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George's Tid Bits
by George Capron
The
following are excerpts from some of the calls that George received during
his radio show on WBRV-WLLG The Moose, as well as observations he made on
the air during the week of October 6th, 2008:
- MONDAY, OCTOBER 6: On Saturday,
October 4, Bruce and Jane Turck celebrated their 40th anniversary, with
love and best wishes from 15 family members. Today, John and Lucy
Wawrzyniak of Talcottville will enjoy their 57th anniversary, with happy
wishes from their friends and relatives. Leola Dorrity of the Stonehedge
Nursing Home in Rome, formerly of Kortenaer Village, Boonville, will
celebrate her 84th birthday, with best wishes from her six sisters,
three brothers, nieces and nephews. Somebody in Oneida County is holding
on to a second-place NYS Lotto ticket. The drawing was Saturday night
and is worth $65,672.
- TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7: A killing
frost overspread the area this morning. Highmarket recorded 25 degrees
with a 26-degree reading here at the Station at 6 a.m. Everything was
white with frost. Previously, a 21-degree temperature was found on
Jackson Hill, both in 1984 and 1999. Occasionally, an earthquake is felt
in this area and that was the case in 1983. The landscape rattled at
6:19 a.m. and was centered near Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondacks.
Singer John Cougar Mellencamp was born in Seymour, Indiana, 57 years
ago. He was one of the first to volunteer to join Willie Nelson at the
first Farm Aid concerts. Neil Young also offered to sing at the first
concert, held September 22, 1985, in Champaign, Illinois. A moose paid a
visit to Leon and Wanda Bowen’s yard last evening on the Stuckey Road,
off the West Road. Leon said it pawed up a section of his lawn, possibly
because of his barking dogs.
- WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8: Today,
Gordy and Joyce Schleicher of Boonville celebrate their 59th
anniversary, with happy wishes from their children, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren. Yesterday afternoon, Rich Kaufman of Kayuta Lake
watched a moose, with no antlers, cross Route 12, south of Boonville.
Rich said it was a first time event for him. In 1956, Ford Motor Company
decided on a name for a new model car in development, the Edsel.
Comedian Chevy Chase was born in New York City in 1943. He was with the
NBC show, Saturday Night Live, for a year and later started his movie
career with “Caddyshack” and the “Vacation” series of films.
- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9: This area is
still featuring some beautiful leaf coloration, and hundreds and
hundreds of geese are flying south over the area the past several weeks.
The North Country received a good soaking last night, as the Merry Hill
Weather Station collected .80” with Highmarket measuring .76”. The
Village measurement was a half inch. I noticed a wooly caterpillar in
the Station driveway yesterday, and it was equal in its three colors.
- FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10: Happy
Birthday to Clara Davoy of the Number Four Road, Lowville, who
celebrates her 85th birthday, with lots of love from her family. A moose
was reported at 8:50 a.m. this morning on the Cut-off Road between
Croghan and New Bremen, standing in the middle of the road by a passing
truck driver. Joy Mooney of Talcottville told me she and her late
husband Lyle were married today in 1954. She said it snowed hard and it
never melted until spring, making it a long winter. The Jackson Hill
Weather Station measured 290 inches of snowfall that winter. The average
Boonville snowfall is 211.08 in the past 58 years. Tomorrow, Matthew
Schrag and Tamara Widrick will be married at the Naumburg Methodist
Church in Castorland, with Lord’s blessings from Dad and Mom Widrick. As
the leaf raking season gets underway, we find some trees have more
leaves than others. It’s been calculated that the average large oak tree
may contain 700,000 leaves, mature sugar maples 160,000, and average
apple trees have between 50,000 to 100,000.
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