The second annual Outsiders Art Festival in August was a smashing success. The mixed media art show and filmfest at the Loft at the Mill drew more than 700 people. Better still, 44 pieces of art sold and every penny 3,700 went to the artists, men and women coping with some form of mental illness.
Mark your calendars for the first week of August 2007. Walking in Boston Sisters Deb Early and Tammie Burns made it to Boston last month and walked 60 miles in three days, raising money for breast cancer research. Deb tells this story: It s day 3 and we re walking through a residential area.
A young woman in her early 30s comes out and she s wearing a bandanna. She asks if we re doing the 3-day walk and we stop. She tells us that she really wants to do it next year and that she just finished chemo two weeks ago.
I congratulate her and Tammie says, You re the reason we re walking! It was like time stopped for a second, her eyes welled up and she softly said, Thank you. Will you marry me?
After John Wirtz made his cinematic proposal to sweetheart Ella Reeves, I linked to the column in my Lincoln Life blog so people could share their proposal tales. One woman shared that her husband proposed at Flaming Amy s Burrito Barn while she had guacamole and sour cream dripping off her chin. That s a good one, but this is my favorite: My wife and I have been married for 19 years but I have no recollection of ever proposing.
My husband says the same thing. Harold feeds the hungry Ya gotta love Harold Hamilton, the retired Lutheran pastor who collects food for the hungry. After a column about his service ran this summer, the careful bookkeeper wrote to say he had heard from over 75 persons.
He also included a copy of a letter sent to a couple who sent 50 to help with the work he and his grandsons have undertaken. The 50 bought 30 boxes of cereal (sale priced, naturally), he told them. Furthermore, each box had a 30-cent Super Box Top for Education coupon and an additional 10-cent regular Box Top for Education coupon, which provided 12 for Randolph School to help purchase needed items.
I m proud and I m sure you are too, he wrote, that your gift has multiplied Sort of like that whole loaves and fishes thing. Everything is going well for the Band of Sisters who made a themed girlie calendar for their Band of Brothers serving in Iraq, said Shannon Lassek. The 167th Cavalry lost two Nebraska soldiers and some of the seven women from the calendar attended the funerals together, and that was hard.
But morale is back up, Shannon said, and the soldiers will be home in the spring. In a few days, in the Iraqi desert, they ll flip their calendars over to see their wives in bikinis and beachwear, a takeoff on the hit Lost. Implants for Isaac Last week, Isaac Erhart had surgery.
The 1-year-old who lost his hearing after contracting meningitis last winter received bilateral cochlear implants. His mom, Heather, says he is very doing well. The implants won t be fully functioning until Oct.
The family received all sorts of donations after their story was publicized, making it possible for the surgery their insurance wouldn t cover. So many people contacted me, said Heather. Even if they weren t able to offer monetary support, they offered support in other ways.
All kinds of naked Rememberthe calendar men of Magnet? A colleague wrote a story about the fundraising calendar featuring seminude townsmen and I followed up with a column about the relative merits of various kinds of naked. A few days later I received a handwritten letter from a reader who either has a photographic memory or an extensive fashion magazine collection.
He had his own definitions of naked: Good Naked: 43-year-old goddess-model Lisa Berkley in More magazine (Feb. Power Naked: Penelope Cruz in Vogue s annual power issue (March 2001) wearing only a miniskirt..
. if obese Rush Limbaugh were to Parks family in India Glen and Rebecca Parks and their four kids are getting settled in India, where Glen, a Lincoln attorney, is now working for the Freedom Firm helping to free child prostitutes. You must check out their Web site, www.
ParksPage.com, especially Rebecca s take on family life: Welcome to My World. It will make you grateful for little things.
The second annual Outsiders Art Festival in August was a smashing success.
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