In April, I sent the managing editor my column with little time to spare as usual, wanting her to be able to start formatting it and have the word count so it would fit in the next publication.

This town never ceases to amaze me. From celebrating cultures and kids dosey-doe-ing to tiny tots digging into their little wallets, we live in one special place.

Memories of Matthew Knight Court – Silverton’s sixth-ranked boys’ basketball team finished an incredible season, taking sixth place in the state 5A playoffs at the new and spectacular Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene.

There are things I simply know to be true. Not to be arrogant about it but they are inarguable. Here are my indisputable truths, subject to your own interpretations and beliefs. Although on these I am totally and completely correct.

It is customary to make resolutions each New Year’s, and even more common the resolutions evolve around food and exercise.

Fall is winding down with Thanksgiving just around the corner. Traditionally columnists share what they are thankful for, and while it pains me to be cliché, simply saying “thanks” has merit. Plus, originality can be overrated.

When did we start being so mean? I remember in the 1970s when a woman scowled at me for opening the door for her, admonishing me for assuming she couldn’t do it herself. I thought that marked the period in our history when assertiveness morphed into meanness, and blamed it on women’s lib for putting a wooden stake in the heart of chivalry.

things with his Smart Phone (perhaps People are inundated with sad news, bad news, instant news, inconsequential news that goes instantaneously viral about somebody inconsequential like Paris Hilton. I make a motion that we take a break from the stupid congressman doing trashy we should program the Smart Phone to sound a piercing alarm when the owner does sometime stupid). The vote is unanimous – let’s focus on some good people.

As a 12-year-old in San Antonio, the guitar came first with smoking a close second.

Robert Frost Elementary School fourth-grade students Ally LeBouef and Emily Candee were moved by the March 11 devastation in Japan, hit with a triple whammy of an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. They organized a coin drive at the school and collected a whopping $292. In kid-speak, that equates to giving up about 150 ice cream cones.

Wanted: New blood and young backs to help hawk sausages at Oktoberfest for the Silver Fox Foundation, teach kids and people with disabilities how to fish and take applications for low-income people seeking glasses or hearing aids from the Silverton Lions.

There’s a line from an old country song: “It’s my belief pride is the chief cause in the decline of husbands and wives.” I started to sing it in the shower though it has not entered my head in years.

What 7-year-old girl tells her parents she has enough toys? Kayden Eberle, a first-grader in Jan Bothum’s class at Eugene Field, is such a kid. Her coed birthday party was fun, for sure, as nine friends enjoyed bowling at Silver Creek Lanes.