Free Car Wash Sept. 13

By Chuck Gait
Posted: September 9, 2008

Come over to the upper parking lot at Reservoir High School between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13 and the music students will wash your car, truck or minivan– for free.

Yep, that’s right, for free. Of course, donations are gratefully accepted. All donated monies help the music department at the school with their programs and purchases. Let’s help the kids drain the tanker truck.

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Reservoir Madrigals to sing National Anthem at O’s game Tomorrow Night

By Chuck Gait
Posted: September 4, 2008

Rob Dice, my “go-to” guys for all things musical at Reservoir High School, sent me an email with a really cool item- he heard from Greg Knauf (”DK” as the students are fond of addressing him) that the Reservoir High School Madrigals will be singing the national anthem at the Orioles’ game against the Oakland A’s Friday, Sept. 5 at 7:05 p.m. Is that cool or what? With the O’s being in the American League East cellar, you might be able to scrounge up some tickets to the game and hear the kids sing. And if you happen to snap a few pictures of the kids singing, e-mail them to me and we’ll see about getting them put up online here in the blog.

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Another Highland man heads to Iraq

By Chuck Gait
Posted: August 27, 2008

On Aug. 22, Mike Beltz, of Highland, left for a six month assignment to the green zone in Baghdad, Iraq. Mike, husband of Ruth and father of Jim, Jon and Jake Beltz, works for the U.S. Government and volunteered for this post. He’ll be gone til February of next year. I was kidding with Mike, telling him that he’ll “be the oldest American in Baghdad”. A while back he told me that he felt that this was something he had to do because two of his sons, Jon and Jake, served in the Armed Forces there. We wish him well and that he’ll remain safe.

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“Cow Whisperer” Carol Hill

By Chuck Gait
Posted: August 27, 2008

I recently got a couple of e-mails from Carol Hill, the former Highland postal route carrier. The first contained some information about an upcoming event at her church,
Mt. Zion United Methodist, in Highland. I sent her a response and a question or two and she responded. “Cucumbers! What cucumbers?”, Carol wrote. “They were absolutely delicious.”

She had major surgery on the day of the Clarksville picnic and couldn’t make it up to St. Louis and get her fill of the picnic cucumbers so I was able to scrounge her a quart. “The recovery is complete, I think” she said. Carol helps out at the dairy farm across the street from where she now works and is having the time of her life.

She is learning how to “harness, lead, wash, feed and milk the cows,” she wrote. Can you imagine Carol sitting next to a big cow and squeezing …, well, they probably using a milking machine because it’s faster and cleaner.

She wrote that she was “partial to and I think she knows it. ha ha. I know, I know, don’t get too attached to any of them. But, she is so cute! I call her “Wild Thing” because she wouldn’t walk with anyone else before I came along and she comes right up to me and walks with me and looks at me when I talk to her,” hence the “cow whisperer.”

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Highland man leaves for Iraq

By Chuck Gait
Posted: August 20, 2008

It has been said that war is for the young, but not everyone who goes to war is young. Sam Adamczyk, a Highland neighbor, is one such guy. He’s in his 30s, is married to Deanna, has two boys, Austin and Ian, is not in the military, but has left for Iraq. Sam works for the U.S government and has taken a short-term job in Baghdad in support of the coalition forces. Sam left Aug. 15 and should be back home in time for Christmas.

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