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I hope that you all have a great week!!
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B.J.‘S CORNER
BY BRENDA EDWARDS
TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION
and we fixed the bucket with water, full of rocks and
black dirt not sand, no sand around the old black dirt
farm I was raised on. The colored lights with the big
blubs and real icicles hanging all over and even some-
times popcorn strung around. We did this for so many
years it was the norm until mother went to Cleburne one
Janet MacDonald
Sales Director
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year and saw something different. She fell in love with
this bright alumnium Christmas tree, with the flashing
light at the base, turning round and round. Remember?
• So, for how many years I can’t remember we endured
this bright spangly tree with different colored ornaments
every year. One year red, the next blue, then one year
all green, her favorite color. I don’t know what happened
to that thing but I sure was glad when it disappeared
and we went back to a green tree. Just seemed more
' natural to have a green tree with decorations and lights.
And then the last few years she bought an artifical
green tree, looked almost real and we decorated and
decorated. It was nice. I still have some of my mom’s
decorations that I have used from year to year. Mom
Another Point
of View
community. God Bless you all for your service.
When I was growing up, we did make some big
deal out of Christmas but not as much as people do
today. Of course we decorated and had a tree and we
had a wonderful dinner with all the trimmings and big
family came in or we went to family. We exchanged
gifts, with each other, but by the time I was six years of
age I knew no folk hero was the giver. We celebrated
And so our faith in the Spirit of Christmas does not
falter, and our souls may join with the heavenly hosts in
singing the joyful hallelujahs.
(This taken from a book of the 1961 Titmus Tidings.)
As then and as now, the Spirit of Christmas prevails in
our hearts and minds and makes everyone at this time
of year a giver of some and hearts make glad friends
and family. When cold in the air makes stars very bright,
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Maypearl Associate Editor
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Ad Design/Church Page
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Hill County Editor
Advertising Sales
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In the election last
month, the voters of
Minnesota elected Keith
Ellison who is a Muslim. He
doesn’t have a Muslim name
so perhaps that is why the
Minnesota voters elected
him to the U.S. House. Now
comes the kicker. Ellison has
the area of Grandview. Yes, moved, lock stock and bar-
rel. Awhile back we started searching for more land to
buy and not being able to find any to our liking in
Johnson County. We started traveling around and found
- a beautiful place in East Texas. We looked high and we
looked low, but nothing prepared us or enticed us like
this place here. In the deep piney woods of East Texas.
It has rolling hills and valleys and a new brick home,
that rests right in the middle of this place named
Shadow Valley, gated and fenced and barns and shop
and trees, mercy the trees. Beautiful at this time of year.
Every color in the book that our glorious God could think
of. He put it right here in this one spot. My, oh my, what
a treat to gaze upon everyday and night, with the sun in
the day time topping out over the big blue sky and the
moon and stars shining bright right into our huge bed-
room window at nighttime. Wildlife scramping around,
darting in and out, redheaded woodpeckers climbing the
trees, small finches in the early morning chattering
through the brush. Past the valley and to the left is a
long steep trail that leads off up a hill and winds through
the trees to reveal a large pond on the top side of this
hill, crepe mrytle trees surround this area and tall pines
and oaks and sumac and trees with large leaves that I
do not know the name of. This spring and summer a
small tree was covered in bright red berries that hung in
loops off of the branches. Past this area we found
another fenced pasture atop the hill with cedars and
pines. Huge windows at the back of the home overlook-
ing a valley of tall grass, that our horses have fell in love
with. They think they have died and gone to heaven with
so much greenery. We haven’t let them out to the full
pasture for we feared they would founder if they ate too
much too fast. So right now they are in a small pasture
to get them used to such.
Well, enough about all that, just trying to get back to
writing as I promised I would and I will try to continue if
the girls at the Tribune will have me. My column may
have a different theme from time to time, but the news
of Grandview being as scare as it has been even in the
last few years, it will probably be no different. Most of
the writing will be on history, things of the past, seems
to be what I do best anyway. I may not nave local news
of deaths or illness if no one will call me and let me
know. The best way is to e-mail, which will be the same
as brenj@academicplanet.com. My new telephone num-
ber will be long distance but it is 903-894-3134. If you
have Cingular then that will be free and that number is
817-774-6686. And my new address is 1841 CR 3402,
Bullard, TX. 75757. Would love to hear from you.
So sorry to hear of the tragic fire that burned the
home of the PeeWee and Corky Kilcrease and family.
What sad news this is at this time of year or any time of
year. I understand that they did not save anything, but
the good news is that no one in the family was hurt in
anyway. My blessings and prayers go out to you and
your family PeeWee and Corky.
I know of no illness for I have not been in contact
with people the last weeks. But if you are ill and need
prayers, please know that you are in our prayers and
thoughts.
The Grandview Tribune
102 E. Criner * Grandview TX 76050
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Darla Dudley
Publisher
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work very hard to outrun
their reputations. So, since
they don’t expect to keep the
oath of office anyway why
insult God and His word by
swearing that you are going
to do the job you were elect-
ed to do? Oath taking politi-
cians are the biggest collec-
tion of hypocrites in the
world.
Jack Garr
Construction
25 Years Experience as a Custom Home Builder
Call Jack or Brian Garr
817-558-1641
the
House
that Jack
Built
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2006
Hello, folks. Hey glad to see me back. Well, I am
glad to be back. This year has been just one thing after
another and this absent one has just been another big
another, something in our lives. By now I know nearly
everyone who reads this column has known what has
happened. We have taken a big step and moved out of
with his hand on the Bible.
