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Show JANUARY 4,2007 on !hc Mtr'shle bfllirjciw. _..' by Earl Roe wearlroe@yahoo.com • 676-2376 My congratulations to our City Officials and workers for the outstanding "First Night" program held at the Triple C Arena. Even though it had to be staged a couple of days early, it was still an outstanding welcome for the new year. I have never enjoyed any performance more than I enjoyed the one given by the ventriloquest. He really was tops. For me the music that goes with this time of the year has always been one of the most enjoyable features of the Christmas/New Years holiday and I have always figured the season could not start until Bing Crosby sang "White Christmas" on some television program especially since this year we have the snow which we often do not have. I have watched a lot of television during December and had never heard Bing sing "White Christmas". I had about decided that I was going to have to listen to one of my tapes, but tonight KBYU presented a program featuring two of the greatest singers of the 20th Century, Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra and they both sang several of the songs that took us through the war years including "White Christmas" so now my holiday season is complete. It could only have been better if we could have had more of our children and their families with us but we did have an enjoyable Christmas dinner when Barbara, Brent and Aaron came over from Cedar City and Kevin and Deanna and their children came up to have dinner with us. Just these two families gave us a full house. Christmas Eve Lavenda Moore invited us to join her family in a Taco Supper which gave the holiday season a 'jump start' for us. I believe Lavenda's family is the only one that can compete with the Roe family in having fun, talking, and noise when they are all together. Joe & RoLayne Davis were two of the fortunate parents who were able to have all of their family home for a dinner which she and Joe prepared them the Saturday before Christmas. All of their children, grandchildren and great great grandchildren gathered at their home for a real Family Christmas Dinner which was enjoyed by all 27 family members. I am sure they all appreciated the efforts of Joe & RoLayne for making it possible for all of them be together at this time of year. This is really Page 6 THE GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER what Christmas is all about and is what I would call a real Old Fashioned Christmas like my generation enjoyed as kids, teenagers and young marrieds. (I think some of the joy of the Christmas Season dims when the children get their own families and live so far from home that they cannot get home for the holidays.) I am sure that there are other Moms and Dads who had all of their families home for Christmas but have not reported it. (Shame on them!) Although the holiday season is supposed to be a joyful, happy time, there is always a little sorrow that sneaks in. Tanya Thomas sent me an e-mail stating that her mother, Gai Wilcock Moore has been admitted to the Dixie Medical Center after suffering a stroke. Tanya spoke with her the morning of the 29th and she was in good spirits and feels fortunate to be receiving such good treatment in a wonderful facility that is staffed by competent and caring Doctors and Nurses, but she is very homesick and would love to hear from or be visited by family members and friends. Gai is in room 307 West if you would like to call or if you would like to send a card or letter, her address is ; 412 East, 650 South, St. George, Utah 84770. The hospital phone number is: (435)251 -1000. For those who might be interested in helping the Primary Childrens Hospital, Tanya has of collecting the pop tops off aluminum cans which she sends to the hospital. 200 of these tops pay for a one night stay for a family at the Ronald McDonald House. If anyone would like to help Tanya in this project, please drop the tops off at Thomas Auto or the Long Term Care Center at our hospital. The hour is late, the year is new, my eyes are tired,so I'm all through! "Rhyme and reason Every seasonYou've read the rhymeNow try the reason!" —Burma Shave(1941) FINAL NOTICE TO GARFIELD MEMORIAL PATRONS Garfield Memorial Clinic will be destroying records at the Garfield Memorial Clinic? All records, except minors, prior to 2000 will be destroyed. If you would like to have your records please call the clinic at 435-676-8842. Record destruction will begin after January 15,2007. Community Mortgage LENDER "Giving You A Better Option For Your Mortgage Needs" Free Prequalifications - Give us a call. Construction Loans Lot Loans Purchases Refinance - Interest Only Loans - Investment and 2nd Homes - Home Improvement Loans -100% Financing Wayne Ott 435-590-6082 Sherrell Ott 435-679-8671 I Ho lAuGhiNg pOiM!! UH-OH? One day God was looking down at earth and saw all of the rascally behavior that was going on. So He called one of his angels and sent the angel to earth to study the matter. When the angel returned, she told God, "Yes, it is bad on earth; 95% of the people are misbehaving and only 5% are not." God thought for a moment and said, "Maybe I had better send down a second angel to get another opinion." So God called another angel and sent him to earth too. When the angel returned he went to God and said, "Yes, it's true. The earth is in decline; 95% are misbehaving in someway or another and 5% are very, very good." God was not pleased. So He decided to email the 5% who were good, because He wanted to encourage them, give them a little spiritual pep talk to help them to stay on the straight and narrow. Do you know what the email said? No? Okay, just wondering. I didn't get one either. BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME The telephone solicitor selling basement waterproofing must have thought she'd died and gone to heaven when she reached my very polite and patient son on the phone. At the end of her long sales pitch, she asked, "Do you mind if we send out someone to give you an estimate?" "Not at all/' my son said. "When would be a good time?" she asked. My son answered, "Just as soon as I dig a basement." FOOTBALL SIGNALS RATTLESNAKE AMMO An infantry brigade was training in the summer heat, learning methods to counter offensive tactics. That summer, the area had experienced an infestation of rattlesnakes. Officers and NCOs were given one magazine of live ammunition each to counter this danger, as several men had already been bitten. So much ammunition was expended shooting, supposedly, at snakes that the post commander demanded that every officer and NCO who had shot at a snake present the dead snake as proof that the expenditure of rounds was justifiable. The next day, the post commander entered his office and spotted a shoe box on his desk. He opened it, revealing a sleepy and sluggish, but very live, rattlesnake. Inside the box were twenty expended cartridges, and a short note. The note said, "I missed!" A three-year-old regularly watched football games with his father. So much so, that he knew some of the signals the referee makes. On a recent Sunday, the three-yearold attended church with the family. As the pastor raised his hands high to offer LULLABYE a blessing, the child interrupted the serA doting father used to sing his little vice by shouting, 'Touchdown!" children to sleep until he overheard the four-year-old tell the three-year-old, "If GREAT GUARANTEE! you pretend you're asleep, he stops." A man had just arrived home after the successful implantation of a paceADVERTISE IN maker. Reading through the literature, he was delighted to learn that the instruITWORKS" Call 676-2621 ment carried a lifetime guarantee. THE INSIDER |