Opinion

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 1989 Much as I holler and carry on about proper procedure for displaying the flag, I really fouled up on Saturday, November 11, which was Veterans Day.

Sometimes I like to go with my husband while he plays golf at our local golf course. I ride shotgun as we zip from green to green and we spend a little time together.

LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas legislature has tried to apply lessons learned by other states when it enacted school safety laws over the past several years. The legislature also applied the best practices recommended by the School Safety Commission in 2018 and 2022.

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 1989 Today, November 23, is Thanksgiving, 1989.

Celebrating 150 Years of the City of Corning & Clay County in 2023 Seated, from left: Rena Fennewald, Michael Brickley, Bobby Ogden, Cody Riggan, Tommy Lane, Robert Durbin, Charley Adams, Cindy Jones, Lester Tucker Standing: Beth Herring, Angela Turrentine, Anita Boyd, Glenda Smith, Sammy Campbell, Dora Hunt, Paula Cray, Jeanie Prince, Stan Hovis and Gary Prince. .

LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas legislature has tried to apply lessons learned by other states when it enacted school safety laws over the past several years. The legislature also applied the best practices recommended by the School Safety Commission in 2018 and 2022.

I thought it most fitting that my column for this week be about Thanksgiving. In our world of instant and personal satisfaction, we sometimes forget to be thankful for some of the events in our lives and for some of our possessions, and about the people we hold close to our hearts. Our world is a world of sometimes instant change, new things both good and bad occur around us constantly. To those who are thinking people and aware of them, we know that nothing can be taken for granted, not even life itself. I have lost more people to death in the last little while than I could have imagined. So perhaps, in being thankful, perhaps we should take the season as one of remembrance. We have already started a couple of weeks ago, by remembering our Veterans of War and those who gave all for their country and community. Before that we celebrated the Spirits of us gone before during the Halloween. Thanksgiving comes at the end of harvest, when our ancestors used it to celebrate the fruits of their harvest. In many cases the succor that would sustain them and their animals through the cold winter months. We, or a majority of us, have given up that agrarian society, and our modern world has changed our lives considerably. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t still use this time to think about how good life has been to us. Throughout the spring and summer, we spent our time outdoors with sports and fishing and hiking and camping, going to festivals and concerts and outdoor events, and enjoying the life that we have to live. So as the leaves fall from the trees and the grasses turn from green to brown, and the north wind takes its journey from the polar regions once again, we find ourselves spending are time indoors in the warmth of our homes, close with family. That is a good time to teach the younger one about the traditions of the past and how our forebears though about the gifts of life. It would not hurt us or them to learn a bit about gratitude in even a fast-moving worl

Time has flown by for me since my last Welcome Center update. Over this past month I have been out and about working at mobile Welcome Centers from the AAA Great Vacations Travel Expo in Columbus, Ohio to the Arkansas State Fair in Little Rock to right here in Corning during the Harvest Festival.

This column was previously published in the Nov. 28, 2019 issue of the Clay County Courier and has been slightly edited.