by Dave Ellis
Hello spring, good-bye winter. The area can still feel the effects of winter for several weeks. Since winter started back in December, the area has had eight days of snow, several days of single digit temperatures and a couple days of negative temperatures.
Smith Creek and Friends Run Churches of the Brethren: shut-ins — Bucky Moyers, Pam Riner, Anna Tesi, Sandra Vandevander, Larry Moyers, Arlin Dale and Freda Jamison, Sandy Washburn, Mary Alice Simmons, Anna Lee Mitchell and Pete Keplinger; 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, Tonya Simon, Tom Butterworth, Sherry Hedrick, Bobby Parsons, Robert Bennett, Mary Alice Evick, Rick Phares, Debbie Eye, Merlin Harper, Virgil “Bub” Yokum, Hannah Hedrick, Barbara Judy Harman, Joyce Calhoun, John Moyers, Kevin Gonshor, Norma Auville, Shana Johnson, Jerry Warner, Sherman Bennett, Nellie Keplinger, Chuck Hiett, the family of Enos Horst, the family of Hazel Simmons, Mary G. Vandevander and the Robert Cook family.
Prayer thought: “No matter how far we’ve turned from God, we need only to turn to Him with faith and repentance as we trust Jesus to save us from our sins.”
High and low temperatures and precipitation for March 10 through March 16, followed by the same for last year, were as follows: March 10 – 65°, 29° (37°, 28°, .25” snow), March 11 – 70°, 30° (48°, 27°), March 12 – 74°, 36° (66°, 37°), March 13 – 68°, 39° (71°, 34°, .07”), March 14 – 73°, 32° (73°, 35°), March 15 – 60°, 48° (65°, 44°), March 16 – 67°, 48°, 1.17” (64°, 35°).
