BUNCO! BUNCO! BUNCO! BUNCO!
Please Note: The Bunco group of fun-loving ladies will now be meeting in the back room of the Community Center, and our next evening of spectacular playing will be Tuesday, February 1st at 7:00 p.m. Our superb hostesses for the evening will be Ms. Biddie Hileman and Ms. Sally Jones. Remembering their previous stints as hostesses, all those present can look forward to delicious snacks with appropriate decorations. Requirements for participating: $5.00 gets you into the door and the ability to count the spots on a pair of dice. Also, being able to talk while playing helps. Contact Shirley Gordon at the Library, 983-4365 or Joyce Jordan, 655-7999 for further information. And if you decide to come, bring a friend too!
January can be compared extensively to the Lenten Season as Diets and Budgets seem to be the constant topic of conversation. At least in February we can think of chocolates!
Did you notice how weird the Christmas weather was: from a high of 80 to 50 degrees or less IN ONE DAY?! Really kept you busy changing clothes all the time!
Sadly, we lost another business here in POC; Concierge has closed, but another business has opened in its place in the pink building on the highway. Treasure Chest has opened another store there with hours on Thursday through Saturday of 10 to 5. More later.
Speaking of treasures — for just the cost of 2 hours a week, you can enrich your life immeasurably. See Lydia Strakos, Principal of the Elementary School, if you can volunteer to help a student.
As for January and Diets, plaudits to Alice Reed, our happy Postal person. She even lost a few pounds over the Holidays. Her secret?
Remember Jeco’s and their incredible fried chicken? Henry and I would stop there and pick up an order and then spend the night on the boat, anchored somewhere. After they closed, the building remained vacant for some time until it became Art’s BBQ. Now the building has been leveled and the artistic murals on the exterior by the front door are gone.
And speaking of fried chicken, does anyone remember the concrete block building on Maple and the hill(?) at Dolphin Point? And who owned it? Their fried chicken was good too.
Have you seen the latest “Hoopism”? “Having a wonderful wine … wish you were beer!” And speaking of Hurricane Junction, did you know that Hoop now has oysters on the half shell? The fun is watching him shuck them!
Walking the newest member of our family last Wednesday morning, somehow I landed in a hole and fractured my ankle in several places. Well, that ends my career of dancing with the stars! Temporarily, at least.
If you haven’t checked out Shane’s Meat Market in Seadrift, now might be the time to do it. He’s got country ribs and boneless, skinless chicken breasts on special this week. Even with semi-cold weather, ribs and macaroni salad sound great. And then over Valentine’s Day Weekend, he will have choice Angus rib eyes on sale. And that meat is really choice — extremely tender.
Don’t miss the Service Club’s Bake Sale on Saturday, February 12th. Starting at 8:00 am. in front of Speedy Stop, these incomparable bakers will have cakes and cookies, brownies and maybe even a pie for sale. And, men, if you forget the box of chocolates for your special Valentine, you might get out of the dog house with one of these gorgeous cakes!
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