Alva Review-Courier -

I hope you had a great holiday. A couple of people told me about great meals they got locally from different groups. Thanks to all who prepared and furnished meals. You are surely a blessing to the community.

Someone told me the definition of Thanksgiving: we gather together to eat and celebrate with relatives we only see once a year and think that is too often. After seeing some family's relatives, I can see where that could be true but not in my case. We had Thanksgiving Saturday with part of the family.

Some of the family members were out of town for the weekend, so we gathered the rest for...