OPINION: Life along the Texas border collapses

Take all of the imagery you have seen of the over 14,000 Haitian migrants camped under an international bridge in the small Texas border town of Del Rio and add the complications of disease, public excrement, unbearable heat and heightened frustrations.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Lost in Yellowstone (Chapter 10)

CHAPTER 10“The dividing of a river, the parting of friends.” There it stood!Perhaps it was just the Lord’s reminder for us to absorb all the good things around us, not just the ominous.

OUT TO PASTOR: The epitome of boredom

I have never considered myself to be boring. I may be boring to other people but not to myself.As you get older, you find out that there are many boring things in this world.When younger, I can’t ever remember being bored except when my father was lecturing me on how I should behave.

ON THE JOB TRAINING (part 25)

“But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

OFF MY MEDS by Les Taha (September 30, 2021)

FERRIS PUBLIC LIBRARY: More than books (September 30, 2021)

The Ferris Public Library has had several requests to resume Curbside Service. Therefore, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, we will begin offering Curbside pickup again. The process is simple. Visit our website at ferristexas.

ELLIS COUNTY ARRESTS: September 20 – 27

Vallejos, Gonzalo, 31, assault fam/house member impede breath Felony 3.Rodriguez, Silvio, 28, unl use of criminal instrument.Barrueto, Ibrian, 34, unl use of criminal instrument.Lockhart, Bryant, 52, publlic intoxication.Melgarejo, Eugenio, 37, parole violation-DWI.

RED OAK ARRESTS: September 13 – 26

Heflin, John, 35, assault CBI family member, interfere w/emergency req for assistance.Harris, Donald, 43, no motor vehicle liability insurance.Bonner, Jackson, 18, burglary of vehicles, theft-mail <=10 addresses.Etheridge, Alyssa, 24, speeding, failure to appear.

WILMER ARRESTS: September 20 – 26

Ayers, Darryl, 31, DWI.Meadors, Tyffney, 39, warrant arrest other agency.

PUBLIC NOTICE: NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS LIFE SCHOOL’S STATE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY RATING

Publish two times in The Ellis County Press on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, and on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021.