Stories from Thursday, December 6, 2001

Try to book a party room and you'll soon find out -- the season for holiday office celebrations is in full swing. It's great to get together with our co-workers, fellow club members, friends and families to celebrate the season. How tragic it would be to end a happy evening with a trip to jail, the emergency room or the morgue. How much worse, even, to send another innocent human being to the latter two destinations...

Dear Editor, Americans have been changed by the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11. Our country's peace of mind has been disturbed. Anxiety levels are high, according to a national survey recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The survey found that four out of every 10 Americans have reported serious stress in the days following the attacks...

I am commenting on the "terminal generation" comment on the Opinion page of the Tuesday, Nov. 20 Gazette. I agree that no one who believes should try to predict the end of the world. It may come in my lifetime, it may not. However, reading the obituaries does not make me lose heart in the fact that Jesus will come soon...

Roger E. Taynor NEW CARLISLE, Ohio -- Roger E. Taynor, 74, died Friday, (Nov. 30, 2001) at Wilson Memorial Hospital in Sidney, Ohio. He was born June 20, 1927, at New Carlisle to Ezra and Pearl (West) Taynor. He was a lifelong resident of New Carlisle, served his country during World War II in the U.S. Air Force, and retired as assistant fire chief from WPAFB in 1981...