The Zanesville Lions Club October meeting will be on Monday, Oct. 17, at 6 p.m. The change of date and time has been necessary so that we can get things ready for an evening of putting together Christmas wreaths to use as a fundraiser. They will be made to use at cemeteries and homes. This is a winter fundraiser and we have to get started early so we can have them ready to sell the last of November and no later than Dec. 1. We will start taking orders soon. They will be $6 each. If you want to help put them together just show up at the clubhouse at the ballpark and we will put you to work. We will serve you a sandwich, chips, cookies and a drink. All ages are welcome.
Mark your calendars for Oct. 31 as this is the date scheduled for the Lions Clubs annual Halloween party at the Lions Club Park on VanHorn Street. Judging begins at 6:30 p.m. There is free food and bingo and cash prizes for costumes. All ages are welcome.
The Lions still have apple dumplings for sale, Pizza Hut punch cards, and McDonalds coupon books. The proceeds from these help keep the park and the playgrounds open.
If you have not yet received your 2022 5K T-shirt we are trying to get them to you. We just received them the last of July.
At the Lions Oct. 17 meeting we will have a short business meeting with updates as to an exciting opportunity to begin sharing 10U, 12U, 13-1 6 year olds, baseball with Ossian and Uniondale. We hope to bring up some old Little League coaches. It will be fun to see our bleachers again filled with family as the kids of Zanesville again play on the field.
On Tuesday, Oct. 11, Gib Young and his volunteers are planning a short service as they place a commemorative sign on the grave of Cyrus Young. Cyrus is buried in Hoverstock here and he was the last living Civil War veteran in Zanesville. You are welcome to come down at 10:30 a.m. for the placing ceremony.
Coffee Cafe at the Church of God is still open from 7:30 to 10 a.m. weekdays. Come on over and join in. All ages are welcome.
Check out the area church’s Facebook pages as lots of things are happening.
While I was on vacation one of my newspapers fell hidden on the porch. Luckily I saw it and read in it the passing of a great Lafayette Central teacher, Bronna Beth Montgomery Boling, 96, of Crawfordsville.
My twins had Mrs. Boling. I shared many phone calls from her especially concerning Jeremiah. One call was to tell me he had made and was wearing a set of braces for his teeth that he made from paper clips! Another time he had sneaked large clodhoppers and placed them in his cubby hole so he could wear them at school! They were his brother Jim’s!
A call came right after we had been to the Feast of the Hunter’s Moon as Jeremiah held up his hand and corrected Mrs. Boling when she reported to the class that the buckeyes she had in her hand were poison if they ate them. He had learned from an Indian at the Feast that if you wash them you can bake them and eat them. As a very good teacher she did not dispute Jeremiah’s word. She however went home and read lots of books on buckeyes and found out that he was right and she apologized to him. She also called me to tell me the story.
She raised chickens from hen eggs in the classroom. When a deer was hit on the road she asked me to bring the dead deer to the school and she briefly explained as the class looked on that that deer did not look for cars when he crossed the road. The kids loved her style of teaching. Many students love this style today.
Our condolences to the family, friends and former class members as they pay tribute to Mrs. Boling.
