Scott and Vicki Baker Yeehaw! Led by trail boss Debra Davis, 16 brave souls ventured off the Ranch and beyond the big brown gates to check out the Honky Tonkin’ night life in the Fort Worth Stockyards on Saturday night, July 18. History has it that as drovers headed longhorn cattle up the Chisolm Trail…
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Features, August 2015
Happy Birthday to you! – Susan Glazer ushers in 97
Janie Farnsworth On July 14 the Wildhorse Lady Niners celebrated our matriarchal member Susan Glazer’s 97th birthday. She came to us on a hurricane called Ike in 2008 from Beaumont, TX. A happy birthday song and cake greeted Susan after she played nine holes of golf. There was a sizeable crowd with birthday cards to…
Features, August 2015
Employee of the Month: Robson employee follows dream
Molly Smestad who works as a beverage cart driver at the Wildhorse Golf Course has many ambitions in life. One of those ambitions is to move to Australia and play beach volleyball professionally. Molly lives in Roanoke, Texas with her parents as she prepares herself for her sure to be a once in a lifetime…
Features, August 2015
Designing with Carol: A lesson in modern art
Carol Collins Modern art includes artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Some examples are: The Impressionism Movement, which flourished between 1873 and 1880 and…
Features, August 2015
Neighborhood celebrates 8th Annual 4th of July party
Jan Marx For the eighth year in a row, Mike and Marguerite Richardson welcomed neighbors to their back yard to celebrate our country and democracy. This year five people presented quotations, some of which follow: “Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train…
Features, August 2015
Doolittle’s Rangers – Part 2
CSM George Alatzas, USA (RET) Beginning in 1946, the surviving Raiders have held a reunion each April to commemorate the mission. The reunion is in a different city each year. In 1959 the city of Tuscon, Arizona, as a gesture of respect and gratitude, presented the Doolittle Raiders with a set of 80 silver goblets.…