Come to the Faireby Janice Smith Ramseier:

Our 21st Annual Hesperia Hall Country Faire will be held October 26th from 11 AM to 3 PM. Everyone is invited; hope it's already on your calendar. There will be crafts, Hesperia Hall calendars, flea market items, produce, homemade desserts, ironwork, and a variety of foods to satisfy hungry shoppers. The beautiful quilt made by the ladies of the Hesperia Hall Home Bureau will be raffled; this is your last chance to buy the winning ticket. The ever-popular bluegrass band, Over the Falls, will provide music. San Antonio Valley Fire Fund will be holding drawings for some awesome prizes with the proceeds to the purchase a fire truck.

Volunteers are needed to make our event a success. Cleanup day is Saturday, October 25th beginning at 8:30 AM; cleanup after the event will require volunteers as well. Calling on all our bakers in the area! Please bring items for the Country Kitchen. Pies are favorites. Thecontainers and contents will be sold, so bring your goodies in something you don't need returned. If any vendors have not secured a space,there is some available outside. Please call Janice at 472-2268. Come and have a great time. Let's make our 21st year our BEST EVER!

Oktoberfest Potluckby Ed Buntz:

Come one come all! The potluck on October 17th will be the annual Oktoberfest hosted by Marlen Richardson and friends. Bring a German dish (or any dish), and dress up in costume (or come as you are), and enjoy sausages, sauerkraut, Oktoberfest beer, German music, the fourth annual Leaping Lederhosen contest, and children’s parade. The Oktoberfest Potluck will also serve as the Hall’s annual membership meeting. An annual financial report will be available and members will elect the new Board of Directors to serve during 2009. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Hall Electionby Ed Buntz:

The Hesperia Hall Officers/Board of Directors for calendar year 2009 will be elected at the Oktoberfest potluck on October 17th. If you would like to volunteer or nominate someone (with his or her permission), please call Lois Lindley at 472-9556. The nomination window will close on October 14th.

The positions are as follows, with the total number not to exceed nine:

President

Vice President

Secretary/Treasurer

Scholarship Chairperson

Membership/Scheduling Chairperson

General Board Members

2009 Community Calendarby Jo Geary:

If you haven't already heard, our local calendar is now available for purchase. With a last minute scramble the committee managed to have the calendars ready to launch at the quilt show - a fitting start as the cover photo was shot at a previous quilt show. The calendars will be sold at the Hall potlucks, Farmers’ Markets, and the Country Faire for $12.50 each. If you have a large circle of friends/family/business associates to buy gifts for you might consider the 20% discount on a purchase of 20 or more calendars ($10 each). We are really excited about the quality and variety of this calendar; you must check it out.

In the past we have received many comments regarding the size of the calendars, so we decided the community at large should make the final decision. A choice of size was included on the photo judging ballots. 51 of you participated in the judging, 6 didn't care one way or the other, 22 preferred the large format, and 23 preferred the small format. This led us tothe conclusion that we can please some of you all the time, all of you some of the time,but we cannot please all of you all the time! Therefore, please bear with our decisions and remember that we are always looking for more committee members and appreciate your input. Keep those cameras clicking.

Harvest Moon Day:

Nacitone Regional Interpretive Center presents the 7th annual Harvest Moon Day on Saturday, October 18th from noon to 5 PM. There will be a craft show, chicken barbecue ($10), flea market, silent auction, 50/50 drawing, dessert booth, historical exhibits, BBQ Pit raffle, Fire and Police Department exhibits, US Army recruiting station exhibit, and music. It all takes place at the Lockwood Community Center with all proceeds going to support the Nacitone Regional Interpretive Center.

Editor Wanted!

News from the Hall is looking for a new editor. If you are interested in local events and want to contribute to the community, this is the job for you. The Hesperia Hall Board is very supportive, so if you have some new ideas about what you would like in the newsletter, this is your chance. Since there is no January issue, the job starts with the February 2009 issue. This will give you an extra month to learn the ropes. Expect lots of help from the retiring editor; former editor, Beth Winters; and typesetters, Mary Ann and Erick Reinstedt. Please contact Jane Miller at 472-2749 or any Board member if you are interested.

