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Young Catherine stood on the ship’s bow as it sailed into Ellis Island. She was a teenager. Her hair was tied behind her head. She had a slender neck. Young face.

Fairfield Lake State Park, 96 miles south of Dallas, is expected to close permanently by the end of the month because its landlord is selling the land.

The annual white bass run is heating up and anglers across Texas are preparing for exciting days on the water. Each spring, white bass run upstream from reservoirs into rivers and creeks to spawn, creating prime fishing opportunities for new and seasoned anglers. White bass can be targeted from the bank, motorized boat or paddle craft in multiple publicly accessible locations throughout the state.

Representative Keith Bell’s Capitol Update

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) in Athens is once again partnering with Fishing’s Future and the George H.W. Bush Vamos A Pescar Education Fund to provide convenient fishing education opportunities for families throughout Texas.

Thousands are accusing power companies, distribution companies, electric grid operators and others of failing to prepare properly for the February 2021 storm, creating a catastrophe.

The Bible says no man can see God and live (Exodus 33:20). Yet, Jesus said anyone who has seen him has seen God the Father (John 14:9).

I hope that most of you know that I own Flower Basket. And today, you will all learn that my “significant” birthday is in February, less than a week from Valentine’s Day. According to my children, these two facts make it impossible to shop for me (“What are we gonna get a florist the week of Valentine’s Day? Flowers?”). So, they’ve worked very hard to make my birthday gifts meaningful, and every gift they give is that much more special because I know that they gave it so much thought.

WILD HOG PRICES RIVAL THAT OF DOMESTIC HOGS

As we age, strength training and aerobic exercise become increasingly important. Studies have shown strength training may enhance quality of life and improve our ability to do everyday activities, while physical inactivity— also known as sedentary behavior—can lead to numerous adverse health conditions and outcomes, including premature death.

Gov. Greg Abbott’s office is warning state agency and public university leaders this week that the use of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives — policies that support groups who have been historically underrepresented or discriminated against — is illegal in hiring.

The last couple of years have been doozies - for just about all of us. The world has changed before our eyes, in ways we never would have or could have imagined.

At some point, back in the early 60s, my father blew into Seagoville, TX, with his two near adult sons. Perhaps he was still married to his first wife. He isn’t around to ask, nor is she, nor is wife number two, my mother. Wife 3 died decades ago. I am not sure about wife 4 as we lost touch along the way. Lesson one, never assume the stories will last longer than the people who made them. I couldn’t have fathomed I would be sitting here in my mid-50s struggling to tell a tale with no one in my back pocket to edit what my own feeble mind recalls. I am not sure why my father did not settle in Wilmer or Palmer or Ferris, where his parents and 3 siblings lived. He chose the Ville. Soon, Daddy and Uncle Spider (aside: I also had an Uncle Goat, though from my mother’s clan) bought a building and opened a washateria. Uncle Spider did not enjoy the laundry entrepreneur life and bowed out shortly thereafter. Daddy hired my mother’s aunt to manage his business, met her very young, very tall, strawberry blonde niece, and promptly set up house with her in a single wide mobile home on a 3-acre tract of land in a then unincorporated area of SE Dallas County. We were a no man’s land bereft of things like city water or trash pickup. Electricity had to be purchased from the next county over. The family who sold him the property was a big deal in those parts. I didn’t understand fully, until I needed to memorize my address for school purposes. Daddy bought the parcel from the matriarch of that family. She was Charlie Ballard’s mother, though I only knew her as Granny Ballard. Charlie was Seagoville’s towing king and one of my father’s dearest friends. We lived on Ballard Road.