On Saturday, March 1, the Big Valley Snowmobile Club, held its annual Bean-Hole-Bean dinner at the club house on U.S. Route 2. John Donahue and Steve Campbell put the beans in the ground on Friday to cook slowly for 24 hours.
The menu for this affair included home-made potato salads by Gil Sirois and Louis Conrad; doughnuts cooked on the premises by Ted and Terry Pettengill and Janice and Bruce Willette; plus other goodies, all made by members of the club.
A good crowd attended and enjoyed the food and having a good time meeting old friends and making new ones.
On March 10, Mrs. Mildred Kennard, formerly of Island Falls and now at Madigan Estates, will be 102. (See this week’s County Face). She is the oldest citizen of Island Falls and the holder of the Boston Post Cane. She is very alert and enjoys receiving cards and notes from her many friends in the area.
I am still trudging out into the bitter cold to feed all my wildlife friends and they all seem to enjoy it very much. Still have no nuthatches at my bird feeders but have plenty of other, smaller birds and, of course, the dratted red and gray squirrels.
I have two big gray ones that come every mid-morning and about three little red ones that arrive most any time. Have one feeder that they really like, hanging upside down, hanging on to the branch with one foot and the other on the feeder. Takes them no time to clean out the particular feeder.
One late afternoon, about dusk, I happened to see an animal trotting across my backyard and on closer inspection, it turned out be a fat little red fox. He ran to my front lawn. grabbed a chunk of bread I had put out for my deer, then turned and headed back towards the woods and going pretty fast, too, and was soon lost to sight.
I still have the three deer that show up faithfully every afternoon about 3:45, and if I haven’t put out the bread and apples they wait patiently along the edge of the woods until I do, then they make short work of the goodies I give them.
