My recent Korner "shout out" to music lovers brought a limited reply.
But old friend Vern Modeland, BHS-50, stepped forward with his favorite lyrics to his "all time favorite song."
"Sunshine on my shoulders make me happy, sunshine in my eyes can make me cry, sunshine on the water looks so lovely, sunshine almost always make me high..."
Vern, who is still recuperating from a fractured femur, added, "if you were a general aviation flyer as much as I was for a lot of years, you'd understand. By the way, I met and thanked the author of that song. His dad and I worked for Learjet in Kansas once upon a time."
Then, there were roundabout replies from BHS-62 classmates Andy Anderson and Fred Groat. Fred lives in Chicago and Andy, who claims he reads the Korner first thing every morning, made sure that Fred had noticed the story.
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Congratulations to Reagan Korpi, a 22-year old from Ogden, who spent a night in the cold Iowa winter at the Boone Dairy Queen store, to win a year's worth of free blizzards...the ice cream treat.
The Boone Dairy Queen has been closed for some time for remodeling but had a grand opening January 13. They made an offer that drew some attention from several area residents who, if they were first 50 customers, received special bargains.
Reagan, a real DQ fan, and her husband Josiah, brought their camping gear to the site and waited near the door for 12 hours for the reopening and the opportunity for a free small blizzard per week for a year.
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The Kornerman can't help but connect the Dairy Queen story with the news of the unfortunate passing of Judy Appenzeller LaMotte, victim of a severe stroke.
I recall Judy as one of MANY former outstanding Boyd's Dairy employees back in those "good old days."
Some others, of course, are gone but let's see......there was Dick Farley, LaVerne Anderson, bossman Jim and the Boyd girls, Tolley and Linda, Ann McDermott, Margaret? .....oh, I've got to stop here....the list is too long and memory of all the names too short.
All I know is I was a mighty good Boyds customer for a long time, pretty close to daily I'd say, and, surprisingly, those chocolate marshmallow shakes never really did deposit expected extra pounds on my teenage body. The comraderie and extra special treat was always looked forward too.
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One of the "boys" of that special 1960's era of Boone High Toreador baseball sent me a reminder of the 1967 State Championship game, won by BHS over Mason City Newman, 4-3, in 10 innings.
That team finished at 28-1, Dick Sapp was the winning pitcher in the title game and Hal (Topper) Lyness hit a two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning to give the Toreador team the victorious lead.
Joe Fontanini and Sapp were the main pitchers on that team with Tom Peterson and Kelly McMullan adding some innings too.
Some great memories from the past......Boyd's and Toreador baseball.
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A special thanks and mention.
Several times recently, I've received information, from Korner readers, about the deaths of former area residents. Most of the victims have been from out of state sites......AND there's a good possibility, that information would never be made available locally if it weren't for the Korner and that help that we have received from regular viewers. So, thank you to those Korner correspondents who have provided us and Korner viewers with such information.
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