KILGOROUND

IT LOOKS FROM here as if John Cunyus is determined to earn a living writing books.

JOHN, an ordained Disciples of Christ minister who lives in Glen Rose but spends a fair amount of time in Kilgore with his Cunyus kinfolks, is translating the Old Testament from the original Latin.

HE'S completed Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon and it has been published in a book entitled "The Way of Wisdom." It's published by Searchlight Press in Glen Rose.

THE book is available for $15 and change from amazon.com. (It's only $10 if you can catch John at a personal appearance, but good luck with that.)

HE tells us he's working now on the translation of Psalms from, again, Latin.

THIS is John's sixth book, by our count, including three novels about the drug war, a series of meditations about being a

Christian and "Path Beyond Suffering" about working the Buddhist Method.

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THE High Plains Division of the American Cancer society includes the following states: Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas… and Hawaii.

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FOR most Texans, deer season began yesterday (Saturday).

BUT for Joyce Bennett of Oak Hill, mother of Kilgore's Nita Brady, it began a week ago. Joyce bagged a sixpointer with her half-ton Chevy.

+++ HOW did we get to a point where even the conservative candidate for president wants the government to make $300 billion worth of house payments for folks who are unable to cover their monthly nut?

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"IT happened to me," said Barry Metz.

BARRY was in line at the Community House, waiting to help his mom manage the electronic voting machine, when the little printing gizmo that dispenses your secret voting number quit working.

THE line wasn't long, but Barry and his mom weren't alone in trying to get through the process during a lunch hour. Barry, his mom and I are old enough to remember when mechanical aptitude was not a requirement for a job as an elections clerk.

THE women working the election Tuesday eventually resuscitated the machine — without a single swear word and no skinned knuckles — and sent us on our way.

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CELEBRATING birthdays on the opening weekend of deer season are Mike Madden, Madeline Squier, Briant Sanders, Kristen Claire Elder, Sheryle Bradford, Sherry Moreno, Bernice Nolen, Rusty Silvertooth, Mary Mayfield, Paula Cubine, Virginia Gibbons, Robin White, Janet Welsh, Mrs. Pete Watson, Matthew Caldwell, John David Williams, Stephen Kieth Daniel, Grace McFarland, Roger Brigmon Sr., Daryl Jones, Elizabeth Ainsworth, Branson Emerson, Devi Vaughn, Austin Mrozinski, Luke Edward Richey

BLOWING out birthday candles Monday are Amme Stephenson, Hunter Watson, Sandi Moore, Pat Anderson, Joel Herrelson, Mrs. Bill Stanley, Carla Taylor Johnson, Stacey LeAnn Killingsworth Bynum, Ray Guin, Allen Sellers, Scott Mitchell, Glenda Raines, Cleo Johnson, Jim Oritz, Scott Summy, Clair Laird, Kay Clark, Phillip Jordan, Whitney Lovelace, Albert Chitwood, Ruby Vaughn, Susie Philpott, Tiffany Franklin, Terrance Burkes, Melissa Johnson.