The countdown to Christmas is always crazy with shopping and baking and goodness knows what!
I heard caroling in the Green Valley Mall the other day and those traditional Christmas tunes are always a welcome sound, adding joy to the holiday season.One loyal reader e-mailed me a new list of seasonal favorites, appropriately titled “Psychological Christmas Songs.”
These are a must-sing on my list of tunes:
•“Schizophrenia”— “Do You Hear What I Hear?”;
•“Multiple personality”— “We Three Kings Disoriented Are”;
•“Narcissistic”— “Hark the Herald Angels Sing (About Me).”Now that the year 2000 is approaching, I’ve been told by some stockbroker friends of mine that there will be plenty of corporate mergers.
In the wake of the Exxon/Mobil deal and the AOL/Netscape deal, here are a few of the latest mergers we can expect to see:
Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W.R. Grace Company merge to become Hale Mary Fuller Grace.
Polygram Records, Warner Brothers, and Keebler Crackers merge to become Polly-Warner Cracker.
Honeywell, Imasco, and Home Oil merge to become Honey Im Home.
My favorite: Federal Express and UPS merge to become FED UP.• • • The arrival of a December grandbaby has delighted Green Valley News & Sun Advertising Director Pam Kissick. Tatiana Hebert was born Dec. 2, 1999 to Pam’s daughter Brittany and her husband, Danny Hebert. The little girl was delivered at Northwest Hospital and arrived weighing 8.5 pounds and measuring 19-1/2 inches long. Kissick was “thrilled” and spent a day showing her fellow newspaper staffers baby pictures. (The baby is beautiful! What a great present for Nana Pam!)• • • Green Valley residents Frank Nicolaison and his wife Sally celebrated 65 years of marriage on December 8. The Nicolaisons were married in Appleton, Wis., and Frank, 84, worked as a dairy farmer in the state before he retired. The couple has been wintering over in Green Valley for the past 11 years and Frank said he still swims everyday at the East Social Center.Their son, Steve Nicolaison has three children. Danny Nicolaison lives in Houston, Texas; Jenny Nicolaison lives in Madison, Wis., and Debbie Jacobson resides in Milwaukee, Wis.
The Nicolaisons are also the proud great-grandparents of five great-grandkids.• • • Well I do declare, those folks from Minnesota do know how to party! It was a dual anniversary celebration Dec. 7 at the Tubac Golf Resort hosted by Dick and Pat Hansen and Mary and Jay Kinne, both couples celebrating their 40th wedding anniversaries.To make matters more like the Twilight Zone, the Hansens and the Kinnes both married on the same day (Dec. 19), the same year (1959), and in the same city (Minneapolis.) Spooky!
On the same evening of this celebration, guests, Art and Jane Rotman were actually celebrating their real anniversary—43rd, that is on Dec. 7. (It does seem like a lot of Minnesota folks marry in the dead of winter—I wonder why?)
The crowd was lively from the start as Allan Riding, Joey Lessa and yours truly were invited to sing a few numbers. Then the jokes started and all #%@* broke loose! I haven’t laughed this hard in ages.
Piano requests included “Please Release Me,” a song chosen by Hansen for wife Pat.“He had them play that song on our 10th anniversary in Hawaii, you’d think I gotten the hint,” Pat said.
On hand to help in the hilarity were Bonnie and Roger Herr, Jeanne and Jim Houghton, Jeanne and John Lindell, Barb and Bob Olson, Sue and Don Richards, Carole and Dave Willard, and Judy and Richard Zoesch.One of the highlights was the theme song sung by sorority sisters, Judy Zoesch and Jeanne Lindell from the University of Minnesota which went like this: “We are the gopher girls, we only gopher men. They never gopher us, we only gopher them.” (You have to be from Minnesota!)
• • • Guests at the Garden Club of the Country Club of Green Valley had a smashing Christmas party last week to mark the end of 1999. Organized by Susanne Newell, president of the Garden Club, the members enjoyed a marvelous luncheon followed by dessert of ice cream on meringue nests with chocolate or butterscotch sauces. Yummy!The president saw that each Christmas detail was perfect down to the ribboned candy canes and the red miniature roses which graced the tables as center pieces.
Shirley Willy entertained the club members with sing-a-long carols and Christmas hymns and Bill Willy accompanied Joey Lessa and me for Christmas favorites. (Bill and Joey were the only two men allowed and we all stayed for the delightful lunch after the entertainment.)
I must say those Garden Club members are a great audience to play for. The lunch was good too and at this rate I’ll be filling out a Santa Claus outfit without the padding quite soon.
• • • Confession time from Ann Froman, copy editor with the Green Valley News. She writes: “Well, this reviewer had the opportunity to take out-of-town relatives to the Gaslight Theatre to see “On the Road to the North Pole.”“I almost didn’t recognize it as the same play that Regina and I had seen and reviewed a few weeks ago.
“The play was tightened up and those loose ends were gone. More Christmas songs added to the spirit of the show and Santa’s departure from the North Pole was a cute addition. The first act was shorter and the Christmas spirit was more readily on hand.“I also saw a different crew and the acting was just superb with kudos to Nancy LaViola, her “I want to be Bad” was a real show stopper.”— Thanks Ann, too bad I wasn’t with you.
• • • The League of Women Voters Green Valley Chapter were not to be left out of the Christmas spirit. The group gathered for holiday goodies and entertainment last Thursday. Members were on hand to talk about community changes and what they would like to see happen in the Green Valley area and the news items that interest and concern them. Growth issues, the proposed Performing Arts and Learning Center, and the upcoming census were topics of the day.Following discussions were some fun frolics by “rapping” reindeer, Claire Coon and Daisy Morey performing their version of “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
“Now ask me what a rappin’ reindeer has to do with voting?” asked Genna Lemman, organizer of the holiday luncheon. “I’m sure the League’s votes would be unanimously in favor!”
• • • I love you, mother! Until next week loyal readers....
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