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| If you shop at Monika's you probably head customers talking about "Thimbleberries". Thimbleberries has been renamed and is now known as Main Street Quilters. Membership is free and the club meets the first Thursday of each month. There are two meetings during the day and one in the evening to accommodate different work schedules. New additions to the store are introduced at the meetings and those attending get a discount on all purchases that day. Members are encouraged to bring their latest sewing creations for "Show-n-Tell". Each month Monika places a few store items in a "Grab-Bag" which is prominently displayed. Anyone who brings a Show-n-Tell to the meeting gets to put their name tag into the drawing bowl. The more items one brings to Show-n-Tell the more times their name goes in to the drawing. Competition is fierce. At the December meeting a name is drawn for the grand prize...The contents of the Grab-Bag. Excitement builds during the year as the contents of the Grab-Bag increase in value. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The
table and the cabinet each have interesting histories. Don spotted a
table at the local transfer station which looked like it would be useful for
some temporary outside work so he brought it home. After we finished the project he
loaded it up to return to the transfer station but noticed a note on the
bottom of the drawer. The note read "This table was rescued from the dump
ground in 1939". It now has a second note on the drawer stating "This table
was rescued a second time in 2002". It is a lovely table and probably won't
make another trip to a garbage facility. Don spotted the cabinet on a
trailer at the transfer station and asked if they were throwing it away. It
was transferred from the trailer to Don's pickup and with a little cleanup
is now displaying goods in the store. Only the table knows its actual age
but it apparently is more than sixty years of age.
