Precious Moments Attractions
Offered Free This Holiday Weekend.

news release Precious Moments

Celebrate this Christmas with your friends and family at Precious Moments in Carthage, and enjoy all of the attractions at no charge on Friday, December 29, and Saturday, December 30, 2000, with weather permitting. This free admission is offered by Precious Moments as our way of saying thanks for a great year and passing on our wishes of a Blessed Holiday Season.

Precious Moments attractions include the awe-inspiring Fountain of Angels show, the beautiful Wedding Island Tour, the Precious Moments Art Museum Tour (formerly Samuel J. Butcher’s Home), and the Precious Moments Chapel.

Chapel hours during the holidays are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. These hours continue through December 31, 2000. The Chapel will be closed on Christmas and New Year’s Day and will close at
5 p.m. the day before each of these holidays.

Visitors enjoy the hundreds of thousands of Christmas lights that illuminate the Precious Moments Chapel Center. Coming to Precious Moments to view the lights during the holidays has become a tradition for many families from across the country every year.

Show times for the Fountain of Angels are offered at 10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. daily.

The Chapel Tour is offered every twenty minutes, and the Wedding Island Tour has limited availability due to scheduled weddings. The Art Museum tour is available until 5 p.m.

The Chapel Center also offers a great holiday tradition with a variety of holiday treats from Royal Delights.

For more information on the Precious Moments Chapel and holiday schedule call 1-800-543-7975 or check the Precious
Moments Chapel Center’s website at www.preciousmoments.com.

Commentary

Martin "Bubs" Hohulin
State Representative, District 126

Apparently unity and bipartisanship is still a one-way street. I started this week’s column three times as I kept finding different things to write about. When I heard on the news that yet another talking head was warning President-elect George W. Bush that he had better go slow and not offend the liberals of this country, I settled on this topic.

All we have heard since the election is that since it was so close, Bush better not do anything conservative. He has to reach out across the aisle, even to the point of appointing democrats to his Cabinet. We have heard that he better not try his tax cut or any other ideas in his agenda.

When is the last time you heard any of those same people ask Congressman Gebhardt or Senator Daschle what agenda items of theirs they intend to give up?

I have always said that to the democrats in Washington and Jefferson City, bipartisanship means ‘Let’s work together as long as we do it my way. If you want to do anything your way, you are just an obstructionist’.

Look at the situation we have in Missouri. In the race for governor, democrat Bob Holden beat republican Jim Talent by only a few thousand votes, and that was after democrat polling places were kept open an extra hour longer in St. Louis. Had all the polls closed when the law said, Talent may very well have won. We will never know.

That aside, with that election so close, have you heard anyone saying that Governor-elect Holden had better not do anything to offend the conservatives, that he better reach across the aisle and find some conservatives to be on his staff?

Have you heard anyone say that he better not do what he campaigned on since the election was so close? Me neither.

In the Senate, republicans hold a majority of the occupied seats, but even so, the democrats are still beating their chests that they are still in power and that the republicans had better know their place and get out of the way.

In the House republicans hold 76 of 163 seats, but we are not allowed to advance legislation, chair or vice chair committees or subcommittees, or sometimes even participate in floor debate.

Welcome to the Jefferson City democrats’ version of bipartisanship. President-elect Bush should move forward with what he campaigned on.

I can assure you that in Missouri, the liberals, now that they still have the House and the Governorship, will do everything they can to steamroll us with their agenda.

As usual, I can be reached at House Post Office, State Capitol, Jefferson City, MO 65101, or 1-800-878-7126, or mhohulin@services.state.mo.us for your questions, comments, or advice.

Just a short week into the new year. If ya go with the conventional wisdom, the actual beginnin’ of the new millennium. Most folks I’ve talked to don’t really have any big concerns about when the century starts.

Last year at this time the main concern was computers crashin’ and ever’thing comin’ to a stand still. Didn’t happen. ‘Course some would argue that all the preparation paid off. Like the guy downtown who snaps his fingers to keep the lions away. It must work cause ya never see any lions in these parts.

Most folks think of the new year as a time for a fresh start, plans to make things a little different. That kinda attitude at least makes the January chills a little more tolerable.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

by

McCune- Brooks Hospital

Health Notes

Health & Nutrition by Judith Sheldon

The American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends this safety method for popping the cork for the New Year:

Keep the bottle cold. A warm bottle is more likely to pop unexpectedly. After removing the foil over the cork, carefully remove the wire hood while HOLDING THE CORK DOWN with the palm of your hand. Point the bottle away from yourself and others. Place a towel over the entire top and tilt the bottle at a 45-degree angle. Grasp the cork, slowly and firmly twisting it to break the seal. If the cork is stubborn, place the bottle under cool running tap water for about 20 seconds, then repeat the slow twisting under the towel.

Keeping the bottle at a 45-degree angle, hold it firmly with one hand, using the other to slowly turn the cork with a slight upward pull. Do this until the cork is almost out of the neck. Counter the force of the cork by using slight downward pressure just as the cork breaks free of the bottle.

While this technique softens the traditional pop, because the pressure within the bottle is released gradually, the bubbles may last longer in the glass. If an accident should occur, don’t try to treat it yourself or wait to see a doctor. Dr. Monica says, "If you are hit close to or directly on your eye, go to an emergency room or call an ophthalmologist immediately."