Around the Town: Foolishness with ice boxes

Loretta's Daddy and Mommy.
Loretta’s Daddy and Mommy.

By Loretta Humble/Around the Town

The wild violets have come and gone, and I’m watching for the wild honeysuckles to start blooming. They are all over the woods behind my house, and when they bloom it smells like heaven here. Jo Ann Surls told me that the honeysuckles and the hummingbirds show up at the same time. I’m pretty sure if Jo Ann say so, it’s so. I’ve never slowed down enough to notice before, but this year I will have time to watch things like flowers and little birds. As well as time to remember stuff.

I love looking across the road where my great-nephew Wesley has a lot of projects going on. I love it because it reminds me of how it was when we lived over there 70 years ago. Wesley’s modern home replaces the old house where I was born, which Daddy and Mama tore down and turned into a smaller house when I was nine. I guess that was Daddy’s biggest project. He had a lot of them. Some were great and a few were sort of questionable.

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Malakoff One Act Play wins bi-district title

 

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On Saturday, April 2, 2016 the Malakoff High School UIL One Act Play Team won the Bi-District contest in Arp. Their play, “A Matter of Life and Death,” has been a huge success winning a district championship and a bi-district championship, with multiple students winning individual awards as well. They have advanced to the Area Round contest at Waco Midway on Thursday, April 7. At the bi-district award ceremony, Clayton Mattingly and David Rios Perales were named All-Star Cast. Gabrielle Robinson and Cody Stone were named Honorable Mention Cast. Alexis Lundy was named All-Star Tech Cast. The Director is Jessica Bentley; she is in her second year at Malakoff. They will perform at or around 2:10 on Thursday at Waco Midway. (Courtesy photo)

Black History Committee benefit children’s pageant winners

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The Henderson County Black History Committee held its Annual Spring Children’s Pageant on Saturday, March 26. The winners were, from left, Mr. Tiny Tot-Kyson Lee Stewart; Miss Tiny Tot-Andra Shofner; and Miss Petite-DeBrashia Rogers. Congratulations to all the winners and the Henderson County Black History Committee looks forward to 2017. (Courtesy photo)

Around the Town: Checking the wild violets

Loretta Humble
Loretta Humble

By Loretta Humble/Around the Town

The wild violets are blooming on my little piece of the old Sims Place. I took a walk in the woods Sunday to check on them, like I’ve done nearly every year for at least 70 years. I can report that this is a bumper crop year for violets. And every single year I get excited when I see them. Winter is past. Things are new again. Soon poke salad will be peeking through the brush.

Another thing that happened was that the electricity went off. Just for a few hours at a time, a couple of times, but during that time, there was no television, and after the charge played out, no telephone. So it was real quiet out here fora little while. Seeing the violets, and then having to be quiet for a little while gets a person to thinking.

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