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Our weather continues to be on the unpredictable side. It is feeling like fall as temperatures remain on the cool side. In fact, I turned the air conditioner off and the furnace on and believe me it felt very good! It looks like the hay is plentiful also. I just can’t believe it is time for school to begin as I am still waiting for summer. Oh well, we just can’t have everything. Come to think about it, we haven’t had hardly any flies so far. No matter how strange things are there is always something good if we just take the time to look for it. The flies are usually plentiful during summer and I truthfully have not missed them one bit. If they don’t appear a little later I will certainly not miss them. Florence Sandstede entered Luverne Community Hospital the first of the week. She is being treated for a bleeding ulcer. We wish her a speedy recovery. Gary and Carlotte Paulsen, Ogden, Iowa, spent Wednesday and Thursday in the home of his mother Mildred Paulsen.Otto Van Wettering, a long time resident of the Steen area, who has been making his home at Minnesota Veterans Home in Luverne, entered Luverne Community Hospital on Saturday with a case of pneumonia. We wish him a speedy recovery. Bill and Bertha Bosch, Mildred Keunen, Megumi Sakurai, Beth Sakurai, both from Japan, Joy and Joyce Aykens were Sunday afternoon visitors in the Paul and Carole Aykens home in Orange City, Iowa. Dries Bosch entered Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls Wednesday evening. He had been experiencing chest pains. After a thorough examination they found no damage had been done to his heart and he was able to return to his home on Thursday. Daryl and Marie Paulsen and Tanner, Tyler and Trevor Paulsen, their grandchildren, attended the fair in Sioux Falls on Friday. They also attended the Beach Boys concert. Needles to say, a good time was had by all. Bill and Bertha Bosch, Milton Bonnema, Malena Boeve, Mildred Keunen, and Jo Aykens attended the Psalm and Hymn Sing at Tuff Home in Hills on Wednesday. Delwyn Huenink underwent knee replacement surgery last Monday at Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls. He was able to return to his home in Worthington on Thursday. Do you ever catch yourself saying I don’t have time to do this today, I will do it tomorrow. However, when tomorrow comes it seems there is always something else that has priority. This reminds me of the old saying, "Tomorrow never comes!"In hopes of doing better I think this article, written by Alfred Montapert titled "Today," will be helpful. "This is the beginning of a fresh new day, I greet it with hope.Today comes only once, and never again returns,I must show my love and be kind,God has given me these 24 hours to use as I will. I shall have a cheerful attitude.I must do something good with this day and not waste it.This is my day of opportunity and duty.I expect something good because I am going to help make it happen. This is a new day in my life, a new piece of road to be traveled, I must ask God for directions.Today will be filled with courage and confidence.I must show my faith in God.What I do today is very important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. The cost of a thing is the amount of my life I spend on doing it.When tomorrow comes today will be gone forever.Leaving in its place something I have traded for it.In order not to forget the price I paid for it, I shall do my best to make it useful, profitable, joyful. This seed I plant today determines my harvest in the future. My life will be richer or poorer by the way I use today.Thank you, God, for today. I shall not pass this way again — What I must do — I will do today!"I hope this inspires all of us not to put off until tomorrow what we need or should do today. Most of all, I will remember to do it today.

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