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Rising numbers of locals testing positive with Covid-19 has prompted City of Ennis officials, who continually monitor the pandemic, to put significant preventative measures in place.

Thanks to a friend of this column, Margie Callum, I’m sharing with you this week, an early history of Ennis as recorded in a little volume called The Ellis County Illustrated Annual for 1881, published in 1880 by the Ennis Saturday Review, one of

Since the Ennis News has cut back production temporarily and only the Sunday edition of the paper is being published now that means the food and garden columns I was writing for the Wednesday issue won’t be seen for the time being.

Mark Warde

mark@ennisdailynews.com

Ellis County Commissioners Court rendered a mandate to all 175,000 of its residents to Stay Home and Stay Safe following a marathon six-hour meeting inside the Historic Courthouse in Waxahachie on Tuesday evening.

In a meeting that begged for a closing amen, four Ellis County Commissioners debated the decision to Shelter-In-Place until a split-decision vote required County Judge Todd Little determine the direction for nearly 180,000 residents.

Mayor Angie Juenemann took to Facebook on Thursday in a five-minute video message to area residents about the City of Ennis declaring an emergency order, “Stay Safe - Stay Home,” which went into operation at midnight on March 26.

The Bluebonnet Trails Festival has been canceled this year for the first time since 1958; ditto the Polka Festival for the first time in its 53-year history.

A 2019 episode of the AMC reality adventure series Ride with Norman Reedus showed the motorcycling actor-host and a guest traveling through Ennis looking at the bluebonnets.

To be truly conscious of our compulsive indentification we need to observe ourselves from the viewing platform offered by God (Romans 8:6-10) which we call the Indwelling Spirit. Then we see with eyes much larger and other than our own.