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Charlie’s Voice: Indian Creek Deserves Better

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Charlie Melton

By Charlie Melton

Indian Creek Township is composed of good, moral, loving citizens. Well, mostly. A few need a good spanking, but mostly people are pretty good. I’m here to testify they deserve better.

I’ve been running all around the internet virtual highways and byways screaming, “The sky is falling.” You might say I’ve been crying “wolf”. Unlike the fable about the geezer who cried wolf, there is really danger here. We have to eradicate the danger and prevent it from coming back. To put it another way, and in keeping with the wolf theme, our virtual house is made of straw, and we need to upgrade to brick. [Read more...]

Charlie’s Voice – Autumn Symphony

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Charlie Melton

By Charlie Melton

Today it’s raining. It hasn’t rained in a long time. The grass is crisp and brown. The corn in the field behind the house is brown and crisp too. But corn does that on some sort of schedule known only to the corn and the farmer that coaxes it out of seed. The corn follows its corn nature for a season, and then is gone.

The rain is the soft, nurturing rain of a cool fall day. It’s too cold to dance in, but not so violent that I have to scurry under a roof. I walk slowly, soaking my old t-shirt with the life giving fluid of the earth. [Read more...]

Charlie’s Voice – Do Something

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Charlie Melton

By Charlie Melton

I tell this story all of the time. It resonates with me and I think we all need to understand it.

Long ago and far away, I learned a valuable lesson. I attended the “New Testament Baptist Church” in Cahokia, Illinois. Old timers referred to the church as “Hard Shell Baptist”. They were strict on themselves, and others. They were the don’t dance, don’t laugh, don’t have fun, guilt ridden church in a dying community. The pastor, Jeff, was young and full of energy and judgment. He could shame a woman for wearing pants while making us all feel the flames of hell. Pastor Jeff was a force of nature. [Read more...]

Charlie’s Voice – Liars Got To Lie

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Charlie Melton

By Charlie Melton

Politics suck. I learned that as a child. I was supposed to learn to accept it, among other things, as I matured. I guess I never matured.

So, I got a guy named Bailey. This guy has been to my house a few times. He’s a good guy, in my estimation.

Anyway, several years ago this Bailey guy was running for something or other. A friend asked to put his sign in my yard and I said yes. You don’t have to mow around signs, which equals less work for me. I like them. [Read more...]

Charlie’s Voice – Honesty Died

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Charlie Melton

Gene died January 31st and I’m as mad as I can be. You should be mad, too.

Gene was born in 1952. He’s like most of us. He lived as if he’d never die. He didn’t take care of himself. He smoked since his early teens. He ate too much of the wrong things, especially greasy fried pork. He could drink as much Mountain Dew as he could afford, which at times had been a lot. [Read more...]

Charles Melton, Sr., Norris City

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Charles (Charlie) Thomas Melton, Sr., 90 years young, of Norris City, clocked in at the Pearly Gates at midnight sharp on the morning of January 7, 2022. He was on time and prepared for eternity, and his shift will never expire. Many friends, family members, and fellow Christians mourn his passing. Charles Melton tried to follow the credo, “Leave it a little better”. He said when he left anything, he tried to leave it a little better than it was before he was there. After his long battle with diabetes and kidney disease, Charlie cleared out of this mortal life at Aperion Healthcare in Fairfield, Illinois. [Read more...]

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