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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Friendship
When we are young we take for granted that the friends we make then will always be in our lives. Some will survive the test of time and some will fade away. Or in my case they all will be left behind. Though I have made a few good friends since I moved away from Overland Missouri as a teen, None have been as close or as dear as those I had to leave behind. The older I get the more I miss the friends I had and wish I could have kept in touch with them.
 Friendship is a form of extended family, Like brothers and sisters they are a part of your everyday life. Unlike brothers and sisters you got to choose which friends you had/have. Sometimes friends are even closer to you than your own family. Bonded by experiences you’ve shared together and the compatibility of your personalities. Friends help each other through life and good friends stick with you through all the trials in life you may face.
My friends that I have lost due to the move
(from School – Armbruster Vocational Prep & Ritenour Jr. High)
Lisa Miller, Cathy Althaus, Stephanie Curley, Ginger Parrish ,Mark Sides, Billy Palmer, Jim Derricks, Ed Delfert, Steve Heafner, Deanna Begley, Bev Groves, John Carver, Jerry Pyle and many more.
Friends that I lost due to their Deaths.
Thomas Roll, Bill Northcut, Dennis Scott Rice, Lance of overland Missouri. (forgot his last name.)Â R.I.P.
Personal Thoughts on Dennis Scott Rice
From the short time we knew each other , I know of how he strived in helping others through church , work and just his everyday life. The Irony that he would find his end in a auto accident when he worked hard at his job at the Georgia D.O.T. to improve road safety. I know he has volunteered for many Church outings as so has his wife Angela. He was a real intelligent and thoughtful person. a good friend to know and have.
This world will miss his contributions and his family and friends will be missing him too. For a Brother in law he was one of the best. He didn’t Judge me when I Divorced his sister in law nor did he judge her. He is survived by two great children Abby and Sam, Abby is allot like her dad in her heart and she takes after her mom in spirit. Sam is from what I remember quite a handful. So much like their parents….
Needless to say I could not have asked for a better friend or Brother in law
Rest in Peace My Friend..
Raymond Barbier
More about Dennis Rice
Flowery Branch man killed in wreck
By Mike Morris
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 06/15/07 8:40 AM
A Flowery Branch man was killed Thursday night in a single-car wreck near Duluth, Gwinnett County police said.
Gwinnett police Cpl. Darren Moloney said 40-year-old Dennis Scott Rice was eastbound on GA. 316 near Boggs Road when the 2002 Mustang he was driving left the roadway, struck a traffic barrel, ran down an embankment and overturned.
Rice was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck, which occurred about midnight.
A tribute to a great friend & a great Person
Dennis Scott Rice
Mr. Dennis Scott Rice, age 40, died in an automobile accident on Friday, June 15, 2007.
He was married to his lovely wife, Angela, for 17 years. He was a very loving and giving husband and devoted father. He loved snow skiing and vacationing with his family. He was a member of Grace Baptist Church, where he was a deacon. He taught the High School Student Ministry Class and was a leader of the First Impressions Team with Grace Baptist Church. He graduated from Georgia Southern University in 1992. He worked with the Georgia Department of Transportation for 14 years as an LTAP Director, “Local Technical Assistance Program.”
He is survived by his wife, Angela Rice; daughter, Abigail “Abby” Rice; son, Samuel “Sam” Rice; brothers, Marshall Rice, Nichols, and Curtis Rice, Alto; sister, Kimberly Rice Coty, Marietta; his parents, Terry and Belle Rice, Alto; mother-in-law, Hattie Barr, Covington; special friends Chad and Becky Seymour of Tifton; and a host of other relatives. He was preceded in death by father-in-law, Robert Shorty Barr.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at Grace Baptist Church, Flowery Branch. Officiating will be the Rev. Jeff Worley and the Rev. Terry M. Rice. The family will receive friends Monday, June 18, 2007 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Memorial Park South Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in memory of Dennis to the student ministry at Grace Baptist Church, 4256 Martin Road, Flowery Branch, GA 30542, (770) 965-3044.
Memorial Park South Funeral Home, Flowery Branch
The Times, Gainesville, Ga., June 18, 2007
Originally published Monday, June 18, 2007
Chuck-A-Burger in St. John Missouri to close
By D. Paul Harris
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
06/01/2007
ST. JOHN — The Chuck-A-Burger, the restaurant that looks like it could double as a set in “American Graffiti,” is closing at the end of the year.
The restaurant, which opened at 9025 St. Charles Rock Road in 1957, will lose its lease Dec. 31.
Owner Ron Stille opened another Chuck-A-Burger two years ago in St. Charles, and he said he can’t afford to buy the property here.
“It makes me sick because I grew up there,” said Stille, 52, of Ellisville. Advertisement
“It’s touched thousands of lives, including my family and friends. When my dad passed away in 1999, I went down there in the middle of the night and just stood in the kitchen and cried. Because this was family … how much that store means to us.”
The restaurant, which seats 42 inside and has 65 parking spaces, also is close to the hearts of legions of customers.
“That’s where you went to meet your buddies or to take your girlfriend and sit in the parking lot and drink a cherry Coke,” Stille said. “On Friday or Saturday night you’d cruise around in your ’57 Chevy before you went to a drive-in movie or after a movie.”
