Rippey News Jan. 26, 2015
Please send your news item to Jean Borgeson at jeanb@iowatelecom.net
Rippey United Methodist Church: PO Box 286, 103 West Main St. Rippey, IA 50235. Pastors: Enna Antunez and Paul Burrow. Phone: 515-436-7731
Adult Sunday school at 9 am; worship service at 10:30 am. Every Tuesday: Quilters 9 am, coffee and fellowship 10 am – everyone welcome!
Choir practice Wednesday at 7:00.
There is a hat/mitten tree in Fellowship Hall. The donations will be given to the Greene County Elementary School for distribution. Thanks for all that has been given so far.
Rippey public library: Sarah Kilgore, librarian. Phone: 515-436-7714; Website: www.rippey.lib.ia.us E-mail: rippeyli@windstream.net. Hours: Monday 1-6 pm, Tuesday 1:30-5:30 pm; Wednesday 3-8 pm; Thursday 10am-2pm; Saturday 1-3 pm.
Wednesday, Feb. 11 – The Rippey library will have all the “fixins” to create your own Valentine cards. The creative hour will begin at 4 pm and will be a come-and-go event. All ages are invited to come to this event. You will “have” to decorate your own cookie to eat!
Wednesday, Feb 19 – Coffee ‘N’ Bingo at 10:30 am
News in and around Rippey
The Rippey fire department responded to a fire at 308 3rd St. on Jan. 21. The departments from Jefferson, Grand Junction and Perry assisted as well as the Greene County sheriff’s office and Grand Junction rescue. Just like the old days, the guys from the co-op helped, according to fire chief Pete Johnson. Old timers will remember this building as the office of Doctor Chase.
Nancy Hanaman participated in the recent program review committee at the Iowa United Methodist Conference Center in Des Moines. Nancy is co-chair of the Iowa Commission on the Status and Role of Women along with Lauren Wise Loonsfoot of Waverly. Pastor Paul Burrow, chair of the board of Global Missions and Pastor Enna Antunez, chair of the Commission on Religions and Race were also part of this meeting.
Dale and Nancy Hanaman enjoyed being part of the Classic Week at the Sierra Theater on Sunday in Jefferson. They were part of the audience for “Gone with the Wind” which was originally released in 1939 and last show in Jefferson in the 1950s.
Toni and Phil Roberts joined Sharon Laub and Jean Borgeson for lunch on Saturday, Jan. 24, at the Hotel Pattee in Perry. Sharon and Jean treated the Roberts in honor of Toni’s birthday. After lunch, Sharon visited her husband Russ in the Lutheran Home and the others visited Jack and Dixie Slight before heading home. It was a happy diversion for all these good friends.
BRR ride is around the corner. On Feb. 7, the bike riders will again ride from Perry to Rippey and back.
Just a “short” 20 years ago, in 1995, Velda wrote in her Velda’s Varieties about getting ready for the crowd. Her crew of Jay Williams, John Welsh, Lori DeMoss, Mary Fry, Rick Liebich (Mary and Rick weren’t married, yet) and myself were preparing for the crowd at the Rippey café. There was some time before the rush, so she appointed me as her personal PR person and reporter and sent me down to visit Ethel Correy to take pictures. Ethel always entertained her grandson and lots of his friends during the BRR ride. They all loved her cinnamon rolls and whatever else she prepared. I found that the main crowd hadn’t arrived but I did find the “Iowa Boy” and his wife visiting Ethel. Velda gave me credit for doing “quite a sales job” to get the Offenburgers to the café to meet “The Mouth of Rippey!”
She wrote: “I was impressed! I was further awed when I returned from Zach’s birthday party Sunday evening and checked my answering machine. Chuck wanted me to give him a call. Did my head swell or what? Thinking that he was impressed with the ‘Mouth of Rippey,’ I returned his call to find out he only wanted to know the correct spelling of Ethel’s name.” She wasn’t too deflated because that was the beginning of a special friendship between two people who loved to put words on paper. Also, she loved to “name drop!”
