Opinion

From the Mayor's Desk

Folks, we hear it all on Facebook: fact, fiction and the plain ridiculous. I don’t participate on Facebook as I find it a place where many people speak their minds without researching facts.

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From the Mayor's Desk

I expect that a few of The Reporter's readers realized I was gone for two weeks. A simple explanation is that I needed some time to relax and recharge my creative spirit. Whatever that means.

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Ansell: Believing

A French tightrope walker stretched a wire across Niagara Falls back in the 1860’s, he then walked across it and people were in awe. He asked the crowd if they believed he could push a wheelbarrow across the same wire and the crowd shouted, “We believe, we believe!” After he was successful he asked the crowd if they believed he could push a person in the wheelbarrow across the wire and they shouted, “We believe, we believe!” Then he asked for volunteers and the crowd got very quiet.

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