Year: 1989

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Trella Hemmerly – 1989-12-30

Saturday, December 30, 1989
To Columbus for Quicken- 3 1/2 hours. average December 19.2 degrees normal 32°, 9.4 in snow normal 4 in

Mary picked me up about 10 to go to Meijer’s Center in Columbus to buy Quicken for MCHS to do accounting. Norm says he will learn it- $41. To Li’l Professor bookstore in Worthington- got Alan Eckert’s ‘Twilight of Empire’ and paperback ‘Blackhawk War.’ Stopped in Waldo at Grolls and looked at recliners- one I wanted is out of stock! One on floor had a hold on it. Home about 3:30. Answered Willis Nye’s call- wanted an ear for his concern over dominance of Huber Association by Dietsch, Winck, Swaderers who’s only interest is in selling Cockshutt models. Told him of Harry Bard’s attack on me. He said Harry has left a trail of people (women) that he has antagonized unreasonably.
Touching TV story about destruction of library in Bucharest during recent liberation.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1989-12-29

Friday, December 29, 1989
10:00 to 5:15 7 1/4 hours volunteer.
To Mary & Carl’s for dinner with Mary. Her house so beautifully decorated
To Heritage Hall at 10:00- Worked all day on Membership forms. Mailing of 526 copies of open house announcement (Mary helped) & brough Brick database up to date – 454 sold to 12/28.
I turned in $350 to cover family and Terradise Computer Systems and Hemmerly’s Flowers
Harry Bard in office lamenting fact that plumbers hadn’t been in to fix boiler- and he could fix it if he had the parts, but he couldn’t get hold of a plumber to get them.
Later Sloan- the plumber called and said he hadn’t come because of so many emergency calls because of -20° weather but had heard Harry wanted the parts. (All this after Harry didn’t answer his phone and Norm searched building and couldn’t find him.) So I said okay bring the parts over.
Later I went to lower level and heard Harry talking about me to Dick West so I went into his work room- amazed at his attack on me was for ‘interfering and what was none of my business.’ He said I had no right to talk to the plumber. Called me names and says he won’t work in the same building with me. I cried it out alone.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1989-12-28

Thursday, December 28, 1989
10:00 to 5:00 8:00 to 10:00 9 hours volunteer
Worked on bricks database all day in all morning. Modified database to include member in a logical field so I can print labels for Brick buyers who are not members. But it wouldn’t work. Picked up open house announcements and took to Heritage Hall. Helen Kaufman working and she folded them. She had draft of minutes of December 19th meeting ready.
Met Mary at Bob Evans and led her home.
Reworked Helen’s minutes.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1989-12-27

Wednesday, December 27, 1989
10:00- 5:00 7 hours volunteer
Royce cleaned while I updated Huber and MCHS databases and wrote announcement letters for open house (MCHS) and annual meeting (Huber). In at 3:30 to Heritage Hall to run Huber letter. Several phone calls while there. Took MCHS open house announcements to Quick Print and ordered 600 copies.
Picked Mary up and went to Ponderosa for dinner. Had trout- so good. Then to Sears and check on dustbuster didn’t buy Sears. Took her home and in to look at lamp she had in attic to replace my ‘Gone with the Wind’ that has broken shade. Also gave me an oak splint basket that had been Kenny’s.
Trailer park boys over and shoveled upper driveway. Gave them each a dollar and a bag of Campbell’s candy. About four more inches of snow.
[review of 1989:]
AIDS named in 1982 70,000 deaths by 1989. promiscuity over. space shuttles Challenger explosion superconductors. Reagan victory over carter. Bush victory over dukakis. fire in Yellowstone National park. earthquake in Armenia and San francisco. Mount St Helens eruption. pollution, garbage, toxic waste, population explosion using up natural resources. Global warming. rainforest cutting. stories that shape the agents. decline and fall of communist empire. Bill Berlin Wall falls. hostage taking by islamics fourfold increase in terrorism. marriage of Prince Charles and diana. Central American, panama, Marcos disposed and Philippines and later died. drugs crack inner-city deteriorating addicted newborns. computers, cellular phones, microchips, Yuppie and TV evangelist downfall. fitness. cholesterol, tv, cheers. oprah. et, Roger rabbit, tag me and Lacey Tootsie wheel of fortune, Cosby show. Murder She wrote. Golden Girls. Amen. Top Gun.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1989-12-26

Tuesday, December 26, 1989
Partly sunny low 6 high 16 degrees
David to Shelby early- trying to cinch sale of SBT Accounting Software. Made pancakes for breakfast- Kids on river for a while but they needed David to show them how to play. Lunch of chicken casserole and fruit salad and by 2:00 they had packed up and left for Cincinnati so kids could deliver papers.
So tired I took a nap.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1989-12-25

Monday, December 25, 1989
Howard wished me Merry Christmas with a check for $1,000 to help with the expenses of roof and pump and kitchen.
Cleaned and cooked. Mary here at 2:00 and helped by setting table- cleaning vegetables.
David and family arrived about 3:00 kids and David put skates on and down to river which is deeply frozen.
Kids just learning and had more fun on sled- I think.
Dinner of ham, scalloped oysters, broccoli and cheese sauce, cranberries, sweet potatoes. Mary brought pumpkin pie that we had after opening gifts. David gave me printer ribbons, a mouse for computer, 2 programs to evaluate ‘Tax Wise’ and ‘Publish-it Light’, 2 Edward Abbey books- Beyond the Wall and [blank]. Josh gave me black ceramic bathtub soap dish other kids gave me kitchen towels. Mary gave them all Totes socks. I gave bricks for Heritage Hall. 2 to Haldemans one to Terradise Computer Systems. One to Hemmerly’s..
Watched the video David got his family- ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’. David led Mary into Marion because of her poor eye vision. Kathi called. spending day with Sims. Kristi there too.