By Dave Ellis
This is winter and you can expect the cold temperatures with ice or snow. Don’t forget about the blowing wind. This week’s forecast shows all these possibilities, and it is only half way through winter. Just be careful going outside as one might slip and down one will go.
Smith Creek and Friends Run Churches of the Brethren: shut-ins – Mary Mitchell, Bucky Moyers, Pam Riner, Anna Tesi, Alice Johnson, Arlin Dale and Freda Jamison, Hazel Simmons, Reva Hartman, Larry Moyers, Mary Alice Simmons, Sandy Washburn, Sandra Vandevander and Woodrow Hartman; prayer list – Richard Campbell, Tristan Hartman, Joshua Shirk, Ava George, Roberta Bennett, Kenny Williams, Dennis Mitchell, Debbie Horst, Myrtle Hammer, Pam Rexrode, Nancy George, Neal Eye, Margaret Wimer, Sherman Bennett, Donald Burns, David Bowers, Wendell and Darlene Nelson, Vada Bible, Ruby Gail Roberson, Gary Hess, Ruth Bauer, Anna Mauzy, Linda Maxwell Looney, Gloria Moats, Sterle Lambert, Martha R. Kimble, Bennie and Mary Alice Evick, Jimmie Bennett, Ruthalene Judy, Wayne Kimble, Stanley Propst and Leann Britton.
Prayer thought: “Saving God, you never leave me even when I face the hardest of circumstances. Please give me hope and eyes to see your work in my life.”
High and low temperatures and precipitation for Jan. 8 through Jan. 14, followed by the same for last year, were as follows: Jan. 8 – 45°, 27° (34°, 19°); Jan. 9 – 36°, 28°, 3” snow (41°, 28°); Jan. 10 – 43°, 29°, 2.5” snow, 1.66” rain (43°, 20°); Jan. 11 – 49°, 25° (44°, 24°, .36”); Jan. 12 – 44°, 21°, .47” (54°, 34°, .01”); Jan. 13 – 37°, 25°, .03” (41°, 31°, .01”) and Jan. 14 – 28°, 20° (32°, 23°, .25” snow).
