Five families in Alice’s neighborhood are leaving town for the
holidays; which is good news for Alice since each family has hired her
to take care of their pet while they’re gone. Alice loves animals so
she doesn’t mind taking care of them and it gives her a little extra
spending money for the holidays...
Alex looked at the fallen leaves blowing around the yard last week and
had a great idea. He went around to all the neighbors, offering his
raking services to clean up their yards. He got five jobs for this
week, a different neighbor each day. The neighbors all lived on
different streets and each had a different yard size, so some days he
made more than others...
Peter and four friends challenged each other to wear the scariest
costumes for Halloween this year. The only rule was that they had to
make their own costume. Each one went as a creature of the night...
and boy, did they come up with some good ones! They planned to meet,
decide which one of them was scariest, and then go trick or treating
together...
Joe is all set for the weekend! His wife is going away for a girls’
only weekend, so he figures he can have the guys over for the game
Saturday… and Sunday! By a happy coincidence, their four favorite
sports were all airing games this weekend and the schedule actually
worked out so that they could watch all of them, none of the games
overlapped...
The Millersville Happy Feet shop carried a wide selection of foot wear
for the whole family. The shop also had a cobbler section in the back
where customers could get their shoes repaired or modified. While he
usually always had enough to keep him busy, Fred, the cobbler, had a
particularly large quantity of orders this week. What made this week
odd however was that he had four pick-ups for shoe repairs, each on a
different day, by the daughters of his friends...
Sherry decided that, for several members of her family, she’d give
each of them a different quilt for their birthday present this year.
For each one, she picked a different common quilt block for the main
design of the quilt. Then she picked the colors and so each quilt used
a different number of colors. As each birthday occurred throughout the
year, each new quilt was revealed and presented...
Sam works in a convenience store off the highway on weeknights.
Generally, Tuesday nights are pretty slow and Sam has plenty of time
to read. Tonight however, he’d had a steady flow of customers since
his shift started four hours ago. He suddenly realized that his last
five customers had been a bit odd too. Usually, he got lots of people
stopping for coffee or some other drink while they were on the road...
School starts next week. All the local stores have back-to-school
sales running and the parents of Millersville have been busy getting
new clothes and supplies for their kids. The stationary store on this
particular evening was very busy as the parents all stocked up on
pencils, notebooks, and other supplies for the new school season. Five
kids, who were shopping with their parents, got to pick out their own
supplies...
Summer camp at Camp Hiawatha is in full swing! Alicia loves being a
camper at Camp Hiawatha – the activities and fun and doing things with
lots of other kids is great! But, she IS annoyed about one thing –
even at summer camp she can’t get away from chores! Each camper is
expected to keep their bunk bed, trunk, and the possessions in their
area neat. In addition, each week the campers in each cabin share the
common chores, like sweeping the cabin floor and taking out the
trash...
Summer camp at Camp Hiawatha is in full swing! The kids stay at the
camp for a whole month, sharing their cabin with a handful of other
campers. The days are filled with outside activities and the nights
with events. Each week, the campers get to pick the activities that
they want to participate in during the day...
The carnival has come to town! For the holiday weekend, a traveling
carnival has come to Millersville for the long weekend. Friday night,
five friends got their parents to drive them to the carnival for the
evening. Meeting up by the roller coaster, the five friends spent the
night riding rides, playing games, and eating carnival food...
For Jack and four of his friends, the last weekend in June
traditionally heralds the start of camping season. Each year, five
friends pack up their camping and hiking gear in preparation for a
five-day jaunt in the woods. They meet at the same place every year in
the mountains – The Woods Diner – a little out-of-the-way place they
stumbled across deep in the mountains with great food...
Susie loved animals and had a large collection of stuffed animals.
However, there were several that were her favorites. She decided this
morning to rearrange her stuffed animals and give each of her
favorites a special place in her room. Along with a name, each of her
favorite stuffed animals also had an age and all were younger than
her, of course...
