| Mike Pirtle: A very Merry Christmas from The Post |
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By: MIKE PIRTLE, Post Publisher
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Posted: Sunday, December 20, 2009 8:26 am
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In the last print issue of The Post before the actual holiday, let me extend on the part of all Post staffers and supporters a most Merry Christmas to all of you who engage with us daily online or weekly with the newspaper.
We are truly humbled and grateful for the continuing support and interest and hope Santa is good to one and all.
As a community we have already opened figuratively a number of Christmas gifts that warrant our thanks.
• Thanks to the downtown merchants and others who provide what has become our Christmas/holiday season kickoff – the Christmas tree lighting on the Courthouse Square. The event seems to grow and become more meaningful every year.
• Thanks to the folks at WGNS and several community helpers for the annual Rutherford County Christmas parade, almost growing and improving annually.
• Thanks to the congregation at Southeast Baptist Church for Bethlehem Marketplace, a remarkable undertaking for a single church and one that seems to embody the spirit of Christmas in a spiritual and secular manner perfectly.
• Thanks to the many organizations, such as Rutherford County Homebuilders Association, that provide toys for needing children at Christmas through the generosity of companies (Nissan’s employees with their huge contribution to West Main Mission is a great example) groups and individuals who seem mindful of Jesus’s words to the effect that when you are kind and giving “to the least of these” you are indeed acting in a Christ-like way.
• Those who share the Christmas spirit with us all by decorating their homes in such a joyful way as sampled delightfully today in our annual “Holiday Brites” presentation (see Pages 15, 16).
• Space is literally not possible for all whose Christmas spirit is worthy of Santa’s good list, but thank you to all.
Again, Merry Christmas.
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Middle Tennessee football fans couldn’t ask for a better haul from Santa’s bag that they are seeing culminated today with the Blue Raiders’ appearance in the New Orleans Bowl against Southern Mississippi.
As noted here last week it would be hard to beat New Orleans as a bowl site.
And, playing in a second bowl game in four years is starting to set up a more pleasant expectation.
Plus, going for a most excellent 10th win of the season is quite exceptional.
And, finally, the Raiders are a fun, exciting team to watch.
Aside: Sports Illustrated listed all the bowls by their viewing value and listed the New Orleans Bowl 33 out of 34 although noting Middle was the best nine-win team “you’ve never seen.”
The SI writer obviously hasn’t either, else he would know the Dwight Dasher-led offense and attacking defense makes the Raiders a highly fun team to watch and therefore today’s bowl much higher on the rating list.
And, my obvious bias has nothing to do with that.
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Part of the season around here still involves dealing with fall leaves. I still have five or six trees yet to drop their foliage.
Having wrestled recently with the leafs that pile up along street gutters and wondering if they were mine or just orphan leaves blowing along the street, I was quite tickled last week to see the City of Murfreesboro leaf-sucking truck glide down the street, leaving clean, clear gutters behind.
Like many things, this is a benefit we never remember when government services don’t meet our expectations. |
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