Archive for Personal Growth
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National Parents’ Day
By Pam Haumann Director of Programs Child Abuse Council Did you know that National Parents’ Day will be observed on Sunday, July 25, 2010? Parents’ Day is a relatively new holiday that started with the Clinton Administration in 1994 when it was unanimously approved by Congress to be recogn...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I am ready to say that creative writing, with some exceptions is much like fishing. Even if you, as writer, are steered to a time and place or a subject there is plenty of word choice and situations that can be stretched. Truth may be a master but the skill of the writer is the ...
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A World with More Birthdays!
By Mary Schricker, SRES Realtor Ruhl&Ruhl Real Estate Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Some of the earliest evidence of cancer is found among fossilized bone tumors in human mummies in ancient Egypt. The word cancer came fro...
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What’s It Take To Be a Pink Tie Guy?
By Gary Metivier I must admit, the first time Sue Brunsma at the Syndicate Hub men’s clothing store suggested I try a pink shirt and tie I pulled back. It wasn’t so much a ‘I’m too macho to wear girly colors’ sort of thing. I just didn’t see myself as a pink tie kind of guy. Blues, ...
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Everyday Hero: Bob Juarez
By Gary Metivier The Story behind the Hero I was watching my son playing baseball when I looked over and saw a man struggling. He was in a wheelchair working his way from the parking lot to the baseball diamond where his team was warming up for a game. He spun the wheels around the rain-rutte...
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The Ashes of our Heritage
By Mary Schricker, SRES Realtor Ruhl&Ruhl Real Estate They have stories to tell, and we need to learn to listen. My challenge to you as readers is to take the time to listen and record the stories of your fathers and grandfathers before they are lost. ...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston The summer blooms in floral and other excitement as we celebrate local events and the national holiday, Independence Day. Names. We name everything. We give nicknames when our recollections fail on names. Our grandaughters are Jamie and Sydney. They are twins, and those were...
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A TRIBUTE to Fathers
As Samuel Clemmens, better known as Mark Twain, once said, “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished to see how much the old man had learned in seven years.” Oh, my Papa... ...
