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My hunting experience with a handgun is very limited. I’ve hunted with everything from a flintlock to an air rifle through the years but to date, my experiences hunting with a handgun tally up to two hunts, one took place about 30 years ago up in Jack County, Texas. My long time friend Larry Weishuhn was the reason for my interest in handgun hunting back then. I watched Larry hunt with his single shot TC Contender and decided I wanted to give this type hunting a try. Soon the UPS man or whoever delivered packages back in those days knocked on my door and delivered a Contender in 7-30 Waters caliber. I killed a little boar that fell into an alligator infested stock tank (fodder for another column) with my new handgun. I shot the Contender enough to become proficient with it but this was my single hunt with a ‘pistol’ until last week. Larry and I met at our friend Jeff Rice’s ranch in east Texas mid afternoon and squared our gear away for a late afternoon handgun hog hunt. Larry brought his 44 mag. Taurus Raging Hunter revolver topped with a red dot sight and a .357 Raging Hunter for me to hunt with this fall. The veteran handgun hunter had been shooting his 44 mag for several months and it was dead on at 100 yards. The plan was for me to attempt to kill a hog with the larger caliber handgun on the afternoon hunt and then, the next morning we would sight in my .357.

A clean slate is an interesting item to contemplate. Is it clean because it has never been used or is it clean because it has recently been washed? And since chalkboards, i.e. “slates” are really no longer used in classrooms, today’s students will probably never realize how satisfying it can be to wet clean a chalkboard instead of just erasing it, just like they will never know the chore of taking erasers outside and pounding them to remove all the chalk dust.

Mockingbird Station— Dallas, Texas—Update: Covid—19 wins! Trinity Hall was not one of the 6,406 restaurant and/or food companies in Texas to be chosen to receive a grant from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund after more than 100,00 applied nationwide.

As reported on Monday, August 23, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration gave official approval of the Pfizer Vaccine ending the Emergency Use Authorization, (EAU) declaration. Kaufman County officials also passed a resolution last week supporting the promotion of vaccinations and have gathered information about where residents can get, not only the Pfizer vaccine, but also the Moderna and the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Those locations are listed below.

Despite some Covid warnings, we returned to the Cinemark and had a wonderful experience at the theatre and could easily have stayed to “re-watch” the movie, because it was interesting, heart-warming, well-acted, and true! And, it took place not too far from here in the city of Fort Worth.

At graduation time in 1971, I had been “gone” from FHS for two years, which at times seemed like two weeks and at other times like two decades! People had often told me that once I “went off” to college, I would not want to come back to Forney for any length of time, because the people with whom I “ran” and the “things” we ran after would no longer be in my home town, but in my “new town.” For the most part, they were right, but I did come back periodically to live at home with my parents as I worked my “each year” summer jobs and as I sometimes attended local events or visited with students, who had been beneath me in seniority through the school years—plus, my sister, Ann, was in this Class of ’71 and somewhat kept me up-to-date with happenings and changes!

Both of my parents were “Oklahoma, born and raised!” and later moved to Texas, so I try to periodically look for OK information. Today, I was saddened to see that an important “Oklahoma Roots” man “died peacefully in his sleep” back during July in Hollywood, California. He always emphasized that he “loved both Oklahoma and L. A.”

The time was about 6:00 o’clock on a Thursday afternoon, and we had been on the road off-and-on for most of the day, sightseeing, exploring “mountain areas” (Arbuckles), and “antiqueing” in Oklahoma and then back in Texas as we headed to Frisco to watch Granddaughter Kherington play volleyball for her 7th Grade “Cyclones.”

Congratulations to Tamire Pope from Claybon Elementary School for being named the Forney ISD Elementary Student of the Month for September. Ms. Pope was recognized by the Forney ISD board of Trustees at the September regular monthly board meeting on Tuesday, September 7, 2021.

Congratulations to Jessica Nashed from Brown Middle School for being named the Forney ISD Secondary Student of the Month for September! Ms. Nashed was recognized by the Forney ISD Board of Trustees at the September regular monthly board meeting on Tuesday, September 7.

TXU Energy presented Forney ISD with a rebate of $22,000 from their TXU Greenback Program. The TXU GreenBack Program provides rebates to businesses for making energyefficiency improvements to their facilities that yield long-term savings. The program can help a business fund new projects or help pay for existing projects, like changing to LED lighting. John Chase, the Forney ISD Chief Financial Officer, (center right), and Forney ISD Board of Trustee President Greg Pharris (left) and Forney ISD Superintendent Dr. Justin Terry (right), accepted the rebate from TXU at the board’s regular monthly board meeting on Tuesday, September 7, 2021.

During the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council (PAC) of Georgia annual summer conference, the District Attorneys’ Association of Georgia (DAAG) recognized Forney High School graduate Rachel Ashe as Assistant District Attorney of the Year.

The Texas 4-H program offers youth countless opportunities to develop the skills they need to create positive change in their life. One of the most impactful opportunities 4-H offers is the ability for high school students to get a close-up look at some possibilities for their future.