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§ April 18th, 2012 § Filed under Friendships § Tagged Friendships Comments Off
By MARY POLETTI
Herald-Whig Staff Writer
HANNIBAL, Mo. — The old Southwestern Bell building on Broadway is something of a ghost town these days.
Only a few employees of ATamp;T, the company that now owns it, still work in the building. Its locked most of the time. If you need to use the restroom, youd better bring your own toilet paper.
But one afternoon a week, a conference room on the first floor comes alive with friendships formed in the building generations ago.
This is where the Mark Twain Club of the Telephone Pioneers meets each week, maintaining friendships that go back 60 years — sometimes longer — as they make pillows for patients at Hannibal Regional Hospital.
The 10 core members of the club are bound by their former profession: Theyre all retired Southwestern Bell telephone operators.
Back in the lsquo;Number, please days, Gretta Yohn said as she finished stitching a pillow Tuesday afternoon.
Back when you got good service, Betty Quinn added from the other end of the table. Back when you got a voice.
The now-obsolete job was the best job a woman in Hannibal could have in the mid-20th century, Yohn said.
Many of the women in the Telephone Pioneers group held that job for 30 or 40 years — the 10 women have more than 300 years of service to Southwestern Bell.
In a twist, they were trained as operators by the same women who, as retirees, started the local Telephone Pioneers club in 1990.
When you stop to think about it, the whole first groups gone, Quinn said.
Other than the common profession from which its members retired, Telephone Pioneers isnt so different from a church quilting group. The women, all energetic and witty in their golden years, discuss the news, books, families, their health and their lives as they stuff and stitch around a conference table, stopping to sip coffee and eat treats theyve brought.
Their project: heart-shaped pillows, more than 19,500 of which have been distributed at HRH in the last 22 years, said another group member, Jane Calicotte.
The pillows are made in a sort of assembly line. Sandy Brashears cuts out the hearts, which are roughly a foot across. Calicotte sews them together, leaving a small hole. The women stuff the pillows, then hand-stitch the hole closed, finishing the pillows.
The finishing touch: a stamp on the back reading Telephone Pioneers, Mark Twain Club, Hannibal, Mo.
The Hannibal group is a branch of a Southwestern Bell retirees group in St. Louis. That group provides them with funding for the fiberfill. The rest of the material is donated. The group happily accepts donations for all of their materials.
As the women sew the pillows, they reflect on the people who might receive them. Although they use all sorts of fabric, baby-friendly prints evoke the strongest, fondest reaction.
Give that to a mama whos out there waiting to have a baby, Elaine Lippincott said as she admired one such pillow.
Calicotte and her husband drop off pillows at the hospital every two weeks, dropping them off with nurses in surgery, womens care and the intensive care unit. From there, the nurses hand them out to patients.
Recipients of the pillows often dont know where they came from, but thank-you notes find their way to the group eventually, Calicotte said.
One such note was from a woman suffering from bouts of painful coughing. Hugging the pillow was a lifesaver when she was in pain, she wrote.
Besides their service project, the women frequently socialize outside the group, celebrating one anothers birthdays and holding a bimonthly luncheon with their male counterparts, a group of retired Southwestern Bell men who call themselves the Polesitters.
Theyll keep up the group as long as they have the energy and ability, they say. But why?
Because we love each other, Esther Hendren said.
Well, kind of, other group members joke.
Because we have very boring lives, Lippincott said.
When your social life is counting your pills, its nice to get out with people, Yohn added.
All kidding aside, the pillow project gives them a higher common purpose, the focal point for this phase of their lifelong friendship.
Were just a good team, Calicotte said. We know how to work together, overlap.
Lippincott interjected: Theres a new word for that now, Jane — lsquo;multi-task. Were from the old school.
— mpoletti@whig.com/221-3385
§ April 17th, 2012 § Filed under Friendships § Tagged Friendships Comments Off
EDITORS NOTE: The following is an updated, edited version of a column that appeared a dozen years ago.
A friend and I recently discussed friendship and how it is measured, arriving at the conclusion that the truest friends are those who are there in your time of greatest need, ready to help you through troubled times unconditionally.
If thats a valid measurement, then I am among the fortunate.
Throughout my life, friends (and, of course, family) have been there to rescue me, to steer me in a better direction, to prop up my spirits in times of despair. ( I dont have the space to list names or all the times I needed a helping hand to thwart my inclination to self-destruct.)
