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Plainfield’s Kiah Ferrell celebrates with a teammate the lady Quakers 2nd consecutive county championship. Cover photo:
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by ronnie wilson
ince I am of official retirement age, I now qualify for Medicare. That is a good thing. Every month or so Medicare sends a detailed summary of my medical costs it has covered. Last week I received an envelope in the mail from Medicare. This one was different. It appeared to have a government check in it. I was perplexed, so I immediately opened it. Much to my surprise it was a government check for, (you might want to sit down for this), $0.01. Yes, a penny I appreciate the government keeping accurate records of our money and I would hope spending it wisely, (although I know better than that). Assuming the piece of paper cost a penny to be produced, including both of its printings (the original printing of the check form and the printing of the payee identification and amount). The envelope was probably at least another penny. The cost of postage was in the range of $0.42, (bulk
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discounts). That totals at least $0.44 cents to reimburse me one cent or 44 times it face value. There needs to be some checkpoint of sanity when producing these types of transactions, or just keep the penny. As a rule of thumb, (the origin of that phrase might surprise you), if the check is less than $1, do not produce the check. It is an effort in futility and a waste of resources. There may be tens of thousands or maybe millions of such checks produced each year by our government. That may not total a great deal of money in relation to the total government’s annual expenditures, but it might be enough to pay someone to read a factual peer reviewed science book/paper to some of those who discount human behavior as a contributing condition to
global warming or reputable/ knowledgeable economists who propose an increased minimum wage is good for the economy. (BTW – Taking into consideration, inflation since the inception of the minimum wage, it currently is grossly failing in keeping pace. I believe $15 is a bit too much, around $11 would more accurately reflect the effect of inflation. If it is within
your time-frame remember when gas was $.35 per gallon, I believe the minimum wage was at approximately $1.00 per hour. For quite some time gas has hovered around $3.50 per gallon (until very recently). Why should the minimum wage not be around $11 per hour? Speaking of gas prices - I needed to fill my Jeep last week. It has a 16 gallon tank and I had used more than 15 gallons since my last fill-up. I had a coupon for a $.30/ gallon discount, limit of 15 gallons, that was about to expire. I used it. Taking into consideration the recent reduction in gas prices and the cou-
pon, I filled the Jeep for less than $24. That will probably never happen again. Of course, until a couple of weeks ago I thought we would never see gas prices less than $3/gallon, let alone less than $2/gallon. Continuing on this theme, a couple of years ago some politicians were blaming the current administration for the price of gas, which at that time was around $4/gallon. I have not heard any of those same critics applauding the administration for the current decline in gas prices. It is rumored those same critics are now stating the price of gas cannot be controlled by the government. If I have this straight, their logic is when prices are high it is the government leadership’s fault, but when prices drop it is due to other outside causes and the leadership had noting to do with it. Make-up your minds folks, Either your purported villain is responsible for prices, up and down, or those prices are outside of the control of a single
entity. Of course being fair and having consistency in blame and praise would be totally inconsistent with their mind-set and prohibit them from blathering about their self-serving, bigoted and inaccurate gibberish. Now for the lighter side I am somewhat hopeful you noticed there has not been an issue of Ronnie’s Ramblings for two weeks. I had planned to publish an issue on January 5, 2015, but the computer gods deemed otherwise. On December 30, 2014 my computer converted itself into a boat anchor. My system hard drive, and my data hard drives both crashed. I lost all of my programs, In Design, Office, the operating system, Photoshop and a significant amount of data files, documents and photos. I was not a happy camper. I called my computer guru. She stated he would need to rebuild the machine from the ground up. New hard drives, new copies of all software and he would make an attempt to salvage what data files he could from my data backup disc. He was moderately successful. A burglar breaks into a house. Continued on page 39, see RR-2
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Basketball Photos by Ronnie Wilson
Avon’s Jack McCue (23) against Tri-West in county tourney action.
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Brownsburg’s Daija Middlebrook in co
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ounty tourney action versus Plainfield.
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Avon’s Andrew Griffin in county tourney action against Tri-West.
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Plainfield’s Conner Brens in county tourney action versus Brownsburg.
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Brownsburg’s Hannah Linville in county tourney action versus Plainfield.
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Cascade’s AJ Parsons in county tourney action against Brownsburg.
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Cascade’s Dalton Dubois against Brownsburg in county tourney action.
