Hi Sugar! That’s the semi-official greeting for this weekend, as we celebrate the Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival and Fair and appreciate the tremendous positive impact the sugar industry has on our state and in particular, the Teche Area.
Pass a good time at this weekend’s festival and enjoy its activities but for sure take a moment to consider what it’s all about — sugar, and how sweet its impact is on our economy.
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Like sugar, a subscription to The Daily Iberian is a sweet deal (how’s that for a segue?). Do you realize that a subscription costs less than 39 cents a day? That’s all you pay to have us gather up the news and advertising, put it all together, print it and for your carrier to deliver it — just 39 cents, less than the cost of a soft drink or a cup of coffee, and just try to get someone to deliver either of those items for anything close to our price.
I’m thinking about the sweet deal a newspaper subscription is after looking in my files at some of the items I’ve saved for possible mention in Sweet Talk.
I’ve noted before how there is lots of important news in the paper most any day, but often the most interesting news in any newspaper is likely to be some of those smaller news items found on inside pages.
Definitely falling into that most interesting category was a story I spotted in another paper the other day about a furniture mover in Maine who discovered a coworker was his brother.
When a new helper was hired, lots of people pointed out how the two looked so much alike, sometimes asking if they were brothers. At first they just thought it was a coincidence,
Later, according to the AP report, one of the fellows started thinking about the similarities between he and his coworker. He knew he’d been given up for adoption so he did some research and discovered it appeared the fellow he was now working with had been given up for adoption by their same birth parents, who could not properly care for them.
Armed with this new information, he asked his coworker, “I’m going to ask you a strange question? Are you adopted?”
His coworker gave him a strange look but answered, “Yes.” They then put the story together, and confirmed they were brothers.
The “found” brother was shocked. “I about fell over,” he said.
Here they’d been riding around on a furniture truck for some time and neither realized they were related. They attended rival high schools and lived in neighboring towns not far from each other, but until fate put them working together, neither knew about the other.
Wow!
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• A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man ... which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. — G. Gordon Liddy.
• Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — James Bovard.
• In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party to give to the other. — Voltaire wrote in 1764 but sounds like it could have been written in recent years.
Will Chapman is publisher of The Daily Iberian.
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