My wife and children might argue that there have been times when I gave friends a higher priority than I gave to family, dashing off as I often did to engage in sport, or card-playing, or hunting, or fishing, or barbecuing, or in days long gone by, prolonged bull-shucking over several rounds of brew.
Still others — readers and certain public officials among them — might suggest that with my propensity to agitate, I need to find friends wherever I can.
In my frequent, late-afternoon walks, I am often accompanied by memories of family and friends now departed, as my mind travels back in time.
I see a skinny third-grader racing down Washington Street from Central School to Central Park where Rose, on lunch-break from a nearby dress factory, awaits her son with a hamburger and fried apple pie, to be consumed hastily before he dashes back to school.
I see Dutch, the wonderful stepfather, pushing his lawnmower toward Morganfields Oddfellow Cemetery as his junior high stepson trails along pushing another mower, a jug of gasoline swaying from the handle.
As other images from the past flash across my mind, I see Larry, the high school friend and teammate, as he casts his fishing lure along the bank of one of his favorite, and largely secret, fishing holes in Union County.
I see John Francis, the legendary Douglass High School athlete who became my baseball battery mate and very good friend in the long-ago days of Sunday afternoon baseball.
I see Johnny, the older friend who was a Holloway Street neighbor in my youth and my Alves Street neighbor many years later, pausing from his yard work to chat awhile (or loan me a ladder, a hammer, any number of things) and generally enrich me with a dose of that Irish spirit.
And there is Paulie, who introduced himself to me more than four decades ago by declaring that my newborn Jenny, who I was admiring as she squirmed in a crib next to his newborn Andy, was an ugly little rascal.
Then he smiled and extended a hand of friendship that lasted 24 years, not nearly long enough.
I have kept alive the memories of that friendship, often on my walks or, on occasion, solitary drives along some of the backroads we traveled together, sharing our thoughts and debating this and that, or going in search of mushrooms or groundhogs, or simply seeking escape from lifes busy main highways.
Whether walking, driving or sitting in the front porch swing, those memories provide reinforcement that, in a spiritual sense, friendships with Paulie and others who are gone can, and do, endure.
§ April 17th, 2012 § Filed under Friendships § Tagged Friendships Comments Off
John Smith was here. He still is. I smiled when I saw that epitaph on a gravestone. Clever. Most of us probably like to think that well still be here, in some way, after were gone. There are lots of ways that can happen.
One is through friendships. In early March, I attended a memorial service for Ros Farbush, a Hull painter who was mentor and inspiration to many South Shore artists. Ros had friends of all ages, attracted by her singular personality and vitality.
I am still enjoying all of everything, she wrote to a fellow artist a few weeks before she died.
The service at the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset was beautifully done and showed what friends can mean to one another. People shared funny, sweet stories.
Three recent emails also reveal how people stay with us.
Claire Rexford of Weymouth emailed about Isabelle Shea of Abington, who died in 2010 at age 91. Sheas daughter, Lorraine Colligan, was hit by a drunken driver, left a quadriplegic and later died as a result of the injuries. It was a terrible blow, but both refused to give up or sink into despair.
Rexford wrote: You did an article about how Isabelle was very depressed in early 2008 at the age of almost 90. Well, I met Isabelle at Alliance Rehabilitation in Braintree in August of that year. I had a hip replacement and it was my first hospital stay in my life at age 65. They placed me in a room with Isabelle, and my first thought was, How am I going to get along with a woman who is 90?
Isabelle took care of me mentally with her many stories, even into the night when I could not sleep. Never did I think she was depressed. She had an instinct about how nervous I was and took right over.
20 years later
The second email came nearly 20 years after the very untimely loss of a former colleague, reporter Jeff Grossman, who died in 1992 at age 45 of liver cancer. Jeffs son, Daniel, was 15 at the time. At his fathers funeral, Dan gave a beautiful eulogy, far beyond his years, in which he captured his fathers kindness, humor, devotion to his family and his work.
In 1992, I wrote a column about Jeff, including Dans eulogy. Now 35, Dan had come across it again.
Reading this as an adult really moved me, he wrote.
§ April 11th, 2012 § Filed under Friendships § Tagged Friendships Comments Off
AAP
Jonathan Wright will be putting friendships on hold when Canterbury take on Newcastle in Sundays NRL clash at ANZ Stadium on Sunday.
The 25-year-old, who joined the Bulldogs from Parramatta at the start of last season, was an under-20s player for the Knights before joining the Eels, and will come face to face with former teammates Timana Tahu and Akuila Uate.
