Daily Archives: June 30, 2008

When: Friday, July 4 from 11:30 am – 4 pm
Where: Behind the Sullivan Roadhouse Museum

• Event kickoff with Ft. Greely Color Guard Flag Presentation and
  patriotic song by Marion Gauntt
• Contest sign up begins
• Lumber Jack Challenge practice begins (Delta Friends of
  Agriculture)

Noon 4th of July Crazy Hat Contest

12:30 pm – 4 pm Traditional games (open to all ages & prizes awarded):

• sack race
• hula hoop contest
• egg race
• watermelon seed spitting contest (tentative)
• bubble gum blowing contest
• water balloon toss
• buffalo chip throwing contest (tentative)

1 pm Lumber Jack Challenge begins (open to those 18 & over)

All Day

Highways End Farmers Market, Sullivan Roadhouse open, music by DJ Jack Carlson, door prizes (must be present to win), Carol McNabb’s homemade funnel cakes & ice cream, Delta Soccer Association fundraising booth, & more!

For more information contact the Delta Chamber of Commerce at 895-5068 or e-mail deltacc@alaska.net

The DMV will be closed July 5th. We will reopen on Tuesday, July 8 at 1:00.

For our wedding Anniversary this year I got my wife something really expensive. It was a necklace. At the end of a simple cotton cord was suspended a small glass vial in which was sealed nearly ½ cc of actual gasoline! She’s not going to wear it in public, of course. That would just be an open invitation for some lowlife to try to pilfer it. I’m not terribly concerned about it being stolen, because I had it insured with Lloyd’s of London, but I don’t want my wife to be injured in the mugging process.

I also served her an expensive meal of fried rice and Vienna sausages that I had cooked on our wood stove. We ate it by candlelight. We haven’t splurged like that for a long time. You should have seen the glow in her eye when I told her the candles were to create a romantic ambience. It was only a little white lie. Unfortunately the mood was broken when she suggested we snuggle up on the couch afterwards and watch a chick flick. It was then that I had to admit that in order to afford the gasoline necklace I hadn’t been able to pay the light bill. We played a game of tick tack toe instead.

To read the rest of the story we invite you to browse our Chinook pages.

I underwent my forty-second birthday in June. I’m still working through the grieving process. Birthdays have turned into harrowing ordeals ever since I turned forty. I remember when they used to be festive celebrations. My mother would still be scrubbing cake frosting out of the carpet and picking up piñata fragments when I begin whining, “I can’t wait ‘til my next birthday!” Nowadays, however, my birthday parties are muted, embarrassed affairs. My wife or son will sidle up to me and awkwardly press a birthday card into my palm as if it were a breath mint that I badly needed. “Happy…you know…’B-word’.” they murmur, and then wince as if expecting me to slap their mouth.

I can’t eat birthday cakes any more. The sugar in the frosting gives me a hyperglycemic reaction, the smoke from the candles exacerbates my facial eczema, the chocolate stokes my GERD and I am lactose intolerant of the ice cream. A couple years ago, my wife thought she had found the solution. She got an idea from a baby shower she attended where somebody made the “most darling” simulated cake out of disposable diapers. So for my next birthday, as everyone shouted “Surprise!” my wife walked into the room carrying a cake she had made out of Depends. I think she frosted it with Preparation H. The guests really enjoyed themselves that year.

To read the rest of the story please visit our Chinook pages.

The winner of last week’s mystery photo is Karen Sutherland. We had 25 correct entries last week.

Karen will receive a gift certificate from the Buffalo Center Diner, Courtesy of Ed and Ann Richards.

Thank you for each one that submitted their entry, along with mailing address.

Please remember to include your mailing address with each entry. DNW will not accept entries without mailing addresses. We do not store your address from week to week.The photo was taken at Smith Green Acres RV Park, and it was correctly identified as the motorhome on top of their RV/campground sign.

Good luck as you look for next week’s photo.