How good are your olfactory senses? They vary among folks; some can sense the tiniest variations in an odor while there are those who, like me, that do not. I can tell that there is a difference between a woman’s perfume and barnyard perfume. Most of the time I can also tell whether that difference […]

Hope High School Environmental Club took part in the annual Don’t Mess with Texas Trash-Off. The club is part of the Adopt-A-Highway program and keeps Alcoa Drive trash-free for much of the year. A total of nine bags of trash were collected during this cleanup. Back row (left) : Login Athey, Eric Ray, Brandon DeLaGarza, […]

April 19: Helen Hardcastle; Derek “Sparky” Sparks; Tarah Munsch; Julie Yost April 20: Rosa Christensen April 21: Debbie Gayle; Margaret Ragusin; Louis Andrew Ragusin April 22: Elias Castro; Margaret Claiborne; Tracey N. Sandoval April 23: Maebelle Winkles April 24: Shasta Raby; Melodie Baird; JoAnne Haynes; Lisa Singleterry; Shaleigh Munsch; Kylie Santhoff April 25: Andrew Covarrubias-Ureste; […]

I picked up THE TWILIGHT OF COURAGE as I was slightly familiar with the authors, Bodie and Brock Thoene, both historians and both extremely talented as writers.  The book details the start of the Second World War from the fall of Warsaw, Poland in 1939 to the extraordinary exodus at Dunkirk, France, when hundreds of […]