Redneck Review!
No. 223 - 8/4/2019
Wow!  Time does fly!  Summer will be over shortly, and students around our area will be headed back to school once again!  Vacation time is fast coming to an end, and the many reunions we have experienced recently have come to an abrupt end!
Personally, this writer traveled to Helena, Montana, where a 50th celebration was held for the graduates from Carroll College in 1959. There were  seven of us there to ponder how quickly the 60 years had passed since 77 had walked the stage that June. Our class had about 150 frosh, but 77 only who endured the four years and received degrees. Many of the 77 would have come, but sickness and old age, etc. kept them from attending!  Oh my, how fast the time does fly, and one wonders who might be around for the next celebration!
One short month later, my father's side of the family held a reunion at the Three River resort above Kamiah, and there again, it was amazing how boys and girls remembered as grade school students now announced they were "39 years old"  with  children of their own!
And a wedding in Butte for a grand daughter remembered distinctly playing guard on Prairie girls 2012 state champion basketball team, "just a few years ago," now had a college degree, and had just completed one year of teaching in Deer Lodge Mt, astounding  me by saying "I do" and becoming a wife! What!  Those last... fast 7 years had indeed rushed on by!
Next all six sons and a cousin from Bend OR spent  4 days in the heart of primitive Idaho, with hopes of finding a home site at a gold mine worked by my father in the 1940's. Again it brought to mind vividly how times have changed in the life time I have lived, leaving me pondering what possibly it will be like when grandkids of mine now in school will quickly find themselves as old as myself  And I say with conviction it will be here before you know it!
Oh, yeh!  Don't forget the annual stock show coming up quickly, which again will bring to our area folks from all around the Prairie!   Several old supporters from  the past will be absent, missed from the stands when the bidding for animals takes place!  And who knows who, though present today,  will be gone tomorrow, and will be absent from  next year's event?
Finally, I personally received another jolt during these past weeks, as four local high school groups celebrated ten year reunions!  Frankly, I can't keep up! The 1969 SGA class came and went, celebrating in Greencreek over the 4th of July. In my dazed stupor they came and were gone, the boat had been missed once again! Several in that class were  excellent debaters and athletes, and all have proved to be a credit to their community and their nation. This class was a delight to teach, and I truly regret missing a chance to share old stories with them!
But ouch!  There is more! During the new Cottonwood Summer Fest, three more Prairie high school classes celebrated reunions, the classes of 1989, 1999, and 2009!  Admittedly it was not my good fortune to teach the last group, but the first two bring back memories once again of hard working, fun loving, pleasant groups of young students, great to be around, and  who helped make my years as a teacher in this area a very rewarding experience!  Thank you!
And the moral of this story and the lesson to be learned?  Time is short!  Do not waste it ever, especially when young!  Study hard, be honest, build a good reputation, and help prove in the future  that people from this area are a plus to their community, their nation, and their God!
Jake Wren

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