Happy Easter! Calendar reminders and a chat with Carolyn

While strolling, I wondered whatever happened to Marilyn Hahn.

Happy birthday this week to Richard Richbourg, Dean Hemingway, Nelda Eichhorn, Brenda Wilson, Glenda Bullinger, Shelby Rice, Brenda Held, Clara Cable, Lynn Lincoln, Sherri Uhrhan, Adrienne Eichhorn, Tina Dohogne Nations, Debra Wolsey, Bill Simmons, Danny Dees, Cory Kirchdoerfer, Jim Miller, Tara Lincoln, Brian Payne, Jamie Gordon, Kenny Davie, Nathan Morris, Sharon Hargrove, Ruth Ann Hailey, Donna Corn, Andrew Montgomery, Deana Grey, Meg Powderly, Ian Hemingway, Courtney Scheeter, Tonya King, Johah Hendrix, Dave White, Ryan Dysinger, Jerry Ayers, Bertie Evans, Dorothy O'Dell and Nadine Phillips.

Happy anniversary to John and Jeannie Walker, Jr., Mark and Tracey Totty and Kenny and Ginny Ruiz.

April is Keep America Beautiful Month, National Poetry Month, Guitar Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

We are enjoying the full moon of April known as Planters Moon, Peony Moon, Awakening Moon and Moon When Geese Return in Scattered Formation.

We remind you that the IRS tax deadline is coming up, and seniors can receive free tax help for the last time this Tuesday at the Senior Center from 9 a.m. to noon.

Citywide Spring Cleanup is Tuesday and Thursday on your scheduled trash pickup day. Also, mark your calendar for April 24 when the Rabies Clinic will be held at City Hall from 3 to 5 p.m.

A reminder to parents and CHS graduating seniors that the deadline for the Briggs Scholarship is April 17. The Briggs Scholarship is open to 2015 CHS graduating seniors and former students still attending college or trade schools. For those graduating from any public school located in Scott County who plan on becoming a Registered Nurse, the deadline for the Ruth A. Buckhannon Memorial RN Scholarship is April 20. Contact CHS Counselor Meleia Sides for applications.

Alumni banquet set Oct. 10

People have been asking, so we confirmed with Darlene Crocker that this year's CHS Alumni Banquet will be Oct. 10 at the VFW. Mark your calendar so you will not miss this fun event!

"Paint for a Cause" continues at the Painted Wren Gallery in downtown Cape. Aaron Horrell reports that in trying to set a regional record for the most people painting on a single canvas, participants have ranged in age from two months to 91 years. For $1 you can paint for one minute through April 30 with proceeds going to the Safe House for Women.

'Wondering about' Carolyn

We would like to thank Paul Oliver of Cape for letting his sister Carolyn know that we were "wondering about" her recently. Carolyn, who now lives in Humble, Texas, gave me a call, and we had a wonderful chat. She and her two brothers, Paul and Bill, and sister, Mary, lived in Chaffee with their parents on the first block of Davidson. Their dad was in the insurance business, and, after he passed away in 1953, they moved to Cape. Carolyn says she graduated from Notre Dame in 1959, got her LVN, worked at Saint Francis Hospital, then got her RN at St. Joseph School of Nursing and worked as a nurse for many years. Carolyn married Jim Ronza and they had three boys and one daughter and now, 10 grandchildren. Jim passed away eight years ago, and Carolyn is now retired from Northeast Medical Center in Humble.

Carolyn fondly recalled memories and her Chaffee friends. It was fun naming establishments from those early years such as Maxines Drive-in, Slaughters, Horstman Theater, Bucher's Market, Lankford Drug Store, Joann Dress Shoppe, Whitaker Hardware and the pool.

Whitaker remains very much in business and I assured her the pool is still an important amenity in our community, popular with people of all ages. We laughed how some things seemed so big when we were little yet small when we got older; I told her that the pool at Harmon Field is still really big and offers the same cold respite during the summer. Carolyn said that she remembers walking to school many times with her best friend Marilyn Hahn and wonders whatever happened to her, and, for that reason, we are wondering about Marilyn today.

Special words

Remember to tell those special people in your life you love them -- those three words mean so very much.

Our thoughts and prayers are with those who are missing loved ones, with our homebound, those in hospitals and nursing homes. Email your news and comments to darbuck2@airmail.net or leave a message at (573) 887-6430 or (214) 207-7839.

And then ...

Then there was the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.