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It is not true that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure that can be viewed from space - many man-made objects, including the Dutch polders, can be viewed from space.
And Now You Do
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5:14, I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #34
National Rural Telecom Conference
October 1st, 2000
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Not sure, but I think I forgot to mention last week what an outstanding job the Kerens Parade Chairman (or is it Chairwoman?) did last week at Homecoming 2000. Wasn’t that a great parade! Karen Derden, you did good and that was an extremely impressive job you accomplished. I will put that parade up against any small town event anywhere, anytime. To all the people who took the time to prepare a float or dress up your vehicle (or horse) and ride down Main Street, what an atmosphere of hometown enjoyment you created. Your gift and your reward is the pride that people took home with them after seeing their hometown dressed up like a girl at her first dance. She sure was pretty too.
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The Kerens Homecoming 2000 event is over and I know for a fact there are many satisfied people sitting at home resting having accomplished this monumental task. Wasn’t it fun on Saturday just seeing all the people in town? For those of you whom were unable to make the trip to Kerens, you have no idea what you missed. It was spectacular, it was awesome, you could not hear yourself talk on Main Street at noon the noise level was so high. When the PA system was turned on after the parade for the Alumni Center building dedication, you could not even hear the speech that was being presented by the Master of Ceremonies, Coach James Kelley. It was a great beginning for Kerens in the dawn of this 21st century and we set a standard for small town America to measure themselves against. That’s right, Kerens, Texas is setting the pace.
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #32
Getting Ready for Homecoming
September 17th, 2000
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Saturday morning I tried to cross Main Street in Kerens on foot, bumped into someone who was also trying to get across the street, and then had to stop and wait for traffic. A traffic jam? It struck me at that moment that more than the landscape of downtown had changed since KESA activities ramped up to begin this new century. There were people everywhere on Main Street Saturday.
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Did you notice all of those clouds over Main Street last Saturday? At first we did not know what they were, we haven’t seen any in so long. But it sure cooled things down a bit. An egg would have only sizzled if one was cracked on the sidewalk instead of being fried to a dark brown like they did a couple of weeks ago. With it only being around 90 degrees in the shade, it kind of made you feel like running to the house and grabbing a sweater. Know what I mean? Anyway, we did not have to eat eggs at lunch because Jimmy and Jo Tyner bought us a big box of fried chicken that was finger tasting good while being served in the Kerens Garden Park. Thanks Jimmy, you and Jo are fine people.
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The problem with designing a dress (as I overhead an expert dress designer say once) is how do you design one to fit them all? It’s kind of hard to put suspenders on most women like you can a man and just let the britches hang. You know what I mean?
Well, the analogy here is how many pixels do you allow for a graphic when designing for so many different monitors and monitor settings? (an obvious analogy of course)
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The Kerens Ex-Students Association had an important Board of Directors meeting Saturday morning and we met in highly professional new surroundings as well. Where did we meet? Well, just this once I will give you a hint. Each of the Board of Directors right now can give you a highly detailed overview of what the women’s restroom looks like in the Alumni Center building. Actually, it looks real nice and is going to look even better.
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I hope everyone has noticed all the great activities for kids the Kerens Public Library has been providing this summer. I know baseball and other sporting activities are first and foremost in the little ones minds during the summer, but a good reading program just cannot be overlooked for the impact it can provide. It can help them now, it can help them when they are adults, and it can help them throughout their lives to enjoy and see the world through other people’s eyes. Reading is without question one of the greatest joys of life.
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I had planned on writing a column about literature today, but as chance would have it something else is occupying my thoughts this afternoon. We had a day off this weekend from downtown building construction and I finally had the opportunity to make a trip to the hospital and visit an old friend of mine. A person to whom I personally owe more than one could ever repay, and a person to whom the City of Kerens owes even more for a lifetime spent in Community service.
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An important milestone affecting the future of Kerens passed by us a few weeks ago in our state capital. The significance of this event may seem small at the moment, but the fact on signed paper, along with the seal of Texas, is that another important stone in a growing foundation has been put solidly into place.
In July of the year 2000, the Kerens Ex-Students Association became an official corporation, a non-profit one of course. From this point forward, all of our documentation will carry the KESA title suffixed with the word INCORPORATED. This is something for all of us to be proud of and will provide us with the mechanism to continue forward progress for the great city of Kerens.
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The past couple of weeks have been flat tremendous when you pull out your progress gauge and measure just how far our current downtown construction project has moved forward. It is awesome what the Kerens Volunteers have done in order to earn their meals in the Garden Park on weekends.
