56.39 Howe Enterprise February 11, 2019

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Lady Bulldogs playoffs begin tonight at Sherman High A year ago this week, a last-second 3-pointer by Whitesboro's Casey Monk erased what would have been six-straight bi-district championships for the Lady Bulldogs. It's a new year Each year we do a story on and a new team. Howe (21Kloey Scott winning the 9, 11-1) only has two middle school spelling bee. seniors but have a wealth of Each year we have to double experience as several check our spelling and players have played varsity grammar in those editions since their freshman season. because we know she's Juniors Jenna Honore and reading.

Ally Harvey were freshmen starters with Cassidy Baseball signups have Anderson, and Molly concluded with 139 a youngsters from age five to Wilson coming on as sophomores a year ago.

14 registered with Howe Head Coach Derek Lands Youth Baseball. Softball online registration remains has been able to blend young starters with veterans open until Saturday. for about a decade and this The baseball numbers were year's crop of young talent back up a little from a year The 2018-19 District Champion Howe Lady Bulldogs will play Callisburg tonight. page 2 ago as there were 134 Photo by Keri Harvey. signed up in 2018 and 137 in 2017.

There were 28 registered in 6U, 25 in 8U, 25 in 10U, 28 in 12U, and 33 in 14U. Some of you may have noticed that a taco stand has opened at the "old car wash" on Haning Street. Not being a tamale enthusiast, I let the wife be the taste tester.

According to the Mrs., it was a five-star product. She also noted the potato breakfast burrito was producto prémium.

For goodness sakes peeps, don't forget that Valentines is this week. You're welcome.

Howe Elementary Receives $500 Grant Howe Elementary sends out a big thank you to Quick Check and McCraw Oil Inc. for their continued support for Howe ISD and Howe Elementary students. Their generous $500 grant, which was made possible through ExxonMobil Corporation and our local Exxon Quick Check was awarded to Howe Elementary school on Feb. 7, 2019.

Howe Elementary Principal Clarissia Doty Now that basketball season says the grant will be used is winding down, it's to help enhance math and officially time to grow out science education. those fingernails to throw my knuckleball. It also This grant is part of a signals the time of year to program that supports find someone who speaks schools in communities.

Loy Lake. Livestock events Exxon Mobil Educational are not our background but Alliance Grants have a we'll do our best. long history of providing support to schools.

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Tina Cole recieves the $500 grant for HES. "Howe Elementary appreciates receiving this grant and acknowledges how the McCraw Oil Company and Quick Check invest in the future of their community through support of Howe Elementary," said Doty.

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Kloey Scott (pictured above with her parents Ryan and Alison Scott) won the Grayson County Spelling Bee last Tuesday. She is headed to Dallas in March for a chance to compete for the National competition in Washington, D.C. HMS Principal Clay Wilson credited Librarian Melissa Atchison for the spelling bee success. page 3

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Howe seventh grade Bulldogs are undefeated district champs The seventh grade Bulldogs, coached

by David Kirschner, went page 3

Three Howe athletes sign to play college sports

Bulldogs drop nailbiters to Bonham and Whitewright

Three Howe High School athletes are taking their skills to the next level page 4

The Howe Bulldogs had two games this week that came down to page 9

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includes sophomore Sierra Copeland and freshman Trinity Williams.

On Tuesday night, Howe played Bonham, but the Lady Warriors were heavily over-matched by the talented Lady Bulldogs. Ally Harvey led Howe with 21 points and nine rebounds in the effort.

Howe started the game with a dominating first-period performance that saw the Lady Bulldogs run away with a 19-0 run.

As a matter of fact, Howe didn't allow a single point to Bonham until 1:08 left in the half on an Avery Reaves 3-pointer off the glass. Harvey had 20 of her 21 points in the first 14 minutes of the game. Howe took a 35-3 lead into Ally Harvey goes up for the shot https://www.txfb-ins.com/insurance/agent/Grayson/23242/LorettaAnderson the half. on Tuesday against Bonham.

The second half was filled with Michelle Carney/Howe Enterprise bench play as Peyton Ford, Marissa Agee, Katie Grogan, Trinity Copeland (2).

Williams, and Gianna Henry saw a large amount of playing time. But Howe's 56-17 win closed out the the results were near the same as regular season and set the stage for Howe won the third period 10-7 tonight's first-round matchup with and the final period 11-7, Callisburg (14-17, 5-7) who respectively. finished as the fourth seed in District 9. The game will be played Behind Harvey's 21 points was at Sherman High School at 7:45 pm Williams who had a big second following the game between half with 10 quick points. Other Pottsboro and Bells. scorers were Calley Vick (7), Henry (6), Anderson (6), Honore The game will be broadcast live on (2), Molly Wilson (2), and Sierra howeenterprise.com

Gianna Henry (above left) and Calley Vick (above right) played their final home game for the Lady Bulldogs Tuesday against Bonham. Michelle Carney/Howe Enterprise.

