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The US flag displays 13 stripes - for the original 13 states.
And Now You Do
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27:25, The hay appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
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This cold weather is going to be over with pretty soon and the mornings of Spring are just around the corner. Can’t wait. There is something about the atmosphere of this time of year that makes you want to get out and do something new, something different, begin the real start of the New Year with your annual Spring cleaning. Well, at least tell your wife to start her Spring cleaning anyway. Everybody knows us guys don’t know anything about the definition of that type of chore. Maybe what that really means is to get out your guns, pull out the cleaning oil, and wipe the barrels down smooth. That’s it! That’s what Spring cleaning is.
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Anonymous writes "June 1, 2004
SMITH RECEIVES A TOP 4-H LEADER AWARD AT STATE ROUNDUP
Contact: Gayle Hall, (903) 834-6191, gw-hall@tamu.edu
(Note: Results from the Texas 4-H Roundup contests, awards banquet and scholarships will be available on the Web site beginning June 14th at http://texas4-H.tamu.edu/roundup)"
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Jerrene Arnett, 78, of Baytown, Texas (formerly of Kerens) passed away Thursday, May 13th at St. James Nursing Home in Baytown, Texas. Services were held Monday, May 17th at the Prairie Point Pavilion with the Reverend Roy Cloudt officiating and the Reverend Wes Johnson assisting. Interment was at the Prairie Point Cemetery.
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Business: New Business In Front of Corsicana SuperWalmart
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randyh writes "I drove by the Corsicana Walmart Supercenter and on land fronting the local Walmart superstore they were doing dirt work for a new business. It could be retail or restaurants. Also up the street on the old Tx Dot land Mike Karnes will be building a new retail center with new shops and restaurants. "
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For all you aspiring young Webmasters out there, it’s about time we took a look once again at some tools that take you from the ordinary, to the outer reaches of what can be accomplished in this field.
By the way, I was reading a magazine last week that contained a survey of the best jobs to have as you head into the 21st century. The criterion for best job was salary paid and consequently the demand for people to fill these types of positions. The number one job is Financial Advisor which I am going to assume is due to the baby boomer generation reaching retirement age and needing people to help them down this path. Number two on this list is being a Webmaster. All you have to do is open your eyes in this dot.com age to see what is becoming an exploding demand for Web professionals. The advertisements on television for dot.com this and dot.com that, every magazine advertisement has a bullet referencing you to their web site, and eventually every community around you will have their own web site. Of course Kerens is leading the way in this area. Personal web sites, professional web sites, government web sites, they are everywhere!
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Pearlie Williams, 92, of Kerens, Texas departed this life on May 1st. She is preceded in death by her husband, John H. Williams Sr., and daughter, Georgia Townes. She leaves to cherish her memories; son, John H. Williams Jr. of Kerens, 3 daughters, Olivia Ferguson and Ruby Newsome, both of Dallas; Addie Clark of Los Angeles; 21 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.
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Business: A New Home Depot and Gander Mountain
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randyh writes "In Corsicana this late summer we will see the opening of the Home Depot improvement store. It will be located on Highway 45 just above the local Outlet Mall and then Gander Mountain will open this Fall. They are an outdoor hunting and fishing retail store. I have heard several more big box retailers will be located out there along with some major restaurants."
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As a student of History, faithful watcher of the History Channel, and a compulsive reader of History books, I was just tickled to pieces this week to hear that history was made in Kerens. The first female Mayor in the long and storied history of Kerens has stepped forward and taken the reins of this Texas town. This is not an insignificant event when you look at the harder work and tougher jobs women have to perform in order to finally crack the fabled glass ceiling that exists in everything from politics to corporations to any leadership position where both women and men are competing on equal grounds. (or is it equal?)
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Business: New Restaurants Nearby At Cedar Creek Lake
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randyh writes "This summer two new restaurants will open at Cedar Creek Lake. A new Chilis will open across from the Superwalmart in Gun Barrel City, Texas.
Also a new Huddle House Restaurant will open in August. It will be at the intersection of Highway 198 and Highway 334 at Cedar Creek Lake."
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #48
Chamber of Commerce Banquet
January 14th, 2001
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It was a good weekend in Kerens and you should have been here. (maybe you were and I just didn’t see you) The KESA Board of Directors held a meeting in the Alumni Center and had some serious discussions about 2001. The details of what it would take to complete all the loose ends for this facility were outlined and documented. The final paperwork that makes us a completely non-profit corporation is now in the hands of the IRS courtesy of Richard Baxter and we are on our way into another new year of activities. Ready, set, go. Raise the flags and pull out the nails and hammers. Time to go to work on Main Street and what possible better place to work could you find than on the red bricks of Kerens, Texas. Relentless, Relentless, Relentless.
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Books: Flyboys
by James Bradley
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Published 2003; Pages 395; Rating: Excellent
Someone at work dropped this book on me one Friday afternoon and it turned out to be a spectacular book of history covering an event during World War II that I had never heard of before. Everyone has heard of the island of Iwo Jima and the famous picture of our soldiers raising the American Flag when that battle was won. Surely you saw John Wayne putting those stars in the air in his famous movie. What I did not know is there was an island right next to Iwo Jima called Chichi Jima where American Flyboys were bombing a Japanese communications outpost at the very same time the famous flag raising was happening. This book is about the American Chichi Jima Flyboys that were shot down and captured and died on this island.
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For those of you who might have a little time to spare this Saturday, January 13th, we are expecting to initiate the year 2001 with a KESA meeting at the Alumni Center. It will start at 10:00 a.m. sharp on Saturday morning and we are expecting to have a solid round of discussion reviewing what we did in 2000 and what we are going to do in 2001. Anybody and everybody is invited to attend where you will have the opportunity to listen to ideas for improving the downtown area, ideas for fund raising, and if you have an idea of your own, a golden chance to put it on the table. We would be tickled pink to see some new faces around the table this weekend. (Or is it tickled blue?)
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We did it! All the way through the year 2000 and now beginning a brand new one. No telling at all what we might see emerge from the mists of time this year and that is what will make it interesting when the sun rises each morning.
To start things off we will see all of the awards handed out for achievements and accomplishment to reward those who went that extra mile when they could have been home reading a book. Ooops, bad example. I think I read a few.
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Charlie H. Garrett, 71, beloved husband, loving father, grandfather and friend, went to be with his Lord Wednesday, April 14th, 2004.
The funeral was Saturday, April 17th, at Greenwood Chapel with burial at Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the Kerens Library in Kerens.
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With the end of the year fast approaching it might be interesting to speculate upon the inevitable changes we will be seeing in the year of Arthur C. Clarke, the year 2001. I don’t think we will be making it to Mars in the coming year although I do so hope that during my lifetime we might see the planning begin for this mission. This is off the topic, but I have wondering during this first year of the 21st century if NASA might have put some funding into the multiple movies we have seen recently related to sending someone to the Red Planet or asteroids wiping out Earth. Sort of tweaking the mainstream public interest in such a venture. Successful funding for such a project begins with the population at large being behind our politicians and the enormous amount of money this will cost. Wouldn’t it be much more interesting to see a checkbox on our IRS forms for contributing a dollar to the space program instead of to political election campaign funds? Lets take a vote.
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 Did you hear that there's a group of South American Indians that worship
the number zero?
Is nothing sacred?
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