Semi-retired editor’s note: I always thought it might happen, but not in a letter addressed to me before I completely retired.
“You have probably looked forward to getting this note for a long time. I’m done embarrassing you by writing stupid stuff for the paper,” said the letter signed DZ that I received Tuesday morning. That...
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3M presenters put on exciting science experiments
Members of the PEERS organization gave a very engaging presentation to SCS third and fourth graders on Wednesday, Jan. 12. The subject? Cryogenics, which is the branch of physics that deals with very low temperatures.
The presenters, who both work for 3M, impressed the students with their experiments. One experiment involved freezing a balloon in liquid...
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Remembering veterans we’ve lost
Sadly, the Lynnville-Sully area lost a number of veterans in the last few months of 2021. To posthumously honor their service, the Hometown Press compiled pieces of their stories, which are included on the following two pages. We may never know the full stories of their years in the United States military; however, we know...
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The DeeZee Spirit, by Darrell Zegers, Jan. 13, 2022
The weather has not warmed up very much, and I hate cold weather and snow.
The one good thing is I don’t work anymore.
But, still when you drive a car, it stinks. I don’t know if every car is the same as mine, but if you are driving at 45 or faster for a long distance...
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers, January 6, 2022
It has been terribly cold. We are all well aware of that.
I had a stupid experience in the middle of one of those below-zero nights that nearly killed me.
I have many faults, like being stupid and undependable. But besides these, I suffer from insomnia and impatience.
I woke up at about 2 a.m. on one of...
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrell Zegers, Dec. 30, 2021
Well, Christmas is over, and I am not unhappy about it.
I’m such an old geezer that I pretty much do what I want. I have always detested Christmas shopping. So this year, I didn’t do any of it.
I know a lot of people who just put money in an envelope and hand them out. I...
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The DeeZee Spirit by Darrel Zegers, Dec. 23, 2021
I had the occasion of losing electricity for a couple of hours last week.
Did I ever get restricted without it. I had just left the doctor’s office uptown when everything went black. It started to rain then. I kept trucking in the direction of where my old Blazer was parked.
I had no idea what was...
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