“Heather, can you get that? And don’t forget about Kirby,” Joy called from the kitchen. I went to open the front door after making sure I had gotten a firm hold of Kirby’s collar. I swung open the door to find two more of my neighbors. “Hi, Catherine and Beverly.” I was really glad to see Catherine Braun. She was a woman in her early eighties who had recently lost Peter, her husband of over forty years. She and Peter had lived in a house across from the elementary school and they had attended the Mennonite Brethren Church on the corner of Forty-Ninth and Main. The young people from our church and theirs sometimes got together for special events. I’d have to make a point in going over to visit her. I knew Beverly Frissell quite well; she taught the Dog Obedience Club at the community