Instead he will use the
Koran. In the conservative
media there has been a large
discussion about his attitude
toward the oath of office. I
say, big deal! Let him use
any book he pleases. If he
has no more regard for his
word than ninety percent of
his colleagues, he is not
going to keep it anyway.
lean recall when a man’s
word was his bond. Real men
took pride in the fact that if
they gave their word, they
would rather die than break,
their word. Of course, I don’t
recall any of them being
politicians. One of my
biggest concerns with politi-
cians is that they swear on
the Bible that they will
uphold the Constitution.
Judges, Senators,
Representatives, Supreme
Court Justices, and lawyers,
and presidents alike immedi-
ately forget their oath and
fail to live up to their word. I
cannot remember when our
politicians as a body were so
disrespected. Their reputa-
tions, have through the years,
been somewhat suspect but
in recent years, they seem to
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loved neat and pretty things and she loved her family of stated publicly that he will
four girls and one boy. And she wanted them all home not ta e t e oat o of ice
at Christmas time. Which most of the time nearly every-
one made it, even after marrying and having family of
their own. It was great and lots of good memories were
made. But as time moves on and we lose people we
love, holidays are sometimes not the same. Even after
we marry and make our own traditions, those years of
childhood Christmas days still remain the best days of
my Christmas time. They are all memories, but deep in
the heart for all time to remember.
Holy Gifts For Christmas
Today I ask for all mankind five things—
Five prcieless gifts I pray this Christmas brings:
Firm faith that gives to life a golden key-
High courage that goes forward dauntlessly— -
And joy exceeding great that springs and wells
Within the soul where patient meekness dwells-
And gentle love that seeks for everyone
The noblest freedom that our race has won—
And peace that spreads abroad its lovely light
Like candles in the window, warm and bright!
No better wish could any man contrive,
No holy gifts more precious than these five:
So take them, friend, for these great gifts are free,
And give them room beneath your Christmas tree!
By Vincent Godfrey Burns, from his book of poems,
Flame Against Night.
I was in Grandvew this last Saturday and noticed
the town was waiting on the Christmas parade to begin.
Many vendors lined the streets, but not a lot of people in
town. Hope more showed up before the parade began.
It has been raining a soft slow rain here for two
days, but it is so neat to see so much rain. Makes
everyhting come alive. I do hope you all received some
much needed moisture.
THOUGHT FOR THIS WEEK:
THE EVERLASTING SPIRIT
The beginnings of our nation are rooted in the
promise, the faith, and the assurance given people by
the indomitable, everlasting Spirit of Christmas. It is a
beautiful sentiment. It is a beautiful faith. It is the trust-
ing, the strong faith of a child. It is the instinctive and
never-failing belief of humanity in the truly miraculous.
But it is more, it ia force against which the most
powerful evils cannot prevail for long, nor which the
most wicked can overpower. Whether in time of war or
in time of peace, whether it be a period of happiness or
a peiord of strife, Christmas comes as the years come.
The way of the world through all of its prevarications, its
cruelities and blessings of two thousand years, has
never altered the Spirit of Christmas.
What Christmas has built into the heart of human
character, and the influence it has had on human con-
duct, are stronger than all the evils of the world. And
men have never had better proof of it than in the tri-
umph of right over might, or in the steadfast adherence
to belief in the ultimate victory of even those who suf-
fered most cruelly under evil’s power.
Not in modern times has there been greater reason
for rejoicing than now. The world is not lost. As many
the day as family time with brother and sisters and their when none of the youngsters can wait for the night: and
families. If my memory serves me right, my dad usually you think of a wrong that you want to make right—that’s
cut a live cedar tree for many years and brought it home Christmas!
The Bible has a few
things to say about oath tak-
ing. In Numbers 30:2 God
told Moses, When a man
makes a vow to the Lord or
takes an oath to obligate him-
self by a pledge, he must not
break his word but must do
everything he said.” Want
something from the New
Testament? Okay! Try
Matthew 5:33-37 This is
Jesus talking, He said, “You
have heard that it was said to
the people long ago, ’Do not
break your oath, but keep the
oaths you have made to the
Lord. But I tell you, do not
swear at all: either by heav-
en, for it is God’s throne, or
by the earth, for it is His
footstool: or by Jerusalem ,
for it is the city of the Great
King. And do not swear by
your head, for you cannot
make one hair white or
black. Simply let your ‘Yes’
be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ ‘No’;,
anything beyond this comes
from the evil one.”(NIV)
So what is important? :
The oath, or the honesty of
the person who swears.
Where you place your hand :
adds absolutely no credence :
whatsoever to the oath!
Published every Friday except the week of July 4th and
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Grandview TX 76050. Entered as Second Class Mail Matter
in Grandview TX Post Office under act of Congress on March
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My prayers for our military heroes are still the same predict it has been or will be. It was saved over two
and I wish all of them could come home this Christmas thousand years ago in Bethelehem, and nothing that
and be with their families. Jacob Rydell, out of the serv- earthly schemes and perversions have been able to
ice, has come home and is living close to his family. As devise since, has ever been able to alter that fact. So
far as I know all of the others that I had mentioned are except that fact and teach it to your family, show them
still in the service. I have packed away my list of names them the way to follow so they too can teach their fami-
and as soon as I find it will mention again the men and lies from generation to generation. Follow your Savior,
women from the Grandview area or who have ties to the tend to His ways, become like Him.
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