Westminster Presbyterian GardenWestminster Presbyterian Church, 4515 S. 14th St., will have a grand opening for the planter box garden it is building in conjunction with the New Roots Farms program of the International Rescue Committee. The grand opening will be held on Saturday, April 18, the weekend before Earth Day on April 22. It costs an estimated $65 to purchase
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By Loretta Fulton The Food Bank of West Central Texas is opening a drive-thru food pantry that will be open hours and days that other pantries in town aren’t. The first public distribution is set for Saturday, May 9, 9-10:30 a.m. The monthly schedule follows: A grand opening with ribbon cutting will begin at noon Wednesday, April 29. The ribbon
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By Loretta Fulton After a wait of two years, the newly rebuilt organ at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest will be dedicated on Sunday, May 3. The dedication service will begin at 6 p.m., with prayers, scriptures, psalms, hymns, choir anthems, and an organ repertoire. A recent church newsletter said the following: “As we mark this exciting moment
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By Glenn Dromgoole (This is the second of three excerpts from the book Parables from the Diamond that I co-authored with Phil Christopher, published in 2009 and now out of print.) A simple ground ball to first base is bobbled and the winning run scores. A surefire double play is botched by a bad toss from the shortstop. An infield
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By Danny Minton Winston Churchill called it “the greatest American Battle of the war.” It would be known in history as “The Battle of the Bulge.” The United States would suffer over 100,000 casualties as the cold winter battle drew on from December 16, 1944, to January 25, 1945. It was on Christmas Eve 1944 that three American soldiers and
Read moreTHE IDLE AMERICANCommentary by Dr. Don Newbury They are missed, these two men who didn’t try to make us love each other, but at the very least, made us tolerant of each other during their professional lives. Perhaps unknowingly, their gentle humor fostered tolerance. What they said was helpful–seldom painful–helping us to relax a bit, even when upended by life’s
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By Glenn Dromgoole (This is the first of three excerpts from the book Parables from the Diamond that I co-authored with Phil Christopher, published in 2009 and now out of print.) The ball is hit to deep right-center field. The centerfielder takes off at the crack of the bat, straining every muscle as he attempts to make a spectacular catch
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By Loretta Fulton A lot of kids would have gotten burned out on church if they had gone as much as Mike Greenfield did when he was growing up in Snyder. But fortunately for First Baptist Church that didn’t happen to Mike. After graduating from Snyder High School in 1979, Mike planned to be a lawyer but someone at his
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By Jim Nichols Silence is a word that demands an opposite. We each understand what is meant by silence, but we would probably define it as the absence of something. We speak about silence “being broken” by noise, by a racket, by music, by applause, by clamor. Some of the methods of breaking the silence are gentler while others are
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