Editorials

By Denny Banister

After attending two adult costume parties, I concluded the last one I attended would remain the last one – I vowed to never attend another party dressed in a costume.  Instead, I determined I would arrive at such parties in regular casual clothes.

By Denny Banister

Your alarm clock rings ($), you get out of bed and shuffle to the bathroom to shower ($), shampoo ($) and shave ($).  You dress in freshly laundered clothes ($) and head down to the kitchen for breakfast.  You pour your coffee ($), butter your toast ($) and scramble your eggs ($).  After breakfast, you brush your teeth ($), go to your car and drive to work ($). 

By Denny Banister

"I hate Mondays," she said as we were filling our coffee mugs in the
company cafeteria. It's a common complaint we hear at the start of the
work week - after all, the last two days at this same time of the
morning, most of us were still in our pajamas and sipping coffee while
sitting in our favorite easy-chairs. "Yeah, me too, Mondays are a
bummer," I replied.

AFBF: BEYOND THE GATEWAY

By Tracy Taylor Grondine
Farm Bureau members nationwide convene in Seattle in January for the
American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) 91st annual meeting, offering
attendees opportunities to play a bigger role in the global community
while achieving greater success at home.

At AFBF's 1919 organizing meeting in Chicago, New York Farm Bureau
President S. L. Strivings said, "Farmers must get past their own
gateways and get out and see what is going on in the world."