Tulelake, the untold story... Chapter Two
About a week before the "All Saints Day" event in 2003. I was at Jock's Supermarket and as I was coming out I met Lanie Baliey for the first time. She introduced herself to me. We had a nice conversation. After I mentioned who I was Lanie asked if I had all the help I needed for the event I was planning. I told her "No", I didn't. That I was looking to hire a few people to help me. She volunteered because she needed a job at the time and said she knew a few other people that might be willing to help out too. So I hired Lanie to help me with the event. It was the first time I had worked with Lanie. I mentioned I needed some help first at the two-bedroom duplex in Newell, CA, So I made arrangements for a time where she could come out and help me with a few things that still needed to be done in the planning of the "All Saints Day" event in the EC Building at the Tulelake Fair Grounds.
The "All Saints Day" event was being put on because I was very religious then. In fact, I had come up with a theme idea I had for years that I created. It was called, "Rocks4me". I thought it was a great idea, so I tried to promote the theme idea, however, I could. I even had the website by the same name. All that now is past history. Just another idea I had that did not work out too well. But you never know until you try. The plan for "All Saints Day" was to use the theme Rocks4me, but use "Jesus Rocks4me. There was going to be a band or two to play during the "All Saints Day" event to play Christian Music. But one of the bands backed out, so we just had the one band from Dorris, CA. We had a preacher there as well. And he just happened to be our landlord in Newell, CA. He and his wife were in charge of that area of the service. His first name was Robert, I don't remember what his last name was. There were raffles, prizes, food, and candy for the trick or treaters. It was planned to be a fun evening to offset, "Halloween". But there was a costume contest too but with a biblical theme.
That is what Tony Ross had meant, he had not seen anything like it before. Tony Ross said at the time he wished Tulelake had something like this for the kids because it was different. It was different, indeed. But nobody knew who I was in Tulelake, and most of the people that came were mostly from Dorris, CA. That's where the band came from. We had about 25 people show up for "All Saints Day". Even the sales lady from Eternal Hills Cemetery brought her kids. Sheri was her name I think. She is the one that sold me the marker for my grandmothers grave site for Mt. Laki. And the grave site I bought for my Mom and me in Eternal Hills Cemetery. Where my Mom is buried and that's where I will be buried when the time comes someday in the same plot.
In January of 2004, my Mom and I found a two-bedroom house on B street to rent in Tulelake, CA. So we relocated to Tulelake from Newell. That would make it easier for the both of us. With my Mom's condition. She seemed to recognize things in Tulelake. She used to come to Tulelake when she was a teen as she and her brother went to Lost River High School. They lived in Malin, OR with their mother Barbara Irene O'Malley and step-father Les Thompson. And her boyfriend was Lowel Kenyon when she was 14 years old. Lowel Kenyon was the son of one of the main ranchers or farmers in the area in 1938.
After moving to B street in Tulelake, CA in January 2004 where we had a fenced yard for our dog Feisty (A German Shepherd/Wolf) that was given to my Mom from a neighbor down the street from of us when we lived in Newell, CA. It was a time to meet new people in Tulelake now and take or arrange for my Mom to go to the senior lunch program at the Tulelake/Newell Family Resource Center Honker (Community Resource Center located at Tulelake High School).
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