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Howe seventh grade Bulldogs are undefeated district champs

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The seventh grade Bulldogs, coached by David Kirschner, went undefeated during the season. The Bulldogs beat Bonham in the semifinal round and Leonard in the championship game. Pictured above (L-R) are Zeb Montgomery, Rowdy Kuykendall, Noah Riley, Jacob (Clyde) Campbell, Mahlon Walker, Cooper Jones, Ethan Mayo, Head Coach David Kirschner, and Kaleb Taylor (injured).

Spelling Bee On February 5, the best spellers from eight Grayson County schools met at Grayson County College South Campus in Van Alstyne to determine the best of the best.

These students were from Sherman, Gunter, Denison, Van Alstyne, and Howe. It was apparent from the start that they had all been studying hard for this competition. After twelve rounds of spelling, however, two spellers had risen to the top.

Haylee Richard from Scott Middle School in Denison and Kloey Scott from Howe Middle School correctly spelled words for the twelve more rounds. Neither young lady hesitated to spell such words as beryllium, ambuscade, millefeuille, and phaeton. The tension in the room became noticeably tenser as the competition progressed.

Finally, in round 24, after Richard had misspelled vulcanize, Scott correctly spelled piazza and became Peter 2:23-25 - and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; the 2019 Grayson County Spelling while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself Champion. to Him who judges righteously; and He Himself bore our sins in When asked how much effort she His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. For you were made in preparing for this continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the competition, Scott said she had studied about an hour and a half Shepherd and Guardian of your souls. each night, looking at the words " "

Continued from page 1 and listening to them being pronounced online.

Her dad, Ryan Scott, said, "She did this all on her own. We're so proud of her."

Scott’s next competition is the Dallas Regional Spelling Bee on March 9 which will be broadcast on Saturday, March 16, from 12 to 1 pm on WFAA Channel 8. The top two spellers in the Dallas Regional Spelling Bee will advance to the National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. at the end of May.

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Three Howe athletes sign to play college sports

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Bryce Krantz, Calley Vick, and Mason Riggs make it official to extend their athletic careers. Michelle Carney/Howe Enterprise.

Three Howe High School athletes are taking their skills to the next level. Calley Vick, the first Howe girl to play varsity football has accepted a scholarship to play soccer at UTPD (University of Texas of the Permian Basin) in Odessa. Bryce Krantz will take his baseball talents to SOSU (Southeastern Oklahoma State University). Krantz was also the Bulldogs starting quarterback in 2018 playing football for the first time in several years. Mason Riggs is a multi-sport athlete who is a varsity letterman in football, basketball, track, and baseball. He will be attending Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas to play both football and baseball.

"It's always a great day when you're able to send kids off to the next level," said Howe Athletic Director Bill Jehling. "My job is to get these kids to fall in love with the sport and sometimes falling in love with the sport will get them to the next level where they can still play, but also get them a college degree as well."

Howe, who does not currently have a soccer program sends Calley Vick to college as a Bulldog.

"Calley plays for the North Texas Celtics, one of the premier soccer leagues and she's outstanding at it from what I understand," said Jehling, who is also the varsity page 7

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Local Church Calendar First United Methodist Church of Howe Tuesday 9:30 am - Women's Bible Study 6:30 pm Boy Scouts Wednesday 9:00 am - Wednesday Workers 6:30 pm - Jr.High and Sr. High Youth Saturday 9:00 am - Feed My Sheep (1st and 3rd Sat each month) Sunday 8:40 am - Fellowship and Donuts 9:00 am - Sunday School 10:00 am - Worship service 3:00 pm - Cub Scouts First Baptist Church Howe Tuesday 7:00 pm - Bible Study Wednesday 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Study Kids Activities - Check Church FB Page Youth Activities - Check Church FB Page Throughout Summer Sunday 8:30am - Prayer Time 9:15am - Bible Fellowship 10:30am - Worship Service First Baptist Church Dorchester Wednesday 6:00 pm - Meal (Donations for adults and kids eat free) 6:30 pm - Praise service 7:00 pm - Youth Bible Study 7:00 pm - Adult Bible Study 7:00 pm - RA's/GA's/children's group Sunday 9:00 am - Men's Prayer Time 9:45 am - Sunday School 10:45 am - A.M.Worship Service 5:00 pm - Adult Chior Practice 6:00 pm - Evening Worship

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Pinewood Derby winner is Gage Carr

