Anytime is a good time to spend time with the family.
Winter is no exception.
She didn't win the award. She didn't need to. Everyone who knew her as the droll, energetic, warm-hearted hard worker she was understood why. To be nominated at age 80 said it all. By the time of her death just recently, Helen Earle was one of those rare ones-a community treasure, a combination, in her pastor's words, of the best traits of the biblical Martha and Mary, a distinct and robust personality from an era when women were usually expected to play second fiddle, a gift to us from another time, a time of faith.