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KILGOROUND
If you held KHS football season tickets last year for the Bulldogs' home games and you'd like to get them again this season, you can do so as early as Monday at the KHS athletic office from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. In fact, you have most of the week next week to do that, but you have to do it no later than Thursday at 4. The following Monday, Aug. 11, anyone who didn't have season tickets last year but would like to purchase them may do so at those same hours, 8 a.m. until 4 p.m., and that's through Friday, Aug. 15. The Ragin' Red's home games this year are Carthage (Aug. 29 — that's the season opener), Gilmer (Sept. 19 — that's homecoming), Lindale (Oct. 10), Whitehouse (Oct. 24) and Nacogdoches (Nov. 7). Season tickets are $25, which admits one to each of those games I mentioned. Sales of other reserved seats are on sale the week of each game in the athletic office, and are $6 if purchased before the game, and $7 at the gate. General admission tickets are $5 each the week of the game, and $6 at the gate, and student tickets are $3 the week of the game — no student tickets are sold at the gate. +++ IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T noticed my reminders the last couple of papers, the Kilgore News Herald's annual football preview will be a part of the paper on Thursday, Aug. 28. As I've said, it's a labor of love — it is hard work, but I enjoy doing it. My walk has got a little more of a bounce this time each year. Anyway, we'll have previews of everyone in our coverage area, including KHS and Kilgore College, West Rusk, Overton and Sabine, and how the new football coaches are doing at Overton and at Sabine. We'll have smaller previews of the opposition for those teams, as well as a look at the Big 12 Conference, other Texas schools, the NCAA national scene, the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans, and the rest of the NFL. I'm looking forward to it. I'm telling you now, though — I'm adding a few things this football season, and we're going to shake things up a bit. This will be my seventh year covering football in East Texas, and I hope we're going on a great ride. +++ NOT ONLY IS it almost football time — I go to the SWJCFC's media day on Thursday — but it's almost back-to-school time. That means it's about time to go meet the kids' teachers for the upcoming school year. Meet-the-teacher day for every school in Kilgore Independent School District is Aug. 21. Kilgore Heights — that's kindergarten and Head Start — will host their meetthe teacher session from noon until 1:30 p.m. Chandler Elementary will host theirs from 4:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Meet teachers at Kilgore Intermediate School beginning at 5 p.m., and at Maude Laird Middle School beginning at 6. +++ I'D LIKE TO congratulate President Barack Obama on his successful run for the Presidency of the United States. Oh, wait a minute — that's not until November, is it? Sorry about that. Apparently I was confusing that with his successful bid to be the President of Europe. Seriously, shouldn't Katie Couric, Chris Matthews and lots of the national media just wear "Obama for President" buttons on the air? It wouldn't be much more forward than how they covered his travels overseas. +++ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY to C.W. Hayes, Ben Boyd, Albert L. Wells, Donna Vincent, Annie Johnson, Christopher Williams, Mary Cline, Twyla Clary, Miki Boyd, Toby Haydel, Shirley George, Edith Roberts Some of the folks you might (or might not, in most cases today) have heard of celebrating the date of their birth with you: country singer Martina McBride (42), actor Robert Horton (of "Wagon Train;" he's 84, and for those of you under 33, that was a western TV series), documentary director Ken Burns (55), actor David Warner (of "Titanic;" he's 67), and actress Alexandra Paul (of "Baywatch;" she's 45). +++ HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TODAY to Mr. and Mrs. Jackie Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. Logan Horne, Mr. and Mrs. R.V. Davis, Terry and Jeanne Kramer |
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