Columns

Phil Junker

Outdoor Tales

As youngsters, it seemed time crawled. It seem-ed like the clock was in slow motion as kids awaited Christmas, for school to be out or a scheduled birthday party.

Now, after the years have pilled up, one on top of another, decade on top of decade, it seems the clock is spinning to set a new land speed record.

Time races by. It seems like we should just be planting flowers and tomato plants, not digging them up with the arrival of fall and the end of the growing season.

Vince Luecke

Editor

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With the arrival of Labor Day, I wonder if there is as much emphasis placed on the value of work as there once was.

I speak as someone raised on hard work and for whom labor is a big part of my life.

By Kevin Davis

Guest Columnist

June 17, 2015, started much like any other Wednesday. I awoke early and went to St. Isidore Church where I met with the other members of our prayer group. While awaiting their arrival, I stood outside the church and marveled at the morning sky and the promise of the day to come. Like most of my days off from my job, my mind focused on the many tasks that lay ahead of me that day. Little did I know of the events that would transpire later that afternoon.

LARRY KLEEMAN

GUEST COLUMNIST

Federal funds known as Community Development Block Grants are distributed by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development to Indiana in two methods. First they are awarded to 17 HUD Entitlement Communities and secondly as a Block Grant to the State of Indiana for use throughout the state in the “Non-Entitlement” areas.