Wright won a grand final alongside NSW winger Uate for the Northern Lakes club on the NSW Central Coast and has a close bond with Tahu, who he played with at Parramatta.
§ April 11th, 2012 § Filed under Friendships § Tagged Friendships Comments Off
The years take their toll, sure enough, and not just in the expected places. I think we all expect that our bodies will eventually fail, or at least that we won’t always be able to do the things we could when we were young.
Mechanical things — cars, refrigerators, whatever — wear out. A considerable part of our economy is based on this simple fact.
But some things we expect to last. Certainly this is true of our feelings for our loved ones. My children are grown now and living lives of their own. But in many ways, I still feel about them the same way I did when they were babies. The same is true of my feelings for my wife, and for members of my family.
How about our friendships? That is, as my British friends might say, a bit of a sticky wicket. (All right, I don’t really have any British friends, but you get the point.)
Without going too far around the barn in an attempt to find the thread of this story, let me lay a little groundwork.
I subscribe to an email newsletter that recounts events in the lives — and, sadly, the passing of a few — of the people who were stationed at the place where I did the majority of my military service in England in the mid-1960s. The latest missive arrived on Saturday, and included a note about a fellow whom I knew in those days. Actually, he wasn’t just an acquaintance. He was really my closest friend during my Army days.
We’ll call him Doug, as that’s his name. Doug and I met at basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., in December 1963. We also took Morse code training at Ft. Devens, Mass., and then were shipped off to England together. We took several leaves together during our Army years, and we kept in touch even after we were sent to different duty stations for the last year of our service.
We last saw each other a couple of times in the first year after we were discharged, then, as so often happens, our paths diverged. He moved to California. We both married, had children.
So after I saw his name in the newsletter, I found an email address and fired off a note. We exchanged a few emails in catching up (we’re both retired, health basically okay despite the ravages of time, etc., etc.) and that was it.
During that exchange, I couldn’t escape the feeling that I was corresponding with a stranger.
Separated as we are by a little more than 1,800 highway miles and with neither of us planning trips in the other’s direction at the moment, it’s not very likely that our paths will cross again. If they did, I’m sure we would have a good time visiting and sharing memories. Friendships, though, have to be tended, much like a garden, and I’m afraid we’ve allowed ours to wither for far too long. I guess there’s a lesson in that.
§ April 10th, 2012 § Filed under Friendships § Tagged Friendships Comments Off
The friendvy phenomenon
Of course, envy has always been around, but is this comparative phenomenon getting worse? According to Dr Wyne, yes. Comparisons that induce envy are undoubtedly being greatly facilitated by the media, internet and globalisation, she explains.
Not only are people, and women in particular, now universally valuing beauty, thinness, popularity and materialism due to the messages they are receiving about what is valued in society today, explains Dr Wyne, but social media is exacerbating the problem. Social media like Facebook and Twitter quantifies very publicly how popular and lsquo;special we are. So its simply a new method with which we make comparisons, she says.
In fact, the problem these days is so widespread that it even has a name: lsquo;friendvy – a term coined by the Facebook fraternity themselves to describe how many friends or contacts another persons profile has. It seems we have become hooked on how many people comment on our photos and whether our statuses are witty or funny enough to attract comments from our so-called friends, says Dr Wyne. And when you consider that women especially are so vulnerable to self comparison – constantly in need of assurance that we are good enough, pretty enough and successful enough – then Facebook, in particular, can fuel such feelings of not being good enough, which leads to feelings of friendvy even in very nice girls.
A very nice friend of mine is a case in point: she recently confessed to hammering out a rapid-fire response on her smartphone, socially slapping down one of her oldest and closest friends, simply because she was sharing some lsquo;good news on Facebook. Shameful after the event, she admits that the cause of the red mist was the green-eyed monster.
And this scenario is happening more and more. So-called friends turning against each other. In an increasingly connected and openly transparent world, where we not only air our dirty laundry but flaunt our achievements, friendvy is flourishing.
A case of low self-esteem
And, for us all – insecure beings that we are – its easy to get seduced by the congratulatory nature of Facebooks comments and posts. I see people putting themselves down just so their friends will tell them how fabulous they are. Get over yourself! Oh, hang onhellip; is this another case of friendvy rearing its ugly head? Am I naturally suited to this emotion? I think women susceptible to friendvy are those who are insecure or have low self-esteem about a particular area of their life, says Dr Wyne.
