News Bulletin (Castroville, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 18, 1997 Page: 4 of 8
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that on a Saturday afternoon
they could take their brood to
the matinee. Money, as many of
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We will close early New Ei
Year s Eve (5 p m.) and
reopen on Jan 2 We will
not charge late fees for
. books due on these dates, but the book drop te
available for your convenience.
New items at the library now include furni-
am. On your next visit, look for the "New Book
Shelf.” We are still workingonthe signage, but
don’t worry, you*!! notice. No, we haven’t dis-
hab
“We’re remodeling the bath
room," ne said actenavety.
“And it’s not a regular toilet
seat. It’s a padded toilet seat.”
' Despite my obvious misgiv-
ings, he took that monstrosity
of a present home.
She loved it..
The moral could be that
“shorter poople."
In order to remove the isub-
- jects of his annoyance Mr.
Theweakbuythe .
prewrapped sunflower dishtow
el and tea cozy set. The brave
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until it comes out of your ears.
' You’ll be so sick you won’t eat
for many, many decades, but
when did it start, who was the
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• steadily increasing frustration.
from of them. Please, if you are The gentleman sitting in from h ‘g
over the height of five feet, find of me recognized this sone of sa t
yourself a seat behind us
me I was forced to develop my
own theory. I believe if we.
check the era that it began it
' would take us back to the days
of the first "talkies." ?
and his Camcorder stood up. He-
did not go to the aisle but stood.*
up directly in front of me and
Home at 10:30a.m. and at Air ' •
Force Village II at 8 pm., Dec.,/
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porn throwing
so" —u eow g-;i "
feat-minute sale locations and
an invnation to head out to the
mall.
. The second is a smug recita-
. ’ tion of 300 gifts purchased for a
• total of J8.79 by the ever-effi-
ciem soul who started her shop-
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giving and con
menti hooe
Christmas is fast sppri inking along with th
Now Yeas. This means first of all, a change in
schedule. The library will pmummmammum
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come home with the gifts which the perfect gift. There will be
—. " "gifts of all sizes among my
shopping bagfl but I can guaran-
tee therewon’t be any bath-
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about to cover our shelves — here's where some
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, opposed to efficiency. I make
.' to-do lists. My slow-cooker is
,0 often left bubbling on the
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g what the Marine Corps , .
' I.Reserve's Toya for Tot pro-
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There are many beautiful
Christmas decorations and .
lights around the city. Take a
" tour of town and enjoy!
The Castro Garden Club is
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for recording. After HEARING ,
my daughter play, I gave up the |
battle and went home leaving 43
almost an hour before the con-. |;
cert was over.
I Mak I’ll carry a boomer u
age when children are toilet-
trained or the secrets of a diet
designed to make you lose 30
pounds in five minutes..,
(" really only one diet
secret out there. Select one
unappetizing food, such as
grapefruit or cabbage, and eat it
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Toys for Tots a most worthy cause
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get even before aum
the bathing suits
are packed away. ■
Mv husband and
I discuss gift ij
idem before we buy the
lenged, the usher guided them
all these wonderful Ik fogs Cail or come by if os,
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keep you busyt.o,. ; ♦
Christmas events numerous incity
nWe al have the responaibii- lights The Marine Corps . -
ty as private citizens to help our Bnsarnh Toys for Tots pro-
neighbors in need. There are gram is a perfect example of the
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started shopping two weeks
1 before the big day, there are
a "iwo distinct reactions. . - ‘
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p toe grin, folowe by a list of
News Bulletin.
Thursdax, December 18,1997
Jones began throwing his pop- all those sitting behind me. 0 "
com at them, it did not take Frustration mounged as I real- .-9
long for the really, really, really ized he could have a lot of tape 1,
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-Oh please.
I know you can save money
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directly '
in front
minute) shopping is not for the -____________
squeamish. Only the strong can romance is where you find it. research this subject. I discov-
Or it could be that taste is in ered that the pastime of "POP-
the eye of the beholder corn throwing” has not found lenged Unfortunately I was i
Now if you’ll excuse me, it's its way into the nnals of histo- Jones family. As the movie - unprepared and did not have ci
ChrietmroWw <*wi riff fn find ry books anywhere! begins to roll and the hero and any popcorn, but being a <> .
| I feel confident that this heroine make their entrance , resourceful persqn by nature 1 .! *
activity, very popular with the onto the screen the Jones family simply leaned to the right. This,
teen set, had to begin some- has a perfect view of the heads however, proved to add to my ca
where, sometime and for s res- of the family sitting directly in steadily increasing frustration, e
son. But with no facts to guide f - -
at the Harvest Care Center in form at Crossroads Mall on--
Castroville on Friday, Dec. 19 Dec. 18, from 10 to 11:30a.m.
dt10a.m. 1 Medina Valley High School .
Students at St. Louis School students will take final exams
visited Air Force Village II on this week Thererwill be girls’. "2;
Dec. 15. There was a Christmas and boys” basketball games dur-
ing the holidays. Drop by the ujEMS.‛
front office of the high school Meri,
mumm for schedules .u..vo.
of the games. tis di
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continued the card catalog, just moved it.
New things atoo meeas a new (for us) GED -
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■ finalizing details on this. ;
the crowds.
