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A VIEW FROM PIONEER PARK

We have now turned into September. Gradually, the days will become cooler and we won't need to run the air conditioners on a 48 hour a day basis. Trust me. It always starts to happen about this time of year. By December many of us will probably be cussing the blankety-blank snow and cold weather. I'm sure I will be. I'm a hot weather person. The only redeeming value for December is Christmas and plenty of bowl games leading up to the final ones in early January.

HAWKEYE HULABALOO

Looking Back

By Ruth McGowan, PA-C

The Kernels are in their final home stand, a three game set with Burlington. Then they will have the playoffs, which start next Wednesday. I noticed in the paper that the Iowa volleyball team went 3-0 in its own tournament during the weekend and the women's soccer team was 2-1. The field hockey team went east and lost twice. They are ranked #19 in the country, but they dropped a game to #6 Wake Forest and another to #1 North Carolina in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge over the weekend.

So, the Iowa State Fair has come to an end for this year and the Lone Tree Fall Festival for 2010 is also behind us. I don't know how the overall crowd at the Fall Festival compared with other years. Friday, of course, was almost a washout. There seemed to be a good crowd at the Bids For Baskets event. The Chamber didn't get quite as much money to pay the bills as last year, but that was a record year, I think. There weren't as many baskets as last year, but the bidding was brisk on all of them. I had forgotten that it was Ben and Dorothy Johnson who had come up with the idea for the event. I don't know about anybody else in the community, but I am certainly glad they did. That has become the Chamber's big money maker to offset the cost of putting on the Fall Festival and doing other projects around town, like putting up the Lone Tree welcoming signs.

It won't be long now. High school football starts tomorrow night and college football opens next Thursday. A couple of baseball notes first. The Kernels will be home for three more games on September 1, 2, and 3. They have three road games after that and then the playoffs start on September 8. This year the Kernels are in the playoffs for sure by virtue of having won the first half championship in their division. On the major league scene the most excitement came along when Lou Piniella finally just shucked the Cubs entirely instead of waiting until the end of the year. The Boss came roaring into the kitchen one evening last week while I was finishing supper and said she was through with the Cubs. They had just traded off the last decent player they had, Derrek Lee, to the Braves for three minor league pitchers. Actually, those pitchers should fit right in because that's about all the Cubs have on their staff right now, a bunch of minor leaguers.

I have never written my story of MS and how it changed my life, but I thought it was about time. I am not sure where to begin but at the beginning.

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