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MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge.
And Now You Do
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12:21, There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
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Business: Groundwork Started on New Office Depot Store
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randyghughes writes "Out on Highway 287 at the 132 acre retail site, groundwork has already started for the new Office Depot store next to Chilis Restaurant. A firm out of Tyler, Texas is breaking up the ground to make way for a new Office Depot. Itl should open several months from now. There will be 25 full time and part time people that will work in the new Corsicana, Texas store. Office Depot is also building a new retail store in Waco, Texas at the Central Texas Market place off Interstate 35 and Loop 340 in Waco."
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
The Taj Mahal is deemed one of the eight wonders of the world. I had the privilege of viewing the Taj during the decade of the 1980’s while on a consulting mission to India, and this visit was memorable in many ways. This month-long consultancy was undertaken on behalf of the government of Germany, and we visited many industrial factories, sewage treatment plants, and waste disposal dumps around the nation. Our overnight stop-over to visit the Taj was quite a contrast to the other site visits!
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This month right here has got to be the absolutely best month of the year. January beats all of the rest of them hands down with no contest. Here we are all rested up from the holidays and getting ready to leap back into the saddle. All of those new resolutions are written down and being strictly observed as we make our way through each day. The weather is not going to get any colder and springtime is looking you right in the eye. Is that it? Is that what makes January the Superstar of the twelve months of the year?
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Business: New Office Depot for 132 Acre Retail Site?
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randyghughes writes "If you have been out by Chilis Restaurant, you may notice there is some groundwork maybe going on for the new Office Depot retail store. I hope that construction will start soon on this new store. My personal wish list, I would like to see a Sam's Club out there too and maybe a really nice cinema with stadium seating. A Target or Super Target would be nice also. They really need a really good grocery store on this side of town."
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southerncrossranch writes "
Column by Southern Cross Ranch
Lately I have been doing some serious thinking about the future. Mostly I am worried about the state of our nation and who I will cast my vote for in 2008 for President. Now I have made up my mind who I will not vote for.
First thing, let me say I will not, cannot, no how vote for Guliani. He is not a Christian, has too much love for unmoral issues like abortion, is far left of my moral beliefs, and he is a Yankee. A big no no for me."
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
Working and traveling in the East African nation of Tanzania took me a long way from Kerens and Elm Flat. Growing up in Elm Flat before the day of paved roads was good preparation for traveling in Tanzania, but in other ways as well a rural Texas background was pretty helpful for my African odyssey. For example, the days of no electricity or telephones in Elm Flat were also good training for living in certain parts of the country! Like Elm Flat, most of Africa, particularly Tanzania, is agricultural in nature, and corn and cotton are common crops—not to mention tea and coffee, peanuts and cashew nuts, bananas, papayas, mangos, and other tropical fruit.
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #149
Rings and Potter Movie Race
January 12th, 2003
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Have you seen the “Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers” yet? An interesting race at the movies has been working itself out during the last few months, in fact as interesting as I have seen in quite a while. Keeps all of us movie buffs intrigued as the astronomical movie dollars continue to mount up.
Remember last year when the “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” debuted at the theatres? I wrote a column about it discussing the debate revolving around whether the chief competitor, namely, “Harry Potter: The Sorceror’s Stone” was better or worse. Harry Potter was the new kid on the block at the time where the Ring man was half a century old. Here is what happened during the end of the year 2001.
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Business: New Retail at Central Market Place in Waco, Texas
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randyghughes writes "In Waco, Texas where the Central Texas Marketplace shopping center sits, there will be more retail for that two year old shopping complex. Office Depot will construct a new store, there will also be an Ashley furniture store, a new Bush's Chicken restaurant, and a Payless Prototype store. Also there are talks in progess to bring in more big box retail stores. The shopping center which is located at Interstate 35 and West Loop 340 has a 95 percent occupancy rate. The Payless Shoe Store will be the first of its kind for Waco and more stores or on the way."
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southerncrossranch writes "
Column by Southern Cross Ranch
This past week, I got a phone call from somebody who I see at church but who hardly ever speaks to me or my wife. So I was a bit surprised at them even calling me. The convesation, to say the least, depressed me right from the start and was about two people I care about as friends and members of my church. I will not go into the details of what was said and that I and my wife were being brought into the middle of this vileness and it was to say the least. vile. I simply told them if you have something
to say to these two people, then you should have the guts to say it to their face."
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
During the years when I was growing up, Kerens was filled with ordinary men who, in hindsight, do not appear so ordinary after all. These were men who earned a living, were absolutely loyal to their wives and families, cherished their children and helped teach them right from wrong, provided worthwhile life examples, and who themselves saw nothing extraordinary in what they were doing. Pete Massey was one of those men. I knew him, my father knew him, and virtually the entire Kerens community knew him. Those who knew him respected him and trusted him, and his family knew him and loved him.
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #148
New Year's Eve at the Alumni Center
January 6th, 2003
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New Year’s Eve night was a big time on the Main Street of Kerens as the last hours of 2002 hummed down to the end of those red bricks. Of all the events that have been held in this downtown facility, I heard multiple people mention this was the best one they had attended yet. If you counted all of the smiling faces milling around the tables and how many people were still there as the midnight bell rang in the New Year, well the numbers speak for themselves.
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Business: New Retail for Waxahachie, Texas
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randyghughes writes "In this Ellis County town of Waxahachie, there will be a new J.C. Penneys full service retail store along with a new Cotton Patch Restaurant and Olive Garden Restaurant. That area is rapidly growing with a Target retail store there and a Belks Department store. Along Interstate 35 and Highway 77, there is also there is a Johnny Carinos restaurant along with several other shops in that shopping center. "
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randyghughes writes "If you have been to a Skinnys store on West Seventh or West Second, there are some big changes in the works. Skinnys will become Seven Eleven again here in Corsicana, Texas. Seven Eleven was once here in Corsicana at both locations. It was once Circle K, then Skinnys stores. Now it comes full circle. Over the next few months you will notice the change."
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
These little Tales from Elm Flat are intended to convey some of the truths about life in Elm Flat and the Kerens community in general. Writing a story about Cemetery Sam may be an exception, because a more fictional character than Cemetery Sam has hardly ever existed—although, as I shall reveal, there is some room for debate on that point. Whatever the facts, several generations of Kerens young people have claimed to have seen him, or to have known someone who did see him, or to have known someone who thought they had heard of someone who had seen him.
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It’s 2003, first week of the year, first edition of the Tribune, and time to get started working on all of our New Year’s resolutions. In other words, holidays are over now and time to shave and get to work. Get rid of your vices. Lose twenty pounds. Exercise and build Olympic muscles. Save ten thousand dollars. No more cigars. Throw out the whiskey. Go to church every Sunday morning and every other Sunday night.
No problem Mr. Resolution Man. Anybody can do it.
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 The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians
who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool
all of the people all of the time.
-- Franklin Adams
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