Mary Wilhite presents cooking program for Civic Garden Club
      A trip to Blue Moon Gardens near Tyler offered Civic Garden Club members a chance to learn how to combine plants from the garden with cooking skills to produce delectable culinary recipes. Nursery co-owner, Mary Wilhite, presented a program on "Making Salsa and Pesto." She gave pointers on selecti...
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Chadwick's celebrate the golden years
      Dan and Karen Chadwick recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this past May. They were married May 29, 1957 at First Baptist Church in Longview, Texas. They both are graduates of Longview High School. Dan has been a teacher, coach, principal and administrator in several East Texas Sch...
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June wedding for Ewing and Mathews
      Danny and Lynn Whitten of Kigore are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Kristen Leigh Ewing of Kilgore to Corey Mathews of Kilgore. Corey is the son of Tom and Collen Mathews of Laneville and Rodney and Juanita Messick of Longview.
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Rusk County 4-H Fashion Show
Liz Buckner News Article
      The arrival of March found Rusk County 4-H'ers busy workingwith the 4-H Clothing and Textile Project and preparing for the county and district 4-H fashion shows. The Rusk County 4-H Fashion Show was held Thursday, March 13th, at the Rusk County Extension Office.
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Economy forces some children to move home with parents
By EMILY FREDRIX AP Business Writer
      MILWAUKEE (AP) _ After being laid off from her job as an events planner at an upscale resort, Jo Ann Bauer struggled financially. She worked at several lower-paying jobs, relocated to a new city and even declared bankruptcy. Then in December, she finally accepted her parents' invitation to move i...
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Kilgore Seniors enjoy a social luncheon
      The Kilgore Senior Citizens met Wednesday, March 12 in the Lions building with Pres. Betty Roeluck calling the meeting to order at 11:30 a.m. David Parker led the group in the pledge of Allegiance and Jaunita Riley gave the opening prayer. Cora Holt was there to take blood pressures. Bingo was pla...
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Livestock Show
      Two teams from the Rusk County Horse 4-H Club recently competed at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Horse Judging Contest. Both teams placed in the top 10% of 181 senior teams. The team also competed at the Forth Worth Stock Show and Rodeo and the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo this year.
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Kilgore Intermediate School 5th Grade Egg Decorating Contest
     Funniest: Austin Hartsell, Hayden Smith, N'Shaya Hawkins
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Book preserves heritage of East Texas forestry; "The House of Thompson" reprinted
      "The House of Thompson" was first printed in 1908 by "The American Lumberman" and a reprint has just been published from a scan of the original volume. This historical book contains over 90 pages of rare photos that show the woods as they looked when the early settlers arrived in East Texas.
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A Word Please
by June Casagrande
      This just in: A Southern California man has just lifted a half ton of crates and carried them across a warehouse -- in his mouth. Not far away, a certain stage show has been deemed so dazzling that it made one reviewer feel as if she were struck by the process of fading.
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CHITCHAT CORNER
Sunrise in the heart
LINDA K. BALLARD
      "I've been thinking about this," said Benny Trejo. "Easter, to me means that the Resurrection of Christ and Spring are synonymous - regrowth, rebirth and renewal. He couldn't have said it any better. Just look around and you will see God's hand at work everywhere…It is a time to remember t...
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