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By Rhonda Wray
What was the most memorable vacation of your childhood?
Tom Crago
Sons and Daughters of Italy meets for dinner and a meeting at VFW Post #101.
1st Tuesday | 5:30 p.m. | 719-210-2025
Sons of Norway meets at Viking Hall.
2nd Wednesday | 6:30 p.m. | 719-574-3717
Spanish Conversation Group meets weekly at the East Library. Intermediate-advanced Spanish learners and native speakers discuss a variety of topics.
Thursdays | 1:30-3 p.m. | 719-2445902
Veterans of Korean Service meets at BPOE Elks 304, 3400 N. Nevada Ave. Lunch and speaker are $13. Call to RSVP.
3rd Saturday | 11:30 a.m. | 719-2146121
Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 1075, meets at Skills Academy, 1575 Garden of the Gods Road.
Last Saturday | 9 a.m. | 719-2358162 | vva1075.org
Women’s Army Corps Veterans Association meets at Sand Creek Police Station.
4th Saturday | 10 a.m. | peakwac vets@yahoo.com
Woodland Park Book Club meets at Woodland Park Library.
1st Tuesday | 10:30 a.m. | 719-687-9281
Yarnia! Knitting & Crochet Club meets at Florissant Library.
2nd Thursday | 10 a.m. | 719-748-3939 ■
“I remember a trip to Canada and camping at Acadia National Park in Maine and the Grand Canyon. With our own kids, we took a five-week road trip through Mexico with my parents and college students—15-20 of us, traveling in two VW vans. It wasn’t touristy at all. We saw Mayan ruins and local markets and stayed in old haciendas.”
Dorothy Bastien
“I was a farmer’s daughter and a farmer’s wife, so the only vacation we got was on the pasture field.”
Ed Schrock
“When I was young, we’d travel from Kansas to Illinois to visit my grandpa, sometimes by train. As an adult, 17 of us went by train and took a ton and a half of Bibles in suitcases to China, to be used in their house churches. My wife and I also went on an amazing two-week African safari—but I made the mistake of growling at a lion!”
Mary
Brander
“Our main vacation was traveling from our small town outside Milwaukee to rural Minnesota, where we visited relatives on their farm filled with interesting old things, like a crank telephone and an antique child-size cast iron kitchenware set in the chicken coop. The men helped prepare my uncle’s machines for the harvest. We spent the time fishing in the creek and talking.”
