KILGOROUND
BILL WOODALL

SPRING break for Longview, Spring Hill and Pine Tree school districts will be the week of March 13. Kilgore’s students must soldier on until the next week, the week of March 20.

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MAUDE Laird Middle School hold a book fair Monday night starting at 6 p.m. at the school library. Open house will also be held that night starting at the same time. The public is invited to attend. Money raised at the book fair will go to help support the school’s library.

STUDENTS will be able to buy books through March 3.

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HIGH SCHOOL graduation requirements have grown so complicated that schools now start explaining them to middle school students.

AT SABINE Middle School, students and parents are encouraged to attend a special meeting to learn about required and elective courses for next year’s seventh, eighth

and ninth graders. Included will be a discussion of the three types of graduation plans.

COUNSELOR Randi Ellison will host the information meeting Tuesday night, Feb. 28, at 6 p.m. in the Sabine High School auditorium.

IF you’re confused about all that, call Ellison at (903) 984-4767.

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SINCE the death of Charles Lewis several years ago, our weekly Oil and Gas Report has been prepared and submitted by the good folks at Joyce Dukes Reporting Service.

JOYCE, a resident of Henderson, died last week. As a result, the office was closed for several days, so there is no report in this week’s paper.

TANA McBride, Joyce’s niece and a member of the Joyce Dukes crew, will assume operation of the company and resume the report in time for next Sunday’s paper.

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IN answer to the question posed in yesterday’s Kilgoround, Mardi Gras is a Catholic, French-oriented celebration of Fat Tuesday. The celebration on the weekend prior to Fat Tuesday has become a Bacchanalian prelude to Lent.

THE holiday has been a major event in France since the Middle Ages.

FAT Tuesday is always 47 days before Easter.

CELEBRATIONS of Mardi Gras in Texas include parades and parties in Jefferson and Galveston this weekend.

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IS IT safe to assume you noticed the crowds in town this weekend? Parking lots at local motels and WalMart were jammed with pickups pulling trailer loads of 4-wheelers for Muddy Gras at Rabbit Creek off-road park.

OSCAR Still, owner of the Rabbit Creek park off Highway 42 just south of I20, said he expected 5,000 guests at his party this weekend.

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HAPPY birthday today, Sunday, to Ray Cox, Brad Velvin, Shelley Walden, Aaron Brandon, Travis Parker, Jerry Nicks, Mrs. Paul Landers, Tina Batts, Ronnie Dorsey, Brandy Atkinson, Eva McNutt, Theresa Zorn, Alvin Kennedy, Kevin Rossum, Charbonet Mosley, Kevin Washburn, Vivian McKenzie, Jenny Winningham, Angela White, Alison Ivy, Gary Wayne Clark, Nettie Lee Pegues, Milton Hattaway, Brian Dorsey, Jason Laughlin, Sylvia Thompson, Bobby O’Conner, Jo Alfred Jiminez, Whitney Donovan, Juanita McFarland, B.J. Page, Brently Flournoy, Jay Gamble.

CELEBRATING birthdays Monday are Dallas McClendon, Alan Blackstone, Jan Miller, Alexis McCubbin, Michael Stewart, Mrs. Eugene Hablinski, Sherry Villyard, Evelynn Jackson, Yolanda Jones, Adam Richardson, Jayson Hayes, Michael Dale Henley, Tina Zapata, Ray Chanler, Vivian Morris, Sherry Perry, Terry Fout, Connie Cowan, John Cohagen, Darcy Council, Dannita Smith, Verneitta Hamilton, Nikki Williams, Terry Quintanilla, Morgan Peden, Emily Cubine, Yneshia Austin.

ANNIVERSARIES for Monday are Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dickerson.