Foraging at Home
One Act Play spotlight
Businesses team up to help local restaurants
Meet Kolby Windon. Kolby is very new to the
Howe Area Chamber of Commerce board
Part 3 of 4: (Planting a Food Forest)
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May elections pushed back Resurrection Sunday hits home
Guys - be especially good to your wives during this time. She could poison your food and they would just automatically mark you down as a COVID death. ***** Not sure how a little ol’ column in a small town online news publication could cause such a stir, but we all of a sudden had over 1,300 attempted break -in attempts to the website last week which forced us to step up the security features. We also received suspicious emails. Wonder what we did and what we said that stirred the trouble? Hmm. ***** Back to the rabbit hole— Lets for a moment go back to Jan. 28 when the Department of Justice announced that the Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department and two Chinese nationals had been charged in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China. Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested and charged by criminal (Continued on page 7)
EDITOR’S NOTE—This column is reserved as an opinion column and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.
Governor Abbot has recently issued proclamations that move election dates in the State of Texas due to COVID19.
will now be held statewide on July 14, 2020. In Grayson County, there will only be a Democratic Primary Runoff on July 14. The Republican Party did not have any races that will require a runoff in our county.
Community Bible Fellowship’s worship team leads an online Easter Service.
Typically, Easter Sunday is the time for families that The city and school may not attend church elections have been moved regularly to gather in His from May 2, 2020 to name and proclaim He is November 3, 2020 and Howe ISD Board of Lord through resurrection. they will be held jointly Trustees is the only local But this is not a typical with the general election of election affected where year, and this was not a Federal, State and County four candidates are running typical Easter Sunday as offices. There is a status for two seats. Clint local churches have not list attached. Catching, board president, held in-attendance services is the only incumbent with for four weeks now due to The Democratic and Jeff Dailey, Charles Haley, the COVID-19 outbreak. Republican Primary and Lisa Tibbets But, in this strange Runoff elections will move challenging. scenario, it could be that from May 26, 2020 and more people have been exposed to Christ over the month than ever Hanging in on Haning Street; Howe past before. It has also given
restaurants are still serving customers
those who attend one church sermon to also listen to others. A federal judge suggested the city of Louisville, Kentucky’s efforts to stop a drive-in Easter service was tantamount to a plot to criminalize religion. The Kansas Supreme Court, however, upheld a ban on religious gatherings of 10 or more people. Attorney General William Barr has put the nation on notice that he is watching and may take legal action this week.
Local restaurants in Howe are hanging in through the social distancing measures issued by state authorities. Now more than ever, the local businesses could use the support from their local citizens. Here is a list of the restaurants and their hours and situations: Abby’s Restaurant – carry out only. Monday – Wednesday 11 am – 2 pm, Thursday-Friday 11 am – 6 (Continued on page 6)
A waitress at Abby’s Restaurant handles multiple to-go orders during the state closure of dinein eating. Restaurants across the country have been forced to carry out only since March 20.
A group of HHS high school boys and community members helped to unload 12,000 pounds of food from North Texas Food Bank to Feed My Sheep on Thursday. The local Howe food pantry is located at the First United Methodist Church. Photo by Michelle Walker.
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