HILCO’ disburses funds thru Operation Round Up® program

ITASCA – Operation Round Up® Trust Board, comprised of representatives from all of the HILCO districts, voted April 14 to disburse $10,300.00 to six organizations in the HILCO service area. These funds were donated during the 1st quarter of 2020. Grant checks were distributed on Tuesday, April 28.

LOCAL STUDENT UPDATE

Kensen Vaughan of Red Oak was named to the dean’s list at Olivet Nazarene University during the recently completed spring 2020 semester.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK (May 21, 2020)

Members of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office salute during a funeral service for Harris County Sheriff’s Sgt. Raymond Scholwinski in Humble, Texas, on May 14, 2020. Sgt. Scholwinski died last week after contracting COVID-19.

OFF MY MEDS by Les Taha (May 21, 2020)

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (May 21, 2020)

Life High Schools in-person graduation ceremonies planned for June 9

RED OAK – Life School, a public charter school, announced it will hold outdoor graduation ceremonies for its graduating seniors from Life High School Oak Cliff and Life High School Waxahachie on June 9 at Waxahachie ISD’s Lumpkins Stadium.

RO extends emergency declaration order into June

RED OAK – An Ellis County deputy in uniform recently entered the RaceTrac gas station in Red Oak without a mask. He did not think he needed to have the mask on, since the order to wear a mask was not mandatory based on Texas Governor Abbott’s latest executive orders.

Ellis County Detention Center vandalized

WAXAHACHIE – The Wayne McCollum Detention Center, 300 S. Jackson Street in Waxahachie was vandalized Friday night/Saturday morning. While the Ellis County Sheriff’s Department is still reviewing video from the location, they have not arrested a suspect in the case.

Wilmer welcomes 1st female fire fighter

WILMER – The City of Wilmer has hired its first female fire fighter. The city recently welcomed 37-year-old Maria Gabriela Gillen after she was on the fire chief’s radar since she volunteered for the department about four years ago.

Political correctness is the real Chinese virus

Political correctness usually just seems silly or at worst a little crazy, but in the case of the Chinese-originated virus, the worldwide virtue signaling has become worse than dangerous; it has become deadly.