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By JESSICA GILBERT

Ramona correspondent

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At the top of this week's news is Harold Ohm arriving back in Ramona after several months in rehab following a stroke. I knew Harold's arrival was imminent when I spotted Art Stroda building a wheelchair ramp to the Ohms' front door last week.

"Jackie and Joey (JoAnn) brought Harold home on Friday," said Betty. "The girls will be here for a couple of weeks to help us get settled." Jackie Richardson lives in Platte City and JoAnn Reicher is from Wisconsin.

"We even took Harold to church Sunday — just wheeled him right in," said Betty with optimism. "This morning Joey took a walk around town with Harold in his wheelchair — they even stopped at Jim Brunner's for a visit."

Ramona was quiet Saturday but there was excitement just 15 miles away in Herington where an event was scheduled attempting to break a pie-throwing record in the Guinness Book of World Records.

"The shops in The Loft donated whipped cream," said Norma Bird, who lives in Ramona and has her antique shop in Herington. "The kids sure had a lot of fun at the pie throwing event — really it was whipped topping, not actual pies and they did set a record in that category!"

On the home front Norma said her husband, Don, recently bought a motorcycle. "He's going through a second childhood," laughed Norma. "He even wanted me to get one too, suggesting it might save money since gas prices are so high."

Last Friday was Nathan Young's second day in kindergarten. Since Pat and I were at Centre Elementary School to teach art to the third and fourth graders I stopped briefly in the kindergarten classroom to say hello to one of Ramona's youngest citizens and get his reaction to this new phenomenon called school.

Nathan was at the back of the room looking very busy and intent, as though organizing his life. When I called his name he didn't seem to hear me, he was in his own "zone." When I walked over to him I would have thought I was in a busy office approaching an executive who had no time for frivolous conversations.

Nathan, carrying his crayons like a business man with his briefcase, brushed right passed me, gave me a nod, and then sat down to the business of school. He was ready to take his first steps toward becoming a scholar, and interruptions from well-meaning friends were not going to distract him.

And that's the news from Ramona where the kids are back climbing the ladder of higher education, and a traffic jam is two parked cars and a dog in the road.

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