This is certainly true of Sarah*, 29. A healthy size 12, having a size 8 woman as her best friend is painful for Sarah. She eats all the wrong things, hardly exercises, yet remains toned, svelte and beautiful, says Sarah. She always looks fantastic and I know I could be complimentary, but, to be honest, Im just angry that she looks so good with so little effort while I slog away just to remain in a size 12. Its the anger part of the envy that is turning Sarahs relationship with her friend sour. I actually dont feel comfortable being with her any more because I feel inferior and so Im bitter and find myself making all kinds of sarcastic remarks in order to put her down, she says.
Burning envy does, say experts, come down to self-worth and envious reactions can often be a reflection of feelings of inadequacy – real or not. Says Sarah: I know my feelings are out of proportion to the actual problem. But I have always been terribly insecure about my weight and find myself constantly comparing my physical self with other women.
In fact, says Dr Wyne, sometimes our comparative feelings get so distorted that we actually look at other women to find fault in their perfection purposefully, in order to feel better about ourselves and bolster our self-esteem.
The problem is that we end up losing friends, as envy often occurs within close friendships – most of us are attracted to people with qualities we admire. Its easier to be envious of those in the same realm as us or those with the same goals. Shrugging off Elle Macphersons perfect body or Meryl Streeps incredible talent is easy, but when your best friend flaunts her curves or reveals her achievements, it can really burn your toast, as one friend put it.
Perfectionism
This feeling is all too familiar to Natalia*, 32, a lawyer in Dubai, who admits having feelings of envy towards her best friend, also a lawyer, who has advanced further than Natalia in their shared profession. If she was succeeding as a doctor, I would probably be happy for her, but because were in the same profession and shes doing better, Im pleased for her but I want to be where she is, so I feel jealous. But, Ive never seen myself as insecure, so I dont know where its come from, says Natalia. Maybe Im just one of those people who is never happy with themselves.
Dr Wyne further explains that perfectionists are also more susceptible to feelings of envy. Perfectionists have significant problems with envy as they set such high standards for themselves, says Dr Wyne. Perfectionists are inherently discontented with themselves and this can be fertile ground for comparisons with other women, and inevitably, envy.
And, according to author and clinical psychologist Linda Blair, who studied the effects of envy for her book Birth Order (Piatkus), this perfectionism can often stem from your birth order. She says first-born children are particularly susceptible to feelings of envy, explaining how they have, and then lose, through no fault of their own – but because of the birth of a new baby – the precious attention of their parents. This is likely to make them feel more anxious and quite helpless when others are praised at their expense throughout their life.
Useful of destructive?
So, can feeling friendvy be positive at all? Yes and no. According to experts, little flashes of envy can be a good thing because it creates competition and can motivate us. If we use envy as a motivation to direct our efforts, then envy can inspire us to push ourselves to achieve, explains Dr Wyne.
This may well be true, but its not always easy to take that initial knot – a cold stab in the gut, as one friend put it – and turn it into something productive.
If we are simply coveting what another has and this does not inspire effort and action to attain these goals, then envy is controlling us and keeping us stuck, explains Dr Wyne. This is of course when the serious side to these negative feelings shine through and this is what we need to tackle.
Envy is a very strong emotion, says Dr Wyne. In small doses, it may serve as a motivating factor. However, in larger doses there may be signs envy has become toxic. When our envy spills over into feelings of inferiority as well as spite and we wish we could take those things we covet from other people, we know its reached a dangerous level.
What are the warning signs, doctor? Emulating the behaviour or look of someone else so excessively that your identity is lost; when envy undermines relationships we have built up and results in us losing people; and when we get so stuck in dissatisfaction that we start to hate ourselves, lose touch with reality and can no longer truly see ourselves as we are, but just through very disappointed and dissatisfied lenses.
Eradicate envy
So, how do you tame the lsquo;green-eyed monster? The great psychoanalyst philosopher, Theodore Reich once said, jealousy is a sign that something is wrong, not necessarily rotten, in the organism of love. Perhaps seeing envy as a warning of something lsquo;wrong is the first positive step to correction.
Dr Wyne agrees: The first step is to recognise and label these feelings as lsquo;envious. But, this may be harder than it sounds. Because envy is considered a socially unacceptable emotion, many of us deny having these feelings both publicly and privately. We need to repeatedly examine our thoughts to determine whether they are envious. If we find they are, we should remind ourselves of how these thoughts dont help our life and can actually harm it. The more we can catch and correct our thinking, the easier it will be to remain envy-free.
