Three outstanding charity golf outing coming up in September. Up first is the inaugural outing sponsored by Big Sky Saloon at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, at CIC. It’s a two-man scramble with all proceeds benefiting the Jessica Schenk and Jonathan Pope Memorial Funds. Your $90 per player fee gets you 18 holes of golf with card, prizes and a ribeye steak dinner at Big Sky afterward. To register, call Big Sky at 419-960-7075.

John Davenport, Lt. Col. USAF retired, called me Tuesday morning to let me know that he is hosting some 60 U.S. Marine recruits this weekend for a little “R&R” in our beautiful area. He will be taking them over to Put-in-Bay on Saturday and the group will march into the village. That ought to be a sight to see! John is doing this because he believes, as many people do, our soldiers and sailors don’t get the recognition they so richly deserve. Amen!

What a great time I had this past weekend participating in the annual I-LYA Sail Regatta at Put-in-Bay. They abandoned the races on Saturday morning when no wind came up, so the regatta was shortened to just two races, one on Friday and one on Sunday. But they were great.
However, Saturday afternoon I was “forced” to go uptown with old sailing buddy Scott Holzaepfel to watch a couple more old friends, Mike “Mad Dog” Adams at The Round House and Bob Gatewood, who was performing at the Fishbowl. Bob’s in-laws, Lou and Millie, were there celebrating their 63rd wedding anniversary! Millie and Lou are 87, but still going strong!

Two Happy Birthday wishes this week. First, happy 90th to Florence Edmonds, who celebrated with family and friends last week. Also, another happy 90th birthday wish goes out to Ethel Wilber, shown here in the photo with her son George and her daughters Evelyn Lepard and Mary Gill.