It’s something many don’t like to think about; some never will reach; and others muse about, but for a group of second graders at Riverview, what it would be like to be 100 was the topic of a recent essay assignment and they dealt with it in swift fashion.
       The assignment was part of the school’s 100 Days of School celebration, according to REMS Teacher Lana Davis, who posed the question to her class of mostly seven and eight year olds . . . "What Will you Look like When You are 100 years old?"
         100?!
         That’s like 92 or 93 years from now!
        Ask an adult to think that far down the road -- even with a hypothetical, "if medical science advanced and you could" -- and many would not be up to the assignment.
         For the kids, however, it appeared a little easier and most all agreed they would have gray hair and wrinkles (spelled any variety of ways).
         And by their answers, many equate advanced age with disability and inability to get around. Many suggested canes would be part of their routine, while others looked to wheel chairs or rockers.
        One student was apparently unafraid to address the subject head on, assuming that age 100 was a milestone that would not be reached.
         "I will be dead," Kory Carter wrote when asked "what will you look like when you are 100 years old?"
         Another couple said they might die, but looking on the bright side, turned their t thoughts to gray hair and wrinkles.
         The students also drew pictures to accompany their musings and those were a little sunnier and brighter, with some depicting gray-haired women planting and watering flowers or old men with canes, but nice sports cars.
          The students answers to the question -- unedited -- were as follows.
 

by Cathy St. Clair
News Editor
       Some $999,998.84 in additional appropriations made during the current fiscal budget year were ratified following a public hearing last Monday during a meeting of the Buchanan County Board of Supervisors.
       County Administrator W.J. Caudill noted the hearing and resolution were necessary because the appropriations made had exceeded $500,000. State law requires a hearing when additional appropriations made in a county’s approved budget exceed $500,000 or 1 percent of the approved budget.
        Caudill noted in many cases, the additional appropriations represented flow-through money received as grants or funding from state or federal agencies.
        The largest single appropriation listed was for $335,000 representing federal and state funds received for the operation of the department of social services.
        The resolution ratifying the additional appropriations was made by Hurricane Super-visor William P. Harris and was seconded by Knox Supervisor Pat Justus. The vote was unanimous.

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       Contributions totaling $14,517.80 were approved last Monday during a meeting of the Buchanan County Board of Supervisors.
       Hurricane Supervisor William P. Harris made the motion to approve the contributions and Garden Supervisor Buddy Fuller made the second. The vote was unanimous.
       The contributions approved, the amounts for which they were approved, who made the request and which supervisors authorized it are as follows.

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