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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May
Vol. 3, Is. 28 Jan.
24, 2014
From the
Editor
Monday morning renovations
are off to a slow and sudden stop. We’re
having 5+ inches of snow forecast for tomorrow and the contractor has an
addition that’s not completely under roof--not a good thing with the potential
of snow coming. The contractor and one
worker came in at 8:00 a.m. and did light sanding in the bathroom and put on
another coat of mud, then headed to help the other 3 crew members to get the
addition under roof prior to the snow.
We are sorry that they had to cut our day short, but totally understand
and would be very upset if we were in the position of the other homeowners and
they were working inside at someone else’s house while ours was getting wet
inside. He told us this morning that he
was going to ask the painter that we’re getting to do our bedroom and office to
come paint the bath on Friday. We’re not
too disappointed over that as it will give us a chance to see his work before
finalizing the bedroom and office contract.
I’m sure he’s good or Jim would not recommend him, so I have no
concerns.
I was surprised at 7:05 am
this morning (Monday) with the doorbell ringing. When I went to the door I found a tractor
trailer backed into the driveway with our cabinets for all three baths. The materials are certainly starting to fill
the garage up. I think that since Jim is
hiring a painter that he’s going to start on some of the tile in the shower
tomorrow--probably around the entrance so he can have the glass people come to
measure for the glass panel and door. I
doubt that we will be ready for the counter top people to come in to measure
for the counter tops until the first part of next week. I’m just totally at a loss for how fast the
rest of this will come together. Only
time will tell.
The scheduling changes have
me at a loss knowing where to turn today and what to do with the free time that
I didn’t know I would have. We have 2
vans in the shop that we’ll have to pick up at the end of the day and return to
service. It seems that there’s always
“something else” to do and usually these things happen at the end of the day
causing a longer work day than we would like.
I guess we’ll use the free
time to “breathe a little” and refocus for the remainder of the week.
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Content
Contributors for the Week
Linda
(Phillips) Goodson, Class of 1966
Geary
McDowell
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Remembering…
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
Angelic Performance
No Need to Say Good-Bye by
the Poppy Girls. The performance is just
a prelude to the ending!
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Top 10 Predictions for 2014
With all the problems the world is facing, it can be unsettling to
the mind.
Today, I share with you ten predictions that are true!
1. The Bible will still have all the answers.
2. Prayer will still be the most powerful thing on Earth.
3. The Holy Spirit will still move.
4. God will still honor the praises of His people.
5. There will still be God-anointed preaching.
6. There will still be singing of praise to God.
7. God will still pour out blessings upon His people.
8. There will still be room at the Cross.
9. Jesus will still love you.
10. Jesus will still save the lost when they come to Him.
Isn't it great to remember who is really in control, and that; "the Word
of the Lord endures forever." (1 Peter 1:25)
I hope you found this encouraging!!! Sometimes we need the reminder of
just WHO is really in control.
MAY 2014 BE YOUR BEST YEAR YET.
Good friends are rare jewels of life;
Difficult to find and impossible to replace...
Have a great day and a better tomorrow!
Alumni Website
We have renewed the account that Wanda
Jackson had set up at the photo sharing website, picturetrail.com for the
Roosevelt Alumni: http://www.picturetrail.com/rooseveltalumni. She had posted many pictures from past
reunions, class panels, and old schools buildings along with write ups about
them. We thought you might find these
interesting if you haven’t visited this site in the past.
Cooperton Valley Picture Trail
The “
Interesting
Tidbits
You Won’t Believe What Started This Fire
This is a must watch video
as you all have in your house what started this fire. We all should take a lesson from this video
and be sure we aren’t the next casualty.
http://themotherlist.com/fire-safety-video-must-watch/
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Amazing Tales of the SR-71 Blackbird Plane
This video was produced to
celebrate Lockheed's 100th anniversary.
Buzz Carpenter, a former
SR-71 pilot offers some very interesting facts and tales, never heard of
before, about the Blackbird. He recounts
the aircraft’s power and majesty.
http://www.chonday.com/Videos/sr71jetplane1
News
The
Roosevelt Senior Citizens has reopened from the summer break. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00
p.m. Lunch for Seniors is $4 and for the
younger generation is $5.
The
menu for next week is as follows:
Tuesday,
Jan. 28: Pork Chop, Macaroni &
Cheese, Salad Bar, Dessert
Thursday,
Jan. 30: Nachos Supreme, Rice, Mexican
Corn, Rolls, Salad Bar, Dessert
Birthdays and
Anniversaries
We
have compiled all of the birthday and anniversary information we could from
Wanda’s files. We are sure we are
missing some. Please send us the
birthdays and anniversaries for your family and friends so that we can have as
complete as list as possible. We are
going to start with what we have from Wanda’s files so if we miss you, please
send us the information so we have it for the news next year. In addition, should any of the birthdays we
list be wrong, also please let us know.
