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In 2001, the C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas junior college football bowl game began. This year features the Tyler Junior College Apaches and the regular season first place Kansas Jayhawk Conference Coffeyville Red Ravens, Saturday, Dec. 4, beginning at 4:05 p.m. at Memorial Stadium in Commerce.
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The purpose of a school board is to oversee and govern school districts. Board members are elected by the community and are responsible to represent the community in meetings and decision-making. Board members should have student achievement as their first and ultimate goal of serving as a trustee on a school board. With the increasing chaos surrounding school board meetings, student achievement is clearly not the priority.
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Things have changed. Well, of course they have – everything changes. But I’m specifically talking about games – and not organized games, like football (although that has changed, too, as in the NFL making kickoffs kinder and gentler.) No, I mean more informal games. I’m thinking of one my big brother used to run during our church’s “Royal Rangers” (our denomination’s version of the Boy Scouts) meetings, when he was in charge of the older guys.
Read moreThe kicker makes the field goal and the crowd roars. The punter booms a ball down the field and fans cheer. Fans cheer for great kickers and punters but how about the person snapping the ball to them?
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Mark Twain’s rib-tickling article “The Siamese Twins” first appeared in the August, 1869 issue of Packard’s Monthly, The Young Men’s Magazine, in which Twain related the implausible circumstances of Chang and Eng, conjoined twins from birth. He tells how the twins always bedded down at the same time, but Chang would rise each morning an hour before his brother to get a head start on the day. How Chang did all the housework, and because Eng liked going out, he ran all the errands. And how they each fought gallantly in the War Between the States
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Slogan T-shirts are my preferred method of communication as I’m a walking bumper sticker. I have T-shirts from my favorite Mexican restaurant in San Antonio which is Mi Tierra, several from my church (kitchen crew, kid’s ministries, health fair), and many others from places I’ve visited such as Washington, D.C., Puerto Vallarta, NYC, South Beach. As I’ve written, I used to design T-shirts for the Christian Youth market, and just recently created a new design.
Read moreAs teams finish their season, every player and coach will remember the struggles and accomplishments of the season. Some teams overcame great obstacles and will remember the process of the phenomenal year. Others will remember what could or should have been.
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Early in our marriage, we were both employed at a large feed, seed and fertilizer company. Its walk-in store was extremely busy from local traffic in the spring, due to the seed and garden plants it carried. Andy was a salesman on the floor, while Renie worked in the offices.
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