The beauty of needlework

Verna Barr

Published on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 01:00

Examples of Barbara Ing’s embroidery work include a vest which began as a part of a uniform, a box of silk fibers made into paper and covered with stump work (right), a colorful patchwork on black handbag, Temari balls with intricate designs, a framed leaf design and a beautiful box lid.

Armed with thread and needle, and with an eye for detail, Barbara Ing has been creating beautiful works of embroidery most of her life.

Many in the Surface Creek area have enjoyed the results of her hard work when they are on display at Pioneer Town in Cedaredge.

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From a small town to the big screen

Kami Collins

Published on Wednesday, 07 July 2010 01:00

Practice makes perfect in rodeo and in movies. Cole, a state champ saddle bronc rider, is seen here doing stunt rehearsals.

Cole and Mimi Baldwin’s story seems straight out of Hollywood. Two small town kids grow up together, fall in love and then move away to pursue acting careers in California.

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Move over Mr. Miyagi!

Bob Borchardt

Published on Wednesday, 30 June 2010 01:00

In a room filled with men and women of all ages, Sensei Rodney Grantham shares his years of experience in karate as his students advance through the various degrees of belts in a quest for for a black belt.

Karate, anyone? Mr. Miyagi (played by Pat Morita) is best known for teaching Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) the art of self defense in the popular “Karate Kid” movie series.

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Trash transformed

Pat Sunderland

Published on Wednesday, 23 June 2010 01:00

KARRAH AEGERTER is a fashion designer who enjoys showing people how they can turn recyclables into jewelry, belts, tops, skirts and dresses. She is currently working with aluminum can tabs and inner tubes from bicycle and car tires.

Think of all the things that you toss in the trash without a second thought. Then there are the items that you set aside for recyling — newspapers, aluminum cans, plastic containers.

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An African saga ~

Hank Lohmeyer

Published on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:00

The cover of the book “Chadian Diary” (center) gives readers the location of the nation of Chad where Norman and Dorothy Kehmeier were Peace Corps volunteers in 1978 and 1979. They were stationed in the southwest part of the country. Their experiences with the country, its people, their culture and an African civil war are told in a journal format through 130 very readable pages. The Kehmeier’s village of Bol (right) is seen from the air sitting on a finger of land extending into Lake Chad. Shallow portions of the land are diked off and drained to provide good farm ground, as is done in the Netherlands. Workmen (left) are engaged in a local industry of making sun-dried mud bricks for use in construction projects.

Norman and Dorothy Kehmeier’s many friends will want to read a new book, “Chadian Diary: A Peace Corps Experience.”

In print for less than a month, the 130-page, soft-bound volume provides an account of the true and harrowing adventure that Norman and Dorothy experienced as Peace Corps volunteers in 1978 and 1979, and of the African civil war they became caught up in.

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Carving out memories

Verna Barr

Published on Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:46

Floyd Rose took up woodworking when he retired. He creates smaller projects on one end of the dinning room table. He recently completed the shadowbox in the foreground.

Floyd Rose took up woodworking when he retired. He and his wife Ora Lea spent over 20 winters in Arizona, and he started working with wood while there.

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All abuzz about honey biz

Kami Collins

Published on Wednesday, 02 June 2010 01:00

The honey is produced in Paonia and is a pure, raw, unﬁltered fruit blossom and wild ﬂower honey.

It would be a mistake to call 15-year-old William Austin and his cousins, 14-year-old Eric Carney and 12-year-old Clay Carney, typical teenage boys.

Sure, they’re growing boys and can demolish a pot of spaghetti in no time at all.

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Fade away? No way!

Bob Borchardt

Published on Thursday, 27 May 2010 16:57

Dick Wellington has a thougtful moment on the slopes of Copper Hill, where he served as a ski instructor for the 10th Mountain Division. He was later deployed to Italy during World War II and was wounded. He returned home, and attended college at Western State College in Gunnison where he was part of the ski team.

Douglas MacArthur’s farewell address to a joint session of Congress in 1951 ended with the now famous line from an old army ballad: “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.”

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A loaf of bread, A jug of wine And the North Fork Valley

Pat Sunderland

Published on Thursday, 20 May 2010 17:18

Through his business “Savor Each Glass,” Tynan Szvetecz offers classes, food events and personal sommelier services which highlight the wines of the North Fork Valley.

So you like to drink wine. But do you know what makes a really good wine?

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