PUMPKIN PATCH VERSES TEAM SPIRIT
      Last Saturday was Family Fun Day in St. Luke’s Pumpkin Patch and the kids took advantage of a beautiful sunny day.
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Keeping food safe during power outage
      Knowing how to determine if a food is safe to eat and knowing how to keep food safe will help minimize the potential loss of food and reduce the risk of foodborne illness. The following tips will assist in making the right decisions for keeping ones family safe during an emergency.
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Look Who’s New
      Charles and Bobbi Gordon are proud to announce the birth of their son, Jackson Dale Gordon. Jackson was born September 10, 2009, at Tomball Regional Hospital in Tomball, TX. He weighed 9 pounds, 9 ounces and was 22 inches long.
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Serving Our Country with Pride
     MASTER-AT-ARMS SEAMAN APPRENTICE TRAVIS LEE LONG
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KC Electric Power Technology Program hosting lineman rodeo
      The Kilgore College Electric Power Technology Program will host a Lineman’s Rodeo Friday, Oct. 30, to showcase graduates of the third class to complete the Marketable Skills Certificate. The rodeo is set for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Rusk County Electric Cooperative training grounds in Henderson.
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Let freedom ring
CHITCHAT CORNER LINDA K. BALLARD
      THEY WAITED a long time for this trip, but for Martha Fertitta and Sally Gautier it was a trip worth waiting to enjoy.
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CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL . . .
THE IDLE AMERICAN DR. DON NEWBURY
      It may as well be admitted up front. Some geezers in my generation are nestled snuggly into their “second childhood.” After a recent cruise to the Panama Canal, the wonderment of it all has nudged me toward my “third childhood” or at least back to the pre-school years of my second.
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A Word Please
by June Casagrande
      In an old “Simpsons” episode, a beer company mascot comes to a local bar to offer a fabulous prize (beer) to whoever can answer a trivia question: What beverage, he asks, brewed since ancient times, is made from hops and grains?
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What makes America great in spite of its flaws
GUEST OPINION DAVE MCNEELY
      State Rep. Mark Strama tells of talking recently to a group of college students from Venezuela who were visiting Texas as part of a trip put on by the United States State Department. Strama, a moderate Democrat, said he was impressed by the fact that the students said others who had made similar trips to the United States were routinely jailed upon returning home.
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