Home Country: Looking For Glory
By SLIM RANDLES
Like a doctor removing something important, Herb Collins gently peeled the wrapper back from the root ball and tenderly placed the baby tree in the hole.
Then he stood and walked around it to see which way he should align it. Actually, looks pretty good just the way it is.
So he took his bucket of mixed sand and compost and began sprinkling it down onto the roots and then packing it in gently with his fist.
Every few minutes he’d stop and read the directions again. When he ordered the tree, the nurseryman had written back “Are you sure?” Well, that made ol’ Herb laugh. Yes, he was sure. He’s always sure this time of year.
When Dave Casper, CEO of BMO Financial Group’s U.S. operations, said that the current, mostly online state of office work was “not the new normal” but “abnormal,” and that “We’re getting back to normal, and normal is getting back to the office,” the conference room at Metra’s 49th Street Training Center, located just east of the Dan Ryan, erupted in applause.
“Trust me, not everybody is as enthusiastic,” he responded.
But if there was one common theme at the March 11 Safe Return to Work Summit, it was that online meetings couldn’t replace in-person interactions, and that companies should try to reinstate some form of in-person work as soon as it’s safe to do so. The event was organized by the Metra and the Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago to discuss what the commuter railroad and office building landlords are doing to make it safer for companies to bring their employees back to their offices. They argued that cleaning procedures, better
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VIENNA School officials are discussing options with district buildings and properties, including eliminating one building as a cost-savings measure.
School Superintendent Russell McQuaide and members of the Mathews Board of Education are considering going from three school buildings to two and also possibly putting up for sale some land behind the school administration building off Cadwallader Sonk Road.
The district has Currie Elementary School in Fowler for kindergarten to second grades, Baker Elementary School in Vienna for grades three to six and Mathews High School in Vienna for grades seven to 12.
Being proposed is to use Baker for housing kindergarten to fifth and the high school for sixth to 12th, and closing Currie.
JR Ball: Steve Carter-a life well lived
Steve Carter a gracious man with mesmerizing blue eyes, a cherubic face, that devilish grin and a personality that could fill Tiger Stadium was a Pied Piper of living large, laughing through life in a minivan and collecting friends along the way.
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âWe remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.â 1 Thessalonians 1:3
James Gary Crabtree, of Jackson Springs, a loving husband and devoted father, went to be with his Lord and Savior Friday, Jan. 1, 2021.
Born Nov. 30, 1942, in Lancaster County, Va., to the late Charles Wesley and Ada Walker Crabtree, Gary was a quiet and humble man. He met the love of his life, JoAnn, 61 years ago (57 of which they were married). Together they had three children: Jamey Cox (deceased), Dana Kirby and Todd Crabtree.