Howe Church of Christ Wednesday 7:00 pm - Bible Classes (all ages) Sunday 9:00 am - Bible Classes (all ages) 10:00 am - Worship Service 5:00 pm - Worship Service New Beginning Fellowship Wednesday 7:00 pm - Radiate Youth 7:00 pm - Sanctuary of for prayer Sunday 9:30 am - Sunday School (kids, youth, women, men) 10:30 am - Worship Service 10:30 am - Kids Church A Christian Fellowship, Luella Wednesday 6:30 pm – Potluck Meal 7:00 pm – Worship Service 7:00 pm – Jr & Sr High Youth Sunday 9:30 am – Sunday School (all ages) 10:30 am – Worship Service 10:30 am – KidZone Children’s Service (5yr – 12 yr) Community Bible Fellowship Wednesday 6:30 pm - Food and Fellowship 7:00 pm - Community Kids (ages 3 - 6th grade, nursery available) 7:00 pm - Youth and Adult Bible Study Sunday 10:30 am - Worship Service

Times are subject to change.

Please check with each church for any possible changes

"With a united effort we can make the place in which we live clean, wholesome, attractive. We can make the crowded city dweller homesick to come back to us and real living. We can bring new life, new business, new beauty, to the little towns." - Mame Roberts

Gage Carr finished the Annual Pinewood Derby with the fastest car. Winning Best Paint was Cooper Bono. Bennet Allison was awarded Most Patriotic and Zane Weatherly won Most Creative. Michelle Carney/Howe Enterprise

Learn about your antiques and collectibles with Georgia Caraway It is unusual to find Valentine postcard sets, but I have a set listed on eBay now that I bought in Pennsylvania a long time ago. I have seen singles of these cards, Dr. Georgia but never the Caraway entire set. And they are in unused condition, meaning never having been mailed to anyone or written on. They date to 1907.

These postcards are beautifully colored cards made in Germany by the Theodor Eismann Company, Leipzig and New York. Eismann was a typical pre-WW1 German postcard publishing and printing company. They participated in the postcard export boom, published both subject and topographical cards. The Theodor Eismann publishing and printing company was known for their chromolithograph printing process which they often identified as "Theocrome.”

There are four to this series that These postcards were made from a real photographs read: copyright 1907 by De Witt C. Wheeler (most likely the same Sweetheart, Sweetheart, Ever De Witt C. Wheeler who fond and true, copyrighted slides for silent When I whisper I love you so, Won’t you say you love me too? movies in 1909).

Sweetheart--Sweetheart-- In Come into Howe Mercantile your eyes love beams— for these and other wonderful Hope of my Hopes, Dream of postcards and Valentines and my dreams, My Sweetheart-surprise your love with an This is a lyric from a song by Albert Von Tilzer, New York lyricist of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame “ fame. Other of his hit songs included: "Put Your Arms Around Me Honey" published in 1910 and "Oh, How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo" which was made popular by Eddie Cantor authentic vintage card.

Hallmark cards may say when in 1917. Von Tilzer is also you care enough to send the remembered for emitting "Oh, very best, but true antique

By Jingo!" a novelty number that the record-buying public of cards speak of thoughtfulness and love.

1919 seems to have found particularly irresistible. As if to inaugurate the new decade with Georgia Caraway and her friends operate the Howe another impossibly successful hit, Von TIlzer epublished "I'll Mercantile at 107-109 ½ East Be with You in Apple Blossom Haning. Store hours are Thursday through Saturday 12 Time" in 1920, and then the moderately successful "Dapper noon until 8 p.m. All five of Dan" in 1921. He was a prolific Georgia’s Denton history books and her book on taking lyricist and wrote hundreds of care of your antiques and songs. Von Tilzer worked on Broadway composing scores as collectibles are available at Howe Mercantile. She hopes well as contributed songs to films in the 1920s and 1930s. ." her next book will be the The cards are attributed to being history of Howe. from an Illustrated Song Series SHOP LOCAL. We can show 1821/1-4. you Howe!

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Howe Elementary Top Dogs

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Fourth grade - Shannon Darling, Emerson Stevens, Riken Cross, Audrey Collier Carr, Kaitlynn McKnight Third grade - Hunter Grant, Mary Kate Douglass, Jorge Munoz, Cooper Shadden, Carson Duree Second grade - Kinley Willits, Bree McBride, Price Hays, Collin Goldston, Tatum Larson First grade - Ryleigh Santiago, Sarailem Hernandez, Sean Douglas, Ashton Brown Kindergarten - Jaxton Halley, Jamarkis Givens, Brelyn Cain, Noah Cravens, Keaton Pierce

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Signing Day

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Above: An emotional Calley Vick after signing. Right: Mason Riggs talks with media with his family. Right below: Bryce Krantz poses alsong with his family on the big day.

Michelle Carney/Howe Enterprise. football head coach. "She did an (football and baseball). outstanding job kicking for us, I can tell you that."

