GE to Match Donations of Past Employees

This is the time of year to consider a donation to a worthy group.  Former General Electric Appliance Control Department retirees/spouses of retirees can double their donations and take the tax deduction.  Call 800-305-0669 to start the process; be sure to have available your nine-digit GE number.  They will verify

Christmas Books Will Fit the Bill

  Looking for a unique gift that will remain of interest for years to come?  Let thecity1.com suggest two beautiful, 80-page book options for Christmas gifting.  Each has interesting text and hundreds of photographs–to record a season or sixty years of employment.  Football fans will enjoy the 2011 Commemorative Football

Did You Reset Every Timepiece?

Daylight Saving Time has come to an end.  Adjust back one hour all your clocks, watches, and appliances.  Don’t forget clocks in your vehicles and watches not currently on your wrist.

Trick-or-Treating October 31

Trick-or-Treating within the City of Morrison, IL, has been designated for Wednesday, October 31, 2012.  The hours are from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.   Click here for some Halloween Google giggles.

Halloween Parade

The Morrison Chamber of Commerce and Cottonwood 4-H Club host the Annual Morrison Halloween Parade on Saturday, October 27, 2012.   Line-up begins at 12:45 p.m. at Community State Bank, 220 E. Main Street.  Starting at 1:30, the parade will proceed west on Main Street to the Post Office at Orange

Welcome Back to thecity1.com

The host server for this online newspaper had “difficulties” Monday and Tuesday, October 21 and 22, 2012, respectively.  Access to the site was unavailable nearly the entire time.  Emails could neither be replied to nor received.  Our host moved thecity1.com to a different server–temporarily–but that did not function for more

The Girls – by Lori Lansens

This is a most unusual story of cojoined twin sisters and the chronicle of their incomparable life’s journey. I thank Jean Zinnen for referring this book to me. I truly enjoyed it.