This weeks schedule:
Tuesday
- Active Listeners meet in the church library at 10:00 am.
Wednesday
- Choir practice is at 6:30 pm. in the sanctuary
A reminder of an event coming up next month:
UMW Spring Fling is scheduled for June 26th and all the congregations is invited! We will be going to Hoffstadt Bluff, which is on the way to Mt. St. Helen’s. We will meet at the restaurant for lunch at noon and after lunch people are welcome to go to the visitor centers, see sights on their own. A menu choice will be available soon so that you can pre-order your lunch.
Following is a message from Bob Martinson concerning the formation of a permanent fundraising committee. Please consider joining this very necessary group.
“Church Council at its last meeting approved establishing a permanent fundraising committee. Members will include Barbara Vining, Bob Martinson and Margaret Vockrodt, who were on the committee set up to oversee the silent auction and check out selling ice cream and brownies at the Go 4th and Hilander Festivals. (Margaret, in fact, has already volunteered to chair next year’s auction!)The committee needs more members – please take a moment and consider helping out with this important church mission. We really need your help. If you’re interested, please reply to this email or talk to Jerry, Barbara, Bob or Margaret. We need people who will share their ideas and enthusiasm!”
“For Dom* and Ace, A Birthday Celebration Long Overdue
*Dominic Ciancibelli is a old (we won’t say how old) friend from before the volcano.
Friday, May 28 (only one day after the birthdays)
6 p.m. or so
Greater Lexington Home of the Martinsons, 203 Aaron Dr., 1 mile north of Exit 42, off West Side HIghway; 360-578-7991
MENU FOR MUNCHING
Maui Barbecued Pork Ribs, Boneless (for toothless grannies and paps)
Grilled Salmon
Michigan Baked Beans (to keep the price up for navy beans)
Elsie’s Mother’s Potato Rolls from “The Fallingwater Cookbook”
Birthday Cake
Homemade Ice Cream (Pending approval from the birthday boys)
And anything else you’d like to bring, but no gifts please
Let’s begin at the beginning:
Many years ago, in the Time of the Volcano, amid the flush days of our youth, before Lexington had its own I-5 exit (Exit 42, Sparks Road), at a outdoor party at the home of Denison Midwood and husband Jim, chatted a group of seven or so people who had barely met. (Challenging sentence structure, that.)
As an ice breaker, Suzanne (today’s narrator) brought up a little fact she’d read in some august publication, perhaps Readers Digest.
She: “I read somewhere that in any group of 21 people, two will have the same birthday.”
Husband Ace looked from face to face. He: “That’s crazy! Think about it: It doesn’t work out statistically. (He was an economics major.) There are 365 days in a year, and …”
She: “That’s what I read.” (Always the journalist’s attribution.)
He, raising his voice: “May 27?”
Dominic Ciancibelli, standing next to him: “That’s my birthday!”
Suzanne, with fervor: “I rest my case.” (She wins so few arguments that involve numbers.)
That day she and Molly vowed to have a party to celebrate the husbands’ common birthday. It took a while, but THIS IS IT. Please let us know how much salmon to grill.
acesmartinson@comcast.net or mciancibelli@hotmail.com
Not long ago, the “21 strangers” story was replayed in England. Dominic and Molly, in a car with one other couple, discovered on the road from Fowey to Portsmouth, that Dom and the other woman also shared the May 27 birthday. Math whizzes, eat your heart out — and please join us for ribs without ribs and salmon and birthday cake.”
John has been mowing the “back forty” this morning. I know Jerry sent an email inviting people to show up with their rakes around noon. I just want to add the message here.
