By Dave Ellis
The shortest month of the year has started as one says good-bye to January.
The weather was more winterly as the area had very frigid, cold and negative temperatures, plus several days of snow. The bright side is that there are only six more weeks of winter, but it still could linger into spring.
Smith Creek and Friends Run Churches of the Brethren: shut-ins – Bucky Moyers, Pam Riner, Anna Tesi, Alice Johnson, Hazel Simmons, Arlin Dale and Freda Jamison, Sandy Washburn, Larry Moyers, Mary Alice Simmons and Sandra Vandevander; prayer list – Richard Campbell, Joshua Shirk, Ava George, Roberta Bennett, Kenny Williams, Dennis Mitchell, Debbie Horst, Myrtle Hammer, Neal Eye, Donald Burns, Ruth Bauer, Rick Waggy, Wendell and Darlene Nelson, Anna Mauzy, Jimmie Bennett, Linda Maxwell Looney, Gloria Moats, Ruthalene Judy, Frankie Judy, David Berg, Tim and Dee McCormick, Jim Judy, Jessie Simmons, Lucy and Charlie Westfall, Minny Rhoads, Mary and Gary Hess, Phil Downs, Larry Rexrode, Bill Snyder, Troy Bennett, Jim Fawley, Marcia “Marty” Warner, Tom and Judy Borror, Bob and Brenda Sites, Judith Ours, Nancy and Tony George, David M. Hartman, George Hevener, Danny Nelson, David M. Parkinson, Cleo Simmons, Allen Beachler, Donnie Hedrick, Tom Butterworth, Sherry Hedrick, Bobby Parsons, Robert Bennett, Mary Alice Evick, Rick Phares, Merlin Harper, Tonya Simon, Virgil “Bub” Yokum, Hannah Hedrick, Barbara Judy Harman and Joyce Calhoun.
Prayer thought: “God know our every hurt, worry and joy. He knows our prayer before we come to Him as long as we pray to Him with humble, sincere heart.”
High and low temperatures and precipitation for Jan. 27 through Feb. 2, followed by the same for last year, were as follows: Jan. 27 – 46°, 27° (52°, 43°, .46”), Jan. 28 – 42°, 30°, windy (51°, 33°, .01”), Jan. 29 – 45°, 34°, windy (41°, 28°), Jan. 30 – 47°, 27°, .16” (40°, 29°), Jan. 31 – 51°, 37°, .95” (41°, 30°), Feb. 1 – 40°, 23°, .02” (32°, 30°), Feb. 2 – 38°, 18° (41°, 23°).
