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I saw a picture of hundreds of fans in a stadium all with an inch of snow on them watching a football game. The caption said, “ If we all had this kind of dedication to Christ, the world would be a better place”. That is not funny, it is actually sad, because it is so true. It’s great to have...
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Monday Night
Country Ladies
11/20/2023
Commercial Forms INC 29
A Little Bit Off . . . . . . . 28
Just Sayin . . . . . . . . . . 26
Tipsy Turkeys . . . . . . . . 24
Country Gals . . . . . . . . 23
A Katered Affair by Karen 22
Gamblers . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Silver Belles . . . . . . . . . . 19...
We are about to enter the winter season. Most summer birds have departed, and winter birds will soon arrive—if they haven’t already. One of our most interesting winter guests is the Snowy Owl, a bird that leaves its home in the Arctic in years when prey, such as lemmings, are scarce, resulting in...
5 Years Ago (November 2018)
After 35 years, Marty Schultz announced that last year would be his final one as the Big Cheese and driving force behind the CheeseTown Races. The event saw many changes over that time. The Pinconning & Linwood Area Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that...
Friday, November 24th,
• Standish Historic Depot, Santa Parade, lineup at 5:00 pm with parade beginning at 6:00 pm
Standing events
Second Monday
• Fraser Township Board Meeting, 7 pm, 1474 N. Mackinaw, Linwood.
• Garfield Township Board Meeting, 6:30 pm, 1138 W. Erickson, Linwood.
• Gibson...
Dr. Paul Dake is semi-retired; moved to the Pinconning area to be near family and is submitting articles for the Journal. Dr. Dake has an Undergraduate degree in Physiology and M.D. degree, both from Michigan State University, the latter awarded in 1978; immediately thereafter, Family Medicine...
Lynn Eckerle is the author of the weekly food column The Recipe Exchange along with a blog, Lynn’s Musings From a Deep Well. She loves country cooking, small town living and taking the back roads.
Dear Lynn,
I’m looking for some traditional Christmas cookie recipes. The ones our moms and...
Almost everyone is familiar
with the noisy, fearless
Blue Jay, a member of
a family of birds that also
includes crows and ravens.
Blue Jays are usually in
charge in the yard, often
chasing other birds away
from birdfeeders. But jays
also sound the alarm when
hawks or cats are nearby.
Their shrill...
5 Years Ago (November 2018)
Today’s world is “slightly different”, shall we say, than
it was back in the 1880’s when St. Johns’s congregation
had it’s formal beginning 130 years ago. Back in 1888,
St. John’s Lutheran Church was the fond desire of just
a few German-speaking immigrant families of...