60 Years Ago August 8, 1963
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cisneroz have announced the birth of a daughter, Corinna, six pounds 13 ounces. The couple have another daugher, Connie, 13 months. She is the former Janie Trevino.
Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Ashley recently returned home from a 40-day tour of foreign countries. The tour began at Dallas where they boarded a jet plane for the Hawaiian Islands, then to Japan for 10 days.
Miss Alma Jackson chose a state-side vacation. She boarded Santa Fe's Texas Chief at Mc-Gregor for Chicago. Here she changed trains for Mauston, Wisconsin. She will visit her sister, Mrs. Lela Southern and family.
When the athletes assemble for fall football practice at the University of Corpus Christi, Thomas Bowden will be among them. A former Cherokee High School athlete, Bowden is a 6'1', 212 pound tackle, who will be in his first year at UCC. In 1962, he was placed on both the All-District and All-Central Texas teams.
Fish were killed when the river recently was poisoned. These fish, mostly carp and buffalo, were on the former Johnny Brown place east of town. The poison was placed in the river at City Farm, and drifted down stream to the Brown place. There were large catfish killed as well as the scaley species.
10 Years Ago August 8, 2013
It was a busy and eventful weekend in Elm Grove, Texas. Youngsters, with their families and horses in tow, came out to take part in the Elm Grove Youth Rodeo.
The high school band's 'The Big Circus March' recording ranked 8th in the march recording category at the ATSSBOPS state competition! This is the first time any recording has competed at the state level of the Outstanding Performance Series (OPS) competition. Our band's recording competed well against some of the best 1A bands in the state.
Hamrick's Automotive and Randy and Donna Baxter recently participated in 'Cruisin' For West' a benefit car show for the City of West. Randy Baxter won the Custom Truck Award with his 1948 Chevrolet Pickup and Ernest Gomez won the Mayors Award. Over 700 cars from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana participated in the event which raised over $20,000. All proceeds went to the City of West.
Jose Valdez and Chantal Yarbrough are proud to announce the arrival of their son Dante Alexander Valdez, born July 27, 2013, weighing 8.8 pounds and was 21 inches long. He is welcomed home by his grandparents of Cherokee and Gladys Yarbrough of Llano.
Two winning poems in the San Saba Literary Project for July:
SUMMER IS COOL By Jazmin Gutierrez-Davila
Summer is cool.
You get to go to the pool. Summer is fun.
You can play with the sun. I want to take a trip to the ocean to see a ship.
When I get back, it well be time for school and 3rd Grade will be super cool.
PAIN IS...
By Shayna Underwood
Pain is only a scar. A memory. A loss of a battle.
Well, at least it's supposed to be. But it's not. Not for me. For me, it's a gash that never heals. Never closes. For me, it's a nightmare that never goes away. Never leaves. For me, it's countless battles lost. Not a single hint of one being won.
For me, pain is death. For me, it's knowing that the one who understood you, the only one, is gone, and never coming back. For me, it's having countless joys and thinking of the one joy that you're forever barred.
For me, pain is comfortable...
It's knowing he's safe.
Knowing that he isn't' suffering.
Knowing he's home. At his real home.