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One of my Examiner contributions is the content for This Week in History. This assignment requires me to peruse the Examiner’s big blue books for headlines of Grimes County news events for the past four decades. Can you imagine my surprise a week after writing “Railroaded Again?” and ”The Crucifixion of Grimes County,” I turned to the Sept. 9, 1993, edition and saw this headline - “City in high-speed train corridor!”
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This interviewee started out a little different than the others. I planned on interviewing her husband, who happened to be in Australia for a few weeks, so I wasn’t able to meet with him quite yet. The more I thought about who I would replace him with - the more I saw his wife and realized SHE WAS THE PERFECT ONE! Her husband even told me, “She is significantly cooler than I am, with a way more powerful story to tell.”
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Dear readers, this story is a bit embarrassing, but I’m going to push through for you anyway. This took place when I was in high school on a campout with a friend of mine. Actually, “campout” might not be the right term. It was more like trespassing.
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A highlight of my recent trips to Rockport and Port Lavaca was seeing firsthand that agriculture is not only alive but thriving in South Texas! Well away from urban concrete and steel, I saw farm after farm with nothing but cotton, cotton, cotton! It was on the shrub on my Rockport visit but a few weeks later on the way to Port Lavaca, it lay gloriously bound in large round bales.
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This tale happened in March of 1987 when I was a newly minted soldier in the U.S. Army. After completing Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training I, and a few others, were sent to the Army Infantry School at Fort Benning Georgia to (hopefully) complete the Airborne Course. This was all planned out according to our enlistment contracts and we were fired up and ready to get going with this last segment of our training.
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The impending return to school brought to mind a comment from one of my grandchildren upon their pre-COVID graduation from college. It hurts my heart every time I think about it but I’m sharing to prepare families of incoming freshmen for the changeling who may sit down to Thanksgiving dinner.
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An unprecedented number of childcare centers are expected to close across the state as pandemic relief funding ends, the Texas Standard reported.A survey conducted by the Texas Association for the Education of Young Children of about 1,600 childcare programs indicated 44% were likely to close their doors without additional funding. Federal pandemic relief funds ended for most centers in June.
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So far in this opinion column, I have sat down and interviewed four people who are fairly new to Navasota. I thought now would be a good time to write some thoughts on some things I’ve learned so far.
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