Happy Birthday
To:
January 24 – Lloyd Newton,
Class of 1951
January 24 – Ann (Baden) Thurmond
January 25 – Kelsey Franks
January 25 –
January 25 – Anna Matteson
January 26 – Tom
Johnson
January 27 – Mickey Reeves
January 28 – Mandy (Cole) Carter
January 28 –
January 28 – Cale Garrison
January 28 – Paul Merkey
January 30 – Mike May, Class of 1965
January 30 – Sherrie Gibbons Webb, Class of 1983
Happy Anniversary To:
January 24 – Buck &
Louann Cook
January 27 – Anita & Tom Copeland
January 28 – Rich & Rhonda Ainslie
Humor
Singing in Church
A minister decided to do
something a little different one Sunday morning. He said 'Today, in church, I am going to say
a single word and you are going to help me preach.
Whatever single word I say,
I want you to sing whatever hymn that comes to
your mind.' The pastor shouted out 'CROSS.'
Immediately the congregation
started singing in unison, 'THE OLD RUGGED
CROSS.'
The pastor hollered out
'GRACE.' The congregation began to sing
'AMAZING
GRACE, how sweet the sound.'
The pastor said
'POWER.' The congregation sang 'THERE IS
POWER IN THE
BLOOD.'
The Pastor said 'SEX.' The congregation fell into total silence.
Everyone was in shock. They all nervously began to look around at
each other afraid to say anything.
Then all of a sudden, way
from in the back of the church, a little old 77 year old grandmother stood up
and began to sing 'PRECIOUS MEMORIES.'
Gotta Love Little Old
Ladies.
Laugh... it burns calories.
Food for
Thought
Preventing (Terrorist) School Violence
This is a very thought provoking. It was a presentation given in May,
2010. Given the school violence since
then, it gives us even more to think about.
"How many kids have been killed by school fire in all of
So began an extraordinary daylong seminar presented by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman,
a Pulitzer Prize nominated author,
Grossman's talk spanned myriad topics of vital importance to law enforcement,
such as the use of autogenic breathing, surviving gunshot wounds, dealing with
survivor guilt following a gun battle, and others.
But violence among and against children was how the day began, and so I'll
focus on that issue here.
"In 1999," Grossman said, "school violence claimed what at the
time was an all time record number of kids' lives. In that year there
were 35 dead and a quarter of a million serious injuries due to violence in the
school. How many killed by fire that
year? Zero. But we hear people say, 'That's the year Columbine
happened, that's an anomaly.' Well, in
2004 we had a new all time record - 48 dead in the schools from violence. How many killed by fire that year?
Zero. Let's assign some grades. Put your teacher hat on and
give out some grades. What kind of grade do you give the firefighter for
keeping kids safe? An 'A,' right?
Reluctantly, the cops give
the firefighters an 'A,' right? Danged firefighters, they sleep 'till
they're hungry and eat 'till they're tired. What grade do we get for
keeping the kids safe from violence? Needs improvement, right?"
"Why can't we be like little Johnny Firefighter?" Grossman asked as
he prowled the stage. "He's our A+ student!" He paused,
briefly, and answered with a voice that blew through the hall like thunder,
"Denial, denial, denial!"
Grossman commanded, "Look up at the ceiling! See all those
sprinklers up there? They're hard to spot - they're painted black - but
they're there. While you're looking,
look at the material the ceiling is made of. You know that that stuff was
selected because it's fire-retardant. Now look over there above the door
- you see that fire exit sign? That's not just any fire exit sign -
that's a 'battery-backup-when-the-world-ends-it-will-still-be-lit' fire exit
sign."
Walking from the stage toward a nearby fire exit and exterior wall, Grossman
slammed the palm of his hand against the wall and exclaimed, "Look at
these wall boards! They were chosen because they're what? Fireproof
or fire retardant. There is not one stinking thing in this room that will
burn!"
Pointing around the room as he spoke, Grossman continued, "But you've
still got those fire sprinklers, those fire exit signs, fire hydrants outside,
and fire trucks nearby! Are these fire
guys crazy? Are these fire guys
paranoid? No! This fire guy is our A+ student! Because this
fire guy has redundant, overlapping layers of protection, not a single kid has
been killed by school fire in the last 50 years!
"But you try to prepare for violence - the thing much more likely to kill
our kids in schools, the thing hundreds of times more likely to kill our kids
in schools - and people think you're paranoid. They think you're crazy --
but then they're in denial."
The challenge for law enforcement agencies and officers, then, is to overcome
not only the attacks taking place in schools, but to first overcome the denial
in the minds of mayors, city councils, school administrators, and parents.
Grossman said that agencies and officers, although facing an uphill slog
against the denial of the general public, must diligently work toward
increasing understanding among the sheep that the wolves are coming for their
children. Police officers must train and drill with teachers, not only so
responding officers are intimately familiar with the facilities, but so that
teachers know what they can do in the event of an attack.
