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What people say about politics and politicians

It seems the political season arrives earlier every year. They should regulate it like they do the hunting season. The promises they make, the changes they will enact, the problems they blame on others and the utopian life we will experience if we vote for this person or that person. We have ...

Toledo Farmers Market

Market Report for October 25, 2019With bittersweet thoughts the market season has come to an end. This vendor is happy to see it end. I started the market season with a right knee injury and I am ending with a left knee injury.It makes me wonder if someone is trying to tell me its time to ...

39 plus 19

Last Monday, I turned thirty-nine for the nineteenth time. You do the math. And if you really want to be challenged, do it the way it's being taught today and not the way you were taught a zillion years ago. Another year older and another year..................older! That's about it.But over ...

Wosheeplf!

Halloween is here! Or "All Saints Day!" or, in my house, it's my wife's birthday-October 31st! Marrying a Halloween baby, I thought it was fun to celebrate each 10/31 in fashion.In addition to orange cakes and gifts, we usually have pumpkins decoratedbut that can bring back bad memories for ...

What’s Happening at the Wieting?

Just a reminder that the STC High School musical "Cinderella" starts at the Wieting on Thursday, October 31 through Saturday, November 2.Let's get out and support these young performers."See ya at the Wieting_ _ _"

What Would Jesus Do?

In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells a story about a king who commends his subjects for helping him when he was hungry, thirsty, without clothes, in prison or sick. The subjects professed ignorance about ever having done these things for him but the king replied "when you helped the least ...

Inventory – defying trucker!

About 5 decades ago, I took a famous, national inventory in college to see where my interests lie. Many of the findings shocked me while others made sense.It told me to avoid truck driving, interior designing, art teaching and home economics! I don't contest the latter three, but I do like ...

Toledo Farmers Market

Market Report for October 11, 2019The chill was definitely in the air this Friday night of the Toledo Farmers' Market.A few vendors choose to stay home and seven choose to set up to sell those items before the end of the season.Kristi brought cookies, kolaches, twisty, cinnamon rolls, pecan ...

What’s Happening at the Wieting?

To continue with the rest of this years events at the Wieting Theatre, they are:Nov. 22 - Dec. 8- movie Frozen 2 with a pancake or waffle breakfast one of the Saturdays with a matineeNov. 23 Holiday Explosion Dinner, soup supper before and after the paradeNov. 24- Snow- Seymour Christmas for ...

October-The greatest month of the year!!

As we begin this great month, we all enjoy the superb fall colors that surround us before we head into the big holidays and the cold, frigid, snowy phenomenon called winter. But for now we have October, a most beautiful month of the year that includes so many treasures.First of all, October is ...