Today's News

By CHUCK JONES

cjones@thenewsenterprise.com

HARDIN COUNTY – Cooperstown, N.Y. is a shrine to baseball, home of the Hall of Fame, featuring all-time greats like Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio and countless others.

Zeke Pinkham, a 12-year-old Elizabethtown resident, had an opportunity this summer many children and even some adults dream of. He played on some of the 28 fields in the Cooperstown Dreams Park in one of many youth baseball tournaments it hosts each year.

At its core, the American way of life boils down to one thing: opportunity.

That’s the ideal this country was founded on, its economy stands on and our individual and collective livelihoods depend on. It’s what people come to this country from other lands in search of. It’s the foundation of the American Dream.

The great thing about opportunity is it requires something of us. It requires ambition, dedication, accountability. It requires work.

And in many ways, work is something we, as Americans and as human beings, require as well.

By BECCA OWSLEY

bowsley@thenewsenterprise.com

ELIZABETHTOWN — A small city built out of cardboard boxes will be set up Friday at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College in support of Warm Blessings.

Warm Blessings is a non-profit, volunteer-based meal kitchen currently located at College Heights Methodist Church in Elizabethtown.

Participants will pay a minimum of $50 rental fee for the box and will spend the night inside, with only a handful of necessities allowed.