 | | Contributed photo/Kathy Stefani | | White Bird’s Pleasant View Baptist Church, which hosts the Wednesday afternoon Good News Club, was recently treated to a special message by Levi Ewing of Grangeville. Ewing presented a kayak demonstration. |
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By PEOPLE (White Bird) - Nicole L. Lowe
WHITE BIRD -- Goodbye January 2012! This has been a pretty quiet week here in our little town. We had a scare with Joe Wilson, and then another, but so far, so good. He's home and doing fine. Amen!
The cribbage tournament at the Silver Dollar brought in 18 players. Laurie won first and Dot won second. If you'd like to play crib, show up at the Silver Dollar next Saturday before 2 p.m. and get signed up. The crib tournament is always a lot of fun.
White Bird's Pleasant View Baptist Church, which hosts the Wednesday afternoon Good News Club, was recently treated to a special message by Levi Ewing of Grangeville. Levi presented a kayak demonstration, showing how leaning on the rocks in white-water can be compared to leaning on the Rock, or Christ. Kids asked questions and took turns trying out the kayak for themselves. Good News Club is every Wednesday afternoon from 3:45-5 p.m. Sunday services include Sunday school at 9 a.m., church at 10 a.m.
We had another wonderful jam session on Sunday at the Silver Dollar. I was fortunate enough to be there for it, and it was a great night. We had Nick, Delbert, Dave, Joaquin, Verna, Tim and Richie. The fun didn't start for me though, until they all got off the stage and sat around one of the buddy bars. Just one guitar and everybody singing. I know it's probably not politically correct for me to report about things that happen in a "bar," but there really is not much news this week, so I'd just like to share something with you. Sunday night, as I was watching my mom up on stage playing the bass guitar and listening to my dad sing, I was brought back in time to a place in my life when I had no worries. I was a child growing up with the band. They would play music at all these different places and a lot of the time, they would take me and my brother, Chad, with them. Of coarse this was a time, way before the world had gone completely crazy and people in any position of "false power" had anything to say about what a family did on a personal level. I remember falling asleep on the stage listening to my dad singing. My father, who was given the voice of an angel, would sing me to sleep. If it wasn't in a smokey bar, then it would be in our living room practicing songs for their next gig. I know that a lot of you will remember Patty Stuivenga singing with Joaquin and the Wild River Band. The good Lord has taken Patty from us, but she was such a light in our lives. I remember listening to her singing with Dad, and the two of them would harmonize to the point where your hair would stand on end and your body would be covered with goose bumps. You just knew you were in the presence of angels. Music has always been a huge part of my life. I am so grateful for all the love and music that my parents gave me. I love that I can sing right along to songs that people my age have never even heard of. In my lifetime, I have richly experienced love, in harmony, here in small town Idaho County, that the wealthiest man in the world could not even imagine. There may not be any news in town, but let me tell you, there is gratitude, for all the many blessings we have.
Happy birthday this week to: Tanya Shultz, Jim Weeks, Keith Ray, Ron, Emily Kernutt, Stan Wilson, Smiley, Wayne Pierstorff, Larry Barany, Jan Barany, Scott Hagen and Mathew Bauman.
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