The Christianville Spirit: My Family

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February 27, 2008- TCS # 91
You know those scenes out of a 70’s movie or TV Show that shows the perfect family sitting at the dinner table all dressed up in nice clothes just for a family dinner and the Son, Dad, and Mom all are talking. The mom says “Honey, will you pass the potato’s” well, you get the idea. Well, I hate to say but, that’s not my family(Sound of Record Player stopping) on My Dad’s side anyway. In a family, there’s your Mom’s side and your Dad’s side of the family. In most families, hopefully the mom and dad are married with 2 or more or less children and they live together. Well, that’s not my family. My Family has My Mother, My Brother, and I living together. Well, My Brother has his own apartment now but, that’s not the bad part. See, My Mom and Dad are divorced. My Mom and I live up here in Plano and My Dad who is a Mega Schmuck lives down in San Antonio with his Girlfriend Laura and son Taylor. Well, now your probably thinking “Christian, Why is your dad a Mega Schmuck” Well, My Friend I’ll tell you. He doesn’t know what to do with me because I Have Special Needs and He doesn’t send money for us. Also, He doesn’t say nice things to me and it makes me feel bad. Whenever, he comes to town it scares me because I don’t know what he’ll say to me; in fact, one time while driving to Fridays to meet my brother for dinner he did 2 things that made me feel bad. First, I was looking at the road signs and the road. And, he says “Give me some eye contact!” I looked at him and turned back to road. Then, a couple minutes later he asked me this question “How would you feel if I kidnapped you and took you to San Antonio right now” and I said “I would be really upset and wish I had taken my cell phone with me” later on, at dinner he said that he was just joking. But, another thing is that his jokes aren’t that funny. Finally, here’s a stat I’ve done that really show how much I dislike him. I haven’t gone down to San Antonio in 3 Years. All in all, I hope that you don’t have a horrible dad like mine.

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The Christianville Spirit: Respect Someone

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February 20, 2007- TCS# 90

You know that song that came out of 70’s and it goes like this “R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Find out what it means to me…” Well, here’s a thought. How many people have RESPECT for each other today? Well, unfortunately they don’t; that might explain why America’s Divorce rate is so high, why some people fail at business, and why it’s so hard finding friends now a days. Well, your probably thinking either of 2 things “Christian, Why is respect so low” or “Dude, Why are you telling me this and why should I care” well, we don’t have much respect anymore because people are too busy hating each other. Honestly, I’d rather spend my precious daily energy respecting people and maybe a couple episodes of Random acts of Kindness that waste it hating someone. A lot of people waste their daily energy hating someone and guess what? They have enough energy to do anything else. I read something one day on a website called tesh.com about what you need to get to have the best relationship and love. It said that Respect and Trust are the first things you need. And, that’s behind Love and Affection. Most people would thing that Love and Affection are most important. But, you can hug and kiss somebody you love. And, not respect them. It’s just not right. But, the bottom line here is to respect someone in EVERY SITUATION. That covers Business, Relationships, Friendships, and more… So, if you haven’t already you should tell your spouse, friend, or co-worker that you respect them, No matter what even if you dislike them.

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The Christianville Spirit: The Snow Storm I will Never Forget

