Your Say: July 25-31, 2019
Remembering Valerie Lester
www.bayweekly.com/node/49440
Many thanks for your lovely July 11 editorial Women of Many Faces about my friend Val Lester. As you may remember, Val and I first knew each as young children, long ago, in Jamaica, BWI. Her parents and my parents were good friends, Val and I formed a lifetime friendship, she moved to Annapolis because of that friendship and our daughters are friends.
Val died peacefully, feeling that she had lived a good life, and, according to her wishes, her ashes will be interred in Islesboro, Maine, her summer home, next to Jim’s.
Thank you again for your compassionate article.
Dennis Doyle’s Fan Club President Offers a Bright Idea
I first would like to say Thank You for giving the local communities the beloved Bay Weekly. It seems like I’ve become totally addicted to its Thursday arrival over the last 14-plus years that I’ve been l living in Churchton.
I don’t know how to contact Mr. Dennis Doyle, whose fan club I’m the president of (I’m the only member of this household’s chapter). But I came up with an idea that he might like to pass along.
I enjoy getting the most done with the least amount of effort. So when it was time to put new line on many of my fishing reels (too many, but I’ve since quit shopping after happy hour) I was sure that there was a better way to remove the old line.
I took a short walk around the yard and picked up a few straight sticks that Mother Nature didn’t want anymore. I clamped one into a drill, set up my cooler and a nice lawn chair, tied the line to the stick and hit the trigger. Within only a few minutes I had a clean reel and a stick that could be thrown away.
Just a thought. Thank you all again and don’t stop!
Editor’s note: Dennis and all of Bay Weekly thank you for your kind words and good idea.
Bay Swimmer Sends Thanks and Info
Re: Swimming for Dad, June 13, 2019: www.bayweekly.com/node/49095
I wanted to thank Bay Weekly and writer Brad Dress for the wonderful article in the June 13 edition that featured the tributes to fathers and especially the Swimming for Dad piece that Brad wrote about our family’s involvement in the annual Great Chesapeake Bay Swim.
Not only the length of the 4.4-mile open-water swim but also the tides are intimidating. There is an hourglass effect where the Bay Bridges are. It is where the two landmasses are the closest, and thus the tides move through there the fastest. The event must be perfectly timed to get the majority of the 650 people across during slack tide.
My brother Darren and I enjoyed reading the story and wanted to compliment Brad on covering 37 years of our involvement.
Thank you, editor, for your comments about your father and how we share a continuous legacy in our unique ways.
We will continue to invite Bay Weekly to cover the GCBS every second Sunday in June for its contribution to our health and environmental nonprofits and the personal stories that come from this open-water swimming journey.
Keep up the good work of publishing, and let me know how I can be of service to you.