Around Town

The recent pathetic attempt to arrange for our first snowstorm of the thus-far mild winter conjures up all kinds of memories about adventures in the snow, some pleasant and some not so much. After 75 years in the work force, I can appreciate the attention to detail. Ho! Ho! Ho!

I know the Christmas season has just passed us by and I had a nice little holiday column all typed and ready to go when I ran across the following little ditty from my fellow Holdenville High School graduate and Jones, America banker deluxe Donna Gordon Klick and it’s just too good to pass up.

It’s been six years since I completed my 57 th and final year as a teacher and I’ll be honest with you, in many ways I am glad that I am not having to face the classroom (and out of classroom) challenges that teachers are facing in this topsy-turvy year of the COVID and the situations it creates.

It’s not too early to start hinting for gifts for Santa to put under my tree. Al Wilburn is a young (at heart) guy who lives in Harrah and has been known to provide Santa-type gifts for a wide variety of folks in the past.But he has hit the jackpot this time!

Thanksgiving is just TOO much for one column so here goes another called Thanksgiving II.Thanksgiving has always ranked high on my personal list of favorite holidays and I feel a certain pain of regret when I say it is not my FAVORITE holiday.Christmas? Fourth of July? Easter? Sorry!

Some Southerners talk (and think) funnyBy John Bill MartinStaff WriterI spent my first two years of college in Nashville, TN, which I considered as getting my education in “The South.

I spent my first two years of college in Nashville, TN, which I considered as getting my education in “The South.”But I soon learned that to discover the REAL South, one had to go deeper, like the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, even Virginia and its Western expansion, etc.

I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later. I don’t have to go to school or work. I get an allowance every month. I have my own pad. I don’t have a curfew. I have a driver’s license and my own car.

Here’s a warning all the way from the Big Lake region in Reagan County (West) TX from publisher Randy Mankin who ran into any number of frustrations while shopping for a new vehicle.My solution to the problem is simple. Don’t buy a new (or used) car.

I have been associated with a variety of newspapers in one category or another for the past 70 years.