The Gadfly On The Wall

Return To Duty: Grandson Colby Stuck, the Navy Seabee with a tour in Iraq under his gunbelt, departs today for a tour in Afghanistan. Not exactly a welcomed development by his parents or grandparents, but it's what he wants and he is a dedicated Seabee. Colby's a Yukon High School graduate who works with his Dad building homes. In the Navy, he's a construction specialist and the squad machinegunner.

Media Hustler: Leave it to Jesse Jackson to insert himself into the furor surrounding the death of Michael Jackson. Anytime there's a camera or microphone around...there's Jesse, the media hustler.

River City: Expect more revelations from the probe of the School Land Commission. There is, as the saying goes, "trouble in River City" and in this case, "River City" is the Commission.

Family History: From Cousin Paul Matthews of Aurora, Colorado comes a piece of Clan McCarville history. "I recently found something that seemed interesting about the McCarville family. My maternal grand parents were I.D. and Ellen (Talty) McCarville. My mother Margaret was the eldest of their seven children (all deceased) who lived through adulthood. One of the brothers, Edwin Joseph McCarville, unfortunately died at the very early age of 16 of appendicitis. At some point my mother gave our youngest daughter Kathryn (KT) a footstool that had been in the family for many years. KT always cherished this small piece of furniture because her grandmother had given it to her. Time was catching up and it was coming apart. KT asked me if I could repair it for her. I had to completely take it apart and in doing so I discovered something surprising. On the main piece of wood, written in lead pencil, were the words E.J. McCarville Audubon Ia, Oct 15 1929. Apparently Edwin had built this footstool in his High School shop class slightly more than one year prior to his death on November 10th 1930."

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