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Eligible, but not ready

by | Jun 21, 2013 | Column

I checked my mail the other morning, and had my interest piqued by a letter from the First Baptist Church of Opelika. Inside, a letter addressed “Dear Friend” informed me I was allegedly now eligible to serve as a member of the church’s deacon board, should I choose...

Legals – 6/21

by | Jun 21, 2013 | Legals

LEE COUNTY INSOLVENTS TAX YEAR 2012 Listed below are the property tax accounts labeled as “uncollectibles”. Anyone requiring Information on these accounts should contact: Oline W. Price, ACTA Revenue Commissioner Lee County  P.O. Box 2413  Opelika, AL  36803-2413 ...

A Real Man

by | Jun 14, 2013 | Column

It’s often been said that anyone can be a father, but it takes a real man to be a dad. My dad was a real man. Before losing his eyesight to diabetes in 1974, he was a barber. Since there’s little demand for blind barbers these days, he needed some help and enrolled in...

Remember the Blue Whale

by | Jun 14, 2013 | Column

With all the emphasis now on obesity, nobody wants to be called a whale, but there may be some basis for our being compared to one. Geoffrey West, Theoretical Physicist, in an article in The New York Times, states that the average American uses approximately the same...

Swimming down rivers – my favorite activity

by | Jun 14, 2013 | Column

In my younger days, before my parts began to wear out, I spent a lot of time exploring the outdoors, hiking, wading in creeks and swamps, and engaging in another activity I enjoyed more than any other, swimming downstream in rivers. Canoeing was pleasurable, but...