"I really liked the atmosphere there (at Bethany College) and the Krantz said playing baseball at the coaching staff was really nice. It college level has always been a was kind of a warm environment dream and thought that the feel of like here. It's a lot like here" said SOSU was like home. He also Riggs. "Getting to wake up and go credited his former coaches to to class and continue to play sports push him to the limits. like I do now. It's going to be a continuation of what it is now, and Vick says she's really proud of I'll be a little more focused on what herself to for accomplishing her I want." goal of getting to play at the next level.

Riggs said Howe prepared him for the next level with the hard work.

"The coaches were really friendly and the girls seemed to be a really "It means a lot to me. I have a lot big team," said Vick about UTPB of people behind my back and who also stated that she was looking for me to do good things impressed with their kinesiology so hopefully, I'll make them program. "Howe has always been proud." supportive especially since they don't have soccer. They've always The setup for signing day was pushed me to be better by playing different than many years in the other sports." past. Instead of players holding their own day, it was combined Mason Riggs was excited that and held in the HHS cafeteria Bethany College gave him the instead of the traditional Dr. opportunity to play multiple sports Wayne King Library.

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Seniors say goodbye to the home court

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Elijah Campbell

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Devin Porter (23) has moved into fourth place in drawn charges in a season with 44. Michelle Carney/Howe Enterprise.

The Howe Bulldogs had two games this week that came down to the wire. The Dogs played Bonham on Tuesday and nearly upended the highly athletic Warriors. In the end, Howe came up just short, 55-51.

The Bulldogs started out strong and won the first period, 11-10.

But Bonham's star player Ukpe after being shutout in the first period came on strong in the second and scored 13 points in the frame. Ukpe's performance allowed Bonham to take a 30-23 lead into the half.

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Howe was led in points by Caiden Harmon with 16 with Noah Campbell and Porter each with 13.

Other scorers were Elijah Campbell (8), and Steven Waldrip (1).

On Friday night, the Bulldogs lost another heartbreaker, this time to Whitewright, 60-56.

Howe trailed after the first, 16-14 but had an outstanding second period to take a 32-26 halftime lead. The Dogs were nearly blanked in the third period except for a field goal by Logan Elvington. The Tigers regained the lead in the third and entered the fourth up 43-34. But again, Howe kept fighting and some well-timed 3-pointers by Noah Campbell helped Howe claw back in the game and eventually took the lead late in the fourth. However, Whitewright won the see-saw fourth period.

Howe was able to get Ukpe in foul trouble which allowed the Dogs to make a push without him on the floor. Howe's third-period advantage was 12-5 with Devin Porter taking two key charges to help the Dogs' chances during the game. Porter finished with week with 44 drawn charges which Noah Campbell led Howe with 19 rank him fourth overall in Howe points with brother Elijah racking up history in a single season.

15. The Bulldogs will close out the season Tuesday at Blue Ridge.

Howe made a push in the fourth period and closed out the game Devin Porter's 44 drawn charges put with 16 points in the frame, but him behind Colby Ake's 59 in 2010Bonham's Tyler Rodgriguez 11, Devon Mize's 48 in 1994-95, and helped lead the Warriors to a 20- Ake's 45 in 2011-12. point period to close out the win.

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Howe Elementary Pennies for Patients Howe Elementary students will be taking part in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Pennies for Patients program from February 11- March 1, 2019. The campus goal is $3,000.

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Students will collect Money to support LLS’s mission: To find cures and ensure access to treatments for blood cancer patients. They will learn about service, leadership, and how they can make a difference by changing patients’ lives.

teacher’s classroom should have their own online giving page that students, parents & faculty can share with friends and family: https://events.lls.org/pages/ntx/ HoweElementarySchool-2019 The classroom with the most donations wins a pasta lunch from Olive Garden!

Thank you in advance for helping LLS and Howe Elementary to create a world without blood cancers.

Donations can be dropped off at the Elementary For more information, please visit office, sent to school with your child, or http://www.studentseries.org donated online. Howe Elementary and each

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Texas History Minute In science, the passion for discovery drives great minds to answer the great questions about the world. The competitive Dr. Ken atmosphere Bridges demands that scientists look at problems from multiple viewpoints and devise increasingly creative ways of uncovering knowledge.

This process of research and experimentation has created the scientific and technological marvels of the modern world. Though Texas has been home to many great minds, one stands out in the field of chemistry, James Harris. Harris was a key member of a research team that discovered two new elements, making him one of only two Texans to help discover an element.

James Andrew Harris was born in Waco in 1932. His parents divorced when he was young, leaving his mother to raise the future scientist alone. They eventually moved to Oakland, California, where he attended high school in the late 1940s.

After graduation in 1949, Harris returned to Texas. He enrolled at Huston-Tillotson College in Austin. He excelled at his studies and graduated with a bachelors degree in chemistry in 1953. He enlisted in the army after graduation. Harris served for two years, rising to the rank of sergeant before his honorable discharge in 1955.

