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Hunting deer with a car

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Pat and Martha Ball have been busy celebrating graduations for several grandchildren over the past few weeks. They were down to Kuna on Saturday to celebrate with granddaughter Michelle Ball, daughter of Bernard and Rita, who graduated from The College of Northern Idaho. They also celebrated in Nampa a couple of weeks ago with granddaughters Chelsie and Breanna, daughters of Shawn and Chinelle, who graduated high school at the Taco Bell Arena. This past week they got to stay home and enjoy a visit from daughter Anne and two of the grandchildren, Wyatt and Rose of Lewiston, from Tuesday through Saturday.

Doris Baker is home from a recent trip to Milford, UT. Wednesday, she drove to Nampa and spent the night at the home of her daughter, Barbara, and Alan Kightlinger. The next morning, the three drove to Utah, where they attended a memorial service for the mother-in-law of her younger sister, Colleen, and Bill Johnson. They visited with many family members and friends and stayed through Sunday, arriving back in Nampa in late evening. Doris spent the night once again and traveled back home to Indian Valley on Monday.

Marthetta Blakeley is still improving every day, but really feels the effects of being housebound when she wants to be running free through the green pastures and planting a garden in God's warm earth. She is so thankful for her wonderful caregivers, neighbors, friends and family for all the help, love and support. She is seeking someone with a brush hog to knock down her weeds and someone that could do fencing. If you can, or know of someone please either give me a call at 739-5756 or email Marthetta at marthetta7@ctcweb.net. Being in the hospital for so long, she lost her spot with her regular helper and is urgently seeking someone to help Out.

Jill Doughton and Margaret Thomason attended the funeral services for their wonderful and caring friend, Ben Childers, on Saturday in Council. After the service, they headed to Kuna to watch granddaughter Courtney dance in her recital.

John and Delia Haberle enjoyed having visitors after the auction a couple of weeks back. Glen and Sandy Coates, along with former Indian Valley residents Dan and Ann Weer, came by, bringing hugs, flowers and the "bestest" get well gift ever: some morel mushrooms.

Patty Shaw attended to doctor appointments during the week, in order to receive referrals for specialists she needs to see in the future. She did receive a wonderful goodie basket from her friend, Darlene Fertig in California, filled with sugar-free candies and a few treats for Jim.

Dave and Cathy Veselka enjoyed having daughter Julie come to visit on Tuesday and stay through Saturday when she returned home to Twin Falls. Grandma Lanae especially enjoyed some wonderful visits with her, having a good time visiting and playing games. Julie enjoyed a nice walk along the riverbanks while visiting Grandma, just remembering some precious family moments growing up.

Tom Green enjoyed having visits from friends, including Chuck Lively of Council, during the week. Also visiting him was Russell Allison of Midvale on Monday morning. Tom is resigning as the chaplain for the local American Legion, and Russell retrieved the veteran's articles from him.

Mary and Jenny Rininger were enjoying a nice day out together on Monday in Ontario. The two were shdpping for supplies and enjoying a nice lunch.

Craig and Ardis Boll are back from a recent trip to Arizona. They went to check on a rental house, do some repairs and visit with sister Shannon Gauss. They arrived home on Sunday evening, Ardis staying down in Boise with Meagan to attend classes this week, but Craig came home to work on the yard. Hayden has begun work at the Starkey Experimental Forest near La Grande, and is also happy to have received news that he made a B in his calculus class.

Robin Stephens started her week off in Weiser visiting her brother, Super. At home, she was battling an irrigation project and made a trip on Friday to Ontario to pick up parts. Chad and Tony Dunham got it put together, but it was still leaking, so Monday she was off to Cambridge for parts for a second try. Sunday, she made another trip to Weiser and got to visit with cousin Larry Nygaard of Orofino and some other friends.

Ron and Janet Meyer enjoyed an impromptu visit from sister Leigh Ann and her husband, Kaz, over the weekend. Janet and Leigh Ann mapped out some plans for future yard saling, making sure they had some strategies in place that they arrive back home with more than a hog trough and a unicycle with a flat tire!

Roy and I have grand-kids Anika and J.R. visiting from Nevada for six weeks. J.R. was worried that Grandma couldn't come up with something fun, so Grandma went deer hunting the first night, the only bad thing was I used my car instead of a gun! Now, J.R. thinks Grandma is just awesome at coming up with fun things to do, and he can't wait to see what else I might do. Yikes!



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