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The last Christmas I spent with my dad was my most memorable. We were sitting around the table and talking about unforgettable Christmases. My dad said that the one he would never forget was in 1944.

No story can match the Christmas story.Mary was just an ordinary girl but she was special in the eyes of God. She was someone God knew he could choose to enter the world as the baby Jesus.

(Note: I promised Christine Provence, my 10-11-12 grade English teacher at Holdenville High School, that I would run this column every year.

Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org. Slow Down the Christmas rushI’d like to invite you to join my campaign to slow down the Christmas rush.

Here we go again. It is pretty sad when you talk about things when you don’t know what some of the facts are.I know one public official who is not trying to “feather his own nest”. He is not hauling black-top millings on public drives. Those are his millings.

According to the Word of God, Jesus will come back to Earth to destroy the ungodly and wicked humans that survive the deadly events which will start when Jesus breaks each of the seven seals of the Book of God.

The Thanksgiving feast—an American tradition that dates back to the 16th century when Spanish settlers held a feast of gratitude for God’s providence as they successfully arrived in what is now Florida.

Jim Priest is CEO of Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma and can be reached at jpriest@okgoodwill.org. Less than perfect Thanksgiving This week, most of us will be looking for something special on the Thanksgiving table. I can hear the voices now.

“THANKSGIVING; A TIME TO SAVE!”Everybody knows finances are tight today. Now, one can only hope against hope that by the time this column hits your hands, the sentence I just wrote is a lie.

Dear Editor: Here we go again. Public officials need to be accountable and not self serving. Looks as if all they want to do is to feather their own nest at the expense of the taxpayers. Pretty sad when you see these things going on everyday.