Harris found it difficult to find work after the army in spite of his credentials. Eventually, he landed a job at Tracerlab, a California company that specialized in making radiation-detecting equipment.

Along the way, Harris married and raised five children. In 1960, he accepted a position as a nuclear chemist at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley.

In 1969, Harris was part of a team at the Lawrence Radiation Lab that included noted scientist Dr. Albert Ghiorso, when they discovered an entirely new element, one never found in nature. This element, Element 104, was eventually named Rutherfordium in 1997, after New Zealand native and physicist Ernest Rutherford. Rutherford won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908 for his work in discovering the radioactive half-lives of elements and differentiating between types of radiation from the decay of particles and whose work is considered by scientists to be the beginning of nuclear physics.

Rutherfordium is an extremely rare metal with chemical properties similar to titanium or zirconium.

The element was difficult to isolate. The atom itself is large and unstable. Its most stable form is Rutherfordium-267, consisting of

104 protons and 163 neutrons.

Because it is so unstable, it is radioactive and has a radioactive half-life of around 10 minutes.

That is, in 1.3 hours, half of the atoms in a sample will spray off so many subatomic particles that it will transform itself into a different element entirely. Other known isotopes of Rutherfordium have half-lives ranging from less than a second to 15 minutes.

These short half-lives make it very difficult to study.

In 1970, Harris, Ghiorso, and their team made another breakthrough with the production of yet another new element. Element 105, consisting of 105 protons (as opposed to just eight protons for oxygen or two protons for helium) was itself very unstable, and the atoms decayed quickly into other elements. Little is known about its nature except that it is a metal.

The two elements were the largest atoms discovered up to that time.

The American researchers initially wanted to list Element 105 as Hahnium after German scientist Otto Hahn, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear fission.

A team of Russian scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, claimed that they had discovered both of the elements first in the 1960s. However, other scientists pointed out that the Russian team had admitted altering their data.

Years of debates followed the competing claims. The American team was ultimately able to name Rutherfordium while Russian scientists were allowed to give the name Dubnium to Element 105, after Dubna, the city that housed the research lab.

At this point, the elements are so rare that no practical use for them has been devised beyond laboratory experiments.

Harris was praised by colleagues for his co-discovery and toured the country giving periodic lectures on his work. HustonTillotson College awarded Harris an honorary doctorate for his work in 1973.

Harris retired in 1988. Today, 118 elements are known to exist, either in nature or in the lab.

Along with Dr. Gregory Chopin, co-discoverer of the radioactive element Mendelevium, Harris is one of only two Texans be credited with co-discovery of an element. And he is to this day the only African-American to be responsible for the discovery of any new element due to his work with the Berkeley research team.

Harris died at his home in California in 2000 at the age of 68.

Dr. Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor. He can be reached at drkenbridges@gmail.com.

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Do we care about what God wants?

Dr. Billy Holland

Is God always happy? Well, let me see, this is an unusual question but I would say probably not.

Since he is not made of flesh we assume that he does not have emotions like us.

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important to read his word (and exactly why many do not even open it) is that it empowers us to live up to God’s standards while eliminating our excuses. Charles Stanley is quoted, “To discipline ourselves is to simply say no to our desires when they conflict with God’s will.”

With God being the creator and judge of all things, our soul being priceless, and eternity just a breath away, why are so few interested? I am not necessarily a single-minded, about his demonstrations of hellfire and brimstone preacher, even compassion and anger so I guess though there is nothing wrong with this is still up for debate. It is my presenting much needed Biblical opinion that some things please truth, but my desire is to emphasize him and others cause him and relay the message of God’s great disappointment and most of it is love. He has a beautiful and associated with the way people wonderful plan for everyone but the live. So, what do you think makes problem is that many sadly do not him happy? Well, again we have care. How can I make such a the scriptures which reveal his statement? Look around, do people thoughts and these explain his look interested in God to you? The desires. Remember, there was a Lord desires to give us all we could time he became outraged when ask or imagine but instead of us the people of Noah’s day were living for ourselves, he is calling us living like sinful Barbarians and to live for him. Until we turn away he brought a flood that destroyed from our selfish independence and the whole world except for eight realize that he created us and bought people. So, we can clearly see that us with a great price, we will not when individuals follow sin really be concerned with our instead of submitting to his voice allegiance to him. How can we take this makes him very upset. our spiritual life seriously until we Basically, He’s glad when we live refuse to be controlled by our own for him and aggravated when we will? Good news! We can be do whatever we want. transformed into a new person with a new lifestyle when we ask Jesus to Here is a two-part question; do change our mind. you believe he is happy with you, and do you really care what he We realize that what and how much thinks about you? Anyone can we know is the heart of the matter as take the time and learn about God Luke chapter 12 says, “To whom and what he expects from us. Yes, much is given, much is required.” there is a problem with the This means the more we discover world’s lack of spiritual about what God wants from us, the understanding but there is also a more responsibility we have to obey huge issue with people who him and the amount that he is realize what is right but arrogantly pleased with us will be measured by refuse to do it. These individuals how committed we are to his walk in the shadows and avoid instructions. Knowing his plan is one God’s light on purpose because thing but demonstrating our his holy truth exposes more than knowledge is something completely what they want to deal with. They different. When we choose to take know deep down that he is not that first step of faith to live for Jesus happy with them and yet they are we are accepting the basic content to live in denial far away fundamentals of salvation and can from anything that will cause sincerely pray, “Lord, all things are feelings of guilt. You see, the possible with you. Please save me, Bible was given to us so that we renew my mind, fill me with your could understand right and wrong Spirit and whatever you tell me to and how much God wants us to be do, may I react according to your good. He is also not shy about will – not mine, amen.” explaining the consequences that will happen when we choose to be Read more at bad. One reason why it is so billyhollandministries.com

