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The Crandall Pirates Cheer team is no stranger to success. During Coach Nicole Mitchell’s tenure, Crandall has experienced much success due to the hard work and dedication of the team and strong coaching. The Pirates have placed in the top eleven at state over the past six years. In 2018, 2020, and 2021 the Crandall Cheer team won state!

State Representative Keith Bell (R - Forney) filed House Bill 1264 requiring the removal of a registered voter off the certified voter roll immediately after a death certificate is submitted. Currently, there is a delay in the reporting of deaths to the Texas Secretary of State, giving individuals the opportunity to cast fraudulent votes for those who are deceased. This opportunity should not exist.

Gilligan’s Island aired for 98 episodes, beginning on September 26, 1964, and ending on April 17, 1967, and the 1st season’s productions were filmed in black-andwhite! The show revolved around seven “castaways,” as dissimilar as could be, and their attempts to survive on an island upon which the shipwrecked crew had been “washed,” shaken but unhurt! In following episodes they also had several attempts to escape their plight, but the crew members were “always” unsuccessful, which was often blamed upon Gilligan, the star of the cast! However, he quite often was the one who in the end saved one or more of the others from some catastrophic flaw in their plans! (The trip began in Honolulu, shipwrecked as result of a typhoon, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, in uncharted waters.) As with many shows/movies today, the group, “unmatched” with each other in most ways, had to learn to not only “get along well” but also to work together to survive and possibly be later rescued.

Have you ever heard of GEORGE BLAKE? Well neither had I, as far back as I can remember, but I heard an announcement the other day on some internet news station that made me hit the “rewind” button and then listen more closely. He was a former MI6 officer, who worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union, and he had just died at age 98. “Yes, me, too!” I thought that double agents lived very dangerous lives and died young when they were discovered! At least, that is what I saw in movies and read about in novels.

Top scholars at Southwestern College in Winfield and at Southwestern College Professional Studies have been announced with the release of the Dean’s Honor Roll for the fall 2020 semester. Full-time students who earned grade point averages of at least 3.70 (4.0 equals an A) were eligible for the honor.

The “THEM” mentioned above is MICROBES, which can continue to be dangerous for up to three days on stainless steel, plastics, and various other metal and “slick-finished” surfaces, while about three or four hours is their survival time when on copper!

Taylor Childress of Forney Named to the Fall 2020 Dean’s List at Mississippi College

Madeline Burer of Forney Named to the Fall 2020 President’s List at Mississippi College

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have been forced to work from home. But once we’ve moved past the virus, many workers may continue working from home. More than one-third of companies with employees who started working from home now think that remote work will stay more common post-pandemic, according to a Harvard Business School study. This shift to at-home work can affect people’s lives in many ways – and it may end up providing workers with some long-term financial advantages.

As last week, I can barely remember being a very young boy in the early to mid-1950s and going to town with Mom and/or Dad. And things have not changed too much since last week. I spoke then about a favorite place to visit with my Dad— the Barbershop, with Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Daniel.

I often get a kick out of ‘fooling’ some of my guests in hunting camps by cooking wild pork in conventional ways that venison is prepared and watching them brag on how good that venison tastes. Some of these are the same folks that swear that wild hogs are not ‘fitten’ to eat!

For the first time, the 24th annual Great Texas Birding Classic (GTBC) took place in fall instead of spring last year after having been postponed due to the public health crisis. The postponement allowed event organizers to further plan and implement health and safety measures. Despite postponement, the event garnered a record 138 teams registered, with a total of 650 participants across the state.

When 17-year-old Ken Coleman was witnessing the impact the Vietnam War was having on his peers, he knew it was time to take his future into his own hands. Six months before his high school graduation in 1967, Coleman knew that the likelihood of being drafted was extremely high and chose to enlist in the U.S. Navy.