Bob,

I am so sorry to here of Katine’s passing. This picture popped up on my FB screen the other day, but I did not read the entire details, so I didn’t realize she had passed.

Our condolence are with you with her passing. She was such a nice friendly lady too. In fact that statement applies to both of you. I remember so well, Bernadette running into to you guys in Bottineau when I wasn’t along and coming back telling me she had met the most wonderful couple from Lynnwood. She said their name is Hosmer and he is a Lutheran pastor.

Our prayers are with you.

Gary

 

From Kay Hosmer (‘77) reply to Dick:  Thank you for sharing your memories of the Hosmer store.  I hope to hear stories from other people as well.  I didn’t know that my dad was a fast shoe-lacer!  –  I will always remember my grandparents wearing their red jackets from the Hosmer store.  –  Also, I remember being told that Grandma Inie “required” all her employees to read Norman Vincent Peale’s “Power of Positive Thinking” in attempts to promote positive customer relations/interactions.

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Typhoon Relief project of our good Friend Leo Tacke.

This is a reply I got from Leo in responce to a donation sent to me for his project.

I posted his project and goals in yesterday’s blog.

He has a good thing going with this releif project too.

For those wishing to contribute to his project you can make contributions via

1. Checks made out to “Leo Tacke” mailed to my FPO address listed below.

    Regular US postage is all that is required for mailing.

    It takes 10 to 14 days for letters to arrive.

2. Paypal to Leo via his email address  dutch_leo@hotmail.com

My FPO address

Gary Stokes

PSC 517 Box RS/CC

FPO AP 96517-1000

Leo’s reply

Dear Gary,

this is great news and very generous of your friend.

We are trying to organize a next shipment of food & water on Wed. Nov 20 and also the first building materials.

Many families are still without shelter and it does not take so much effort to make a difference there.

The plan is to purchase roof deck corrugated sheets, umbrella and ordinary nails, 2×2 coco lumber and amakan woven sheets to cover the sites of the houses.

I have 67 coconut trees uprooted in Kiniwahan near Luyang. I will donate these to the Luyang rebuild, but the issue I am facing is that they need to be cut in 8 or 10ft x 2×2.

Each tree will give us about 9 pieces (8 ft x 2×2) which adds up to 600 pieces. Very nice to start the rebuild.

We asked some quotations and they are giving me a price of 15 pesos per feet, which for a 30 ft tree is Php 450. Total approx. 30,000 pesos.

I asked the help of the Barangay Captain to do the cutting….but reactions are sloooooow, OMG.

Also Mariano Martinez, the mayor of San Remigio, offered (7 days ago) to deliver ASAP 5 pcs of corrugated roof sheets per family with a destroyed house. I am trying to reach him, but he doesn’t pick up his phone, so I need to go there again. One sheet is ~Php250, so that would really help also. It is important to know this before I buy sheets from our funds.

Simon Timmins has offered me a truck this week to transport materials.

Gary, I will do the purchases in pesos, so if you can exchange into Php, I would be grateful.

Thank you again and best regards to you and Bernadette.

Leo