Bits’n’Pieces

Welcome back to Bits’n’Pieces, a weekly look at some of the interesting, funny, comical and sometimes outright weird things that happen in and around Montgomery County. Have something you think should go into Bits? E-mail it to us at [email protected], won’t you please?

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SORRY FOR being AWOL last week. We’ll attempt to do better.

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IF YOU WANT to go to the Indianapolis Home Show, and need free tickets (they’re around $14 each!), you’re in the right place. We’re giving away as many as eight free tickets to readers who send a selfie of their beautiful smiling face to [email protected] and tell us why you like The Paper. Also, be sure to let us know how many tickets you want. If we use your photo in The Paper, you win the tickets. It’s that easy! The show ends the 30th so best hurry!

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ARE YOU a skywatcher? Then look up on Jan. 26 when asteroid 2004 BL86 – a rock the size of a small mountain, or about three football fields – will come within about 750,000 miles of dear planet Earth. The asteroid is expected to be observable to amateur astronomers with small telescopes and strong binoculars.

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LOOKING FOR a job? We have a couple. We need a paginator because we’re losing the lady who has been doing the job for us soon. She left some pretty big shoes to fill. But if you are interested in helping produce daily editions in Crawfordsville and Noblesville, as well as learning the basics of journalism, let us know – SOON! You can e-mail [email protected]. Did we mention soon?

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THE OTHER job we have is delivering our Wednesday edition. No, this isn’t what you might think of as a typical newspaper route. This is delivering papers to Post Offices and stores around Montgomery County. The pay is outstanding and you get to work for yourself. Interested? E-mail Tim at [email protected].

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STAY TUNED, Readers’ Choice 2022 is coming!

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COVID JUST won’t seem to let go, will it? While cases surge, Crawfordsville and Montgomery County have pushed the State of the City / County Addresses by Mayor Todd Barton and Montgomery County Administrator Tom Klein to a virtual event.  The speeches will be recorded and broadcast on radio station WCDQ at 7 p.m. on Jan. 27 and will be available in podcast format so people can access them at their leisure and from the safety of their own home. The local chapter of the League of Women Voters is the sponsor!

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WE KEEP hammering on this, but we truly hope that you will patronize advertisers in The Paper. If it wasn’t for them, there would be no daily edition. In addition, we hope that you will choose to shop local whenever you can. Without local businesses, communities would look a lot different – and decidedly not better!

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ON THAT NOTE, please say thank you (and patronize) those businesses you see on our pages. Without their support, there would be no Paper of Montgomery County. We are here to serve you, thanks to them! If that doesn’t deserve a tip of the seed corn cap, we don’t know what does!

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HERE’S OUR weekly riddle: First, think of the color of the clouds. Next, think of the color of snow. Now, think of the color of a bright full moon. Now answer quickly – what do cows drink?

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ANOTHER knock-knock for you . . .

Knock knock.

Who’s there?

Snow.

Snow who?

Snow way I’m telling you that there’s a better paper than THE Paper of Montgomery County!

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HERE’S AN interesting tidbit from one of our favorite publications (besides The Paper of Montgomery County, of course), the Farmer’s Almanac. One kind word in winter can easily warm three months.

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CONTINUING our official countdown . . .

Groundhog Day – 14 days

First day of spring – 60 LONG days from now

First day of summer – 153 days

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THE ANSWER to our riddle: Did you say Milk? Nah! Cows drink water.