TUCKER: Happy Mother’s Day to all moms

By Barbara Tucker<br><a href="mailto:tuckerb@gnnewspaper.com">E-mail Barb</a>
The Tonawanda News

May 09, 2008 10:58 pm

— What a weekend this is. Today is First Communion day for a terrific great-nephew Dominick Sabia, then not only is it Mother’s Day tomorrow (my least favorite day) but also our wonderful daughter’s birthday and, for all you church-goers, Pentecost Sunday.
The boys in the family are cooking breakfast for Mother’s Day and then planting a tree and doing a bunch of odd jobs around the house. I’m making a list and they’ll be checking it twice, as the song goes.
Happy Mother’s Day to all moms.
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A funny call came from one of my favorite Cardinal O’Hara High School graduates, Mark Campas, who complained that the senior menus were printed a day late this past week. (The reason was a lack of space.)
Anyway, seeing as Mark’s not yet 50, I wondered why he cared about the menus.
“To tell the truth,” he said, “people in the office read them each week and we have a contest about which county has the best menus. And, if we ate there, which would we choose. Sometimes it’s Erie and sometimes Niagara and sometimes it’s a draw.”
If you know Mark, this makes perfect sense and adds fun to the day.
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Mary Lou Schlagenhauf, a former neighbor from Ilion Street in Tonawanda and a terrific, loving person, wrote a letter about a “blessing” that happened to her April 25.
Seems she was driving down Tremont Street in North Tonawanda when her car stopped in the middle of the lane.
Mary Lou was on the way to getting a prescription filled for a reaction she had to an antibiotic she was taking for an infection. She only had a small amount of time on her cell phone so she call Pastor Bob Lawson her pastor from St. Peter Lutheran Church.
“A young couple cam by,” she wrote, “and asked if they could help.”
When the pastor arrived, the young man and the pastor pushed the car to the side and the pastor called AAA. As she was sitting searching for her license and wondering how she was going to pay for four new tires she recently had purchased, the young woman came over and gave her some rolled up $20 bills.
“This is for you to get your car repaired,” she told Mary Lou, “and it’s from an angel.”
“Can you believe there are such sweet people in this world?,” Mary Lou asked. “I don’t know who they were but they said they were from Lockport. The pastor sent his wife Karen over with juice and supper and she drove me to the repair shop.
“This is a special thanks to all of them” Mary Lou concluded.
Perhaps, knowing Mary Lou, one can imagine her doing the same thing for someone else. What goes around, comes around, as they say.
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Ken Sprenger, who keeps an eye out for the good things in nature and the environment, stopped by with a picture he took of the trillium now in full bloom in Pine Woods Park in North Tonawanda. These little white flowers, native to the state, are worth a trip to see. But don’t step on them, pick them or dig them up — they’re a protected species.
Thanks to Ken for the day brightener.
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Here’s a couple of thoughts you might like to ponder today:
n How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
n Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
n Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
n What disease did cured ham actually have?
n How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
n Why is it that people say they “slept like a baby” when babies wake up like every two hours?
n If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
Contact community editor Barbara Tucker at 693-1000, Ext. 110 or tuckerb@gnnewspaper.com.

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