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I?-'- I - l : 4 □ March 17,1996 u: FBEaiAN’S JOURNAL Opinion Get your gun Jesiica Fralick, right, plays \nnie Oakley, while Nathan Ganio portrays Frank Butler in the Cherry Valley- S p n n g ti e ld Central Schinil Dra’ma Club s production of \Annie Get Your Gun,\ which will be presented at 8 p .m . Mari h 21-23 in the Donald A. Drake Auditorium. In Oiir Viewpoint Quiz should apply to all Worcester students proved once again that they have a grasp of the foils and foibles associated with the abuse of alcohol, to b ^ o a n d drugs by win ning the Chsego County Fay’s Drug Quiz Show at the State University College at Oneonta Thursday. These student began studying in December, as did students from around the state for the other countywide competitions. The Drug Quiz Show, how ever, should be expanded to include those in the younger and more advanced grades. Ute current format is geared to those in grades S-8. By 10 years of age. however, youngstera may already have been exposed to drugs and alcohol. Why not start ^ l ie r , and continue the education dirough high school? The way fbe program is set up. as remarked U]»n already by the communi ty volunteer. Les Dippold. it makes students want to learn in order to com pete in the show. No matter how they learn, youngsters must be educated early and contin uously about the ejects of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in tlte hopes that tliey will not fall into that trap tltemselves. The Fay’s Drug Quiz was an inspired.idea, aiui one that educators throughout the state say works. Incorporate something o f its kind into the first yeai^ of schooling, and keep it going through the teen years. Letters to the Editor Thanks e)^ressed for Sleigh Rally To flic E ditor 1 am proud to have been part of the Farmers’ ‘ ' throughout New York state is increasing. We are very lucky to have the Central New York Regional Market nearby. This mar- the Fanners* Museum Sleigh Rally in Coc^rstown on Sunday, Feb. 18. kel is es]»cial}y iinportant, because :rs' with Heaven - how can we find it? Memtters of the Eastern Regional Draft Horse Club wish to thank die Famers’ Museum and staff for pro viding the teamsters ndth coffee. chili and a place to'get warm. Our foTe&thera would have been m d to SM die beautiful Dtuwiliii^ IS iny adiiklton I Jo it IV bile on the phone. riJiri}! m the car, while watrmg in line There’i hariilv a scrap of paper o r a comer of an envelope that escape' whaiev er wntinji implement is n jniv Doodling serves me well, tor often I draw lihe drawings lor posters, hwjklcls Of programs to he pliolo- copied. and i t \ no big deal It) mod ify a sketch tor a purpose But now I'm faced with a project that is a big deal I must, somehow, pul on paper the ethereal concepi of heav en Draw a horse ’ That s easv Heaven ’ Whew' l et's see )nst whal is heaven ' Something unimaginably wonder ful Ice cTcam ' Steamed c lam s ’ Nah' Good as they are. they d<in't qualify How about winning rbe lot 'ery ’ Let s get senous here Well. Jiere's the first warm day ul spring Barbara L. Loitsch with Its gentle bree/es. the smell of awadiening earth and peepers singing after dark Wonderful yes the crttbodimeni of heaven ’ I don't think so I g a /e thoughtfully into the dis lance Will heaven come to me ’ A feeling, vague as heaven itself, drifts into my consciousness I think of that momeat when 1 sud- I denly and unexplainably knew I was in love. Even though f recall the feeling o f violins and a sym phony. It was music in a minor key. hauntingly lonely - until the day I looked and his eyes told me he loved me, loo. How the ecstasy ot the music swelled with harps and trumpets as he touched my hand and we first spoke our feel ings. But that was long ago and the heaven of youth. Surely, heaven mustn't be just for the young. There must be more. My mind drifts through the y ears, all those shared times together. We’re on a Maine coast beach last fall. We stroll, picking surf and laughing at the antics of ing up shells, reveling in the smell of salt a ■ It air. listening to the crashing seagulls. I close my eyes, and mine, and we 1 6^1^ each It's still there: fitb music, tfunerel- ings - after ail these years - differ ent. not quite so urgent, but some how even better. Now the love is sure and sustaining. It has grown into unimaginable wonder. I still don't know how I'll draw heaven, and I know it will be imperfect, b ^ u s e we are inca pable of even imagining perfection, just as years ago we’d have been incapable of imagining our love today. Somehow, thou^, I’ll try to put ^1 that’s beautiful in this world, all God's gifts, into those few lines on paper. I’ll hope that others may realize a brief glimpse o f what die unimaginable might Ire. But most of all, I hope for an understanding that the nearest thing to heaven we know is - love. horses/mules pulling bobsleds and sleighs hill o f laughing people past their nostalgic, old buil^ngs. The jingle of sleigh bells took qs back in time to a place I wish we could stay Elirabeth I ^ o w Cooperstown State's farmers are tlireatened it provides fanners' with an opportu nity to sell their products at retail and wholesale. In fact. I can well remember going with my father to sell our snap b e ^ s at the market and buying other fresh pmluce to sell m our family country store. I am very supportive of plans to improve the market in SyracuM. Fanners’ markets are one goal way of direct marketing, hut we need to provide more ways for farm ers to sell their pnxlucis at many dif ferent levels. The Legislative Commission on Rural Resources, of which 1 am the vicechairman, tecendy