JULY 11 TH —15 TH Mon: Frito chili pie, warm corn relish, warm cinnamon apples, brownie and milk Tues: Chicken fried steak w/gravy, mashed potatoes, seasoned green beans, roll, fruit crisp and milk Wed: Chef salad, cottage cheese, mandarin oranges, baby carrots, crackers, oatmeal raisin cookie and milk Thurs: Lasagna, California blend vegetables, side salad, garlic bread, pudding and milk Fri: Chicken fajita tacos, refried beans, fajita vegetables, ice Fri: Chicken fajita tacos, refried beans, fajita vegetables, ice cream and milk.

Kylie Michael Hartley recently graduated as Salutatorian of Kaufman High School with a 5.0 gpa. She was President of the National Honor Society, President of Kaufman FFA, a State Qualifier in Computer Applications for UIL, and a member of the Kaufman High School Theater Company. Kylie has been accepted to the Texas Tech Honors College where she will be attending in the fall.

One, Two, Free! The Fourth of July weekend was approaching, and Miss Pelham, the nursery school teacher, took the opportunity to tell her class about patriotism. We live in a great country,’ she announced. “One of the things we should be happy is that, in this country, we are all free.” Trevor, who was a little boy in her class, came walking up to her from the back of the room. He stood with his hands on his hips and said loudly, “I’m not free. I’m four.” Those Days. Father William, the old priest, made it a practice to visit the parish school one day a week. He walked into the 4th grade class, where the children were studying the states, and asked them how many states they could name.

WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 5-4 that Oklahoma can prosecute non-Native-Americans in Indian country, clawing back part of its 2020 decision recognizing nearly half of the state as a reservation.

Don’t apologize this July 4th. Conscientious, well-meaning people often slip into this: “I know the United States is flawed, HOWEVER” or “We’ve made mistakes, BUT” and similar white noise. I understand the urge; these things are not untrue but they are profoundly unfitting and disordered. They are truisms. All men and all nations are flawed. It is impious and pointless to harp on it on a day set aside for celebration of what is good in the U.S. Seriously, who prefaces a eulogy, wedding speech or birthday card with disclaimers about the character of the person being celebrated? To paraphrase Chesterton, “a nation isn’t honored because it’s great, rather, it’s great because it’s honored.” The honor due isn’t contingent on the quality of the person or thing being honored, but on what it is in itself regardless of what it has done, for good or ill. Perhaps if on such occasions we refused to qualify our devotion into oblivion we’d become people who could create a country more perfectly worthy of devotion, rather than bunch of navel-gazing solipsists who turn every lofty human thing into a house of mirrors at a carnival. As Coolidge wrote in 1918, “Reverence is not the measure of others, but ourselves.” We fight for what we honor, not the other way round. For the record, anyone who refuses to honor this nation would dishonor any. The overturning of Roe v. Wade by the United States Supreme Court shows this nation has a greatness many refuse to see. Happy Independence Day weekend, 2022.

I was going thru some early day issues of the paper and found a story I really enjoyed and wanted to share with our readers . .

Sarah Joyce Puckett, Joyce to all who knew her, was born on May 18, 1928, to Joseph C. Taylor and Della Raines Taylor at Dustin, Oklahoma and passed away Friday, July 1, 2022, at the age of 94. Joyce attended Dustin schools and graduated high school as salutatorian. During those later years she worked at Oscar Cook’s drugstore and during one summer Joyce worked for Parrish and Clark Dodge in Tulsa.

Virgil Deward Gann passed away in Oklahoma City, June 27, 2022 at the age of 81. Virgil was born March 12 , 1941 in Carson, Oklahoma to Jewell Rupert Gann and Vallie Shipley Gann.

Dead Week Everything in high school athletics is shut down. The facilities are closed! The coaches are not there.