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Three friends had a good friend named Joe and he was, naturally, an eternal optimist. At every bad situation he would always say \’\’It could have been worse.\’\’ His friends hated that quality about him, so they came up with a story so horrible that not even Joe could come up with a bright side. So the next day, only two of his friends showed up for a golf date. Joe asked, \’\’Where\’s Gary?\’\’ And one of his friends said, \’\’Didn\’t you hear? Yesterday, Gary found his wife in bed with another man, shot them both, and then turned the gun on himself.\’\’ Joe says,\’\’Well it could have been worse.\’\’ Both his friends said, \’\’How in hell could it be worse? Your best friend just killed himself!\’\’ Joe says, \’\’If it had happened two days ago, I\’d be dead now!

A man arrested for murder bribe a not-very-bright fellow on the jury with a hundred dollars to hold our for a verdict of manslaughter. The man later rushed up to the dishonest juror and said \”I\’m much obliged to you, my friend. Did you have a hard time?

\”Oh yes,\” said the dope. \”A terrible time, the other eleven wanted to acquit you!\”

\’Runners fall short in Region 19 tournament

Faith, family and basketball.

Those three words have played a huge part in Agnus (McGlade) Berenato\’s life for as long as she can remember.

She leaned on her faith and her family when she made the decision to leave Georgia Tech after 15 years as the head women\’s basketball coach to accept the same position at the University of Pittsburgh four years ago.

The Gloucester Catholic High School graduate, who has nine siblings, leaned heavily on her faith when her father died when she was in the seventh grade and her mother was left to raise the children, half of whom were still school-aged.

The mother of five children who range in age from 13 to 24 has been married for 25 years, yet complacency has not set in, personally or professionally. Berenato does not believe in settling or leading an uneventful or unexamined life. Read more

Ms. Ritchie,

Thank you for fully illustrating an obvious problem. A citizen of this community had to actually call public works for a street sign. One would naturally think that a street sign is a high priority in response to emergencies.

I firmly believe that someone from the police or fire departments reported this issue to public works prior to a resident making a phone call.

Why does it take a phone call from a resident or a posting on a web blog to get something done? For public safety, a temporary sign could have been placed in short order while the permanent sign was being built.

Also, I am not talking about low priority issues like branch pick-up. I have no problem calling the city for that issue.

If public works keeps chipping away at their issues in this city, this city will be a even better place to live.

As for your comment about posting names, Freedom of Speech or Freedom of the Press doesn\’t require a name-just a voice, a pen, or a computer to communicate your views -just as you reserve the right not to read or listen to my views.
signed RS

Laugh with the Irish

Paddy was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an
important meeting and couldn\’t find a parking place. Looking up to
heaven he said, \”Lord take pity on me. If you find me a parking
place I will go to Mass every Sunday for the rest of me life and give
up me Irish Whiskey!\”

Miraculously, a parking place appeared.

Paddy looked up again and said, \”Never mind, I found one.\”