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Whew! Election Day can’t come soon enough, though I must say we appreciate the advertising. The mute button on the remote is getting a workout with Angie Paccione being a deadbeat, and Bob Caskey’s taxation of coffee. And so forth.
It recalls that great political philosopher of the 1980s, Mister T: “Don’t give me any more of your jibber jabber!”
Will Rogers once pointed out how Americans are more likely to vote against something than for it. Which accordingly is the Madison Avenue lodestar for negative advertising.
The Notebook voted Friday, with ease via electronics. Got a receipt, too. It was a busy place.
Voting’s also good therapy. You end up walking out of the courthouse with a lift in your step, feeling good about exercising a right, and a privilege.
Of voting, and the essence of one vote……
I’ve published newspapers in which two elections were decided by a single vote.
The two measures passed by a single vote. We were sitting at dinner at about five minutes until 7 when Susan jumped up and said how she had forgotten to vote and dashed off to the polls. She darn well might have swung the election herself.
From the This-Sounds-Like-An-Ad file……
Patti Wrench was all smiles (like a Cheshire cat, maybe) Friday afternoon. She and her husband John Wrench, opened up the Colorado Cat House five years ago and was celebrating with an open house, and a name change - MZ Kitty’s Emporium.
Patti is the “purr-pritor” of this Main Street/Townsend shop which is a friendly place to browse. It’ hard not to smile at the sheer amount of “stuff” that lies within, a good potion of it cuddly. Patti & John had a similar successful small business in Corpus Christi, Texas, before relocating to our downtown.
Centennial Middle School will honor veterans of all military branches at a special Veterans Day Assembly at 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 10. A reception will follow.
The public’s invited. It’s the 11th year CMS has celebrated our local veterans. Info: Reenie Erwin, 249-2576.
Recommended……
“The Flags of Our Fathers” was a terrific book, by James Bradley. The sentiments are the similar, for the film of the same name, by Clint Eastwood. Most know the story of the three servicemen who were in the famous Iwo Jima photograph by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal, and the courage of the men to secure the island in a fierce battle.
The book’s worth reading because of all the details, on sale at local bookstores; the movie is now showing in the friendly confines of the Fox/Penthouse Theatre in downtown Montrose.
Theatre manager Clay Campbell thoughtfully recognized the veterans in the audience before the film started Friday night and they were greeted with applause.
Quotable
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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