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Valley News & Views

Valley News & Views

Letter from the Editor

You know the song There She Goes? I’m pretty sure that’s the song that plays on repeat in my guardian angel’s head.
Vaca ... what vacation!

Vaca ... what vacation!

Vaca ... what vacation! by Bob Simmons

If you grew up like me in the 1960s or previous decades and now have grandchildren or greatgrandchildren, you can’t help but wonder how the current crop of kids would fare if they were magically transported back to a summer of our youth. I think they’d be bored to tears.
Valley News & Views

Valley News & Views

letter to the editor

Antitrust enforcement lags, as foreign control of meat sector growsWhat happened to the Trump Administration’s promised investigation?
Summer crunch time!

Summer crunch time!

Summer crunch time! by Bob Simmons

It’s almost August, and we have four more weeks of summer.Where I grew up, we didn’t go back to school until after Labor Day. I feel bad for kids here who will be returning to class in just a couple of weeks; it doesn’t seem fair to me.
Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor

Ah yes, it’s that season again... the season where I’m pretty sure I’m being carried away by the mosquitoes and biting flies.While checking out some of our neighbors’ farm stand goodies Friday afternoon, I’m sure anyone driving by thought I was attempting some sort of horrible Irish jig.
My two cents | When wrestling was real, part two by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

My two cents | When wrestling was real, part two by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

My two cents | When wrestling was real, part two by Mike Alan Steinfeldt

As I mentioned last week, I was a big professional wrestling fan when I was a kid, roughly from the early 1970s to the early 1980s, and most of my experience of going to actual live wrestling events came in the early 1980s when I lived in close proximity to the Twin Cities in Minnesota.
From the pastor’s

From the pastor’s

From the pastor’s desk

The tenth of the “Ten Commandments” in Exodus 20 is “Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything else your neighbor owns” (v. 17, NLT).
Letter from the Publisher

Letter from the Publisher

Letter from the Publisher

Alleluia the heat finally gave out to some cool breezy weather. For the first night in a while now I slept with the windows wide open and the night’s cool refreshment filled my room. I highly prefer that over sleeping in air conditioning, or even worse, sleeping with a fan on.