Scholarship Reportby Ed Buntz:

The Scholarship Committee would like to thank Janice Smith-Ramseier for her generous donation in memory of Gene McCormack. Gene was recently interred in Pleyto Cemetery next to his father and grandfather, so his family dates back to some of the earliest settlers in our area. We also send out a big thank you to Charles and Liz Ewing for their unique donation. They picked a very large variety of fruits from their orchard and brought them to the Hall Produce Exchange on a recent Sunday. Their wonderful fruit stash was given away to interested attendees with the suggestion to make a donation to the Hall scholarship fund. The fruit was popular and the donations were generous, so thanks also go out to all the shoppers as well! Nice to have Karyn Planett and Geoff Thompson back in the area for a while and we extend a big thank you for their generous scholarship donation.

If you would like to support the Hall scholarship program with a tax deductible donation, simply make out a check to Hesperia Hall, put Scholarship Fund on the memo line and send to: Hesperia Hall, 51602 Bryson-Hesperia Road, Bradley, CA 93426. If you would like to save a stamp, feel free to give your check to any board member at a potluck or Hall event. If you have any questions about the Hesperia Hall scholarship program or how to establish a 529 college savings account, please contact Ed Buntz at 472-2070 or Lois Lindley at 472-9556.

Marshall Wayne Harris:

This year the Paso Robles Pioneer Day committee has chosen Bryson-Hesperia’s own Wayne Harris to be their Marshall. Wayne will serve with Eleanor Heaton Sachs, the Pioneer Day Queen, whose grandfather started the Heaton Department Store that was located at 13th and Park Streets. Pioneer Day will be celebrated on Saturday, October 11th, beginning with the parade down Spring Street at 10 AM. After the parade there will be a free Bean Feed in the park. Wayne says to look for the tree with the sign that reads Lockwood/Bee Rock; this is the meeting place for local residents to gather and eat together. Wayne also says not to be discouraged by the long lines for the food. The lines move quickly and give everyone a chance to talk to each other. In the afternoon, you can head on down to Pioneer Park, next to the Fairgrounds, and watch a demonstration of old agricultural equipment.

Books and Flicks:

Beth Winters: The following young readers participated in the Monterey County Free Public Library Summer Reading Program through the Bookmobile: Casey and Pepper Petersen, Bethany and Abigail Reinstedt, and Michael Pineda. Each time they read a book, or had a book read to them, they recorded it in a library log and received a Summer Reading Certificate when the program ended July 31st.

I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (a novel about an unusual marriage where the husband is transported to different times) and The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (a novel about a reclusive author and the strange bond between twins)..

Jane Miller: For the gardeners in our area, I highly recommend the DVD, Greenfingers. It stars Clive Owen and Helen Mirren and is about a group of prisoners in England who take up gardening. Not for the kids with an R rating.

Babette Smith: If you like horses and mysteries, try Banker by Dick Francis, a light mystery about horse racing and banking investments.

Ed Buntz and Kate Snell: We certainly can recommend WALL- E, a Pixar/Disney film (G). We saw it in a theater with lots of young children and their parents, and everyone appeared to fully enjoy the experience. It is an animated film about a small trash collecting robot that is left on Earth after all the humans go out into space. The filmmakers did a wonderful job of conveying humor and emotion with their depiction of the characters and their circumstances with minimal dialogue.

Kevin Steele: I recommend Kung Fu Panda (PG) because it’s funny with lots of action.

Carol and Conrad Mahon: We saw Vantage Point (PG-13) with Dennis Quaid and Forest Whitaker; it is a political thriller and very good. We also recommend Over Her Dead Body (PG-13) with Eva Longoria about a guy whose fiancée gets killed by an ice sculpture on their wedding day. Three years later his sister has him go to a psychic, so he can get over the girlfriend. A cute romantic comedy. Both available from Netflix.

Fred and Carol Kenyon: Likely most all of us reading ones know of and several have read some Annie Dillard ...Pilgrim At Tinker Creek, Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, Holy the Firm, The Living. She will make you pause to think. Caution – it might even lead to drink, but moved you will be. Poetically creative insight as to amaze. It's not to be digested during a lunch hour.

