Market Report for June 28, 2019Two months of the Toledo Farmers' Market is done. With that being said we have four more months of market. Which means you have time to come on out and make your market purchases.Next week is the Stop Light Festival and the market vendors will be sparse. Some ...
If you have been by the Wieting lately you know how much of the new parking lot has been poured. It is all coming together now. Soon it will be all done.Don't forget about the latest fundraiser coming up. Attend the performance of "Our Town" and help with the fundraiser. This takes place July ...
School's out for summer! St. Joseph's Catholic School and the Chelsea Public School are officially closed for the summer months. The town kids in Chelsea are free as birds. We've got the world by the tail and there's ball games to be played, cricks, creeks and rivers to explore, forts to be ...
Growing up on a farm in northern Iowa as a small kid, I got bored and looked for fun. My favorite was annoying the hogs.On hot summer days after lunch, my siblings and I would quietly climb our treehouse located just above the hog's mud hole. Carrying clumps of hardened mud, we would sit ...
Market Report for June 21, 2019The rain finally let up before the Toledo Farmers' Market started, but the wind took over. We had a few vendors stay at home. The following braved the weather and came to market.Kristi brought plenty of pies, kolaches, rolls, rye bread, cookies, bars, rolicky, and ...
July will be a busy month at the Wieting.Starting July 11, 12 and 13th will be the stage production of "Our Town". The performers are all local people. They will be singing in a chorus and getting into character for the play.On July 22 the youngsters who have enrolled in Camp Creamery will ...
Ya know, after inhaling & exhaling for some sixty-seven years, you'd think a guy should have learned some things along the way. Haruumph! Well, I have. And whether you like it or not, I'm gonna share them with you. And maybe, just maybe, you might take a moment of your precious ...
Market Report for June 14, 2019It was a grand night for the Toledo Farmers' Market. Our musician was unable to perform on this Friday night. We wish Dave Gray a speedy recover.Kristi brought plenty of pies, kolaches, rolls, rye bread, cookies, bars, rolicky, and twisty.Caryn also brought ...
Thank you to the people who called with the information about who some of the projectionists were at the Wieting.The reason we want to know who they were was so we could get some information about their experiences as a projectionist no matter how many years ago it was. If there's people who ...
There's a side to every one of us that we like to keep hidden; and that's when we find our stupidity on full display.Years ago, we bought a house located on a steep hill. Our lawn rivaled Vail, CO's ski slope; but that didn't deter me from mowing the grass at an incredibly dangerous angle. ...