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Wear slacks. You will also be wise to wear boots* Just consider that
there was a snake in the Garden of Eden, and there might be one in our Bogue
Banks Paradise, !Je haven’t seen one in tv/o years, but we still walk slowly
and watch when we are- in an uncleared area. No snake wants to see us any
more than we want to see the snake, but it would resent bein^ stepped on so
we proceed without v/orry but v/ith rsasonable caution, and that is a good rule
anywhere. Well, maybe it isn^t needed in Ireland v/here there are no snakes!
A READER OF OURS, valuing his anonymity, has presented us v/ith the following,
given him long ago; he doesn't knov; its author, and he has paraphrased it a
little. The donor v;rites, ’’simply print that it was brought to your atten
tion by one in PKS who needs to say it often and often and often.”
And here it is: ’’Dear Lord, I am grov/ing old. Help me to keep from get
ting too talkative - from getting boresome - and from getting positive and
vehement about many subjects. Keep me from going into tirades about in
flation and the government in general,
’’Help me to knov; v;hen I have said enough. Teach me to listen as v/ell as
speak. Hay I never assume that I h-'^ve superior wisdom just because I’m
older than my listeners. Help me to get quickly to the point of a story.
Help me to avoid giving a biography of all the persons v/hom I mention. May
I never speak of the ingratitude of people, and may I nsver describe my back
ache, except to my physician,
’’Help me to see that if I am to keep old friends and find nev/ ones, I must
be friendly, and I must make it v/orthwhile for people to come and see me,
I must give them some pleasure and mental stimulus or they will not come back.
Help me to feel a real interest in my guests. Help me to keep up corres
pondence with relatives and good friends. Help me to mind my ovm affairs
and not to tell people v/hat to do,
’’Above all things, Oh Lord, help me to remain kindly. Help me to keep my
old sense of humor, and whatever power of self criticism I may once have
had. Help me to forgive much in my friends because, goodness knov/s, they
will have to forgive the defects they id.ll find in me. Amen.”
HOSPITAL VOLUN TEjjRS - Irene Doremus reminds all of us - men, this includes
you! - that more volunteers are still needed to help at Carteret General
Hospital. If you can give a fev; hours regularly or can substitute, please
call Irene at 726-8l64.
If all has gone v;ell, LINDA and P^TER COIJiR v/ill have moved into their new
home in the cul de sac of ■'•/hite Ash Drive kay 1. Many of us have grown ac
quainted with the Comars - they’ve been living in Pine Knoll Tov/nes while
their house was completed. Peter spent 39 years with Bethlehem Steel in
the shipbuilding division and they lived in Nor^^^ood, New Jersey. Now he is
doing some consulting for Bath Iron - he knows all about ship repair and this
puts him in demand. In front of the new house rests a fine Harkers Island
skiff; he and Linda have long been sailors, and they’ll be doing some golf
ing and fishing doivn here as well. Comars have tv/o sons, Peter, 22, easing
on dov/n to N.C. State soon to study Karine Boilogy, and Ricky, 19, who’ll be
going to New York State Institute of Technology in IJestbury, Long Island,
There is also a dog named Sudden Sam (because he was discovered all of a
sudden in the middle of a road one day and simply had to be kept).
New on Nhite Ash are JODY and DAVID DIXON, both Carteret County natives.
They’ve been living in Florida and David has just been made the new North
Carolina distributor for Ultra Guard, home fire safety system, so they came
back to settle here in PICS, \^dth their tv/o children, Lee, 10, and Davey,
who will welcome meeting nev/ friends around here (all you ten and four year
olds, hop over to call!) and their tv/o dogs. Brandy, a St, Bernard, of course,
and Candy, a poodle, Jody really looks forv/ard to gardening, and she does
macrame and her own sewing as well,
CART.JRET ARTS COUNCIL tells us that their Good Stuff Gang is sponsoring
monthly arts and crafts shows at the Marine Resources Center, and PKS’ers
will want to hop over for looks, probably taking guests with ’em. Note the
dates:
May 21 and 22, June 25 and 26, July 23 and 2^, and August 20 and 21.
Oh, if you are an artist yourself or know one, LISA IiORi H HI'J, local artist—in-
residence, wants to hear about it* Maybe your work ought to be included!
Call her at 726-8060,
And: Save May l^th. The Greensboro Youth Theatre is bringing a musical
revue with zodiac moods. We can see it at Morehead Elementary School at
8:00 p,m. Hay l^th. Adults, $1,^0, kids under 12, S*30*
!