Sometimes you don’t miss something until it’s gone. We know everything changes. But still, when someone who has always been there is suddenly gone, they leave a big empty place.

Iva Stratton is retiring after 25 years as the office manager of this newspaper staff.

There are few employees who stay with a company for a quarter of a century. It is a rarity thesedays.

But she did.
She was always there, and while there had responsibility for a vast number of things. She did a lot more than managing accounts, taking ads, balancing books and juggling the daily demands of running an office. She was a problem solver and could be counted on to take up slack

Dear Editor,

Money. There’s a good word to wake up a sleepy reader. America has six coins that are being minted. Penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar and silver dollar. All except two are larger than the other denomination-wise and size as well. A quarter is bigger than a nickel, while a half-dollar is bigger than a quarter and a silver dollar is bigger than the half.

The penny and dime, the smallest in size, but the dime is smaller than the penny, yet worth more price-wise. Four coins have ridges around

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