Posts Tagged Eloise
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Publisher’s Corner
By Eloise Graham April - The Diamond Month Diamonds are a girls’ best friend…or so the saying goes. Diamond is the birthstone of April. It is nothing more than a big chunk of coal that is really old and has been under a lot of pressure. All joking aside, the diamond is carbon whose atom...
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Publisher’s Corner
By Eloise Graham March - a time of uncertainties but a time of promise! The weather in March is certainly an uncertain given. In like a lion and out like a lamb. Or vice-versa. Do you remember that from your childhood? To me that phrase proves that March has always been an unpredictable, turbu...
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Publisher’s Corner – Happy New Year!!
A toast to you and yours and those New Year’s resolutions! By Eloise Graham For those of you that know me, you know that I am a procrastinator. I generally get around to making my New Year’s resolutions sometime mid-February to early March. Then there is the one that I always make on Apri...
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Publisher’s Corner – CHRISTMAS
By Eloise Graham What is “Christmas?” Is it a time for family and friends? Eating too much turkey or pie? Singing carols? Sledding? Buying gifts? Feeling pressure? Remembering the past? Celebrating Christ’s birthday? For me it is HOPE. Let’s look at the history of Christmas. The O...
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Remembering Jim Graham
David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home The first time I visited with Jim Graham, he was wearing a skirt. It was a few years ago now. Blarney Bash. Rogalski Center. Arriving on the St. Ambrose University campus, the haunting drone of the bagpipe could be heard through the crisp March...
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Pet Stories – Garbo Part 1
By Jim Graham Publisher As I said in last month’s newspaper, my wife Eloise and I usually had big or medium-sized dogs after we were married. The first change to that was when we added a smaller dog. She was a Beagle. One of my sister’s was living in Texas and got a puppy. She named her Garb...
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Publisher’s Corner
By: Jim & Eloise Graham I love July! It’s usually the hottest month of the year, has less rain and more bugs, but I don’t care. It’s part of the summer and I can’t get enough of it. Fourth of July! It’s one I remember from when I was a kid. Back in those days there were firecrack...
