The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 2012 Page: 4 of 14
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Opinion
4 - THE OLNEY ENTERPRISE
WWW.OLNEYENTERPRISE.COM
THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2011
Baby watch and recycling excitement
As of Monday afternoon, Baby Watch
2012 continues. Thirty-nine weeks and
counting, and this little girl is showing no
signs that she’s ready to make any sort of
entrance. Now, I understand that this can
happen at a moment’s notice and without
any warning at all, so this is all subject to
change before this paper goes to press.
If (ok, when) that does change, the edi-
tor’s desk will be filled temporarily by
Adele (Burba) Mooney. She is a former
resident who is back here in town visiting
her father, and will be filling in as interim
editor while Fm away with Baby Kimbro,
aka “The Baby Who Will Never Come.”
Never fear...I will return at the end of a
good maternity leave, and hopefully will
be the same as ever. Well, maybe not quite
the same...a little more frazzled, hopefully
less forgetful than I have been recently. But
I make no promises...
If you noticed on page one of this week’s
paper, the city of Olney is now participat-
ing in a recycling program through its
waste management provider, IESI. Rather
than throwing away your plastic bottles,
glass containers, cans and boxes, you can
now take them out to the convenience sta-
tion and dump them at no charge.
My husband and I are beyond excited
about this for many reasons. Of course
we’re excited that there are now fewer junk
items that will end up in a landfill some-
where, and we are able to live just a little
“greener” than we have been in the past.
Then there’s the fact that the amount of
trash that has to be hauled out across the
yard, out the gate and down the alley to
the dumpster has reduced incredibly in
the few days we’ve been keeping our re-
cycling items separated. As soon as I heard
A bad day
My in-laws were visiting last weekend
and my father-in-law met the neigh-
bor’s cat. The cat is long, sleek, black and
friendly. In fact he took up a post outside
our front door waiting to be loved on by
anyone coming outside.
This was not a problem except for the
blue jay in the oak tree next door that had
a nest of little ones it was protecting. So
here is the friendly cat seeking to love and
be loved, and an angry bird in momzilla
mode squawking. And it happened. The
cat starts out across the yard and the bird
dive bombs the cat. It wasn’t pretty. I call
it having a bad day.
Maybe you are like me and have had
bad days lately. It isn’t pretty. You are
on either side of that equation (trying to
love or trying to do the right thing) and
you ended up saying or doing things that
hurt others, or yourself, or both.
With a bump on your ego, and a mouth
Take me “as is”
On her 50th wedding anniversary, a wom-
an revealed the secret of her long and hap-
py marriage. She said, “On my wedding
day, I decided to make a list of ten of my
husband’s faults which, for the sake of the
marriage, I would overlook.”
One of her guests asked her what some of
the faults she chose to overlook were. “Tb
tell you the truth,” she replied, “ I never did
get around to making that list. But when-
ever my husband did something that made
me hopping mad, I would say to myself,
‘Lucky for him that’s one of the ten!”’
It’s nice to decide what to overlook. In
relationships, I get plenty of practice over-
looking the foibles of other people. And I
suspect they get plenty of practice with me,
too.
As they hung wallpaper together, one
husband became frustrated with his wife.
She seemed, to him, to be indifferent about
the quality of her work.
He felt she was doing a poor job. He final-
ly put it into words this way: “The problem
is that Fm a perfectionist and you’re not.”
“Exactly!” she replied. “That’s why you
married me and I married you!”
Miss Perfect certainly did one thing well.
She knew how to overlook annoying obser-
vations from her perfectionist husband.
We human beings are nothing if not
flawed and imperfect. But, the point is,
people are not meant to be without blem-
ish. We’re scraped and scarred, flawed on
the inside and marred on outside.
It’s just the way we are. (Sometimes I
think it’s one of our more endearing quali-
ties.) I never w ant to fo rget that “ perfect” is
Mindi’s Message
By Mindi Kimbro
about this program we started keeping re-
cyclables separate from the regular trash,
and it’s amazing how it has reduced the
amount of waste that’s going into the regu-
lar bag bound for the dumpster.
Rather than having a trash can full of ce-
real boxes, yogurt cartons, vegetable cans
and water bottles that we have to take out
daily, our dumpster runs have already cut
down to maybe twice a week at best.
