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Our new building is such a joy to us. Now we are even more proud to say that it has won the 2009 Excellence in Wood Design Award from the Texas Forestry Association. We were given this award at the association’s recent annual conference in Nacogdoches. More ... The Diboll Garden Club met Tuesday, Oct. 27, at Ralph and Kacoo’s Restaurant in Lufkin for a special luncheon and program. More ... Top, Diboll Pilot Club President Hellen Schmidt, standing with Tracy Oates and JonAnna Arnold of A Compassionate Home Health, and Ertha Sparks and Dorothy Teal are all smiles at the Fair Acres Bingo s More ... -Fri, Nov 6 drawings for Custom made wooden trash can and wooden cooler -Sat, Nov 14 pancake breakfast @ Lufkin Applebee’s ...tix on sale now. $5 - you may purchase from Elizabeth Ruby at Admin or call Tracie Gonzales. More ... Pine Grove Congregational Methodist Church was 100 years old in October. Several members planned a special centennial celebration Oct. 25 at the church. Several soloists, including Atmar Lester, Deidra (Breazeale) Carroll and Hannah Bowman, performed special music. Shiela Stout provided a video history of the church with more than 500 images. More ... By the time this article comes out, our time will have changed back to what is supposed to be the right time. Daylight savings time will be out of the picture until March of next year. More ... Ronnie and Bobbi Robinson had a wonderful trip to Fripp Island, S.C., this month. They flew into Savannah and enjoyed a wonderful dinner at Paula Deen’s “Lady and Sons” restaurant. They visited with a friend and her husband that Bobbi had met on the Internet playing bridge 10 years ago. They have a lovely home on the Atlantic Ocean. More ... I was in between newspaper gigs, playing at being a farmer-rancher at my parents’ place in Jacksonville when I was asked to step in as your interim editor. Now I’ll tell you that French guy, Manuel Labor, and I don’t get along real well so I pulled the travel trailer down here and got busy back behind a desk where my ever-expanding behind belongs. More ... Just a short column this week to thank the Free Press for allowing me to try and educate our community about what their local Justice of the Peace does. I have really enjoyed explaining to all of you exactly what it is we do here at the JP court. In fact, research for the column has enabled me to review a lot of things that I don’t deal with on a day to day basis. More ... And the winners are ... Diboll Mayor Bill Brown has a hard time deciding which Coloring Contest entries are the best. The winners each receive four tickets to the Texas Renaissance Festival. More ... A group of parents and grandparents made a trip to the second annual Parent Conference at the Region 7 Education Service Center in Kilgore recently. The conference title was “Ready. Set. Learn. More ... Diboll ISD Family Education Center teacher Becky Baer, congratulates student Victor Castillo on receiving his GED certificate this week. Victor has worked very hard both at the center and at home studying to pass the GED test. More ... Diboll High School Band Boosters recognize students weekly for their hard work and commitment to the Band Program. Pictured with Band Director Mr. Acker are xxxx and xxxx, each recognized for the week ending Oct. 16. More ... ... is Diboll ISD Employee of the Week for Oct. 26-30. She works at the Diboll Family Education Center. More ... The holidays are upon us. It is like seven weeks until Christmas, and Thanksgiving before that! It will be here before we know it. My daughter, Christy, is in marketing, and she has been talking and planning for Christmas since June for her job. More ... |
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