Ready for spring clean up

Mildred Lykens, 365-0060

lykensme@embarqmail.com

Barbara Sexton, 365-5374

madison@gorge.net

http://lyle-wa.blogspot.com/

Do you think you are ready? Looks like this busy community is waking up after a long winter's hibernation.

Lyle Community Annual Spring Clean-up is Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9, at the school bus garage. Bring your bagged discards, metals, and household castoffs. This service is free, but as the only fund raiser for the community council, your monetary donations are most welcome. Orange bags furnished by the county were delivered to most of the Lyle residents last Sunday by the OLESS group.

The next OLESS meeting will be held on Monday, April 11, at the Lyle Activity Center. You are invited to come and get involved in the spring activities, so bring your ideas, suggestions and helping hands.

The River Peoples Cultural Exchange Committee is gearing up for the May 14 event, which will center around youth and education. It hopes to have many areas to share native crafts and the elder's stories. Planning and preparations have continued all winter and you can visit their website at riverpeoplesculturalexchange.org

The following weekend, May 21, is the Lyle-Balch Cemetery Association's annual clean-up, potluck dinner and business meeting.

The Lyle Community Council elected new officers at its March meeting. Darla Brashers was elected chairman, Terry Mills vice chair, Mildred Lykens as secretary and Juliet Pouillon as treasurer. Congratulations guys, we know you will do a great job!

Some history from a booklet titled Columbia Grange 1889-1967: "Their meeting date was set as the first Saturday of each month at 2 p.m. The officers were installed and four degrees conferred on the 19 charter members. Receipts for the evening were $15.60, $15 of which was paid for the charter."

"There was a special meeting on Nov. 16, 1889, to practice the work of the order. This meeting was in a school house which sat north of where our Grange Hall is today."

"By the December meeting the books had arrived. A letter from Brother Nevins suggested the old officers hold over for the coming year. At the Jan. 4, 1890, meeting Tennie Vanbibber was elected to fill the office of Secretary as Brother Bly was leaving the community."

The value of a life is best measured not by the years spent accumulating possessions, but by the moments spent giving of one's self, sharing wisdom, inspiring hope, wiping tears and touching hearts.