If home is where your heart is, Randolph it is for Brian Howard.

This is the perfect time of year to begin planning for Vacation Bible School. I love Vacation Bible School, it’s like going to summer camp without the bugs and mud.

A typical VBS includes: games, music, snacks, sports, crafts, Bible and missionary stories and a whole lot more. If you are a church leader this could be the ideal program for you. If you’re a parent, make sure to sign your children up for all the fun and blessings this event will provide.

Rudyard Kipling in his poem “Mandalay” wrote of the dawn coming “up like thunder.” In this old town, dawn of the 4th came up like an infantry fire fight.

As the sun rose, every red-blooded resident got down to the serious business of touching off scores of firecrackers. The unrelenting cannonade went on all day and far into the night.