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The Albany News
www.thealbanynews.net Thursday, February 11, 2010
The Albany News
Since 1875
Oldest journalistic venture west of the Brazos
Publisher
Donnie A. Lucas
Editor
Melinda L. Lucas
Office Manager
Sheryl Spore
Reporter
Kathryn Stapp
Typesetter
Betty Viertel
Advertising Sales
Jody Patterson
Office Assistant
Jordan Lucas
Moran Correspondent
Duston Brooks
EDITORIAL
Sweetheart of a Town
Valentine’s Day is traditionally a day
of love, and what better time to consider
the things to love about Albany. This com-
munity is touted as unique, and indeed it
is. Any two citizens could come up with
completely different “top 10” lists because
there are so many choices.
Here are some to consider:
• Safety - Albany is not a perfect
place, but it is much closer than many
other places both large and small. For
the most part, kids are free to enjoy their
childhoods riding bikes and skateboards
around town without parents having to
hire bodyguards or going into a nervous
rigger the entire time they are gone. Of
course, that doesn’t mean that a little
caution isn’t warranted.
• Spirit of Cooperation - Albany has
more than its share of organizations,
committees and boards, but there seems
to be an extra degree of cooperation that
makes this town a “can do” place. Projects
both big and small are usually routinely
completed without a lot of fuss. There
are exceptions, of course, and personal-
ity conflicts can occur in the best of situ-
ations, but overall, things normally run
pretty smoothly.
• Volunteerism - Albany has more
than its fair share of dedicated volunteers.
From those who spend hours on the stage
at the Prairie Theater to those who spend
hours under the hood of a fire truck, this
community is not lacking in people who
are willing to give of their valuable time.
• Preservation of the Past - Albany is
known far and wide for the Fandangle, its
historic courthouse and downtown area,
and a love for things in its past. Albany is
certainly not stuck in the past, but there
is definitely more than the Usual interest
in honoring it.
• Culture - Albany is dripping in
it. There is the Old Jail Art Center, the
Aztec, the Whitney, Albany Mainstreet
Playhouse, the Fandangle, recitals, con-
certs ... the list goes on.
• Shopping - The selection of mer-
chandise is outstanding, and local mer-
chants work hard to keep it that way.
• Education - Albany has much to
offer local students. For its size, the lo-
cal school district has been spotlighted
numerous times and in several ways as
being one of the best in the state.
There are blemishes, no doubt. Streets
could use improvement; some of the facili-
ties are run down; trash and weeds aren’t
unheard of. But for the most part, there is
much to love about Albany.
POLICY
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February: The month for sweethearts
Okay guys, did you complete your
assignment for the week? Of course, I
am talking about picking up the special
Valentine Day card or
gift for your sweet-
heart. Please don’t tell
me you haven’t even
looked yet.
The pickins are get-
tin’ slim. I really did
try to help you out last
week with all those
hints and suggestions.
It’s not hard to see that I am a for-
ever hopeless romantic. I love romance
novels, good romantic/comedy mov-
Bobbie Cauble
ies and even song lyrics that melt my
heart.
One of my all time favorite songs is
from the 70’s and is by a group called
Bread. The lyrics are absolutely beauti-
ful. The song
is called “IF”.
Here are the
lyrics....
If a picture paints a thousand words,
then why can’t I paint you? The words
will never show the you I’ve come to
know.
If a face could launch a thousand
ships, then where am I to go? There’s no
one home but you, you’re all that’s left
You, me & everyday life
me to.
And when my love for life is running
dry, you come and pour yourself on me.
If a man could be two places at one
time, I’d be with you. Tomorrow and to-
day, beside you
all the way.
If the world
should stop
revolving spinning slowly out to die. I’d
spend the end with you. And when the
world was through.
Then one by one the stars would all
go out and you and I would simply... fly
away.
WHO DO
YOU CALL?
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
284 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510-4304
Phone: 202-224-5922
Website: hutchison.senate.gov
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn
517 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-2934
Website: cornyn.senate.gov
U.S. Rep Randy Neugebauer
1026 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 888-763-1611
Website: randy.house.gov
State Sen. Craig Estes
P.O. Box 12068
Austin, Texas 78711
Phone: 512-463-0130
Website: craigestes.com
State Rep. Jim Keffer
P.O. Box 2910
Austin, TX 78768
Phone: 800-586-4515
Website: house.state.tx.us/members
Girl Scout cookies have become an American icon
It’s hard to say no to an adorable
green-clad, cookie peddling Zig Zigler
in pigtails, sweetly asking, “Would you
like to buy a box of Girl Scout cookies?”
In a time where most of us are
watching every penny, it can be equally
stressful to hand over $3.50 for a box of
a dozen plus cookies. Even if those Sa-
moas are quite possibly
the best thing that have
ever crossed your lips.
Ever, I say again.
Bless your heart,
in spite of their un-
deniable yummyness,
there’s no denying that,
Kathryn Stapp $3 50 per b0Xj Qjrj
Scout cookies can be costly. For one
thing, who buys just one box?
Like everyone else, the Girl Scouts
faced spikes in ingredient costs. Over
the past two years, flour rose in cost by
more than 30 percent, various cooking
oils from 40 percent to 187 percent, and
cocoa by at least 20 percent. Alterna-
tives to the smaller size of boxes were to
raise cookie prices or use cheaper ingre-
dients - two options that were rejected,
said Natalie Martin, marketing director
for the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas.
It might soften the blow to know
where your cookie money really goes.
Martin, says a majority of the sales
price of each box stays in the commu-
nity. Using the Albany price of $3.50 per
box, here’s an approximate rundown of
how the money is divided.
