Hooray for the ports! Hug the sailors!

On Valentines Day our little town celebrated by hosting a dinner at the town hall. What a wonderful occasion this turned out to be! We filled our little building to capacity with 70 people and fed them a nice meal. They had meat choices of halibut, chicken cordon bleu, and pork ribs accompanied by a baked potato, vegetables, rolls, and desert . All the food for the meal was donated and all the help to prepare and serve the food, decorate the hall, and clean up the mess was volunteer. Each person attending paid $20.00 for the meal and the money for the meal went as a donation for a half mile long walking path and nature trail to be built around the perimeter of the park.

After the meal an auction was held and many hand made items, services from businesses, and other odds and ends donated by businesses and individuals alike were sold to those attending, with the proceeds from the auction going toward the walking path as well. Even the auctioneer from a neighboring community donated his talent and time toward this event. I ask myself, how do you begin to express enough thanks and love toward these good people? My heart is full.

My purpose for posting the memory of this event in this format is to announce to anyone reading, that in spite of all the negative information and gloomy atmosphere in our world today there are still ports in the storm everywhere around us, where good people gather to help each other and support a worthy cause. We hear very little about the good things that transpire in our lives, because as individuals and a society in general we seem to have made a habit of maximizing the negative and minimizing the positive. The positive is there in abundance, find it push it to the front, and cheer! I say celebrate the heroes of everyday life those who work hard, raise good children, love each other, serve others, and live life in the best tradition of our human existence. Hooray for the ports! Hug the sailors!