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Category: Quick hits
Charlie Daniels Band concert in pictures
Click to enlarge image Here are a few images sent in by our own Copper Rain. To see some of the other 115 she took yesterday, visit her Sisters website.
Weekend open line
We’d just like to take this opportunity to thank The Daily Dispatch and reporter Al Wheless for the very nice article that appeared in today’s paper about the editor and his fledgling business, as well as his career as a teacher. Most of all, we feel that Home in Henderson has now been legitimized as part of the Henderson landscape. For that, we thank our readers!
Corner Kitchen: Quickie cuisine
We don’t know how it is in your house, but our kids are old enough to know that the Bradys, and therefore mainstream America, don’t eat supper at 9:30 p.m. We need recipes that can be banged out and on the table fast, fast, FAST! Post your light-speed super-supper ideas here and help us shut these kids up!
Fuel watch: Low gas prices
Here’s the place to find the lowest gas prices in Vance County! On your way to work or shop or play, keep an eye out for those friendly prices so you can let the rest of us know where to save!
Don’t fiddle around, meet at fairgrounds!
It’s going to be a great day for the Charlie Daniels Concert tomorrow (Saturday) presented by 98.3 and Budweiser! We got our rain to keep the dust down and the temperature is going to be in the low 80’s tomorrow!
Friday’s open line
We’re still intrigued by the idea of the The Kalamazoo Promise, a pledge backed by private donations to send every graduate of the Kalamazoo, Michigan public school system to a Michigan state post-secondary school with a scholarship. With our first headed for college in less than two years, being reborn as a Michigander is looking pretty good right now. If we can cobble together investments in our community for a building, could we do the same for our children? Imagine …
Happy birthday to Glenn Todd
It just came to our attention that it is Glenn Todd’s birthday today. On behalf of Home in Henderson, we’d like to wish him the very best on this happy day!
Thursday’s open line
Is it the place of government to encourage home ownership? Why or why not? Let your thoughts on this or anything else be known on today’s open line.
Charlie Daniels Band in Henderson this Saturday
WLUS FM (98.3) and Budweiser proudly presents THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND on Saturday, September 16 from 2:30 until 7:00 p.m. at the Vance County Fairgrounds, rain or shine!
Wednesday’s open line
People say to us, “You know, I ought to write a letter to the editor about…” But they don’t. But they should! Send your missives to letter-to-the-editor@homeinhenderson.com or your submissions or other ideas to submission@homeinhenderson.com. Don’t complain about the choir unless you’re willing to sing!
What we like best about Henderson-Vance
Editor’s Note: Here’s the place to say in pictures or words what we like best about the place we’ve chosen to stake our claim. Please send your contributions to submission@homeinhenderson.com and it will be posted on a separate page. Let us know how you would like credit for you work to be given. Credit for this feature goes to Knows and Copper, who, separately, cooked this up together.
Tuesday’s open line
One of the criticisms that I most often have to respond to as the editor of Home in Henderson is that it’s “too negative”. I’m never quite sure how to respond to that, except to say that we do have problems, and that those problems will never get solved unless we talk about them in the open instead of ignoring the elephant in the middle of the room. With that said, do we sometimes go overboard in our criticism, or …
Monday’s open line
It probably won’t surprise anyone to learn that when a police officer is killed, it tends to get my attention. I call it the “nightmare scenario”. One of our readers decided to investigate one of the people accused of the crime. It was discovered that one of the accused, Quante Seward is currently on probation for possession of a firearm. Our reader asks a very valid question: why was this person not in jail for the firearm charge? Let your …
Overstressed at six?
Here’s a link to an article on testing and stress in the early grades sent to us by a former colleague. It highlights what many perceive as a problem developing in education: over-testing and over-working children in the lower grades. Give it a read and let us know what you think.
Fall events at Perry Library
Summer Reading Program Finale 2006 Fall Programs Kickoff Perry Library enjoyed a wonderful Summer Reading program Paws, Claws, Scales, and Tales and teen program Creature Feature.
Weekend open line
We’re proud to see how our community comes together in worry and in joy as one of our own is lost and recovered. It’s not something one sees in big cities, and probably should be listed under the “Assets” column when tabulating the good and bad of Henderson and Vance. What other positive, unique features does this place offer that recent or potential “transplants” might not be aware of? List them below, or whatever else is on your mind, on …
Fuel watch: Low gas prices
Here’s the place to find the lowest gas prices in Vance County! On your way to work or shop or play, keep an eye out for those friendly prices so you can let the rest of us know where to save!
Corner Kitchen: Hors d’oeuvres
What are some of your favorite snicky-snacks when entertaining friends on days like, say, Labor Day? Help the rest of us move from the “Blah!” to the “Ah!” on this week’s Corner Kitchen.
Friday’s open line
In tough economic times, with energy prices high and supply occasionally uncertain, it seems as if more businesses would be considering “home worker” programs. Now, we know that not every job can be done at home (like either one of ours), but it may be that many of your daily commutes are as superfluous as our collection of ’45s in the age of Napster. We’re told even the state has provisions and guidelines regarding telecommuting. Can workers be as productive …