December 9, 2007
CHAMPION–December 9,2007
Champions just love the weather no matter what it is doing. The good rain may help fill Harley’s pond which will be a good thing for the cattle. The overall dreariness just goes to remind the community that the beauty of the place is largely a matter of perspective. Mud, mud glorious mud! There will be a dry day in the future when today’s sloppy mud will look wonderful. The Christmas decorations all over down town Champion look so much brighter and more cherry through a cold drizzle!
Other good news is that young Foster has the cast off his leg and seems to be doing fine. His old Granddad had a birthday last week and it went by without much fanfare. After so many they don’t seem to get much attention. There was another very sweet and rowdy little guy by the name of Rowdy at the benefit that was held for Lannie Hinote on the First of the month. He is in the neighborhood of two years old and is just loaded with beautiful Grandmothers….two of whom are named Sharon. There were great grandmothers, aunts, uncles, grandpas and a bunch of friends all of whom put together could hardly keep up with him through the course of the evening. It will be an exciting proposition to watch him grow up! One of these days he’ll be in Lannie’s eight grade class, and then he will have met his match! In the area of excitement the World Wide Web has been a buzz with request to view the “whirley blurs” on the night of the benefit that were Clayton and Robert in their wild rendition of what must have been the rain dance that brought this weather to the region. That evening is still a bright topic of conversation in the community. Anyone wishing to participate in the good time that comes from giving back can still do so by contacting Helen at Skyline School at 683-4874 or at Rt. 2, Box 486, Norwood, MO 65717.
It is good to see that the US Service personnel serving in dangerous places around the world are being remembered by their countrymen and women back home. The letter writing campaigns and the packages that go out to them are lifelines to home for them. Just a Christmas card means so much. Champion’s soldier is SSG Raul Moreno. He is at 4-319th / TR SABER / FOB NARAY / APO 09354. He has been serving in Afghanistan near the Pakistan border for a long time. He is a real Champion. So are they all and they all have the Love and Gratitude of their Nation due them.
The flood of suggestions concerning the Champion Time Capsule is being sorted out by the Champion Planning Commission. What to bury, where to bury it, and the duration of it’s burial are all being hashed out. Some are adamant that it should be more ‘capsule’ like and not look so much like a coffin which was the look of the affair buried on the courthouse grounds in Ava last week. “It looked like a cemetery vault!” someone said. This person is more in favor of something like a coffee can. Another Champion thinks probably there are some time capsules already buried around and people have just forgotten where they are. It sounds like something that Ed Henson and Furley Lambert might have done. “Reckon where they’d a put ‘em?” Speculation is rampant and the Commission is requesting that anyone who is prospecting for forgotten time capsules should get permission from the land owner before digging and in the event that the search is fruitless, please fill the hole back in and if it is not in an inconvenient place, perhaps plant a tree in it. The Conservation Department has plenty of young trees to share.
Good ideas are welcome at Champion Items, Rt. 2, Box 367, Norwood, MO 65717. Any recollections about past time capsules are welcome at Champion News. Belated birthday wishes to prominent Champions can be dropped off at Henson’s Store where the ambient mood is Cheerful, Festive, and Optimistic. Champion—Looking on the Bright Side!
