Looking Back
What Was Going On 14 Years Ago
A casting call was out to students from third through eighth grade to be part of Kids On Stage II for the coming summer. Joan Balderston, Maxine Bates and Ruth Phelps were once again setting up a theatre workshop for aspiring actors and actresses at the Nova Theatre for two weeks in June, 2006. The focus of the workshop was memorization. Each student would have a spotlight performance in either a skit, a duet, an excerpt from a play, or reciting a favorite poem in a performance scheduled for June 22.
An additional tennis court grant headlines the Stockton PRIDE news this spring. A grant of $225 toward the wind screens for the tennis court had been received from the Midwest Energy Community Fund. With the grants previously received plus donations by local clubs, organizations and individuals, nearly $33,000 was on deposit to help pay for the construction of the planned tennis court.
Morgan Beougher was pictured with SHPTV Education Services Coordinator Leona Breeden and her parents, Marcy and Greg Beougher, after being selected as the first-place winner for third grade in the 12th annual Reading Rainbow Writers and Illustrators Contest.
The new white, vinyl fencing materials for the Stockton City Cemetery project, had been delivered during the week of May 1st. The construction of a new maintenance building at the Stockton City Cemetery, and a brick directory building, had been completed.
Stockton’s centenarian, Vernon Sammons, reached that milestone on May 8, 2006. A celebration with family and friends was held in his honor at the Solomon Valley Manor on May 7th.
Barb Poore and her son, Michael Poore, got to frolic with the dolphins at Sea World in San Diego.
And So They Say — Jenny Thayer-Wood: “We’re going to get a bunch of jars and bottle up this cooler weather for later on.”
Showing at the Nova Theatre was “R.V.,” starring Robin Williams in a comedy of a dysfunctional family renting an R.V. for a road trip to the Colorado Rockies.
Obituaries were published for Steven Edward Timmons (1952-2006); Alverize P. Berland (1911-2006); and Voncile “Von” L. Ostmeyer (1911-2006).
Looking Back 14 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1992 — Joel McReynolds did it again, breaking his own record in the 110 M Hurdles and setting a new MCL record, which was 20 years old.
56 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1950 — Warren Lee Dunning, 17, was a patient at St. Anthony’s hospital as a result of an automobile accident on May 6 when he sustained a crushed vertebra, a fractured shoulder and other injuries. Also injured in the wreck were Duane (Corky) Stice and Delaine Turnbull, who was driving a Mercury.
What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1908 — Arthur Adams was met with a terrible misfortune which endangered his life for a time, cost him sight of one eye, and may eventually cause him to lose the sight of the other eye. He was working on a threshing machine engine at Lenora a week ago when he mashed his finger and the pain caused him to faint away. Somebody threw a bucket of water in his face to revive him. The water was dirty and greasy and something in it caused blood poisoning which settled in his eyes. The The local physician sent him to the hospital at Concordia as he was getting in very bad shape. His parents in Stockton knew nothing of his trouble until last Saturday when they received a letter from Arthur’s wife at Lenora who had been kept in ignorance of his dangerous condition. John Adams at once wired the hospital for particulars and received word that they would probably be able to save his life, but that the sight of one eye was gone and he might lose the other one. Olmer Adams went to Concordia that night and John went Sunday night, returning Tuesday morning. He reported Arthur was in bad shape but out of danger. One eye is swollen as large as a goose egg and he will never see out of it. His many friends awaited with much anxiety the progress of his malady.
