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PAGE 2B THE TRIBUNE, SEYMOUR, IND. FRIDAY. APRIL 6. 2001 (0) I SEYMOUR, CUR esST- TJUSSlAwAHP tfOKTH KOREA Tim Timmons Publisher dene Powell Jr. Managing Editor A FraOOM NEWSPAPER A LOCAL VIEW The Tribune IS.

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Send the agenda to those prior to the meeting and then stick to it during the meeting. 3. Set a time to start and plan a time to finish. Then start on time and stick to the plan. It is OK to finish early.

4. Don't be quick to list as the last agenda item "Next, Meeting Date." Habits get started that way. We're all busy, and trying to discern the necessity and value of meetings is one of the basic laws I have to keep relearning. Another is that it's risky, business to pass a semi carrying livestock when you're' in a convertible with the top down. If it's pretty enough to have the top down, thenthat'sprob-ably not rain hitting you in the face.

rv: Meeting adjourned. Bill Bailey is the president of the Greater Seymour Chamber of Commerce! He can be reached at seycocbb hsonline.net or at 522-3681. His column appears on the first Friday of every month. bailey Business Minutes "When in doubt, have a meeting." Meetings can help arrive at a collective opinion. Or they can create a group or committee to spread the risk of potentially bad decisions.

Don't get me wrong, meetings aren't by nature bad but too many of 'them may be. At the beginning of. school, for instance, it's much more efficient to have one meeting with all the teachers to explain a. new lunch schedule. times.

It is not always there, and it doesn't always have the same expression. Now that brings me to my purpose of writing this to you, to tell you about my Web site that I have had up and running for about three years now where I tell about my experiences investigating these- legends. I even have a photo of Martha's face on there. Here is the address for the Web site: www. angelfire.cominlottgreen ehalloween.html ,1 wrote all of the stories on this site.

All of them On Wednesday, the Jackson County United Fund gave a facility for the homeless a financial anchor. Bravo. It was absolutely the right thing to do when United Fund Executive Director Ruth Ann Rebber announced that Anchor House is now the 20th to come under the United Fund's umbrella. A big Tribune thumbs up for both Anchor Houseand the United Fund. Anchor House gets kudos for the broadening of its service base that it has done in recent months.

In addition to offering shelter for the homeless. Anchor House now offers classes in parenting and GED preparation. Anchor House Board President Kevin Johnson and Executive Director Susan Spurgeon deserve a pat on the back as does the entire Anchor. House family. As for the United Fund, it's good to see them recognize a need for a homeless shelter because the problem does exist here.

After having set new drive collection records in successive years, it's nice to see the board make a commitment to put money into different things to serve Jackson County. Too bad the Indiana State Legislature can't get out of the mothering business. Once again, a curfew bill is working its way through as legis lation. The hired help has come up with a way to institute limitations on when teens can be on the streets despite a recent court ruling making one version of the curfew law unconstitutional. If the courts can't make an impression, we wish legislators would listen to this: Stop trying to be parents for the whole state.

If our kids are roaming the streets at all hours, take it up with us. That means we're being bad parents. We hire Meetings re If someone were to ask me what one of the main responsibilities of being president of a Chamber of Commerce is, I'd honestly have to say going to lots of meetings. I've' decided that the word "meeting" is one of the four or five most used words in 6ur language. I don't know when meet-, ings started.

I'm sure they go back a long time. They probably held them in Boston in the 1700s to decide who would throw the tea in the harbor. Julius Caesar's conspirators met, no doubt, to decide how many knives would be needed for the murder. And my guess is that Noah's neighbors met to complain about watered-downr property values. (Their scheduled meeting, was canceled due to inclement weather.) It may be that we depend too heavily on meetings and as a result, have too many of them.

I almost sense an unwritten law that says, Reader's Web site tells more legends To the Editor: I read with great interest Gene Powell articles in Saturday's Tribune concerning urban legends. I am 38 years old and have lived my whole life in Seymour. As I was growing up, I was always interested in local history and studied it a great deal at the Seymour library. I have also always had a great fascination for local urban legends. From the time I was in high school, and really up to the present day, I have went out to personally "investigate" all of the local legends that I could "firiU have never heard of "Mary's Grave" at White's Chapel, but- know of, Grave" at the same cemetery, and would assume that it is suppose to be the same grave, although I see from the photo that was in the paper that it is a different one.

Martha was supposed, to be a witch and you can see her face in the moss on the north side of the tombstone. I have seen it many Mallard FillmorB By BrUc Tlnsley her, spring is finally here, No more cold winter nights. No more outrageous heating bills. No more scraping snow off the windshield. For a few months, we can enjoy the sun.

By the way, is it just us, or did winter last longer than usual this year? Also, a Tribune thumbs up to: Whomever is responsible for starting to clean up the land on Highway near the bridge as you come into Seymour. Congrats to the Sauers girls eight- grader basketball team on their national title. A big "way to go" for Union Hardware for beautifying their storefront. It is noticed. If only everyone wanted to make Jackson County a better place to live.

We know we have to take the bad with the good, but sometimes the bad just balls up in a knot in our stomach and sits there like a two-day-old doughnut. Case in point: 1 morons who 0 decide making methamphetamines is a logical way to make money. This deplorable -practice puts too many other people at risk. The chemicals Used to make meth 7 (also known as crystal and crank) are volatile and dangerous. Earlier this week, the community of Hope was exposed to the ammonia used.

It froze the ground on a day when the temperature was in the mid-60s. We're all for per- sonal liberty, but not at the expense of. the -v community. Drugs like meth and Oxy-contin are growing in popularity. No intelli Or in a'hospital, bring all the staff in at one time to demonstrate a new procedure.

And certainly with all the activities going on in our various Chamber committees, it's necessary to get together occasionally to keep pulling in the same direction. But much of what gets done in a "meeting" can be done by memo, fax, e-mail, phone call, mailings or informally one-on-one. Ever" notice how different clubs, organizations, associations, and groups seem to attract some of the same people? We say that they're the community's "worker bees" and that's true. But the word is also on the street "They'll go to meetings." Having sat through so many meetings in my short, 30-plus work years, I have formed a few ideas for meeting rules 1. Have a definite purpose for a meeting and only call it if absolutely necessary and all other forms of communication are based on local urban legends that I have heard about.

Some of them are based on personal experiences, and others are just good stories. I am also an active participant of a chat board at, Ebay.com that is all about the holidays, and every Thursday in October, I am the host of a story-telling session on the chat board. I have set up a separate Web site to show these stories, there is a link from my site to it. If you have any questions about any of these stories, vOYOti AP 1 CHARM INITIATIVES 1 Tljss 'ikmUmm HERE nil; or would like to do more stories on any of them (maybe a Halloween or if you just want to talk about them, please let me I wish I had known about last Saturday's article so I could have participated in some way. Kevin Greene, Seymour Editor's note: We've got a feeling Martha's grave is Mary's grave.

Or at least that the stories are the same. We've been told the tombstone was changed in the last few years. Sorry for the confusion. TWey meets. yam FOop cotee- i BKUVZBVi It iiriuii ff i i a.

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