Hello everyone. I hope all of you are planning to attend our first meeting of 2022 on February 9^th. We will be in the Patriot Rooms unless the Veteran’s change their policy. Please bring a mask. Covid unfortunately, is still with us. The pandemic before this one was the great influenza epidemic of 1918 and it officially lasted 3 years. I say ‘officially’ because it is still with us (that is why we all get flu shots every year—or at least most of us do.) We may as well become accustome...

Before we leave the subject of the Old West Show, I want to say a special thank you to Jim Sutton and to Susan Asadoor’s two pre-teen boys who dismantled and loaded the art display standards into our trailer for storage by themselves at the end of the show, although we had a number of people sign up to help with this aspect of the show, we didnâ€...

We had a wonderful Old West show this year, and it was all due to the generosity and diligence of the members who volunteered. A show like this simply is not put on in a vacuum. Without the hard work by our members, it wouldn’t have happened. Jackie stepped in as show chair and everything was organized so that it ran smoothly. Glynmary, as always, did a great job organizing and serving the food for the reception. Alice had all the ribbons and prizes ready to be handed out, and she did a g...