For each box sold, 85 cents per.
box goes to the baker (cue the angelic
voices) to cover production, packaging,
shipping of the
cookies to the
troop, and other
incidental costs.
Out of the remaining $2.65, 55 cents
goes to the local troop, which will use
the funds to cover the cost of programs,
community service projects and to offset
the cost of participating in Girl Scouts.
The rest, $2.14 to $2.07, goes to the
regional council, made up of numer-
ous troops that are located right in
this area, which focuses solely on those
troops.
Girl Scout cookie proceeds are used
for many purposes within the region,
including maintaining campsites,
providing travel financial assistance for
girls, providing leadership development
for adults, and providing support for
special membership initiatives such as
Girl Scout troops in homeless shelters,
detention centers, and migrant com-
munities.
Contrary to urban legends, the
proceeds from Girl Scout cookie sales
Bless your heart
are not tunneled to the national scout-
ing organization. Girl Scouts of the USA
is paid a royalty for use of the licensed
trademarks. No other revenue from
cookie sales goes to Girl Scouts of the
USA. The regional councils do not send
cookie money to the national organiza-
tion.
But, I think
we may be over-
looking perhaps
the biggest payoff from the annual
cookie program.
It isn’t the money that is made by the
local Scouts, but what the girls learn
about finances and interaction with the
public. Education is one of the cookie
program’s main objectives. The girls who
participate learn goal setting and deci-
sion-making skills while they’re learning
about helping their community.
Let’s face it, Girl Scout Cookies are
an icon of American culture.
For more than 80 years, Girl Scouts,
with the support of their families, have
helped finance the success of Girl Scout
activities through the sale of those deli-
cious cookies. You are helping Shack-
elford County girls to learn new skills
and gain self esteem through the Girl
Scout program.
As my Daddy used to say, ‘You get
what you pay for.”
This & that about big execs & TV troubles
Did you hear about the identical
greeting cards that crossed in the mail?
Toyota executives and NBC television
brass sent them to each other.
They were, uh, “get well cards,” bear-
ing this message: “Stop if you can, or at
least slow down.”
Both brain trusts wish they could.
The TV bosses can’t rein in night talk
show prima donnas,
and the auto people
are having trouble
reining in certain
. ^ ^ Toyota models. This
^ world-wide headache
is now in recall mode
- nine million vehicles
Dr. Don Newbury counting. (This
approximates the
number of all U.S. new auto sales in
2009.)
In Toyota showrooms, certain models
are in sales lockdown until accelerator
corrections are made.
Prospective automobile buyers are
skeptical. Forget kicking tires; they’re
contorted in the floorboard, checking
out the “foot feed.”
Repairs will be made “around the
clock” when the “cure” is determined.
And ad people will likewise burn oil at
midnight, purging “pedal to the metal”
lyrics.
I can’t “feel the pain” of the NBC
wheels. They have a “pie in the face”
posture, taking the broadsides of em-
ployees’ nightly rants that brand the
bosses as buffoons.
The execs are like punching bags,
moving only enough to get their noses
into position for the next blow from the
verbal fist of Conan O’Brien, who, on a
good night, is about as funny as an iron-
ing board.
Despite his nightly placement of
dunce caps on the bosses, Conan and
his crew are walking away with a $45
million “settlement.” I thought such
could happen only in government or pro
sports.
Speaking of sports, we might “puddle
up” with oceans
of tears for an-
other corporate
giant, Nike.
Unlike Toyota and NBC, whose
respective traumas are singular, Nike
must dig out from the fall-out of a
“double whammy.”
The “long and the short of it:” The
road back will be long and uphill, with
nothing short about it.
Nike moguls face endless groans. So
far, they’re sticking with besmirched
golfer Tiger .Woods, an admitted philan-
derer generally shunned and shamed
by the masses. The Nike honchos are
squirming, not knowing what to do with
him.
Now, they must push the issue to the
side, because they’ve got another front-
burner fire raging.
There’s a new study about runners’
feet. It promotes the merits of running
barefoot. It was conducted by a Harvard
professor, no less. “We started running
millions of years ago,” Dr. Daniel Li-
eberman said, noting that during most
of history, runners have run barefoot,
“landing” toward the middle or front ’
of the foot. For the past few decades,
however, cushioned shoes have been
The Idle American
designed to absorb heel impact.
This, sports fans, is a bombshell.
Nike has spent billions of dollars con-
vincing runners that periodic “improve-
ments” justify steady price escalation
for state-of-the-art running shoes.
Throw in the big bucks paid to celeb-
rities like Woods for product endorse-
ment, and the picture clears as to why
“fancy-schmancy” running shoes are
priced in three
figures.
If Nike inves-
tors move to Dr.
Scholl’s footpads, it’s a good bet that
runners are switching to shoeless.
I know. Maybe I’m jumping the gun.
But remember, I am my 97-year-old
Uncle Mort’s nephew. Maybe I’ve inher-
ited his tendency to view life through
squinted eyes.
He showed up the other day devoid
of shoes, obviously aware of the shoe
study. I made the mistake of asking
what brought him to town.
“Had to see the dermatologist,” he
grinned. “The doc said I had more skin
tags than skin, and he removed enough
of ‘em for store-wide price markdowns
at Wal-Mart.”
Groan. Continuing his ramble,
he asked if I’d heard that Glen Bell,
86-year-old founder of Taco Bell, had
died. Stats followed about this fast-food
pioneer - 60-plus years in the business,
5,600 franchisees serving 37 million
Americans weekly and a founder of Der
Wienerschnitzel, the big hot dog chain.
“If I’d had to learn to spell Wiener-
schnitzel,’ I’d have started thinking 4
outside the bun, too,” Mort joked.
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