Speaking of meals, two weeks ago that huge crock-pot that everyone seems to pass around town was used by Murlene Sessions to cook a slew of beans that Slim Pickens would have been proud to put his dipper in. Isn’t it a down home image to see a bunch of dirty sweaty men sitting around a picnic table out in the open going after steaming bowls of beans? Where was my camera at anyway! As fast as Glynn Holloway’s spoon was moving, the camera lens would have probably been spattered anyway. Oh well.
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Several people have sent in emails to Kerens.Com at one time or another asking how to create a web page and where you can go to publish one. Well, cut out this column and keep it around for when you have the time to do so and a ready-made reference to get you started will be at your fingertips.
There are basically two categories of web sites; free sites and professional dedicated web space leasing companies that provide you with high-speed connections and a large amount of space for a fee.
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This past weekend saw the best turnout in volunteer help for downtown building construction that we have seen since beginning this project earlier in the year. With the temperature hovering around a 100 degrees on both Saturday and Sunday, who would have thought this would be the time when the best of Kerens would choose to wander out their front doors and head to Main Street for many hours of labor in conditions resembling that of a world class sauna. Whewwwww it was hot!
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Wasn’t that a great July 4th community gathering in downtown Kerens, right there on Main Street. We had more people than last year, the Chamber of Commerce brought in more money for the city, and the Power Mountain rock climbing event was something new that was not only entertaining to climb, it had many people’s attention (while munching on their hotdogs) just watching all the efforts to make it to the summit. When is the last time you saw a climbing mountain sitting right in the middle of Main Street with kids crawling all over it? It was a sight to see, a great challenge, and it was fun!
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A couple of months ago I received an interesting email here at Kerens.Com about a place outside of Kerens with a name I had never heard spoken. They had a web page at location www.cowcreekfarm.com and wanted to be linked into the city website. Now, Everyone who has heard of Cow Creek Farm, please raise your hand. Hmmmm, just what I thought, I am not the only one.
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #20
The National Center For Small Communities
June 25th, 2000
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Sometime late last Monday afternoon, Janie Quinn and Gail Christie put their signatures on a document, addressed a large envelope to Washington D.C., and threw down a challenge to the rest of the United States. America had better watch out, because Kerens has its face in the wind and is on the move. Janie signed as the President of the Kerens Ex-Students Association, and Gail put her formal signature down as a duly elected official of this great city of Kerens and as a member of K.E.S.A.
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 "Welcome back for you 13th consecutive week, Evelyn. Evelyn, will
you go into the auto-suggestion booth and take your regular place on the
psycho-prompter couch?"
"Thank you, Red."
"Now, Evelyn, last week you went up to $40,000 by properly citing
your rivalry with your sibling as a compulsive sado-masochistic behavior
pattern which developed out of an early post-natal feeding problem."
"Yes, Red."
"But -- later, when asked about pre-adolescent oedipal phantasy
repressions, you rationalized twice and mental blocked three times. Now,
at $300 per rationalization and $500 per mental block you lost $2,100 off
your $40,000 leaving you with a total of $37,900. Now, any combination of
two more mental blocks and either one rationalization or three defensive
projections will put you out of the game. Are you willing to go ahead?"
"Yes, Red."
"I might say here that all of Evelyn's questions and answers have
been checked for accuracy with her analyst. Now, Evelyn, for $80,000
explain the failure of your three marriages."
"Well, I--"
"We'll get back to Evelyn in one minute. First a word about our
product."
-- Jules Feiffer
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| Tuesday, July 22 | | · | Kerens.Com #169
Student Scholarships
June 2nd, 2003 |
| Monday, June 02 | | · | Kerens.Com #168
First Time to India
May 26th, 2003 |
| Monday, April 14 | | · | Kerens.Com #167
Annika Sorenstam & Golf
May 19th, 2003 |
| Friday, April 04 | | · | Kerens.Com #166
Mother's Day at KESA
May 12th, 2003 |
| Thursday, March 27 | | · | Kerens.Com #165
Dayton Flight Museum
March 5th, 2003 |
| Tuesday, January 01 | | · | Kerens.Com #164
Speed Bumps
April 28th, 2003 |
| Thursday, December 27 | | · | Kerens.Com #163
KESA Easter Luncheon
April 21st, 2003 |
| Tuesday, November 27 | | · | Kerens.Com #162
KESA Easter Luncheon
April 14th, 2003 |
| Tuesday, November 13 | | · | Kerens.Com #161
Born in the U.S.A.
April 7th, 2003 |
| Saturday, November 03 | | · | Kerens.Com #160
Puppy Dog
March 31st, 2003 |
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