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Richardsville Community News: May 10th 2009

The Richardsville Community Center held it's regular monthly meeting on Monday, May 4, 2009 at the center at 8:00 p.m. The Center will hold it's annual yard sale on Friday, June 5th from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. and Saturday, June 6th from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m.. They are accepting donations of toys, games, household, garage, and garden items, etc but please limit clothing. To arrange pick up or delivery of donated items, please call one of the following members: Jean and Darrell (814) 328-2605 Bob 328-2680, Beverley 328-5090, or Pat 328-2996 or 328-5255. We will be accepting items until May 29, 2009. We could use some help with displaying, pricing and selling the donated items. If you have a little spare time and would like to help please call one of the numbers listed above. All proceeds benefit the Community Center.

There will be a Square Dance at the Center at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, May 15th. Hidingers and Friends will supply the music and Scott McClelland will call for the dances. Beverages and snacks will be available. Those attending can bring finger foods to share. Donations will be accepted and will benefit the Center. If you don't know how to Square Dance and would like to learn, this is the place to be. Come and join in on the fun even if it's just to watch.

Plans are in the making for a Country Music Night but the date has not been established just yet. Keep watching for the announcement in the papers and on bulletin boards in the vicinity.

There are also plans in the making for a Richardsville Community Reunion at the Center. The date will be Saturday, September 5, 2009 and will be a carry-in tureen luncheon. The Richardsville School was incorporated as a Social Center 50 years ago in September. We want to make this 50th anniversary a real reunion. Pass the word along to all present and former Richardsville and community neighbors. We will incorporate our Community Appreciation Day which consists of a corn and hot dog roast and hayrides in the late afternoon on the same day. It should be a fun time for the young and the young at heart. Please bring finger foods for the late afternoon festivities. Beverages will be provided as well as the corn and hot dogs. We will have more on this in the future. Any suggestions and a lot of help will be appreciated. Please contact Mary Lou (Barber) Dezelan at (814) 849-8945

for further information or suggestions.

A reminder to the community, there is medical equipment at the center for your use such as hospital beds, wheel chairs, bath seats, potty chairs, walkers, canes, crutches, etc. There is no charge for the use of these items but donations are accepted. If you have medical equipment you no longer need and would like to donate it to the center please call one of the above members.

Father's Day, June 21, 2009 is the day the Appalachian Wagon Train will be at the Dixon Corner Country Store site between Richardsville and Munderf. Mark this on your calendar to come visit with the folks from the Wagon Train. They do this Trek every year for a week at different sites around the state. This year they picked our area and we need to make them welcome. Our community will furnish them with two evening meals. On Monday, June 22nd the menu will be Italian and on Tuesday, June 23rd there will be ham and beef as the main menu. We need your help. There will be sign up sheets at the local churches and at the Dixon Corner Country Store for those of you that can furnish food for the meals. We have donations of meat balls and sauce, salad and rolls for the Monday meal. We also have donations of the beef and ham for the Tuesday meal. After the meals, there will be entertainment that will be open for the public at no cost. Monday evening, Hidingers and Friends will play music and on Tuesday evening it will be Kim Thomas and Diamonds in the Rough. Check out the Appalachian Wagon Train Web site at www.wpa.net/~jvaughn/AWT/awt,htm There is a map of the routes they will be traveling during the days of their stay in this area. Also a lot of information on the Wagon Train itself.

Congratulations Harold and Peg Greeley on their 25th Wedding Anniversary. There was an open house held in their honor at the center on May 2, 2009. Also, Congratulations to John and Kay Heberling who celebrated their 50th anniversary recently. John plays the accordion with the Hidingers and Friends at the Square Dances.

There have been many improvements at the Community Center. The stage was lowered and carpeted, the floor in the main room was repainted, a restroom was made handicap accessible, and other improvements are in the making. We would like to take this time to thank everyone for their donations of time and money to make these things possible.

We are also asking for some volunteers to help take care of the mowing of the cemetery across the road from the Community Center. As far as records go, we ascertain the cemetery belongs to the Presbyterians but they don't seem to be interested in keeping it mowed or even acknowledge it exists. Some of the old records indicate it was called the Presbyterian/Moorehead Cemetery. We have contacted the Presbyterian Church but they have not responded to our letters. Therefore it seems to be the responsibility of the Richardsville Community and all of the mowing has been done by Jean and Darrell Hidinger and their grandkids. Please give them a break once in awhile and help out. No one should have to do it full time if others are willing to take a turn. So, please, please help!

