Category: Trella Diaries

Friday, July 10, 1987
Called David but he was at a gig at Sharon Park. Karen very opposed to him going to Kenosha to pick up Dave’s car from Kathleen Tabor. I called Bob Stout for advice. He said don’t alert Kathy ahead of time, but notify police while we were doing and take the possession of car before contacting Kathy.
Finally decided it was not my responsibility to bail Dave out. called him and it didn’t seem to matter one way or another to him!

Put the liner back in the pool. Not really a one woman job to do it right.

Thursday, July 9, 1987
Prepared the agenda and budget for July 12th salute committee.

Picked up programs at 3:30. To courthouse for 4:00 meeting. Gave Ray Switzer the agenda and even with it in front of him he fouled up. How does he run Harding *Motor Lodge?
but everything going well.

*He left there about 2 mo. later- fired?

Wednesday, July 8, 1987
Good thing I came home. So many phone calls- details for Sunday. Checked program again and gave go ahead for printing.

Tuesday, July 7, 1987
Proofed program at 1:30 before leaving town.
Took more publicity material into Jo Ann Radwin and back home in time to be picked up by Mary Hecker, Mary Jordan and Walt and Olga Haldeman to go to Jerry’s at Galion for lunch. They had no interest in any of my activities. Did more errands and picked Mary up at 2:00 to go to Cincinnati for Sarah’s birthday and to see the new addition to their house. It will be great- lots of room but David is trying to save money by putting on the siding- lots of work. About 9:00 found that genealogy convention doesn’t open until noon tomorrow so decided to come back home tonight.

Monday, July 6, 1987
[No entry]

Saturday, July 4, 1987
Called David and Kathi with report on floods. Dave met two Austrian girls at Sierra Club meeting Sunday and has been out with them every night. Called Kathy Tabor- big fight- broke up.

Mary out at 8:45 and we lugged 18 bags of sand out by the driveway from all the lower driveways. Drove back across the river. Water had been into the roadway so I think I’m safe from floods- too much area over there for it to spread.

Finished mailing to 15 participants for July 12th and in to mail them, pick things up from fair, take Charlton Myers speech to him, deliver packets of flyers to 11 churches. Mowed upper lawn, then relaxed. Turned electricity to river pump back on- also bedrooms. River about back in banks.

Thursday, July 2, 1987
1 and 1/2 in more rain FLOOD
Rained all night. Water at base of terraces when I got up and by noon was over first terrace. Howard helped me move things up in the rec room and garage as water was coming up 6 in an hour. Mary and Geneva came out about 2:00 after distributing flyers about July 12th to neighborhood churches. Geneva called Hugh Johnson to bring sand in bags from Wolohan’s- $50 worth sandbagged all lower doors including garage. Rick and Lynn Lahun came down and he used rowboat to tie canoe to trees. Wrote Day before Yesterday on July 12th- “Relive Marion of 1830” and took it to Star at 9:00. Roads flooded two places.

Wednesday, July 1, 1987
5 1/2 in rain
In at 9:00 for shampoo and blow dry. Maria cut too much off. Had to go out in the rain. Took kindling to fair and then home to finish program for July 12th. Took it to Joan Radwin to lay out. To Quick Print to pick up 8,000 flyers for churches. They had marked it for pickup July 8th! But had it ready by 3:00. Reverend Urquhart and Dr George Brown will distribute tomorrow. Mary and Geneva helped me package for 53 churches. At 4:45 (in the rain all day) to Madge Guthery’s. Picked up Elizabeth Jones to go to Columbus to Ohio Historical Society for opening of Liberty’s Legacy- 123 original documents. Story of creating government for America.

Home- had rained 5 and 1/2 in since Tuesday when I got there at 9:00 roads flooded two places.