Photo © Julie Sandon
Dwight Anderson & Chuck Anderson make music together again.
I remember so well when we would go back to North Dakota for summer trips and we would go to Dwight and Janie's. Dad and Dwight would play and play ... what precious memories! --Julie Sandon

Photos © Mavis Morgan
Victor & Alma Bryan and Tom & Mavis Morgan, left; Lorna Bryan, who visited with her parents, and Mavis Morgan, right.

UPDATE -- new e-mail address for Don & Patty
by Don and Patty Anderson
Isanti, MN

Let's Play a Guessing Game: Whenever it is handy to do so, we will run a picture of someone of the subscribers or staff members of our e-magazine. Tell us who you think it is -- we will let you know who was the first to guess it right -- and the correct guess -- in the following week's Bulletin.

(Send us some to run; we will line them up in our staging area to take their turn. Thanks to Kristi Indermark and Ginny McCorkell for sending last week's mystery pictures.

Answers to last week's mystery pictures (click here to review them):

Look at those adorable faces! Undoubtedly, the first picture in the guessing game is of my sisters-in-law, Kelly (Larson) Seaman and Kristi (Larson) Indermark, and my handsome husband, Kurtis Larson. Aren't they cute?

Kelly, Kristi and Kurt (well, Larson, and others!). Sorry, I can't remember my own name at times! But they will come back. Thanks! The fellow on the right looks familiar, but there again, the name is not ready to be exposed!

I don't have to guess this week -- those cute kids are Kelly, Kristi and Kurtis Larson!

This Week's Special Days
February 2---Groundhog Day

This Week's Birthdays
January 30---Whitney Anne Johnson
January 31---Larry McCorkell
February 1---Kathlyn (Johnson) Anderson
Happy Birthday!

More February Birthdays
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February 4---Cameron Birkholz
February 6---Melody Printz
February 6---Kelli Nicole Mellon (8 years old)
February 7---Rylie Johnson (4 years old)
February 28---Eric Anderson

February Anniversaries
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February 18---Roy and Betty Weiland Droel (14 years)
February 24---Jess and Louise Cloyd (62 years)
February 26---Tim and Char Morgan Myron (24 years)
February 28---Junior and Doris Anderson (45 years)

Miss Hetty's Mailbox:

Photo illustration © Virginia McCorkell
Levi Steinhauer and his mom, Sarah Dake Steinhauer.

One reason why we were so glad Weston took pictures and gave us such an excellent description of the Memorial in Oklahoma City was because we had seen it nearer the time of the event. It was very meaningful to see the reverent way they treated the area, and the remembrances attached all along the fence. Across the street were buildings with every window gone! It was very impressive.

The first picture on the first page has always intrigued me. I just know it's the most noteworthy, but maybe I'm the only one that thinks so. The photo editor likely has other reasons for the choice of the first picture, but I smiled at Whitney with her little snow people.

You can take Whitney out of Minnesota, but you can't take Minnesota out of Whitney. Did you notice how red her fingers were -- also her cheeks -- from all that time out playing in the snow for us to have this collection of mini snow persons? Thanks, Kimberly, for the pictures and the Update -- and I remember, too, being in Washington and thinking it was so funny that just an inch or two of snow paralyzed the city.

What a great paint brush! A sponge in a clothespin. It works! That was a long attention span to paint the life size portraits.

Was nice seeing the picture of Tom and Mavis's company, Jan and Dwayne Weeda. I met them when they came to visit Jan's sister, Arlene, here in the Minneapolis area.

I did a double take to see the name Lorraine Slotten. Lorraine and Brent. I don't know who Brent belongs to; I wonder if it could be Wally and Ruth? I wish I had space to tell you about the Lorraine Slotten I know. When I was just a teenager (I am 76 now), I saw this other girl about my age and I thought she was the most beautiful and sweetest person I had ever seen. I can still remember the feeling when I saw her at Eagle Bend, Minnesota. I learned she was from Wahpeton, and we became fast friends.

Photo © Richard Weiland
Lorraine Slotten Jacobson & Betty Weiland Droel.

Through the years, I have followed her life and family, and I will try to find the picture taken of us just a couple of years ago. She still is just as beautiful and just as sweet -- even more so now that she is older. We young folks never appreciated her husband, Lloyd Jacobson, for taking her clear over to Montana, so far from us, but she has been such a happy and useful person that everyone immediately loves, and we have learned to feel thankful to Lloyd for giving her such happiness. I had no idea there was another Lorraine Slotten until I saw her in our latest Bulletin.

Capt. Jack, We well understand your effort to find a picture of Jerrianne and Miss Kitty. It wouldn't be easy, as she keeps a very low profile, and yet how would our Bulletin be what it is without her? Whoever was the clever one that put your picture in that frame so artistically? It is just great, and who knows when an audio file will appear so we can hear that famous Capt. Jack and the Alvarez.

Diana, we were very glad to hear you have enlarged your heart and home to include two new dogs. For some reason, I feel they will fill a necessary place in your life after your losses and health issues. The opportunity to live for others (even your pets) helps one to forget themselves, which is often our greatest healer.

Roy was so relieved to know Don has made handles for Dorothy's non-motorized wheelchair so it can be more easily transported up and down a stairway in case of an emergency like you just experienced. We held our breaths until you were back up in your home, safe and sound, in your Jazzy.

Capt. Jack, we needed that oatmeal story. I think we can all identify with a failure, but not having been so successful (temporarily) to get rid of it. The story left me with heartfelt sympathy for that little boy having to fend for himself like that, and it not being forgotten over a whole lifetime proved it was not a good experience.

I see McDouglas is getting tough competition by this Capt. Jack Adair and the elevator.

I wish Weston knew how much we appreciated his story about the Oklahoma City Memorial. It was written so well that we felt we were standing right there in the dark and cold of the night, observing the results of that fatal event. I read that over and over, not wanting to miss any details. We had seen the area before any of the memorial work was begun, so we were mesmerized, seeing it now through Weston's account. I was so relieved to know that series will be continued. Weston has to get back home yet!

I don't see a "to be continued" on the Pearl Harbor Days story. I suppose, eventually, they had to return home, too. I do remember some things that took place after their return to Minneapolis, but hopefully there will be a "last chapter" coming about it, so I won't say anything and spoil it.

Lois Holman holding Hunter, her grandson, was kind of a shocker. I remember her looking like Suzanne does about now. Where is Lois's gray hair? Pretty proud grandma, I'd say.

I was impressed! The Foto-funny has a new look. Is that for real? or just for this time? Even new fancy colors and fonts. I realized that the "pilot" was bewildered at all the instruments, and seeing I've never ridden in a Ford Explorer I couldn't relate. I could ask Rod Martin who sold them, but he likely wouldn't know what all those buttons and gauges are, either. Pretty Funny Foto-funny. Kim had better not start that up or she'll fly away.

Very thought provoking Quotation for the day this time. Do you know what a responsibility that puts on the older ones, making an impression on the "wet cement"? -- even idle words, and lots of things we didn't intend for them to remember.

With Donna Mae in the hospital with her back problem, it made a difference not having her story in this time. We hope for these absentees to get better and get back. Like LTD, too.

I was certainly wondering whatever there could be in The Bulletin this week, when there was so much in it previously, but it seems to grow and grow without end ... at least we hope so. We never tire of getting it, so we hope our Editor and Photo Editor and Staff keep enthused and inspired and never tire of sending it.

Roy and Betty Droel