“Who are you!?” the small, furiously smoking woman in a red windbreaker shouted at me just as I sat back in the open hatch of the Prius.  She had been pacing along the edge of the lot when I pulled in and froze, fixing a tilted stare at me as I double parked and prepared the car for the food containers.  She had the aspect of a strange, frothing dog as it stares at you just before charging.  Had I invaded her territory?  Why was she now sallying across the lot, arms pumping akimbo, like a billowing Mississippi steamboat reaching upriver at flood-tide through the Cairo bend?

Another clear, early fall day with a high blue dome that went on out over earth’s subtended arc!  Atlas grinned down on us as Erin and I were at it again.  This was the last time she would help me before school’s grimly closing doors swallowed her alive.

The route this time was short - 7 stops, but a with a new one thrown in.  New things thrown in means change and change means thinking.  I like contemplation much more than thinking so I passed on the thinking part and asked Erin to figure it out.  Meals On Wheels is a Zen thing for me - I zone out gliding from house to house watching the interesting cracks in the road and what grows or crawls in them.

And the winner is ... The Paramus Rotary Club’s annual $20,000 Cash Raffle was held on June 11, 2009 at the Paramus Elks Club Hall.

This annual event raises funds for Scholarship Awards, The Rotary Gift of Life Program, and several other Rotary Club projects.

Pictured are Paramus Rotary Club’s Cash Raffle event Chairperson Ray Hough and event master of ceremonies Mike Kuzawski. Assisting with the selecting and tallying of raffle numbers are Linda Port, “Rotary's Vanna” Jennifer Padolina, and treasurer Arthur Fowler IV.