By Dave Ellis
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Don’t eat too much as Black Friday is the next day.
The woods should be quiet this coming weekend as the hunters leave to go back home. But the woods will be active again as the bear hunters invade the woods on Dec. 4.
Smith Creek and Friends Run Churches of the Brethren: shut-ins – Mary Mitchell, Bucky Moyers, Pam Riner, Anna Tesi, Ruby Propst, Alice Johnson, Arlin Dale and Freda Jamison, Hazel Simmons, Reva Hartman, Mary Alice Simmons, Sandy Washburn, Larry Moyers, Sandra Vandevander and Woodrow Hartman; prayer list – Richard Campbell, Tristan Hartman, Joshua Shirk, Ava George, Roberta Bennett, Olin Hoover, Kenny Williams, Dennis Mitchell, Debbie Horst, Myrtle Hammer, Pam Rexrode, Nancy George, Neal Eye, Margaret Wimer, Sherman Bennett, Wendell Nelson, Donald Burns, David Bowers, Vada Bible, Ruby Gail Roberson, Gary Hess, Ruth Bauer, Jeff Evick, Linda Maxwell Looney, Gloria Moats and Carolyn Ingle.
Prayer thought: “Dear God, thank you for your love. I don’t have to feel ashamed and afraid. You accept me and call me your child.”
High and low temperatures and precipitation for Nov. 13 through Nov. 19, followed by the same for last year, were as follows: Nov. 13 – 61°, 27° (43°, 29°); Nov. 14 – 56°, 32° (44°, 28°); Nov. 15 – 65°, 39° (38°, 24°, .75”); Nov. 16 – 67°, 33° (39°, 32°, .01”); Nov. 17 – 66°, 36°, .17” (37°, 24°); Nov. 18 – 54°, 27°, .02” (39°, 22°) and Nov. 19 – 56°, 26° (44°, 17°).