Once recognised without shame, such feelings can then be conquered: talking to someone about it can help as it normalises what youre going through, says Dr Wyne. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can also be useful in helping you build confidence.
Self-acceptance is a further step to overcoming envy – its about getting to the stage where you can say, yes my best friend is thinner, sexier and more successful than I am, but so what?
Dr Wyne says as women we should focus on what we have and what we can do to improve our own lives. Concentrate on your personal development and goals. Take an active, rather than reactive approach to life. Remind yourself that you can control your life and your situation. A big part of envy comes from the feeling that you have been treated unfairly by life. If you stop thinking about how things should have been and instead focus on what you can do and attain by your own actions, you will defeat the feeling of envy.
For me, envy worked wonders back in my struggling writer days. Masochistic by nature – or perhaps, a perfectionist – I forced myself to work harder, be better and make the most of what I have. The result? I landed my dream job. Youll be pleased to hear that I did congratulate my friend who got that lsquo;fabulous magazine job eventually – but it took me a good week to overcome that first wave of envy. These days when I think about her achievement, I hardly grit my teeth at all.
* Names have been changed
Make envy work for you…
How to use envy to make you a better person
Reaching new goals You may not even know you want something until you see someone else having it. It can change your perspective on your current life situation and be a much-needed wake-up call to set new goals.
Being a role model Seeing someone else with what you are now sure that you want lets you know that its attainable and gives you someone to learn from.
A better understanding of yourself What, who and why you envy lets you know what you want in your life. It helps you realise whats important to you.
Enhancing motivation Envy can provide more energy and drive for you to go after what you want in life.
The four signs of friendvy
How to spot when feelings of envy in friendships are occurring:
1. Downplaying success Your friend will minimise your success and try to make it seem less exciting than it really is.
2. Being insulting When your friend insults you and puts you down. They may seek to make you feel less of yourself, or insult your clothes or appearance.
3. Talking behind backs Your friend talks negatively about you to others.
4. Getting one-up When the friendship is unhealthily competitive. You and your friend are constantly trying to have an advantage over the other.
§ April 6th, 2012 § Filed under Friendships § Tagged Friendships Comments Off
BY Lila Hope-Simpson
Although summer may still seem like a long way off, it’s not too early to begin planning. Summer camp is a great option for keeping children active and busy during July and August.
Kiddie camps usually accommodate children aged four and five. Usually these camps are only offered for half a day in the morning and offer sports, games, crafts, outings, music and more. You might send along a drink and a snack and then the kids are home for lunch.
Day camp normally runs for kids aged five to 12. These are full-day camps that offer a complete range of activities from sports and games to arts and crafts and field trips. Day camp is the perfect option for children who want to keep busy during the days without being apart from their families at night. It’s a great opportunity to make new friends and stay active!
Some day camps operate all summer, but you can sign up for individual weeks at a time. Most are very affordable and there is usually a camp in every community or close by. Check out the recreation department in your town or municipality for registration details.
There are also specialized camps for specific interest groups offered through the university or other cultural or academic institutions. You will find everything from sports camps, hockey camps, French camps, computer camps and science camps to music, band, art or dance camps!
For children who want more of a camping experience, there are many types of sleep away camps in the province and beyond. Consider your child’s interests and find a camp that focuses on those activities. Most sleep away camps offer a wide assortment of activities that include swimming, canoeing, sports, music, crafts, games and skill building. There is also a French immersion option with similar activities but offered in the French language. Some camps may accommodate children with certain health issues, such as burns, cancer or diabetes.
Camp Odonata in Wolfville is a free day camp specifically designed for children five to 12 who have experienced the loss of a loved one. Trained staff and professionals provide games, music, exercises and crafts, just like any other camp, only this one might also include sharing memories, asking questions, expressing feelings and asking questions about the loss of their loved one. Children enjoy team building, physical activity and friendships that encourage laughter and positive thinking. The common bond provides a safe environment where children can have fun and also explore their feelings around loss and grief. Coping tools are offered and caregivers and family members are also offered education and emotional support. For more information, contact campodonata@gmail.com or visit www.campodonata.ca.
I still remember my own camp experiences as some of the best summers of my youth! I also worked as junior counsellor, senior counsellor and section head at summer camps and loved it all! Camp builds confidence, skills, interpersonal relationships, independence, new experiences and lifelong friendships. Working in a summer camp teaches teens leadership skills, team building, decision making, goal setting, organization, responsibility, conflict resolutions and management skills that look great on any resume.
Oh and did I mention that camp offers a much needed break for parents?
