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​Tuesday December 20, 2022

2022 Christmas Lighting Contest Winners

Here are the Christmas Lighting Contest results! 

Residential
1st Place - 105 3rd St
2nd Place - 407 2nd St
3rd Place - tie -  132 Jerry & #80 Hermit Lane

Business
1st Place - Watson Realty
2nd Place - Mountain Envy
2rd Place - Arterburn Gallery

A huge shout-out to the pickleball crew for being our judges and to Suzanne Mowry for hosting a lovely thank you party for all our pickle-ball-judges!

Thanks to everyone who participated in making our towns a festive place this winter! 
Photos courtesy Valley Strong
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It has come to my attention that we need to devote some space so our readers know how to submit articles, ads, etc.  Each week, you will find this information and more on this page. 
For story ideas, press releases, articles, and club news, please email them to editor@thevalleybeat.net. We welcome your submittals and will do everything we can to ensure they are in the next issue.  We go to press every Monday, so I ask that submittals for the following Tuesday, are in BEFORE 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoons. 
All life events such as marriages, births, deaths, military service, anniversaries, etc., are welcome in TVB.  We never charge for these submittals.  If you would like assistance in writing them, please email editor@thevalleybeat.net.  You are also welcome to share them with other publications.  I want to make sure your loved one(s) are honored, no matter the circumstance. 
Our advertising rates cannot be beat!  We want to help get the word out on your business so the community can contact you.  There are special packages for multiple month commitments, payment in advance, and for classified listings.  I can be reached at 719-315-6172, or email: editor@thevalleybeat.net.  
We WELCOME letters to the editor!  Please email them to editor@thevalleybeat.net. They will be printed in their entirety.  All I ask is that you sign and print it, and include your city and state.  Please be factual and refrain from using profanity.   
We have a new column called “Pet Corner.”  Please submit a photo of your fur baby to visiblerootbeer@yahoo.com. If you’d like to get really creative, include a caption with it.  You will get full credit and see your name and Mr. Fluffy or Ms. Fifi’s name in print. 
Thank you in advance! 
- by Tracy Ballard ​

​New Sudoku Puzzles

9x9 Sudoku
Difficulty: Medium

"Sudoku (also known as "Number Place") is a placement puzzle. The puzzle is most frequently a 9 x 9 grid made up of 
3 x 3 subgrids (called "regions"). Some cells already contain numbers, known as "givens". The goal is to fill in the empty cells, 
one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1 through 9 exactly once. 
Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of three "directions", hence the "single numbers" implied by the puzzle's name."
- (Descriptions and puzzles generated using Cross+ A).

Killer Sudoku
Difficulty: Medium

"In Killer Sudoku, sub-regions have specified sums, and no number can be repeated within a region. This variant also called "Sums Sudoku", 
"Sums Number Place", "Samunamupure", "Kikagaku Nampure"."
- ​(Descriptions and puzzles generated using Cross+ A).

Solutions for Last Week

9x9 Sudoku
Difficulty: Medium

Killer Sudoku
Difficulty: Medium
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