Lynda Mehrer:  

Wow, where to start, 50 years is a very long time, that has gone by very fast! I have 3 children, the oldest Frank, is a 4th grade teacher at Griffin. My parents, myself, Frank and his 2 daughters attended Griffin. My daughter, Kelli, is a Senior English teacher at Capital High School and has 2 daughters. My youngest son, Jim, works here at Hanford Nuclear Power Site. He is in charge of a lot of the drilling to tract ground water under the waste tanks. He has 1 son and another due at Christmas time.. I love Washington, but little did I know, there is a whole country out there! I have lived in Hawaii, 80 miles around Oahu, becomes a very confining area. Spent time in Wisconsin and a couple of years in Virginia. From there I went to a very small town in Upstate New York. I always thought that New York was all city, WRONG! The town was the Village of Corinth, 1 stop light, 2 grocery stores, 1 convenience store and more taverns than restaurants. There was only 1 of those, Jack’s Place and it was the best. Winters were long, cold and lots of snow. Our family became 3 season people, Summer, Fall and Winter. Forget Spring, way too much mud! I learned how to make Real Maple Syrup, 40 gallons of sap for 1 gallon of syrup!. The winters became not so long when you gather up the kids, a bunch of firewood, the three wheeler, sled and head to Stewarts Pond. The sand pit was a great place for sledding and the Pond worked well for skating, building a fire on the ice to warm up an...Expand for more