Today's Features

Age: 73

Address: Kershaw-Camden Highway

Family: Wife, Flossie, 69; two sons, Arvan, 47, and Myron, 40, and a granddaughter, Mya, 11 

Job: Retired, Lancaster County School District

Church: Second Calvary Baptist Church, Heath Springs

Hobbies: Fishing, hunting, boating and raising quail

Favorite book: The Bible

Gettin’ the word out is always important.

Today’s cell phones and palm pilots are far advanced of my first one. They’re more expensive, too.

Me and one of the fellas managed to make it home from Mackey’s Drug Store with a couple of Dixie Cups.

Thanks to a block of Gulf Sealing Wax and a short piece of kite string, we were jabbering away in no time.

Alexander Graham Bell would be impressed with our choice of raw materials. We knew that a waxed kite string offers the best reception. 

Summer is just around the corner, which means children will be looking for things to do outside.     

Lancaster High School senior Holly Ellis may be 17, but she’s never forgotten how much fun a slide can be.

Ellis is making sure that a special group of children have the chance for a little swing set adventure, too. 

A member of Girl Scout Troop 3671, sponsored by St. Luke United Methodist Church, Ellis just completed a playground at Family Promise of Lancaster to earn the Girl Scout Gold Award.

This year, about 200 million boxes of Girl Scout cookies will be sold and eaten. 

That includes the 200 boxes that graced our dining room table sold by Betty Jo. 

The boxes come in and go out, then come in again and go out again. 

The Lancaster area Girl Scouts are part of the 22-county Mountains to the Midlands Girl Scout Council. These enterprising young ladies hope to sell 143,000 cases of cookies.