Bowlerama

Rich’s Sport Center             12.5-3.5

Farmers Union Merc.           12-4

Lucky Strikes                        8-8

XXX’ed Out                          6-10

Paying it forward

SALINA — Smiles and hugs were abundant at the Dillons store on Planet Avenue on Saturday, Jan. 30, after Joyce Fell, of Minneapolis, received a new purse and $800 from a few generous community members of the Salina Police Scanners Facebook page who heard that her purse had been stolen at the grocery store earlier in the week. Fell had been shopping there on Thursday of that week, and as she got to the checkout she realized she had accidentally left her purse in the women’s bathroom.

One of my favorite childhood memories was when Dad would get the popcorn popper out and pop popcorn. It was during the winter months and at least three or four times a week. He would find the cobs give us kids one to shell and then start heating the popcorn popper. Dad always would plant a small patch of popcorn so we would have plenty for the winter.  He also had a popcorn bowl set, each bowl was a different color. Just thinking about this makes me almost smell that popcorn popping.  

I recently cleaned out my sock drawer, an overdue task that I hadn’t reached the appropriate level of boredom to tackle in a number of years. It also served as a reminder that I’m absolutely terrible at estimating just how useful a range of items will be in the future.

The top drawer of the walnut chest where my socks reside also has a habit of collecting an assortment of other items—loose change, notes on scraps of paper, cable clamps, buttons, stray ammunition—that either fell from the flat surface above or were “temporarily” stored for later.