Page 8 - Loran Smith News Today

Loran Smith salutes his all-star team at Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center for seeing him through an unpleasant, but necessary procedure.

I caught the wind on a day when it was benign, and my scorecard became a keepsake. Like so many, I had a caddy story to treasure.

Business major Audrey Scott, who grew up on the beach in Southern California, has found the University of Georgia and Athens an ideal place to be.

How Loran Smith met the greats like Stan Musial, Satchel Paige and many of the baseball greats from the days of old.

Kay Parker of Athens, who had battled Lou Gehrig’s Disease, had a single request for her funeral: that everyone be urged to do something for others.

There is an aura about Wimbledon that leads you to pinching yourself from the awe that comes with a visit to the grounds.

The death of an old friend always brings about flashbacks to happier times, when life was uncomplicated, settled and harmonious for the most part.

The cardinal is nature’s masterpiece. All that vibrant and classy red, complemented by a black mask around his face.

Carl E. Sanders enjoyed heralded success as the 74th governor of the state of Georgia (1963-67), and I became acquainted with him.

The scenes at Normandy are a reminder that the successful D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, were the beginning of the end of Hitler and his Nazi regime.