A NEW COLUMN
By: Stan Jordan
Cindy Bowers gave us many good pictures of down town Antwerp and said we could use them in any way.
Well, I am going to start a new column and show Antwerp’s older businesses and buildings each week till I run out of pictures.
I will tell what I know about each picture as close as I can.
See ya!
P.S. Hicksville readers, please tell my friend, Bill Metz, that I am not stealing his thunder, I am running out of topics, he will understand.
THIS SUPER BOWL STUFF
By: Stan Jordan
You here a lot about the Super Bowl and a lot of the talk is not football.
I’m going to write this column on what I think of what they said Super Bowl has become.
I believe that all the teams in the NFL play hard and try to win a spot in the play offs. Then they, maybe, still have to win three more games to become world champs.
The NFL has allowed the half-time intermission to be 30 minutes instead of the usual 15 or so. The city who is hosting the Super Bowl will make millions of dollars on that weekend and that is the Money Bowl and not a football bowl.
The common football fan all over the 50 states don’t care for that half-time hoopla, like the Cleveland Dawg Pound and the like, let’s play football. A good high school marching band makes a good half-time show.
The leaders of the NFL have succumbed to the advertisers and the big bucks. I can see their money side of it, but I don’t like it. As a football fan, I couldn’t care less about the half-time hoopla as entertainment, to me, an old timer, it is trash, let’s play football.
I asked some of my male friends if they watched the half-time show and every one of them said they didn’t care for it…let’s play football!
See ya!
WILD LIFE NEWS
By: Stan Jordan
In the last few days, I have talked to a number of men about our wild life.
Roger Lily was in and talked about an eagles nest on the State Line and Road 48. He also was telling me about two woodpeckers he has seen. He was lamenting the fact that here of late when ever he sees anything, his good camera is home.
Corky Hughes was in and we had a good talk on different specimens. He lives right close to that ravine called the Wallace Creek and they see lots of birds that other people don’t see.
Bill Fish was in and he saw eagles flying around, but there is no nest in the park area.
Van Hanenkratt, our UPS driver, stops in about everyday and he sees a lot of eagles over on Flat Rock Creek in the Payne area and he sees some adults and young ones in the Power Dam area almost each day, now that the leaves are gone.
Chris Walters was in this morning, January 5, and he had a beaver that he had just caught in his trap. He said he was a young one, about 15 pounds. He has been hunting and trapping for 46 years and he has caught eight beavers. I asked about our wild life and he said we have a good supply of about everything…fox, raccoons, coyotes, muskrats, turkeys, just about everything. He caught this beaver up west of town on Joe Barker’s bottom. There seems to be all kinds of game in that area of the Maumee.
Mrs. Larry Overmyer was in and telling me about the snowy owl and had a good picture of a male owl, that is also around the State Line Road. We are all pretty sure there is a nest in that area. The male owl is almost all white with small spots on him, the female has a lot of black feathers.
See ya!
2018 WEATHER
By: Stan Jordan
Here it is the middle of January and I need something to write about. Just like always, we can always talk about the weather.
We get most of our weather reports from Fort Wayne television and weather station, so the following is from them and my own ideas.
We had a wet year, I think the Fort Wayne station said we ended up with over 4 inches of rain above normal. Now some of that came in July and August, right when the farmers needed it most. I know sometimes it was too much and caused problems, like it flooded the river and ruined a lot of plans for people who use the Maumee for recreation and some people had outside plans that got wet.
I think we had nine days with the temperature over 90 degrees but 43 days over average. We got along pretty good anyhow.
Now, we haven’t had much snow yet, in fact, we had a dandy fall like weather all fall and over into January.
There have been lots of floods, storms and snow east and west of us, but so far, so good.
See ya!
VETERAN LIST CORRECTION
By: Stan Jordan
I have been informed that John Larson of Antewrp was a veteran of WWII and left from Paulding County, and currently resides in Antwerp.
And another name to add to the list is John P. Lamond. He served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam and now lives in Goergia.
I just assume these boys served in the army.
I sure thank you for this information.
See ya!
