The Monitor (Mabank, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 68, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 6, 2014 Page: 2 of 20
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Page 2A • The Monitor - Sunday, April 6, 2014
Elected Officials
FEDERAL
U.S. President
Barack Obama
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U.S. Senator
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U.S. Senator
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U.S. Congress
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U.S. Congress
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STATE
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Rick Perry
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Austin, TX 78701
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Fax 512-463-1849
Lt. Governor
David Dewhurst
Capitol Station
PO Box 12068
Austin, TX 78711
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Bob Deuell, Dist. 2
Kaufman, Van Zandt
Counties
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State Senator
Robert Nichols, Dist. 3
Henderson County
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Representative
Lance Gooden, Dist. 4
Kaufman and
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Representative
Jim Pitts, Dist. 10
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Richard Sanders
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Commissioners
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Pet. 2: Wade
McKinney
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Justices of Peace
Pet. 2: Dale Blaylock
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Pet. 5: Tommy Barnett
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District Attorney
Scott McKee
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Kaufman
Countv Judge
Bruce Wood
County Courthouse
Kaufman, TX 75142
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Commissioners
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972-932-0285
Pet. 4: Tom Manning
903-498-2013 ext. 2
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Pet. 4: Johnny Adams
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Erleigh Norville Wiley
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Second painting for ‘O’Keeffe’
And Fish Fry at monastery in Kerens
Courtesy Photo
The Thien Tam Monastery in Kerens welcomes the
public to attend their Friday Fish Fry from 5:30 to
7:30 p.m. Thein Tam is located at 13055 SE CR 4271.
Letters to the Editor
By Loretta Humble
Special to The Monitor
MALAKOFF -1 don’t
have a plan for this
week’s column, so I’ll
just talk. And since there
is not much on my mind
these days except
“O’Keeffe!,” the one-
woman play coming to
Malakoff next Saturday
evening, probably most
of my talk will be about
that.
One big piece of news
on that subject is that
ticket sales are going
great-so great that we
have scheduled a matinee
for 2 p.m. Sunday, April
13.1 don’t think we are
quite sold out for Satur-
day night, but we prob-
ably will be before this
week is over.
Another big news item
is that Daniela Matcheal
has completed her
“O’Keeffe!” tribute
painting, a gorgeous huge
flower tinged with
Daniela’s characteristic
“fire” which she charac-
terizes as “O’Keeffe
dropped in a bucket of
Matchael.”
Daniela is the second
noted artist to produce a
major work in connection
with our effort to combine
creativity, entertainment
and good deeds by bring-
ing “0”Keeffe!” to
Malakoff to raise funds
for the Malakoff Garden
Club’s Bartlett House
property restoration
project.
You have already heard
me bragging about
“Beans, Greens, and
Cornbread,” Cheryl
Hicks’ amazing contribu-
tion to our cause, which
she created as a tie-in be-
tween the play and
Malakoff’s annual
Cornbread Festival, held
that morning. The play
and the festival really had
nothing to do with one
another until Cheryl cre-
ated this painting for us.
Both paintings will be
on display around Mala-
koff and Athens, as are-
minder “O’Keeffe!” will
be here soon. They will
be displayed mainly in
banks as I want them to
be safe.
The two organizations
involved in bringing
“O’Keeffe!” to town are
the Malakoff Area Gar-
den Club and the Mala-
koff Historical Society.
The Historial Society
sponsors the Malakoff
History Museum at the
Flagg House. Those ex-
ist through the financial
generosity of Ken and
Mary Andrews and the
tireless work of Pat
Isaacson.
I keep talking about the
tiny group of little old la-
dies who keep plugging
away at the Bartlett
House, but let me tell
you, that is nothing com-
pared to what this group
of three has done. And
Pat doesn’t just do this,
she is a member of the
Garden Club, Chamber
of Commerce Secretary,
runs the Big Bass Fishing
KCKL Big Bass Tourna-
ment, makes the
Cornbread Festival hap-
pen, and who knows
what else, and she has
really helped us get ready
for “O’Keeffe!” Youjust
can’t beat Pat Isaacson.
I’m thinking maybe the
next entertainment we
bring to Malakoff-and I
do believe we will be
bringing more-maybe it
should raise some funds
for the Flagg House.
There are some things
Pat would like to do
there, like air condition-
ing for downstairs and
some improvements in
the yard. Seems like it
would be nice if we tried
to help a little with that.
I did one fun thing last
week that had nothing to
do with “O’Keeffe!”
