02-28-13 A-Section.pdf - Crane Chronicle / Stone County Republican
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Page 6 THE CRANE CHRONICLE/STONE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Thursday, February <strong>28</strong>, 20<strong>13</strong><br />
Comments & Notes from...<br />
Mary Kuyper<br />
P.O. Box 208<br />
Reeds Spring MO 65737 • 417-272-3527<br />
Greetings Readerville:<br />
This fine spring day, I can<br />
almost hear the peepers waking<br />
up. OK – next day woke to snow<br />
on the ground. Spring had been<br />
stolen. We had gone from the<br />
60’s to <strong>28</strong> degrees. I guess that<br />
is ok because we do not want<br />
things blooming out for several<br />
months yet. We are however,<br />
very thankful for moisture of any<br />
kind. especially rain. since we<br />
can’t predict the weather and the<br />
weather-man can’t either – we<br />
will move on.<br />
Birthday<br />
Now we have a hearty wish for<br />
a whole lot of you folks. Travis<br />
Isaacs (my nephew-in-law), my<br />
grandson –in-law Wade Carey,<br />
sisters-in-law Linda Quick and<br />
Barbara Youngblood and Donna<br />
Sparks (need bread lady), my<br />
mean ole daughter-in-law Sherrie<br />
Kuyper, a little fellow named<br />
Riley Isaacs (nana’s pal) and a<br />
special young lady who happens<br />
to be nana’s granddaughter<br />
Kamilla Miller.<br />
Now if that is not a bunch of<br />
rascals to report on – good or<br />
bad. Hope you all had a great<br />
day and many more to come.<br />
May God be with you all. If I<br />
don’t have your name – sorry<br />
– let me know.<br />
Sick Bay<br />
Lori Trueblood is still taking<br />
her chemo. Rosemary and Bill<br />
Youngblood are in need of prayer.<br />
My sister, Edna Ruth Kessinger<br />
took a terrible fall while caring<br />
for me. She has been in extreme<br />
pain. Please keep her in prayer<br />
and deed. Bert told me that her<br />
fellow helper (coach really) of<br />
the youth bowling league needs<br />
our prayers as well. He has<br />
many serious decisions to make<br />
regarding his health. There are<br />
many around us who are sick, in<br />
need of a kind word, a helping<br />
hand, etc. etc. Help where you<br />
can, we can all pray, but someone<br />
once said, we need to put legs on<br />
our prayers. Lets do something!<br />
I was wrong<br />
Today we wait to find out if<br />
Boy Scouts will be Boy Scouts<br />
or Girl-Boy Scouts. Which they<br />
have never been. But, one or the<br />
other, thanks to the president,<br />
same sex marriage, abortion,<br />
lewd pictures not needed to<br />
be shown, foul language on<br />
radio and TV, in homes, on the<br />
streets – just one little example<br />
of the many ways we have let<br />
morals slip out of our fingers and<br />
everything else folks are allowing<br />
to occur. The earth seems angry<br />
with us – perhaps it is one way<br />
God is speaking to us and we<br />
are not listening. Earthquakes,<br />
fires, floods, volcanoes, severe<br />
droughts, what more do we<br />
need?<br />
And, gun control being an<br />
Reeds Spring Jct.<br />
issue- isn’t that what Hitler did,<br />
did we not learn anything from<br />
the past. Does history have<br />
to repeat itself because of our<br />
stupidity? Anger can run deep &<br />
we have lost control of any decent<br />
response to it. All this takes me<br />
back to a time when Madeline<br />
O’Hare had prayer taken out of<br />
the schools. I heard that she was<br />
to speak at the Shrine Mosque<br />
in Springfield, I felt that since I<br />
had written so many derogatory<br />
things about her that I owed it<br />
to my readers to go and hear her<br />
speak. I expected to see a well<br />
dressed lady speaking sixteen<br />
syllable words. What I got<br />
instead was the use of four letter<br />
words coming from a frumpy foul<br />
mouthed woman. She shouted,<br />
ripped pages from the Bible and<br />
when she finished her charade,<br />
she asked if anyone had anything<br />
to say. The audience was quiet,<br />
then she called us yellowbellied<br />
cowards, before I thought I was<br />
on my feet, holding little Mary<br />
Jr. by the hand and walking<br />
towards the stage. Halfway<br />
down my knees turned to putty,<br />
and I thought to myself, “What<br />
am I doing, this lady has argued<br />
and won her case before the US<br />
Supreme Court. But, it was to<br />
late to turn back. There were only<br />
