Lamont Church celebrates harvest fest

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Lamont Community Church celebrated its annual Harvest Festival Sunday. The potluck was at the community center with about 35 people attending. Dave Rajala sang several of his songs and accompanied himself on the guitar. Also, young pianists Emily Boutain, Rosie and Tracy Melville, Carmen Swannack and Thomas Wu played.

Bonnie Swannack and Janet Bowman drove to Wheatland Grange Hall Sunday to attended the potluck dinner and watch the awards given out to the Junior Rodeo winners. Tommie Sue Swannack, Bonnie’s granddaughter, won firsts in goat tying, barrels and novice breakaway roping. She was second place in pole bending. She won the all around award for her age group. She received four belt buckles and an original picture frame.

Brendan Stromberger was a visitor at the home of Dan and Jean Stromberger last Saturday. He came to show his grandpa the result of a project he had done in an art class at WSU.

The project included Dan telling about adventures he had when he was in the Army in South Korea. Brendan recorded, photographed and edited them for the class as a senior project.

Recently, the obituary of James Nessly was in the daily paper. His mother, Marjorie, and brothers, Harry and Raymond, lived about three miles from Lamont on the Lamont Road in a teacher’s cottage. Mrs. Nessly taught first through eighth grades there until the Harder School district consolidated with the Lamont District. The school still stands but the cottage has been gone for a number of years. Raymond graduated from the Lamont High School in 1943 and then the family moved to Creston where Marjorie taught and the boys finished high school. The Nesslys didn’t have a car and she is remembered for her fast pace Saturday walks to Lamont to buy groceries for the family.

Don and Sherrill Nelson’s weekend guests were their son Keith Nelson and two daughters Lilly and Kylie. On Monday evening they attended Kylie’s basketball game at Chester Elementary in the Spokane Valley.

David and Sarah Polda of Mount Vernon arrived Nov. 6 to spend several days with Nita and Matt Polda. On Sunday they all attended the movie “Waiting for Superman” and had dinner at the Spokane Olive Garden.

A group of eight family and friends helped Chris Shields celebrate his 20th birthday Saturday evening with dinner at the “HuHot Mongolian Grill” in the Spokane Valley.