News and sports in the Whitewater Valley
A blog about what is going on in the Whitewater Valley
Column by Donna Jobe Cronk I don’t know how it is in other counties, but in the second smallest one in Indiana, Union, the 4-H fair queen pageant was a big deal in my growing-up years. Many little girls dreamed of wearing the crown–then spending a week in a showring distributing ribbons to those who showed …
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A Column by John Estridge One of the worst questions someone I love dearly can ask me is: “Do you notice anything different?” I read a bunch and have read a bunch since I learned to read “Run Spot run.” Learning phonics is all I needed, and I was off. Some of the books I …
A column by John Estridge Recently, I went through a life-changing event. Maybe, I should not put that in past tense, because it seems to be an ongoing event. God apparently put my appendix in a unique place. After I posted on my blog about this situation, the first day upon returning from the hospital, …
A Column by John Estridge Many, many times every day I feel sorry for My Long Suffering Wife Ruth. And I know, without a doubt, my close female friends who know me well, also feel sorry for her. If anything around the house needs fixed, Ruth grabs her tools and does it. I am not …
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By John Estridge The Road Not Taken BY ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And …