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Butch Furse
Years seem to fly by faster and faster. In just 30 days we’ll witness the end of another year. The beginning of December started Wednesday and our Christmas lights can be comfortably turned on by the Betterhalf without criticism from her hubby who feels at least Thanksgiving Day should be celebrated first.
Of course my viewpoint doesn’t have much impact because the Betterhalf decorates both the inside and outside trees and doesn’t ask me for much help other than for toting a few heavy boxes from the basement sometimes asking if I think the tree is straight.
Speaking of Christmas season, I read about the top 10 new movies debuting during the holidays. I am not a betting guy, but have a feeling odds would be in my favor that among the top 10 holiday movies to be publicly seen is the old and longtime movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Ironically that movie bombed when it was released in 1947. It was revived in the 1970s when Republic Pictures renewed the copyright and in the two decades later its popularity grew and continued to grow to become a Christmas season tradition and one of my favorites.
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The smile that lights the face also warms the heart.
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A newspaper advertisement caught my attention. The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation in Omaha is seeking nominations for an Omaha Public School teacher for The Alice Buffett Outstanding Teacher Award. The headline for the advertisement was attention getting. The headline read: “How does a refrigerator door become a wall of honor?” The answer: With a great teacher!
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Much attention has been giving to the national economic stimulus package checks that enhanced supplemental unemployment checks, moratoriums on home evictions so people didn’t have to pay rent, etc. A police chief in a small Michigan farming community now has experienced a serious rise in drug traffic of methamphetamines.
The chief was quoted in The Epoch Times: “Government policies gave more money to our residents than many of them were used to having. People who already had a track record of making bad decisions now had plenty of dollars to spend on drugs and alcohol.”
And now a reminder from an undercover agent: “People of every education level, all age groups, every walk of life, can get caught up in drugs. No community is exempt.”
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Enuff said.
RL Furse is publisher emeritus of the News-Register
