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Dear Editor, I am writing to thank Callaway-area residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season. Generosity throughout contributed to a successful shoebox gift collection season at drop-off locations for the Samaritan’s Purse project Operation Christmas Child.

Dear Editor: I would like to express my appreciation for the hard work and commitment that the city crew put into removing the snow here in Callaway. I know they put in long hard hours to get the job done. I think we all take you guys for granted, but I know that takes a lot of work. Thank You again for all you do. Also thanks to the Kimball Farms crew for helping them out.

Following three days of meetings and workshops at the American Farm Bureau convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico we were sent home with a motivational address by Bert Jacobs, co-founder of the Life Is Good brand. At the closing session Jacobs shared the story of how the $150 million lifestyle brand came to be through all the mistakes and missteps.

A birth certificate shows we were born, a death certificate shows we died. Pictures show we lived! I Believe…just because two people argue, doesn’t mean they don’t love each other.

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar…and the coffee… A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

Do not expect an accurate perspective about inflation from mainstream media. Such reporting is based on the lie that inflation is the condition of rising prices. This is often repeated by political leaders, news reporters and pundits. It is also taught at all levels of education. Worse, hardly any of the dispensers of this falsehood know they have been misled and are misinforming their audiences.

What if you were playing in the club championship tournament finals and the match was halved at the end of 17 holes? You had the honor and hit your ball a modest 250 yards to the middle of the fairway, leaving a simple six iron to the pin. Your opponent then hits his ball, lofting it deep into the woods to the right of the fairway.

From the Collection of Pat Young Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, 'Someone may steal from it at night.' So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.

Every other year our immediate family Christmas is celebrated on a date other than Christmas Eve or Christmas. With both daughters now married we adopted this every other year philosophy so they can join their husband’s families on the main holiday, something we are thankful the other families also appreciate and share.

The longer you have been cooking, the more likely it is that a culinary disaster will strike. Usually, it comes in the form of either a missing ingredient or one added by mistake.