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Verse of the Week “…THE LORD waits [expectantly] and LONGS TO BE GRACIOUS TO ME, He waits on high to have compassion on me. For the Lord is a God of justice; I am blessed (happy, fortunate) BECAUSE I LONG FOR HIM [since He will never fail me].”

—Isaiah 30:18 (AMP)

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Finding our roots With the discovery of a highly offensive and racist photo associated with Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page, the country has been forced to grapple with yet another instance of Samuel Moore-Sobel blatant racism.

According to CNN, the same Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook is filled with numerous other racist images believed to be unassociated with Northam, a fact speaking to something much larger than the individual Governor currently debating whether or not to resign.

As inconceivable as it may be to some in the year 2019, racism is still very much a part of our collective societal framework.

Coincidentally, my family and I recently worked our way through the television series Roots,a production based upon a book by Alex Haley. Originally aired in the 1970’s, it immediately captivated the nation, ranking as one of the most watched broadcasts in the history of this country. Perhaps this story is one to which we should return, in order to inform the debate currently raging in Virginia, and by extension, the nation as a whole.

The story begins with Kunta Kinte (played by LeVar Burton), a native of Gambia born around 1750. He is captured as a teenager by slave traders, taken to America and sold into slavery. Kinte marries and has a daughter, and the show follows Kinte’s family line. Eventually, the Civil War brings freedom; and, more than a hundred years later, his relatives pay homage to his memory by recounting the story of their African past.

“You can't understand many of the most destructive issues or policies in our country without understanding our history of racial inequality,” Bryan Stevenson said in an interview earlier this year.

Stevenson, a Harvard Law graduate, is the founder and executive director of theEqual Justice Initiative. In his memoir, Just Mercy, he writes of encountering what he describes as institutional racism as a young lawyer in the deep South circa 1983. He argues that racial discrimination still plagues our nation, and in some ways, is baked into our legal system (especially in the Deep South).

Leading one to wonder, is racial reconciliation even possible?

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Garden activity in February

Roots contains a moving scene. The entire Murray family (both Caucasian and African-American members) gathered together for a reunion in Tennessee. Nearby is a cemetery, filled with ancestors long since gone. They eat and drink, enjoy each other’s company. No animosity can be detected, no sense of hate. They make their way into a church, and Alex Haley takes a moment to address the group.

So you might be thinking, “what garden activity in February? Looks pretty bare to me.” Even though plants and grass look dormant, there’s plenty of activity in the soil and our trees, shrubs, grass and flower beds are getting ready to spring into life. It’s a great time to work in our yards on some of our warmer days – so nice to be outside and not feel like you’re melting in the Texas heat. The first week or two this month is the time to “Somehow, our coming together inspect for weeds popping up, now…symbolizes things that are true insects starting to appear, trim across this nation,” he says. He away dead growth, add all those carries on, illustrating how so many piled-up leaves to your compost Americans have forefathers who bin, or plan a new bed. The second arrived in this country from another. half of the month is good to plant “I see us sitting here and I think of (or transplant) shrubs, prune, treat different kind of ships, immigrant the insects and disease you spotted, ships from Europe, slave ships from and consider fertilizing.

