Opinion

Twin Lakes Playhouse presents its final production of the 2022 season, Deliver Us From Mama, Friday, October 21 through Sunday, October 30. Presented in special arrangement with Dramatists Play Services, Inc.

Ain’t October wonderful! It’s the best month of the year for fishing and hunting, except maybe for November and April, and possibly May and December. I once spent most of October in Canada, fishing for walleye, crappie and smallmouth, and hunting ruffed grouse and ducks and geese. We would start on the Lake of the Woods in northwest Ontario and then move over into Manitoba’s prairie pothole country where ducks and geese numbered in the millions. One October evening I caught a ten-pound walleye in Manitoba’s Red River after hunting geese all morning.

As I began thinking about this topic, I remembered the trees of my childhood backyard on Alford Street. Fortunately, the folks who own the home now are friends of mine so when I asked if I could come take a look at “their” backyard, they were more than willing, so off I went.

Cooking with Mumzy Hello friends and readers of the Mountaineer Echo. I hope this week finds everyone in happy spirits and good health. I know you have noticed our paper has been cut down to twelve pages. I just want all of you to know this was not Robert nor my idea, but it came from upper management.

When I first started thinking about writing a column about memories of my childhood in Flippin in the 1960’s, I had one particular memory in mind that I wanted to share. I’d thought about it for a couple of years. Here it is almost five months and some 20+ columns since I began Growing Up Flippin and that story remains untold because I kept hoping to find some photos, to no avail. It will wait no longer.

A great deal of activity has been going on at Have-A-Heart Pet Shelter and there is much more on the horizon. The third (and final for 2022) Volunteer Low Cost Spay and Neuter Clinic was held last week, during which 63 cats and 52-dogs were sterilized.

In Dad and Grandpa McNew’s country pool hall, the old timer’s they called the front bench regulars were the same age then that I am now. I recognize the similarities in them that I now figure is normal for me and others in their seventies.