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     Whozit answer in the Classifieds.
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Thought for the Week
     Labor Day is Monday God give me work, till my life shall end And life, till my work is done. —Epitaph of Winifred Holtby
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OUT & ABOUT WITH LAURA
by Laura Dunham
      This past week, I was happy to hear from Ed and Bonnie Jesteadt who live on Gammon Pond in New Portland and are celebrating the 10th anniversary of Partnership with the people of the Tyhume Valley located in the Amatola Mountains of the Eastern Cape Province, Africa about 120 KM in from the city of East London on the coast of the Indian Ocean.
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Recipes from the Ridge
Squash Surplus
by Jane Wilkinson
      Still got zucchini? Here are a few more ways to use it up. Also, try freezing by grating it and letting the liquid drain.
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Away With Words
Timeless
L.E. Hughes
      There is a small abandoned garage on the side of the road in Shirley Mills, Maine. I don’t think anyone ever notices it sitting there, losing its battle to stay upright, but I notice it—I always have.
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FLY DOPE
      We recently heard that Deanna McClure of Kingfield lost her mind for a few minutes. During those few mindless moments she jumped 14,000 feet out of an airplane. Yup, that’s right, 14,000 feet from a moving plane! This was a birthday gift from her daughter, Andrea, who has been skydiving several times.
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IRREDIOMS ~ A look at common idioms
Phrases, sayings & expressions, what they mean & where they came from
     Slow on the Draw Slow to understand or figure something out; slow to respond or react; not alert; not a deep thinker. In the American West of the 1800s you often had to be quick on the draw (get your pistol out of the holster fast) to stay out of trouble.
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REAR VIEW
     “It’s a capital mistake to theorize before one has data,” a quote made by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, headed Page one of the Feb. 27, 1981 Sugarloaf and Rangeley Lakes Irregular, Vol. 14, No. 5.
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