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Danville’s Cami Collins against Plainfield in county tourney action.
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Danville’s Maleha Motter against Plainfield in county tourney action.
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Cascade’s Bayleigh Walker in county tourney action versus Avon.
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Cascade’s Hayden Stinnett versus Avon in county tourney action.
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Tri-West’s Trevor Waite in county tourney action versus Avon.
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Tri-West’s Lucas Rutherford in county tourney action versus Avon.
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Tri-West’s Madison Sprecher battles Avon’s Katrina Hopkins for a loose ball in county tourney action.
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Tri-West’s Katrina Headlee in county tourney action versus Avon.
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Avon’s Bailey Wulle and Plainfield Kylie Dostin battle for possession of the ball during county championship action.
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Avon’s Lexi Short in county tourney championship action versus Plainfield.
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Plainfield’s Kiah Ferrell is fouled by Avon’s Lexi Short in county tourney championship play.
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Plainfield’s Samantha Melton in county championship play against Avon.
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Avon’s Sarah shelly in county tourney championship action versus Plainfield.
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Plainfield’s Kayla Casteel in county tourney championship action against Avon.
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Avon’s Katrina Hopkins protects the ball during county tourney championship action versus Plainfield.
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Plainfield’s Kyndall Spears in county tourney championship action against Avon.
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Brownsburg’s Darrian Ringo in county tourney championship action versus Danville.
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Brownsburg’s KJ Walton in county tourney championship action versus Danville.
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Brownsburg’s Dalton Vachon in county tourney championship action versus Danville.
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Danville’s Jacob Fulton in county tourney championship action against Brownsburg.
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Danville’s Jayson Stone versus Brownsburg in county tourney championship action.
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Danville’s Luke Callahan against Brownsburg in county tourney championship action.
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ton and Jordache mavunga each counted 11 points. For Danville, Luke Callahan and Ryan Clonc combined for 21 points, 11 and 10 respectively. Danville - Defeated Tri-West, 61 - 60. Basketball - Girls Plainfield - Defeated Avon, 49 - 36, for fifth Avon - Defeated Cascade, 52 - 47. place Defeated Tri-West, 52 - 47. Tri-West - Defeated Avon, 58 - 49. Brownsburg - Defeated Cascade, 82 - 48, for Defeated Cascade, 54 - 38, for third place. fifth place. Danville - Defeated Tri-West, 67 - 46, for third Swimming/ Diving place. Avon - At the Hoosier Crossroads Conference Plainfield - Defeated Brownsburg, 51 - 49. Meet - Girls finished 5th, boys finished 2nd. Defeated Danville, 64 - 61. Defeated Avon, 55 - 30 for the county cham- Plainfield - At the Mid-State Conference Meet - Girls finished 2nd,boys finished 4th. pionship.
Basketball County Tourney Results
Basketball - Boys
Brownsburg - Defeated Plainfield, 65 - 39. Defeated Cascade, 66 - 29. Defeated Danville, 51 - 37, for the county championship. Darrian Ringo led the Bulldog scoring with a game-high 15 points. KJ Wal-
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Wrestling
Avon - At the Avon super Six: Defeated Mt. Vernon, 71 - 6. Defeated Danville, 57 - 14, Continued on page 39, see Results-2
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Defeated Eastern Hancoc, 47 - 6. Defeated Fishers, 56 - 15 Defeated Terre Haute North, 68 - 12.
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He starts shining his light around looking for valuables. Some nice things catch his eye, and as he reaches for them, he hears, “Jesus is watching you.” Startled, the burglar looks for the speaker. Seeing no one, he keeps putting things in his
Danville - Lost to Fishers, 54 - 24. Defeated Terre Haute North, 42 - 42 (Danville wins by tie-breaker procedures). Defeated Eastern Hancock, 45 - 36. Defeated Mt. Vernon, 48 - 18.
bag, again, he hears, “Jesus is watching you.” This time, he sees a parrot. “Who are you?” the burglar asks. “Moses,” the bird replied. “Who the heck would name a bird Moses?” the man laughed. “I dunno,” Moses answered, “I guess the same kind of people that would name a Rottweiler Jesus.” A grasshopper hops into a bar.
The bartender says, “You’re quite a celebrity around here. We’ve even got a drink named after you.” The grasshopper says, “You’ve got a drink named Steve?” Why is there an expiration date on sour cream? — George Carlin
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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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