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Jan 11, 2006? 

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Todays Annoucements

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Happy Birthday Angela Walker

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Animal awareness series endorsed by Shiloh and Hank our mascots; all stories must receive their approval.

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Rainbow Bridge, A Special Report On A Hero

Tink and Poo, and Gang

tinkerpoo2000@yahoo.com

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To days report is going to be a special one about a hero. A true friend to our kind. A human hero. Jeff Boudreau.

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Jeff came this way the other day with a army, a army of our kind, dogs and cats. You see Jeff was the head of the? Shelter? at Hattiesburg, Mississippi. ? All that could be transported out of the path of the storm was. But means of transport just ran out. This man never thought of his self. He stayed with the ones left behind, tried to ride out the storm. His body was found with more then 30 that would not leave his side.? 

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Jeff went above the call of duty to our kind, gave his life to try as best he could, in an over powering storm. To give our kind any aid he could.

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There is few like him in this world, he could have ran and saved his self, but no he stayed, trying to get out kind to some safety... A true hero.

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We understand the shelter will in time be rebuilt.?  We would like to see the name changed. We understand that our friends at PETCO Foundation will play a good part in the rebuilding. May we say one thing.?  We took a vote here, and this idea won out. Well by 100 to 0.?  Our idea is to change the name of the shelter to..

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The Jeff Boudreau Animal Shelter. In memory of a good man.

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Tinker and Poo; The Boys Write

http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-35741-5

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Today's Queue Stories
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? ACTS OF KINDNESS

By: Joseph J. Mazzella

? ? ? ?  I can remember several years ago a wonderful, November morning at my son??™s elementary school. I had just taken him into the special education room where he started each morning. The teacher and aides were talking about how much my son and the other students had enjoyed some chocolate donuts that they had been given for a snack the week before. I chatted with them for a few minutes and left. As I walked though the parking lot, however, a wonderful, kind thought came into my mind. I always try to follow such thoughts too, because I learned long ago that any thought full of love and kindness usually comes right from God.

? ? ? ?  Wrapping my winter coat around me then I headed straight for the local grocery store and bought two boxes of donuts, one for my son and his friends and the other for the teacher and aides that always took care of them with so much love, kindness, and compassion. Hurrying back I was able to deliver my simple gift before the start of school. The smiles on the faces I saw paid me back a hundred times over and I walked out smiling myself with a warmer heart and a lighter soul. I had paid little in the way of time or money, but that God inspired act of kindness had purchased more joy, goodness, and delight than I could have ever dreamed possible.

? ? ? ?  A little act of kindness goes a long way towards making this world a better place. Each kind thing we do connects us to the hearts, souls, and lives of those around us. Each kind word we say and kind thought we think brings us closer to love, closer to each other, and most importantly closer to God. Kindness always ripples out as well and travels from person to person until it circles the world and returns home to the heart that first shared it. May you always fill your life with kindness then. May all your days be full of loving thoughts, joyous feelings, and kind acts. May you always make the world a kinder place just by being in it.

Joseph J. Mazzella
joecool @ wirefire.com

Joe lives in West Virginia with his wife and three children. Various dogs and cats have adopted Joe and his family for their own. Joe enjoys his family, beauty, love and hearing from his email friends. Joe likes to take the time to smell the roses and enjoy the beauty around him as he goes about his daily life.

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Poetry Section

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Dear Carol:

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By Leona Ebling

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A poet, a writer, an artist of kind

In you my dear friend is what we all find

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It may be in stories one day short and sweet

the next may be longer ones that are real hard to beat

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Then poetry that paints a picture so true

Well Carol I open each one and hold my breath as I do

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For I am never disappointed or let down as I read

It brightens my day. Yes it does indeed!

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So from 1 to 10 on the scale with? the high number the top

A ten is the one where I have to stop

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For a "thumbs-up" is the approval I come up with for you

God bless you dear Carol, this tribute poem is very true.

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Still praising our dear Lord because I am able to? continue on? "Dancing with Life."

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Leonia Ebling? 

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Still "Dancing with Life" (my book you can order from AuthorHouse.com or Barnes & Noble?  your friend and fan of all those wonderful stories as we make a difference in lives every day.? ? ? 

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He will forever listen

Janice Finley

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He will forever listen

In Your unspeakable glory

in Your highest heaven

where seraphs and saints

cry out with joy

"Holy! Holy! Holy!"

before Your throne unceasingly,

You turn Your face toward me

and graciously incline

Your ever-listening ear.

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Because You love me,

You take care to hear

both when I'm full of faith

and when I'm full of fear.

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You answer my seeking heart's

every cry in tender terms

of eternal endearment.

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Janice M. Tomerlin-Finley

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Copyright ?©2006 Janice M. Tomerlin- Finley

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Prayer Requests and Updates

Please pray for my mother? Vera Wilson she? has pneumonia and compacted bowels. She is 84 years young. She is in the hospital in St John's hospital in Tulsa Oklahoma and I live in Arkansas. It is very hard for me to make a trip like that but I am thanking about it. Please keep me in your prayers also for I am trying to get over pneumonia in my lungs also. Thank you so very much. Love, Jesus hugs and prayers Barbara

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Prays are need for Lisa??™s mom and dad who have the flu and really under the weather right now.

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? SENIOR WRITERS

Chief Writer: Sharon Bryant

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? Agee, Vance;? Apted, Violet;? Baker, Kathy; Batt, Al;?  Berry, Nell; Blaine, Pamela

Boda, Ginger;? ? Buhagiar, Victor; Cassady, B.J.;?  Cavalera, Robyn; Crider, Mark;? 

Deming, Barb; Doherty, Maria; Gilbert, Robert Jr; Goodier, Steve; Halley, Ellie Braun;

Harris, Kathy Anne;? Hunt, Sharlette;? Hymes, Christina

Jacobson, Gary;? Kiser, Roger Dean; Kerens, Claudia; Kevin, Tim Jenkins, Pamela;

Liles, Norma; Lilly, Jodi Flesberg; Lock, Joyce; Mazzella, Joe;? Morris, Deepak;

Ojeigbe, Georgewaters;

?  Petry, Dianna Doles; Roberts, Susan;?  Shiveley, Debra; Shaw, Bob; Sims, Richard; Streidel, Saskia; Swarner, Ken; Vaknin, Sam; Verhoeff, Jan

Walker, Bill; Walker, Joe;? Warner, Gorden K; Walsh, Sue

Weymouth, Barbara; Whirity, Kathy;? White, Robert;

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