Category: October 2020

Happy Potters Accept the Illumination Challenge

Alesia Passalacque

Karen Ellsworth Each year the Happy Potters are issued a challenge. This year the theme was illumination. The criteria was very broad—the item had to be lighted in some manner and had to incorporate a medium other than clay. Our potters worked on this year’s challenge for several months. Everyone who entered definitely rose to the…

County Road Projects Benefiting Robson Ranch

Dianne Edmondson, County Commissioner Pct. 4 It’s now officially been fall for several weeks, and the chill in the air is very welcome after the scorching summer temperatures. Crawford Road Our efforts to move forward with the Crawford Road reconstruction have finally paid off! With the Argyle School District agreeing to sell the Town of…

Fellowship at the Ranch

Ed Jones, Pastor Above prayer, one of our duties as a Christian citizen is to vote. Proverbs 25:19 says that “Putting confidence (or voting for) in an unreliable man is like chewing with a sore tooth, or trying to run on a broken foot.” God wills us to put our trust in people of character.…

Pastor’s Corner

Dr. Jim Mann “For he is our peace, who made both groups one and tore down the dividing wall of hostility … He did this so that he might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross by which he put the hostility to death.” (Ephesians 2:14, 16) Ours is a world of…

New Recruits: An Alternative to Defunding The Police

Dr. Lynn Stucky, Texas State Representative On Sept. 1, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) opened the application portal to a new student loan repayment assistance program targeted at recruiting college-educated Texans to serve as peace officers. When the bill that authorized this program (SB16) passed the Texas House last year, I was elated…

Designing With Carol

Thank You for Being a Friend Abby McIntyre Hello friend! It is officially autumn. Suddenly the sunshine isn’t so sweltering, and the breeze is just a little cooler. Visions of pumpkins, spiced cider, and warm family gatherings have started to fill everyone’s heads. The coziness and warmth autumn brings is just what the doctor ordered…