Wasilla News
by Peggy Belts
June and uraay noDineue ui
the Hilltop Cafe in Wasilla have
fond hopes of an Alaskan dog
racing team. Grady has his be
ginning in a three quarters wolf
female purchased* from Mrs.
Courtney Fleming of Big Lake.
The dog is a grey color with
markings that give proof of her
sled dog blood. A business like
looking log yard and pen have
been built behind the cafe.
• * *
Ernest E. Line, Wasilla school
superintendent, attended a meet
ing of the Western Alaskan High
School Activities Control Board
at Mt. McKinley Park over the
week-end.
• * •
Mexico bound are Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Ricker of Wasilla. They
left their Wasilla Lake home for
a trip through the States, a tour
of Mexico and other Latin Am
erican countries.
* * *
Wayne Hunter was treated at
Valley Hospital, this week for a
sprained shoulder.
* * *
Jim Baldwin traveled to Chit
na last week-end and spent a few
days exploring the ghostly haunts
of that famous town.
* * *
John Polis has gone to the
States for medical treatment. He
is reported to be doing very well
He is proprietor of the Wasilla
Cocktail Lounge.
* * *
Koslosky’s new grocery depart
ment manager is Leo Nunley of
Wasilla.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bussard left
the Territory Saturday to return
to their home in Pennsylvania.
* * *
Wasilla’s Teen-Age Group are
sponsoring a series of game nights
to be held each Wednesday at
the Wasilla Road House. Each
member of the group has an op
portunity to act as chairman.
Mrs. Dorothy Nickels is chaperon
for the club when dances or part
ies are on the program.
* * *
Members of the local V. F. W.
Auxiliary are making cakes to
be sold daily by the piece at the
the Wasilla Roadhouse. Proceeds
from the sales go into the Auxil
iary treasury.
* * *
"Scoutleader Frank Sorenson is
planning an overnight hike and
camping trip for Wasilla Boy
Scouts this coming week-end. It
will be earlier than the camping
expedition of last winter which
was held during the Christmas
holidays at Paradise Lake with
the boys sleeping and cooking
outdoors for several days while
learning how to live in the woods
and care for themselves under
winter conditions.
* * *
If anyone is looking for the
bus stop in Wasilla just go to the
Wasilla Roadhouse. The bus from
Anchorage calls there each even
ing at 6:30.
* * *
A1 Hjellin is chairman of the
annual Boy Scout Fund drive
which is currently being spon
in Commerce
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A monthly meeting of the Was
illa Library club was well attend
ed Monday night in the libaray.
* * * *
Guys and gals of the Wasilla
V. F. W and Auxiliary are re
hearsing a three act comedy
which they hope to present some
time this Fall.
* * *
In town this week from outly
ing areas were Mrs. Amy Green
wood from Knik and Lloyd Short
from the Independence mine.
Lloyd snow-shoes six miles from
the mine to Vic Cottini’s as the
road to the mine hasn’t jpeen
opened this year.
• * *
Visitors to Cottini’s, Little Su
Isitna Lodge last week-end report
about 17 inches of snow up in
the hills. Bill Betts and Vaughn
Wilson both said some real driv
ing was needed to make the hill
Sunday afternoon.
* , * *
Betty LaPort, Delia Cotila and
M. V. Morrisson spent Wednes
day in Anchorage. .
* # *
Roy Morrisson is starting his
winter hibernation on his new
homestead up above Big Lake.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Michaelson
visited Mr. and Mrs. Martin Betts
Wednesday.
Scout Executive
To Visit Palmer
There will be no regular Boy
Scout meeting next week on No
vember 3, Scoutmaster Harry
Wimmer announced this week.
Instead all parents and other per
sons interested in the local scout
ing program are invited to attend
a meeting with a scout executive
from the Anchorage office and
discuss future plans for the scout
program in Palmer.
The meeting will be held in the
Palmer School library, Room 216
at 8 p.m. Members of the Scout
committee Will be present.
