Category Archives: Opinion

The first real snow of the winter – I dislike snow and cold. In fact, I hate them. That’s not how I looked at it when I was a teenager. It usually called for no school. Before being a teenager, we would have a huge group of kids go sledding. I remember one day of sledding very...

1980 (35 years ago) Duane C. Rozendaal, associated with Iowa Farm and Home Real Estate Company of Newton, successfully completed Course I of the Iowa Realtors Institute. David Vander Leest gave the message at the Sully First Reformed Church Sunday evening. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Vander Leest, he was serving on an internship at...

As I write this, the clock is ticking toward 2015. I recently read that since far back in history, people have celebrated the arrival of a new year. When the Nile River flooded its banks in summer, the people of ancient Egypt began their new year and celebrated it. Today, people observe the usual New...

I was going to write about everything I accomplished this past year, but realized it would have been a very short story. If I wrote about everything I accomplished in my life, it would be a very short story. There is an old movie named “It’s a Wonderful Life” with James Stewart and Donna Reed. Part of the...

35 years ago (1979) The Iowa Conservation Commission announced the water level of Rock Creek Lake was being lowered several feet to allow work to be completed on a county road bridge. The Searsboro Fire Department sponsored a fire prevention poster contest at the Lynnville-Sully Middle School in Searsboro. Fire department members Loren Vos and Gordon Lewis...

Every few years like this year, this newspaper is published on Christmas Day. So this year is a perfect time to share how everyone should have a Santa Claus attitude. Whether you ever believed in Santa Claus or still do, there are things about the jolly old elf that wise people should consider emulating so they...

Things are going on quite normally at The House. Maybe I shouldn’t say normally because there is nothing normal about it. The Christmas preparation began last weekend when three of the daughters moved in with, of course, three dogs. That didn’t upset me because the ferret didn’t show up. (I hope he passed on.) They showed up...