Some stories you should hear
I can definitely assure you the cherry cheesecake I spoke of this past week WILL be up for bid at the benefit auction Saturday. And so will some other really killer desserts that will make your teeth hurt just to look at them. We have promises of enough that I don't have to bring one. I know you are all relieved.
The goodies for the auction just keep rolling in. A nifty baseball score book from 1934 Peabody High School teams has surfaced. The names and statistics belong to some guys whose names I have heard since I first came to Peabody. Many I never knew, but some I remember as part of the bunch that drank coffee at Don's Drugs a couple of decades ago. That is how I remember them and it is hard to think of them as members of the freshman or junior PHS team: Eberhard, Porter, Merryfield, Keller, Berns, Ewert, Slocombe, Hugenin, Ward, Horst, McMillen, Clithro, and others.
And to make it even more interesting are another set of scores and statistics listed in the back pages
And now I am going to hush about the Main Street auction before the publisher of this newspaper tells me I have to pay for this announcement because it really is an advertisement.
One of those freaky e-mail things happened last week on my computer at the newspaper office. Jana Wedel, sponsor of Business Professionals of America, sent a news item and a photo of BPA students who did well at state contest the weekend before. Her e-mail languished in cyberspace and didn't land in my computer until Monday. Now where do you think it might have been all this time?
If I weren't a little gun-shy about mentioning the weather I would express my pleasure at finally being able to bask in some spring-like temperatures. But every time I mention Mother You-Know-Who, it snows. I hate it when that happens. I saw crocuses the other day and I am waiting for my daffodils to break through so that is all the weather commentary you are going to get out of me.
I did hear, though, that we are in for a Y-2k type event when we go into the "New and Improved Daylight Saving Time" coming up in just a few days. Seems our computers are not programmed to go along with the government's plan to save millions in energy costs by messing with Mother You-Know-Who! I guess it's a good thing I got Jana Wedel's e-mail when I did. No telling how far it would have gone if it had been caught in a Daylight Saving Time warp. Those poor kids might have ended up on the school page in Pango-Pango.
And one final note: I got a fax from our school district noting the board of education will be interviewing superintendent candidates several days this week. We want a good one so if you see strangers in town, be nice.
— SUSAN MARSHALL
