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25:23, The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
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Movies: Legally Blonde 2 - The Movie
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randyghughes writes "Saturday evening I saw a wonderful funny movie on channel 8. Legally Blonde 2 with Reese Witherspoon and Sally Fields. It's about changing the system and winning sometimes. A very cute movie you can rent on DVD. I highly recommend it."
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
I am one of the graduating class of 1958 who spent their entire 12 years of school in the Kerens Public School System, just like my father before me. I started the first grade in 1946 and finished high school in 1958. Most of us did not realize it then, but the Kerens schools of that time were really excellent. A high percentage of high school graduates were college bound, and all the graduates met a high standard in terms of writing, math, and science skills and knowledge.
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Doris Chrisman reads Time Magazine, I know she does. Now this is a bit of a Liberal magazine, but it is a good one. If you want to stay up on current events and read editorials that can be classified absolutely with “As The World Turns,” this is the one for you. Doris can tell you. I enjoy this magazine right up there with the best of any current periodicals and it has endured through the years with but little change in its format. If you like history, that small section in the middle titled “Time – 25 Years Ago” is fun to reminisce through.
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Events: 10th Annual Squatty Pines Storytelling Festival
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camptyler writes "NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
February 14, 2007
Squatty Pines Storytelling Festival – March 2-4
Contact:
East Texas Storytellers: Jim Connally – (903) 262-1225
Squatty Pines Storytelling Festival, March 2-4, is a weekend for storytellers and story listeners to gather ‘round and share exciting and evocative stories for all ages. This year, the festival is celebrating its 10th year and features Willy Claflin, Shelly Kneupper-Tucker and the E-Flat Porch Band in one of the most accessible and easy-going story festivals in the region.
Camp Tyler, on the shores of Lake Tyler, is the setting for tale-telling, folk-singing, story-swapping and imagination-boosting workshops. The weekend begins with dinner at the camp at 5:00 pm on Friday, March 2 and a “concert” of story and song beginning at 6:30. Late night story swaps by the fireplace in the camp lodge wrap up the first day. "
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randyhughes writes "Something is being built on the old Texas Department of Transportation site which is our local Highway Department. Also, on Highway 287 next to the Holiday Inn, there is ground work going on for some new business or something. Also, on West Seventh where the Sirloin Stockade restaurant used to be, some work is being done. It could be another eating place. I will let you know when i find out. Keep your fingers crossed. Our town needs more new places to eat and shop."
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randyhughes writes "If you have been out by the SuperKmart building on west Highway 31, the Staubach Company has bought the old building that once housed the store It has a large sign up that says Corsicana Crossroads coming spring or summer of 2007 with major anchor tenants. I hope that will come true this spring. That building has been vacant too long."
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Last night our pastor gave a sermon on drugs on our city streets and how we should be keeping ours eyes open because if we do not then we are as guilty as those who sell them to our children. The point is he is right. We are all resposible for
not looking out for our youth and if not us, then who will. Since I live way outside town, I did not realize what is going on inside the city limits. But from now on, I will be looking around and we all should. We can give up our streets to the thugs and drug dealers or we can all stand up and fight them and send them packing from our home town.
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southerncrossranch writes "Saturday night, January 27,2007, a group calling itself the anarchist defaced First Baptist Church of Kerens. Graffitti was marked on the front door of the church and the bus barn. A $100 reward is being offered. Contact Wes Johnson or the city police with any information and it will be kept confidential. Pastor Johnson did see some of the perpetrators running from the church but did not recognize the suspects. Any information will be appreciated."
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During the September 11th service that Kerens had a week or so ago Bobby Bain stood up and played Taps on his trumpet. It looked like it might be a fairly old trumpet and now I am wondering if it is one he might have played in his Kerens Bobcat days? Reckon? Whether or not it is the same one, he played that melody during a moment of polar silence that through the years we have come to expect with this particular piece of music. Contrast the sound of Taps with maybe that of a typical military marching tune such as “As Those The Caissons Go Rolling Along.” I think I got that line right.
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
The Cotton Belt Railroad forms the northern boundary of Elm Flat, and the railroad runs right through Kerens, in an east-west direction (or west-east direction, because trains run both ways). Our family moved from Elm Flat to the old Vernon homestead around 1949 after Grandpa Vernon died and Grandma Vernon moved into Kerens. She bought a little house on the Bazette Road, across the street from Carlton Dobbs. Mr. Dobbs was the fixit man, and he fixed all sorts of home appliances, from lawnmowers to toasters. It was a familiar sight to see him picking up and delivering the items he worked on in a little motorized vehicle he had built for that purpose.
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
For those of you who read my Foxtales, you may have noticed that I haven't written anything in a while. There are many reasons other than my physical infirmities. Since writing is my favorite thing to do I view that ast as spilling my guts you'd refer to the content almost a grand faux pas, but at least a slight omission none the less; unintentional, of course.
I only realized that people really read these stories when a very good friend , who now lives in Houston called me and brought it to my attention that I haven't written any new stories lately. I am always so flattered when one of my high school friends calls me. This one is very good about just picking up the phone to see what is going on with me. She has had her own share of physical problems. She is an uplifting person to talk to, because she is so positive.
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southerncrossranch writes "Last night the Navarro County Republicans met on the 7th floor of the Bank Of America building in downtown Corsicana at 7:00 pm. We had a good attendance and several things were discussed including the primaries coming up. We are looking for canidates to run for several offices including some in the Kerens 2 Precinct One office we are really concerned in winning is County Clerk. If anyone is interested in running contact John R Curtis at 903-874-0056. Our meetings are the second monday of each month 7:00 PM Bank Of America 7th floor. New members are welcome."
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What I would like to see on Main Street?
First, a good automotive place with real mechanics.
Second, a good hardware store with lumber nails and things guys want to buy so we do not have to drive to the big C or A.
How about a real autoparts store unlike the one on
Colket that I have never seen open in the three years I have lived here.
Kerens is located on one of the busiest highways going to East Texas. Every thing is moving toward Corsicana off hwy 45 and sooner then later we
will have to grow and expand. How about contacting Walmart and have them consider building here. Like they say, build it and they will come. We can either grow with the times or dry up and blow away.
Southern Cross Ranch
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Nannie Jones, 94, resident of Kerens, TX, passed away on January 7, 2006 at the Kerens Care Center. Funeral services were held on January 11, 2006 at the Kerens First United Methodist Church with Rev. Claude Davison officiating and Rev. Cathy Mordecai assisting. Burial services were held at the Prairie Point Cemetery. Pallbearers were Floyd Henderson, Charlie Hopmann, Jerry Garrison, Bobby Kent, Kenneth Johnston and James Kelley. Honorary Pallbearers were Sonny Bancroft, Kenneth Lewis, Eddie McNeese, George Reagan, Kenneth Scarbrough and The First United Methodist Mens Group.
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Gayle B. Quinn, 63, of Kerens, TX passed away on January 5, 2006 at Navarro Regional Hospital. Funeral services were held on January 7, 2005 at the Kerens First Baptist Church with Rev. Wes Johnson officiating. Burial was at the Kerens Cemetery. Pallbearers were Billy Ray Quinn, David Ray Quinn, Joe Graves, Chris Quinn, Melvin Colvin, Kyle Glicksman and Larry Fields. Honorary Pallbearers were George Quinn and Grady Quinn.
Gayle B. Quinn was born on March 24, 1942 in Dallas, TX.
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-- E. D'Azevedo, Computer Science 372
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