Iwasn’t allowed to interact face to face with hospice patients during the shutdown of 2020. However, I was able to take my miniature horses and donkeys to nursing homes and visit through closed windows.
Yesterday wasn’t the best day. I don’t like to complain and, the truth is, I have very little to complain about. Still, yesterday was not the best day. I woke with a stomachache. I’d gone to bed with a stomachache, and this is not terribly unusual. My mother gets stomachaches, and now my 20-year-old niece is prey to them. Stress and irregular eating set them off, these stomachs of ours, and sometimes they take hours or even days to get sorted out. This one was particularly stubborn and saw me through the night and into the next day. By midmorning, I realized, unless I was writing about a stomachache, I wasn’t likely to get much writing done.
Nine Lamesa, Welch and O’Donnell residents were among more than 1,800 students who received academic degrees or certifications from South Plains College during commencement ceremonies on May 12.
The Lamesa Boys and Girls Club has recently received the following memorial donations:
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced plans to roll out $3.7 billion in Emergency Relief Program (ERP) and Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP) assistance to crop and livestock producers who sustained losses due to a qualifying natural disaster event in calendar year 2022.
Next fall the Texas’ rapidly growing grape and wine industry will have a new group of trained professionals in the pipeline, thanks to a program known as the ‘Texas Tech Viticulture Certificate Program.’ But before anyone can even gaze on a grape, they’ll need to apply to the program.
The 69th annual Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course, the largest event of its kind in the nation, dates are set for Aug. 7-9 and registration is open. More than 1,900 cattle producers are expected to come to the Texas A&M University campus.
Before this week basketball has always been one of Garrison Proctor’s favorite sports.
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