held a beating on expand ing Fainler-lo-Consumer Marketing in New York. VVe heard tesumony from a wide range of prople includ- To the Editen The farming community, cs { k - cially the family farm, is being threatened in New York state. Smaller family farms have been going out of business at an alarming rate. However, there is growth in one area that is very enirotiraging. Direct fanner-to-consuiiKr sales are on the rise as demand for ItKally grown products increases. The numtrer o f farmers' markets from a wide range of prople includ ing the commissioner of Agriculture and Markets, some individual farm ers and even a chef. Alt those who testified seem^ to apee dial there is a demand for locally grown prtxlucts but die sys tem must be made easier for small retail businesses and consumers to buy them. For example, small lesraurants might be more willing to buy local products if diey were mar keted direedy to them. Restaurants often find it attractive to advertise See LETTERS on Psg^ 6 O O t i n d by Manon Brophy One Hundred Fifty Y ears Ago in The Freeman's Journal Correspondence. I am asked how I would One Hundred Years Ago in The Freeman’s Journal graduate the scale of punishment m the away'’ ‘ as an Abolitionist answers the question. criminal code, when the penalty of death is By one of those annoying errors which will occasionallyonally occurur in the best off rs taken away'’ I might answer this quesuon win occasi occ in the best o regu lated pnnting offices, the first page of this issue of the Journal is m arr^ by the mis- what will you do with the slaves when set free? and say. “that is an after considera- ouroal is m arr^ by the mis placement of the sixth column o f matter to Seventy-Five Years Ago in The Freeman’s Journal The organization meeting of the Village • Board o f Trustees was held last Thursday evening, newly elected President AS. Potts esiding. Michael McMoon, who has tion\; but I will answer in brief, and that for the enmes now punished with death. I would substimte imprisonment for life, and make its infliction certain by removing die pardoning pother from the Governor, except when .sd<ltltonal evideiure might prove inncreence. The other panisb- tirents affixed>to our criming code might, I think, remain as they are. uiradfected by the a position between the eighth and ninth columns It may serve to remind our read ers of the “Slight Mistake” ^ i c l e pub lished on the second page of last week’s given efficient service as street commis- ers of the “Slight Mistake” ^ i c l e pub- Joumal. when the printer mixed up , account of a fire with an obituary. Mr. Zabriskie. of New York, who spends his summers here, has presented Christ Churchurch with a handsomesome lantern,antern, which with a hand l which V hangs in the vestibule of the church. removal of the death penally. I feel myself able to prove that civilizgition. the good of ization. the good of streiety. the Christian religion, and tlie true object of all punishment, demand the aboli tion o f the gallows. Cooperstown. March I I. Anti-Draconic Marehll. !M6 We are requested by the Coofrerstown ' dCreai - Milk and Cream Co, to say that they do not receive milk from farmers who feed their cows the contents of silo, as they do not think the milk as good a.s where other fod der is used. March /9, 1896 ner for the past several years, was again appointed to dial position; while Elbert Wicks vsras reappointed caretaker of the Village HalL Jeweler Chas L. Walrafli will be custodian of the rown clock. No appointment has been made as yet for vil lage policeman. Geoige H. Mitchell was last week award ed the contract by the U.S. Post Office for mail messenger service between the Coopersiowo post office and the D. & H. trains and Southern New York care. The latest addition to the D. & H. station is a beautiful specimen of the American Eagle mounted in a case. March 16, m i Fifty Yem Ago in Tiro Fteeentaa’s Journal William Eldridge o f Matilla, formerly Cooperatown, has accepted a position as a nteoiber o f the facul^ o f fiie Oooiroratowq Central School as instnietor of Vocational Agriculhire. He will assunro ids duties on July 1st. John A. Sill of this village iias rereived an appointment as depu^ director o f die Oteego O m n ^ Veteran’s service si^ency and will direct tiro brani^ o f thai office which will be opened in Qn^rstow n in die near ftihue. The Cooperatown chapter o f the American Red Cross wiU sponror a dancp at the Alfted Coming Qstk gymnasium. Friday, March 22. h&sic will iro ftuitisbed by Charles E^ork anddiis orchestra of Oneonta. Mra. Harlo Beals is chairman of the dance committee. March 20, 1946 Tweaty-Eive Yeara Ago In 'The P m m a a ’s Joamsd Otsego County wound up 1970 with a general fund surplus amounting to $698,235. according to the County’s annual financial report prepared by County Treasurer Bernice C. Jones who lias sub mitted it to the Board of Representatives, Milo V. Stjswart, associate in editcpti<nTi for the New York State IRstiHical Association, is among 10 young museium professionals in Ifew Yo& Stete wiro have been awarded feliowsliips providing for one month of fuastical and theoretical training in Europemi oiuseums. At the regular monfitly meeting o f the Cooperstown Parent-'lbaciier Association held last Wednesday evening, h te. Gus Chiarello was elected president o f the orga nization succrediog William Hemiasn in the post. Other ofScera include Ronald Ralph, vice president; Mra. Hen^ Phillips, secretary and Mrs. Niles Qirfis, tremuier. March 27.2972 Freemaii’s Journal ^ Puhlishat Sunday P.O. Box S9L SSMain St. C«5pcrst®»it, N.Y. 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