HAMILTON COMMUNITY YOUTH
CHOIR
Across
the Fence
By
Arvord Abernethy
(Before
May, 1988)
We
greatly enjoyed the program of the Hamilton Community Youth Choir as
they presented “A Great Praise Meeting” at the
Methodist
Church
. Not only were there some beautiful songs in the arrangement, but the
presentation of them through solos, duets and the entire group made it
an enjoyable evening. Several instrumentalists accompanied the singers
to add flavor to the program.
You
could tell that the group had put in a lot of time and work in getting
it to perfection.
Hamilton
has a lot of young talent in the music field that we should be proud of
and also encourage.
I
think everyone feels that this is a very worthy project for your young
people to do during their summer vacation. It not only gives them
something to do, but they are developing a talent they will enjoy and
use all their lives. This is the tenth year the program has been put on.
We owe Mr. and Mrs. Henry Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Truett Townsend and Mr.
and Mrs. Garland Anglin, Jr. a pat on the back for the time and effort
they have put in over the years to sponsor this program.
Since
our son Nathan, directed the choir, I feel like the village blacksmith
in the poem felt as he listened to the village choir and heard his
child’s voice, “It made his heart rejoice.”
There
is still a lot of home building being done up our way. Up our way
happens to be the southeast part of
Hamilton
. Bob Jarvis has two homes under construction and has just sold one that
he recently completed on
Sherry Lee Drive
in the Jarvis addition. The street is named after the Jarvis’
daughter. These new homes are going to be an asset to our town. Due to
the location of a natural shade tree, one of the homes has a nice
breezeway between the house and the carport; and it has nice large
rooms.
The
house Bob has just sold was bought by Mrs. Eleanor Morris, Director of
Nurses at Leisure Lodge Nursing Home. Her new home will make it much
handier to her work. Mrs. Morris has one son still at home, Loren, who
will be a freshman in high school this fall.
When
we located in this part of town, I would pass the calices pit down the
street and wonder what it could ever be used for. Bob came along and
bought it along with some adjoining property and has made a nice
development out of it. He has built about eleven new homes on it and has
room for a few more. But this didn’t come easy. The caliche was sold
out there for 25 Cents a wagon load back there when this part of town
was out in the country; but the price came much higher to have it filled
back up.