Meeker Locals

MEEKER — The greeting card. After rummaging through a 20-year-old box of correspondence, filled with greeting cards and handwritten letters, a young family member piped up with, “This was all before e-mail, wasn’t it?” No wonder the post office has to keep raising the price of stamps and a single greeting card now costs between $3 and $5 in most places. Today’s kids probably don’t even have handwritten notes to pass in school, they just “text” each other via cell phone.
According to wikipedia.com, “The custom of sending greeting cards can be traced back to the ancient Chinese, who exchanged messages of good will to celebrate the New Year, and to the early Egyptians, who conveyed their greetings on papyrus scrolls. By the early 1400s, handmade paper greeting cards were being exchanged in Europe. The Germans are known to have printed New Year’s greetings from woodcuts as early as 1400, and handmade paper Valentines were being exchanged in various parts of Europe in the early to mid-1400s.”
Looking for something to do Saturday? The White River Museum is hosting a free luncheon and a presentation on antiques at Kilowatt Korner. Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch anymore?
Happy 17th birthday to Caitlin Turner today, March 13. Other locals celebrating birthdays this week include Tara Cojocaru, Luke Purcell, Kaycee Sullivan, Mandy Jensen and Jennie Merriam, all also March 13; Bill Gibson, March 14; Sharon Cook, March 15; Trina Kennedy, Tim Uphoff, and Frank England, March 16; Linda Holeyfield, Sharon Johnson, March 17 (also St. Patrick’s Day); Georgann Amack, March 18; Jacob Posey and Terry Hood, March 19.
Happy anniversary to David and Jan Henderson, March 16. And it appears March 17 is a very popular date for weddings. We wish a happy anniversary to Bif and Brenda Burge, Dick and Merle Deane Moyer and Dick and Cindy Welle, March 17.
Are you or your family members missing from this list? Please send us your family’s special dates — anniversaries, birthdays, etc. — so we can celebrate with you! Send info to [email protected], or mail items to P.O. Box 720, Meeker, Colo., 81641.