SPLINTERS

DECEMBER 1994

CHRISTMAS PARTY

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9

6:00 P.M.

Our annual Christmas Party will joyously begin a six this Friday night and we will dine about 6:30. Once again, the club will provide all the fixings (drinks, plates, ect.) All you need to do is bring your favorite dish, or mine, and come and join the celebration. The party will be held at the regular place, thanks again to the Church of the Nazarene. Turn right, just past the Red Food Store in Decherd and go about a mile. Church is on the right. Don’t forget your family.

POINT OF VIEW

The maple tree was down, and spalted

My neighbor thought it double-faulted.

Once for falling on his roof,

Once for being so aloof.

That it would turn its golden grain

Into an anaerobic stain

Of waves and streaks and mottled lines

And prove unfit for smooth designs

In kitchen cabinets and such.

In short, he didn’t like it much.

And so he gave the tree to me,

Who knew, conversely, how to see

That germs can beautify wood,

And “ruin” can sometimes be good

For men who find their hearts exalted

By maple logs that have been spalted

-Richard L Miller, Elizabethtown, Pa. FW/FEB 92