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February 15, 2008- TCS # 89
On This week of and before Valentines Day last year was too me, The Snow Storm I will NEVER Forget. Back when I wrote about it in The Christianville Spirit in February 2007 I called it “The Lake Effect Snow Machine of 2007”. Well, Today I think of that title and say “That’s definitely not a good title” Why? Is because
A. “The Lake Effect Snow Machine” happens every year
B. Syracuse and that part of Central New York is part of what is called the “Snowbelt”
So, what else can I call it? Well, WSYR Channel 9 of Syracuse called “winter in a Week”. In fact, this so called “winter in a Week” was so bad that they had a special on their news about. Now, back to the name, what do I call it? I think I’ll call it 2 names; “Winter in a Week of February 2007” and “ The Snow I will Never Forget”. For those of you who don’t know what happened, I’ll tell you. In Central New York around the Syracuse Area, there was a Lake Effect storm unlike any other. According to WYSR Channel 9’s website, Lake Effect Snow Storm’s only last a day or too and dump a lot of snow in one area. But, This Time was different. So; on February 4, 2007 it started to snow and it snowed until February 11. In the end, it snowed 100+ inches in Parish and Mexico, New York. And, of course the highest amount was around 140 Inches in North Redfield, NY. Now, you’d like to know what “Lake Effect Snow” I’m going to tell you. Well, first off, it occurs in The Great Lakes Region in the winter (Until the lake gets frozen over). When the lake water is warm, there’s an area of Low Pressure, the winds are blowing toward land, it makes it snow hard usually in one area. And, that’s how Lake Effect Snow works. If you would like to see pictures or video, go www.9wsyr.com and look for or search for “winter in a Week”. All in all, once you see the pictures you’ll see why I call it what I call it.

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The Christianville Spirit: Become a Leader

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So, I was sitting on the couch this past Saturday with My Mom watching church on my computer and our pastor, Keith Craft was talking about Leadership and how you should become a leader. And, He’s right about that. So, here’s a sad fact about that, without a leader no one gets anywhere and they eventually fail. No wonder our country’s government is failing because we have NO LEADER! Sure, there’s President George Bush our president but, he’s not much of a leader. Also, there’s no leader in all the other issues we have in our nation, hence why our government is falling apart. Now, if you think I’m trying to persuade you to vote for someone in the ballot, No. But, if you want to get an idea on whom to vote for; don’t vote just on the issues they say they’re going fix. But, pick the candidate who you think will be the best LEADER. If you want to become a leader there are a lot of leadership schools which you could attend. All in all, we need to have a great leader for our country or we should become a leader.

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The Christianville Spirit: The State of The Metro Area Address(Special Edition)

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This is a special edition of The Christianville Spirit because today was The State of The Metro Area Address. The address was a success and here is what they talked as well as the results. On Friday, February 1 at 4:00 PM, Christian Smith met with all the city counsels of all metro area cities to talk about changes to be done in the Christianville Area. The non-voted changes where tallied by each of the city counsels to determine whether they thought it was a good idea and supporting the idea. The first of them, changing Geography Loop to Geography Beltway had 90 % Yes and 10% No. here are the others.
Extend GCI’s Geography Pkwy. From the airport to G-Honey Frwy. 5 miles east of downtown, 87% Yes and 60% No
Discontinue Hunt County; City of Fort Izzy, Town of Hunt, and make Hunt County now part of Elizabeth County, 70% Yes and 69% no.
The voted things got a vote from both the people and all city counsels. The First one was the on-going between The City of Christianville and The Christmas District. For this one they tallied the votes from inside the district and outside the district. First, inside the district; many people inside The Christmas District voted yes and people outside the district had mixed votes. The City of Christianville city counsel also had mixed votes. However; Laura Sweetenburg, Mayor of Christianville had this to have the city counsel agree she says “Counsel and People of Christianville, The Christmas District is a special place to our great city. I believe this area shall remain a district because it is unfair to The Geography and Historic District. The Holiday is just as special to Christian as the history of his life and his favorite subject in school and what HE loves. The Christmas District does not have to stand out just to get his attention because he loves all of our great city and metro area” and Christian Smith says just about the same thing and say It shall remain a district. There was going to be another issue in the ballot in this address but, however Christian and the city counsels said not vote on it yet. According to future plan, they will be building a parkway that runs through The Christmas District. However, that is not set to happen until well after “The One” arrives. The final voted issue on the ballot was Canceling Great North Pkwy. From Geography Loop to Christmas Frwy. Most of the people who voted Yes on that lived in or around The New England Cities. The city counsels of the metro area say that won’t happen because they say its part of a future plan to be extended well after “The One” arrives. This has been The State of The Metro Area Address.

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