September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. For many, the subject of suicide is off limits. They believe the mere mention of suicide around friends and family can cause suicidal thoughts for them. Nothing could be further from the truth.
“I can give all my clothes to charity. Well, at least the ones that don’t fit me,” says Kelsey, 10.
Kaufman County Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution yesterday in court supporting local control relating to the COVID-19 pandemic safety measures and will continue to encourage all residents to get vaccinated.
After a diligent interview process, the City of Forney is excited to announce the hiring of Jamie Holbert as Director of Human Resources. Holbert will be leaving her position as Director of Human Resources for the City of Waxahachie and is expected to join the City of Forney on September 13, 2021.
Back in 1927, when my father was born in the bedroom of his parent’s modest home in Bristol, TX, he was given the name Ted. In this oft-told legendary tale, Granny Stilwell recalled the moment she delivered her 3rd son. She mentioned Theodore as a name, and definitely remembered telling the doctor in attendance she wanted the baby boy’s middle name to be Waylon. Unfortunately, the name that followed my father throughout his rich life was, in fact, not Theodore Waylon, but the hastily etched physician hen scratch Ted W. Yep, he didn’t even get a middle name, only an initial. He went on to have 2 sons before the age of 24. So, he used Waylon for one of their middle names, right? Wrong. In fact, my half sibs share rhyming middle names: Randy Ray & Sandy K. See what he did there? The lone initial lives on. There was a sister in the mix, but tragically, Nickie Gayle died of SIDS before she would see her first month in this world. When my parents married and my mother convinced her older husband that he did, indeed, wish to be a father one more time, I was named after my mother’s favorite 50’s era socialite turned actress, Dina Merrill, star of such movies as Operation Petticoat & Butterfield 8. Yet, somehow, when it came to middle names, my dad decided that if rhyming was good enough for his sons, it would be good enough for his daughters. That is how I became (deep sigh + eye roll) Dina Dale. Yes, like a double entendre nightmare, it rhymed both with sweet Nickie’s middle name and our last name, Stilwell. As if that isn’t shameful enough, I dated not one but TWO boys in high school whose middle names were also Dale. My friends had middle names like Marie, Kay, Lynn, and Michelle. Meanwhile, Dale here was commonly asked if it was for Dale Evans or, like, the farmer in the [dell]. Life is cruel.
“My mom could mow the yard, feed the dogs, work in the garden and help us with our homework instead of making my dad do it,” says Mary, 8. “My mom could also make food for special occasions, go grocery shopping, take us to doctors’ appointments, pick our clothes every morning and fix our breakfast, lunch and supper.”
Like everyone, you’d like to enjoy a long, healthy, independent life. But the future is unknowable, so it’s a good idea to prepare for a variety of outcomes – including the possible need for long-term care.
Many times in life we do things because they are expected to be donewashing dishes, walking the dog, raking leaves. And then along comes a perfect day--Just Because Day! This day is celebrated annually on August 26th and what wonderful coincidence in timing this year’s holiday has bestowed on the world!
Nearly 2,175 degrees and certificates were awarded to more than 2,000 students at Wichita State University in spring 2021.
A decades-long misinterpretation of the southern boundary of Kaufman County bordering Henderson County was clarified this month in correspondence from the State of Texas, General Land Office (GLO). After more than two years of Kaufman County’s historical research, document review and consultations with the office of the Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, the Deputy Director of the GLO Surveying Services wrote that the area in question is, in fact, not a part of Kaufman County, as is illustrated and confirmed in state records and archives.
Ouachita Baptist University has named 367 students to its Spring 2021 President’s List.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced recently that Marine Corps Sgt. Fred Farris, 19, of Hillsboro, Texas, killed during World War II, was accounted for on April 14, 2020.
Real estate agents are common in Crandall ISD—a district that has grown from 3A to 5A in just 8 years. And today, CISD hosted those professionals responsible for putting new Pirates in new homes at the district’s firstever realtor’s breakfast.
For the third year in a row, the FISD Board has proposed a lower tax rate for residents living within the Forney ISD school boundaries. The Board will vote to approve the new rate at the next meeting in September. Since 2020, the Forney ISD tax rate has decreased by a total of 17 cents.
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 936, Forney, TX 75126
Physical Address: 201 W. Broad St., Forney, TX 75126
Phone: 972-564-3121
Fax: 972-552-3599
