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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Do you have your Christmas cards ready?


I don't know what the exact protocol is, but I thought it would be terribly clever if I had my cards ready to mail the day after Thanksgiving. How efficient I would seem! Unfortunately, my mind works faster than my physical self and the cards are still in the top of the closet.

I was telling someone the other day how I'm enjoying these lower gas prices (1.59 per!) and they said "Don't get used to it." Danged pessimists. That's like going on vacation but not enjoying it because it ends in two weeks. I'm going to take what I can get and be glad the cost went down two dollars instead of up two dollars.

Speaking of enjoying a short-lived thing, I snapped this picture of a very long snake (see all those wriggles?) sunning itself in front of the county barn at Claytonville. Already the days have shortened dramatically leading to Winter Solstice which occurs on December 21 this year.

I have been terribly negligent in my newspaper updates, so I better get right to it as this will be about as long as a book by the finish.

Roby Star Record / Rotan Advance Nov. 20, 2008 issue:
  • Roby football Sweetheart & Hero (photo)
  • Concerned citizens attend meeting of Rotan Rural Housing Authority
  • Rotan Church of Christ to host Thanksgiving meal Nov. 25
  • First Baptist Church in Roby to host meal Nov. 23
  • Lady Yellowhammers Bi-District Champs (photo)
  • Commissioners Court enacts burn ban
  • Fisher County gin report
  • Rotan and Project Merry Christmas brings Santa
  • Newspaper Office early deadline for Thanksgiving edition
  • Rotan Schools honor rolls
  • Obituaries for Randy J. Rector (photo) and Troy Dee Faglie (photo)
  • Veterans honored (photo)
  • Allied trash schedule changes
  • Pastors Column on Thanksgiving
  • Sheriff's report
  • Roby CISD lunch menu
  • Tumbleweed Smith's Top 40
  • Silver Star Cafe in Roby open Thanksgiving Day
  • Engagement announcement for Brittany Nicole Lakey and Acey Deaton Dean (photo), Kayla Sue Posey and Joe Frank Gonzalez, Jr. (photo)
  • Fisher County Hospital to auction surplus Dec. 2
  • Delta Kappa Gamma (photo)
  • Surprise season comes to an end (Yellowhammers) (photo)
  • Roby CISD Revenue statement
  • Fisher County basketball review (photo)
  • Rotan Classes of 1946, 1947 photos
  • 4-H Gold Star winner (photo)
  • Fisher County Round-Up by Joy Walker
Nov. 13, 2008 issue:
  • Local man injured in one vehicle accident (photos)
  • DAR honors good citizens (photos)
  • Christmas parade to be Dec. 4 @ 6:15 p.m. downtown Rotan
  • Rotan 1946, 1947 Class Reunion (photo)
  • Obituary for Elwanda Wanda Floyd
  • Pastor's Column: Bill Fitzgerald
  • Recipe Corner: Cream Cheese Squares
  • First bucks photo
  • Roby Band Sweetheart photo
  • FCAA meeting minutes (photo), next meeting Dec. 8
  • Rick Rodger Tax Planning: organize your vital records
  • Joy Walker's Fisher County Roundup
  • Fisher County Historical Commission meeting minutes
  • Roby City Council reviews policies on Community Center
  • Roby CISD weekly announcements
  • Hogfest Bike Rally t-shirts for sale, 735-2488
  • Yellowhammers & Lions sports reports (photos)
  • Marriage announcement for Dayme Alison Mullins & Marcus Price Walther (photo)
  • Rotan ISD honors Veterans on Nov. 11 (photos)
  • Photo of wild hog
  • Introducing The Yellow Rose gift shop inside The Newspaper Office (photos)
  • Randy's Roundup: Honoring America's Veterans
Can't find the Nov. 6 issue!

Oct. 30, 2008:
  • Cotton harvest has begun (photo)
  • SWCD to convene local work group conservation programs meeting
  • First Monday Missions to benefit Roby Christmas Toy Drive
  • Early voting moderately heavy, early voting ends Oct. 31
  • Benefit for Sylvester Cemetery
  • Riley Branch named 2008-2009 National FFA Western Region Vice President
  • Pastors Column: Jason Alton, Jason Trupp
  • Birth Announcements for Cole Cash Maikell, Brogan Ford Bell, Kayden & Karlee Gilbreath (photos)
  • 2008 Maberry Reunion
  • Fisher County Sheriff's report
  • Letters to the Editor from Dr. Brian Carrion, Carrie Jo Blackshears, Kelli Cleveland
  • Rotan City Council meeting minutes
  • Yellowhammers & Lions sports report (photos)
  • Hambright to be inducted into Oil & Gas Hall of Fame (photo)
  • Fisher County annual financial report
  • Roby CISD academic & creative skills program
  • News Briefs: Friends of Faith fall festival; 14th annual diabetes Texas style workshop; Roby Volunteer Fire Dept. Turkey Shoot; Project Merry Christmas Parade; Heritage House & F. C. Assisted Living Trick or Treat
  • Randy's Roundup: Creating effective regulation; Remembering Richard Lopez; Travels through the 19th District
  • Fisher County Roundup by Joy Walker
  • Shelby Briggs first deer (photo)
Oct. 23, 2008:
  • Two vehicle accident (photo)
  • Fire Safety Program at Roby CISD (photo)
  • Fall Men's Revival
  • Early voting started
  • DAR photo
  • Commissioners renew lease at airport, vote to re-bid roofing project
  • Rotan ISD board hears level III parent complaint, discusses softball program
  • Dr. Mary Parish begins practice at hospital (photo)
  • Rotan & Roby sales tax allocation comparison
  • Obituaries for Frank Carmichael, Jr., Olga Victoria Gonzalez (photo), Roy W. Thomas
  • Rotan Honor Roll
  • Leila Vera Adams Morrow grave marker dedication
  • Letters to the Editor from Shana Haas, Mayor Jerry Marshall, Addie Markham
  • Senior Driving Safety course
  • Tumbleweed Smith: Seven Years Under Sail
  • Fisher County financial report
  • Shane Cole Stuart selected for membership Delta Epsilon Iota Academic Honor Society (photo)
  • Fisher County Commissioners Court proclamation
  • Roby CISD school board fields reports from administration, approves budget amendment
  • Undue influence and elderly financial exploitation
  • Fisher County Roundup by Joy Walker
  • Sheriff's report
  • Hobbs Homecoming 2008 , 175 attend
  • Rep. Heflin presented Texas Medicine's Champion of Rural Health Award
  • Fair winners (photos)
I have put up the photos I took from the reunion, the link is at the top right on this page. I wish there were more, but my camera pooped out on me before lunch was served.

Enjoy this wonderful fall weather and I wish you a happy Thanksgiving!

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