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Show Opinions Page 2 The Gunnison Valley Gazette Thursday, July 12, 2007 A hollow victory Hazel’s lost hat Just A Thought By MARK HENLINE I’ve been watching with interest this past month as Barry Bonds creeps closer and closer to breaking Hank Aaron’s all-time home run record. Many people are excited to see the record broken but most feel that Bonds has reached this plateau unfairly. Although Bonds has never admitted to using steroids, it appears quite obvious, to those who have followed his career, that he has used some form of performance enhancing drugs. Bonds spent the first fifteen years of his career with a gazelle like body; lean, powerful and fast. Then at about age 35, when most professional athletes begin to slip from their prime, Bonds suddenly develops huge, rippling muscles, more power, the size of his head increases one full hat size, and his feet grows three shoe sizes. So if you use the old logic, “If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s usually a duck,” you quickly realize there is something really fishy in Bondsland. I was discussing this the other day with some friends when my friend David said, “Let me tell you a story.” David said when he was in the sixth grade the students were having a big softball game on field day. There were two outs when the ball was hit in his direction in the outfield. He ran and dove for the ball and missed it but he landed on top of the ball so it looked like he had caught it. He quickly stood up, holding the ball over his head with the victory catch. That was the third out of the inning and his team won the game. The kids gathered around him and he was the hero of the day. But it was a hollow victory. He knew the truth, and it has stuck with him all these years. Isn’t it strange that if questioned, most of the kids in that class wouldn’t even remember the ballgame, but it has remained a painful memory in David’s life? I remember when I was a small child of five or six, but old enough to know better, I stole a The Gunnison Valley Gazette can address, stamp and mail your invitations for less than it will cost you just to mail them! Call for details 528-5178 toy soldier and a pack of Lifesavers from our neighborhood grocery store. I knew that if Dad or Mom found out I would be in big trouble, so I hid them in the back corner of my bottom clothes drawer. I then had to play with the little plastic soldier and eat my Lifesavers when no one was around. It took me about three days to finish the candy and the whole time I was worried Mom would find them. I was so nervous that when I did eat them, they weren’t even very good. In fact I can honestly say it was the worst pack of Lifesavers I’ve ever ate. As for the plastic soldier, he was on my mind so much that I finally smuggled him out of the house and threw him in the irrigation ditch never to be seen again. It seems to me that when we cheat, steal, lie, or do anything unethical to supposedly get ahead in life, we will ultimately experience a hollow victory. Even if no one else is hurt by our deception, we will always suffer pain in our souls by not playing by the rules. Back to Barry Bonds, if he achieves this record by fair play, it will go down as one of the great performances in the history of baseball. If he achieves it by unethical means, it certainly will be a huge “hollow victory” not only for himself but for millions of baseball fans around the country. I guess time will tell. Club News By HARRIET BAUMGARTNER The Ladies Club met at Ethel’s last week. There was a lot of visiting about the July 4th celebration at the park. All the ladies had a real good time, except for Hazel. She set her purse down and never thought a thing about it until the auction started and then she realized it was gone. We looked all over for it, but it wasn’t to be found. Along with her personal items, she had her heart medicine and some other pills she takes for depression in it. The longer we looked, the more depressed she got. Helen offered her one of her pills to keep her settled down until the purse showed up but Thur July 12 Roast Pork Whipped Potatoes/Gravy Beets Pineapple w/ Mandarin Oranges Roll & Butter she wouldn’t hear of it. We tried to get somebody to announce it was gone but it was so crowded we just kept looking. We were just about to get hold of Redge’s boy, the one on the police force, when Edgar came walking up with the purse. Hazel was so relieved to see her bag. Edgar said he saw it sitting by a trash can and Hazel couldn’t figure out how it could end up there. Eula asked Hazel if she had it when she took her paper plate to the garbage and Hazel said she remembered having it then but she didn’t remember taking it off her arm. Everything was in the purse and she took one of her nerve pills to settle down as soon as she found a chair. It took a few minutes before she calmed down enough to thank Edgar for finding it. We were going to stay at the park until the fireworks were over but Rose started to get swelling in her ankles so we went home. Nobody minded leaving early, when you’ve lived into your 80’s, you’ve seen a lot of fireworks, and they look the same after a while. It was nice to get home and get out of those hot clothes and sit in front of the fan away from the terrible heat. Ruby showed us a new policy she got from AARP that will take care of her funeral costs. She said she doesn’t want her kids to have to worry about anything when her time comes. She’s always said she wants Joe Springer to lay her out when she goes because he reminds her of her third husband Eugene, who looked like a movie star. Ethel said she avoids shaking hands with undertakers because she doesn’t like the thought of having embalming fluid coming into contact with her prematurely. Ethel has some queer ideas. We are excited to begin work on our Club Project with the photographs of the old businesses in the valley. We appreciate Mr. Henline for being so agreeable to work with on this matter. Old stores, blacksmith shops, businesses, street scenes, as long as it’s old, we are interested in the photo’s. Hopefully we will be able to get going soon. Please remember to identify your old pictures so we can return them. Thank you for your support of our club. 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