Animals are at the forefront of controversies
LEDGER COLUMNIST
Joe HUGHES LEDGER STAFF WRITER
      The weather heating up, kids getting out of school and more people on the highway ... must mean summer is right around the corner. For most these signs are obvious, with the basketball playoffs and baseball virtually the only things on television.
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LEDGER READERS ON THE ROAD
     Rita Patterson of Blacksburg is shown here reading The Ledger while on a trip to Knoxville, Tennesse, with a group from Nazareth Baptist Church.
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THEIR VIEW
A license plate for every occasion
      Used to be, if you wanted to tell the people you were zooming past on the highway that you were a Dale Earnhardt Jr. fan or an animal lover or a square dancer, you bought a bumper sticker. ... Now, you contact your legislators and ask them to create yet another special license tag. ...
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The Sunday School Lesson
Restored and Renewed
      NEH. 8:1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ez'ra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Mo'ses, which the LORD had commanded to ls'ra-el.
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Stories Behind The Hymns
God Leads His Dear Children Along
Stories Behind The Hymns By: Warren Shiver
      GOD LEADS HIS DEAR CHILDREN ALONG Author: G. A. Young (Unknown) Composer: G. A. Young (Unknown) Haldor Lillenas, founder of a great music publishing company, was born on the small island of Bergen, Norway on Nov 19, 1885. At the age of two, he immigrated with his mother and two brothers to America. They settled in Colton, South Dakota.
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