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Randolph County is full of talented people and several of them have volunteered their services to make the Moberly Mirror a better newspaper. This week’s paper contains several columns from local persons on a variety of topics.

Joe Barnes, a former journalist and avid historian of all things Randolph County, has begun a weekly column entitled “Boonslick Clio” (you have to look up the meaning of clio). Each column deals with a bit of history of Randolph County, starting at its beginnings or thereabouts. Our Moberly birthday issue was just that, a history of downtown Moberly, old photos and what stands in their stead today. This week Joe tells us about some property which was not just euphemistically God’s Country, but was God’s by legal deed.

Daryl Perkins writes “From the Edge”. If you need a lift of your spirits, just read her monthly column. She finds humor in the simplest things: food, place names and, this week, cliches. So take a load off (but don’t give it to Daryl) and read her column.

Marilyn Rasmussen is a master gardener. In “Marilyn’s Garden Musings” she offers advice on how to care for our gardens and yards, no matter the season.

Elaine and Sandy provide humorous anecdotes of the weekly knitting and crocheting group that meets each Tuesday at the Moberly Public Library in their column ”Keeping You in Stitches”. The introductory column was hilarious as the group sought a name for themselves before finally coming up with Tuesday Morning Hooks Yarns and Thinkers, a much tamer solution that some of the other suggestions. In the September 29 Mirror, the ladies were a bit more serious as they told of the Knit-a-Square program that provides blankets to AIDS orphans in South Africa.

Ginger Tipton, known well by students who have been through the Westran School system, is partially retired from the school district and has started Glory Days Scrapbooking. She provides the Mirror a monthly column on how to get started in scrapbooking.

Not new but worthy reading, are the columns provided by area pastors. This column, “From the Pastor’s Study”, features a new pastor each month. Jeff Howard, associate pastor at Family Life Fellowship, is the featured columnist for October.

Jane Ellen Kindell is our Renick correspondent, reporting monthly the city and governmental news of Renick. The Mirror is looking for correspondents to report the village news of Cairo, Jacksonville, Clark and Clifton Hill. If you are interested in this job, call us at 263-1411.The Mirror thanks all its contributors for helping in its efforts to provide interesting news of Randolph County.