Jerry Fink

Thursday night – low of 41 Friday – high near 59, low 35 Saturday – high near 41, low 22

Snow days can be fun days to remember, at least when you are a kid. I am considered a winter baby being born on Dec. 30, 1968. However, the older I get, the colder I get and I'm not as fond of winter as when I was a child growing up on Tiger Mountain in the Pierce area. I can remember my Grandma Eloise always counting down the days until spring. She never truly wanted to even acknowledge winter, like that might make it go away quicker. So she would just start her countdown the first day December rolled around. Now that I'm older I understand why.

“Level up” is a term I learned playing video games as a child. I vividly remember one game on the Atari 2600 that I could never advance and level up the gameplay. The character did nothing but wander around until it finally fell into a pit. Often, you couldn't get out of the pit! The game was “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” based on the Steven Spielberg smash hit film in the summer of 1982. Capitalizing on the immediate popularity, game creators rushed design and production to cash in on the Christmas market. The result? After Christmas, three million people returned the game for a refund. Players didn't like being unable to “level up.”

147 YEARS AGO Saturday, December 29,1877 Women Lawyers and Congress

Kim Limbaugh, longtime volunteer with the McIntosh County Election Board, will take over as secretary of the office on Feb. 2.

A traffic fatality has been attributed to the icy roads that covered the county much of the weekend, beginning Thursday and creating hazardous conditions through Saturday.

Fire destroyed the Escalated Greens warehouse and offices at 1200 Birkes Road Thursday, Jan. 9, a plant where medical marijuana is produced and processed.

Checotah Masonic Lodge #86 Saturday, February 1 7 a.m. – 10 a.m.

114 YEARS AGO McIntosh County Democrat Thursday, February 16, 1911 CANNERY ASSURED

The new year represents an opportunity for us all to rewrite our stories, and the library has ever ything you need to begin making revisions.