Birthdays this week include: Donnie Knight - Dec. 9, Marilyn Rawls - Dec. 12, Sara Huddleston Hannah - Dec. 14, and Danny Nelson - Dec. 15.
Well, we all survived the first ice storm of this season with no loss of power or life.
Last week I forgot to announce the birth of Ry'Lee Morgan Davis, the daughter of Termekia Smith. Welcome to New Edinburg, Ry'Lee. I look forward to seeing you grow up.
Marvin and Betty King, along with Lorene (King) Baswell donated a picture of the NEHS class of 1952 to the West Saline Community Center this past weekend and I put it in place in the cafeteria. That's one more down toward making the collection complete again.
One passing thought about the late Larry Clements, and it touches into town history: in the 1970s, some of the high school students would indulge in the fine art of wrapping the town on Halloween night. Now for you younger folk reading this, that means the next morning, downtown New Edinburg looked like a toilet paper cathedral. It was really sort of pretty.
Larry was one of the main cats in that game, and I know this because my Dad told me once he met Larry at Ray Estes' station the following morning, and Larry still had the cardboard box from which the paper rolls came in the back of his truck. My Dad told him "Son, you better get rid of that box real fast before Lee Linzy sees it." Of course, Larry couldn't have cared less.
Another thing I remember about Larry: he was one of the senior high school boys who would harass the elementary school boys. Now, none of them did anything mean or hurtful, but Larry loved to catch us in the boys room and hold us in so that we would be late getting back to class... and you remember those days... it was no excuses. A few other high school boys indulged in that game too, but since some of them are now pillars of the community, I'll refrain from naming names...
Larry was an unmitigated clown, prankster, joker, and all-around good guy. I'm glad I knew him. Go Eagles.
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