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32 • The Beacon July 10, 2025
What did you do with all your birthday card money?
The Write-On Writers Guild’ s June 2 meeting’ s writing prompt was“ Getting Money in my Birthday Card.” The following letter is what I read that evening.
Sometimes my birthday cards during childhood contained a dollar bill.
You live in Ohio. Do you know why the eastern coast? How many generations have lived here?
Do you live here because your great-grandparents did? And why did they? Because of a job, their ancestry, military related, finances, weather? Generational history, farming, business?
Is there a reason you’ ve stayed locally? College
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It was never spent. All gift money went into my savings account and was recorded neatly in my passbook, which was started when I attended Williams Elementary School in Augusta, Maine.
Did you have your own savings account at a bank? Ten percent of my allowance was tithed for giving to my church, and 10 % was put
Why are you in Ohio?
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Does your family have a historian or researcher?
Have you ever even
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thought about why Ohio?
My maternal roots are in Pennsylvania, and a lot of my paternal roots are in Stark County, and a lot of research to my history has been done.
Yes, I plan on completing my continuing history, right here in Ohio, where I feel the most comfortable and have shared my own history and the future.
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BF-316230 into my savings account.
Did you ever withdraw from yours? I never did. The important purpose of my savings account was to pay for my senior trip to Washington, D. C.
Then, come my senior year at Cony High School, I did not go on the buses with my classmates during April’ s spring break. Instead, my whole family of five went to New York City and Washington, D. C.
In one of my junk jewelry boxes is a black bracelet of pictures of the monuments in Washington, D. C., a skinny blue“ I’ ve Been on Top” pin from the Empire State Building, and a pin of the U. S. Capitol building with a tiny chain leading to a smaller pin with“ 1961” on it, all souvenirs of my senior trip.
Mum made all the arrangements. We drove to Aunt Mary Chase’ s home
Letter to the Editor,
Attention River View School District property owners. Your school board, with as little notice as is legally permissible, is quietly considering raising your taxes yet again, and this time without voter approval.
The River View Board of Education is quietly considering implementing a 4.3 mill property tax increase on every property owner. They are going to do this through a law adopted over 100 years ago called Inside Millage.
They can do this without bringing it to the people for a popular vote. This will be a large increase in your taxes. They are trying to push it through in this manner because they know we the people are against and cannot afford more grossly unfair taxation. On top of that, this increase will not solve River View’ s management issues.
in Connecticut, took the subway into New York City and stayed two or three nights at the Governor Clinton Hotel. We toured the United Nations buildings and took the Staten Island Ferry, climbing up into the crown on the Statue of Liberty. People used to be able to go up her arm and look out the windows in the bottom of her torch, but that was closed to the public when we arrived.
We ate a time or two at the exciting Automat, walked through Chinatown and rode on elevators to the top of the Empire State Building. I vaguely remember eating at a Cobb’ s Restaurant and visiting Grant’ s Tomb, if those were possible to do.
The“ thrill” of our visit in The Big Apple was going to Radio City Music Hall and watching the Rockettes perform
on stage. Then we saw a black and white Fred Mac- Murray movie,“ Son of Flubber.”
In Washington, D. C., I have no idea where we stayed. We visited the Capitol building, Lincoln Memorial, rode the elevator or walked up the steps inside the Washington Monument, saw the beautiful Jefferson Memorial, toured the White House, went through the Smithsonian Institute, and drove through Arlington National Cemetery. I wonder if we went to Mount Vernon.
In May of my senior year, my shorthand teacher Miss Nora Jackson asked me,“ How would you like to go to Washington, D. C. and work for Margaret Chase Smith?” The rest is history.
Nowadays my favorite birthday card gift inclusion is a book or two of pretty first class postage stamps.
Reader is encouraging public to attend River View board meeting
letter to the editor
With new industry looking to come to Coshocton County and a new government administration trying to reform our educational system, attempting to push this size of a tax increase on us without a vote will create so much bitterness and resentment within River View supporters.
If you are against more taxation and the manner they are proposing to implement this large of a tax increase, you must let your objections be known to the board we elected to represent us in the management of our schools. Being silent at this point is effectively a“ yes” vote for even higher taxes. It is up to us.
The next scheduled board meeting is Tuesday, July 15 at 5 p. m. If this is true, what happened to transparency?
Don Krebs Coshocton County
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