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What’s really worthwhile? What’s the point of all this effort and energy we expend day in and day out? Where’s the goal line?
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Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions a year ago? The University of Scranton did a study and found that 92% of people who make New Year’s resolutions fail to keep them. With such a high failure rate it’s no wonder people give up on making them.
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Years ago, songwriter Mac Davis penned the lyrics to a song about a tiny orphan girl who evidently longed to experience being loved. In the song, “WHOEVER FINDS THIS, I LOVE YOU” she writes a note containing those words, and it into the wind. A lonely old man eventually found the note among the autumn leaves and read her plea for love. That was the beginning of a beautiful and warm friendship that both of them desperately needed.
Read moreLast December, the Virginia Military Institute removed a big statue of Stonewall Jackson. They are now hiding him in a museum. He was just one of many “celebrities” of the old south to vanish as American tries to change its history. I guess there really isn’t much wrong with the idea of change. The old South, as we knew it is gone. The idea of white people being able to enslave people of dark skin is long gone. And that’s a good thing in our land of freedom such as the USA basically is.
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UGLY SWEATER DAY AT WALLACE BYRD MS — Several Wallace Byrd MS students had fun dressing up for Ugly Sweater Day on December 15. From left — Angelina Thompson (8th), Blayzen Ward (7th), Brandon Anthony (7th), Axel McNutt (8th), Kameryn Wilkinson (8th), Destiny Grant (8th), and Logan English (8th).
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CHRISTMAS IN COALGATE — Santa visits with the fire department before his stroll down Main Street prior to the Parade of Lights. From left - Michael Juristy, Jaden Boyd, Brian Cooper, Santa, Jared Griffin, Lance Cartlidge, John Thompson.
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COALGATE HS UGLY SWEATER CONTEST — Nine Coalgate High School students participated in an Ugly Sweater contest held December 15 in the high school auditorium. From left, they are (front) – Phoenix Kinsey, Breanna Hale, Braedy White, Brylee Rice, Gavin Blue; (back) – Jordyn Crockett, Candis Battice-Louis, Mr. J.W. Stanley (not a contestant), Kayla Christman, and Trey Wilkinson. The winner was Trey Wilkinson.
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