"Full Name: Brenda Overweg Groters Home Page: None. Date and Time: 7/7/03, 10:20 AM Comments: Was surprised when sister Paula called and said Borculo has a website. What fond memories. The pickles station, Koops store, (all the penny candy, Popsicle brand popsicles, & the pop machine). I can still visualize where everything is in the store. Can everyone remember the hamburg gravy with mashed potatoes, pea soup/vegetable soup & bologna sandwiches (every Wed.)the peanut butter/butter sandwiches, the cold milk in the glass pint bottles. Or how about the candy sales on Fridays. We really had it good. God really blessed us with healthy morals. Remember when on that Monday night at 9:00 that man lost his life after driving between two cars full of my friends from church, crashed into the house? I still remember exactly where I was, the stones' and gravel flying in the house. How about the ice pond that Mr. Vanden Berg made for us. What a great community to grow up in. So many fond memories. Never had to lock your doors. Wish my children had what I had back then."
My note: The house to which Brenda refers no longer exists. Before the changes were made to the intersection of Port Sheldon and 96th Ave., a car coming from the West on Port Sheldon had to stop at 96th, make a jog to the left and an immediate right turn to get back on Port Sheldon. If that car failed to make the turn, it would hit the Overweg house....which it did in this case.
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"Full Name: Paula Overweg Gallas Home Page: None. Date and Time: 7/1/03, 2:53 PM Comments: I have great memories of growing up in a large family at the corner of Port Sheldon and 96th ave. We learned to make our own fun, worked in the blueberry fields or on other produce farms to make money and grew up in a safe community. The big night out was Sat. evening when we would travel into Holland to go to Meijer-Thrifty Acres and then stop at Russ' drive in. I wish I could have graduated 8th grade from Borculo Public with the last class to finish there in 1966, I believe, but our family moved to Spring Lake after I completed 6th grade."