actually piercing the rim of the wheel and immobilizing them between speeding cars right and left. A motorist stopped and changed the wheel, then guided them off the freeway to a garage for repairs. There are good people out there yet. The Jorgensens are home once more with four new tires on their car, and very thankful for kind people.

Denny and Jackie Rippett arrived at their condominium in Brevort and attended the progressive dinner Saturday evening. They will be here for the remainder of the week, then head back to Waterford.

Jim and Jerri Rose had a phone call from their son, Mickie Rose, who is working for a trucking firm in the oil fields of Wyoming.

Thora and Jack Shepard hosted a dinner for their daughter, Melissa Foster, Tuesday evening at a restaurant in Mackinaw City.

Becky Freed and their daughter, Gracie, of Engadine called on Thora Shepard Monday at her home on Schoolhouse Road in Brevort.

Pega and John Kennedy, Tom and Joyce Gustafson, Ken and Sharon Smith, and Charlie and Gayle Lamoreaux all attended the Lone Star concert Sunday, January 28, at the Kewadin Casino in St. Ignace.

Happy Groundhog Day Friday, February 2. That day was celebrated with projects and stories when I worked with Lucy Evashevski at Gros Cap School. I was from Ohio, and Lucy from Iowa, and Groundhog Day was something we celebrated, as I was a farm girl and Lucy lived in an area that was mainly agriculture. Or maybe it was just a reason to celebrate in the middle of winter.