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Women make up 49% of the world population.
And Now You Do
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13:20, He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
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One thousand and one hundred miles is how far it was to vacation land this summer. At least that is what the odometer said once we arrived in front of the Hotel and piled wearily out of the car. Maybe I should speak for myself when I say wearily, because the youngest boy bounced out and was ready to jitterbug before the engine had even started to cool down. Me, well I listened to my joints creak as I gingerly stretched my legs and felt around beneath the car for some solid pavement with which to do a balancing act.
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Business: Burkes Closes at College Park Mall
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randallh writes "In the next few weeks or sooner, the Burkes Retail Store will close at College Park Mall. That is a shame. Not many retail stores remain at the local mall. Since Walmart left for a newer and bigger supercenter, so did J.C. Penneys. Goodys Clothing Store still remains as does the Bealls Clothing Store. I wonder what will happen to that local Mall? We can only wait and see if new business will choose Corsicana or go some where else."
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Anonymous writes "The Woman's Club House Association will be hosting their second annual garden tour on Sunday, April 30, 2006 from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. A number of gardens will be on tour with gardening education and information available from local experts and master gardeners. Lots of other exciting activities are planned for the afternoon.
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Published: 2005; Pages: 979; Rating: Excellent
Excellent book and the best I have ever read about the Fab Four, and I have read a few of them. This book got a lot of publicity when it was first announced as “The” definitive biography of the Beatles. And since it has been published, it has received even more reviews. Some of them have been negative saying the book “drug” in places and some giving it excellent marks as this reader did.
The part I liked best was the early pages where the childhood of each of the four Beatles was detailed better than I have seen in earlier books. It took John and talked about how poor his family was and how he eventually was raised by his Aunt Mimi. He was such a poor student I wonder what he would have ever done if he had not picked up a guitar one day. The book talked about Paul and what good grades he made in school and how his family did have some musical roots. Paul was left handed and it was interesting reading about how he tried to play with the guitar upside down and restrung it backwards a one time to make his own style of music. None of the Beatles could read music, they just made it. And of course Paul always liked the girls. It talked about George and how he dazzled the other Beatles with his guitar playing when he was first introduced to them back in their early days as the Quarry Men. George was the youngest and was once escorted out of a bar the Beatles were playing in because he was not eighteen yet. George went his own way with his gurus and spiritual life style. All the way to the end. And then there were a couple of drummers that came before Ringo but they never meshed with the other Beatles. When Ringo joined up with his unique style of humor, the rest of the Beatles loved him and then they became the rock group that changed the world of music and even the culture of the world itself. If you never knew about Pete Best, the drummer that preceded Ringo, you will find him between these pages. Also you will find Stuart Sutcliffe, an artist that was a great friend of John’s that played bass guitar for a while before dying of a brain disorder right before they became famous.
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Sammye Carlene Colvin Cook, 64, of Kerens, Texas passed away on January 18th at her residence. Funeral services were held January 21st at the Paschal Funeral Home with Gary Combs officiating. Burial was at the Prairie Point Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Loyd Cook, Johnny Hobbs, Bobby Boucher, Sammye Hobbs, Matthew Adams and Drew Walker.
She was born on September 28th, 1941 in Bazette, Texas to Samuel Loyd Colvin and Esterlee Aileen Lancaster Colvin. Mrs. Cook was a 1959 graduate of Kerens High School. She graduated valedictorian of her licensed vocational nurse’s class (1978) an d salutatorian of her registered nurse’s class (1983).
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Melba “Joyce” Norris passed away on January 18th, 2006. Funeral services were held on January 22nd at the Paschal Funeral Home in Kerens, Texas. Her brother-in-law, Audrain Hardin officiated the services.
She was born December 2nd, 1940 in Kerens. Joyce was married to James Norris for 48 years. She spent most of her life in Trinidad where she raised her children and enjoyed spending time with family and friends.
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Summer time is here and that means it is time to get with the program. “And what might that program be?” asks the Kerens Blonde as she puts on her bright red lipstick. Well, if you keep your eye on the news from those hard working ladies at the Kerens Library then you might be able to hazard a respectable guess. Some people might say baseball is the national past time, but that kind of withered away for me whenever Catfish Hunter took that first big free agency contract, left the Oakland Athletics and started the decline of traditional baseball.
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Foxtales: And The Class Laughed On... In Living Color
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
In this article I’ll once again, talk of my favorite High School teacher. I want to tell a very short FOX TALE, the setting of which, in that now, well remembered class room of Opal Currington’s. It’s the place where so many Kerensites learned the basics of the English language. It just so happens that Mrs.Currington falls into the category of my favorite.
Since she is also favored by many older residents of Kerens taught by the one and only, those probably have clear cut memories of many days spent in that room in our old high school building. Mrs.Curington also t! aught me speech in "the room" that I remember more vividly than the others in the building.
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Business: New Business for East Side of Town
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randallh writes "On the east side of town there will be a new family dollar store on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd just across from where the old Greyhound Bus Terminal used to be. Looks like a new strip shopping center going up? Out on highway 287 near the Shell Store, there is a sign that says Corsicana Towne Center, 30 Retail And Pad Sites. Let's hope that side of town sees new growth in the upcoming Spring Of 2006."
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Anonymous writes "The Kerens library now has hi speed internet for use by the public. "
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Anonymous writes "Attention 5th ane 6th grade there is a poem that needs to be recited to Mrs.Hereny an the 10th of febuary if you did not know!!!!"
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Anonymous writes "
Guest Column by Lillian LaVerne Moss
First, let me introduce myself. I grew up in GOODLOW, TX. My maternal grandmother is Valli Rose Martin, affectionately known as " Madear". Have I peaked your curiosity? For those who need to be prodded a tad more, my paternal grandfather was the late John L Moss. Any bells going off yet? My father is Johnny Moss Sr. and my mother is Laverne Jones. I am connected to the Martins, Jeffersons(Aunt Fannie is married to my Uncle Little James Martin), Isles,-Willie Marie is my maternal grandmother's sister and is affectionately known only as "Biddie'', and the Joneses(I can actually explain how I am related to all) ." Are we getting warm yet?"
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Out of all the events and activities that go in within Kerens each year, there is one that you can count on being an absolute packed house. Young and old and all of those in the middle are jockeying for a seat before the clock strikes 8:00 p.m. and the crowd begins to grow silent in anticipation. The boys and girls about to enter the next stage of their lives are laughing and cutting up; the grownups have their cameras ready to catch these treasured moments of transition for their children.
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randallh writes "I am hoping in the future the 132 acre retail site that is the home For Gander Mountain, Chilis Restaurant, and Home Depot will see new business out there in the first half of 2006."
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News: Web Design and Development
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 Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one
particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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