My friend John and I
went south of Kerens to
a Fish Fry at a
Benedictine Monastery.
It is a beautiful place and
well worth a drive to see
it. Their Fish Fry gives a
good excuse to check
them out.
We were a little sur-
prised, as we expected
to see monks in their
robes frying that fish. But
what we saw was a
group of regular guys out-
side frying the fish, and a
bunch of regular friendly
ladies like you see in ev-
ery church, waiting to
serve us.
One monk had shown
us the way, but the rest
of them were in the
chapel praying. Turns
out, they have a regular
little church going on
there. The monks are
Vietnamese, but their
congregation is not. The
meal was generous and
delicious. Desserts, par-
ticularly, were out of this
world.
They are going to be
cooking this Friday, and
next, from 5:30 to 7:30
p.m. Adults are $8 and
children are $5.
The Monastery of
Thien Tam, (Heavenly
Heart), is located at
13055 SECR 4271. We
really enjoyed our visit.
We are going back.
In God we
trust
Dear Editor,
In his 2010 criticism of
the State Board of
Education’s hostility to
teaching the separation of
church and state in social
studies, the Rev. Roger
Paynter of First Baptist
Church of Austin said,
“The best way to protect
our religious liberty is to
keep government out of
matters of state.”
The Texas Freedom
Network (TFN), at
www.tfii.org, a grassroots,
non-partisan organization,
made up of more than 600
religious leaders, and
60,000 bi-partisan mem-
bers, has again been in-
strumental in the success-
ful defeat of the Religious
Right’s unrelenting at-
tempts to put their own
Christian doctrine into the
science and in social stud-
ies curriculums in our pub-
lic schools, founded by
Benj amin F ranklin.
Most of the Founding
Fathers were religious,
and therefore our money
says, “In God We Trust;”
and oaths are sworn to on
the Bible, “stating, so help
me God,” and in 1954 the
words “under God,” were,
as most believed appro-
priately added to our
Pledge of Allegiance.
However, the Christian
churches our Founding
Fathers attended were of-
ten had very different doc-
trines and beliefs, as they
do today.
Among those brilliant
men, John Adam’s family
believed that escaping
from the dominant Chris-
tian religion in England,
which determined com-
pletely your success either
socially or in business, was
similar to what the Israel-
ites felt upon fleeing from
Egypt!
James Madison, Father
of the Constitution, had
ancestors who arrived in
Massachusetts as Puritans
in the 1630’s, as mine did.
Madison’s strict Puritan
beliefs mellowed as he
aged, and, when he died,
he was a Unitarian!
Which of those doc-
trines should we put in our
public schools? Of
course, neither! Madison
wrote, “I believe in an
America where an act
against religious liberty by
one church is an act
against the religious free-
dom of all.”
In a 1984 speech to
Jewish leaders in Philadel-
phia at Temple Hillel,
Temple University, Ronald
Reagan said, ”In America
we establish no religion;
we command no worship;
we mandate no beliefs, nor
will we ever! Church and
state are and must be sepa-
rate!”
Clearly, those Founding
Fathers, and religious
leaders and patriots then
and today who were Chris-
tians would have never fa-
vored one Christian doc-
trine taking precedence
over another in our public
schools.
Margie Lynch
Malakoff
New stop
sign an in-
convenience
Dear Editor,
I am curious as to what
genius decided a 4-way
stop sign at the intersection
of FM 90 and FM 1391
was necessary.
FM 90 is a fairly straight
eight-mile road from
Praireville into FM 198 in
Mabank.
Stop signs have been on
1391 for years but some
genius has now decided
we need to stop on FM 90
also.
Now we have a stop sign
in the middle of the eight-
mile mn.
I guess it’s because of
the massive influx of cross
traffic on FM 1391, al-
though I’ve never seen
more than two cars at that
sign.
Sheesh...slow down,
stop and accelerate back
up to speed. That’s real
fuel efficient.
Cliff Holland
Mabank
We passed
the bill
Dear Editor,
Remember when you
were a child and swal-
lowed a penny or marble.
Your mother would say,
“When you pass the penny,
we will find it?”
It’s sort of the same way
with the Affordable Health
Care Act. We “passed the
bill” but we have to dig
through a whole lot of
“stinky stuff’ to find out
what is in it.
Let’s get rid of the
“Obamosity” (Obama-
monstrosity) and give
healthcare back to doc-
tors, nurse and hospi-
tals.
Deanna Drab
Kemp
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