By the
Lyle Newscasters
Joy Collins, 365-5102
Barbara Sexton, 365-5374
PLAYGROUND WORKSHOP SCHEDULED: Saturday, July 28, there will be a work party to install the new playground equipment. We need you! Please come and help us get the equipment up and running for the Park Party on Aug. 11. We especially need you and your expertise but please bring any of the following: shovels, post hole shovels, post hole digging bars, wheel barrows, utility knives, tape measures, 9/16th and 3/4 inch open-box end wrenches, 3/8 inch drive ratchet with 5/16 inch and 9/16 inch sockets, hammer, rubber mallet, levels, variable speed drills (1/4 inch and 7/16 inch drill bits) portable okay with fully charged batteries, post hole auger (18 inch to 12 inch is okay if 18 inch not available), 6 or 8 foot step ladder.
An expert on the installation of the equipment will be available for one day only. We need your help to get this project completed in one day. Whatever time you have to volunteer, an hour or until it is finished, we appreciate. Be at the ball park at the old school grounds in downtown Lyle at 8 a.m. and think of all the good times and good memories your kids and you will have in the years to come, playing on this equipment!
Also, we want to remind you of the contest to "Name the Park" for all Lyle students under the age of 12. Students should submit their entries to Darla Brashers at 365-4332 or P.O. Box 695.
The July Birthday Luncheon was held at the Elkhorn Restaurant in White Salmon Wednesday, July 18. Forty ladies helped Penny, Clara, Dorothy, and Mickie celebrate their birthdays. The food was excellent and we enjoyed readings and a song. This was the largest group to share stories, music, visiting and just enjoying the company of everyone at our monthly luncheon. If you would like to join us each month, let Marcella know at 365-2882.
Lyle History, con't.: "After 35 years with Shell Oil Company for Syd, and 30 years for Letha as an Avon representative, they are now both retired. They have a beautiful home in Lyle, which overlooks Memaloose Island, Mt. Hood, and the Columbia Gorge. They have one son Oren, who lives in Champaign, Ill. A daughter, Jean Simonds, her husband who resides in Hood River, and three children, Ronnie, Traci, and Chris. They also have a foster son, Dr. Alexander W. Flynt, of Fort Meyers, Fla., known as "Lucky." He has two children."
"Both love the outdoors and beautiful scenery, and both enjoy all types of recreation and have had the pleasure of traveling throughout the world, but they still say there is no place like their home here in Lyle. They enjoy people and like to give a helping hand to their friends and neighbors."
The preceeding history was taken from an article written in 1982 in the Lyle Pioneer Days paper. Both Syd and Letha have passed away and Oren is now living in Lyle.
Hard work is often the easy work you did not do at the proper time.
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