I want to brag on Mr. Kahan, Karla Imery, Evelia Lopez, Sydney Anderson, and Bailey Taylor for their hard work at the library on Blue Ribbon Service Day. They did a super job inside and out, and what a great program! I’m very grateful for their service! Remember, we’ll be closed on Friday for Veterans Day, and we owe a great debt to all our men and women who are serving or have served in the armed forces.
Who shot Pedals?
Regular readers will have noticed that I’ve avoid writing about the presidential election as if it were a political event, or something. Now that the election is over, assuming there aren’t several weeks of recounts and whining and such, I’m still not going to write about the election.
I’ve often thought of going to the store with Post-it’ and writing Good and Bad on them. When I come to a good item, stick the “Good” post-it’ on that item and on the bad items stick on the “BAD” post-it’! This could be a way of being a consumer advocate!
Let’s face it, there are a lot of the Good and Bad things in this world.
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Two successful football figures who seem “unperturbable” are TV sports analyst Tony Dungy and Kansas State University Coach Bill Snyder. At ages 61 and 77, respectively, they remain vibrant, respected and poised. (Someone said when common sense, values and fairness were handed out, these two men may have gone through the line twice.)
No argument here.
From time to time, fate offers some form of relief from the cruel remarks made during the election campaigns, war news and general uprisings and worst of all, the killing of our COPS on the streets of America and those who perpetuate such violence, as you witnessed in Ferguson, Missouri, which elevated due to remarks made by an individual whose initials are A.
The Art United Methodist Church was a busy place Sunday. We remembered Ruby Toeppich and Lynn Sikora on All Saints Day; Rev. Virgilio Vazquez-Garza, assistant to the bishop, brought the message; we celebrated communion; followed by our annual charge conference. We were treated to take-out Mexican dinners from St.
Sign.
A four-letter word.
But a good one.
A sign can be so many things.
Sign off.
Stop sign.
Sign on the dotted line.
Sign language.
Sign up and join.
The zodiac.
Hey man, like what’s your sign?
If we were learning to speak English we might pronounce it “siggin.”
Or “sigh-gn.”
How we got to “sine” (rhymes with “fine line”) is a mystery to me.
Seeing as how the word comes from the Latin signum.
Maybe signum got silenced as it wandered through Old French.
By the time it re ...
Chelsea Veit, a sophomore at Texas A&M University, was recently inducted into the National Honor Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS). NSCS is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies and is the nation's only interdisciplinary honors organization for first-year and second-year college students. Membership is by invitation only, based on grade point average and class standing.
Another successful Blue Ribbon Service Day is in the books. We are so grateful to our community for allowing us to be a part of so many worthwhile projects that make Mason such a wonderful place to grow up. A special thanks goes to the members of the churches who prepared and served us lunch.
2016 Is Fading Fast,,, Where Are We Going?
As we came into the office this morning, we ripped October off all the calendars in the office and jumped directly into November. It was a bit jarring to realize that we've already made our way through the first ten months of the year, and that we are 61 days from 2017.
I never understood, when I was a child, that adults would constantly focus on how quickly time passes.
