Well, one good thing about having a week with no night meetings or games (other than the obvious of getting to see my kids in a state other than sleeping) is the chance to go hard-core after the Healthy Living Challenge.

I am not going to divulge any numbers until the article, but I will give you some clues as to how I am going to mark events, like, for every time I hit a 25-lbs. loss, I will cut the hair - kind of a Sampson and then renewing the commitment thing. I'll put it this way, I could be cutting some hair this weekend.

The main thing is, I am not going to talk about numbers. The only thing that can do is get me big-headed and then I'll blow it.

And as I said, I am not going to look stupid.

The newspaper is out for the week, and it is time to start thinking about the first February issue. As always, if you have any ideas, please e-mail me and if they're good, we'll get at them.

This week, there will be a boys basketball game at home (finally) on Friday, a village board meeting on Monday, and a benefit dinner for a young boy diagnosed with Leukemia on Tuesday, leading up to the big game between Whitehall and Argyle. I'm almost thinking that this should be a white-out situation - you know, what they do at colleges where everyone wears home colors - red doesn’t work because Argyle has red in its road uni's.

Other possible stories include talking to someone who has been to Haiti and what they have heard from there, a couple of business spotlights, and talking to the students preparing to go to Costa Rica on how their fundraisers are going.

Have a good night and here's to a couple of inches of snow tomorrow.

It's been a long day, so I'm late writing on my blog, but there are a couple things from the weekend that I wanted to mention.

Hooray to the girls basketball team for hosting the Play Hard for Haiti night where they were able to raise $600 for the relief efforts, half coming from the teams two coaches, Clint Currier and John St. Clair. Props also to Sherri Wescott, who helped man the donation box while taking tickets and trying to watch Nea play lock-down defense.

If you want to give to the relief effort, you can also go to Aubuchon and drop off relief items. There will be more details in this weeks Whitehall Times.

Now, on to Sunday. When I was a missionary, My last five months were spent in El Dorado Hills, Calif. My Ward Mission Leader played receiver for the BYU football team in the early 80's and had a good career in the CFL. His name was Scott Collie. Needless to say, it has been a very cool experience watching his son, who was 8 at the time I was out there, compete and make a huge catch for the Colts and now go to the Super Bowl. By some off-chance he or his family reads this - good luck, Austin, in the Super Bowl and it has been a joy to watch you play. I am happy for their entire family and every time I watch him play, it reminds me of the great two years I spent in California.

So, with all apologies to the Giants, Go Colts.

Sorry its been a while. but I got a little under the weather so I haven't been getting on-line too much.

So, When you see that the Lady Railroaders won 64-13 on Friday, that score is very deceiving. When Whitehall was playing their A-defense, they only gave up two points - TWO - one bucket where the girl actually double-dribbled twice, so the basket never should have counted - during those three quarters and 11 points in the one where they "experimented."

I'm all in on this team, they are the real deal. Also, I am dreading the potential that down the road the Railroaders could face my Alma Mater, Westport. The Lady Eagles are the fifth-ranked team in the state, while Whitehall is ranked fourth.

Sports are off for a week for midterms, so good luck to the student athletes on their exams.

Done with the preliminary parts of the Whitehall Times, with front page stories including an update on the car arson cases, the county recycling program event and the town wanting to get the Longtin case done with.

However, there is plenty going on tonight with several chances to get more news into the paper, including the village board meeting at 6 p.m., the school board meeting at 7 p.m., and the varsity girls game at about 7:30 p.m., where Brittany St. Clair could become the all-time leading scorer in Whitehall girls basketball history.

Stay tuned and I'll update either tonight before I go to bed or tomorrow after I put the paper to bed.