; It may be efficient but it %
about as much fun as getting
h j4bothpaste for your birthday
; 'fam not fundamentally
The shopping question is a hunt. . ? to accept that fois highly paid
challenge and I am a dismal I like to bustle through ten marketing executive, who ran ,
loser, ' | stores in a day, searching for an empire of 15 San Antonio
When I admit I haven’t even die perfect gift and always find- department stores, had found .
-—-A---—•------* ingit - nothing better to buy his wife
There’s a definite psycholog- than a toilet seat.
ical advantage to well-timed Finally, I blurted, “You got r-m “.a
shopping. You find what you're your wife a toilet seat for . I ho Arf df nam
after because you have no other Valentine's Day?" 4 “ “d * •T . HFH
choice. The knack is knowing "We're remodeling the bath- . . ' »
wractiy when to gejone day room," he said detensvely. The art of “popkorn thtow- family waits for the movie to directly to the front so get a seat' T
before you’re reduced to sifting “And ir”s not a regular toilet ing", seems to have been an start, a family of “Jolly Green where I could see my daughter. :
through the rnnvenfcinre Wnw* west ft’s spsAM rodefest " extracurricular activity of Giants” makes a late arrival and After removing my coat and
enough working his ( L
NG way down the aisle to-
lib, the seat directly in, 31 i
piece of popcorn? | decided to . of the “g front of me was a
height- T. gentleman who had to. j
chai- BETTTWISNOSKY be at least six feet. 2 i
straighten out the problem. line. Somebody needs firing—at least.
I thought I was witnessing room accessories,
certain disaster when my then-
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The latest fiacso at the BMA water The software involved must have
district headquarters is simply been, some exotic, complicated,
unforgiveable. Through some incred- space-age stuff, right? Not quite,
ible stretch of reason, BMA manage- Quickbooks Pro, a common small
ment allowed a computer consultant business bookkeeping system, runs ’
from Houston to rack up a bill of under $200 most places. The other
about $62,000 to install two software program, Excell, runs under $300
programs on the district's comput- most places.
ers. Just about any seventh-grader
• Then, when they felt they'd could figure out how to click the
thrown enough money his way, they icons that say "install."
threw out another $96,000 or so to This latest case of extreme incom-
the district's engineer to try to petence or worse is Way over the
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Sorvino CaairouMo.
I sizes the values of giving, car-
. tag and sharing. nisa time to
L help those less fortunate than
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oh-eeed -i .. . .' ", •
In search of the perfect gifts
/ Finishod myChr is tmaa shop- counter while I trudge about the office after a lunchtime shop- having its Christmas Party
| .ping yet? Oh, shut up. county finding all the news pingtrip. tonight, Dec. 18, at 7 pus., at .school program on Dec. 16 put
As every woman knows, this font's fit to print. I balance the I pretended not to notice that the home of Iris Carrigan. on by first grade classes. All
. . . is no innooent question. This is checkbook. he was carcying a padded toilet St. Matthias Episcopal classes sang. pmm
unadulterated ioneupmanship, of Even my Christmas has a ' seat. Church will be having Class parties I
the sort usually reserved for the certain, albeit small, element of Imagine my surprise when Christmas Eve services at Moye will be held today,
efficiency. Qift money is he invited me in to see the toi- Chapel at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 18.
snitched from the regular bud- let seat and then informed me it Dec. 24 The Rev Nick Mayer The La Coste
was a Valentine’s winl conduct the services on intermediate •
Day gift for his Dec. 24 and also for Holy
wife of 13 years. Eucharist at 6 p.m. on Dec. 28.
“So, what do The school children at
you think?” he Medif Valley and St. Louis
asked, with a confident grin. Schools are very busy with
I sputtered. I stumbled. 1 events of the season. At M.V.
— , . — — - — — ' tried to be tactfid. Elementary there will be class
. . for weeks. Presto: weight loss!) December. That would spoil the : But it was really hard for me Christmas parties on Thursday —_____——--
and Friday, Dec. 18 and 19. The Class will present a dance pro-
Kindergarten class will visit Air gram and the Spanish Class will
Force Village II today, also have a program on Friday.
Thursday. Ms. Baby's and Ms. The Medina Valley Junior
Cullins’ classes will be singing High Band and Choir will per-
be early but Eusebi
for all the p
______________j schools on ..
School will be bar- Friday, Dec. | ..
tag its Christmas Band Concert 19.
Thursday at 1:30. On Friday, school on Jan. 6, 1998. . : Eha
Dec. 19 there will be three St. Louis Catholic Church ym.C
Christmaa plays, with two per will hold mass at 4, 6, 9 and Wasta
formances from 8:30 to 9:15 midnight mass at 12on Dec. 4
a.m. and from 9:30 to 10:15 24. The choir will start staging .
a.m. Ths Fine Arts Movement * at 11:30 before midnight mass ;
Father Jim Conway will have >
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tall guys to move to the rear.
The data I compiled to assist -
ma in arriving at this theory
was rmmpiled from saparienns.
Ontheeveningof my daugh-
tor’s first band psrfiwmr ! v
did what I always do being one
of «e worid’s “ba^t nhaL
feagnd” persons and went
cog-uger 1‛ .
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Barnes, Thomas. News Bulletin (Castroville, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 18, 1997, newspaper, December 18, 1997; Castroville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1600013/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Castroville Public Library.