Susquehanna times. (Marietta, Pa.) 1976-1980, July 13, 1977, Image 14

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Robert Hoffines, of RD #1 Marietta, held a rural
“‘block’’ party for his neighbors last Sunday. We don’t
know what else to call it. About thirty people attended.
There was plenty of good food and refreshing drinks.
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La Leche to meet
The Elizabethtown—
Mount Joy La Leche Lea-
gue will hold its regular
meeting, Thursday, July 14
at 7:30 p.m., at Norlanco
Family Health Center.
The topic for informal
discussion will be, ‘‘The
Baby Arrives: The Family
and The Breastfed Baby.”
Anyone—expectant ~~ wo-
men, nursing mothers, as
well as nursing infants and
other persons interested in
learning more about good
mothering are welcome to
attend. For more informa-
tion or Breast-feeding
Counseling, please call:
Mrs. Elaine Good, 653-
1590, Mrs. Janice Hart-
man, 367-3102, Mrs. Deb-
bie Kuntz, 653-8566, or
Mrs. Grace Faus, 665-4582.
Donegal Sertoma Club
—to hold charter banquet
The newly organized
Donegal Sertoma will hold
it's Charter Banquet on
Saturday, July 16 at 7:30 at
the Carpenters Inn, Eliza-
bethtown. The Donegal
Club organized in June,
currently has 26 members.
It is sponsored by Lancast-
er Sertoma Club.
The speaker at the Char-
ter Banquet will be Rep-
resentative Kenneth
Brandt. Representing Ser-
toma at District level will
be Representative Jess
Brown and District Govenor
Mel Bonds.
Maytown Playground news
Approximately 60 chil-
dren took part in swimming
lessons last week at May-
town playground.
Ping Pong tournament
winners for the week were
Michele Smith, girls
champion, and Don Ar-
mold, boys champ. Don
was also grand champion of
the playground.
Prize winners for th
Friday Wt Show were:
Largest: 1st, Nona and
Gina Nace; 2nd, Kenny
Henry; and 3rd, Lynn
Lesnefsky.
Smallest pet: 1st, Steph-
anie Barnitz; 2nd, Tim,
Andy and Emi Trostle.
Most unusual pet: 1st,
Harold Mohr and Amy
Winters; 2nd, Greg and
and Bryan Embly and 3rd,
John, Dwayne and Rodger
Schwuing.
Cuddliest pet: 1st, Brian
Hart; 2nd, Jenny and
Jamie Shink and 3rd, Mike
Fantom.
Cutest pet: 1st, Lora and
Lynn Rice; 2nd, Joanne,
Cindy and Dennis Ebersole
and 3rd, Noel Doutrich and
... Vietnamese refugee (cont.)
[continued from page 1]
Tri, or “‘Tree,”” as he
prefers to spell it now (be-
cause ‘‘that’s how Ameri-
cans think of my name,”
he explains with a grin)
started with Weis ‘up
front’ at the checkout
stalls, on a part-time basis.
Within six months he was
working in the meat room
part-time, and six months
after that he was a full
-time employee, learning
the meat-cutting trade -and
doing ‘‘a mighty fine job,”
according to Harold
Milligan, meat manager.
““Frankly,”” Harold told
us, ‘‘I wasn’t too keen on
the idea of training him at
first -1 expected the lan-
guage barrier to make it
difficult -but he’s the best
trainee I’ve ever had. He’s
one heck of a nice guy, and
a very hard worker. He's
quite a boy.” Tri was
reluctant to wait on cus-
tomers at the meat counter,
because Americans often
have trouble understanding
his accent, which is thick.
“lI told him that all he'd
have to say would be ‘yes,’
‘no,” and ‘thank you,’ and
it worked out all right,”
says Harold.
Tri is making a good
adjustment to life in Amer-
ica. He has saved enough
money now to buy a car,
and passed his driver’s test
the first time. He found
walking and bicycling diffi-
ault here due to the large
numbers of autos.
He’s also adjusting in
other ways. During the
interview, conducted in a
back room at Weis Market,
other workers were sitting
around on coffee break.
One of them spoke up.
‘““Hey, Tree, tell him about
your girl friends!’’ Tri
cheerfully admitted that he
indeed has two girl friends,
one Vietnamese, and one
American. It was all right
for the Times to print that,
he assured us: “They know
each other.’
Tri knows only about
four or five Vietnamese in
this area. Most of his
friends are Americans, who
can understand him after
they get used to his accent.
“When I came over here, 1
had no friends. Now I have
lots of friends,” he says.
Tri improves his English by
reading and talking, but
told us that he doesn’t get
as much practice as he
should, because he’s na-
turally quiet and doesn’t
like to gab much. Just the
same, he expects to be
proficient in another year.
Tri finds life in America
‘‘smooth’’ and easy-going:
‘‘Americans don’t worry
about their neighbors.’’
The climate is less pleasing
to him, being colder than
Vietnam. He did, however,
enjoy seeing snow for the
first time. When the repor-
ter asked him whether he
had been in a snowball
fight yet, he laughed. ‘‘No,
I'm not a kid anymore.”
Tri writes to his family in
Vietnam through a friend
in Paris, who forwards
correspondence both ways.
His family’s letters don’t
say much about conditions
there (communist censors
remove unfavorable
remarks) but Tri hears that
life is very different in
Vietnam now, and that his
family’s standard of living
Colleen Barr.
The current week's
schedule will include a
recreational swim on Tues-
day from 9:30 to 11:30
a.m., and swimming les-
sons each morning. On
Thursday there will be a
bike rodeo, a nok hockey
tournament for girls, and a
horse shoe tourney for the
boys.
has dropped sharply.
Tri is hoping to go to
college and become a
doctor. ' He explains that
there is a shortage of
doctors in Vietnam, and he
wants to return there
someday, after the political
situation allows that. “‘I
want to help my family,”
he says.
“Tri has come a long
way in two years,”’ Harold
Milligan told us. ‘‘He’s had
to work for everything he
has. Most Vietnamese
came over here with plenty
of money, but Tri came
alone, with nothing. That
takes guts.”
At ‘one. point in the
interview, we asked Tri if
he had a destination in
mind when he decided to
leave his country. ‘‘No,”’
he replied, ‘‘1 was just
looking for freedom.’” He
has found that, and more.
Note: The Times wishes to
thank Harold Milligan for
his assistance and sugges-
tions during the interview,
and Weis Market, for
providing time during Tri’s
working hours.
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