Opinion

The first 14 weeks of the school year have gone by quickly, and it has been both exciting and productive thus far. We have already completed the first quarter and are well into our second.

Whether or not the Christmas Nativity Scene will appear atop the Oak Hill Cemetery hill this year reminds me of a situation that was prompted by telephone conversations several years ago that were completely uncalled for had adequate preparations been in place.

While it is difficult for me to believe, there are still people that have a disconnect about where their food comes from. Even in today’s world where information is constantly at their fingertips, many young people don’t know that milk comes from cows or don’t understand how tomatoes are grown.

For a couple weeks in June 2002, I was forcing myself awake at 4 a.m., walking with my little brother up the cul-desac to our friends’ house and meeting them in the game room to watch TV. This wasn’t any TV though.

My time as the Cassville Area Chamber of Commerce president is coming quickly coming to an end. This is my second time around as Chamber president.

Thanksgiving 1641 started something that has stuck with us nearly 400 years, and that is the potluck or carry-in dinners most of us have enjoyed all our lives. It might have been a church event, club meeting or family gathering, the process of sharing a part in providing food for an event has become an American tradition.

Long before the days of the power mower, and still longer before the zero turns came on the market, the reel-type, human powered mower got the nod for cutting grass. The mowers of those days were not sufficiently wide enough to show where you had been behind you, but they were the best around.

Federal policies have allowed for affirmative action programs in higher education since a Supreme Court ruling in 1978. The Court established guidelines that allow for race to be considered as a part of a holistic applicant review but cannot be the determining factor.

There won’t be any parades in Cassville to mark the occasion, but Friday, Nov. 11 is Veteran’s Day. While not important to some, to approximately 3,000 Barry Countians, living or deceased, who have served in the Armed Forces of this country, this will possibly bring back memories, some that they might enjoy, others they had just as soon forget.