Africa. And it seems to me that now that we can gather…we sort of First things first, and all great symbolize the best potential of this gardens start with healthy soil. If country,” he declares. The ability to you haven’t tested your soil in a join together, regardless of race or couple of years, now is a good creed, past pain or sorrow. A scene time. The test results will give you exemplifying the power of a report about which nutrients are restoration, and the hope and lacking and what to add. Forms promise of America, embodied by and instructions on how to do a soil her people. test can be found at the AgriLife Extension Office in the Sherman As we once again grapple with the Courthouse or on the internet at bias and prejudice still painfully soiltesting.tamu.edu. prevalent in our society, I wonder if Haley’s account offers us a way Organic methods for weed control forward. In helping us see each other are a good mowing, pulling them in a whole new way. now because they’re small and easily dislodged, or using a spot-on “By now, the response worldwide treatment with 20 percent vinegar. has made Rootsmore than just a “Spot-on” because the vinegar is book or a television event, because not picky about the root it kills – people’s everywhere have been whatever root it saturates will be moved to search after their own dying within 24 hours. roots,” Haley once said. “And in making us realize how alike we all Dormant season is the time to are, Rootsreally may have become a shape your trees and shrubs – bridge to a greater understanding provided they’re not springtime between all peoples…” bloomers. If you still have roses (they’ve survived the deadly rose Perhaps we can combat racism and rosette disease), remove any weak attitudes of hate by walking across internal stems and dead canes. this “bridge.” By making every Each cut should be above a bud effort to celebrate cultural that faces out from the center. The differences, instead of choosing to goal is to encourage stem growth to traffic in the use of stereotypes and the outside of the shrub and generalizations. By treating everyone prevent stems from growing too we encounter with both dignity and close and rubbing against another respect, regardless of race or stem. Do not prune climbing roses ethnicity. By working to eradicate all or once-only springtime bloomers pockets of racism present throughout until after you’ve enjoyed their all facets of our society, even among blooms because the flower forms our leaders. from new growth.

Undoubtedly, Ralph Northam should resign. However, whether or not he chooses to do so, we can all do more to combat racism wherever and whenever it is encountered.

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again,” Thomas Paine once wrote. Are you willing to heed the call?

Samuel Moore-Sobel is a freelance writer. To read more of his work, visit www.holdingontohopetoday.com

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Use a balanced granular fertilizer and work it into the soil around your plants according to package directions. Adding a fresh layer of compost can also provide vital

nutrients to your garden. Be sure to water the roots to protect from cold night-time temperatures and dissolve the fertilizer. Earlyblooming flowers, irises, azaleas and narcissus will appreciate an early feeding.

Planting cool weather vegetables such as certain varieties of onions, snap peas, cabbage and broccoli can be done in mid-February, but with our ever-changing North Texas weather, do not plant lettuce, spinach, or chard until late February, or maybe even later if we have that surprise freeze that swoops down from the north – just when we thought it was safe! I read in the Old Farmer’s Almanac that there’s a 30 percent probability that our last frost date is March 25, but this is Texas, so tune in to our daily weather forecast.

Watch for scale insects on plant leaves; they seem to be the first to brave the cooler temperatures in spring. Use a dormant oil to treat them and read that label to make sure we’ve got the right temperature to apply it. If you detect powdery mildew, an organic fungicide recipe is to mix 1 part milk to 9 parts water. Neem oil is a good choice for several problem insects and diseases.

If you planted pansies in the fall, now is the time to remove any dead leaves or spent blooms, apply a little fertilizer, water in, and enjoy a renewed blooming into March or April. The bunch I planted last year made it into May before they finally gave up.

It’s not too late to join us and become a Master Gardener. Our curriculum covers all aspects of horticulture. Classes begin February 20th, and information on our training program and an application form can be found on our website at http://www.graysoncounty mastergardeners.net/ Submitted by Beverley Patterson and Marigay Black, Grayson County Master Gardeners.

Grayson County Master Gardeners Association is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization sponsored by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. Reach us by email at mastergardeners@ co.grayson.tx.us, by phone 903813-4204, or our Facebook group.

Howe Police Report: 21-year-old arrested for furnishing alcohol to minors On Saturday, February 2 at 1:25 am, Howe police officers responded to a party at a residence in the 700 block of North Collins Freeway after seeing what appeared to them to be minors on the property consuming alcoholic

beverages. Numerous people fled on foot as the officers arrived. A 21-year-old female resident claimed responsibility for providing alcohol to everyone at the party, including the minors. She was arrested and charged with Furnishing Alcohol to Minors.

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How can I improve my work/life balance?

Hey Taylor - My wife keeps telling me to find a better work/life balance, and while I know she has a point, I’ve got no clue how to do it. I can’t afford to work less, and Taylor Kovar that’s what throws off the balance. Any tricks for fixing this broken system? - Shawn Hey Shawn - Let’s get this system back on track! I believe in working hard, but never at the expense of your happiness. When you’re putting in 40+ hours a week, it’s hard to find time for anything else - that’s why you have to get specific in the ways you make time and prioritize your non-work life.

make up that time at the end of the day. Or plan to do some paperwork at 10 pm after your wife goes to bed; that way it won’t interrupt personal time and you also won’t have to deal with it the next day.

