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Got an encouraging word?

   My Dad had a cornea transplant. I went with him to have the surgery and also to his first follow-up visit.

   It’s a fairly painful recovery, with your eye constantly feeling scratchy which makes your head hurt. So by the time that follow-up visit rolled around, my Dad was pretty tired of the whole affair and feeling a little down.

   At least that’s how he went into the follow-up visit. But when he came out, he was a new man.

   “The doctor said I’ve improved 250% in only two weeks!” he told me. “I’m making great progress.”

    My Dad left the doctor’s office a different man than one who came in. He was encouraged.

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Running From The Cradle To The Grave

Well, we are down to two teams in the high school basketball playoffs and both are halfway to the goal of becoming state champions in 2014.

East Rutherford boys (21-5) will go to the Greensboro Coliseum on Thursday night (3/6/14) and play last year’s 1A champion North Rowan (19-5) at 7:30pm. North Rowan moved up to 2A after realignment this offseason and have already caught attention as they beat Shelby this past Friday.

Mrs. Sally Ellen Barnes O’Sullivan age 62 passed away Wednesday February 19, 2014 at her home. 

Robert Ellsworth Evans, age 74, of Rutherfordton, passed away Tuesday, February 18, 2014. 

How’s your car running?

   Imagine with me for a moment that before you start your car or truck each morning to go to work or school or wherever else you’re going that you put six grains of sand in your gas tank.  That’s right, six grains of sand in your gas tank.

   Okay, it’s only six grains of sand, but if you do it every morning, how long do you think it’ll take before your vehicle won’t run?  Soon, right?  That great engine would be a mess, unable to do what it was designed to do.

   Negative, unpleasant thoughts dropped into your mind affect you in the same way.  They break down your mental motor.  You’re broken down by worry, frustration, and feelings like you don’t matter to anyone.  Pretty soon, you’re broken down beside life’s highway and you can’t go on.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. said he ran the race of his life on Sunday Night. It sure paid off in victory lane at Daytona.

Junior won his second Daytona 500, 10 years after the first time he did so. It’s been a year and a half before his last victory at Michigan and I think he really did have the best car Sunday.

He did a great job in every aspect, but picking up a piece of bare bond on the last caution flag helped the aerodynamics of the car and Jeff Gordon’s push on the restart didn’t hurt things either.