Opinion

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.

It has been some time since we have been to the Senior Center for lunch. However, on one occasion when we went to the one-time Pet Milk Plant to enjoy some of their cooking, we found ourselves seated at the same table as one of my favorite readers. She always identifies herself as a long time reader.

As my daughter’s 2022-2023 school year heads into its fourth month, I head into my fourth week of my 10 week fall quarter. It has been an interesting journey to go to school along with my elementary age daughter.

Farmers and ranchers have experienced 200300 percent increases in fertilizer costs in 2021 and the first half of 2022, according to Ben Brown, senior research associate for the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute.