McElroy reunion set for Oct. 28 will be this year’s reunion photo calendars for sale for $5." For next year’s family cookbook, bring several family recipes and/or photos to go in it. For more information or to help, please call Steve and Pam McElroy at 352- 472-3294 or Kathy Trujillo at 352-542-0095. Family friends welcome! It’s McElroy — family reunion time! The reunion will be held on Saturday, Oct. 28 from noon until 4 p.m. at the Tommy Usher Center, Chiefland. Meats, bread, beverages and paper products will be provided, Please bring vegetables, casseroles or desserts. Also please bring raffle items, children’s games and prizes for them. The fund-raiser this year are Learn to quilt this fall Local quilting teacher Helen Siegel will be starting a Begin- ners Quilting Class on Tuesday, Oct. 10 at the Yankeetown- Inglis Women’s Club. The class will be a six week course that will be held each Tuesday afternoon and will end on Tuesday, Nov. 14. Classtime will be from 1-4 p.m.. The course fee is $35 for club members and $45 for non-members. The proceeds will benefit the Yankeetown-Inglis Women’s Club community ac- tivities. For registration, please contact Helen Siegel at 352- - 447-5573 or email her at hquilt@bellsouth.net’ Guy myself to sleep. I was reminded of this the other day at a kid’s birthday party. There were these three little boys who stayed herded up together and spoke with.such goggle-eyed passion that I purposed to ease closer and get in on the big secret. “I snuck up behind this guy and put the gun against his head and blew it clean off,” the one was saying, “There was blood spurting everywhere.” They all laughed. Now my eyes were goggled! I must be listening to some sort of awful confession. Another kid responded with an equally gruesome tale. I wanted to run and hide under a bed somewhere! Then it dawned on my lightning fast mind, these young fellows were just talking about their exploits on a video game. You can call me old fashioned, but I say shame. Shame. on us as a society for producing such violent garbage for our children. Shame on us as parents for not nurturing and protecting them from it. Do we really need a cheap babysitter so bad that we would allow their little hearts to be conditioned to such brutality? Paul exhorted us in Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Doesn’t that principle apply to our kids? I’ve heard the tortured arguments about how we have to prepare our children for the “real” world. I have to stick with the Bible, it says, Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6. I figure that means our kids should be spending their days learning how things should be, not how they shouldn’t. LEVY COUNTY JOURNAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2006 Page a1 Continued from page 7 Bank tellers don’t study hundreds of different bogus bills in an attempt to keep up with what the counterfeiters are doing. They study our own U.S. currency and strive to learn every particular detail of the real deal. Then when someone tries to pass off a fake they immediately know that it is not to be accepted. It’s the same way with our children. They should be offended by gratuitous violence and:all other manner of evil. Are we teaching them to embrace it? But anyway, I don’t feel bad about sheltering my kids. Not for one moment. I want them to feel safe under my protection until I am confident that they have full faith in God’s. Searing a child’s conscience does not prepare them to be a warrior for God. I know the day will come that they will have to go out into this dangerous and evil world. I understand they’Il eventually face their share of dark seedy characters, but when that time comes I want them to do just. that; face them. I don’t want them to be one of them! Guy E. Sheffield, of Hernando, Miss is the president of the nonprofit ministry SoulFood. Brock reunion is Sunday The Brock family reunion will be held on Oct. 1 at Manatee | Springs Park beginning at 10 a.m. All family members and’ relatives are invited. Please bring a covered dish and lawn chairs. Eating will begin at 1 p.m. ; For further information, please call Beverly Hilliard at 352-. 490-7257 or 352-870-9302. Energy saving tips for home With lower temperatures come higher heating costs. And with Americans already spending more than $160 bil- lion a year to heat, cool and light their homes, cost-con- sciousness is more important than ever. = * Inspeet-and tune 4 residential heating” system | regularly. 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