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What has become of integrity? Have you noticed it has become more difficult to observe within our daily lives and well, when witnessed in politics, it’s like a unicorn sighting. Maybe it is something you have to value in order to realize it is missing or to recognize when you see it.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 I witnessed something Saturday that renewed my faith in the human race.

As citizens, living in what the world sees as a free country, should our state or federal government mandate the books we read, websites to visit, social media outlets to enjoy, who to love, and enforce reproductive laws? Would such a condition be classified as democracy? I’m not asking if these issues in and of themselves are right or wrong. The question is, should your state or federal government maintain this much control over citizens’ lives? Where does the freedom of citizens of the United States begin and end? The growth of Christian nationalism is alarming in our country.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 We are winding up for another great 4th of July celebration and it is going to be upon us before we hardly know it.

It is an extraordinary person who will offer up their own life in order for future generations to prosper and live in the land of the free as is the way of our military veterans. I’m humbled everyday by the bravery and the courage of our veterans and their families.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 I don’t know whatever possessed me to say I would do I, but I honest to goodness went up in an airplane last Thursday afternoon.

This week on May 8th, my favorite president, Harry Truman, would have been 140 years old. I have often wondered what Truman would have to say about the situation we find themselves in as democracy seems to be precariously hanging in the balance.

I got a nice surprise from former resident, Mrs. Bertha Motsinger recently. The box contained some really neat, colorful, butterflies made out of magazine pages. She said for me to share with my neighbor, Dot, which I did. Naturally, we are going to try making them. See, I use butterflies in my bathroom, so I just fastened three of them to the wall and like the way they look. The Motsingers are former Corning residents and Leonard and Judy were both about my age. In fact, Leonard and I were classmates until they moved off to Michigan. If any local senior citizen of Bible School group would like to have the pattern I will share. They are fun to make and require a minimum of materials. Bert said that she learned to make them at a Senor Center. The Motsingers lived next door to the Smalleys (Dot’s folks) when we were growing up and the way Dot tells it, she and her sister, Elsie Mae, along with Judy, Emaline and Caroline Wright, Rachel Bailey and Betty Grant used to have some pretty heated arguments while playing paper dolls. Speaking of Elise Mae, one day after school, Elsie Mae and Lilly Pillow sat in the Smalley porch swing and ate a whole pound box of soda crackers… that night Elsie Mae had to have an emergency appendectomy!

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 Mrs.