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Bulletin Board: Registration underway for Franklin County Youth Football and Cheer Staff Reports Modified: 5/19/2021 10:49:08 PM Registration for Franklin County Youth Football and Franklin County Youth Cheer is underway.  For football, athletes can register for the Peewee Division (grades 3-4), Junior Division (grades 5-6) and senior division (grades 7-8). For cheer, athletes can register for Peewee Cheer (grades K-2), Junior Cheer (grades 3-5) and Senior Cheer (grades 6-8).  Visit www.fr...

The power of music  “This is my song, O God of all the nations, a song of peace, for lands afar and mine.” As a teenager, I learned “Finlandia” in church, but it really took hold of me when I was a camp counselor. As we sang it around campfires and in the dining hall, it taught me that God’s world is much bigger than the “cloverleaf and pine” in my own backyard and that God loves every land, not just mine. Years later, shortly after the United States invaded Iraq, I attended an I...