Lila Hope-Simpson is the director of the Home amp; Heart Child Development Centre and Family Day Care Agency in Wolfville.
www.homeandheart.org
§ March 11th, 2012 § Filed under Friendships § Tagged Friendships Comments Off
Aristotle explained that in unequal friendships, each party neither gets the same from the other nor ought to seek it. The ancient Greek philosophers observation applies to corporate relationships, too. So does his warning that when one partys position changes greatly, the possibility of friendship ceases. Just ask the shareholders of Yahoo, Wynn Resorts and Xstrata.
The fortunes of Yahoo and Alibaba have diverged sharply since 2005, when the rich and respected American Internet company shared $1 billion and some local assets with its promising Chinese rival. The two companies cannot agree on how to unravel what is now a $9 billion tie-up. Alibabas Jack Ma is not much inclined to be generous for the sake of an old favour.
Steve Wynn, the casino operators eponymous chief executive, probably thought he was the Las Vegas headliner when Kazuo Okada, chairman of Universal Entertainment, helped him out after his first multi-billion dollar casino company was derailed in 2000. But Okada may not have agreed even then. Contentious lawsuits suggest the distance between the two could be too great to bridge.
Glencore was unquestionably senior to Xstrata in 2002. The Swiss trader not only held on to its 40 percent of the miner (subsequently reduced to 34 percent) in the initial public offering that year, but then supported some audacious capital-raising. The Xstrata holding may have made the current effort to merge the two companies inevitable. But the combination isnt necessarily desirable for other shareholders of Xstrata, which now has bigger operations than its former sponsor.
Big personalities make these corporate stories more interesting than most, but its always hard for the initially superior partner in an unequal relationship to adjust to a loss of status. In the discord, shareholders on both sides generally end up losing out.
Such corporate drama probably cant be escaped – at least not as long as the fortunes of companies change at a rate unmatchable by human psychology. But the possibility of trouble shouldnt dissuade investors. Aristotle noted that friendship is most necessary for existence – and unequal friendship is better than none at all. That goes for companies as much as people.
§ March 11th, 2012 § Filed under Friendships § Tagged Friendships Comments Off
NAMPA – In an age of digital customer relationships, 2nd St.
Deli remains a hot spot – no, not the Wi-Fi kind – for
long-established meetings and friendships.
No website. No Tweeting. Just soup, sandwiches and
conversation.
We have a lot of personal relationships with customers that weve
grown with over the years, said Gary Schuler, who has owned the
eatery with his wife, Sherrie, for 18 years.
Meet the owners
The Schulers ventured into the restaurant industry after Garys
employer, Albertsons, decided to send him to California to run a
division of the company.
We loved Idaho so much that we didnt want to go to California,
he said.
Sherrie, who had worked at Micron before they opened the deli, and
Gary both cook at their shop, making some items themselves and
purchasing others.
The vibe
One ingredient neither the Schulers nor anyone else could purchase
is hometown atmosphere.
Every Thursday a mens group called the Canyon County Execs Club
meets for breakfast. A Bible study convenes there on Tuesday
mornings.
Several former servicemen gather each morning to talk about
whatever. They even have their own key so they can assemble on
Saturdays, when the deli is closed.
It definitely opens the door to the people that dont know were
here, said Gary, adding that many who attend a meeting come back
with their spouses.
Regardless of the impetus, once diners are in the door, they find
local art facilitated by the Nampa Art Guild – swapped out for new
pieces every two months.
The food
The menu and pricing at 2nd St. Deli are fairly simple and static,
which Gary thinks work well.
I think were still very competitive, he said.
All sandwiches are sold as half, $3.99, or full, $6.29, and are
served with an order of pasta, potato salad, a fruit cup or potato
chips.
Soup – at least three options daily – is $3.29. Its $6.29 to mix
and match half a sandwich with soup.
Local favorites on the sandwich menu
include:
- Pulled Pork Sandwich (Thursday special) – homemade pork, with
optional cheese, onions and barbecue sauce on the side.
- Reuben Sandwich – pastrami, Swiss cheese, thousand island
dressing and sauerkraut on swirl rye bread
- Turkey, Cranberry and Sprouts – multiple breads available; cream
cheese, tomato and onions optional.
copy; 2012 Idaho Press-Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
§ March 11th, 2012 § Filed under Friendships § Tagged Friendships Comments Off
Miss New York, Pittsford native Kaitlin Monte talked with students about friendships and writing the story of their lives.
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