Month Question

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By Rhonda Wray

What was the most memorable vacation of your childhood?

Tom Crago

Sons and Daughters of Italy meets for dinner and a meeting at VFW Post #101.

1st Tuesday | 5:30 p.m. | 719-210-2025

Sons of Norway meets at Viking Hall.

2nd Wednesday | 6:30 p.m. | 719-574-3717

Spanish Conversation Group meets weekly at the East Library. Intermediate-advanced Spanish learners and native speakers discuss a variety of topics.

Thursdays | 1:30-3 p.m. | 719-2445902

Veterans of Korean Service meets at BPOE Elks 304, 3400 N. Nevada Ave. Lunch and speaker are $13. Call to RSVP.

3rd Saturday | 11:30 a.m. | 719-2146121

Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 1075, meets at Skills Academy, 1575 Garden of the Gods Road.

Last Saturday | 9 a.m. | 719-2358162 | vva1075.org

Women’s Army Corps Veterans Association meets at Sand Creek Police Station.

4th Saturday | 10 a.m. | peakwac vets@yahoo.com

Woodland Park Book Club meets at Woodland Park Library.

1st Tuesday | 10:30 a.m. | 719-687-9281

Yarnia! Knitting & Crochet Club meets at Florissant Library.

2nd Thursday | 10 a.m. | 719-748-3939 ■

“I remember a trip to Canada and camping at Acadia National Park in Maine and the Grand Canyon. With our own kids, we took a five-week road trip through Mexico with my parents and college students—15-20 of us, traveling in two VW vans. It wasn’t touristy at all. We saw Mayan ruins and local markets and stayed in old haciendas.”

Dorothy Bastien

“I was a farmer’s daughter and a farmer’s wife, so the only vacation we got was on the pasture field.”

Ed Schrock

“When I was young, we’d travel from Kansas to Illinois to visit my grandpa, sometimes by train. As an adult, 17 of us went by train and took a ton and a half of Bibles in suitcases to China, to be used in their house churches. My wife and I also went on an amazing two-week African safari—but I made the mistake of growling at a lion!”

Mary

Brander

“Our main vacation was traveling from our small town outside Milwaukee to rural Minnesota, where we visited relatives on their farm filled with interesting old things, like a crank telephone and an antique child-size cast iron kitchenware set in the chicken coop. The men helped prepare my uncle’s machines for the harvest. We spent the time fishing in the creek and talking.”