Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Bluff City News

We are off to a good start on a brand new year. By this time most of us have already broken any new year's resolutions we might have made.

The weather caused quite a few problems in the year 2000. This area received about 14 inches of snow in January, followed by record high temperatures in August. It was also one of the driest years on record, causing many of our shade trees to die. We wound up the year in December with two major ice storms, causing more damage than anyone could remember. Almost everyone spent several days without power as trees fell under the weight of the ice. Bluff City, as well as many other communities, ushered in the new year in total darkness with fresh snow falling. Let's hope 2001 will treat us better.

Someone suggested we could rate the year 2000 according to one of the following movie titles. Which of these titles best fits the year from your point of view? As Good As It Gets, Reversal of Fortune, Nightmare on Elm Street, It's a Wonderful Life, or Apocalypse Now.

We were able to have church services on Dec. 31 even though the power was off. We moved into a classroom where there was a gas heater and had three lamps powered by a generator. I don't know if it was intentional or a coincidence, but Bill Sellers led us in the song Let The Lower Lights Be Burning.

Congratulations to Linda Carman for winning second place in the holiday lights contest for Chidester and surrounding communities.

I hear that James Tomlin has suggested that someone could start a rocking chair factory here to utilize all the small trees that were bent over by the ice. Timber damage was heavy, especially to pine plantations that had recently been thinned.

A thought: "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."