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Sunny day update

Hope everybody is enjoying their day. We had the grandchildren over. They brought their parents.

Good news for Rittman: This weekend's edition of the Northeastern Wayne Edition of The Post has a front page story about the former location of the Rittman IGA. There will be a new grocery store in it's place hopefully by the end of the month. It will be an independent family owned operation. If they can listen to the community and keep their prices reasonable then maybe they will be around for a long time.

In the meantime stores like Dollar General and Family Dollar have done a commendable job of filling some of the void that was created when the IGA closed their doors in November.

May sweeps; its coming- We will hear in the next 10 days who's cheating who, where your bottled water comes from, what's the Colonels 11 herbs and spices are, and the date of the Apocalypse. And those of us who look at the television forums are seeing debates heating up. One word of advice from somebody who isn't much of a news junkie(I watch it, but I don't obsess over it. I never thought about going into television. I have a face for radio.)

As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by myself. My word of advice is space out your thoughts. Some of us have ADD like symptoms, and get overwhelmed with such long messages.

Sometimes I think that people believe they have to write long essays when they get on the forums.

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