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If you have been on the outs with your father, or son and daughter, consider this a great day to make amends. Let's all have a blessed day with our families. A little free food will also help. One...

On the political front, Bill Clinton will be joining Joe Biden on the campaign trail. They're calling it the "Fondling Fathers" tour! Please attend church today, if for nothing else but to pray for...

Saturday, June 1, was a busy day for Alva. Besides the 50th Nescatunga Arts Festival, there was the 15th Mud Slinger Shootout at the fairgrounds. This also was the day Wayne and Beverly Kinzie chose...

Because of Dad's 90th birthday party, we opted to not have a reunion this year. Most of the family were there and the ones we missed will be at the Short Springs School for the Memorial Day program....

Whether it is pre-K, high school or university, your families are proud of you. Best advice for college graduates: Move back in with your parents, or don't leave if you are already there! Let's all...

Sadly, my mother, mother-in-law and grandmothers from my past have gone to the promised land. God blessed me with a wife, daughter-in law and some sisters-in-law that are all good mothers. If your mot...

As I was driving south on 281, I noticed a girl out of the corner of my eye wandering across the street. I was too far up to stop, but fortunately the truck coming from the other way saw her. She had...

He was on several TV channels telling how slow the changes he wants to make are going. He wants to make Oklahoma a Top 10 state. Sadly, we already are in some categories. Good luck. OG&E wants a major...

Lots of Dad's friends showed up to wish him happy birthday, share stories and have refreshments. A couple of guys mentioned how rare it was that I gave rather than received free food. My cousins,...

Yesterday was Dad's birthday party. Thanks to all who attended. Tuesday is the big day for the knee replacement. We have an early start time, so Bambi watch out. We hope this goes smoother than the...

I saw where there was talk of not funding Special Olympics and cutting autism funding. I think they have been taken off the chopping block, but why were they ever there? We just finished two years of...

As I travel back and forth through the construction at Ingersoll, I keep wondering why the elevator on the north side of the road was spared. The nice chamber lady at Cherokee didn't know but got me...

In 2006 Lynn Martin told me that I should write a weekly column for the paper, because occasionally I would write an opinion about something. The next week I was stirred up about something, wrote a st...

Instead of 8 a.m. it is 7 a.m. – don't be late for church and thank your senator for doing this to you. The Wichita swap meet was this weekend. We did not go this year. I had some things that...

My granddaughter Jaylyn Scribner and several other young people were inducted into the National Honor Society last Tuesday evening. You have to achieve a certain grade average to qualify for this...

And one day later it is nearly gone. We finally got an ideal snow after many other years of drifts and cold. This snow fell straight down, never moved, and the temperatures were very mild. I loved...

Jack and I went to the pinball place at Wichita last Sunday for a round of chasing the silver ball. When we got to the door there was a sign that said closed for a private party. We both started to...

Two men have been arrested in the 2013 death of Alvan Charles Nieman at Boise City. May they be punished as they deserve. Thank you all for rewarding me for the great job I do as City Marshal by letti...

Trump to start deporting Democrats. Mexico responds by starting to build border wall. A week ago last Friday Anne and I went to Shattuck for the tournament grandson Josh and the Alva Junior Varsity...

I wish everyone would quit picking on the Democrats, but my elected officials are making it tough for the rest of us. Case in point: a sign on a billboard, “That awkward moment when a zombie is...

Today is the last day of my cousins Kenny and Joann Cole's auction. They collected lots of neat things over the years. I have to look at their collections and wonder how much stuff Cleo and I have...

After trying to injure myself twice and being only partially successful (jammed neck and skinned elbow), I thought a change of pace was needed to break this phase of “Injure Jim Time,"”so Dad,...

We managed to stay up till after midnight New Year's Eve. I was thinking about the life progression of how things go. When we were young we had parties and would have to go to bed to get people to go...

Christmas is finally over. At least the commercialization is over. The reason for the season, the Birth of our Lord and Savior, celebration is too short. If you need Valentine's Day stuff, Walmart...