Here are a couple more “Most Thoughtful Gifts” stories submitted to me as mentioned in today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette. The stories come as a result of my request for them after writing about Doris Pippert of Vinton receiving a gift box of April in Paris perfume and cologne 63 years after she had [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Vinton’
September 12, 2008
Guitar Heroes
If you’ve got teenage kids or younger, you’ve probably heard of the home video game, Guitar Hero. You take a plastic guitar in hand and try to hit the right color button on the neck in time to rock classics. It’s fun, but not anything like playing a real guitar.
The real guitar heros are the [...]
July 30, 2008
Goodbye to Pink Dancing Shoes
An angel has become an angel with Tuesday’s death of Nadine (Florang) Lyphout, 87, of Vinton.
I met Nadine in 1994 when she wore pink high heeled shoes to dance with Alzheimer’s patients at the Lutheran Home in Vinton. I was so impressed with her ability to get those people up to dance that I called her an angel.
In [...]
April 21, 2008
Hospital Vital to Vinton
It takes a little chutzpah and a lot of effort to ask people for money, even when it’s a good cause like the $1.75 million campaign under way to help with an $8.1-million project to renovate and purchase equipment for Virginia Gay Hospital in Vinton. (See today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette.)
So it was enlightening to hear campaign [...]
