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I got a nice surprise from former resident, Mrs. Bertha Motsinger recently. The box contained some really neat, colorful, butterflies made out of magazine pages. She said for me to share with my neighbor, Dot, which I did. Naturally, we are going to try making them. See, I use butterflies in my bathroom, so I just fastened three of them to the wall and like the way they look. The Motsingers are former Corning residents and Leonard and Judy were both about my age. In fact, Leonard and I were classmates until they moved off to Michigan. If any local senior citizen of Bible School group would like to have the pattern I will share. They are fun to make and require a minimum of materials. Bert said that she learned to make them at a Senor Center. The Motsingers lived next door to the Smalleys (Dot’s folks) when we were growing up and the way Dot tells it, she and her sister, Elsie Mae, along with Judy, Emaline and Caroline Wright, Rachel Bailey and Betty Grant used to have some pretty heated arguments while playing paper dolls. Speaking of Elise Mae, one day after school, Elsie Mae and Lilly Pillow sat in the Smalley porch swing and ate a whole pound box of soda crackers… that night Elsie Mae had to have an emergency appendectomy!

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 Mrs.

To the Graduating Class of 2024, Just look at you. You’ve achieved your goal of earning a K-12 education or perhaps a college degree.

Each generation of citizens in our country is tethered together by the major events that occurred during their developmental years. For our eldest population, those considered to be from the Greatest or Silent Generations, a couple of those events were the Great Depression and World War II.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 Putter and I had a delightful weekend… we spent most of Saturday morning at Wynn Park where the Bike-athon for St.

If you don’t think life is amazing, consider the fact that you are sitting on a large rock orbiting the Sun in a galaxy called The Milky Way. And this rock, we call Earth, also rotates creating our days and nights.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 Putter had company the other evening… not me… they were there strictly to see him.

Sometimes you don’t know who you are and what you stand for until you are forced to fight for it. Right now we are in a fight for our democracy.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 It’s that time of the year… time for the youngsters to busy themselves outside each day after school until dark runs them in… I suppose it is still like that.