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The Tehachapi News, in partnership with Main Street Tehachapi, would like to congratulate our 2008 Mother’s Day contest winners and wish all mothers a...

Happy Mother’s Day

Many thanks to Main Street Tehachapi and to all who entered our contest this year.

This year’s winners will each
receive two tickets to
Main Street Tehachapi’s
Mother’s Day Luncheon
At the Victorian Rose Tea Room
120 S. Mill St.

 

My Nana loves everyone and knows everything

I would like to nominate my Nana for the Tehachapi News Mother’s Day contest. Her name is Sharon Sterk and she is the best grandma in the whole world — and she’s the reason my mom is such a great mom.

My Nana always makes others happy and takes good care of all of her children and five (and a half) grandchildren.

She helps me do my homework because she knows everything in the world. She is a teacher at the high school and loves working with other kids that are not really her own. When I grow up I want to be a teacher like my Nana, or maybe a vet.

She loves to travel and when she does, she brings back the most awesomest stuff to all her grandchildren. One time she brought me a glass doll from Alaska.

I love spending time at her house. She makes really good spaghetti. When I am at her house she always lets me watch whatever cartoon I want. Her favorite is The Wild Thornberry’s. We love watching it together. It’s about a girl who can talk to animals. I wish I could do that.

During the holidays, she takes the time to let our family come over and be together. She helps us make Christmas cookies and dye Easter eggs.

She is so kind and loves everybody. She is very funny and makes me smile and laugh a lot. One time she thought a box was a duck. We laughed a lot.

I love her soooooooo much!

— Madisann Parks, age 11

A flying fairy princess and a ‘love magnet’

I would like to nominate my mother, Mary Elizabeth Parrish. My name is Gail, and this is our story.

I’m so blessed to still have my mom after 71 years. She is almost 101 years old and has always been a mother my friends wished they had.

When I was sick, my mother read to me my beloved “Oz” stories, spoon fed me Campbell’s chicken noodle soup and cheered me with tales of her young years when she pretended to be a fairy princess who could fly if her friends provided enough candy bars.

Mother was a natural nurturer having cared for her own mother many years in our home. She has passed this legacy on to me as I have had the privilege of caring for her in my home these last 12 years.

Good memories revolve around hunting and fishing trips to Mexico where mother and I collected rocks, shells, caught lobsters and fish. I enjoyed mother’s gourmet cooking off the lowered tailgate of the truck.

She could dress up in her stylish hats and look like a glamour girl, and the next day be hauling manure, pulling weeds, or being my partner picking apricots and going to grocery stores to sell them to the produce men.

She hauled my Hereford bull to the fairs, my horse to shows.

Mother is generous, loving, funny and encouraging. She has inspired me to ‘never give up.’ She began teaching me this by reading “The Little Engine That Could” when I was very young. She has inspired me to reach out and encourage others. Under stress, I recall her advice, ‘One potato at a time.’

Mother, like the ‘Shaggy Man’ in an Oz book, has a love magnet, because she is loved by all. My nurturing, inspiring mother’s lessons have been valuable, but the most important one, is to love others.

I’m truly blessed to have such a mother who will always be in my heart.

— Gail Wegner
 

Father’s Day is coming up!

We hope to see more of your families in our Father’s Day Look Alike contest!
Please email us a photo of you and your dad along with 200 words or less to:
editorial@tehachapinews.com no later than June 6. Late submissions will not be accepted.

Describe (in 200 words or less) and show us (pick your best shot!) how you and your dad look, smile, dance, snore, play act or think alike. The winner will be announced in the June 11 edition of the Tehachapi News.

Prizes will be announced at a later date.

Typewritten entries can also be dropped off at 411 N. Mill St.
Photos must be high resolution JPEGs or high quality prints for best possible reproduction. Although we will post all entries online after the winner has been announced, we ask that you please submit electronically via email, not the News Web site.