Category Archives: Opinion

Things oftentimes don’t go very smooth around my house just before 8 a.m. The wife still works. I can tell it makes her a little grumpy when I am prancing around in my underwear sipping coffee when she has to face the cold and go to work. One recent morning, things got out of hand. To...

35 years ago (1979) The Farm and Home Store, Lynnville, was sponsoring a microwave cooking school at the Lynnville City Hall. The Sully Co-op Exchange was again piling corn on the ground at the old ball park. Ideal weather conditions pushed crop yields high in the area, soybeans were running 40-50 bushels per acres and corn 125-150...

Lately, the most common comment I’ve heard about this newspaper is something like this, “No, it can’t be five years old already, are you sure?” Yes, I’m very sure. I have 10 newspaper awards at the office, bound copies of the newspaper, computer archives, boxes of 260 past issues, and many, many memories to prove...

Just got back from California. The plane trip, of course, was with some confusion. We had to switch planes in Minnneapolis. What an airport. We arrived at Gate G12 and had to find Gate C54. We walked into the airport and saw no sign. I’m not saying they weren’t there. The first of several arguments took place....

35 years ago (1979) The floor of the new First State Bank building in Lynnville was prepared for cement. In order to meet federal regulations for bank vaults, the rerod had to be arranged in two layers of four-inch squares staggered to make two-inch squares on center. According to Harold Rozendaal of HR Construction, 19,000 pounds...

We all probably have a fridge in our kitchen and maybe another one in our garage or farm building. Fridge is the shortened form of refrigerator because that’s what everyone takes it to mean. A refrigerator and a fridge are the same thing. Some dictionaries have fridge in them; others choose to ignore it or...

Just when I think I’m as stupid as I can possibly get, I find I’m wrong. I lose car travel cups nearly every day. My wife is not happy about it. She is also not happy with the six cars and three motorcycles I own. I jumped into one of the cars and drove uptown with a...