July – Old Fashioned Picnic:
Let’s gather for an “old-fashioned picnic” where the temperature will be “just right”, ants and flies won’t challenge you for your food, and rain clouds will be on vacation.
Date: Sunday, July 25th
Place: Stewardship Hall
Time: Gather at 5:30 p.m. – Dinner at 6:00 p.m.
Food: Hostesses will provide the meat.  The picnic table will offer potluck dishes brought by attendees.  Suggested dishes: salads (green salad, fruit salad, coleslaw, potato salad), baked beans, desserts, and fixin’s for the sandwiches (lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, cheese, ketchup, mustard and mayo), etc.
Hostesses: Jeanne Heiman (744-1369), Victoria Jackson (744-8293), Barbara Knapp (683-1743).  Call Jeanne if you have questions.  When you make a reservation with any of the three (RSVP deadline Wednesday, July 21st), please let them know what you will bring so they can keep track of the food.

Every “old-fashioned picnic” has games – we will too!  After we’ve picnicked, Victoria Jackson has some fun planned for us by way of Krazie Bridge.  Now, don’t get your blood pressure in an uproar – Krazie Bridge has little in common with regular die-hard Bridge.  Little card skills are required – if you can recognize a heart from a spade (hearts are red and spades are black) that’s all you’ll need to know.  Lots of fun is guaranteed.

Summary of June social:
Those who couldn’t make it to the FlintHills FolkLife Festival in Cottonwood Falls really missed out on a great time.  Although wet weather was predicted, the Good Lord showed the forecasters who was in charge and blessed us with a very pleasant day.  The lawn of historic Chase County Court House was the settlement for many historic presenters (some favorites were buffalo hunters, authentic Indians, spinner and weaver, potter, broom maker) and the kettle corn and homemade root beer were also a tasty treat.  Many of us were drawn to the area where a Native American told Indian folklore as he danced, and several of us joined him in the Friendship and Snake dances.

Our “surprise meal” was served at the home of Karen and Charlie Davis (sister and brother-in-law of Beth Ryland) who live in the area.  The promised “fabulous food” was home cooked by Karen, Beth, and Shirley.  For a nominal $7.00, we ate our fill of melt-in-your-mouth brisket, complemented with salads (3-bean, fruit, coleslaw and potato), baked beans and homemade rolls, iced tea, lemonade and coffee.  Dessert was a scrumptious bonus of cobbler (peach-cherry, blueberry, or rhubarb) topped off with Charlie’s homemade ice cream.  

Counting Karen and Charlie, there were twenty-six who gathered around two tables in their home.  All were fascinated by the dining table that had eleven removable sections and stretched more than halfway across the front of the house.  Of course once you got seated you were pretty much confined to your space.  When nature called after too much tea and coffee some quick thinking seniors exited by crawling under the table, to the applause of those not yet in such dire straights.  

After dinner we returned to the court house lawn and settled in to be entertained by pickin’ and strummin’ of the TallGrass Pickers (and friends) made up of amateur banjo, guitar, fiddle, base-fiddle, washboard, harmonica, and bones players.  Every once-in-a-while there would be some singing or story telling.  We were all having such a good time the fact that we were an hour and a half from home didn’t prompt us to leave until the musicians called it a night.  

Many thanks to Beth and her family for a delightful event!

Future Event Coordinators:
2010
August – Kastens & Wille – Ice cream social
September – Ingle & Kearns – Beach Party at The Moorings
October – O’Sullivan & O’Reilly – Bucky Fowler Band at The Fox Theatre in Newton
November – Mark & Donna Fowler Fish Fry

Last update : 06/21/2010

Last update : 06/01/2010

REMINDER – Lunch at Botanica, Wednesday, May 12th:
Our May event is lunch at Botanica on Wednesday, May 12th , followed by a presentation on Norman Rockwell’s paintings.  Lunch will be served at 12:15; cost is $7.00.  If you want to tour the garden there will be an additional $7.00 charge for those who do not have a Botanica membership.  RSVP by Thursday, May 6th to Barbara O’Sullivan (744-1668).  We will meet at 10:00 a.m. on the church parking lot so we can tour the gardens before lunch.  

Summary of April social:
Twenty-seven signed up to attend the Singing Quakers spring performance “Starting Here, Starting Now” a musical review from Broadway shows.  The talented students at Friends University treated us to a very enjoyable evening and although “Don’t Rain on My Parade” wasn’t one of the numbers on the program, we were blessed that rain showers held off during the times we entered and exited the theater, making the evening even more enjoyable.

Picking Up the Tab update:
Some additional contributions were received after the announced deadline and the amount we collected this year during Lent for The Lord’s Diner totaled $2900.  We will be picking up the tab on Friday, May 7th and Friday, July 2nd, both are dates Resurrection volunteers will be preparing and serving the meal.  Thank you for making our Lent 2010 event such a blessing!

June:
As of May 1st we do not have a coordinator or an event planned for June.  

Future Event Coordinators:
2010
June - open
July - open
August – Kastens & Wille
September – open
October – O’Sullivan & O’Reilly

Last update : 05/03/2010