Editor's Pick: Happiest Stories from 2012
What were your favorite stories from the past year?
As 2012 ends and I reflect on the stories of the past year, two stand out. These stories are the ones I remember because they brought a smile to my face. I hope they make you smile too. This story about Pine-Richland's 12-year-old singing phenom was the most-read story of 2012. Here's an excerpt: Before thousands of leaders and dignitaries from around the world, Jackie Evancho performed a song Thursday morning (Feb. 2) that calls on people "to believe in a day when hunger and war will pass away." The 11-year-old from Richland Township sang at the annual National Prayer Breakfast at the Hilton-Washington in the nation's capital, for which President Obama was the keynote speaker. Her uncle, Matt Evancho, wrote the song, which is on her …
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James Dale Barrington
7:29 pm on Monday, December 31, 2012
In the beginning was a seed, the size of a grain of salt. The seed was packed with potential. The seed held the power to bring forth, to create. It held the power of life itself. - And the seed released its power in a big bang, giving birth to time and space. - And the power flowed forth, and flows still, and the power was, is and always will be. - And the secrets of the seed revealed itself … more ›