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Gab Over the Fence by Pete G. Ossip Well, I hope you all had a nice Christmas holiday, had family gatherings with lots of presents under the tree, and just enjoyed each other’s company. We didn’t exactly get a white Christmas, just some rain a couple days earlier with a lot of wind. Folks went to church for services on Christmas Eve, then came home to put the toys together for the young’uns, while enjoying a sip of hot chocolate. . . .Now it’s on to New Year’s Eve with all the noisemakers and watching the fireworks displays on TV as we head into a new year. This letter is coming out ahead of time, so we’re asking you not to drink and drive on New Year’s Eve. Let somebody else drive if you’re gonna tie one on. . . . If
you recall, I said last week that when trying to figure out why the school tragedy happened up in Connecticut, the people who study these things should look at mental illness as well as taking guns away from law-abiding citizens. Word from Rodney Applegate is they should never have closed the Allentown State Hospital down. There were 1,740 patients there at the time. What happened to them afterwards is anybody’s guess. There was one more thing I should have mentioned – all those violent video games that youngsters like to play. There’s shooting and killing all the time on those so-called “games”, and to kids it may not man that much that “objects” are being gunned down. I’m not a gun
control person, but there really shouldn’t be firearms sold in stores that fire huge rounds of bullets. Hunters are held to three shells in shotguns, and the guns they sell shouldn’t be much more either. I just hope that a lot of study is given to the problem. . . . Keep up the prayers. Our country really needs all it can get. . . . I hear that Northampton Council gave out cement bag awards last Friday. They aren’t really cement bags, but awards just the same, for the good things that people do in the borough. . . . Grapevine has it that the Bath Lions and their spouses at a Christmas party last week had a special entertainment treat. The P.A. system was turned on and they could hear the youngsters upstairs with their Christmas program, singing and telling the Christmas Story. The church organist played some Christmas songs on the piano, too, so there was singing by the Lions and gals in the downstairs hall. Just right after a dinner of surf and turf prepared by “Santa”
and his helpers, one who just returned from Germany. . . . I hear a lad missed out on his church-goers’ breakfast the other day when oversleeping, but Dad saved the candy for him that Mrs. Santa handed out. . . . Think I’ll try some of the eggnog that Elmira bought at Ahart’s. So I’ll close this letter with the wish that everybody have a happy, healthy and prosperous new year, especially healthy! See ya!
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