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THE CANADIAN RECDRD
COMMUNITY PAGE
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Chicken on the Run
WE ALL HAVE OUR favorite pastimes.
Ways that we spend our free hours, wheth-
er it be by our lonesome or with friends and
family.
I must admit, hanging around champion
storytellers and singers of sentimental bal-
lads really fills my glass. Two art forms
that normally go hand-in-hand. Legendary
"silver-tongued rollers" of myth, song and
tale, "holding stow" in my book of heroes
include some of the best. Red Skelton, Burl
Ives, Jerry Bower, Baxter Black, Jerry
Lewis, Sherry Lewis and Joe Stevens, a
friend of mine, gone but not forgotten, from
South Texas.
These folks came from and walked dif-
ferent roads in life, yet they all had one gift
in common. The gift of not making—but
providing—an opportunity that allowed
people to laugh. Sharing their magic of tale
and song without vulgarity or shame.
Recently, while traveling down the
blacktop and eating a burrito with radio
blaring, I heard a fellow give tribute to Red
Skelton. This gentleman actually had spent
some time visiting with Mr. Skelton and
was now himself a stand-up comic. Doing
rather well.
Red Skelton had shared some of his
convictions with this gentleman. One of
these tried-and-tested promises, accord-
ing to this gentleman, he believed to be the
secret of his success. Red Skelton told him
that laughter in comedy is a medicine that
we all iieed. When one includes vulgarity
or shame in their comedy, they are put-
ting a poison in the medicine. Something
to ponder.
One of my pastimes includes storytell-
ing and a bit of stand-up humor and song. I
have been asked to appear in Albuquerque
in the next week or two as entertainment
for a gathering. Included in my "wee" ap-
pearance will be a rooster that has been
tagged, "Brooster Cogburn." This fowl oc-
casionally accompanies me on these tours.
Now one would think that toting a chick-
en to New Mexico would be no big thing. Au
contraire! To take a chicken to New Mexico
the requirements were as follows.
A call to the New Mexico Animal
Health. That was a hoot. The sweet lady
wanted to know if this rooster would be
around any other chickens while in New
Mexico? I said, "No, he will be appearing
at a banquet in the Marriott Hotel." She
said, "Oil. will it be served?"
I said, "Well, I certainly hope so, as he
will be one of the guests!" Bless her heart,
she really was caught off guard. Before
this conversation was over, we were both
hooting!
A notification to the New Mexico Game
and Fish Department came next. Then, to
accompany the little yard bird is a certified
health certificate with a special number
from a local vet. This bird was examined
from wattles to wiggles: tonsils tested,
blood taken, feathers examined, and toe-
nails clipped. I feel left out.
No one ever asked if my contagious rash
had cleared up or if I had been tested for
T.B., Tularemia, Tick Fever, or Giardiasis.
Oh well, that's what happens when you
travel with a chicken on the run!
Enjoy Your World—it's a good place to
be!
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SARA SCHAEFFER AND JONAH HENDRICKSON
Sara Schaeffer and Jonah
Hendrickson to wed in April
The parents i if Sa ra Ollie Schaeffer announce the engagement of their daughter to Jonah Ash
Hendrickson. The bride-elect is the daughter of Bill Roy and Janice Moore of Canadian and Tim
and Cory Schaeffer of Simi Valley, (Yilitornia. Her fiance is the son of Mike and Annie Hendrick-
son of Higgins. The couple will wed on April 14,2007 in Canadian,
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