Applesauce made with love wins big
Since the tragic loss of their 7-year-old daughter, Anna, to cancer in 2010, Joe and Polly Schindler have been passionately and positively impacting the lives of other children and their families through the Anna Schindler Foundation.
This month the 11th Annual Anna Schindler Memorial Golf Tournament took place at the Links Golf Course and included a live auction. Each year a popular auction item is Joe’s (Schindler) Famous Applesauce. Last year 3-quart jars sold for $300 each.
Friend of the Schindlers and professional auctioneer Randy Wells shared that there may have been some kind of record set for the winning bid on a single quart of Joe’s homemade applesauce this year. When the dust settled in the auction ring, Randy happily called out “SOLD!” to the bid of $15,000!
I didn’t know sweet Anna, but I do know that for the past decade the impact of her too-short life has been enormous. That little girl was blessed to have such kind and giving parents. I’m thinking that Anna is smiling down every day on her family.
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The first day of school, the day after Labor Day, social media was flooded with first day of school photos of kindergartners through college students. It’s always a fun array of spit-shined, new clothes-garbed kiddos being good sports to pose for their parents on the way out the door.
But winning the internet on that day were Kareen and Greg Link, pictured lounging on their boat on the lake on a sunny Tuesday afternoon with the hashtag #emptynesters.
Well played Links!
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I’ve not yet surrendered to the end of summer by draining the pool and putting the floaties and patio furniture into the storage shed. While I truly enjoy fall, I love summer best. Everywhere in our neck of the woods, pools, cabins and river campsites are being closed, boats coming out of the lake and into storage.
The collective sigh of lovers of summer can be heard for miles.
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Happy first day of autumn birthday today to Jerry Lyon, Vic Slater, Amy Reagan, Scott Livingston, Rosalyn Martin, George Beebe and my baby sister, Ronna Park. Tomorrow Autumn Hanson, Craig Owens, Wendy Young, Patty Kilcup, Stacie McGrath, David Thompson, Sue Enright, Brian Harris, Denise Bechel and Madeline Singleton blow out the candles. On Friday father and son, Charles Alexander and Scott Alexander share a birthday with Tracey Vaughn, Debbie Michalak, Justin Capaul, Steve Evert, Dorothy Benoit, Carlena Shove and Cathy Schaede. Wish a happy birthday on Saturday to James Hagman (18!), Linda Riley, Susan Evans, Beck Jacobsen, Brenda Watkins, Gladys Sullivan, Michael McGee, Ronald Schlepp, Rebecca Greer, Marcia Hughes, Cheryl Snyder, Cate Kuhlmann, Teri Oliver and Charlie Taranto. On Sunday Darci Allert, Hannah Riorden, John Oaks, Lisa McElwain, Joseph Doutre, Teresa Hooker and Dan Tesutov do the birthday dance. On Monday beautiful golden girl Ruth McDermid (93!) is sharing a birthday with Cindy Lash, Delraya Anstine, Kaley Fowler, Julie DeGon, Robert Hoyt and Paul Landers. Tuesday Kayla Troxell, Kylie Solberg, Meg Elyard Natalie Loval, Ken Cook, Wayne Riddle and Bryan Czarapata will have their cake and eat it, too.
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Kerri Rankin Thoreson is a member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and the former publisher of the Post Falls Tribune. Main Street appears every Wednesday in The Press and Kerri can be contacted on Facebook or via email mainstreet@cdapress.com. Follow her on Twitter @kerrithoreson.