The recycling program will accept many
forms of paper, including magazines,
scratch paper, catalogs and more; as well
as plastics numbered 1-5 and 7, like water,
soft drink and sports drink bottles, milk
jugs, etc.; glass jars and cardboard boxes of
all sizes.
The only items not taken are bathroom
waste such as toilet paper and paper tow-
els, plastic food wrappers, plate glass, pie
plates and foil, light bulbs, batteries, plastic
grocery bags and styrofoam containers, just
to name some of the more common items.
And what’s best about this program is
that you don’t even have to separate the re-
cycle items into different piles - just keep it
all together, take it out to the convenience
station during the days and hours outlined
in the story and IESI will separate it later.
Since it’s free and easy, there is no reason
not to live a little green and take the time
to recycle.
Help save yourself some steps while sav-
ing the Earth one bottle at a time. Contact
City Hall at (940) 564-2102 for more infor-
mation.
Community Spirit
By Scotte Clark
full of apologies you retreat to decide
what to do next. My suggestion is to
move forward.
Make amends, make sure your responsi-
bilities are taken care of, and then take a
deep breath and walk on down the road.
If you were to quit trying to love and be
loved, how sad is that?
Or if you stopped taking care of your
small part of the planet what good would
that accomplish?
Zig Ziglar said, “People often say that
motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither
does bathing—that’s why we recommend
it daily.”
Your reason for getting up in the morn-
ing is not to avoid the painful, or punish
the world around you, but to find the
good, and the godly then do what these
principles motivate you to do.
Even if you have a bad day once in a
while.
Life Support System
By Steve Goodier
only found in the dictionary.
Even pottery may be closer to perfection
than we humans, if Belleek Pottery in Ire-
land is any example. I hear that every fin-
ished piece there undergoes a final inspec-
tion. It is held up to a fierce, bright light and
examined fo r imp erfectio ns.
If even the slightest flaw is detected,
the cup or plate or vase or sugar bowl is
smashed to pieces. That’s right. The blem-
ished piece is never sold as a “second.”
If Belleek pottery is not flawless, it is reck-
oned to be no good at all. No doubt other
makers of fine china and crystal operate the
same way.
I surely cannot stand up to that kind of
scrutiny. I have flaws I haven’t even begun
to explore yet.
How much pain prompted the words of
that sensitive artist Vincent van Gogh when
he lamented, “I wish they would only take
me as I am.”
How many times a day are those words
repeated by countless people feeling the
sting of rejection? Tb be accepted as one is
and not discarded as useless is more than
just a wish, it is a deep, human need.
All of us sport an invisible sign around
our necks — “AS IS.” It means, take me as
I am. I may not become what you want me
to be. And I’m far, far from perfect. But I
have some great qualities, too, as well as
share of faults.
u will have to take me “AS IS” and F11
take you that way, too.
AS IS will be the best guarantee any of us
can offer. But quite frankly, most of the time
we’re getting a pretty good deal.
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Letter
ofThanks
The Olney Chamber of Commerce would
like to say thank you to all individuals and
businesses who helped with and who came
to and supported the Car Show. Thanks
go to Olney InterBank, Air Tractor, Tbw-
er Extrusions, Summit Racing, CitiBank,
Goldsmith’s/ Napa Auto Parts, Jbhnny
Moore Insurance, Modern Woodmen, Bra-
zos Companies, O’Reillys Auto Parts. Cub
Drug and Fort Belknap Electric Co-op.
Stacy Wade, Chamber Coordinator, also
wishes to thank Joe Corbi’s, Chris Widner,
Mike Sipes, Gloria Krueger, Ronnie Clark,
Kip Kruger, Tbm Parker, Peter Waggoner,
Ronnie Sandlin, B.J Bowers, Nick Watkins
and Debbie Shelley. Others offered thanks
include Cub Scout Pack 84, the Olney Po-
lice Department and reserve officers, the
Chamber’s scholarship kids, The Olney En-
terprise and all the booth vendors. If I have
missed anyone, please know that your help
was greatly appreciated.
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Kimbro, Mindi. The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 17, 2012, newspaper, May 17, 2012; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth837409/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Olney Community Library.