A sporting chance? All the time
One thing you can take to the bank – or your bookie – is that the times will keep changing. Willie Mays, the best baseball player who ever lived, got in serious trouble years ago for taking a P.R.
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Small town state of mind . . .
Small towns are a place where values are important, they are practiced, and the people are authentic. One only must look at the popularity of Hallmark movies, the Andy Griffith Show, Sweet Magnolias, Bedford Falls, and the Gilmore Girls’ town of Stars Hollow with themes around small town living to see that people embrace small towns and all they symbolize.
Tulip Talk
Rob Perez sits across from a vibrant, solid blue potted perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophyte, more commonly known as a tulip. ROB: Well, this is very unusual.
Wild Gobblers, Now, Yesterday and Tomorrow
There is only one answer to bringing wild turkeys back to the numbers seen many years ago! Hunters will have to do it! The Missouri Department of Conservation is too inept now to do much of anything but cut timber. And cutting back on turkey seasons and bag limits and eliminating the senseless “youth season” will cost them money. They will do nothing to cost themselves money. But if we can organize a large number of turkey hunters, we can make them do some things to help the numbers increase, which would be the first time that has happened in more than ten years.
A Day for Mother
Mother’s Day is the one day a year when Mother gets to put her feet up and is waited on hand and foot by her minion. Father brings her an iced coffee, just the way she likes it. The children deliver the remote control, blankets, and a snack. Uninterrupted, Mother watches an entire episode of BBC-produced British period piece on PBS. It is pure bliss.
Increase Your Perennial Garden’s Beauty this Spring
Give your perennials a boost this spring with a topdressing of compost, aged manure, or other organic matter. It’s a great way to revive tired gardens, improve a garden’s overall health, and keep vibrant perennials healthy and blooming.
Interesting things about the Blue Jay
Blue Jays are a beautiful bird, they are a large, crested songbird with broad, rounded tail. Blue Jays are smaller than crows, larger than robins. The Blue Jay Color pattern is white or light gray underneath, various shades of blue, black, and white above. The size of the male and female Blue Jay range in this range; Length: 9.8-11.8 in, Weight: 2.5-3.5 oz, and Wingspan: 13.4-16.9 in.
Amid plenty, the grumbling endures
These are the times in which we live. People take food, one of life’s essentials, and fashion it into art – a rose bush, the Eiffel Tower, Tom Selleck, whatever.
The faces of Democracy . . .
Last week the Courier and some of our sister newspapers owned by CherryRoad Media in Arkansas had a visit from the new Vice President of Growth and Development, Lee Bachlet. I proudly discussed the Courier and our community. I explained that we strive to cover local news, and our people, all while fulfilling our role of watchdog for the community. It’s a delicate balance. The newspaper must have the backs of residents and support the school, local governments and businesses. I like to think of the newspaper as a vehicle to help people in the community. The role of the newspaper should be about doing what you can to help solve problems in the town and county where it resides. It’s about supporting the community by shining a light on what is right and what needs to be fixed. It’s challenging work, especially if an entity tries to throw up a roadblock to transparency that is a right given to the public.
Can Twitter be fixed? The answer matters
I’m all for Elon Musk kicking the numerous and annoying ads off Twitter, though how he makes the business continue to work without them is unclear. The bigger issue is running off the fake accounts and streams of disinformation.