June 15, 2020
Lions Club Award – Pastor Paul and Nancy Burrow received an award from the Rippey Lions Club in appreciation for their service to the local club and the community over the last 10 years. Dale Hanaman, club treasurer, delivered the award.
Nancy Burrow served as president and Pastor Paul shared in the leadership as president and secretary. The plan was to present this award at a regular meeting but since meetings have been canceled since March because of concerns with COVID-19 this was not possible. ~ Nancy Hanaman
Jean’s Jottings – People in Southeast Washington are still pretty cautious about mingling. I have noticed I have come pretty close to running the battery down in my phone a couple of times. There’s something about hearing a friend’s voice, rather than a few short sentences in a text or email, can brighten a day!
I was at the grocery store shortly after 7 am Sunday to get my supplies for the next two weeks. No, I do not enjoy grocery shopping any more. By the time I fill the cart, unload the groceries at the checkout, load them in the car, and unload them at home, and put them away, parts of my body starts “talking” to me.
Yes, the clerk always asks if I need help to the car, but I still load them a certain way, arranging the frozen things so they will be the first things I unload at home, so I can take my time unloading the rest. Sometimes this will be done much later or even the next day. Paper goods have been known to be forgotten in the car until I run out of the supply in the house.
I try to park next to the place where the empty carts go and usually no one else has parked in the area. When I got back to the car, I admired the new van parked next to me. I had part of my groceries loaded in the back seat and turned to put the rest of them in the trunk and this nice young lady came around the van and proceeded to help me. I was so startled and yes, grateful. It happened so quickly, I’m not sure I even thanked her.
I did advise her to back out first, as my backing up skills, especially around pickups and vans are limited. It was a beautiful van, after all, and I didn’t want to make that first scratch!
She will never know how much better my day was after her 30-second act of kindness. Just think. Thirty seconds to make someone else’s day better. I am grateful to her for this reminder. ~ Jean Borgeson
Rippey Library– Librarian Phyllis Bardole has been ordering interesting books during the period that the library needed to be closed and has brought books to the door for library users. One of these books is “Child of Our Time: A Young Girl’s flight from the Holocaust” by Ruth David. Her parents arranged for her to travel to England from Germany on one of the Kindertransports in 1939 when she was 10 years old to escape the persecution of Jews. Along with other Jewish children, she lived in hostels and later at Windemere.
Ruth David shares her experiences during the war years. Her parents died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz along with other family members. After World War II, Ruth remained in England and was able to gain an education and became a teacher. She moved to Ames in 1993 after her marriage to Herbert David, a professor at Iowa State, also a Holocaust survivor. After 17 years there, she returned to England where her children live and died in April 2020 at 91 years of complications from COVID-19. ~ Nancy Hanaman
