Partly Nonsense

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN JOEL KLAASSEN
Have you seen that little concrete grinder they are using on U.S. Highway 56? I was thinking we could get them to come into town after they are finished out there and grind off all of our sidewalks that are hazardous for walking.


Since that probably won’t happen, I think the city still has a program for upgrading sidewalks.


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We meant to welcome the residents who have a Burdick address to our circulation area about a month ago, but somehow we overlooked it.


We invite the people who live at the 63 rural route and 17 boxholder addresses to let us know what they think. And send us your news as well.


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We will be officially 3 years old Aug. 12! That would mean that next week we will be in our fourth year of publishing the Hillsboro Free Press.


I can attest that the first year was by far the hardest because everything we encountered was brand new. Each succeeding year has become a little easier because we have experienced many of the things that come up along the way.


But we still haven’t figured out a way to please everyone. But that is not our job. Our job is to produce the very best newspaper possible according to our abilities, and then let the chips fall where they may.


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I was in the grocery store the other morning and noticed two very young and very slim girls purchasing a can of Slimfast. It must work. I also wondered if they split the can between them.


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Son Dan is here for a week. He used our phone to check his messages in his business cell phone mailbox. Right after he dialed the number, he hung up and dialed it again.


I asked if the line was busy. And he said it better not be since his phone was in his backpack.


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The very best feature of a cell phone is that you can start to enter a phone number and pause at any time-whether you forgot the number or were distracted-and you won’t get an annoying recorded message telling you: “We’re sorry but you must dial the entire 10-digit number. Please try again.”

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