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Today's Features

  • We love because He loved us first

     

    With Easter last week, have you ever thought, “Why the Cross?” Have you ever wondered why God didn’t just declare us worthy to receive eternal life? Couldn’t He have done something different? 

    Unfortunately, no. The issue is our sin. God cannot tolerate sin. In fact, because of sin, we are said to be under God’s wrath! 

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  • Another Place In Time 4-11-13

     

     

    These Another Place In Time photos feature Robert and Sadie Pelfrey. Thanks to Joni Pelfrey for providing the photos and Lisa Pelfrey and Joyce Faulkner for calling in guesses.

     

     

    If you’ve got an old photo, you’d like to see featured in the News, bring it to the News office. Photos can be scanned and returned in the same visit.

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  • Rust diseases travel between host plants

     

    Last year our serviceberry was afflicted with a whimsical looking disease; the beautiful blue berries that appear in the summer looked like something from a Dr. Seuss book.  In a good year the cedar wax wings usually flock in and eat the berries as they ripen, not so last year.  The strange, white tubular protrusions that the berries were covered in not only looked funny but they kept the birds away, too. 

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  • Turning Back the Clock 4-4-13

     

    15 Years Ago

    April 2, 1998

    Cheryll Osborne, an employee with the USDA Rural Development Office in Campbellsburg, was promoted to community development assistant in the Williamstown office. She has been employed with the Rural Development for seven years. Osborne is an Owen County native and lives there still.

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  • Lonkards celebrate 50 years

    Larry and Jackie Lonkard of Williamstown will celebrate their 50th anniversary on April 12, 2013.
    The couple has two sons and five grandchildren.
    Larry is a retired construction worker from International Union of Operating Engineers-Local 18.
    His wife, Jackie, is retired from Wal-Mart.
     

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  • Pearson - Kennedy to wed

    Linda Pearson of Williamstown would like to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of her daughter, Cecelia Pearson to Bryan Kennedy, son of Debbie and Ray Perez of Rex, Ga.  

    The wedding is being planned for 3 p.m. on April 20, 2013 at the Grant County Park.
     

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  • Williamstown lawyer relocates family practice

    With an eye on preserving the past, John Brent Threlkeld moved his law practice from its downtown location to the former home of the late Nelson and Dorothy B. Skirvin, at the corner of School Road and Main Street in Williamstown.
    And after a little paint and elbow grease, he’s opening the office to the public for an open house on April 12.

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  • CHURCH NOTES

    Christ Community
    • On Good Friday, March 29, the church will be open from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m. for prayer.  In addition, church members will start at the church carrying the cross at 4 p.m.  All believers of the gospel, the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, to join us in the prayer walking. The church will join Williamstown Christian for a sunrise service at 7 a.m. followed by Sunday School at 10 a.m.  and worship service at 11 a.m. at Christ Community. The church is located at 139 N. Main Street in Williamstown.

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  • Sacred into a circus

    When I was a child, going to the circus was one of the highlights of the year.  The circus came to our town during the month of January.  The fun filled event seemed to break up the monotony of long winters in Michigan.  We always went as a family and genuinely had a good time. 

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  • SPOTLIGHT ON:Family Worship Center

     

    Name of Church: Family Worship Center-Grant County

    Address: 1380 N. Main St., Williamstown

    Phone: 859-824-7391

    Web site: www.fwcgc.com.

    E-mail address: fwc@wkybb.net.

    Minister: Tony McKinnon-Pastor

    Senior Staff: Kim McKinnon-Co-Pastor, Ryan and Rachel Linke-Associates, John and Angela Duggins-Children, Kaira McKinnon-Youth

    Number of Members: 250

    Year Established: 2000

    Service Times: Sunday-10 a.m., Wednesday-7 p.m., Youth: Sunday-5 p.m.

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