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The public is invited to join the Forney Fire Department to celebrate the arrival of their newest fleet - Engine 2 and Medic 2. Forney Fire Department will hold a traditional wash-down and push-in ceremony to commemorate this exciting moment as we welcome these apparatus’ and the ability to better serve the Forney Community. The ceremony will take place Saturday April 20th at 9:30 am. Fire Station #2 is located at 980 Reeder Lane.

Woollybear caterpillar makes its seasonal journey

Jenny Weems has been named Executive Director of The Door Life and Pregnancy Resource Center in Forney, the board of directors announced Feb. 26.

I am looking forward to summer. I am a teacher, and the summers are when I recharge. I will definitely need it after this year. I would like to learn a new way so that I don’t start the summer off so exhausted that it takes me 1 ⁄ 2 of the summer to get myself back and then it seems as if the last 1/2 goes by so fast I can hardly appreciate it. Help me.

Millions of students attend college after high school. The Education Data Initiative says there were 18,939,568 people enrolled in colleges in the United States in 2023.

Earth Day is celebrated each April and draws attention to a range of issues affecting the environment. Earth Day aims to raise awareness in the hope of inspiring change.

WITH LUKE CLAYTON

I read, somewhere, that you have a 50/50 chance of rooting a persimmon tree by placing a blooming persimmon cutting in water. While the odds are acceptable to me, after all - what is the harm if one happens to come across a blooming persimmon twig - the source is vague, at best. See, my brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness. I didn’t write that. Virginia Wolfe did. At least, that’s what I read. Within the randomness of these thoughts lies both a great social dilemma and, hopefully, an interesting topic of discussion. What do we consider fact and from whence do today’s facts come?

Forney Independent School District recently announced the District’s 2023-2024 Elementary and Secondary Teachers of the Year. The announcement was made at the Forney Education Foundation’s Teacher of the Year Banquet on Thursday, April 4, 2024. Forney ISD Superintendent Dr. Justin Terry, Forney ISD Board Vice President Chad Johnson, and Board Members Hanna Bateman, Becky Dobbs and Dr. Michael Idemudia announced the winners at the event.

Being a grandparent is spectacular. You finally get to use those amazing ideas you wanted to do with your own kids but were never able to because you kept having to reprimand them for things like making fart noises with their mouths in public or sliding down the aisles of the grocery store on their knees. Because, with grand-parenting, you work in smaller blocks of time, you see. For instance, here’s a 3 hour window. You’ve been asked to watch little Jill and Jack while mom has an appointment. So, you drag out rocks and craft paint and an old shower curtain and have a rock painting session. Sure, they wind up with turquoise tipped highlights and a little sepia brown (ok, a lot) on their T-shirts, but that’s ok. You don’t have to clean them up. They’re leaving soon! If they argue, just let them argue. You won’t have to be their apt audience for long. They’re leaving soon! Let them play Taylor Swift at top volume on the Google Hub. They’re leaving soon! Hype them up with party toast and Sour Patch Kids. You don’t have to control them. They’re leaving soon! You can do anything. Flex your grandma swag muscle. You have earned this right. You lived through the proper care and feeding of their parent, for crying out loud. It’s time to have some fun. Incidentally, party toast is just regular toast with melted chocolate and sprinkles on the top. You’re welcome.

Caregivers, whether they're medical professional or informal caregivers like family members, are integral components of many health care teams. Caregivers work tirelessly for the benefit of a person in need, although the job often proves humbling and even overwhelming.

Someone very close to me has dementia. Boy is it difficult to watch. I am not quite sure how to support those I love that are even closer to this person. Can you give me any ideas?

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