Date: Fri 04-Aug-1995

Publication: Bee

Author: CURT

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German-tourist-wedding

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MOUNTAIN FOR 8/4

There was a lot of excitement at Edmond Town Hall last week when Judge Margot

Hall performed a wedding ceremony for visiting German tourists, Ruth Kebbekus

and Rolf Ehlert. Rolf is the brother of Newtown resident Jurgen Ehlert, who

came here from Germany last spring to work at the TUV Rhineland on Commerce

Road. Jurgen's wife, Birgit, and their children, Meike, 4, and Moritz, 2,

attended the ceremony along with friends Stephan and Anne Bamberg and their

daughter, Judith, 2.

After the ceremony, everyone gathered outside on the steps of the town hall

for photographs. Then Birgit stopped by The Bee on Friday to drop off the

wedding photo and announcement. She said the wedding ceremony was followed by

a garden party at her home on Greenbriar Lane. She added that the wedding will

be a "big surprise" to the couple's families back in Aachen, Germany, where he

is an engineer and she is an elementary school teacher.

"They've been going together for 11 years and their parents thought they'd

never get married," Birgit confided. "They will have to do some paperwork when

they get back to Germany, but the marriage is legal."

Birgit said she plans to pick up a bunch of copies of this week's newspaper so

the couple can take them back to Germany and prove to their friends and

families that they really did get married.

There was a lot of excitement at the Middle School on Saturday night, too,

when the Lions Club drew the name of the winner of the vintage Mustang

convertible in the club's annual raffle. But the winning ticket bore only the

name "M. Michaud" and a post office box in Pomfret Center. No telephone

number. Apparently no one knew who sold the winning ticket either, so the

Lions Club's only recourse is to send M. Michaud a certified winner notifying

him or her of the result. Under state law, the winner has up to a year to

claim the prize. Let's hope we aren't all kept in limbo that long waiting for

the winner to come forward.

We just learned that Thursday, July 20, was a big day in the maternity ward at

Danbury Hospital for three Sandy Hook families. Baby girls were born that day

to Richard and Deidra Mayhew of Toddy Hill Road, Martin and Tina Stowe of

Dayton Street and William and Eileen Green of Paugassett Road. Perhaps to help

balance out all those girls, twin boys were born there the following day to Ed

and Colleen Kimball of Sugar Hill Road in Newtown.

It's difficult to believe it's August already. Labor Day is fast approaching

and with it plans for the annual parade. The parade committee is hard and work

and promises that this year's parade will be bigger and better than ever.

Everyone is invited to help out or to join in the fun. Anyone who wants

information should contact the co-chairpersons, Kim Stendahl, 270-1805, Nancy

Riddle, 426-6311 or Carol Luf, 426-4896.

Was it Porgy or Bess who said the living is easy in summertime? Obviously,

neither of them tried to navigate their way through Newtown in last week's

heat. The loaders were loading, the excavators were excavating, and the

haulers were hauling as Newtown's new sewers continued to wind their way

through the town's business district. The gaping, "traveling" pit required to

install sewer piping is working its way down Queen Street from Glover Avenue

toward Church Hill Road.

Meanwhile, on the Church Hill Road overpass over I-84, workmen were installing

a natural gas line to serve the condominium project on Walnut Tree Hill Road

known as Walnut Tree Village.

In Dodgingtown, work crews were putting some finishing touches on a repaved

section of Route 302.

Amid this flurry of construction work, telephone company trucks, power company

vehicles, water company trucks and cable television vehicles darted about,

doing maintenance work on their respective telephone systems, power grids,

water supplies and cable TV networks.

Speaking of networks, I got some email over the Internet this week from Stacie

Czyszon who now lives in Carbondale, Illinois. I'll share her note with me.

When I moved out of Newtown in 1989, I never thought the day would come that I

would turn on my computer and see The Newtown Bee on the Web.

So I thought that I would drop you a line to say Hi from a former resident and

student of Newtown High and Middle Schools. If anyone from my classes are

interested in saying Hi, drop me a line at roguexm@siu.edu. And for Mr Vorous,

Thanks to you, I am a full time student at SIU and I am studying to be a high

school English teacher.

Thanks for the memories,

Stacie Czyszon - Class of "90"

If you are wondering how you can reach me by email, just drop me a line at

thebee@connix.com, and put somewhere in the subject line or text that it's a

message for Top of the Mountain.

Time to go check my email box. You go too, but remember to come back in time

to...

Read me again.