August 13 Edition

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10 KJV

Birthdays this week include: Ollie Moring - August 13, Judy Moring - August 14, Sammy Pipes - August 15,  Kimberly Brown and Judy Perry - August 16.

The annual Thompson Family Reunion will be this Saturday August 23 at Reaves Cemetery. The following day, Sunday, will be the Reaves Cemetery Homecoming.

Marty Gill resigned from the West Saline Community Center governing board July 30 due to a board decision not to charge money for truck and equipment parking on the premises.

Emmaus Baptist Church is in revival this week.

How about this unsettling weather? We have some hot days, but by and large we're skating along with lots of rain and cooler temps. If this is "global warming" then give me a double helping.

Totally out of season, but let's talk about it anyway: as we begin the slide toward Fall,  I'm personally looking forward to Halloween. I love it. Now, a lot of people don't like Halloween because sometime back in the 80s, a bunch of spoilsports got together and decided Halloween was Satanic... mainly, I think because Halloween antics weren't church-sponsored... though I could be wrong about that. Before normally sane people lost their minds on this topic, we dug it. Kids T-n-T'ed because we knew everyone and didn't fear candy poisoning and all that. That stuff was a myth, by the way, and stemmed from two mainly harmless incidents up in Yankee Land.  But down here, in God's Country, you could clean up on candy that night, and the only kids getting sick were the ones who ate too much all at once... as I can personally attest. Another fun aspect was the tricks that some of our now responsible citizens used to pull. I'll withhold the names to protect the guilty. Main street the next morning looked like a Charmin Cathedral, and the bus ride through town was a laugh. I've been told by some of the older heads, like my late father, that stunts were once a little more intense... wagons disassembled and re-assembled on roof tops, wood stacks pushed over, and a mule was once locked inside Mr. Bell's barber shop. Good fruit and tomatoes were thrown out of the darkness at unwary drivers and horses left unattended were sometimes painted garish colors. If you think these things were horrible, just remember: every pressure cooker needs a safety valve to let off a little steam.

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