Sugar Grove
By Paula Mitchell
There has always been an innate desire in humans to celebrate. The word “festival” conjures up images of music stages, giant crowds, endless tents, and people, no matter what background, have the unanimous association of “celebration.”
Why did the Treasure Mountain Festival feel so good? Perhaps there are none of the unpleasant responsibilities; in a sense one is free to do something else, temporarily. The whole festival becomes one big community. When connected, talking to strangers and making friends become easier and more natural. People feel freer to be themselves. Everything is designed specifically to be walkable, and one can get everything needed by their own two feet.
One could not have requested better weather…not too hot, not too cold and rain only on Sunday….perfect weather for part of this past weekend’s festival. A variety of food was available, entertainment quite evident, which brought the celebration to an “all time high.” People came from all parts of the country to meet with family, high school friends, and to simply enjoy the weekend.
Overheard at the Lions Club beans and cornbread stand: Keith Thompson, “What do you do when bluing is added to the beans?” Morris Homan, knowing full well, just responded with a big grin on his face.
Winners of the Sugar Grove Lions Club raffles were as follows: Ginger Kimble (Rugar), Scott Seymour (Mossberg), Dale Murphy (comforter) and Francie Lilly (Golden Spike).
All in all, the festival was a huge success.
Life’s little instructions include the following:
- Eat all of one’s food and never waste any.
- Always respect the flag and country.
- Be courteous and polite.
- Be neat and clean.
- Pay one’s fair share.
The Sunday morning rains were so very well received, with hopes that much of it will soak into the water table. Sunday measurements were 1.40”. Area residents will take it! Mornings have been unusually draped with heavy fogs and are cool and crisp with warmer temperatures during the day. Nice sleeping weather; but then, fall arrives this week with more of that type of weather.
This week’s quotes are as follows:
“Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou
“A good spirit attracts friends.” — Proverbs 18:24
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind man read.” — Mark Twain
“There is nothing so costly as ignorance.” — Horace Mannl
“This above all: to thine own self be true.” — William Shakespeare
Sitting inside to hear the “Talk of the Grove.”
Several community members enjoyed the West Virginia University football game, Saturday. Everyone had a great time, especially since WVU won the game.
Lyn and Sherry Matthews and Marleta Wimer visited with Rosalee Grogg.
Chloe, daughter of April and Justin Simmons, was named second runner-up in the Little Miss Heritage Pageant at the Treasure Mountain Festival.
On Friday, Phil Downs attended his cousin’s, Barry Simmons’, memorial service in Staunton, Virginia. He was busy during the festival, working at the restaurant and at the TMF Country Store.
Helen and Rhonda Nash spent TMF weekend selling their Anna Lee Candles in the craft building. They also enjoyed hosting a visit from daughter/sister, Vickie Nash of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and friend, Allen Hayden of Newburg, Maryland, grandson/nephew, Lucas Hidalgo, and friend, Alayna Payne, also of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and granddaughter/niece, Myah Hidalgo and friend, Vadim Barnakov of Richmond, Virginia.
Willard and Judy Rader enjoyed visiting with Bob and Marti Fisher and Joel and Betsy Berlin Farrar at the festival. Marti, Ethel and Judy also went to the nice tea room.
Clickety clacks for the chin waggers are as follows:
- Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake that is entirely within the borders of the United States.
- The earth curves about 67 feet every 10 miles.
- The Victoria butterfly of the Solomon Islands has a wingspan of more than 9 inches.
- A housewife washes over 2.5 million cooking and eating utensils in her lifetime.
- A sneeze comes out of one’s mouth at nearly 100 mph.
Concerns for this week are many. They are as follows: Charles Anderson, Roger and Joan Ashley, Mercedes Aumann, Vernon “Fuzzy” Baldwin, Lynn Beatty, Nila Bland, “Bo” Boggs, Marie Cole, the Jed Conrad family, Jeff Craig, the Maurice Davenport family, Bethany Eye, Mary Eye, Donna Fleisher, Lola Graham, Jordan Greathouse, Marlene Harman, Marvin Hartman, Steve and Armanda Heavner, Grace Hedrick, Jackie Hill, Edsel and May Ann Hogan, Virgil Homan, Jr., Adelbert Hoover, Myrtle Hoover, Debbie Horst, Alice Johnson, Richard Judy, Ruthlene Judy, Marsha Keller, Danny Kimble, Dennis Kincaid, Kim Kline, Tracie Knight, Melissa Lambert, Robert Lambert, Rex Landis, Angela Lung, Linda Malcolm, Betty Mallow, Roger and Skip Mallow, Willard May, Neil McLaughlin, Tucker Minor, Carrol Mitchell, Barbara Moats, Melvin Moats, Aaron Nelson, Ruth Nelson, Don Nilsen, Cheryl Paine, Barbara Parker, Sutton Parrack, Shirley Pratt, Alda Propst, John O. Propst, Kathy Propst, Linda Propst, Harley Propst, Mary Puffenbarger, Charles Rexrode, Jason Rexrode, Jimmy Rexrode, Pam Rexrode, Donna Ruddle, Annie Simmons, the Barry Simmons family, Phyllis Simmons, Davey Simmons, Erin Simmons, Eva Simmons, Robbie Sites, Steven Smoot, Connie Sulser, Rosa Tichenor, Sandra Vandevander, Evelyn Varner, Amy Vaus, the Constance “Connie” Waggy family, Sheldon Waggy, Judy Williams, Junior Wimer, Margaret Wimer, Dana Yokum, the fire victims of Maui, Hawaii, and earthquake victims in Morocco.
