Homestead volunteers assemble 12,500 packets

Dusty

On Friday, Oct. 21, Homestead Ministries had its fall soup event at the Logos School in Moscow with 450 students filling soup packets for the needy in the area. The students put together 12,500 soup packages to make more than 72,000 meals. Help from 25 volunteers from the Dusty, LaCrosse, Colfax, Colton, Uniontown and Moscow areas helped accomplish this task.

Saturday, Tom and Doreen Riedner drove to Superior, Mont., to attend funeral services for Mary Morris, former Hooper resident. Bev and Dennis Brunson from Richland, also former Hooper residents, also attended.

Bruce Appel, Spokane, spent the weekend at the home of his parents, Dick and Helen Appel, while he hunted deer. His wife, Elaine, and sons, Charlie and Spencer, arrived Saturday afternoon to spend the rest of the weekend. Earlier, Charlie had a cross country meet for Gonzaga Prep.

Kim and Cindy Pitts spent Friday through Sunday in Yakima with their daughter, Carrie Pitts. During the weekend, they went junktiquing in Ellensburg.

Saturday afternoon, Karen Broeckel joined Andrew and Emily Nolan and Lauren, Grady, Holden and Murphy; Jeanette Nolan, and Greg, Gwen and Jason Nolan at the home of Greg and Gwen to help Holden celebrate his fifth birthday with pizza, cake and presents.