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Vol. 3 No. 22 | e Week of November 20, 2025
Shining a light on all of Eureka County. Our Mission: Inform, enlighten, educate and entertain—Enjoy the journey.
Honoring our Veterans with a Quilting Project By Winnona Eversgerd
e Disappearing Bull
For the past two years, Country Cottage has been offering classes on a variety of different projects. We have had classes to make Christmas Stockings, Christmas Tree Skirts, a few different bags, paper piecing and various other quilt projects. Most of these classes have been taught by our resident expert, Mindy Filippini, so when she suggested doing a community service project called Quilts of Valor, we jumped at the idea. e Quilts of Valor Foundation is a nationwide service organization that honors Service Members and Veterans. “e Mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover Service Members and Veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor” (qovf.org). Quilts of Valor Foundation was founded by Catherine Roberts in 2003. When Catherine’s son Nat was deployed in Iraq, she had a dream that became the catalyst for creating a foundation that served the people who served this country. According to Catherine: “e dream was as vivid as real life. I saw a young man sitting on the side of his bed in the middle of the night, hunched over. e permeating feeling was one of utter despair. I could see his war demons clustered around, dragging him down into an emotional gutter. en, as if viewing a movie, I saw him in the next scene wrapped in a quilt. His whole demeanor changed from one of despair to one of hope and wellbeing. e had made this dramatic change the message of my dream was: Quilts = Healing” (qovf.org). ere are a number of ways to participate in this worthwhile project. e Quilts of Valor Foundation has specific guidelines to ensure that donation quilts meet the highest standard of workmanship. Completed quilts
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Several ladies gathered at The Country Cottage to create the Veteran’s quilt.
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Is this you? By Trina Machacek My window looks out on a 320-acre alfalfa farm with beautiful Diamond Mountain beyond that. Here’s the short un-punctuated conversation of me, myself and I. ME, opening the curtains and looking out the window: ere’s that bull out in the field again this morning. ME, half an hour later: What is that bull doing out there? Still morning but aer a cup of juice and my Cheerios. ME: Has that stupid bull moved? Yeah, he has to have moved. I think he is moved. ME, a few hours later, as I am eating a fruit cup for a snack: I swear that bull moves slow. Now he’s back. No, maybe he’s sick. Maybe he hasn’t moved... A few days later that same bull was still out in the field, in the same area.
can be sent to QOVF State Coordinators. ere is also the option to award quilts to local Service Members or Veterans. Since its inception, Quilts of Valor Foundation has awarded 427,121 quilts to Service Members or Veterans. On Veteran’s Day, November 11, 2025, a group of local women gathered at the Eureka Senior Center to honor our Veterans with this quilting project. We ambitiously set out to make three quilts. By the end of the day, we had one quilt top nearly completed and the other two are very close to being pieced and completed. A special thank you to our participants who sewed, cut, and ironed: Vickie Buchanan, Barbara Todd, Melissa Holloway, Nancy Plaskett, Darlene Moody, and Winnona Eversgerd. ank you, Sara Groth, for the fabric donation. A very special thank you to Mindy Filippini for suggesting and spearheading this project as well as donating a quilt kit and fabric for the project and coordinating and instructing throughout the day. Before beginning our project that day, Vickie Buchanan brought in a quilt that had been awarded to her husband Kevin Buchanan. Just this year Kevin was invited to Washington DC and recognized for his service. Before making the trip, Kevin was awarded a quilt that was made by e Comstock Lode Quilters. We are so proud that one of our very own Veterans was awarded something so meaningful. Actually seeing and touching Kevin’s quilt confirmed the importance of such a service project. We are honored to be part of a project that has such an important mission. ank you to all the Veterans and Service Members for your dedication and commitment to our great nation. Winnona along with Darlene Moody own and operate the County Cottage Shop in Eureka. e offer amazing gi ideas and many of the things craers may need along with offering classes and special projects.
