Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Remember those red and white striped poles and what they indicated? Those poles usually meant that the place was a barber shop. The old local barbershops used to be a place where men could go in and get a shave and a hair cut for (2 bits) Actually…
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THE BANK ACCOUNT
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Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker We all dream about winning the lottery or some big sum of money. That would be nice, but nine chances out of ten it won’t happen. We often talk of what we would do if we won a big sum of money and our dreams are probably a…
WE ALL NEED A SMILE
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Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Do you like to tell jokes or are you like me and it takes you a while to get the punchline? I am not really good at telling jokes or “getting” a joke. Sometimes I will think of the joke days later, get the punchline and start laughing. …
Level 2 Road Advisory Issued for Paulding County
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ROAD ADVISORY Paulding County Sheriff Jason K. Landers has issued a Level 2 Road Advisory for Paulding County. This Level 2 Road Advisory means that roadways are hazardous with blowing and drifting snow and most of the roadways could be icy. Only those individuals who feel it is necessity to travel should be on the…
John Kobee Takes the Helm at AEB
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It has taken 37 years for John Kobee to reach the top at the Antwerp Exchange Bank! John was recently named the President and CEO of the Bank and the three locations (Antwerp, Harlan, and Payne) after Ron Eschbach retired in December. John started at the bank as Assistant Cashier on September 21, 1983 right…
A CHICKEN HEAD; A FROG AND A SPIDER
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Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker What do people usually do on a date, before a dance, celebrate a birthday or just do it because it is fun? We do this when we don’t feel like cooking or we do it because we are hungry. We do it at graduations; church events; ball games…
Pennies: DON’T RIDE ON THE SHARKS BACK
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By: Nancy Whitaker Faith, trust; hope, confidence, love and attitude. These are all traits we all have, to an extent or should have. Sometimes we feel like we have lost all of them. It is easy to feel hopeless, faithless, distrustful and unlovable. I know because I have some of those days. I happened to…
I MADE IT; I LIKED IT
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Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker If you lived any time during the Great Depression, you may recall the shortage and the high cost of food. Unemployment was high and it was hard to feed a family I have heard and read about Victory Gardens and the various methods and substitutions which people used…
See Ya!
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In Memoriam of Stan Jordan By: Bryce Steiner It was in 2005, just a few weeks after the West Bend News opened, that I met for the first time Stan Jordan. He had retired from the US Postal Service a couple decades earlier and now was mowing the cemetery for the village of Antwerp. He…
Activities in Paulding County
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By: Bryce Steiner I was at the Paulding County Economic Development press conference on Thursday about the Union Bank and the new coffee Shop “Grounded” announcement. While I was there Dave Burtch opened up the floor for business/economic ideas in Paulding County. One young man from Youth For Christ asked one of the top things…
We Love and Miss You, Stan!
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SOME JORDANESE By: Stan Jordan • He is not the sharpest knife in the drawer • He is two french fries short of a happy meal • She is wound a little too tight • News to her is in both ears and out the mouth • That ain’t worth a plated nickel • She…
Bending My Ear
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Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker One of my New Years resolutions is to listen to others and acquire more common sense. I am not saying I’m dumb, but sometimes I tend to follow my own thoughts and lots of times it is because I haven’t absorbed or paid attention to what I was…
ALWAYS TIME FOR SCHOOL
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Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker It is always an exciting time when a new school year begins. Some like it; others hate going back. Of course 2020 brought with it the deadly Covid19 virus and classes were taught at home for a while and many events were cancelled. Now on a normal school…
