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Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
And Now You Do
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27:9, Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man\s friend by hearty counsel.
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CNN, Fox, and other news broadcasts continue to march across our television screens with the content beginning to show us more detail of Iraqi civilian day to day lives. This has happened as our military has moved into the central regions of Baghdad itself and the suburbs are being searched for enemy forces. In the beginning broadcasts tended to center more on the military buildup and all of our tanks streaking across the endless deserts of sand making their way toward the capital of Iraq itself. But now we are in the heartland of the capital of this foreign country.
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randallhughes writes "If you have driven by West Seventh, there may be a change soon. Walgreens will take over the spot where Gillfallans Hardware Store sits on West Seventh. They will have a retail store and pharmacy too. I hope more change is on the way for our fair city."
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randallhughes writes "After seventy years of service to Corsicana snd Navarro Couny, KAND radio will go off the air at the end of 2007. It was a business move by the Northland Cable TV company that also owns Northland Cable TV. Perry Taylor did the local news when the radio station was Located on West Seventh Avenue. It is a sad day indeed to see this fine station go out of business. It not only has local news but also broadcasts the Corsicana Tiger Football games and Navarro College Bulldog games. I will miss it."
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JoAnne: Celebrating Veteran's Day
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jo writes "
VETERANS DAY
NOVEMBER 11, 2007
CELEBRATING VETERANS DAY
Eighty-seven year old WW II Pilot Remembers B25G Plane Capturing a Jap Flag
Column by JoAnne Tuttle
World War II has come and gone, but for Emery Tuttle, resident of Cedar Creek Lake, the memory of those days still lingers on. He recently published his memoirs, “And the Angels Sing, subtitled Stories of a WW II Pilot,” which chronicles the account of his experiences during the war that left behind what has been called the greatest generation.
Tuttle was born in 1920 in Wisconsin. On October15, 1940, with five of his best friends, he joined the Wisconsin National Guard for one year of federal military service. But before their one year commitment was up, the U. S. Congress extended all military service for the duration of the emergency. The attack on Pearl Harbor extended their service until the end of the war."
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
Baseball may be America’s national pastime, but football is the national game of Texas! The Kerens Bobcats during the 1950s and 1960s played other games besides football–baseball and
basketball, for example–but football was number one, and baseball and basketball fell somewhere around fifth or sixth place. If you do not understand how baseball and basketball can be in fifth or sixth place out of only three sports, you obviously did not grow up in Kerens, and you equally obviously do not possess a complete understanding of Class A Texas football and the centrality of football to Texas life and culture.
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I was going to put something to paper tonight of historical significance or maybe something about the space shuttle. Maybe something about the war or the political implications of warfare in the Middle East as the nightly views from CNN continue to invade our homes with the invasion of Iraq. Maybe something about Kerens and computers?
Nope. Cannot do any of that because the invasion of our home tonight came from another battlefront. Tonight the newest member of our family has arrived and the house is in an uproar. My wife is running around in circles worrying that the walls are about to come down. My youngest boy is going back and forth and in and out of the house and keeps asking “What do I do now?”
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randyghughes writes "In the New Year of 2008, you may have to have a digital TV converter to hook up your older analog TV because on February 17th, 2009, the U.S. goverment is wanting to shut off the regular TV signals so broadcasters can broadcast in the digital TV mode. The older TV signals will be used for other uses public safety uses, i.e. wireless cell phones. The Dallas TV stations are broadcasting the digital TV signals now. With a sharper picture and sound, Walmart, here locally, has both high definition and standard definition TVs on sale."
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
The two best tree climbers I ever knew were my uncle James Henry Tarkington and my dad, Steve Vernon. Children sometimes climb trees for fun, but not these two--they climbed for pecans . . . and when they climbed they made the act look as easy as child’s play.
The pecan harvest around Kerens and the surrounding countryside commences around mid- to late September, and is fully underway well before Thanksgiving. You will know when the pecan season has started when a few pecans fall from the trees and hit you on the head, or when you begin seeing a few of them lying around on the sidewalks and grass lawns around town.
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There are a lot of bookstores that surround us in this area and many of you have visited some of them. The only problem is, we have to drive about an hour to visit a place where the novels and depictions of history will surround you from wall to shining wall. Each one of these bookstores has its own characteristic atmosphere of literature and sometimes, that of a solitude filled with stories both real and imagined.
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randyghughes writes "Up in Ennis, Texas there are 13 commercial projects going on. There are 3 hotels under construction. Two along highway 45 with the other being built along the highway 287 bypass. A new medical office building is being built. A new surgical center not far from the new Ennis Regional Hospital on the highway 287 bypass. A new 104 unit apartment complex is being built. Also Ennis, Texas may get a new 225 million dollar industry that will provide new jobs for this fair city."
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randyghughes writes "Last Night at Northside Baptist Church we had a wonderful Music Concert My Friend John Smith of Lampasas, Texas was one of the members of this Christian music group that gave a beautiful one hour concert. Russ Murphy came in from Lubbock, Texas to perform a song, "Welcome Home Soldier" in a tribute to our men and women in Iraq. If you were there, you were blessed. If not, you missed a very special concert."
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
I got my first bicycle at the tender age of ten. The bicycle cost me my entire life savings of $5.00, and I paid it out in cold hard cash. The seller was Joe Lewis, the teenage son of a wonderful couple named Bill and Katy Mangum. Bill and Katy lived in Goodlow Park in the last house on the right as you are headed south through Goodlow Park on FM 309. It was there that I went with Dad to pick up the bike, pay for it, and load it in our car to take home.
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Here it is Monday night and I just got through watching Bush give his speech to the nation and his ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. The speech is over and now all of the spin doctors are going round and round with half of them ridiculing the President and half of them saying this has got to be done. Can you guess which half is which? Which half elected Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter? Which half elected George Bush and Ronald Reagan? That’s a tough one isn’t it? Requires a lot of head scratching.
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
It loomed there at the dead end of Colket Street, the main street of Kerens—a big, square, red brick two-story building with the date of 1911 boldly glaring out at passers by. Surely it had many tales to tell if only it could have talked! When you reached it driving south, you had to turn left or right because its massive structure blocked your path. It was our school. It was elementary and grammar school all rolled into one for my generation of students, the KHS class of 1958. I started first grade in one of its rooms in the fall of 1946, and graduated from this building to the tan brick one-story high school just east of it in the spring of 1954.
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Local News: New Eagles Album Long Road Out of Eden
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randyghughes writes "There will be a new Eagles album coming out soon, October 30th. It will have 20 new songs on it. I'm sure it will be coming soon to a local Walmart store near you. This would be a great Christmas gift for anbody who loves the Eagles. Wonderful music. Buy it soon for yourself or a loved one."
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 Adore, v.:
To venerate expectantly.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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