Long sports wait

Normally we would be talking about the basketball playoffs now and my yearly trek to Spokane to enjoy four days of small school, high octane basketball tournament play. But the short football season just got underway Friday night.

Working with the chain gang I get to visit with the young kids from the visiting team. The Chewelah kids were a nice group and I learned a lot.

One young man said he was cold. I mentioned that he was from Chewelah and should be used to it. He said we still had snow on the ground and they didn’t. I said, “We had about five inches of snow on the ground but it went off...