3 people that went down. When<br />
I got before her, I addressed her<br />
as Dr. O’Hare and said we would<br />
like to know why you fight so<br />
hard against God since you say<br />
He does not exist. It would be<br />
like us people who live at Table<br />
Rock Lake trying to rid the lake<br />
of whales, since there are none<br />
what is the point? At which time<br />
she said in a very ugly voice<br />
“I’ll tell you why, you Christians<br />
have come out of your closets<br />
and are invading everything.”<br />
And my reply was, “I’ll tell you<br />
something – you and your hand<br />
full of followers will not dictate<br />
to America where we can pray<br />
or anything else we want to do.”<br />
The audience exploded and she<br />
never got to say anything else.<br />
Then I realized something, had<br />
I known I would be speaking to<br />
her, I would have stayed up all<br />
night, looking up eloquent things<br />
to say, but God used a simple<br />
Reeds Spring graduate and a<br />
whale to make a point. People<br />
who had been there told me later<br />
that they thought God had His<br />
say without the help of anyone.<br />
That was a long time ago, but all<br />
these years I’ve fought for what<br />
I believed, which was America<br />
would stand tall, that she would<br />
not follow whims, or tilt to every<br />
wind that blew. But, today as I<br />
look around and am reminded of<br />
Bible teaching of how evil would<br />
become worse and worse and we<br />
can see & know the truth and<br />
still yield. That what was once<br />
called good would now be called<br />
evil. (It tells us that this would<br />
occur in the Bible – read it folks).<br />
Those years ago, I said not in<br />
America would all these things<br />
happen. “I WAS WRONG!”<br />
We can still change things, but<br />
the window of time may not be<br />
long. We should join together<br />
with the Rutherford Ins, Rev. Bill<br />
Grahams, and others to make our<br />
voice heard. As my mom use to<br />
say, with your little bit and my<br />
little bit we can become a mighty<br />
bit. Yes, 30 years ago when I<br />
made that statement to Miss<br />
O’Hare, “Not in America!” I did<br />
not believe the government would<br />
lose sight of this – “Government<br />
by the people and for the people”<br />
with a conscious thought about<br />
the people and that is why I said<br />
I was wrong.<br />
I am going to let this be my<br />
closing, hoping some of my<br />
concerns for our Holy God,<br />
our country, our children, our<br />
grandchildren, and other family<br />
members, our friends, and our<br />
churches will touch you heart<br />
strings and we will stand together<br />
again and that is my “Food For<br />
Thought.”<br />
Till Next Time:<br />
Matata!<br />
Ha Kuna<br />
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Quartet<br />
4 Calvary Southern Gospel<br />
Quartet will be performing at<br />
Keystone Assembly of God,<br />
Sunday, March 3, 20<strong>13</strong> at 10:45<br />
a.m.<br />
The Church is located at 2731<br />
East State Highway 248 Reeds<br />
Spring, MO.<br />
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New Arrival<br />
First time Grandparents Kevin and Sarah Wray from <strong>Crane</strong> and first<br />
time Aunt Molly Wray announce the birth of their granddaughter<br />
(and niece)……Riley Kay. Born February 10 th , 20<strong>13</strong>.<br />
Parents are Adam and Jacque Wray of Tacoma Washington where<br />
Adam serves in the U.S. Air Force at McChord AFB.<br />
Maternal Grandparents are Tony and Tammy Taylor of Republic.<br />
Great Grandma Louise Short of Springfield.<br />
Welcome to our world Riley Kay.<br />
Jones Celebrating 65th<br />
Anniverary<br />
Archie Jones and Peggy (Short) Jones will<br />
be celebrating their 65th wedding<br />
anniversary on March 6, 20<strong>13</strong>. Friends and<br />
relatives are invited to attend a celebration<br />
hosted by their children, grandchildren,<br />
and great grandchildren in honor of this<br />
milestone on Saturday, March 2, 20<strong>13</strong>, at the<br />
Community Center, 104 E. Edgewood, <strong>Crane</strong>,<br />
MO, from 2 PM – 5 PM. Archie and Peggy<br />
were married on March 6, 1948 by Reverend<br />
Gilbert<br />
Clevenger in Galena, MO. They would<br />
enjoy receiving cards at 42<strong>28</strong>9 State Hwy<br />
4<strong>13</strong>,<strong>Crane</strong>, MO 65633.<br />
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