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01/21/2022 Posting Link https:// bit.ly/3nsTPXd Description A local company is looking for a QUALITY ASSURANCE DIRECTOR who will be responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of the ACS Quality Management System, ISO 9001 compliance and Lean Manufacturing practices for all facilities.

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ing ID 14912692 Location Denison

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Description This position requires a High School Diploma or Equivalent, and a minimum of 6 months of related experience.

Howe Chamber to host BBQ fundraising dinner for Howe Volunteer Fire Department

The Howe Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting a BBQ fundraising dinner for the Howe Volunteer Fire Department on Dec. 17 from 5:30—7:30 pm at Summit Gardens.

The event is $15 per plate and can be a dine-in or carry-out. Members of the fire department will serve the dinner and work the carry-out service.

On the menu is BBQ, beans, potato salad, and rolls.

Dine-in or carry-out tickets can be purchased online by clicking here. Cash at the door will also be taken.

In the late 1970s and through the 1980s, millions of people would tune in weekly to watch Dallas, a night-time Ken Bridges soap opera about the tawdry scandals and business dealings of a Texas oil family. At the same time, a family of Texas oil barons transplanted from Arkansas was involved in schemes even more bizarre than those created for television. And among them was Nelson Bunker Hunt.

The patriarch of the Hunt Family was the legendary H. L. Hunt, born in Illinois in 1889. The elder Hunt had settled in the Chicot County area by 1910 and began a cotton plantation. By the 1920s, facing ruin from a series of floods, Hunt gambled his last dollars and ended up winning a fortune in a series of poker games that included a stake in the booming oil fields of El Dorado. In El Dorado, the Hunt fortune would begin as millions of dollars of oil flowed across Union County. He had seven children with wife Lyda Bunker of Lake Village, but carried on torrid affairs with at least two other women, having eight children with them.

Nelson Bunker Hunt was born in El Dorado in 1926 at the height of the South Arkansas Oil Boom. The family soon moved to East Texas as H. L. Hunt bought the rights to the massive oil fields discovered there in the early 1930s, making them one of the richest families in the world. Afterward, they permanently settled in Dallas where the elder Hunt became a prominent member of First Baptist Church.

The younger Hunt became known for strange ideas and behavior as well as his own business success. In 1938, on a family trip to London, Bunker Hunt walked all through the city on his own late into the night. In the 1940s, he dropped out of the University of Texas, reportedly angry over one professor’s lecture.

He traveled coach class on airplanes but spent lavishly on horses and farms around the world. After a falling-out with his father, he went into business for himself in the 1950s. By the 1960s, Bunker Hunt had struck oil in Libya, making tens of millions of dollars. However, in 1973, a jealous Moammar Gadaffi, who had seized power a few years before, seized control of the oil in Libya, permanently cutting Hunt off.

By the 1970s, he and younger brother William Hunt came upon a scheme to corner the silver market, steadily buying up more and more. They bought silver at $1.50 per ounce in the 1970s, which grew to $50 per ounce by January 1980. This meant $4.5 billion for the Hunts. Regulators quickly jumped in to limit the purchases, sending prices lower. Margin calls and price drops devastated the two, costing $2.7 billion in one week in March 1981, while silver dropped to $10.80 per ounce on March 27. “I was trying to make money,” Bunker Hunt glumly explained. However, others close to him noted that Hunt believed the world economy was about to collapse and money would become worthless. Numerous lawsuits would be filed against the two, and numerous federal investigations followed. As a result of the silver ploy, he was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1988, the largest personal bankruptcy in history up to that time.

Bunker Hunt would slowly recover from bankruptcy, but he spent his later years concentrating on horse racing and breeding. His health steadily declined, and the one-time oil giant died quietly in a Dallas nursing home at age 88 in 2014, having lived a life where truth was, certainly and frequently, stranger than fiction.

