I love Thanksgiving. I love preparing the food all day and enjoying it while sitting around a table with some of the people I love most. And there is one holiday tradition that I have grown to adore. As we sit down to eat, we share one thing we feel grateful for this year.
Aunt Lena raised an ample amount of money to buy herself some better choppers. She’d always been self-conscious about the old dentures, cause they were chipped and stained.
25 Years Ago
November 21 - 27, 1996
Outstanding 4-H’er awards were presented to Amanda Eckhardt and Kara Rennie at the 1996 4-H Achievement and Leaders Recognition Banquet. Christina Karsten and Paul Holding received the Outstanding Junior 4-H’er Awards.
Being able to tell the difference between objects is an essential trait that all thinking individuals possess. There is never a time or circumstance in a person’s daily walk in which a need to distinguish is absent. At times, decisions of great importance hinge on one’s ability to discern.
A thankful heart is a happy heart. Joy and gladness are found in one who is thankful. Do you need more joy today? Are you tired of feeling hum drum and overall “not happy?” Make a new habit of looking for things to be thankful for.
This week we continue the history of the classes with the Kum Join Us Class. This class was organized in August of 1920. The class name was taken from a class in a Joplin, Mo. church.
Jennave Meriwether described the organizing of the class in her words.
25 Years Ago
November 14 - 20, 1996
Jodi Lee Mansell and Orville Eugene Brown Jr. were united in marriage on October 19 at the First Baptist Church in Baxter Springs. The bride is the daughter of Donna Mansell, of Columbus, and Jim Mansell of Pittsburg.