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Opportunities Abound

Opportunities Abound

Opportunities are always there to do right by someone and lift them up. The Board Members of Forney Education Foundation know that it can be easy to seize an opportunity to visit with someone about what FEF does and how much it impacts the students and teachers in Forney ISD. And many times, the person finding out immediately looks inward to see how they can help with the mission of FEF.

“Through the Years” with the Kenny
“Through the Years” with the Kenny

“Through the Years” with the Kenny Rogers Band Featuring Don Gatlin to Perform in Terrell on September 8

Don Gatlin joins Kenny Rogers original band for a one-of-a-kind tribute to the country music giant live in concert at the Terrell ISD Jamie Foxx Performing Arts Center at 7:30 pm on Thursday, September 8, 2022. This is the first performance in the 2022-2023 E! Terrell Entertainment Series of community concerts. Gatlin, longtime friend of Kenny Rogers, has joined Kenny’s original band to present a timeless song catalog while sharing background and untold stories from his illustrious career. Kenny Rogers was a GRAMMY Award-winning superstar that entertained fans for six decades. Selling over 120 million albums worldwide, he is one of the best-selling male vocalist of all-time.

Three Rights
Three Rights

KEN LEONARD

Three Rights

The Pine Tree Flag and the “Divine Right of Kings” Among the landmarks of history that led up to the American Revolution and independence, there were some lesser-known events long before the ones we all know about and hold dear. One of those events that occurred almost two years before the Boston Tea Party was an event that occurred in New Hampshire called the “Pine Tree Riot”. But before I get into that, I want to lay the background.

BBB Warning: Employment and Online Purchase Scams

BBB Warning: Employment and Online Purchase Scams Commonly Target College Students and Young Adults

During this time of the year, college students are preparing for the upcoming semester and purchasing required items such as textbooks, laptops, meal plans and budgeting for other living expenses. The National Retail Federation expects total spending for back-tocollege goods to reach a record $74 billion in 2022, with an average of almost $1,200 per household. Households with college-aged and K-12 children may spend upwards of $2,000 on back-to-school items this year. To help offset the cost of attending college and for their own spending, many young adults seek employment near their college which can have disastrous results if the employer turns out to be fraudulent. In addition to this risk, increased inflation has led to more consumers comparatively shopping online for their back-toschool items, providing an opportunity for scammers to advertise high-demand products at low prices that are never delivered.

Thanks for the Memories
Thanks for the Memories

By Dina Moon

Thanks for the Memories

Have you heard of Simplicity by September? No? Maybe you know it as Junk Free July? Organized in October? Less Mess March? It’s ok. Clearly, we’ve got some work to do. There’s a movement going on in the world. We GenXers have hit the wall. We were tasked with caregiving for our Greatest Gen parents, or even our Boomer elders (I had both), and we weren’t expecting the fallout to be this grim. Those generations subscribed to a waste not/want not philosophy. They realized the value of things. Their epiphany was centered around the fact that things cost money, but if they only took care of all possessions properly, if they guarded/ tended/repaired/saved, then they would never need to buy those things again. “I could toss this tin foil, but what if I just kept saving the tiny pieces until it formed a ball large enough to take up a spare bedroom? I’d never have to worry about having enough tin foil again!” Saving the Benjamins was all that mattered to them. It is a worthy and valid hill to die on, I must say. But, the result is utter chaos, especially to those of us left behind to declutter homesteads, execute wills, and dispense tchotchkes. It’s like we all woke up one morning, after futile attempts to find anyone willing to house Great Aunt Opal’s fox stole that she only ever wore once a year when Uncle Opie took her downtown to see the Christmas window at Niemen-Marcus, shouting the same mantra. WE WILL NOT DO THIS TO OUR CHILDREN. We won’t force them to hang onto the gift tags we saved for them from the baby showers thrown for us when they were still safe in our bellies (true story). They will not inherit bags upon bags of empty penny roller casings (also true). Their inheritance will not center around a metric ton of instamatic triplicate pictures that show more fingertips than scenery (yep). And, unlike our parents, we’ll save our children the guilt of having to feel that feeling of impending doom from throwing away the things they know we cherished. We will get rid of everything. We will do it right now.

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