RETIREMENT
By: Stan Jordan
Let’s talk about this word retirement. It’s a time of importance in your life like when you lose your first tooth, get your driver’s license, your first kiss, your graduation, interview for your first job, your wedding…I could go on and on, but you have gone through this before.
After you work for quite a few years, you have had so many big days, you would like to slow down a little. You find yourself thinking about retirement more and more, you even ask some of your friends who have made that move and some who are like you, just waiting for the day.
What will I do after I retire? I can sleep in, get up when I want to! Now that’s baloney, you have got up early for so long, you can’t change. You still wake up at 5:30 a.m. I have already mowed the yard and trimmed up. I can’t find anyone anymore to go golfing with and no one wants to go fishing. All my friends are still working or too old.
The other day I took a car load of slow women to the shopping mall. One day I had to go to a baby shower, and one day I had to go see Sally Johnson’s rose garden.
This retirement life is not for me, I’m going to look for a part-time job.
See ya!
OUR BEAUTIFUL PARK
By: Stan Jordan
On January 5th, 1886 Mayor Frank Long, on a motion by Councilman P.P. Doering, appointed P.P. Doering, Henry Harris and Jacob Saylor as a committee to negotiate with Judge O.S. Latty for the purchase of the grove east of town for Antwerp to have a city park.
Well they did meet with the judge about that grove and that grove became our beautiful Riverside Park. I will forever thank those men for the foresightedness to secure that area for our park.
Now that was in 1886 and I never found any more notes on the park until Mayor C.A. Bissell in 1936, secured the island and the north entrance to the park.
Around 1935 to 1936 Judge Latty’s daughter donated all that land south of US 24 over to the railroad to the park’s estate except the plot where the Park Station sets as that belongs to Warren Seslar.
She was a lady of over 90 years old and was living in Defiance County. It is a beautiful place to go and sit and watch the highway, the blue sky, the squirrels and the children having a good time. Try it sometime.
See ya!
RESPECT, PRIDE, COURTESY
By: Stan Jordan
Respect, pride, courtesy, rights and some other ways are taught at home, or should be. A little mind will catch on a lot quicker than an older one.
A way to have a better life and surroundings, is one word, more respect. For a better day, each day in our daily life, is a little more respect and courtesy and friendliness.
Go out of your way a little maybe. Like Ben Franklin said, “If you meet a man without a smile, give him one of yours.” Maybe even a friendly nod would make a person feel better.
Even in the older days when the knights were bold, when they met someone they would raise their eye shield to talk or just plain respect that led to the habit of a salute. Respect, courtesy and friendliness.
Be ready to help an older person or anyone who needs help. Like help them up, open a door or carry something if it needs to be, you know, be friendly and helpful. It will make you feel better.
Yes, this respect works in different ways. Observe and remember a person has rights and beliefs.
Like your neighbor’s dog, say something nice about the ugly little critter, he likes him and is proud of that little dog. It don’t hurt to say a good word about him.
If a friend shows you her new clothes, say something nice about them, after all she’s proud of them. Maybe they are not flattering, but you can be.
I think most of these high school shoot outs are based on the perpetrator being bullied or not treated right by other school kids or teachers. Some of these killers carry a grudge a long time.
Like I said before, we need more respect of all types and friendliness on all levels.
See ya!
SOME ON THE SNOWY OWL
By: Stan Jordan
The other day Mrs. Sara Johanns came in the West Bend News and had this picture of a snowy owl resting on a post in her back yard. She and her husband, Brett, live on the corner of CR 144 and 71.
We get reports of the snowy owl being seen in that area and over toward the Stoller farm and into Paulding.
She was telling of an incident that her husband and his brother had just recently. They were out in the field checking the moisture of the soil so they can start planting corn, but there was a male snowy owl that stayed right around that area and didn’t seem to be afraid and he got bolder and bolder.
Then the boys figured they were too close to a nest or a young one that is in the area. So they moved the two rods on down the field and when they did that the male owl moved in. See, the boys figured they were close to a nest and they left that area.
A snowy owl builds their nest on the ground and those boys were right, they just left the nest.
I was very glad to talk to Sara, anything about the wildlife.
See ya!
