Kettle River news

The Ma & Pa Kettle Days meeting is 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 7. We encourage people to come to the meetings. We need volunteers to help keep the event going. There are several area where help will be needed for an hour or two.

Sympathies to the families of Gerald Marsyla and Sonia Rowe.

The Finnish luncheon is 12 p.m. Wednesday, May 17 at the Kettle River senior center.

When I was about 15 or 16, we bought some stemmed sherbet glasses for my mom. There were 12 glasses in the box, and they were $2 per box. One summer day, my sisters and I decided we should do something fancy for supper. We sent my brother to the store for some maraschino cherries and made some lemonade.

We waited for a while wondering why it was taking him so long, since the store was only about a mile away. He finally arrived and said he had decided to go to the store on his pogo stick. We served the lemonade at supper with a cherry in the glasses. We pretended they were cocktails. It was a fun time until my sister’s boyfriend came and thought we really were drinking cocktails.