Wright/Cromwell news

Our sympathies to the families of Arvin Anderson, Dolly Niemi and Margaret Webster who recently passed away.

Margaret Webster’s daughter, Kaija, texted from Antarctica that Margaret passed away Feb. 9 in hospice at St. Luke’s. Her family is planning a celebration of life on May 27, hopefully at Bethany Lutheran Church. Ann Markusen visited her a few weeks ago when Margaret was in the nursing home. She seemed fine, and, toward the end, kept her eyes on the elevator doors, thinking Dan would be coming out of there at any moment. Hard losing such a dynamic person in our community. I remember how she “yoiked” during one of our variety shows.

Arvin Anderson, 83, of Duluth passed away peacefully on Feb. 2. Arvin was born in Waseca, Minnesota. He attended schools in Waseca County and then Cromwell High School. He married Bonnie Tomporowski and lived in Cromwell where he was a dairy farmer until he retired in 2000, then residing in Duluth. Services were held Feb. 11.

Yoga is from 11 a.m. to noon Mondays at the Cromwell Park Pavilion Monday. Cost is $3 per person.

The Villa Vista and Cardinal Court held their annual Valentine’s Day dance and coronation of a King and Queen on Feb. 10. Ken Soloman was crowned King and Gloria Manninen crowned Queen. Congrats to these fine senior citizens. The Cromwell area Young Old Timers met on Valentine’s Day.

There is tubing at Spirit Mountain Sunday, Feb. 19. All community area kids grade six through 12 are invited. Hosted by the Bethlehem/Bethany Lutheran churches youth group. Cost is $25. Each child will be reimbursed $5. Register online at Spirit Mountain for tubing tickets for the 2:30 p.m. time slot. Backup date will be Feb. 26, if weather is an issue. Meet at Bethany at 1:30 p.m. We will return at approximately 5:30 p.m. Drivers are needed. If interested, text Joey at 218-491-4253, or Margie at 713-569-4568.

The Bethany Beacons will be having a First Ladies Style Show at the Villa Vista at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 22.

The first Lenten service will be on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, with a soup supper at 5:30 p.m. followed by worship at 6:30 p.m. at Bethlehem in Wright.

Mark your calendar for Feb. 25 for the Father-Daughter Dance, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Cromwell Park Pavilion. Signup forms will be sent home with your daughters or can be picked up at the school if your daughter or granddaughter doesn’t attend our school, but you still want to participate.

School yearbooks are on sale for $40 until April 25. After that the price will go up and you will have to pay for shipping. You can order online at https://www.entourageyearbooks.com or fill out a form outside the office.

Clyde Homstad Sr. always said that if the groundhog saw his shadow on Groundhog Day we would have six more weeks of winter. If not, we would have only a month and a half.

My dad drove the school bus for 37 years and occasionally he would tell the kids as they boarded the bus, that they would have only a half day of school in the morning. The other half would be in the afternoon!

Spring, and jokes and trivia: Equinox means equal day and night. So, since the earth is tilting towards the sun, the first day of spring is called the spring equinox. Another term is the vernal equinox. The robin is usually associated with spring in North America. Also, there are six months of uninterrupted daylight at the North Pole when spring comes.

Why did the bird go to the hospital? It needed tweet-ment!

How excited was the gardener about spring? So excited he wet his plants.

Stay happy and healthy.

That’s all the news from the Edge of Wright.