We live in an era when many churches have elected to remove their bells due to the expense of maintaining them. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church's bells at 301 North Main Street, Jenera, have sadly been silent for almost a year because they, too, needed serious repair. The church council chose to restore them and they rang on Sunday to announce the beginning of the church services as they have for 133 years.
Just because the Roe vs. Wade decision has been struck down by the Supreme Court does not mean that it will eliminate abortions. It only means that many abortions will be relegated to unhealthy self-attempts or back-alley butchers, which was the case prior to Roe.
A few years back I read JD Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy, and found it very interesting. But now as he is framing himself as an opponent of the “elites,” I believe that Mr. Vance has forgotten his working class roots.
Thank you to our wonderful Bluffton Public Library for their Take and Make projects, sharing ideas and kids crafts/projects throughout the pandemic!! The spring plants you shared continue to bring smiles well into fall. Thank you!
My father Lester Neuenschwander (Niswander – as in Niswander’s Newsstand) and I were responsible for procuring and setting off the fireworks for the July 4th rodeo. We drove a van to the manufacturer near Dayton and returned with aerial bombs of various sizes and material to make ground displays. I remember a large field with a dozen or more very small, widely separated buildings; a way to minimize both injury and loss of product if something accidentally ignited what was inside.