Chuck-A-Burger opened its first store in 1955 at Page and Pennsylvania avenues in Pagedale. At the company’s peak, in the 1960s, there were eight locations in the St. Louis area.
Stille’s father, Ralph, was the first manager of the Rock Road restaurant. Ralph Stille bought the business in 1978 and Ron and his wife, Linda, bought it from Ralph in 1995.
The business faded in the 1970s in the face of chain competition, but in 1982 Ron and his father revitalized the store by starting “cruise nights” on weekends, making it a meeting place for classic cars, carhops and ’50s and ’60s music.
Some customers Thursday took the news hard.
“I remember as a kid, I used to watch the snow falling from the window here while I was waiting for my food,” said Mike Pogue, 44, of St. John, as he received a burger and fries. “My mom brought me here quite a bit. Now I work right up the street, and I still come here for lunch. I’m really going to miss it.”
Faye Staufenbiel, 55, of west St. Louis County, has been a regular customer for 40 years. She says the drive doesn’t bother her because she loves the food and the nostalgia.
“I really hate to see it close,” Staufenbiel said as she waited for her order with her 19-year-old daughter, Ginger Willis.
Among the restaurant’s 23 employees is Carol McCain, 61, an inside waitress who has been with restaurant three-plus decades. She said she’d miss the customers the most.
“They call me ‘Chuck-A-Burger Carol,'” she said.
dpharris@post-dispatch.com | 314-372-8506
Stargate SG-1
Farewell to yet another Sci-Fi Channel show. Seems every time they get a real good show they cancel it. Though I will give them credit for keeping Stargate SG1 on so long. Stargate Atlantis is a good show but until this lame and last season of SG1 it didn’t quite measure up. Is it just me or is SG1’s last season filled with thrown together plot lines? until this episode it quite bored me and wasn’t anyway connected to the the plot line where they left off next season except for maybe 1 or 2 episodes. Well next week they are having a all week long sg1 marathon, so if you didn’t buy the DVD’s get your VCR’s out or the DVD-R and record away. Next Friday will be the finally so hopefully it will stack up to their usual level. Well if not then not. And yes I really miss Richard Dean Anderson on the show, when he left I knew it would come to an end sooner than later. At least Stargate Atlantis has improved allot so it gives a a little of a consolation prize. Farewell Stargate Sg1 and thanks for the great seasons. 🙂
Self Forgiveness
I find it much easier to forgive others of their mistakes than to forgive myself. I do not know if it is due to my belief that I should know better than to make the mistake, or if I am just not as lenient with myself as I am with others. Self forgiveness is very important in healing ones emotional and mental wounds.
Forgiving others is also important, but if you can not forgive yourself for the things you have done then you will carry the guilt around forever. One thing to realize is that you are not perfect and that you will make mistakes in life. Sometimes the mistakes are small and sometimes they are life changing.
Until you forgive yourself of those mistakes you will never be able to move on with your life. By carrying the guilt around all the time you put your body through some heavy stress. We all know how stress can effect ones health and mental state. To forgive is divine is the phrase I remember from my youth. They forgot to tell you the forgiveness is not only for others but also for yourself.
“To forgive is Divine, To forgive ones self is hard.”
Thoughts About Depression
Depression is one of the great enemies of life. Of course it is a natural process in dealing with grief. But it is only supposed to be a short lived release of sadness. In this day and time depression has put a death grip on a large part of the populous. Depression does not only cause a type of mental and emotional paralysis it also can cause many health issues such as weakening of the immune system and constant pain in the body.
There are pharmaceutical solutions to depression but in treating the symptoms they seem to miss the cause sometimes. Those who have depression due to chemical imbalances the drug therapy is a viable solution. Some people are depressed due to events that happened in their life, sometimes events they don’t even remember. Drugs may numb them of the symptoms to a degree but it doesn’t fix the problem.
Therapist can help some who face depression and that is only if the person who is depressed is ready and or willing to face the problems within. Some people are depressed and do not even know it. For years I have been suffering on and off from depression and until the last 5 years I didn’t even know that I was. Problem with depression is that it manifests itself in many different forms. Even Psychologist miss the signs of depression and even diagnose depression as other mental illnesses.
Now days a lot of research has gone into how diet and environment effects the mental and physical well being of mankind. So here is another possibility in the ever growing list of things that may cause depression. Maybe one day we will find a quick fix for depression, but till then I guess we have to keep delving into our past to seek out what event that may have triggered the depression. If you are lucky enough to find the event/Chain of events that started the depression just remember forgiveness is divine and is a path to healing.
The Puzzle I Call Life
Every day within me a war is waged between the side of light and the side of darkness. The outcome is different each day, one will loose one part and gain another. Pretty much a stalemate but one day one side will get the upper hand on the other. My greatest fear is that darkness will win in this war for my mind and soul. Even though I fear such, I have faith in the light side within me.
My nature is pretty much of the light, though I do suffer from the darkness. Been through pridefulness and still battling against lust. Self pity still rears its head from time to time. Being just a fool in the quest for wisdom I do the best I can. Praying to God and Jesus gives me hope and strength to make it through yet another day. The wisdom they gave me helps me understand yet another piece of the puzzle I call life.
My life is nothing but another journey of a layman and fool who seeks wisdom and peace.
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