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10/22/2003 Archived Entry: "A MUCH NEEDED MINI VACATION"

A MUCH NEEDED MINI VACATION

Tomorrow Linda is heading out for the eastern part of the state to attend a Kansas Press Association meeting of some kind. It's either that or a KPA board of directors meeting. That's all business.

Once those meetings are over, she's taking a whole week off from work, her first in the five years she has been here. She deserves much more than that, but owning a newspaper is very much like owning a dairy herd or a restaurant...you never can get away from them.

I remember Frank and Bert McAtee never got away from their restaurant. Once they tried to go to Indiana to visit a son, were gone one day and got a call to come home. That's just the way those particular businesses are. Linda needs to put her cell phone on the train tracks.