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‘The night my house burned:’ An 8-year-old’s memories

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Editor’s Note: This article first ran in The Ennis Daily News, June 25, 2008.

Ennis, Texas

Spring 1944

My pretty blue Easter dress made by my mother was hanging in the closet. The stuffed Easter rabbit that was a gift from my brother, Joe Riley Crow, was next to me as I slept. The youngest of eight children, I was sleeping in the front downstairs bedroom with my parents, Lee and Margaret Crow.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the whole Gospels.

Forgiveness received and given breaks our meritocracy of quid pro quo thinking. Apparently hate is here to remain. Jesus obviously saw our need to be saved from our hates we harbor towards one another. First he had to expose the lie and illusion of hate, then love could show itself—and it did. How so?

He not only gave us textbook answers, but he personally walked through the process and said, “Follow me.”

Citizens Accused

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L C Sheffield, 62, Ennis. Evading arrest detention w/vehicle. Booked on 02/26/2021 by ECSO.

Dillon Daniel White, 28, Ennis. Possession CS PG 1 GT=1GLT4G. Booked on 02/26/2021 by ECSO.

Demetrius Zapata, 38, Ennis. Possession CS PG 1 LT1G. Booked on 03/02/2021

*The individuals listed above are persons booked in Ellis County by local authorities. An arrest is not an indication of guilt.

Is it time for a colonoscopy?

Do you remember when you used to put on your favorite bell bottoms and disco dance the night away? If you do, then it’s probably time to think about a routine colonoscopy screening. According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women, excluding skin cancers. And the vast majority of these cases occur in people 50 and older.

Noon Lions serve sight to students

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The Ennis Noon Lions Club held one of its yearly eyeglass clinics on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in the Tabernacle Baptist Church Family Life Center. This is one of the major projects sponsored by the local Lions Club and it certainly lives up to the Lions’ motto of “We serve.”

Ennis ISD nurses did a great job of providing names of students in need and Lion Kathy Cikanek directed the work of the schools’ nursing staffs.

Bluebonnet Trails, Festival return in April

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After a haitus a year ago, Ennis Garden Club members will spearhead the 69th annual Ennis Bluebonnet Trails Festival throughout April, highlighted by the outdoor festival during April 16-18. Three days of shopping at unique vendors, dancing and live entertainment downtown will be surrounded by four weeks of touring the colorful bluebonnet trails in the area.

Four of five hopefuls uncontested

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Only one of five positions appearing on the Saturday, May 1, general ballot has an opponent, though the at-large race will be for mayor of Ennis. Four of the others failed to draw the interest of anyone to challenge the incumbents.

Current Mayor, Angie Juenemann, has served a well-received three-year term. The financial advisor, now 58, will now take on Trevor Wilhoite, a 28-year old business consultant, for the mayoral role of a Ennis, whose population is now 21,203. It has grown by 2.04 percent recently and by 14.53 percent since 2010 (18,513).

Vaccine Volunteers

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Michelle and John Wray, former Texas State Representatives, worked at the Ellis County vaccine clinic along with dozens of volunteers from across Ellis County. Great to see the cooperative effort by the Ellis County Commissioners Court, the City of Waxahachie and Baylor Scott & White.

CD6 glad-handers add Ellzey, Harrison

Brian Harrison, Former Senior Trump Administration Official,

Announces Campaign for Texas’ 6th Congressional District Special Election

The number of three-year old horses entered in the early May Kentucky Derby is usually around twenty. The purse is around three million though it is figured the victor has no idea, as comic Jerry Seinfeld has said, that if the horse were to fall what would happen the them.

Local group picking litter from waterways

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Local volunteers are banding together to tackle litter in Lake Bardwell and other Ennis waterways, as part of the Keep Texas Waterways Clean program. Keep Ennis Beautiful (KEB) will conduct a cleanup with the help of dozens of volunteers on March 13.

Keep Texas Waterways Clean, the program supporting statewide community-based waterway cleanups, is brought to communities by H-E-B, Central Market and Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB). Applied locally, KEB raises public awareness about the need for healthy waterways and provides great opportunities for community engagement.