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Opinion

Flu vaccinations can help school children

June 11, 2013 Education

Editor, As a teacher, I have seen firsthand how quickly and easily children can spread illnesses to one another. I have also found it to be difficult to teach my students affectively when kids continuously have to miss school due to illness. Vaccinations can help! And legislation recently passed will make it easier for parents [...]

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Hope we never have to use this rescue device

June 11, 2013 Agriculture News

Corn, to me, has always been something to eat for dinner. You know, after boiling for a few minutes you put on some butter and salt and bite into it. It’s also been something, more recently, that surrounds my home every other year. But on Tuesday, June 4, I saw corn in a different light [...]

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Reuniting with friends and Hannibal bound

June 11, 2013 On The Road Again

My dad knew no strangers. He could befriend someone quicker than it took to peel and cook an iron skillet of fried potatoes. I think I’m a lot like him, too! Take for instance Tuesday of last week. Debbie and I were enjoying breakfast at the Quality Inn and Suites in Hannibal, Mo. Seated at [...]

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Sour Grapes, June 5, 2013

June 4, 2013 Sour Grapes

The start of June. It’s always the anniversary date of when I started this job. That day I was driven around the various small towns in my region by the paper’s former editor and founder, Helen Plotz. That Monday was spent with a two stops in Newhall to meet Iola and Hilda. They were two [...]

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Crystal Ball, June 5, 2013

June 4, 2013 Crystal Ball

Stuff The house purge continues. I’ve almost got the rooms on the second floor conquered and what a victorious feeling that is. One thing I’m discovering during this project is that I no longer feel the need to  acquire stuff or keep it “just because.” In fact, I’m kind of appalled at the amount of [...]

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Benton County Letters, June 5, 2013

June 4, 2013 Benton County Letters

Benghazi To the Editor: Who is responsible for what happened at Benghazi? Why weren’t our armed forces sent in to save the ambassador? Who gave the order to “stand down” when the available Seals asked to go to their rescue? These questions need to be answered. This Obama Administration has stonewalled all efforts to get [...]

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Computers are only as good as nearest hacker

June 4, 2013 Brooklyn

Really, what good are computers? Do they boil water? Do they do anything that doesn’t, ultimately cause a problem? Yeah, I’m on my soap box again. What I do on most every Tuesday is take the stories and pictures that we run in the paper and put them on our blog then move many of [...]

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The puzzle pieces of life all fit into place

June 4, 2013 On The Road Again

Have you ever done something or had an experience in life that didn’t make any sense at the time? Or maybe you did something that you might not typically do – and wondered why you did it. Life goes on and down the road, maybe a month or a year or two later, like a [...]

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Crystal Ball, May 29, 2013

May 29, 2013 Crystal Ball

‘Til my trophies at last I lay down’ So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross, til my trophies at last I lay down . . . ” When I sang this hymn as a youth in the Wapello United Methodist Church, I was pretty sure the song writer was not talking about the shiny trophies [...]

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Sour Grapes, May 29, 2013

May 29, 2013 Sour Grapes

This old house A few weeks ago, we jumped at the chance to see our grandparents’ old house and what had been done to refurbish it. For decades, the house was a one-block run through alleys from our house in Belle Plaine. First stop when reaching there was the cabinet where we knew they kept [...]

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