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Better Sleep Month is observed during the month of May and aims to encourage healthy patterns of sleep and educate on the benefits of sleeping well. According to Amy Valdez, Texas A&M AgriLife Program Specialist, “sleep is just as important as including a well-balanced eating pattern and physical activity into our daily lives.

Dawson County commissioners could take action on the National Fitness Campaign during their Tuesday meeting beginning at 4 p.m. on the fourth floor in the county courthouse at N. 1st and Main streets.

With news of incivility, protests and disruption gobbling up radio and television air time and dominating front-page newspaper articles, many of us are in a state of perpetual tension. What will tomorrow bring?

Hannah deeply loved her husband, but was childless. This weighed so terribly upon her, that she could not eat and was visibly distraught. So much so her husband said, “Am I not more to you than ten sons?” (1 Samuel 1:8). Eventually she went to her place of worship where “she was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.” (1 Sam. 1:10) In her desperate prayer for a baby boy she cried out to God and made a promise. If He would provide her a child Hannah stated, “I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life.” (1 Sam. 1:11). God did grant her request, and nine months later little Samuel was born, who grew up to become one of the greatest leaders in the history of Israel.