(Family Features) Including pets in your family’s Halloween festivities can be a fun addition to your celebration. However, with all the excitement comes the chance for pets to get into danger or trouble. You can head off potential problems and enjoy an evening of fun with some safety tips and smart planning. Keeping your pet…
Lori Slocum The Robson Ranch Garden Club began its 2014-2015 program year on the 15th of September with a wonderful presentation by Ms. Lauren Barker, Program Director for Keep Denton Beautiful. Fall-themed door prizes were awarded to three lucky members. The October meeting of the club will be off-campus for members only. Members will be…
Olumide Aje, Program Manager On behalf of Communities In Schools of North Texas, I would like to thank the wonderful ladies from Faithful Friends for going out of their way to provide school supplies for students at Calhoun and Myers Middle Schools in Denton ISD on August 20. The mission of Communities In Schools is…
What steps have you taken to be prepared for an emergency situation in the community or in the North Texas area? September was designated “National Preparedness Month” in an effort to make citizens aware of what they should do when there are weather situations and other threats. Michael Penaluna, head of the Office of Emergency…
Jim Wilkins Meditation is an often abused or misused word. In the search engine BING before all the links associated with the word is this definition: “the action or practice of meditating;” then it lists synonyms: “contemplation, thought, thinking, musing, pondering” and more. I found this odd because other meditation techniques of a mystical nature…
Jim Mann Psalm 133 is an interesting psalm because in it we are told that God commands his blessing (KJV). I like that picture because many of us think that we get God’s blessing as payment for good deeds done…or that God doles out blessings stingily. Neither picture is true. The psalmist tells us that…