I hope all you readers enjoyed the Christmas and New Years holiday weeks. I wish you all a blessed and safe 2021.

Congrats to Chris and Hanna Squires Ferguson of Coal City who are the proud parents of a baby girl. Haisley Grace was born Dec. 3, 2020. She weighed in at seven pounds and was 19 inches long. Her two-year-old sister, Adalyn, welcomed her home. Proud grandparents are Rev. Richard and Becky Squires of Coal City and the late Petretia Squires of Coal City. Scott and Amy Ferguson of Pell City are the paternal Grandparents.

Happy birthday to my friend, Kathy Walker, Jan. 5, and to my cousin and friend Carolyn Payne, Jan. 22.

I conclude this week’s column with the following quotation by Victor Hugo: “Winter is on my head, but eternal Spring is in my heart.”

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