The Lyle-Balch Cemetery cleanup is early this year. So plan to bring your rakes etc. on May 5 and join the other volunteers who take pride in sprucing up our local burial grounds for the coming Memorial Day. The clean up begins at 8:30 A.M. and is followed by a potluck and business meeting at the grange. This is a day to honor our loved ones who are buried there. Anyone interested is invited and welcome to attend.
"Charlotte's Web" was the free movie this past week and was missed by a lot of the community children. It was a very good film and enjoyed by those who did attend. So if you are looking to rent an excellent movie for your children we recommend this one highly.
Up date on the sidewalk on Washington Street...several sections have been poured and include the two antique horse rings that are being preserved on each side of the large old tree.
The council is looking for community participation in the next Lyle Newsletter "To the Point" which will go to press in late May. Poems, stories, your favorite summer recipe, community history, local military family news, your ideas for the community, park etc. Call or e-mail any council member to submit your entry.
Churches in Lyle are the Lyle United Methodist Church, 403 Klickitat St., and Lyle Celebration Center, 715 Washington.
Excerpts from Washington Historical Quarterly (date unknown) "E.B. Hewitt came in 1879 and took land at the mouth of Major Creek. He acted as road supervisor in 1881 and opened the road from Lyle to Glenwood. His instructions from Goldendale were: "remove no obstructions, nor do any work where the settler can do it himself." The results were that a road was opened at small cost, but was a long, crooked and rough road, but those were pioneer days, with pioneer hardships. At that date there were no doctors or nurses nearer than The Dalles and Portland so Mrs. Hewitt, being a skilled practical nurse, soon became in great demand, and traveled night or day to help the sufferers. She not only filled the place of doctor and nurse but many times did the work of the household when the unfortunate ones required her help."
These are worth a little pondering:
The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.
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