Emory Schley: A few bright spots during a depressing season
As others have mentioned before me, this upcoming Christmas will be one like none other. However, there are a few bright spots here and there. This year we can avoid the crowds and not feel guilty about it.
The U.S. Postal Service, UPS and FedEx are doing an amazing job of getting our purchases delivered to us. I had ordered a few items from Amazon that aren’t conveniently available here from local retailers. An email informed me they would arrive by Dec. 23 but they all showed up a good 10 days before their scheduled delivery date. Now that’s pretty fantastic service!
“Your readers might like to know that Ocala has several low-power FM stations. We are all nonprofit and community run. I run Christian radio station WRGE, 97.9 on the FM dial, an LPFM station which serves East Ocala and the Silver Springs area. We are currently featuring Christmas music from many of the artists Gene used to showcase on his program: Folks like Mitch Miller, Jo Stafford, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Johnny Mathis, Andy Williams, Doris Day and Percy Faith. Christmas carols are so comforting this time of year and this year we need them more than ever.”
PHONE PATCHES: We were also talking a bit about Amateur Radio, more popularly called ham radio.