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Happy New Year
Posted Dec 31, 2009 by Geoff Fox
Updated Dec 31, 2009 at 01:15 PM
It’s been a while since we’ve updated ye ol’ Everyday People blog.
And it’s not like nothing has happened in the last six weeks.
For starters, “Tiger” Edmonds caught a docile raccoon in his trap, possibly one I helped load. Alas, the video camera got fouled in attempting to film said raccoon, so no hard-hitting footage was available.
The popularity of an outdoor “ice skating rink” at The Shops at Wiregrass, the 800,000-square-foot outdoor mall at Bruce B. Downs Boulevard and State Road 56, rose like – sigh – fireworks on New Year’s Eve.
I went out to the mall recently to check out the fun. Adults and kids, many of whom had never been ice skating, traversed the 28-by-96-foot rink with seeming ease. Many wore rainbow-bright smiles.
I admit it; it was heart-warming.
On Christmas eve, Frances Bellamy, the matriarch of Pasco’s most renowned musical family – The Bellamy Brothers – died after having endured several small strokes over the last several years. Fortunately for the family, she died at home, surrounded by her famous sons, and the rest of the family.
Howard Bellamy, one-half of the famed duo, said everyone got to say their goodbyes and they are trying to continue on, as Frances would have wanted.
In many ways, personally and professionally, 2009 was much better than 2008.
But there’s no reason to believe 2010 can’t be even better.
Here’s to it.
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