MONUMENT – Tuesday, June 26, 44 people gathered here for dinner. Our cooks outdid themselves, Carrie Jewell and Terry Neal-Cade fixed chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes, two kinds of gravy, mixed vegetables, hot rolls and a lemon birthday cake. We had some guests, Randy and Jackie Sweek, Diana Geinge all from here in town.

The Walker grandkids are going to be here pretty much all summer, so I’m taking them off the “guest list.” Dinah Cowger’s grandson Tyler Cowger, Dean Leslie and Reba Grayson were from out of town. They didn’t write down where they were from, so therefore I can’t tell you. But they were surely welcome and we hope they come back to see us.

It will all be over, including the shouting, by the time you read this, but I will personally guarantee that Monument had a real good old-time school reunion and 4th of July celebration. Everybody was cooking. The MMM’s had a breakfast on Saturday morning, featuring biscuits and gravy and the seniors had pancakes and trimmings on Sunday. The Booster Club had a lunch going on Saturday and the Fireman’s Auxiliary filled everybody up on spaghetti for supper on Saturday night. There were all sorts of good things going on, including dancing in the street. And next week I might be able to tell you about all the people that showed up. I hope I’ll have a long list, because everyone is working really hard, Especially Chuck and Carolyn Williams.

One of these day’s I’m going to write a full column without any errors, and we will declare a national holiday. Last week it was supposed to say Mitchell was having their annual reunion on July 17, not two for Monument. There’s quite a few people in Grant County that went to school in Mitchell, or lived there at some time.

The certificate winners were Max Breeding, free meal; Barbara Cummings, Chester’s Thriftway; and Roger Kellog got Otis’s Barber Shop.

There is supposed to be thirty-some million cars on the highway this year. If you’re one of them, drive carefully.