The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2003 Page: 3 of 21
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Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, December 10, 2003
The Mercedes Enterprise --Page 3
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Dear Mercedes,
Letters from F.S. Lentz, Jr.
Dear Mercedes,
— Wizard, partly fiction,
Conclusion —
Wizard was gone, back to his
owner, to his home, alive.
I walked back into the house
and sat down to re-group.
Unexpectedly I found an empty
place where he had just been.
animals go through that.
I was convinced by the dull
luster in his eyes. He was gone,
or going. The eyes of most
resignatio written on paper
and sent
cannot be recalled.
The walk and the morning
mammals hold the presence of presented me instead with the
life or death.
I thought of what had me out
walking so early in the first
place. I was looking for help, for
I had spent an entire morning direction, as I tried to sort out
on that dog, a morning not
GOD’S FIVE MINUTES
THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING Ecclestastes 3:1, The Living Bible, Tyndale House
THE BODY WE HAVE —LET'S TAKE CARE OF IT
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" THE FIRST COMPUTER
WAS THE HUMAN BRAIN;
THE FIRST ELECTRONIC
SYSTEM WAS THE
NERVOUS SYSTEM. A5
THE PSALMIST SAYS, WE
ARE ‘WONDERFULLY MADE;
MARVELOUS IS THY
WORKMANSHIP'" *
— M/LFDED a ROUSE, MA
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This Series Made Possible by
These Business Firms and Individuals
Who Support Our Right to Worship Freely.
El Principe de Paz
Presbyter ian Church - A Bilingual Church
1340 S. Georgiia • Mercedes
5565-1668
P astor: Hector Reynoso
Services: Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.
Sunday Worship Services -11 a.m.
Sunday and Wednesday Evening Services - 6 p.m.
Iglesia Bautista Filadelfia
410 Dawson Road • Mercedes
Sche dule of Services:
Sunday School - 9:20 a.m.
Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m.
Sunday Ev ening Service - 5 p.m.
Wednesday lPrayer Service - 7 p.m.
MARTINEZ GARAGE
565-4022
Pete & Beto Mar tinez
Owners
Complete
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SERVICE
103 S. Missouri Ave.
Mercedes 78570
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IE FUNERAL HOMES
“Blessed are those who' mourn, for they
shall be comforted” - S.t. Matthews 5:4
1702 E. Harrison 217 S. Main' St. 236 S. Ohio Ave.
Harlingen 78550 La Feria 78.559 Mercedes 78570
425-8200 797-3122 565-1175
Lord and Mejia
Appliances bought, sold a nd serviced
1305 W. Second
565-1415
We repair all major brands o f appliances.
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P.O. Box 657
Mercedes, TX 78570
565-2425; FAX 565-2570
LUTHERANS
Welcome to the Mid-Valley’s newest
ELCA CONGREGATION IN WESLACO
•LOVE OF CHRIST’
Corner of Seventh Street and South Iowa Avenue
! Worship Sundays at 8:15 a.m., Communion first and third
Sunday of the month.
Pastor Harold Laursen and Pastor Gene Hasselquist.
the aerobics place
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224 S. Texas • Suite D
Mercedes • 514-9006
(Park at City parking lot behind Mercedes Super Drug.)
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M.D., P.A.
Board Certified in Family Practice
801 West Second St. • Mercedes
(956) 565-6373
Hours: Mon. - Fri., 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
A ATT A Appliance
IVIAI I O Repair
• Ranges • Washer and Dryers
• Window Units • Refrigerators
1306 South Missouri 565-4555
without gut tension. I knew in
I my head that there was no
reason to have that empty place.
But knowing the dog’s situation
had been positively resolved
didn’t cover over that hole.
Temporary though I knew it to
be, there were still small,
severed nerve ends that had not
hardened over.
I walked back down to the dry
creek bed to retrieve the bowl
and batting and plastic tarp
where he had been. The arc his
paw had swung across the clay
in trying to gain traction was
more visible now. He had tried
as hard as he could, and his mark
was left.
which decision to make in my
own life.
To resign from a company I
loved and believed in, or continue
in what I saw as a reduced
capacity. That would have been
an admittance to a dread I have,
that I am not as vital to my
company as they are to me. It
would be a defeat that I was not
ready to admit to.
But beyond that...what would
be next? Did I have another
“good job” to go to? No. Did I
have a plan? No.
visible agony of a beautiful and
obviously loved collie dog in
extreme distress.
Once the situation was
understood, I acted. 1 had done
what I could for the dog and, by
extension, his owner. None ofit
was noble or righteous. It was
what I was raised to do.
Whatever had occurred
though, in that morning, caused
my own decision to make itself.
I woke up the next morning
and resigned.
Whatever integrity I had left
was worth preserving; it would
not be let go of without a fight.
Peripherally, the day before, I
had witnessed a creature dealing
with the most difficult of times
The common phrase of with al. the integrity he had in
‘staring into the abyss’ crossed him. He was a dog.
my mind, but it formed itself to
me as a hard, high, dark
stonewall, a wall that may or
I went back over the morning may not have had an opening in
that had pulled me so strongly it.
into the existence and struggle
And if it did, the chances
ofthat collie dog. The thought, were even that the first step
impression of a magnificent beyond the wall could be into air
dignity spoke itself, imprinted. — and then...down into that
Maybe he had, in fact, gone ‘abyss’.
there to give it up, to die, in How would I explain to a ten
returning his life to its origin. year old the daily struggle to
He had left his home for the preserve what remained of a
first time; that was clear. Maybe battered integrity...could I?
he was following that sort of Doubtful.
instinct animals are said to have.
Then once down on his side,
he had barked himself hoarse.
It was not time... Then he had
clawed the ground trying hard to
stand back up.
When I first walked up on
him, I thought he was gone. The
twitch in his leg was sign of the
final throes. I had seen other
I wished right then I had lived
the kind of life that would have
made it noble, or maybe even
righteous, could have made it a
leap of faith.
But the reality of my lived life
How I could I take anything
else away from his instinctive,
visceral struggle?
Five hours passed before the
response to the resignation
began arriving. There was no
one to be around to lessen the
effects of it, nor anywhere to go.
Seldom have 1 been so bleak.
As gracefully as he could, the
man who had the responsibility
for all of it told me I was
reinstated if 1 would withdraw
the resignation. He regretted that
we had not been able to work it
out beforehand, that I had come
to feel like I had to do what I
had.
I felt the same and thus, I
was restored.
I will never not remember
has little to do with those two big Wizard.
words. Part of me wanted to
resign, part of me did not.
A thirty-day notice of
Never.
eQue te vaya bien, eh?
Fleet
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It’s that time to identify GT students at
Mercedes Early Childhood Center!
All parents who have kindergarten children attending MECC, have been at
work completing the Gifted and Talented nominations for their child en.
Please take time to return your child’s nomination forms by Monday,
December 16h. School staff at MECC has been preparing to screen students
that have returned their parent nomination and parent permission forms.
Testing will begin in January.
;En MECC es tiempo de identificar a los estudiantes
Dotados y Sobresalientes!
El personal de MECC se ha estado preparando para determinar si su hijo/a
califica para el programa de Dotados y Sobresalientes. Todo nino/a necesita
que sus padres regresen las formas de nominacion y permiso de los padres
antes del lunes, 16 de diciembre. Los examenes iniciaran en enero.
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