December 12, 2008 - Friday

~~~~~~~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~~~~~~~
======= LEONA SEVIGNY ========
Today is the day Leona and all that know her, celebrate the
anniversary of her birth.
If there was a club for wonderful women, Leona could be president. If
there were trophy's for making the very best of the hand we're dealt in
life, Leona's trophy would be one of the largest. If the world had a
room full of fantastic people. Then that's the room where Leona would
be.
Happy Birthday Aunt Leona. We love you very much. From Pat and the kids
and especially me.
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The current temperature is 8 degrees.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 6/-18
Normal H/L temp for this date is 21/4
We've been told to expect a blizzard conditions tomorrow. At one point
last night, it was 90 degrees colder outside than it was inside. Oh
well, I guess if we are going to have winter anyway, this is the best
time of the year to have it.
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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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By 2:30 am Thursday morning, our street department crew was plowing and
hauling away the snow from Main street and it's adjoining streets in the
downtown area. For the most part, the streets in entire business
district were cleaned up and ready for holiday shoppers.
Unfortunately,.. someone must have forgotten to tell our city
maintenance department about the communities newly acquired property on
main street. Although the streets in front of the former Getz Drug Store
and the former Walsh County Bank building was cleaned up in short order.
The sidewalks in front of those two buildings were not. If our community
is going to be in the sailboat fuel storage business, we should also be
willing to keep the sidewalks "snowfree" so that shoppers can use them
to get to other stores on main street that sell more desirable
merchandise. And, it should be noted that in order for the the sidewalks
to be of any value. They should be cleaned from the curb to the store
front.
Or so it seems to me.
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~~~~~~~~~~ TONIGHT ~~~~~~~~~~
== HERITAGE VILLAGE FISH FRY ==
FISH FRY tonight, NOV 12. 5 TIL 8PM
FOR TAKE OUT ORDERS, CALL ------ ~~~~~~~~~~~ 352-3280 ~~~~~~~~~~~
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If our looking for a wonderful way to spend an evening with family
and friends. You could plan on spending Sunday evening, Dec. 14 enjoying
Carols and Candles at the Grafton Lutheran Church. It includes the
Worship Choir from Grafton Lutheran, Bible readings and a other musical
participants which sets the tone for Christmas. Everyone is invited to
come and enjoy. You should be there before 7 pm to get the best seats.
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Speaking of a wonderful way to spend an evening. If you can't remember
the last time you went to a movie at the Strand Theater. This weekend
would be a great time for you to go again.
Tom sent the following "movie reminder". He wrote. >>>>
Gary, There is a great Christian movie in Grafton this Fri, Sat, Sun
& Mon. The title of he movie is "FireProof", it would be a
great movie for everyone to see. Maybe consider putting it in your
newsletter. It would be nice to fill the theater every night. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Tom Campbell <<<<
I did consider it Tom, and here it is. Thank you very much for caring
and sharing. There is nothing like a giant tub of popcorn, smothered
with hot butter and a ice cold pop (soda, for you folks south of St.
Paul). And, if your not on insulin, grab a snicker bar for the previews.
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Speaking of insulin and Snicker bars, and of course everyone already
knows that you DO NOT get sugar diabetes from eating sugar. Here are
some interesting,
~~~~~~~~ SUGAR FACTS ~~~~~~~
How much sugar do Americans really eat? Not as much as reported. Using
information from a 2001 report as illustration, a general statement like
"Americans consume more than 150 pounds of sugar in a year" is not only
thoroughly misleading, it is completely wrong. Such false assertions
perpetuate the myth that "Americans eat too much sugar." The fact is the
average American consumes no more than 1.6 ounces of sugar per day or
less than 40 lbs. annually.
The source of this 1999 report information is the Economic Research
Service [ERS] of the United States Department of Agriculture. ERS
statistics are purely economic numbers. By convention, economists use
the term consumption to describe the total supply of any product
available for all commercial uses during a specific period of time.
Economic consumption simply indicates the total weight of a product that
is used throughout a year. No matter the goods, economic consumption is
calculated by subtracting year-end inventory from the sum of the amount
of merchandise produced during the year + the stock-on-hand at the
beginning of the same year. <<<<<<
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GOTTA GO WORK ON MY DASH
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"I know I'm not always right. However, it isn't going to keep me from
trying to be."


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