TIDDLES-N-BITTLES Turkeys Rule the Roost Okay, maybe they won’t rule, but they will be the main attraction at some pretty full-filling FREE anksgiving meals offered in Eureka County. One at the Eureka Community Church, and one at the Urban Cowboy in Eureka, and in Crescent Valley. At the Community Church the meal will be on anksgiving Day at noon, the others are still TBA! Enjoy the fellowship and the food with friends you have yet to meet and greet.
Holiday Bazaar Time to gather up some cool gis, stocking stuffers and wonderful handmade items. Of course someone is bound to have food, candy and or baked goods. November 21 & 22 at the Eureka Opera House.
Our Deepest Sympathies Sadly, a good man, friend, long time Eurekan and father, Dave Ausman passed away recently. His passing was sudden and he was with his son when he got his wings into Heaven. No further word or information was available. Send in your news from around town to: trina@theeurekacountystar.com
Now don’t get me wrong but that morning I swear to you that the bull moved a few steps forward and stopped. Finally I grabbed up my binoculars. I live in the rurals, we all have binoculars by our windows. Come to find out, the big black bull that I saw, I swear it was a bull a few days ago—was now the end tower to the pivot sprinkler that waters a 160-acre field. Yes, a tower that stands about 14 feet tall with two big black tires and cross pieces, and is made with various 6-10-inch aluminum pipes and angle iron. Looks like a gigantic 1,300foot-long monkey bars. But! Yes, a bullish like “but.” From just the right angle it looked like a big black bull. Actually over four months I have seen that “bull” out in the field. On and off all summer long actually. As the pivot moved around watering the 160-acre circle of alfalfa, I would see the bull every four or five days. Just about as long as it took the sprinkler to go around and pass by that spot. About half a mile away. e bull would be there one day and gone the next. Until the farmer turned off the pivot, parked it across the field and that danged “bull” just stood there. Until my binoculars told the end of the story of “e Disappearing Bull.” Yes, that was my cue to make an eye appointment. So I could see the bull that wasn’t there. I’ve watched that bull, all summer long. Off to the eye doctor. e optometrist, not ophthalmologist. I was about in my mid-forties when I learned the difference between an optometrist and an ophthalmologist. It’s like the difference between a pocket-sized dictionary and one of those dictionaries that was a foot thick and stood on a stand! Both doctors look at your eyeballs, but the optometrist sells you glasses too. e ophthalmologist can check your eyeballs and sooooo much more. en he sends you to the optometrist for your glasses. Oh, usually the eyeball guy that sells glasses isn’t covered as thoroughly by some insurances. But an ophthalmologist, to several insurance companies, even Medicare; well his visits and services are usually fully covered. How messed up is that? I need to step off the soap box—if I could just see to do that! I know I need new glasses. I am to the point of leaning my head on my hand when I am at the computer so I can get my glasses set at just the perfect angle so I can, you know, see the screen. I am wearing double vision glasses now. e last time I took my eyes to the eye doc there was a brief, very brief discussion of the three tiered, or tri-leveled glasses. I said thanks but I can’t even see with two step glasses. Pretty sure though, trifocals will be in my sights next. At my last two appointments I swore to myself, before I even made the appointment, that I was not going to let them move me through like a side of beef. I’m pretty sure we have all felt like that with some type of doctor. I feel like that when that thing is put in front of my face and the different lenses are clicked by. When you get the, “Is it better now,” click, “Now?” I just start to answer when I hear, “How about now?” I might as well just close my eyes and say, “Yeah, sure!” I did try to say, they don’t look the same to me. en I hear the sigh of impatience. e only time I feel in charge of the outcome of the appointment is when I go into the dark room and the assistant gives me the little button to push when I see the little flash of light when my peripheral vision is being checked. Now, that’s when I see the bull. HAHA Trina lives in Diamond Valley, north of Eureka, Nevada. She loves to hear from readers. Email her at itybytrina@yahoo.com Really!