The Millersville Bookshop is hosting local authors for book signings
next week. They’ve chosen five authors with new releases and invited
them to come in during the week. They posted a schedule on the door
yesterday. Each author will visit on a different day at a different
time. In an effort to have something for everybody, all of the invited
authors wrote in different genres...
Last Saturday, the 54th annual Millersville Auto Race was held with
great success. The weather was beautiful and warm, a perfect day for a
race. There were some very tense moments during the race, including a
crash that almost involved half the field. Fortunately, no one was
seriously hurt and the race continued...
Greg’s ready to buy his first house and has spent the past few weeks
looking at houses. So far, he’s found five that he likes. They’re all
within his price range and have about what he’s looking for, mostly
some land and a moderate-sized house. Coincidentally, all of the
houses that he likes are different styles...
Grandma Jackson made a special pillowcase for each of her five
grandsons for their birthday this year. Since each of her grandsons
had a different interest, she made the body of the pillowcases to
match...
Last night, the Barbeque Hut was the site of a small gathering of
friends for dinner. This gathering was very unusual however as most of
the people in this group had never seen each other before...
In Mrs. Smith’s 4th grade class, five boys have crushes on a girl.
Fortunately, each boy really liked a different girl. Yesterday was
Valentine’s Day and to celebrate, each boy screwed up his courage and
gave the girl he liked a Valentine. Not realizing that the other boys
were doing the same thing, they still managed to give their
Valentine’s in a different place and at a different time during the
school day...
Thursday morning the students of Redwood High School walked into their
English class to be greeted by a pop quiz. The quiz was on this week’s
twenty vocabulary words. Alice and her friends did all right on the
quiz. They each made a complete guess on one of the definitions and
were quite surprised to find out that their guess was right...
Five couples decided that their children were old enough to stay up on
New Year’s Eve to watch the ball fall and celebrate the coming of the
new year. The kids were very excited and fully enjoyed the special
treat, especially the delayed bedtime!
Louise’s five sons love computer games and playing with their friends
online. Each played with five to seven other boys and the great thing
about the World Wide Web was that none of their gaming friends were
within easy driving distance to them. Many of them even lived in other
countries...
Each year during the holiday season, many of the local charity groups
sponsor annual events to raise money. Each event always has a bake
table for sweet treats of many varieties available for sale. The
bakery goods sold are donated by many of the generous people in the
town who support these charitable groups...
Louise’s five sons love computer games and playing with their friends
online. Each played with five to seven other boys and the great thing
about the World Wide Web was that none of their gaming friends were
within easy driving distance to them. Many of them even lived in other
countries...
Sam and three of his friends attended a poetry reading last night at
the town library. The poetry reading hosted four different local poets
and each read several of their poems. Sam and his friends enjoyed the
evening and all agreed that they’d like to do it again. Each had a
favorite poem from the evening and here they differed...
Last Saturday night, the After Midnight club held their annual
Halloween Costume party from 7pm ‘til midnight. A very popular club,
the party was well attended and some of the costumes were fabulous.
The club held a costume contest with previously-selected judges who
strolled through the guests during much of the evening judging
costumes...
Four couples spent the weekend at the Millersville County Fair. It’s
one of the largest fairs in the area and is very well attended. A true
country fair with all of the animals, food, and competitions, the
Millersville County Fair also encompasses craft show and home show
vendors, live music every night, and many other attractions...
Five prominent farmers from the surrounding area had animals in the
fair competition during the Millersville County Fair last weekend.
Each farmer had a prized animal in one of the competition classes and
each animal won a ribbon. While some of the animals won the same
ribbon, each animal was in a different competition...
School starts in Millersville right at the beginning of September.
This year, the residents of Forest Street each have a child starting a
new grade. The interesting part is that no one on Forest Street is
starting in the same grade. Several of the kids have parents that get
very excited over a new school year and feel compelled to take
pictures of their children on the first day...
Summer is almost over. School starts next week, and so five families
decide to squeeze in one more summer holiday before school starts.
Each family chose to travel to Cape Cod, Massachusetts and spent the
week renting a summer cottage, each in a different town. By some odd
twist of fate, each family had either five or six family members and
stayed on Cape Cod for either five or six days...
