Activities � From Page A6
Last year, many local residents came away with prizes like scenic airplane flights, a grill, Danner boots, wine, golf and gift cards. Businesses are donating items supporting the event, including Charbonneau Golf Club, Corium 21, Reliant Gem Lab, Three Daisies Vintage, Lanphere Wine Cellars, Langdon Farms and McMenamins. The 95-mile ride can take you on a ferry and over Oregon’ s oldest covered bridge. The stops provide time to eat, shop and enjoy the scenic beauty. The $ 20 registration fee includes a score sheet. Registration is from 9-11 a. m. at Dub’ s Tavern, with prizes awarded at 3 p. m. For more information contact Nancy Cameron, or www. sgtwattsveteransfoundation. org.
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Solo Sisters By CANDY FERGUSON
Becoming Mimi I recently returned from a oneweek visit to San Diego to visit my two sons and their families. They each have two children and
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my Wilsonville daughter, Tracy, and her family were in San Diego the same week for daughter Maddie’ s soccer tournament.
I thought, what a wonderful opportunity to be with my three kids and six grandchildren at one time. Imagine the great photo ops! I’ ll have lots of great pictures to send to Shutterfly for my next Christmas card! Wrong!! The Saturday afternoon beach picnic that we were all supposed to attend never happened
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because our group was split up for lunch after Maddie’ s soccer game, and the two groups never met up at the beach. And the Sunday gathering. Well, I stayed away from that one because a certain 40th wedding anniversary was being celebrated and I wasn’ t going to crash the celebration.
Aside from getting the family together, I wanted to watch my oldest grandson, Jack, play with his high school’ s varsity baseball team. Jack is an outstanding young athlete, and he had a home game scheduled at 4 p. m. on my arrival day, so I flew in, picked up a rental car and drove, in California traffic, to the high school. In the stands were 10 family members, all there to watch Jack play. We all watched a regulation, seven-inning game that Jack never played in. This kid, who has opened every game this season, was left out the entire game. My son had to refrain me from assaulting the coach.
Meanwhile, my other grandson had his Sunday game canceled
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and rescheduled for that night after Jack’ s game. While the rest of the family took off to enjoy a delicious Mexican dinner, I gamely went to Ben’ s game. My son was coaching and my daughter in law was the official scorer, so I sat alone and cold, in the stands watching Ben play. I was hungry and cold and still had to drive my unfamiliar rental car half an hour on three different freeways to get to where I was spending the night for the next week. What an endless arrival day, but I did see Ben play.
The rest of the week went pretty much like the first day. I made plans to watch Jack play on Monday, but that game was canceled due to rain showers. It was rescheduled for the next day, so I changed my plans, went to the game and watched Jack play at last. Maddie’ s soccer team had a miserable tournament and poor Maddie, while executing a header, sent the ball into the goal she was defending, scoring a goal for her opponent. Yes, there were tears after that goal!
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I am a third generation Mimi. My dad’ s mom was my Mimi and she was the cutest, little old lady you can imagine. She wouldn’ t go anywhere before putting on her“ country air and sunshine”( makeup). Whenever she would visit, we would dash to the living room window so we could watch Mimi park her big old 1950 Dodge Coronet in front of the house. We took bets as to how many wheels would end up on the curb!
My mom was Mimi to my kids, and even though we lived in California and she lived in Connecticut, they knew and loved her. She loved reading to them, baking their favorite cookies and playing golf and tennis with them. Now it’ s my turn to be Mimi and I have some awfully big shoes to fill. But I’ m trying, one baseball and soccer game at a time.
If you are a single woman living in Charbonneau and would like to make some great new friends, please consider joining Solo Sisters. Contact Deanna Morgan at deannamorgan @ gmail. com and she will get in touch with you.
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