Kettle River news

The Finnish Luncheon is at noon on Wednesday, May 17, at the Kettle River Senior Center. Come for good food, time to visit with friends, and see who will win a prize.

Mark your calendar for the Holy Trinity/ Faith Lutheran Jump into June sale 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, June 2 at the Kettle River Veterans Building. There will be plants, a bake sale and used treasures available.

The Holy Trinity quilters have stopped meeting for the summer, but we will still be accepting new fabric during the summer and will need it when we start again in September, so if you have fabric you would like to donate, contact Marcia at 218-273-4045.

When I was in high school, I had gotten my driver’s license, so Mom would often ask me to do the grocery shopping. One day, my friend David came with me to go pick up some things. David had only a younger brother and had never gone grocery shopping. At that time, we had a store in town that sold only fresh chickens. So on that summer day, David and I headed over to that shop to get some chickens. I asked the salesman about the chickens. He held one up and said they were about 3 ½ pounds, so I told him I needed about 10 chickens. David was appalled. I said, “We have company coming.” In fact, there would be a total of 24 people. So, I knew that we needed that much chicken. Then we went to the grocery store. I would put two cans of that and two cans of this into my cart. David said,”You didn’t look at the price.” I told him it didn’t matter because we have tried the other brands and didn’t like them. Even if they were cheaper to buy, they weren’t cheaper if we just threw them away because we didn’t like them. He never went shopping with me again. I think it was a stressful experience for him.

In the early 1970s I was working at the hospital in Superior. The paramedics had been asking the city for a better-equipped ambulance. The ambulance was basically a vehicle with a stretcher. The paramedics had been taking classes in cardiac functions, reading the telemetry and learning how to use a defibrillator. They would say that “the council wanted them to be trained as a surgeon and give us butter knives to operate.” One night they had to bring in a member of the city council who was having a heart attack. Once they got him on the gurney in the emergency room and connected to the heart monitor, one of the firemen asked, “So how are you going to vote now, Joe?” It wasn’t too long after that the ambulance was better-equipped. I guess Joe decided to vote for the upgrade after his experience.