Find a new outlet. Sometimes the biggest problem with work is the pressure we put on ourselves. It’s good to be motivated and driven, but there’s a line that can be crossed when you start worrying and thinking about work all the time. If you start a new hobby or workout routine that takes up a little brain space, you might feel less overwhelmed. Meditate, do a jigsaw puzzle, make paper airplanes, whatever. You don’t need to put a ton of time into it, just enough to take your mind of work every now and then.

The common thread with these ideas is to change your schedule a little bit. That’s the simplest way to start. The concept of improving your work/life balance is daunting when viewed as a singular undertaking. If you break it down into little steps, it’s much more manageable. Good luck, Shawn!

Start the day on your terms. This is one of the simplest ways to relieve yourself from the stresses of work, and yet it’s incredibly difficult for a lot of people. If you currently roll out of bed when your alarm goes off, stumble to the shower, shove a piece of toast in your mouth and head to the office, Taylor Kovar, CEO of Kovar that’s a pretty dreary morning.

Capital. Read more about Taylor While you probably can’t start at GoFarWithKovar.com your workday later, you can get up earlier to make more time. Most Disclaimer: Information people bristle at this suggestion, presented is for educational but after a few mornings of getting purposes only and is not an offer up a little earlier to go for a jog or solicitation for the sale or and read a book or catch up on an purchase of any specific episode of a TV show you like, securities, investments, or you’ll feel much, much better. Do investment strategies. something you enjoy before Investments involve risk and, heading to the office instead of unless otherwise stated, are not letting the rat race dictate your guaranteed. Be sure to first entire day. consult with a qualified financial adviser and/or tax professional Shake up your schedule. Part of before implementing any what makes the daily grind so strategy discussed herein. To tedious is being stuck in routine submit a question to be answered we don’t love. If you can break in this column, please send it via that cycle, you might be able to get email to more work done and have more Question@GoFarWithKovar.com, or personal time. Think about taking via USPS to Taylor Kovar, 415 S an extra 15 minutes at lunch to do 1st St, Suite 300, Lufkin, TX something more than eat, and then 75901.

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Living with children I receive a steady stream of missives from teachers, ex-teachers, and other folks who have insider knowledge of America’s schools. They all say the same thing – John Rosemond classroom discipline is falling apart and has been for some time – and ask the same question: What can be done?

2030 nearly every public-school student will have a diagnosis of one sort or another. In most cases, these diagnoses will be bogus (i.e., pseudo-scientific, as in ADHD and ODD). Increasing the population of “special needs” children will not only compensate for funding shortfalls as student population declines but will also allow public schools to pretty much abandon academic and behavioral standards.

The sound the reader now hears is a mélange of screams, expletives, and general gnashing of teeth coming from the nearest public Public-school administrators – not school, so let me be perfectly clear: In the course of my career, all, but entirely too many – refuse to acknowledge the problem. When I’ve come to know many publicI bring the subject up, they dismiss school teachers. They are, with rare exception, dedicated people. it, as in, “Oh, it’s not as bad as Teachers are not the problem – not people make it out to be” whereas every teacher I’ve spoken to in the for the most part at least. The problem consists of equal parts past twenty years has told me it’s irresponsible parenting (not worse than the public even confined to any given imagines and getting worse with demographic), parents who make every passing year. excuses for brats they send to school (just another form of One insider recently wrote: irresponsible parenting), teacher “Excellent teachers are giving up. unions that have been given legal They send kids to the office when power to game the system, federal they're disruptive, and in minutes aid to education (long outlived its the child is back after having usefulness), and administrators received a cookie or some other who strip teachers of permission to treat while they talked about their discipline and then discipline ‘feelings.’ Also, almost every teachers who have the temerity to teacher says that when they call a parent about a child's behavior, the do so. One example of the latter is parent makes excuses or blames the caving in to parents who accuse teachers of hurting their children’s teacher.” feelings or having “personality conflicts” with them.

That description is typical. I will simply add that not only are many Taxpayer revolt, anyone? good teachers leaving, but many good students are as well. They are Here’s what no one can argue: either moving to private schools America’s children deserve (where a disproportionate number of public-school teachers send their better…much, much better. kids) or being home-schooled. As a result of this exodus, the per capita Family psychologist John rate of problem students rises. Add Rosemond: johnrosemond.com, parentguru.com. in the steady increase in underdisciplined children coming to kindergarten and the question becomes: What will public John Rosemond has worked with education look like in ten years if families, children, and parents these trends continue? since 1971 in the field of family psychology. In 1971, John At this point, the reader should earned his masters in psychology know that I flunked fortune-telling from Western Illinois University in graduate school and had to and was elected to the Phi relinquish my crystal ball and tarot Kappa Phi National Honor cards; nonetheless, I predict that by Society.

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