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“If you want to keep your team, pay them what they’re worth,” Liz Elting, contributor to Forbes Women.
Read moreIn a few short days we will all sit down and celebrate Thanksgiving — the holiday that is meant for us to reflect and decide what it is for which we are thankful. We have a lot to be thankful for in this great nation, not the least of which is our farms and ranches. This is so appropriate because Thanksgiving is associated with food.
Read moreThat jolly old elf himself,
Santa Claus, hands out Christmas goodies to children
from 4-5 p.m. near Grandma’s Soda Shop on Main
Street in Wilson.
Kanopolis celebrates its annual
Afternoon with Santa from noon to 2 p.m. at the community
center (former American Legion building).
The Ellsworth American
Legion building is open from noon to 3 p.m. to accept
toy donations for the Ellsworth Christmas Store.
Members will be available to accept donations of new,
unwrapped toys or gift cards.
I always enjoy receiving suggestions from readers because it means they want the I-R to be better — the same as all of us who work at the newspaper.
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While perusing through books at an estate sale, a friend found a book about celebrated Civil War nurse Mother Bickerdyke. A passage from “Mother Bickerdyke and The Soldiers” described the defense of Corinth, Ms., from Oct. 3 and 4, 1862.
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