Greetings

The wife and I decided to take a quick trip to Texas. Yes, I am in a hotel room with a nice brunette woman.
We should be back in a day or two and ill get back to updating the site an all.
There is city commission next week. Work session is Monday and the regular meeting is Tuesday.
I should have some pictures soon.
We drove through the snow Monday night. Snowing hard in Dallas, was something they dont see too often here.
Now we are in San Antonio. Ill try to get some more pictures posted tomorrow.
We saw the Alamo and the river walk today.
not sure whats up tomorrow.
Ill let you know if anything develops down here.

This is usually about the deadest week of the year in AC. Anything interesting going on?
What do you think were the top stories of the year for AC?

Tuesday already

Amazing that its Tuesday already.
Cop notes are posted on the site.
Ive got to go out of town today, for a previously planned visit, should be back tomorrow.
Hope everyone is having a nice holiday.

Outrageous snow

We went to see some friends near Winfield. The now blowing in the daylight was interesting, but after dark it was treacherous.
You could only see a few feet, so we had to go real slow. The now was blowing so hard you could hardly see. Then there were drifts now and then and they would come up suddenly because you could not see.
I saw some cars getting stuck.
Im not sure which was worse. Driving on a backroad and not being able to see much at all, but not having to worry about traffic, or being on 77, and being able to see a little better but having to deal with traffic.
Either way, it was blizzard like conditions even though there was not all that much snow.
Should clear up Christmas Day. Dont go out before then if you can avoid it.

Christmas eve services

Here are the Christmas Eve. services for Arkansas City. Im sure there are more than these, but these are the ones I know of.  Might be fun to go to one that you have never been to before. :)


First Presbyterian, 7 p.m.
First Baptist, 6 pm.
First Southern Baptist 6 p.m.
Calvary Chapel, 6 p.m.
Mount Zion, 6 p.m.
First United Methodist Church, 7 p.m.
Central Christian Church, 6 p.m.

Milestone

Last night this blog had its 100,000 th page view. That is a little different than individual visits. I think its the number of posts that have been clicked on. We have had about 30,000 individual visits to this blog since it started back in May.
The site does not have as many visitors, but it is growing. The blog is slowly shrinking and the site is slowly growing. I think that is one way readers can make their preference known.
Anyways, I do appreciate yall reading. It is kinda cool to reach a milestone like that.
So tell your friends about the site and the blog,
Thank you for your support.

Breaking stories

City Commissioner Mell Kuhn is in the ICU at the hospital in Arkansas City. He had sugery.
He is expected to make a full recovery.

In other breaking city news, the purchase of a new ambulance has been put on hold. Commissioner Dotty Smith said she wants to do some more research and see if the old one can be repaired.
More on both stories on the web site.
www.arkcityrevived.com

Christmas story

The nativity scene is real popular this time of year. I like seeing all the variations. They are to some extent, based on the play that tells the Christmas story.
Its a great story. But the author has to take certain liberties with history and the bliblical account..
The classic story is interesting, but what may have actually happened is an interesting story too.
This is a more academic approach to the story, taking the biblical accounts into consideration, along with what is known about first-century life around Israel.
Anyways, here is the story. I wrote it several years ago for a publication, and it was in two parts, which is why it says "last week" a couple times. 
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cop notes

Cop notes have been posted for awhile. I thought I had posted about that already this morning. Strange things happen on the computer at times.
Christmas is just a few days away, so Ill probably be doing lots of holiday type things. (I dont mind using "Christmas" and "Holidays" interchangeably. I am not being politically correct. :) )

winter solstice

Today is winter solstice
shortest "day" of the year.
big among pagans. (pagan being a modern day religion based on an ancient religion, not meant to be derogatory.)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091221-winter-solstice-2009-first-day-winter-shortest-day-year.html