Lifestyles
Getting to know you; Brent Wigginton
In 1978, Brent Wigginton moved to Hancock County with his family. His parents, Jerry and Kay Wigginton bought a farm in Pellville. Jerry worked at NSA and Kay was a Homemaker. Wigginton grew up farming and said he, “learned early in life, what it was to have to do hard work and see a job…
Read MoreWhat I learned from dying; What kind of old man would I have been?
I often used to say that one thing that’s worse than getting old is not having the opportunity to get old, and now it seems I’m not going to get that chance myself. I’ve always wondered what kind of older man I would be. I planned to be a cool old guy, dressing in cool…
Read MoreGeting to Know You; Jimmy Logsdon retires from Hancock County Judicial Center
Jimmy Logsdon recently retired from the Hancock County Judicial Center. He was a Security Guard for ten years, at the Sheriff’s Department. “Sheriff Dale Bozarth is a super guy. I made a lot of friends there and I will still visit,” he said. Logsdon was in the Navy Reserves, and was Active Duty for 2…
Read MoreGetting to know you; Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson’s family moved to Hawesville in November of 1967, when he was 4. His father, Richard Wilson, was hired as a project engineer at WesCor. They attended Hawesville Methodist Church. Tom was in band, played football and basketball at Hancock County High School, and graduated in 1981. Tom’s mother is the late Louise Wilson. …
Read MoreGetting to know you; Hugh Ogle
The first fire I went on, I rode on the back of the old pumper we had then, all the way out there. They had been spraying water and they said, ‘o.k., we are going to draft water from the pond,’ and I put on hip boots and went into the pond and held the…
Read MoreMiraculous recovery of Lin Bucanan
Lin Buchanan, who grew up in Hancock County, is recovering well from his car accident that occurred on Tuesday, September 21. He had been having heartburn, indigestion and another warning sign of heart attack that day, that he wasn’t previously aware; his jaw was hurting. He was driving home from his work at Century Aluminum…
Read MoreWhat I learned from dying; Bed sores/You’ve gotta keep moving
I figured out recently that I have a bed sore. It turns out I’d had it for quite a while but I had largely ignored it, hoping that whatever it was would just go away. It got me thinking that my raw tailbone is a little like life – if you don’t keep moving things…
Read MoreWhat I learned from dying; I feel like I can’t do anything anymore
Legendary comic Norm Macdonald died this week after a secret battle with and undisclosed form of cancer. I found it very interesting that he chose to keep his diagnosis a secret from his fans and so many who knew him but in many way I completely understood. “He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the…
Read MoreWhat I learned from dying; I’m weaker than my woman
I learned a humiliating fact about myself a couple of days ago. I’m weaker than my girlfriend. I’ve always considered myself stronger than I looked, even now, so although I’ve lost around 90 lbs from my usual weight I felt like my core strength was still in there somewhere, even if it were hiding pretty…
Read MoreWhat I learned from dying; Good news and bad news
My long promised update is finally here and it’s a mixture of good news and bad news. The good news is that my cancer spots are shrinking, some of them substantially, but the bad news is that in finding out the spots were shrinking I found out there were more of them than I realized.…
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