A Look Back

Reminiscing with old friends
By Gene Young
June 26, 2008
Last week I visited with two old friends, Keith and Betty, whom I worked with about 61 years ago.
Never too old to learn a new game
By Gene Young
June 19, 2008
We had never even heard of Bocce before our friend Mike Keohane talked about it several years ago. Sunday after church, he invited us over to his house to teach us how to play.
Meeting a cousin via the Internet
By Gene Young
June 12, 2008
Through our Family Tree Maker program and Ray’s Ancestry.com programs, it is possible to have all family members listed and it will tell you exactly how you would be related.
Ode to a good friend, Bill Powell
By Gene Young
June 5, 2008
This week I lost a good friend. A friendship that lasted over 70 years, and I would like to tell you about some of my own memories of Bill Powell.
Lansing water, before and after
By Gene Young
June 1, 2008
The majority of people in Lansing before 1940 did not have running water.
I love hugs
By Gene Young
May 22, 2008
The most important and powerful source of energy between individuals is a hug.
Good motoring habits stretch gasoline mileage
By Gene Young
May 15, 2008
With the increase in gasoline prices, it is good to review our motoring habits.
Break out the chain saws
By Gene Young
12:00 a.m., May 8, 2008 Updated 11:13 a.m.
The recent windstorm that hit us last week took a toll on our backyard trees. We found big branches, some about 10 inches in diameter, spread all over the yard; luckily no buildings were hit.
Voting for the county seat
May 1, 2008
It is amazing to me that all of that took place and that there is now no trace of the city of Delaware.
Garage door openers
By Gene Young
April 24, 2008
Who was the ingenious person who figured out how to make a garage-door opener?
Boxes, boxes, boxes
By Gene Young
April 17, 2008
Last week we had clean up days in Lansing and I finally managed to get rid of some boxes.
Lack of oxygen
By Gene Young
April 10, 2008
A “Pulse Oximeter” measures the percentage of hemoglobin saturated with oxygen.
Kilroy was here
By Gene Young
April 2, 2008
He was everywhere any service man had been,
Lansing Current changes
By Gene Young
March 27, 2008
Our Lansing Current editor called me last Friday and told me about the changes taking place in the newspaper business and that this is the last issue to be printed and delivered to all the homes in Lansing.
Remembering the slide-rule
By Gene Young
March 20, 2008
A while back, the subject of slide-rules came up in a discussion with one of our grandsons, and he asked, “What is that?”

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