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April 15, 2009

Publisher's Desk – Getting older, wiser

Anonymous The Randolph Guide Wed Apr 15, 2009, 07:13 PM EDT

This week marks a significant week for me: I turn 45 on Friday. Why is it significant? Well, had you asked me when I was in my 20s what I would be doing when I was 45, I probably would have told you that I didn’t think I would even be here. Now that I look back on it, I realize that every misstep I took then was actually a step that was planned for me.

It’s hard to stomach sometimes when I think about my youth. But you can’t turn back the clock. Even if I could, I don’t know that I would. I firmly believe that I am where the Lord wants me to be right now. If you had told me 25 years ago that I would make that statement – much less in a newspaper – I would have scoffed. It’s not that I didn’t believe in God. I did. And I do. I just didn’t think He was working in my favor. Come to find out, he was all along.

It’s the discoveries like that – the ones that come into focus when you least expect them – that mean the most. Like the first blooms of an azalea bush. Or buds on a dogwood tree. The smell of onions from a freshly cut lawn. That first time you walk on grass in bare feet after being cooped up all winter.

Spring makes me see things in a whole new light. It makes my heart and my soul sing and it affirms in me that anything is possible if you have faith.

I’ll be headed home to South Carolina to celebrate my birthday with my mother. She’s baked me a chocolate birthday cake for as long as I can remember and this year is no different. And to tell you the truth, it just wouldn’t be my birthday if she didn’t.

Living four hours away from her is difficult, especially now that her age is beginning to catch up with her. She can’t get around like she used to and she tires easily. But she is always quick with a joke and she always knows how to make me laugh and smile.

She calls me every Sunday night like clockwork, even if I talk to her at some other point during the week. Sometimes we talk for an hour, sometimes for just a few minutes. Sometimes I call her just to tell her I love her – those times when my heart is overflowing with love for her and when she is on my heart more than normal.

I can’t wait to bite into a piece of my birthday cake. Forty five or not, it’s the small things in life like the taste of a childhood memory that can stop the hands of time and bring everything into focus.

Award winner – again!

I have to give a shout out to Larry Penkava, staff writer at The Randolph Guide: He was named Reporter of the Year for Division III of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., our parent company. He won for the series he did on the alcohol referendum last year. The judges, in their comments, said Larry’s series was “thorough” and “ambitious” and gave “readers good information for making a decision about an important issue.” He also won his first-ever journalism award from the North Carolina Press Association for the same series.

I couldn’t be more proud of Larry and the work he does for this newspaper. So if you see Larry, congratulate him. He deserves it.

Be our eyes and ears

Just a quick note to the eyes and ears out there in Randolph County: if you know of something that’s going on, send us an e-mail (news@randolphguide.com) and let us know. We won’t be able to cover every event that comes our way, but the more we know, the more our readers will know.

For folks who visit our Web page (www.randolphguide.com), you might notice it’s updated throughout the day with items that sail into my inbox, especially if I think it’s something our readers need to know.

One of the newest additions to our Web page is an interactive calendar from Eviesays.com. It’s unique in that anyone who clicks on it can add an event to be listed. All you have to do it create a username and password, then fill out a form. Once it’s been reviewed by us, it will go live on the calendar. You can list events that happen once, events that repeat each week or even events that happen on certain days of the month. I’ve already populated it with a bunch of listings. It’s located in the middle of our Web page. I encourage you to take it for a test drive.

Patricia M. Edwards is the publisher of The Randolph Guide. She can be reached at (336) 625-5576 or by e-mail at pedwards@randolphguide.com

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