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Did you hear that the original Gerber baby turned 80 years old in 2011? Her name is Ann Turner and she still resembles the baby on the baby food jars. The new Gerber baby is Mercy Townsend and, amazingly enough, she shares the same birthday as Ann Turner. It's true! *** I lost one of my precious Chicago Cutlery knives about a year ago and assumed I had accidentally wrapped it up with watermelon rinds in a newspaper and dropped it into the garbage. Then last week I dreamed that after I used my new built-in cutting board, the knife stayed on the cutting board when I "shut it" and dropped below onto the shelf with my pots and pans. A couple days later the dream crossed my mind and so I removed my pots and pans to check for my knife. Not expecting to find it -- it was only a dream -- I screamed when I saw it. Allan was there see and hear. It's true! *** As we visited with Mom and Dad in Texas, I learned that for the first few years of their marriage, that my dad hung a gas lamp over the kitchen table, having tied the lamp to electrical cords in the ceiling, and that it gave off pretty good light. Their new house was wired for electricity in 1947 but electricity didn't arrive down their road until 1951. Anyway you look at it, I did not grow up in the dark. It's true! *** I read that many big places and cities around the world are shutting their lights off for an hour to celebrate the upcoming annual Earth Day. Promoters are calling it Earth Hour and they're bragging about the cities that signed on -- like New York, Chicago, Toronto, London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Beijing, Sydney. I bet that people in the rural areas of the world, if they have electricity, will keep their lights shining during Earth Hour. Little people and places have more important things to do than shut off lights when it's not bedtime. It's true! *** Remember the slogan, "Electricity is penny cheap?" I can still sing it. "Electricity is penny cheap from NSP to yooouuuu!" But, of course, those were the days when you could get a gumball from a gumball machine for a penny. Now it takes 25 of those little suckers to get a gumball. Thank heaven we have quarters. Otherwise we'd be standing at those machines all day. Gumballs are not penny cheap. It's true! *** And now they want to take away our familiar light bulbs and replace them with those curly incandescent things that don't work as well and contain mercury and must be disposed of carefully because mercury is a poison. They curtail our good electricity, they don't let us drill for our own oil, they tell us coal is dirty, they want us to hug trees. We might as well go back to living in caves. "They" have lost their common sense. It's true! *** You most likely heard about the air traffic controller -- the supervisor -- who was asleep on the job at Washington's Reagan National Airport a couple weeks ago, causing two planes carrying 165 people to land without help from the control tower. But did you hear that same air traffic controller was also on duty on 9/11? It's true! *** Did you know that hotdogs may be healthier for us than chicken? It was reported today there are some carcinogens in chicken skin, especially if it's barbecued or burned a bit on the grill. So if we eat our hotdogs boiled, cooked, or microwaved to just a tender moist condition, but we eat our chicken with the skin very crispy fried or barbecued, the hotdog is probably healthier for us. It's true! *** I talked to Marilyn Palmatier on Tuesday, March 29th, extending condolences on the death of her husband, former Mayor of Victoria, Dale Palmatier. Marilyn herself served several years as a Victoria city councilmember and in other capacities. The Palmatiers came to live full time down in Arizona these last 15 years. I did a story on the Palmatiers in the January 1991 issue of the Gazette entitled "A World of Many Flavors." Marilyn revealed that she had said to Dale about the story, "This is our obituary." Its true! *** In all my years of doing the Gazette, I've never before had a double truck (two full pages) of obituaries till this very Issue #4 of Volume 32. I'm surprised to know that many newspapers charge the grieving families to place an obituary. I don't. I wouldn't. I couldn't, at least not for Victoria obituaries. It's true! *** You've probably noticed that every year I insert a remittance envelope into the March issue of the Gazette. I must add that I continue to be overwhelmed by your generous response. I've learned to record every single subscription by myself, and I read and relish every little handwritten note and greeting, too numerous to mention or include within these pages. It's true! |
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