Editorial

According to Punxsutawney Phil (the groundhog) on Thursday, Feb. 2, we are going to have six more weeks of winter because he saw his shadow.

John M. Truex, of Beallsville, received a pleasant surprise a few days ago, when he received notice from the Ohio Farmer magazine that he had won a complete Fairbanks-Morse water system, valued around $150.

Back in the days before I was a mother of six, one of my favorite things to do with our oldest three was to watch “Leave it to Beaver.”

Gene and Penny Turner, of Clarington, and Dave and Susan Chadwell, of Beallsville, were visiting with Rick, Cari, Lincoln, Lane and Lila Russell in Bettendorf, Iowa.

forced them to turn to the groundhog. … from Country Almanac 2006 Names of the forecasters, marmot, woodchuck or groundhog are Punxsutawney Phil, of Gobblersknob, Pennsylvania; Susquehanna Sherman, of Sherman Pennsylvania; French Creek Freddie, of French Creek, West Virginia; Stormy Marmot, of Aurora, Colorado; Woody the Woodchuck, of Howell, Michigan; General Beauregard Lee, of Jackson, Georgia. The New Mat Red Hat gals held their January meeting at the Senior Center. Horns and candy decorated the tables. Dee Reynolds read, “Life Explained,” we are all given so many minutes. The main event was our white elephant sale, auctioneer was Di Evans, bidders were Linda De-Long, Kathy Beaver, Debbie Swallow, word search winner, Wade and Vivian Becker, Kathy Eckert, Marilyn Tilton, door prize winner, and Norma Jean Antill.

The winter, thus far, has been kind to the Monroe Theatre’s schedule and audience members. Regardless of the weather, volunteers continue to give countless hours to projects and programs for the benefit of the public. New and favorite shows continue only with the variety of donations the Theatre receives.

Dear Editor: As we all know by now, congregate meals for Monroe County seniors have been relocated to the old “Safe Auto” building out of Woodsfield’s corporation limits.

The fire truck was called to Simmons’ Garage on South Main Street about 1 p.m. Sunday morning to extinguish a small blaze near the ceiling, which had apparently caught from an overheated stovepipe. Smelling smoke, Marshal Pie Antill turned in the alarm. The damage was negligible.

Hello, everyone. I hope you and your family are well tonight.

Yes, it is evening and I am beginning to type my column. I hope we can have a good visit around our dining room table.

The Cooperative Extension Service was established in 1914 to connect rural residents to the research and resources of the nation’s land-grant universities. Extension programs have always operated on the principle of “learning by doing”. As stated by Seaman Knapp, pioneer of the Extension movement, “What a man hears, he may doubt; what he sees, he may possibly doubt; but what he does himself, he cannot doubt”.