February 2, 2006 - Thursday

02/02/06 THURSDAY grp 1 of 20
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Todays Gazette is being brought to you, in part, by Merle Freedland and
Merle's Motor Service. The first air-conditioned automotive repair shop
in town.
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The current temperature is 22 degrees.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 27/17
Normal H/L temp for this date is 18/-2
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"Profanity makes ignorance audible."
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L O C A L news & stuff,.. mostly stuff.
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We are celebrating the second full week of Raumin gone. If someone
should see Jerry. Please tell him, by the time he gets home, he probably
won't even be able to tell, there was a watermain break in front of his
house. Except the mud sand and gravel all over the place.
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The Pizza Hut, Red's Sports Bar and the "Taco place?" in the castle
property building are still several days, weeks, and or months away from
opening.
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The River Rat from LOW called in a fishing report from Zipple Bay
Wednesday afternoon. The Readers Digest version is they kept 6 threw 7
back including one 21 inch walleye. Ross says they're going to meet up
with Ernie Barta (Big Ern) and move over to Arnesen's Rocky Point in a
couple days hoping for better fishing there.
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It appears as though the Gazette may be reaching another milestone.
The Gazette originated, a few years ago, primarily as a tool to force me
to think. Having been diagnosed with glaucoma, diabetes, dupuytrens,
high blood pressure, hi cholesterol, overly enlarged digestive system
(to heavy) Parkinson's and a stroke, all within a few weeks time might,
have been the reason "they" told me I was suffering from clinical
depression as well. At any rate, for a time, I found it difficult
remembering my own name let along anyone else's. I found talking and
communicating in general very difficult at best.
My children purchased and set up a webtv system for me and insisted I
communicate with them. I agreed to do the best I could using the premise
that I would try to share, if they would care, and, that it would serve
as fantastic therapy as well. Soon I was sending my "thoughts" to
several family members, then to aunts and uncles, cousins then friends.
(Eventually, believe it or not, some of those "thoughts" turned into
opinions.)
Anyway, the list has grown over time to include not only family and
friends but family and friends of family and friends. My "babble" (the
Gazette) is now going to 19 states and Canada.
I send it out daily, or as often as I can. More often in the winter
than summer. It's harder typing with a fish hook in a finger. As part of
my continued "therapy", I still enter and look at each and every name
for every single issue of the Gazette that goes out. It's part of the
therapy.
Often, the Gazette not only helps me remember my roots, but affords
"us" the opportunity to care and share with each other. In order for the
Gazette to continue functioning, it requires the input of it's members.
From time to time I've been asked for an issue of the Gazette from "the
past". Because my system is so small, and I try hard not to let what I
said yesterday keep me from saying what I think today I do not keep old
copies around.
That however hasn't been the case with my children. Evidently they have
saved most, if no everything I've written over the years. That's more
than a bit scary I think. Anyway, through their efforts, and the efforts
of others, many previous issues of the Gazette can now be found on a web
site. My intent, is that the website be used as a "library", in case
someone is bored and looking for bonifide babble to read.
I fully expect the Gazette to function as in the past with "our"
Gazette family members continuing to grow.
I would really appreciate hearing everyones comments, pro and con to
the new site, or anything else for that matter.
You will find the site at www.NewsFromGrafton.com and, as my
grandchildren would say me when they're trying to teach me computer
stuff. Don't forget to put the little dots where they belong and
remember to make the first letter of each word bigger than the rest.
Then they say it's like, case specific, I think.
ANYWAY, It will be interesting to see what transpires. If the new
venture doesn't interfere with the original concept of the Gazette, it
will continue. If it does, it won't. Or so it seems to me.
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Speaking of family members. I am pleased to welcome Dennis Loos and
Gary Rud to the Gazette family today. They will be the newest members
that can "review" the babble of the past and see just exactly what they
got themselves into.
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"If it can happen, it should happen. If it does happen, we must find
out why, and make it good.....if we can't. It shall be called
politics....and so it goes." GLM
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GOTTA GO WORK ON MY DASH
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The Gazette works best, when the folks that read it, write it. Or so it
seems to me.


Write if you can, call if you can't, and, tell your loved ones they are,
before it's too late.