Red Oak FFA hosts car show

RED OAK – On Saturday April 22, the Red Oak High School FFA Club held a fund-raising car show at the Red Oak Middle School parking lot.The club was expecting 30-40 cars to register, but when registration ended around 10 a.m. Saturday morning, the club had registered more than 70 cars and trucks.

Ellis County hires new EM coordinator

ELLIS COUNTY – Ellis County recently hired a new Emergency Management Coordinator whose first day on the job was last Monday.A Dallas native, Michaela Sandefer’s most recent appointment was serving as the Assistant Emergency Management Coordinator for the City of Grand Prairie.

TASTE: Savor spring flavor with fresh seafood recipes

FAMILY FEATURES – Fresh, flavorful ingredients take springtime meals to another level, and it’s hard to top seafood as a seasonal favorite.Skip the wait at restaurants and instead create your own savory seafood dishes by taking advantage of easy-to-make recipes.

COMICALLY INCORRECT by A.F. Branco (April 27, 2023)

How Americans have taken a pay cut every month since Biden took office

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has laid out the devastating results of runaway government spending on the middle class and why it’s so important to claw back lost ground for the average American, who has “received a pay cut for 24 consecutive months … as inflation has persisted.

Wilmer PWD recognized in commissioners court

WILMER – Public Works Director Wayne McCurley was recognized last month at the Dallas County Commissioners Court by Commissioner John Wiley Price for his outstanding service working alongside others in the area on the Dallas County Inland Port.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Did you know, just the facts?

This week I am going to play a little game of “Did you know,” because I am guessing you don’t since mainstream media isn’t allowed to impart information that is not part of the narrative.

Biden’s ‘clean’ debt ceiling hike is a dirty deal

When President Biden and his team talk about a clean debt ceiling increase, it is one more example of Washington using language to deliberately mislead the American people.They are using the word “clean” because it is a positive word.

NOTABLE QUOTABLES (April 27, 2023)

FOR THE RECORD“Are we going to be a society based on truth or we gonna be a society based on deceit? And if you take a man and they dress up as a woman, and you tell me I have to accept that they’re a woman, then you’re asking me to be complicit in a lie, and I just refuse to do that.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Ah, more than a test

Good week. Welcome to the “Front Porch.”As I write this early Tuesday morning, many of my kiddos at Ferris High are taking their “EOC” (End of Course test).