GARRETT USES GRANT FUNDS TO REBUILD STREETS

GARRETT – The City of Garrett has rebuilt city streets to provide better access to neighborhoods, allowing school buses to transport children safely and allowing residents to avoid damage to their vehicles.

Ellis County Toys for Tots campaign is preparing for a very busy season

ENNIS – This year the Ellis County Toys for Tots campaign is executing its 3rd Annual campaign season.The Ellis County Marine Corps League Detachment 1452 createdthis current campaign and is hosting it for the third year in a row.This year’s campaign will be conducted from Oct. 1 – Dec. 21.

CONSTITUTIONAL MINUTE #8

“Judicial Power” refers to a court’s power to hear and decide cases.Art. III, Sec. 2, U.S. Constitution, lists the cases which federal courts are permitted to hear.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (August 18, 2022)

OPINION: If at first you don’t succeed, keep doing stupid stuff

We all grew up understanding the maxim,”if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”However, that maxim was intended to provide encouragement to learn from previous failures while showing perseverance.

OPINION: America the scary

If you weren’t fearful of government before this week, you should be scared to death by now.This is the United States of America. Not Venezuela.Or is it?

NOTABLE QUOTABLES: August 18, 2022

OBSERVATIONS“Just to get this straight, we’re now supposed to believe that the material Trump had stored in his house was nuclear content so sensitive the FBI waited a year and a half to go get it and used the National Archives as a prop to do so?” – Ben Shapiro“How corrupt is the FBI?

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: No, there are no small things, especially when it’s a black furry creature

Welcome, all, to the “front-porch.” A chronicle of Day 2 of our 2022 journey: Monday, July 11 There really are no small things. I learned that lesson on this Monday, again.Here on our second day, a “small” thing happened out of the blue that was the highlight of the journey.

OUT TO PASTOR: My oh my – what a nice slice of pie

Whenever things go better than you can imagine, it is always a red flag to pay attention because something is wrong. I don’t always catch it, and I have paid the price.One day this past week, The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and our daughters and granddaughters planned a girl’s day.

The dynamics of discipleship (part 19)

Then Jesus answered and said: “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.