By: Marcus X. Fry/Mary Lynn Lambert
The Silerton Volunteer Fire Department (SFD) held its meeting on March 10 (the second Tuesday of every month). The meeting is open to the public. It was announced that approximately 120 requests for the annual dues were recently mailed out. Please strongly consider paying the very reasonable dues, as the SFD receives most of its funding via these dues and fund raisers.
A reminder that the SFD also serves as a community center and voting location for this area. Elections will be held on May 5, Aug. 6 and Nov. 3. Deadline for application to vote, available at the Election Commission in Bolivar, is due 30 days in advance of any election.
With Brother Charlie away visiting family in Nashville, Silerton Baptist Church had the pleasure of a visit by guest pastor Grover Westover and his wife Judy. The membership was pleased to receive a solid sermon and hymn by Pastor Westover. Of note in his sermon was his mention that we cannot receive salvation by relying on the coattails of others. One must at some point make their own choice between the light and dark, and one cannot/should not rely solely on the entreaties and prayers to the Lord from your grandparents, parents, spouses, friends or anyone else that cares for you.
The church will be hosting a children’s sleepover/lock-in at 5 p.m. March 27. There will be pizza, drinks, games, etc. Bring a sleeping bag, etc. On April 12, there will be a house warming event held for Jennifer and Jason Howell in the fellowship hall directly after service at noon.
Mary Lynn and Frankie Lambert paid a visit to Vonda Siler last Thursday at her assisted living home in Jackson. March 10 was the one-year anniversary of the passing away of Bill Siler, Vonda’s husband and a pillar of the community. We all miss Bill and his charming grace.
William X. Fry has deigned to visit forlorn parents, Marcus and Jamie Fry, in Silerton. William is on his spring break hiatus from teaching junior high history in Oklahoma City, Okla. Marcus and Jamie also made a trip to Memphis to see Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, a three-piece American country blues band from Brown County, Ind.
On the goat front: Near calamity. Imagine a scene with over a dozen kids leaping about with their usual total abandon. A roll of hay was being brought in. As it was being laid down, control of it is lost. With its tremendous weight, it inexorably rolls without mercy till it comes to a final, foreboding stop by a favorite haunt of the kids. It is feared the hay roll rolled over one or more of the kids, crushing them under nearly a ton of hay. Not all the kids could be accounted for at that moment. Many of the newer kids are hiding or have been hid by their mothers at any given moment. It took some time, but a count was finally able to be made, and all kids are accounted for. Many are no doubt climbing the fearsome hay roll as this is being written, witlessly unaware of the fate they so narrowly escaped.
