Columns

Ensuring the safety and well-being of Nebraska’s kids is our state’s top priority. Providing access to programs that best guarantee the delivery of nutritional foods is vital.

Every New Year’s Eve our family would gather and play a wild air hockey tournament, watch a movie, and then cheer as the ball dropped in Time’s Square. However, did you know that the ball dropping has a long and illustrious history?

Q: Where can single men over the age of 60 find younger women who are interested in them? A: Try a bookstore, under Fiction. Q: What can a man do while his wife is going through menopause? A: Keep busy.

*EDITOR’S NOTE: Last week I shared some rather startling statistics about the state of the newspaper industry in our nation. This week we will explore the cause of the decline, and what we can do to prevent our area from joining America’s ever-growing “news desserts”.

Reading the article in the Oct. 19 issue of the Courier about the Callaway Hospital receiving recognition brought back memories for my wife and me. It was 51 years ago, when Callaway was searching for a doctor that we had a part in Ron Sheppard, MD, eventually moving to Callaway.

Two elderly ladies had been friends for many decades. Over the years, they had shared all kinds of activities and adventures.

As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife’s voice urgently warning him, “Herman, I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way on Interstate 77.

“Don’t let your worries get the best of you, remember, Moses started out as a basket case.” Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited - until you try to sit in their pews. Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.

Took her new scarf to the store because it was too tight. Couldn’t learn to water ski because she couldn’t find a lake with a slope.

Barb Bierman Batie Each fall as my new pullets come into production, I begin culling the old hens. Some find their way to my freezer as stewing hens for future use in chicken soup and other tasty dishes during cold weather.