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This week's column topic arises from a remembered conversation of years ago, on the subject of "The Golden Days of Radio."

ALBION – Although the weather has not quite cooperated this spring so far, golf enthusiasts should get out their clubs and hit the practice range in preparation for one local organization's annual golf tournament.

ANDOVER-Could you go without eating for 30 hours? Would your stomach ache?

Twnety seven teenagers at Andover Christian Church lawn May 4-5 camped out in tents and fasted for about 30 hours. It was to raise awareness of the hunger problems not only in the U.S. but Third World countries overseas, said Josh Peyton, youth pastor at ACC.

Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Celita O. Noce graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

Air Force Airman Devan P. Leburg graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

From the pulpit of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church late Saturday afternoon, Bishop Elizabeth Eaton of the Northeast Ohio Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America told the congregation, “You don’t look a day over 49.” 

PITTSBURGH - Issued almost two years into the Civil War on Jan. 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation authorized the Union army to recruit black soldiers and it declared that all slaves in the rebel states of the Confederacy “are, and henceforward shall be free.”