Category: The Mayor’s Corner

The Mayor’s Corner 06/02/2021

I want to start out with a couple of shout outs for remarkable achievements. The first is to Kali Branstetter for being awarded the Governor’s Cup scholarship! The second is to the Weiser High School Boys Baseball team for winning 1st place in the State Tournament! This is a first for Weiser! Congratulations to the …

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The Mayor’s Corner 05/19/2021

Sometime back I was contacted by Lisa McKnight asking if I would be willing to speak at an unusual event: the setting of a headstone for a gentleman who died in 1957. I was being asked to speak because Weiser’s Mayor, Frank Gwilliam, gave the eulogy for the funeral at the time. My natural inclination …

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The Mayor’s Corner 05/12/2021

A few months ago, I wrote a little bit about a college algebra course I was taking and asked for your prayers to complete it. Well, apparently the prayers helped. I got through the course. The trouble of it is, I find as I get older it is harder to remember the details for such …

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The Mayor’s Corner 05/03/2021

This last weekend Cathy, our daughters, and grandsons went on a fairly short hike through Lydle Gulch which is on the south side of Lucky Peak Dam east of Boise. This is one of those trails that loops around, but seems to be uphill for three quarters of the way. The big event on the …

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The Mayor’s Corner 04/28/2021

This last weekend Cathy and I made a small partial payment on a long-term obligation. It is a debt that we will never consider repaid because it is a debt that will never end. You see, back in 2009 Cathy and I got married. A group of her friends and a few others we didn’t …

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