If you heard laughter and giggles near the Olney Community Library & Art Center [OCLAC] recently then you were not hearing things. OCLAC hosted a summer yard party and Olney’s children and some adults were clearly having a blast. The yard party boasted games, face painting, snow cones, bubbles and more during the first event of the Library’s summer calendar of fun.
The Keep Olney Beautiful civic organization has been “100 percent” focused on completing the municipal swimming pool in Tom Griffin Park since the City shut down the 70-year-old pool two years ago, but the group has a list of projects to move on to as soon as the pool opens this summer, KOB president Kyle Turner told the Olney Enterprise.
The First Baptist Church of Olney welcomed a gaggle of kids to its beach party-themed Vacation Bible Camp last week, breaking an attendance record that has stood for at least a decade, organizers said.
“Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” Philippians 2:8 NASBS
Many years ago, I wrote a blog post about a celebrity that went viral. Hundreds of thousands of people read it, and several hundred chimed in to let me know how much they loved or, more often, despised what I had said about the situation. I got plenty of hate mail of all kinds over the post, but I’ll never forget what one woman said to me in the comments section: “People like you are the reason that I literally hate Christians.”
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