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City Beat for 11-12-09
 (Posted 11/12/2009 02:09 pm)
PROVERBS 22:4 - By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.
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FIRST AMENDMENT QUOTE: “If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would’ve done prison time” - Steven BOCHCO, television producer, writer, 1995.
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    Steve OGDEN (R) of Bryan has announced he will not seek re-election to the Texas District 5 Senate seat. Ogden has served us well. We are saddened by his not seeking re-election...
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    One more mention of what I perceived as a “touch of class” by the Mexia Varsity football team as the guys walked through the “big cat,” four abreast, with the front line bearing the United States flag, then closing ranks and “huddling,” more than likely for prayer directed for families of those who lost loved ones, and for families of the wounded in the tragedy at Fort Hood. That was a class act, in which the team walked out instead of running at Groesbeck...
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    Mexia fans had filled the stands by 6:15 p.m., 45 minutes prior to kickoff, at the stadium. The band was also in the stands at about the same time...
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    The hospitality at Groesbeck was outstanding. Enjoyed meeting and talking with Dr. Harold RAMM , Groesbeck Superintendnet of schools. In the “hospitality room,” the hot shrimp gumbo was Super D...
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    Dr. Jerry SIMMONS is “back in the saddle again” after an illness, and seeing patients at the Rural Health Clinic in Mexia. Thanks to Jennifer LYNCH, Parkview Regional Hospital’s Director of Marketing and Patient Relations, for this piece of information...
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    The Bluebonnet Storytelling Guild will have its annual Tellabration on Saturday night, Nov. 21, at 6:30 in Gibbs Memorial Library. Choctaw Indian storyteller Tim TINGLE will be featured, along with Jodi COMMANDER and Wynona LIPSETT providing music...
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    Thinking about donating blood during the next drive in Mexia? Think about this fact - Only 38 percent of the population is eligible to donate and just a fraction of ,those eligible - about eight percent - actually donate blood...
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    APHORISM: - A short, pointed sentence expressing a wise or clever observation or a general truth. Here goes three of ‘em:
    *Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
    *Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?
    *Pet a cat and you will have a permanent job.