Champion News

CHAMPION—December 11, 2006

        News from Champion was late getting to the Herald last week.  Someone said if he had twenty thousand years to catch the bus, he would need twenty thousand years and five minutes.  Here is last weeks news with apologies for it’s tardiness.

CHAMPION—December 5, 2006

        Friends and neighbors of Wilburn and Louise Hutchison extend their sympathies at the loss of their dear son, Larry.

        December’s Full Moon is called the “Cold Moon.”  In Champion it shines ethereally on the bright white ice and snow and draws out the long blue moon shadows of houses and trees.  When it is so quiet and still at night thoughts of family and loved ones, those close and far away, come easily.  To experience those solemn moments with dear ones is a gift.  Beauty becomes Real when shared in Love and Gratitude.  One whispers, “Isn’t this lovely?”  The other sighs, “Indeed.” Or, perhaps no word is spoken and the silence says everything.

        Your observations, stories, and news are welcome at Champion Items, Rt. 2, Box 367, Norwood, MO 65717, at the Champion Store, or at Champion News.

        This week’s news also comes from last week.

        L.L. Krider had his birthday on the 4^th of the month.  It was just three days before the attack on Pearl Harbor.  That didn’t damper his families’ enthusiasm for him, however, and they raised him up to be a good family man.  He has numerous children who love and admire him.  He is an accomplished musician of the ‘high lonesome’ and other varieties and is respected as quite a good citizen and good neighbor.  Still, he was heard to have said that what he would like most for his birthday was the end of some exasperating plumbing problems.  Alas!  He is fortunate to have such a comely young wife to comfort him in his trials.

        Spectators could have had an eyeful had they ventured down 95 Highway at W Highway one day last week.  A well regarded resident of that intersection backed her truck into her own garage where it became stuck due to unseasonable rains.  Realizing that not only was her truck stuck, but that she was locked out of her house on account of just having had her locks changed without having replced her secreted outside key.  She was doubly stuck.  Standing on her own porch she heard her phone ringing inside.  It was cold and getting dark.  Remembering the condition of a certain storm window, she plied her energies to prying it open.  After some time her efforts were rewarded and there lacked only the willingness to climb upon lawn chair in order to effect entry through the now open upper sash.  Of the two plastic lawn chairs available she chose the newer,  less fragile one and, without a thought for her recently sprained foot, took the challenge, stepped upon it, and was in short order comfortably ensconced in her own domicile with none the wiser until now.  Now the window has been repaired against any intruder and the new key secreted. At what age does one cease to be resourceful and self reliant?  Around here it must be well up past ninety somewhere.

        Mrs. E. Powell said that when she was a kid they said if your nose was itching somebody would be coming with holes in his britches.

        The last of last weeks news is that Dustin Cline said in front of eight witnesses that he was wrong (about something).  Staci asked that it be reported in the paper.  This week he was heard to say that Staci was right about something.  What is going on here?

        The last of this weeks news is that by the 11^th of December, sixty-five U.S. service people have lost their lives this month.  To their families Love and Gratitude is sent from Champion.

        Your opinions, observations, reminiscences, and rebuttals are welcome at Champion Items, Rt. 2, Box 367, Norwood, MO 65717, at the Champion Store, and at Champion News.