It’s official folks, my daughters can’t wait until the Olympics are over.
Just last night, while I was home for a few hours after dinner before heading back to the office, we headed downstairs to watch TV when Quinette stopped halfway down the stairs and asked a simple question, “Are we going to watch the Olympics again tonight?”
A week prior to the start of the 80th annual MSHSAA State Wrestling Championships, I had the pleasure to invite Neosho head wrestling coach Jeremy Phillips as my guest speaker to our Rotary Club meeting.
I can’t type a letter on the keyboard right now without feeling every muscle tighten in my body.
The National Football League said good-bye a great player and a great man on Friday after Kurt Warner announced his retirement. Warner’s rise to fame came as the rags-to-riches quarterback for the St. Louis Rams during their run to Super Bowl champions in the 1999-2000 season.
“Dad, could that happen in Neosho?” my 9-year-old daughter asked while we sat on the couch and watched the telethon Friday night raising money for Haiti earthquake relief efforts.
The positive buzz circling Crowder College these past few years is something everyone — administration, board members, professor, staff and students — should be proud of.
I thought Neosho resident Bill Slade said it best during Monday night’s special meeting of the Neosho parks and recreation board concerning the future of youth baseball and softball in Neosho.
Three million people.
That is the number of people the international Red Cross is estimating may need emergency relief in the wake of this week’s tragic earthquake that has devastated the nation of Haiti.
On Monday, retired professional baseball player and one-time single-season home run king Mark McGwire confirmed what everyone who followed baseball suspected — he used steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.
OK, Jack Frost, this is getting a little ridiculous. What exactly did the folks of the Midwest do to earn this chilly treatment? Did we not give you the Christmas presents under the tree you so desired? Where you tired of all this talk of global warming, and wanted to show Al Gore that you still had the power to “chill out” everyone for weeks at a time?
In the past month, Neosho has been victim to several businesses closing their doors for good.
Is it a sign of the times, or something more?
I have had a lot of folks around town stop and ask me in the days following “the dunk” at the Neosho Holiday Classic the following questions:
You could hear the groans of parents all around Neosho Monday afternoon when word spread that the start of school after Christmas break would have to wait at least one more day in the Neosho R-5 School District.
On Saturday, I witnessed what Neosho is all about.
Our young citizens of Neosho continue to amaze and inspire me.
Don’t let anyone tell you there’s little good going on in our community.
I have a bone to pick with the designers of George Washington Carver Elementary School.
I received an e-mail Monday that read like this, “I scanned the obituaries in the paper Sunday morning and noticed your name was not in print, so I am guessing you survived the 5K run.”