"Come with me to the library at
"But the thing most likely to kill her kids - the thing hundreds of times
more likely to kill her kids, the teacher didn't have a clue what to do.
She should have put those kids in the librarian's office but she didn't
know that. So she did the worst thing
possible - she tried to secure her kids in an un-securable location. She told the kids to hide in the library - a
library that has plate glass windows for walls. It's an aquarium, it's a
fish bowl. She told the kids to hide in a fishbowl. What did those
killers see? They saw targets. They saw fish in a fish bowl."
Grossman said that if the school administrators at Columbine had spent a
fraction of the money they'd spent preparing for fire doing lock down drills
and talking with local law enforcers about the violent dangers they face, the
outcome that day may have been different.
Rhetorically he asked the assembled cops, "If somebody had spent five
minutes telling that teacher what to do, do you think lives would have been
saved at Columbine?"
"Never call an unarmed man 'security'," Grossman said. "Call him
'run-like-hell-when-the-man-with-the-gun-shows-up' but never call an unarmed
man security.
"Imagine if someone said, 'I want a trained fire professional on site.
I want a fire hat, I want a fire uniform, I want a fire badge. But!
No fire extinguishers in this building. No fire hoses. The
hat, the badge, the uniform - that will keep us safe - but we have no need for
fire extinguishers.' Well, that would be insane. It is equally
insane, delusional, legally liable, to say, 'I want a trained security
professional on site. I want a security hat, I want a security uniform,
and I want a security badge, but I don't want a gun.' It's not the hat,
the uniform, or the badge. It's the tools in the hands of a trained
professional that keeps us safe.
"Our problem is not money," said Grossman. "It is
denial." Grossman said (and most
cops agree) that many of the most important things we can do to protect our
kids would cost us nothing or next-to-nothing.
Let's contemplate the following outline and summary of Dave Grossman's
"Five D's."
1. Denial - Denial is the enemy and it has no survival value.
2. Deter - Put police
officers in schools, because with just one officer assigned to a school, the
probability of a mass murder in that school drops to almost zero.
3. Detect - We're talking
about plain old fashioned police work here.
The ultimate achievement for law enforcement is the crime that didn't
happen, so giving teachers and administrators regular access to cops is
paramount.
4. Delay - Various simple
mechanisms can be used by teachers and cops to put time and distance between
the killers and the kids.
a.
Ensure that the school/classroom have just a single point of entry. Simply
locking the back door helps create a hard target.
b.
Conduct your active shooter drills within (and in partnership with) the schools
in your city so teachers know how to respond, and know what it looks like when
you do your response.
5. Destroy - Police officers
and agencies should consider the following:
a. Carry
off duty. No one would tell a
firefighter who has a fire extinguisher in his trunk that he's crazy or
paranoid.
b. Equip
every cop in
c. Put
smoke grenades in the trunk of every cop car in
d. Have
a "go-to-war bag" filled with lots of loaded magazines and supplies
for tactical combat casualty care.
e. Use
helicopters. Somewhere in your county
you probably have one or more of the following: medivac, media, private,
national guard, coast guard rotors.
f.
Employ the crew-served, continuous-feed, weapon you already have available to
you (a firehouse) by integrating the fire service into your active shooter
training. It is virtually impossible for
a killer to put well-placed shots on target while also being blasted with water
at 300 pounds per square inch.
g. Armed
citizens can help. Think United 93. Whatever your personal take on gun control,
it is all but certain that a killer set on killing is more likely to attack a
target where the citizens are unarmed, rather than one where they are likely to
encounter an armed citizen response.
Today we must not only prepare for juvenile mass murder, something that had
never happened in human history until only recently, but we also must prepare
for the external threat. Islamist fanatics
have slaughtered children in their own religion - they have killed wantonly,
mercilessly, and without regard for repercussion or regret of any kind. What do
you think they'd think of killing our kids?
"Eight years ago they came and killed 3,000 of our citizens. Do we know what they're going to do
next? No! But one thing they've done in every country
they've messed with is killing kids in schools," Grossman said.
The latest al Qaeda charter
states that "children are noble targets" and Osama bin Laden himself
has said that "
What happened in
"If I could tackle every American and make them read one book to help them
understand the terrorist's plan, it would be Terror at Beslan by John Giduck.
Beslan was just a dress rehearsal for what they're planning to do to the
As a country and as a culture, the level of protection Americans afford our
kids against violence is nothing near what we do to protect them from
fire. Grossman is correct: Denial is the
enemy. We must prepare for violence like
the firefighter prepares for fire. And
we must do that today.
Obituaries
Useful
Links:
Becker
Funeral Home of Snyder, OK
http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder
Peoples
Cooperative Funeral
http://www.peoplescooperativefuneralhome.com/who-we-are/history
Ray
and Martha’s Funeral Home of Hobart,
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http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery
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