Support for Ukraine can be found just about anywhere you look for it.
This week I am on horse duty, have a 7,000-page data input project with a deadline, and company is coming this afternoon. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it, if anything about today’s column is disjointed.
Rick Karro wrote to me about last week’s column. He said, “There is a Sears kit home in Mazama (so we always believed). It is the Anderson home on the river side of Lost River Road.”
I looked up the home on Okanogan TaxSifter and found that it was built in 1920, which fits the time frame. I could not find an image in the models that were sold during that time that looks like the 2001 picture in order to identify it further. I’m curious, too, about how these kits arrived here in the valley since there is no rail line.
An interesting factoid that I did not mention last week is that Sears also offered a schoolhouse kit in 1908. It was 11,000 square feet and sold for $11,500. It was identified as Schoolhouse No. 5008. It must not have taken off, as persons who search out Sears kit homes have never found one, and it did not appear in the 1909 Modern Homes catalog.
Sun Mountain Hiring and Reputation Manager Cyndi Thomson graciously invited the two best friends that I wrote about recently, Mary Ann Bame and Donna Martin, to lunch at the lodge. It was a lovely gesture to treat the ladies who remember the lodge being built and each expressed personal memories of the original owner, Jack Barron. Mary Ann and Donna have so many experiences to share given their 86 years of life here in the valley. Take the time to visit with them, if you know them and have an occasion.
It is a difficult subject and given the world situation, one that people seem to choose not to think about. I’m talking about “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America.” I spent a good many years working in the same law firm as the writer of the documentary, Jeffery Robinson, and consider him a friend. Jeff grew up in Memphis and was a young boy when Martin Luther King was murdered there just as progress was being made in civil rights.
The movie is an in-depth look at the history of this country in relation to how people of color have been treated and why — much of which you won’t find in history books. His film, directed by two sisters Emily and Sarah Kunstler, is one that needs to be watched, as hard as it is. If you missed it at The Barnyard Cinema, perhaps it will be streaming at some point. It is a Sony Classics film.
Ukraine is another distressing chapter in the current string of unfortunate events. We cannot even fathom what it is like to pack a small suitcase, leave our male family members behind, and head to an unknown place where we hope someone will take us in. Recently, I spotted the yellow and blue colors flying here in Mazama. We all wish this world could just be a peaceful place.
Slack is back. Shoulder season is the reason. Don’t head anywhere without calling first to find out if a business is open and, if so, current hours.
