Stan Musial, 92, died Jan. 19. I first saw Musial play in person in 1951. I was 9 and he was 30, in his ninth full season with the St. Louis Cardinals. My mom got me interested in baseball and the Cardinals. She was a Musial fan. So was I. He had to be the […]
Larry Harnly
Larry Harnly, a retired State Journal-Register sports editor, says that he filled the role of “drug runner” at the clinic, packaging, labeling, and transporting medicine from place to place.
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My visit with a centenarian
Marie Aldridge, neatly dressed and mentally alert, is 103 years old, born May 10, 1909. She has some trouble hearing and seeing. She lives in a Decatur nursing home. She really can’t give a secret to living so long. “It’s all up to God,’’ she says as she sits on her bed. “When he gets […]
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Grin and bear it
Untitled Document Larry Harnly, a retired State Journal-Register sports editor, was part of a group of 32, about half from Springfield, who spent one week in Jamaica on a dental mission trip in January. Here are his observations. The flight from St. Louis to Jamaica took about three-and-a-half hours nonstop. The drive by van from Montego […]
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Witnessing miracles
In June, a 16-member team from West Side Christian Church delivered medical supplies to the Christian Dominican Medical Mission, a clinic in the Dominican Republic run by missionaries Gary and Cindy Klein. The Kleins and their children live in Mucha Agua, a village of about 800, roughly the size of Illiopolis. About 70 percent of […]