NEW LEGION OFFICERS
TO BE INSTALLED AT
NOVEMBER 5 MEETING
Robert Johns will be installed
as new commander of the Pal
mer Post, American Legion,
along with other recently elected
officers, at the November 5 meet
ing.
Others to be installed are John
Fame Ait Exhibit
To Be Shown At
Palmer School
The jvell-known Colonial Line
traveling art exhibit will be on
display at the Palmer School
from November 9 through No
vember 11, as Palmer teachers
and students observe national
education week November 9-15.
Reproductions of 150 famous
paintings, ranging from Michel
angelo to Picasso will be placed
on exhibit in various rooms
throughout the school. A small
admission charge will be made
for students and adults viewing
the paintings. Funds raised from
the showing will be used for the
purchase of additional pictures
for the school. Members of the
Junior High School art depart
ment are sponsoring the exhibit.
In further observance of edu
cation week, the regular Palmer
P-TA meeting will probably be
moved up one week from Novem
ber 17 to November 10, at which
time the teachers will be in at
tendance for room visitations of
parents. The change in date
would also permit the viewing of
art exhibit.
Weisenberger, first vice-com
mander; Ray Lancaster, second
vice-commander; F. F. Everett,
adjutant; Bernard Niemann, fi
nance officer; Lyman Lee, his
torian and Morris Helgeson,
chaplain. Also committee men
Seth Cook, Edward Ueeck and
Lawrence Rorrison. The service
officer will be appointed at a
later date.
PATRICIA PLUMLEY
BRIDE IN
CANDLELIGHT SERVICE
In a pretty carfdlelight cere*
mony October 17, Patricia Jean
Plumley, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Plumley of Palmer,
became the brde of Edgar Donald
DeLand, son of Mrs. Jack Scott,
also of Palmer. The single ring
ceremony was performed by Rev.
George Geiwitz in the Church of
God at 8 p.m. Leo Plumley sang
“I Love You Truly” and Esther
Petersen sang ‘‘O Promise Me.”
They were accompanied by Mrs.
Bryant, pianist.
The bride, given in marriage by
her father, chose traditional white
satin for her formal gown. The
fitted bodice had long tapered
sleeves and a peter pan collar,
the latter was encrusted with
pearls and rhinestones. Self-but
tons ran from the neck line to
the waist from which a hooped
skirt billowed out in a floor
length. Her finger-tip length veil
was of white net, bordered with
white lace and fell from a white
carnation coronet. She carried a
bouquet of white gardenias and
carnations.
The bride’s attendant was her
sister, Mrs. Melvern Newby who
wore a lavender ballerina length
gown, trimmed with tiny rose
buds on the shoulder and the
bustle. Her bouquet was of pink
carnations.
Attending the bridegroom was
Ted DeLand, his brother. Ushers
were Larry Vasanoja and Dave
Rush.
For the ceremony the bride’s
mother chose a purple dinner
dress, trimmed with rhinestones
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with which she wore a pink car
nation corsage. The bridegroom’s
mother also chose purple for her
gown and she too wore a pink
carnation corsage. .
Following the wedding a recep
tion was held by the bride’s par
ents at Moose Hall where Mrs.
Newby presided over the guest
book. Evon Meiers served the
cake and Hazel Plumley, Dorothy
Trudell and Peggy Lazenby serv
ed coffee. Wilbert Trudell was
in charge of the punch bowl.
Guests were present from Palmer
and i Anchorage.
Both the bride and bridegroom
were educated in the Palmer
schools, and are longtime resi
dents of the Valley. The Plum
ley family came to Alaska from
Florence, Wisconsin in Septem
ber of 1941. The bridegrooms
family came to the Valley with
the colonists in 1935 from Winter,
Wisconsin. All have made their
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The bridgroom is employed by
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They plan to make their home
in the Valley and will live in the
Ken Foster apartment, three
miles south of Palmer.
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