Did ya have a good Christmas?
Klonie JORDAN
      Happy new year, y'all. God bless you. I hope everything goes well in 2009 and everybody wins the lottery or otherwise becomes rich. Then we can all meet over to the house and have us one big giant hoedown. I'll bring the fiddle and the Mason jars for the punch bowl.
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LEDGER READERS ON THE ROAD
     Brenda Crawford of Gaffney and daughter Christy McCoy of Charleston enjoy reading The Gaffney Ledger while at Lambert's Cafe in Sikeston, Missouri, during Thanksgiving. Lambert's Cafe was voted No. 1 on The Travel Channel as the "BEST PLACE TO PIG OUT" in the United States. On your next trip out of town, or tour of duty, take a copy of The Ledger along and send a picture of yourself or your group reading the newspaper to: cody@gaffneyledger.com.
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THEIR VIEWS
      Video poker and saggy pants The South Carolina Legislature opens its 2009-10 session on Jan. 13, but lawmakers have already filled House Speaker Bobby Harrell's stocking with 116 bills. Senators haven't been snuggled in their beds with visions of sugar plums, either. They managed to wrap up prefiling with 180 bills to their credit.
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