New Author in Neighborhoodby Carla Martinez:

I am so excited to tell all my neighbors that my husband, Andrew Peterson, has sold his book First to Kill to Dorchester Publishing. The book is being released as of this mailing and will be available for purchase at our October potluck and Country Faire. If you want your copy sooner it can be ordered through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble (BN.com) as well as many other on-line booksellers. It will also be available in Costco. First to Kill is the first in a series of stories about a retired Marine sniper who thought he put his violent past behind him, but is coaxed by the government to help in locating some missing Semtex explosives and apprehend a ruthless adversary. The story has lots of twists and surprises and will surely please thriller fans. I am so proud of Andy’s accomplishment and hope you all enjoy his story.

Bee Rock Hours Change:

Bee Rock Store will be open only on the weekends and closed during the weekfor the fall and winter seasons. Due to the death of bothof Keith's parents this past year, they need to take care of family matters. Thestore will return to its regular schedule in the spring. New hours: from October to April; Friday, Saturday, and Sunday; 9 AM. - 7 PM. Closed Monday – Thursday.

A Day of Great Anticipationby Wayne Harris:

In my student days at the Hesperia Grammar School, we all looked forward to October 12th. It was the day we were taught that Columbus discovered America in 1492. Although then it was not a national holiday.

It was the day the merchants of Paso Robles chose to show their appreciation to all the ranchers and farmers of southern Monterey County and northern San Luis Obispo County. We were in the midst of the Great Depression and money was in short supply. But the merchants were the source of our food, clothes, equipment, cars, and whatever was needed on the ranch. They invited us all to town that day and suggested we leave our purses at home as all the stores would close. They would put on a parade and feed us in the park with a picnic on them. It was in that spirit that the tradition of Pioneer Day began in 1930.

Schools would close. A pioneer family would be honored by the choosing of a queen and marshal to represent early settler. Bands would play, old equipment would roll again, horses would prance, and memories would turn again to the hard but good old days. We’d hear the “chug-chug” of old tractors; my favorite was the big giant wheeled tractor that Floyd Patterson would be driving. I can still see him smiling and waving his old straw hat. Then too there was the great sound of marching bands. I got to march with the King City High School band for several years.

Thank you, Paso Robles merchants. It is still a great day. I don’t have to go to school that day, I still get to see and hear the sounds of that old equipment, and THE BEANS STILL TASTE GOOD!

Evening in the Garden:

On Saturday, November 1st from 4 to 8 PM, Mission San Antonio de Padua will be having their annual wine tasting fundraiser in the Padres’ Garden. This is a lovely way to be introduced to local wines from many outstanding wineries, sample hors d’oeuvres, and buy a Gift from the Garden. As the sun sets, the trees twinkle with lights, candles line the walkways, and strolling musicians entertain with mission period and classical music. Tickets are $35 per person. There will be an Early Bird Drawing on October 17th for a limousine ride to the event donated by Pam Gill of Lockwood. Tickets are available at the Mission Gift Store and at The Garden House and South Valley Auto Plaza in King City. There will also be tickets available at a Paso Robles location; please call the Mission for information. Spread the word to out of town friends; there are accommodations available at the Mission.

Puzzle Challenge:

August’s winner of the six Hesperia Hall quilt tickets was Michaela Steele. Be the first to answer this month’s puzzle by calling 472-2749 with the correct answer.

Astronaut Jose Perez was on his fourth visit to Mars and had learned to speak Martian. He wanted to find his Martian friend, Doman, but in order to locate him he had to know what group Doman belonged to. The three groups in the area were: Uti, Yomi, and Grundi.

The Uti always told the truth.

The Yomi always lied.

The Grundi sometimes told the truth but sometimes lied.

Perez needed information. Three Martians, Aken, Bal, and Cwos, each of whom belonged to a different group, agreed to help him. He asked each one of them two questions: That group do you belong to? What group does Doman belong to?

1. Aken said: I am not an Uti. Doman is a Yomi.

2. Bal said: I am not a Yomi. Doman is a Grundi.

3. Cwos said: I am not a Grundi. Doman is an Uti.

Which group does Doman belong to?