We have been enjoying such beautiful fall weather that I don’t like to think of winter coming. However, I know fall won’t last forever but when I saw those light, fluffy white snowflakes falling, I was reluctant to give up our beautiful fall weather. But we have to face reality sooner or later. Actually all I had to do was step outdoors Monday morning and feel the strong cold wind blowing from the northwest. It didn’t take long until you made a dash for your jacket. That made me think of our hot, humid days we have in the summer and the coming of the Asian beetles, that maybe winter won’t be so bad after all. It used to be the flies that drove us crazy in the summer but they definitely have stiff competition. Thinking about those things I think it will be nice to cuddle up by the fire and not have to chase the bugs for awhile. As the old saying goes, "Everything has a season." Let’s enjoy our change to winter and before we know it, it will be spring. Let’s enjoy the beauty of the winter and catch up on all of the things we have been putting off all summer. Congratulations to the Hills-Beaver Creek-Ellsworth football team who won their Section 2 nine-man football game Saturday afternoon at Hills. This week they will advance to play Southwest United team for the Section 2 championship. The game will be played at 1:30 p.m. in Hills. Good luck to them!Among those attending the Gather Concert at the Sioux Falls Arena Friday evening were Pastor Ramaker, Ken and Cheryl Hup, Melba Boeve, Winnie Scholten, Mildred Paulsen, Wilmer and Betty Elbers and his sister, Nelvina and Chuck Kruse, Hull, Iowa. Judy Punt from Sully, Iowa, was a Wednesday morning coffee guest in the home of Jo Aykens. She is the wife of Pastor Punt who served Steen Reformed Church for several years. The flu bug has arrived at Hills-Beaver Creek Grade School this past week. There were 22 students absent as well as two teachers. Beware — be careful.Mildred Paulsen joined other members of the Sioux Falls Sweet Adelines Sunday morning in Sioux Falls where they sang for the morning worship services in three churches. They were luncheon guests in the home of one of their members, Donna Hummie. In the afternoon they sang in one of the nursing homes before returning to their homes. Bill and Bertha Bosch and Mildred Keunen were visitors in the home of Bill and Bertha’s son, Roger Bosch, at Belleview, Neb., on Thursday. Paul and Tom Bosch visited in the home of their parents, Dries and Laura May Bosch on Thursday and helped with the lawn and garden cleanup. Thursday afternoon guests in the Jo Aykens home to help her celebrate her birthday were Winnie Scholten, Pearl Groen, Joan Hoogeveen, Henrietta Huenink, Bertha Bosch and Mildred Keunen. A Brotherhood Rally was at First Reformed Church in Edgerton on Tuesday evening. The Rev. J.R. Henderson was the speaker. The New Life Celebration Church Praise Group led the worship service. We are sorry to hear that Jessie Boeve is now in the Hospice room at the Edgerton Nursing Home in Edgerton. Our deepest sympathy goes out to the Rozenboom family on the death of Dolly Van Der Weerd’s brother, Bert Rozenboom, who passed away on Thursday, Oct. 23. This week is Halloween! Are you ready for all of your little tricks and treaters? Halloween has become a very popular event. Sometimes I think we have a tendency to ignore Thanksgiving as we hear so little about it anymore. It seems we go from Halloween to Christmas. I think we need to take some time out to be thankful for all of our many blessings, especially in our world today. Let’s get serious about Halloween. One of our oldest holidays comes in October. Halloween is probably more than 2,000 years old. When Halloween was first celebrated, it was entirely a scary, ghostly affair. The Lord of Death was supposed to call forth certain wicked souls to do his satanic bidding. A wholesome influence was added when the Romans observed Halloween in competition with the Harvest Festival. Christians added meaning when Halloween became a neighborly celebration of the eve of All Saints Day. Today Halloween is a combination of pagan superstitions and neighborly acts with witches and elves, apples and nuts of harvest time and candlelighting dating from the birth of Christ.Now you know from whence it came. Since it is going to be Halloween this week I have a few questions for you to ask your goblins and witches that knock on your door. 1. What do ghosts eat for breakfast?2. How could you get into a locked, haunted house?3. What did the boy say to the invisible man? 4. What season is the most dangerous?5. What is a pig skin used for most often?6. What is white, gives milk and has a horn?7. Where was Solomon’s temple?8. Why did the robber take a bath?Answers:1. Ghost Toasties.2. With a skeleton key.3. You’re out of sight?4. Fall.5. To hold a pig together. 6. A milk truck.7. On the side of his head.8. He wanted to make a clean get away.I hope you have fun with this! Happy Halloween!
