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May 2008 "Howdy Folks" I want to say a couple of things about the wonderful award that the Livingston County Environmental Management Council gave to me just last week. The Earth Day Award is just about the best that one can get for caring about our world and its destiny. I received award for not just what I did, I received it in the name of the people of Caledonia! I will not try to name all of you, not enough time or space. You all know who you are. Whatever you did, big or small, together you accomplished a great deal and I am so proud to know all of you! As some of you know, l have taken over the job of keeping the St. Columba cemetery in tip-top shape. My right hand went up before my left could catch up with it. We are going to miss seeing Tom Robinson waving to us as we go by and honk. Tom, I want to personally thank you for the wonderful job that you did taking care of our families for us. You need to rest now and take care of yourself. Some time ago I wrote about the new hobby that I thought might be of interest to some of you. I called it the F.F.F. (flowers for the forgotten). Now that I am in the cemetery everyday, I see many graves that fit into this program, empty-no care. These people belong to someone and are forgotten. For example I received an Email from a lady whose father is buried in Michigan. She can't just go and visit him when she needs to, so she came to the cemetery and found a perfect match for her father, name and all. She was so happy that she planted flowers around the stone. I don't mind taking a few extra moments when trimming around this stone. I also have adopted a grave; he is a veteran of both the 2nd WW and Korea. He was in the Army and the Navy. This stone had no flowers, other than the Legions, for the last 2 years. For what this man has done for me, I can spend a couple of dollars for a plant and give it to him! Remember Mark Schroeder's dog "Doser" that sadly left us a couple of months ago? I said that the good Lord makes it so we can have more than one dog in our lifetime. Well guess what, Mark has found it in his heart to do just that, he now is the proud owner of "Rosco" the newest member of the Black Street Gang. Rosco came to the recycling center and was officially introduced to me and got his first biscuit, And to make it a double deal, Ron Beach has "Cooper", Rosco’s brother and he also made it up to the recycling center for his first biscuit. So much in this wonderful world, all you have to do is look in the right places. God Bless
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