Bloomburg ISD Elementary Student Council made a donation to Second Chance Furbabies, a no-kill nonprofit animal shelter. In a two-week period, the elementary students brought in over 100 items from toys and food to cleaning supplies. Pictured are, from left, Hannah Turnage, Haylea Pond, Haylee Campell, and Garrit Blizzard. Not pictured is Haleigh Greer.
Incoming! Incoming! Look out below! It’s that time of year again…the big old oak trees are shedding their acorns all over the forest floor. That’s what oak trees do, but why? And what happens to the acorns?
Oh, the stories he could tell. JD Souther, one of the preeminent songwriters of our time, is preparing for a four-night gig in the Lone Star State. It’s a mini-homecoming for the Texas native.
“My mother, Loty Finley, was from Amarillo,” Souther said during a telephone interview Wednesday. “She was a stenographer for the commanding officer where my dad was stationed at the end of World War II. He took her to his home in Detroit where JD was born. She hated it.” Besides a serious dislike of the city and cold weather, Loty missed her big, noisy, tightly-knit family. Read more in our e-edition: http://www.etypeservices.com/SWF/LocalUser/Atlanta1//Magazine25461/Full/index.aspx?id=25461
Seven queens were crowned during the Little Miss Wildflower Trails of Texas Pageant on March 30 in Nelson-Murphy Auditorium at Linden-Kildare High School.
