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Lifestyles June 22, 2008
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KIBA FLOWERS FOR JUNE
     The Kilgore Improvement and Beautification Association gave out their awards for June and the Beauty Spot Award located on 3004 Joy is truely just that. The garden has been in the making for ten years and the gardner is Bert Woodruff. Mr. Woodruff said he grew up growing things and he does it just f...
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He's entertaining the troops
CHITCHAT CORNER
LINDA K. BALLARD
      It was in 2007 that Jerry Wayne Longmire, Jr. was chosen as the Funniest Comedian in Houston. Doors of opportunity opened immediately for this young man who was born in Kilgore and raised in Houston. His parents, Jerry and Sherry Longmire whisked him away after he had attended early elementary sch...
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A Word Please
by June Casagrande
      If I told you my co-worker coauthored a semi-inspirational and semicoherent work about a nonviolent and non-meat-eating anti-inflammatory antihero midcentury in the midtwentieth century, would you march on Washington, unfunded and un-unionized, to demand our leaders simplify hyphenation rules for...
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Dorothy and Wayne celebrated 65 years
      Dorothy and Wayne Geese celebrated their 65 wedding anniversary on Tuesday, May 27. They were married in Overton in 1943. Wayne worked for R. Lace Inc. for many years and Dorothy was a homemaker.
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Who's New
      LILLIAN MICHELLE HOWELL Amy Reese and Brandon Howell are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Lillian Michelle Howell. She was born Sunday June 1, 2008 at 4:42 p.m. weighing 6 lbs 6 ozs. And was 19 1/4 inches long. Lilly's maternal grandparents are Dennis and Debra Reese of Overton.
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Gunns celebrate 50 years together
      James H. Gunn, Jr. and Karlene Edmonds Gunn celebrated 50 years of marriage on Saturday June 14, 2008. They were married on June 14, 1958 at First Baptist Church in Kilgore. Their children and grandchildren honored them with a reception at their home.
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Kilgore Senior Citizens enjoy time together
      The Kilgore Senior Citizens met Wednesday June 11, in the Lions building at 307 Rusk st. red Fleming led us in the Pledge of Allegiance and Roy Tucker gave the opening prayer. Cora Holt from Heart to Heart Hospice was here to take blood pressures.
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Beta Sigma Phi enjoy getting together
      Preceptor Omicron Epsilon chapter Beta Sigma Phi met in June 11, 2008, at the home of Jennie Daigle. President Marcella Harkrider presided calling the meeting to order and leading members in the Opening Ritual. Secretary Jennie Daigle read the minutes of the last meeting and acting for treasurer ...
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Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples Kicks Off Messina Hof Harvest Celebration
      BRYAN, Texas (June 10, 2008) Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples will launch the Texas wine harvesting season at Messina Hof Winery, the fastest growing awardwinning winery and resort in Texas, at their Moonlit Harvest Friday, July 18, 2008, announced Paul and Merrill Bonarrigo, co-founder...
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Economics of weed killing
Blaine Jernigan Extension News
      Now is a good time to make preparations for weed control in pastures and hay meadows. There is an old adage that a pound of grass can be grown for every pound of weeds growing in a given field. Chemical weed control can help eliminate most or all of the weed competition in pastures and hay meadows...
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