Smedley To Run for Mayor! A recent arrival to the Bay, Anthony Smedley has filed to run for mayor of Fairfield Bay in the upcoming election. The current mayor, Paul Wellenberger, announced last week seeking a second term. The name of Smedley is well-known here in the Bay as many of his relatives … [Read more...]
OUT OF BOUNDS By Geary (Smedley) Leason
Smedley Plunges into the Tank! Ernest Smedley, still reeling (and reeking) from his disastrous adventure, “Poop to Profits,” has emerged once again with a big splash - only this time, he makes it on national TV. Ernest will be seen on the hit TV show, The Shark Tank, sometime in February, with … [Read more...]
DISABILITIES By Daniel J. Vance, MS, LPC, NCC
College Student with Two Disabilities Daphne Frieden of Greenville, North Carolina, reads this column through the Facebook page, “Disabilities” by Daniel J. Vance. Lately, she has felt she should have earned better grades last semester while majoring in elementary education at East Carolina … [Read more...]
OUT OF BOUNDS By Geary (Smedley) Leason
A Smedley Christmas to Remember Grandfather Ebenezer Smedley, of nearby Formosa, hit it big the last few years as the shale gas guys determined that there was a huge lode of natural gas beneath his twenty acres, which were left to him some fifty years ago by his own grandfather, Ezekiel Smedley. … [Read more...]
OUT OF BOUNDS By Geary (Smedley) Leason
Don't Read This! Have you ever wondered why horse owners put blinders on their horses? Horse blinders serve to limit distractions from coming into view of the horse, which if not attended to, will cause the horse to become unsettled and jumpy, and perhaps even to bolt. Likewise, humans also need … [Read more...]
OUT OF BOUNDS By Geary (Smedley) Leason
Smedwick Smedley, the well-known bi-vocational preacher and part-time leading actor, was given an immediate leave of absence from his starring role as the “lame duck” in the upcoming production of the Van Buren Playhouse’s “Quackers.” This hurried action was taken by Rudolph Persnickity, the current … [Read more...]
DISABILITIES By Daniel J. Vance, MS, LPC, NCC
North Carolina Camp for Dyslexic Children Susan and Steve van der Vorst of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, have the fame of being the only two people that have worked at all three U.S. residential camps of its kind for children with dyslexia. They now own one of the three camps, Camp Spring … [Read more...]
DISABILITIES By Daniel J. Vance, MS, LPC, NCC
In November 2010, 17-year-old Alisha Pierce of Owatonna, Minnesota, suddenly came down with a cold, then a fever, caught viral pneumonia and passed away inside two days. More than three years later, her mother, Shawn Pierce, still remembers her daughter with cerebral palsy. A person acquires … [Read more...]
Out Of Bounds by Geary Leason
Civic-Minded Smedley Deals with Name Change Reeling from the diktat issued last week by the newly created Federal Department of Political Correctness that the name used here in Fairfield Bay for its golf course and restaurant, Indian Hills, be immediately changed or otherwise face heavy and … [Read more...]
OUT OF BOUNDS By Geary (Smedley) Leason
Name Change Mandated for Indian Hills The Enforcement Division of the Department of Political Correctness issued a “cease and desist” order that the name of a certain facility here in the Bay be “changed herewith with the new name subject to the Department’s approval.” The facility in question is … [Read more...]
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