Straight From The Hart

  I didn't have an opportunity to go to college but I would put my combined education from all these career choices up against almost anyone who did attend college.  By that I mean just the general knowledge one gains through advanced study which helps in your every day living or running a business, etc.   (not a medical or legal or specialized degree, etc.)  I went into all of them knowing nothing about the position and came out pretty knowledgeable.    I’m nor knocking college and if there had been a good counselor at the high school when I was there, I would probably have tried to go.  I found out many years afterward that I had been awarded a National Merit Award scholarship but no one ever told me that, or encouraged me to follow up on it, and I didn't even realize that's what I was doing the morning I went to the school and took the test. I was the oldest child and raised by my grandparents who had no knowledge about the possibility of college for me, so I had no fami

  Straight From The Hart By Joan Rowden Hart I appreciated the article in Friday’s paper on the Holman-Howe Funeral Home. Not only have I lost many family members in my almost seven decades of life, but I have spent 28 of those years in ministry and have had far too many occasions to be involved in funeral services in one way or the other. Lebanon is so blessed to have two beautiful and graciously staffed funeral homes where services are conducted in a most professional manner, and I never realized how fortunate we are in that regard until I pastored a church in another town for a while. The greatest culture shock I had was with regard to the funeral services I attended or conducted there. Don’t get me wrong, the owners and staff were nice but they just didn’t provide the special sense of reverence and professionalism to which I had grown accustomed here in Lebanon. Visitors were not greeted at the door by a professionally dressed person escorting you to your seat. You were never h