Nelson Bunker Hunt

As a chaplain for a Veterans health care facility and an honor guard that recognizes military personnel, I’m devoted to respecting Dr. Billy those who Holland were willing to give their lives for our freedom and it’s truly a privilege to spend quality time with the many fine men and women of our nation’s armed forces. In this month of remembrance, I believe it’s important to not only record and preserve their amazing accomplishments in battle but to also appreciate who they are as individuals. I remember visiting a man named Edward Hicks who willingly stepped forward when his country needed him the most. He was only 22years-old and had just married his lovely bride, Mary Lou, four months earlier. He received the call to join the front-line and bravely responded to what would be known around the world as “Operation Overlord.” In 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, a ceasefire was declared as the signing of the Armistice ended World War One. A year later, President Wilson declared Armistice Day as the soldiers who survived marched in hometown parades. In 1938 Armistice Day became a national holiday and then in 1971 under president Nixon it was established as Veterans Day, honoring all veterans. Though I did not serve in the military, I’m very proud of my son, who is a marine and served with the Department of Homeland Security. He is now a police officer at a Veterans Hospital. Neither my father nor my grandfather served but on my mother’s side of the family, it’s quite a different story. My maternal grandfather Alvin fought in WWI and was in France. He was injured in the war and according to my mother; he was never the same. They had seven children, three boys, and four girls, and my mother was the baby. Like many families, all three sons eventually enlisted into the military. However, I thought it was even more unique how my grandfather and each of my uncles served in a different war. The father was in World War I, his oldest son, was in Japan during WWII, the second son was killed in Korea in 1950, and the youngest son served in the Vietnam era. I vaguely remember two of these uncles and now realize they both suffered terribly from PTSD.

My mom was very close to her brother who died in Korea. His nickname was Kenny and after he graduated High School, he worked a little part-time job before he was drafted. She remembers that he would give her ten cents every Saturday to buy some candy, which she looked forward to. He would also buy his mother flowers every week and she would set them on the kitchen table. My mom recalls the terrible day when military representatives knocked on their door and told her mother that they were sorry to inform her that her son had been killed. He was only 20-years-old. Her mother ran through the house wailing and screaming, “No God, please no.” Everyone was devastated as her mother went to bed and stayed there for weeks.

The 24-note melancholy bugle call known as “Taps” is played at military funerals and memorial services to accompany the lowering of the flag and to signal the lights out command at day’s end. Here is a portion of the lyrics, “Day is done, gone the sun, from the lake, from the hill, from the sky. All is well, safely rest, God is nigh. Put out the lights, go to sleep, go to sleep.” We live only a few miles from Camp Nelson National Cemetery and from the highway you can see rows of the over twelve thousand perfectly lined white marble tombstones. When I drive past this sacred ground, I think how each of these individuals at one time or another accepted the call of duty. And what is that call? To fight against human injustice and the evil governments and philosophies of tyrannical dictators. Patrick Henry is quoted as saying, “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.” The heart’s cry of a soldier is to defend and protect our freedom whatever the cost. Howard Osterkamp is quoted as saying, “All gave some – but some gave all” as we will never forget not only those who were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice but especially for the ones who did.

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A Christian Fellowship

150 Fellowship Ln, Sherman, TX 75090 (903) 815-1333

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

415 S Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 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

First Baptist Church Dorchester

11831 FM 902, Dorchester, TX 75459 903-476-5525 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 Choir Practice 6:00 pm - Evening Worship

First Baptist Church Howe

100 E. Davis St., Howe, TX 903532-5504 Tuesday 7:00 pm - Bible Study Wednesday 5:30 pm - Kids Choir 6:30 pm - Team Kid 6:30 pm - Youth Ministry 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Fellowship Sunday 9:15 am - Bible Fellowship 10:30 am - Kids Church 10:30am - Worship Service

First United Methodist Church of Howe

810 N Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6718 Monday 9:30 am - Care Team Meeting 10:30 am - Pastor's Bible Study Tuesday 9:30 am - Women's Bible Study 11:30 am - Out and About with Pastor Stephen 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

Howe Church of Christ

1205 N Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6441 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

Summit View Church

910 S Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6828 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

Times are subject to change. Please check with each church for any possible changes

2 Corinthians 4:15-16 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of

God. 16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.