And remember, we need donated items for our yard sale. For rental of the Community Center building or information on renting it, please call Beverley Backlarz at 814 328-5090 We hope to see many of you at the events at the Center, until then have a pleasant week.

Thanks so much for the updates Pat!

Appalachian Wagon Train web site with pictures.

Wagon Train Update:

I Went to a meeting April 30th at Farmer's Inn about the Appalachian Wagon
Train for 2009.

They will assemble at our place, the Dixon Corner Country Store, on Saturday (June 20th and Sunday June 21st -Father's Day) and spend Monday and Tuesday nights here, then travel to Farmer's Inn (Sigel) and stay there Wednesday and Thursday nights, and go to Aldertons' Meat Market (Corsica) for Friday and Saturday nights. They usually try to travel on an 18 mile trek each day.

We will feed them two evening meals and I hope I can count on family, friends and neighbors to help out with the meals.

The folks on the wagon train really like to be made welcome everywhere they go and love to have everyone stop over for a chat. They all dress in early American just like the first settlers. So, I hope lots of people come to see what they are all about. We are hoping it can be arranged for them to parade through Corsica on their last Saturday here.
They will all head home on the Sunday after their Church service. Some go on to Ohio and join their Wagon Train there.

The Appalachian Wagon Train will be at our property on Father's Day Weekend in 2009. I will get more information as we have more meetings. We invited them to stay on the Dixon Corner site either in 2009 or 2010. We were selected for the 2009 trek. They will stay with us for a couple of days and then stay at Farmer's Inn a couple of days and over to Alderton's for the remainder of the week. They will probably parade through Corsica the last Sat. they are in this area. There are about 300 members of the
Appalachian Wagon Train and have between 35 and 40 covered wagons in the trek. They generally travel about 18 miles a day and stay in the same camp site a couple of nights. More if they can. We told them we as a community would furnish a buffet style country evening meal and entertainment for one or more evenings if they prefer. They do have their own chuck wagon, minister and medical personal. They will set up camp at our place on Saturday and have church services and celebrate father's day on Sunday. Maybe have some country music that evening. They will go on their first trek on Monday and travel on a lot of the back roads towards Ridgway, Halton and return. We will feed them and get their horses water that evening. Warsaw Fire Company will furnish the water. I think we will have a blast. Our friends, Bill and Mary Ann McClelland should have some digital pictures we can send to you. They go on the trek along with a granddaughter who rides horseback. Bill and Mary Ann and their son, Scott ride the wagon. Our store has six public showers so they can use them and we will have some electric hook ups for some of the campers and motor homes they bring. A lot of them come from Maryland, Ohio, West Virginia and New York. They all dress in early settler costumes. We also have that picnic shelter for their use plus the little building that did house the ice cream store. We may build a stage area for the entertainment in case of rain so their equipment stays dry. Then once we build that, maybe we can rent it out for country music parties. We rent the other buildings out for reunions and picnics.
Sorry about the length of this. It started out as a note.
Pat

Appalachian Wagon Train web site with pictures.

We have enjoyed the redneck jokes for years. It's time to take a reflective look at the core beliefs
of a culture that values home, family, country and God. If I had to stand before a dozen terrorists
who threaten my life, I'd choose a half dozen or so rednecks to back me up. Tire irons, squirrel guns and grit --
that's what rednecks are made of. I hope I am one of those.

You might be a redneck if: It never occurred to you to be offended by the phrase, "One nation under God."

You might be a redneck if: You've never protested about seeing the 10 Commandments posted in public places.

You might be a redneck if: You still say "Christmas" instead of "Winter Festival."

You might be a redneck if: You bow your head when someone prays.

You might be a redneck if: You stand and place your hand over your heart when they play the National Anthem.

You might be a redneck if: You treat all veterans with great respect, and always have

You might be a redneck if: You've never burned an American flag.

You might be a redneck if: You know what you believe and you aren't afraid to say so, no matter who is listening.

You might be a redneck if: You respect your elders and expect your kids to do the same.

You might be a redneck if: You'd give your last dollar to a friend.

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