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Betts Bodoh - Correspondent

(Wabeno News) - Hi everybody.

I suppose you didn’t notice, but I was gone last weekend to my high school class reunion. Now I won’t tell you what one it was but it wasn’t my 50th. Hmmm! I wonder which one it could be. Well, I am not telling. Of course my other half would blab if you asked him but you see he doesn’t have them any more. Actually I could lie and say it was my grade school reunion as I went to grade school with all of them also. I’m not telling and that is all there is to it.

They say that laughter is the best medicine if that is true none of us will ever be in need after this past weekend. We had the best time Lonnie did too. For three days we visited with at least 62 classmates and their spouses. Memories are definitely made of this. The first evening and afternoon was an informal get together downstairs of the hotel. Next day breakfast with our granddaughters at our old favorite restaurant called Omega. Afternoon and evening dinner visiting classmates again. Sunday a tour of the high school and a picnic lunch in the school cafeteria with our favorite “Sloppy Joe” recipe from our happy days eating in that cafeteria and more visiting. Then it was good-bye, sad, but with lasting memories to cherish, until next time in 2013. It seems far away, but so did 2008.

You’d have thought I would have no voice left or that I wouldn’t be able to use my arms anymore, for hugging, of course, not talking, but not true. I still have a lot left for this column and for anyone wanting a hug. Enough about my stuff.

Did you see the gaping hole in the front lobby of the Presbyterian Church? Well the tourists that stopped by my lil’ shop all wanted to know what happened. The church is being remodeled. They are making it handicapped accessible. How’s that for progress in this progressing town. I love it.

There are opportunities galore here. They are in need of a librarian at our little library as Lois is retiring. She is our present librarian that we all love and will miss. Of course we will get to know another nice person who will do her job.

There are numerous jobs that can be done from your home and business opportunities for entrepreneurs. I have read that it’s not the money that will make a business a success it is these four P’s, Perseverance, Patience, Passion and Prayer. I know the last two very well and I am working on the patience one.

The Christian Thrift Store is still in operation at its last location. They are having a bag sale now so get down there and check it out. I think it was something like two dollars a bag. No exact date has been set for their move to the Artists’ Way building. I can’t wait to see how it will be in there for them. This will leave the Red’s Restaurant building empty. It won’t be long and someone will buy it and set up a new business right in that spot. That’s what I love about this place. It is never really dead, there is always a spark or an ember still burning someplace to keep the little town going. We are always persevering. Someone always has passion. Maybe some don’t have the patience but we do a lot of the prayer stuff.

If you finally got this far in reading my column then you will find out who has been visiting the Harrison household this week. Bo’s brother Mike from Lexington, Kentucky was here. He and Bo were walking on River Street one evening when we were out doing the same. Bo introduced us and I suddenly had a panicky feeling I should run. Mike asked him if I was the Betts that wrote the column in the Forest Republican. It was a favorable look towards me so I didn’t run. Thank heaven! It was nice to meet you Mike and thanks for your comment. It’s nice to know that people still like what I write. You never really know unless they take the time to comment. You know that I don’t really know Bo’s real name if he has one, or how to spell the nickname he has.

Almost everyone here has a nickname. I guess that is a special way of being “in” or familiar with the person. There are some people like Bo who it has become so attached to that you never really know them by their Christian name. To me that is the quaint part of being in a small town like Wabeno. Well gotta go for now.

Don’t you just love this place? I do!

Any news or interest write to Betts Bodoh, P.O. Box 222, Wabeno, WI 54566, e-mail lobolu@centurytel.net or call (715) 473-3808.

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